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Enhancing weapons and armor in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is one of the main ways to make yourself and your Pawn stronger. Finding these materials is often a hassle as the stronger the piece of equipment you need to enhance, the higher the rarity of the Enhancement material needed to bring out its full potential.
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Electrum is a lightning attribute enhancement material that’s downright impossible to find unless you know exactly where to go and who to kill. Here’s everything you need to know about it.
How To Get Electrum
Electrum is a rare drop from Purple Golems, an elite variant of Golems. These Golems have purple medallions on their body instead of blue medallions like regular Golems. Currently, there is only one known location of a Purple Golem which can be found in the western section of the Volcanic Islands, in the ruins southeast of Windwalker’s home (where you get the Magick Archer Vocation). I’ve marked the location in the screenshot above.
To get to this Golem, you’ll first need to get to the Volcanic Islands from Bakbattahl. There are two ways to do this, either progress the main story until you automatically unlock the Flamebearer Palace Spellseal Door, or take the southern route and go through Drabnir’s Grotto to reach the other side.
How To Defeat Purple Golems
Purple Golems work much the same way as regular Golems in terms of how their weaknesses work but with a twist. You only need to aim at the glowing purple discs on their body until they drop off. Melee vocations will need to do a bit of climbing for this but it is quite straightforward for ranged characters. Each time you destroy a medallion a Magick Medal will drop on the ground, be sure to pick these up before leaving.
At a certain point, all medallions on the Golem’s body will start glowing red. Destroying a medallion when it’s glowing red will freeze the Golem completely for a limited time. Use this opportunity to destroy as many medallions as possible because once the freeze duration is over, the Golem will enter an enraged state.
After you bring the Purple Golem’s health down to one bar, there will be no more medallions to target, at least on the surface. The last two weak points the Golem has are inside his arms, and they’re protected by a layer of rocks.
To target this weak point, you have to wait for steam to start coming out of the Golem’s hidden weak points. Every time this happens, you’ll get a very small window of opportunity to deal damage to the Golem before it recovers from its vulnerable state and the weak points become untargetable again. Using high burst damage attacks like Mystic Spearhand’s Wind Furie and Magick Archer’s Martyr Shot is the best way to take advantage of this opportunity and get the fight over quickly. If you don’t have a means of damaging the Golem in quick bursts, prepare for a slog of a fight ahead.
Rarer enhancement materials like Electrum require knowing which enemy drops which items. You might also be interested in our how-to-get guides for some other enhancement materials like Whitecobble, Astracite, Miasmite, and Sunstone.
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