Talk:Golem/@comment-33157222-20171005193345

I made it to Gold and have level 8 bots and all level 7 weapons. I get wrecked by full level 11 and 12 full hangars. In Silver league noone had level 10+, now suddenly everyone's maxed out. WTF???

This is ridiculous. My DB Gareth can't even get to the 2nd beacon off the start because of Tridents. The Gareth shield is now useless. I used to be able to take on Leos and win, now my sheild gets blown off even trying to drive by with a window shoot. 2 thunder shots and the shield is gone - POOF!! How is that 70K worth of damage in 2 shots? The 3.1 update has made light bots completely useless. All the heavies rotate faster, walk faster, and all the lights are capped at 58km/h. There's no way to out pilot a heavy with circling and zig zagging. My stalker is more than useless. The heavies just swivel around and keep shooting me. The whole game is unbalanced now - just a bigger and better arms race. It's become an only heavy game. Bigger is better.

I'm thinking of moving my Gareth Orkan / Pinata to a Golem and giving up early mover beacon capture. Seems like a compatible switch out with a Gareth if I can level a Thunder up. Thunder fire power for a lot less speed. I won a Vitiyaz level 1 in the hated black market, but then I can't use the Orkan from my Gareth. And I've grown fond of being able to pound a Leo for half health in one shot.

I have 1 Boa in my hangar that I love (little sucker is fast and tough), but I'm torn over getting another Boa, or trying out a new style of corner shooting play with the Golem.

I bought a Golem early on, but never ran it since it was too wide and clunky and I kept bumping into stuff. Seems like I just never learned how to corner shoot.