Killing the golum with pylons

[JAYSON]

I'm trying to kill the golum using the pylons but whenever I do it just kills me. I'm standing outside the triangle, my swords are sheathed, I don't know what to do. I can sometimes shock him once without getting hit, but mostly I just get shocked and die.

Is this bugged? Any help?

[Serendipity]

I had same problem with the pylons they took a lot of my health so I changed strategy.
I used Igni upraded to incinerate, tawny owl to keep my endurance up and strong steel sword style.

It's easy to run rings around him as he is slow moving, so I kept my distance for the most part and threw Igni at him (he doesn't like fire) going in now and again for a few swipes of the sword (hit and run). It goes down eventually.

[JAYSON]

I seemed to have fixed it. I had to stand well back from the pylons when activating them.

[Metsu Tian]

You got to make sure you're not in between any of the pylons, while the golem inside the triangle. I have never had any problems with it in my playthroughs, I think you're just standing too close to the pylon.

[Serendipity]

If I playthrough again I will try that.

[Sir Roger Redstealer]

all you have to do is not stand in the triangle....... :P

[NoCoreSkills]

I finally figured out the solution that helped me. Yes, all the people saying that the golem had to be inside the triangle, and geralt outside were correct. BUT that alone wasn't working. I found the easiest way to do it was to light up two of the pillars, then douse the golem with a dose of igni while he is in the middle of the triangle, and finally light up the last pillar trying to keep well away from it. Buggy games really take all the immersion and fun out it :/

[𝙹𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛]

5 years later..

[FirestormMk3]

Hey, old game like this, threads this old can still be top Google results for certain issues. I had never figured out what I was doing wrong either, so I ended up killing it with a healthy dose of Igni and swordplay. I got the golem by a tree so sword hits tried to push him where he couldn't go and he'd sort of clip through it then rubber band back when he tried to take a step forward and had him stunlocked for a little over half his health. Cheesy and hard to replicate for sure, but without the lightening rods this is probably the hardest fight until Chapter 5 otherwise.

[Calico-Jack]

Originally posted by JAYSON:

I'm trying to kill the golum using the pylons but whenever I do it just kills me. I'm standing outside the triangle, my swords are sheathed, I don't know what to do. I can sometimes shock him once without getting hit, but mostly I just get shocked and die.

Is this bugged? Any help?

imagine the sides of the triangle extending beyond the points and align yourself with one before activating

[HUSH]

It's not enough to stand outside the triangle when you activate the third pylon. You have to be OUTSIDE when you touch ALL THREE PYLONS. Took me couple of tries.

[𝙹𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛]

Necromancy your schtick, HUSH?

[FirestormMk3]

Originally posted by Hadrian Marlowe:

Necromancy your schtick, HUSH?

Like I said when this thread was necro'd a couple years back, with a game this old a thread like this can still be the top search result on Google for an issue a player is having. It's still relevant. Untick subscribe if you don't want an alert when this possibly happens again in 2025.

[きんたまくら]

Figured it out! Can't just be outside, the golem has to be in-between two of the pylons!