Iron Golem Pushed Into Traps

[Rylocke]

A few patches back, you made it so if we pushed our companion into a tap, we'd also take damage. I assume that's because people were exploiting their ability to revive and simply bulldozing their follower into certain death.

I recently noticed the Iron Golem can be pushed into a tap, avoiding all player damage. I didn't test it while he was an Earth Elemental, nor have I tested with other elementals or wolves, but I assume some or all of them have the same effect.

 

[VDX_360]

I've been debating whether pushing summons onto traps is good or bad for the balance of the game. Sure, using summons to clear traps might be a creative way to solve the trap problem, but a mage has to spend precious mana on the summons so there's a built-in cost. Whereas with pushing Companions onto traps, the Companions just pop back up in a few seconds with no cost to the main character.

Iron Golems are mana intensive to summon so they make pretty expensive trap dummies.....

 

[DavidBVal]

First of all, it is an oversight on my part. But it doesn't sound too bad to hand mages a second way to deal with traps. I'll leave it as it is.