The first and smaller statue that you can see from the entrance can be destroyed by having a player continually firing at it out of its firing arc. This will allow you to get at the treasure chest and crates/barrels on the upper levels without getting pummeled by the larger statues deeper in the tunnel.
I was able to destroy all of them using a bow and standing out of their range.
Me too, but it was tedious and boring. Don't see any point in it...
I was just letting you know that it wasn't only the first and smaller one that could be destroyed--as you said in your original post, not arguing in favor of the statues as fun gameplay. I actual agree with the one-at-each-end suggestion. It makes sense for the druids to protect their backdoor, but fewer would have made the point. I felt the same about the number of traps in Auntie Ethel's tunnels. Fewer would have been more dangerous as you'd be more likely to get careless and rolling on disarming them so frequently got tedious.
