You can kill all the bosses in the city through dialogue. The guy at the Waning Moon drinks himself to death and the doctor will let the sisters cut him apart.
each familiar you kill chunks that health off the boss too, i think ideally you would assinate all the adds so she is left with 7 hp before engaging the boss
By the way, in case no one else has pointed this out, if you go to the Mountain Pass before dealing with the goblin/druid questline, the Emerald Grove will be closed off, presumably cause they finished the ritual.
What happens to the tieflings? I'm thinking about restarting bc i need karlach in this playthrough. Funny enough, the grove is still open bc i took the idol.
There is a robe called the potent robe that u can get for saving the Tieflings in the tower. It adds your charisma modifier to ur cantrip, so very good for warlock players and anyone that uses eldritch blast.
Charisma casters already add charisma modifier to the spells they use, and I assume it wouldn't add it twice because that'd be busted. Actually better used on wis and int casters
@@sirhc8927 [Spoiler] But maybe important if you want said Robe and Achievement. Alfira in the Last Light Inn, gives the Quest about saving them, then go to Moonrise Tower, and right to the Throne Room is a bloody stairway down. Go down to the Jail, Where I would recommend killing all the Guards first, then Talking to the Imprisoned Tieflings and then Gnomes. Have things like Hammer-type weapons prepared or clubs, as the Gnomes will need them to break out and they will also free the Tieflings. If you did not kill the Guards, they will attack you and the Escapees. The Boss of the Jail and her Handyman will wait by the Boats and slaughter the Escapes. So if you want the achievement of rescuing everyone, Kill the Guards beforehand before talking to the Gnomes. Once they escape by Boat, where you can go with them, Talk to Alfira again and she will give you her Robe, her Masters's Instrument and some other stuff. I do not know if this works in Dark Urge, for some important part of Act 1. Also, the Gnomes will give a good sum of money!
IMPORTANT: The raven spell (Ranger) or from the item spoken about here is more useful than what was mentioned. It can FLY over walls and buildings and get into places you can't and then pull levers, press buttons and activate things. This raven has been most useful and fun. Such an amazing game and so much fun to play.
Druids can also do this with flight form. If you have a character that can cast fly, you can do it to most places too- but you may also need another character to cast Enlarge/Reduce- Reduce, to get into some small spots. Of course, Druids can shapeshift into much smaller animals and burrow/get through small holes. It's really fun replaying areas with another class and seeing just how different it feels when you can navigate areas in ways you formerly couldn't. It's amazing how much interactivity and verticality they managed to stuff into the game!
You can have the gith ambush detector before the ambush near the Road to Baldur's Gate way point. The long rest scene where you get the item can trigger before that. I got mine after clearing Rosymorn.
There is another rare shield near the Last Light inn, buried in the graveyard over the bridge to the north. On the east side of the graveyard there is a perception and strength check to notice and then move rocks to get the Shield of Scorching Reprisal.
Also, for the pixie bell: if you come there before agreeing to the ambush, you can just charisma your way into convincing the moon lantern holder into giving it to you. They'll walk into the darkness and eventually die in the shadows
Drider didnt, at least not for me. I found him in the graveyardy area, hed take damage for 2 turns then just heal, seems to do that indefinitely. Couldn't even kill him for ep, at least not at the moment. He won't initiate combat no matter how much i hit him and he fulls heals every turn and presently i dont have to means to down him in one round. Still disarming striked to get his sword though.
As an MMO player my first thought was 'Six Skulls, Six Different Buffs'. It ended up right. When you've done Crazy Encounters for long enough, you begin looking for context clues. My friend stated that it never crossed his mind until I brought up that detail. Critical Thinking ftw.
You can get a Potion that gives one character +2 Strength permanently in Moonrise Towers by talking to the Alchemist Drow (I forgot her name). You need to refuse her offer at first and then (while having Astarion in your party) she will offer you another proposal. You have to convince Astarion to do it and bam, you have +2 strength for the rest of the game on the character you give it to.
Maybe my approval was too low, but Astarion "broke up" with me after doing this, but I'm hoping there may be an option to make it up to him later... Apparently it makes him feel "used" even if it was ultimately his decision to go through with it. 😞
I mean, i got into the Shadow Lands and my first instinct was to have Shadowheart cast Daylight on herself... no issues whatsoever, explored everything.
I had no idea what I had to do so I went solo with shadowheart, I struggled in the first fight with the shadows for like an hour... Then once I made it to the city I ported everyone there and got the blessing.
Damn, I made the same mistake with the mountain pass area. I skipped it and then later just assumed it was an alternative entrance to the shadow cursed area 💔 ugh… that warning sign is horrible
It's important to know that if you complete all of the Shar temple before going to Moonrise, you'll automatically fail and be locked out of some of the questlines!
@@FenrirAltermy brother in christ if you managed to go all the way thru act 2 without finishing "save the tieflings" youve already failed it, if you dont finish that quest before entering act 2 its one of the ones you get locked out of... not to mention that is like one of the first quests you should encounter in the game so if you left it that long odds are you were never going to do it anyway, but you should because that is how you get halsin/mynthara companions depending on how you play it (im lumping the tieflings quest and the druids quest togrther bc you almost cant finish one without doing to other anyway)
As long as you stop at the pool portal this isnt true, killing moonsong is the trigger that permenantly cuts off access to act 1 and progresses the world state of act 2, just dont go and finish that last bit until you complete all the sidequests you want to do in act 1 and 2
I learn so much from these videos and then even more from reading the comments. This is such an awesome and helpful community! Which is a good thing because this amazing game has so much depth and so many secrets!
You can get the psionic detector before the bridge ambush. After all the gith missions at the creche, I did a long rest and had the encounter at the camp.
(As a cool little bonus for First Light Inn, anyone looking for a wizard hat) In the stable with Dammon the blacksmith, use animal speak to the bull all the way to the right if you're facing the stable. It will turn into a different creature and Dammon will aid you in killing it. It drops a pretty cool wizard hat called "Hat of Fire Acuity". 😀
"Use animal speak" my brother in christ i have permenant speak with animals on pretty much every single party member, i dont need to cast anything i just have it when i need it, also doesnt cost me any spell slots
@@madamewenux Oh, what does it do? I'm damn near finished with the game done most of the side quests in Act 3 and about to kill Gortash and the Elder Brain.
Same! I just went back and got Blood of Lathander and did the entire Laz’eal crèche quest line and I can’t believe I almost skipped that whole storyline
Tip for defending the portal!! Go around last light in and grab every crate, then before the mission starts build a wall with the crates where the portal spawns in. This protects it from archers and mages then all you have to do is stand your ground in front of it
under the moonlight towers where you get after first part of the fight with Kethric, there is an area with 1 guy and few brains. In that room/area there is a cage with a brain in it. Open cage, talk to the brain and get a really nice free summon.
#1 little warning, if you go to the mountain pass without helping the grove, they will just close it down. so DON'T go there, unless it's the quest.... this vid makes it sound like nothing would happen or be concluded as warned by the game, but it WILL be. go to the mountain pass, but NOT before completing the main quest of map 1 (grove) #2 you dont need the key to open the door for the metal, just a rogue with skill
The grove isnt the main quest of act one... its a sidequest, a long sidequest but still a sidequest nonetheless. ANY quest that is locked by progressing is a sidequest
Also, if you kill the strange ox in the grove in act 1, Damon will not show up at Last Light. Not sure if it’s a bug or the consequences of killing the ox but you won’t be able to progress Karlach quest or get the items if you kill that ox. Supposedly he is in act 3 still.
I actually missed Art Cullagh completely and he died after i progressed the story. We can actually still do the quest by using talk to the dead spell and ask the dead Art Cullagh about Thaniel.
TTtD is very underrated ngl, ever since i got the amulet for it at the start of act one ive used it every chancd ive got and let me tell ya, without spoiling anything, there are TONS of things you can only do if you use TTtD
The INT, WIS, and CHA buffs are the most valuable here. +5 to each stat. I recommend long resting before interacting with the statues so that you get full use of the +5 buffs which only last until the next long rest. +5 is insane: means more spell slots, impossible to fail skill checks, super strong spell cast difficulty checks. Also, I noticed that it is currently bugged: for characters with Prepared Spells, if you make use of the +5 extra spell slots from the buff, the spells remain even after the buff is lost. This is HUGE (but I'd categorize it as an exploit).
SPOILER WARNING. If you have Astarion alive in your party, you can get a permanent +2 strength that can go above soft 20 cap. Location is in moonrise towers, talk to the NPC interested in blood. need to pass some dialogue checks and make certain decisions for you to get it.
@@DavidVideoRecordsDeep Gnome who was tied to the windmill. Needless to say he needs to survive in the forge with Nere. And I think you need to convince him to stay in your camp for while. Then he will move to the inn.
About the Moonlantern: If you start the journey with the Driad, and the Harpers attack you. It doesn't matter if you save the Harpers bcs they are looting the lantern. About the gith ambush: If you long rest after the monastery he will find you and will give you the Detector before act 2.
For the gold lady, I gave her all my gold and it still wasn't enough. Not sure what the minimum is. So I had to reload, and fight her from a more advantageous position. Circle the building and you can get on the roof. Best to ignore her and instead go for the floating heads. Killing those knocks 100hp off her at a time. Downside is, you don't get the signed trade visa. Plus side, I have no idea what it's supposed to be used for.
I think the infernal iron is bugged, if you have the devil chick in your party before you speak with Dammon. You then hand the iron for her upgrades, then follow up for the armor crafting. Seems it doesn’t consume the iron if you do her upgrades first.
People on reddit have been saying to go through moonrise towers BEFORE doing shars gauntlet, so now I dunno what to do. That said, thanks for the heads up on mountain pass. I kinda ignored that zone, but Imma head there now before completing the shadowfell stuff
@@dutch6947"save the tieflings" you are the second person ive seen talk about doing that quest before finishing shars temple... my brothers in christ that is an EARLY act 1 sidequest, if it isnt done by this point then its already been locked by entering act 2
The thing about the lantern was that I was playing a Warlock/Paladin using bind weapon, so me being the light bearer for the party was like perfect. Before going into act 3 I open the lantern just to see what happens and was like ahh shit but wasn’t disappointed because it was like we released a pixie into a world turning for the better :) happy ending for act 2
10:10 i get visited by that character before the ambush on the bridge. after completing creche story, he visited me and psionic detector worked for the bridge ambush
The thing with the infernal iron is that you have to use one of those at the grove to get Dammon to reinforce her infernal engine, leaving you with only two by the time you get to the inn. Still, I missed the one in the Zhentarim hideout so this tip was still very helpful. Probably would have found it but wasn’t sure if I was supposed to fight them. Ended up killing everyone when I went back. It was worth it
If you go into the gauntlet of shar next to where Balthazar resides in there there’s a locked door to your right (it’s level 21 so it’s pretty hard lock if you don’t have a rouge in your party or someone with efficient slight of hand). Once you get that sucker opened, there should be a piece of infernal iron in one of the chests! Hopefully this helped :-).
@@Salzzyyyyy oh yeah, I ended up find this and loads of infernal iron ages ago. I did a 200 hour playthrough and finished up about 2 weeks ago. Fantastic game! Hit a few game breaking bugs in the final act but found ways around them and finished up. One of the best gaming experiences of my life but I’m going to wait another month or so before I do another playthrough. Hopefully they’ll have it patched up by then. Playing Lies of P atm and it’s also fantastic. So many great games this year!
Mountain pass technically isn’t act 2 yet. That would be the shadowcursed lands. The underdark/grymforge and the mountain pass are still act 1. Act 2 only begins when you get to the shadowcursed lands. Once there though the infernal rapier for saving zariels asset and convincing them to give you an extra reward. The blood of lythander and the infernal rapier as far as I know are the only two weapons that early that give level 6 spells
Help the guys stuck in a cave due to gnolls near the act 1 tollhouse and they'll put in a good word and give you the passphrase to get past the explosive ambush so you don't have to go into the zhent base hostile
Tip for the portal, when I did it I cast wall of fire at the base of the rocks across where everyone has to climb up and then used disarming shot on ranged people so everyone ran into the fire in turn based mode and died trying to get up to me and the portal
1:17 warning if you go to the mountain path before doing the inn on fire and goblin village it'll end as Halsin dying and the inn burning down. Also you can do most of the Shar temple but once it asks you as far as what's happened on my playthrough so far you are locked into story for a bit after though the wording is a bit vague
For the infernal Armor, if you help Karlach with her condition first, you may not have enough pieces to craft the chest piece. You'll only be able to get the helmet and gloves with the remaining pieces. You do get more infernal Metal and Iron in later acts so you should be able to still progress Karlach's story. I did not get the chest in Act 2 and when I did have enough in Act 3, Dammon no longer prompted me to craft it.
You can find more than enough to do it all, you probably sold a piece of it without realising it (like i realised at like the end of act 2 i had sold 2 pieces in act 1 bc i thought they were useless)
Oh btw when doing the portal quest be careful to not let a npc follow you (for me it didn’t like my summon and followed me) when the npc was taken over by the shadow curse the entire last light inn was infected and insta killed
Same. I was under the impression that the moonrise tower was the last thing to do and if I went in it would start. So I never went until after I did the gauntlet. Bummer
I’m very happy to come across your video as I didn’t bother going through the Mountain Pass, (as some character said it’d be easier) and took the elevator from the Grymforge instead. Now I won’t miss out on this stuff. Thanks for the tips also.
How much gold is needed to get the purple pass? I have around 1600 gold in my inventory and gave it all to the toll house collector. Said it wasn’t enough and initiated combat immediately.
Gave her 4,5k - still not enough. Rage gave her 8.8k, so its somewhere between 4,5 and 8.8k thats enough :D Ill try to reload and sell some stuff and get back to you, if i can make it to the critical limit
From what I've seen it's 5-6k gold. Also, sneaking and killing all the skulls floating around before engaging her will dramatically reduce her health. About 100 per skull
BRUHHHHHHHHHHHHH I thought the mountain pass would bring me directly to the shadow curse lands like how the Underdark passage did. Thank god I'm still in the early stages of Act II, I'm soooo going back now -_-
That whole Halsin quest stressed me out coz it's so bugged. Halsin doesn't appear in the shoreline and is stuck in my camp. Had to do other quests, eventually just killed Art Culligan which unlocked new dialogues for Halsin and made me do other quests.
Somehow I got that Gith Psyonic detector quite a bit earlier. Not sure what triggered the encounter, maybe long resting after the Creche quest or something.
I was so unprepared for Halsins quest. I wasnt expecting any of that lol. Luckily i had Shadowheart and Gale in my party. You can cast longstrider on shadowheart and have her put up spirit guardians and run around the battlefield for the first bit. When it starts getting western (it will) i put her at the top of the steps by the portal and tried to do enough splash damage with gale and Tav (My rogue/ranger) so that anyone walking to SH will die instantly. I had Karlach as my other parry member but she kept going down and forcing me to use SH healing word. Next time i do that quest Id probably take Laezel or Wyll spec'd as a BardLock for some more crowd control.
When trying to protect Halsin and his portal, one easy method is to cast a stone wall or Darkness to obscure the portal. The ranged enemies will have to walk close to you or any corner just to get their sight on the portal, wasting their turns.
This video is exactly what I was looking for! After messing up the beginning of Act 1 and killing/missing some important vendors and therefore missing items, I was sour about it. Thanks for making this with as few spoilers as possible!
Note. Party won't be ambushed by giths near road to BG if you skipped the pass or if you go there after you've already been at ambush point. Dunno if it is a bug, but i still got visited by - redacted - later at camp.
I think act one is flawed! Their should have been a reason we need to go to the mount pass! As it stands you can completely miss it if you are not paying attention. Technically, the same is true with the under dark, but I feel like the story tells you to find the under dark and avoid the mountain pass:
If you have Lea Zel in your party she tries to get you to go that way as you find out there are gith there. If you fight the group of gith that are around there and find there map she is almost pushy to go in that direction
I went to Underdark first, and before the elivator I went to mount pass, I did not miss anything of those. It warns you because there are more stronger enemies in there. One thing I did different than him was to talk to the Gold boss to kill herself , she does have a lot of gold and a key, no pass.
my issue was once you find them giths with the dragon you cant really beat them unless you get pretty strong which i feel like you need to do most of the under dark to get to that point. and you wont know where here creach is unless you beat them. @@user-mu8ok5xf8d
Bruh there is a reason... Bae'zel literally doesnt shut up about it for the entirety of act 1 basically ANY time she opens her mouth she tells you very clearly to go to the Creche, which is in the mountain pass... if yall managed to miss it with all of that then i have some unfortunate news for you about a particular airplane
I get that completely lol, but its a lot more fun going in blind! the great thing about the game is you can do things any way you can think of@@ThwipThwipBoom
I have yet to arrive in ACt 3 but I did kill the boss in Act 2 but I was still able to recruit Halsin by going back to the Last Light Inn with Talk to the Dead spell and used it on Art Cullagh and proceeded with Halsin's questline. Idk how that would work for you in Act 3 already though, but worth the try IMO
When should you go to the Moonrise tower? I encountered an ork and some goblins early on in the area saying they’d take me to the tower but I thought best to go there later, but not exactly sure? Please advise what you’d suggest
It's sad when I run into very rare items like the shield that gives 10 temp hp when I already had a lvl 4 aid spell that Shadowheart casts on my whole squad after every long rest for 15 temp hp for the day - same issue with the necrotic, life stealing sword. It's seemed like I'm over leveled since act 1 but when I read other's experiences, many seem to be in the same boat. I still equipped the shield but I wish Larian just made it a lvl 4 aid spell - I had that long before I got to the shadow cursed lands lol. Lathander's Mace is insane, though. Giving your healer the amulet that ensures max healing when using healing spells is a huge buff to any squad, too.
@RageGamingVideos I just fkd up my run by leaving the moonrise towers area for last. I thought I could do everything to do in the moonrise towers on the way to kill Ketherik. But when I arrived, everyone in the prison was dead. Several missions failed because I didnt rescue them in time. My only previous usable save was just before entering the shadowlands.
Laezel will make you go to the monastery and creche anyway, so it's hard to skip it. She interrupts prog in shadow lands to go finish her personal quest.
Says Act 2, opens up in Act 1 content. Act two starts when you enter the shadow cursed lands as that actually makes changes and progress quests in the world.
FYI the House of Healing has a backdoor near the waypoint... i stumbled in there my first play through and didnt know what i was interacting with. You can also presuade the doctor to kill himself.
Toll house boss loses a lot of her health buffs if you kill the floating skulls around the house. Also Pro tip, engage her in convo and loot all the gold in the room and send all your gold to camp before the fight. Makes it so she doesnt one shot whoever is holding all the gold
FYI: The tollhouse keeper has a minimum gold limit you need to meet when giving her all your gold. Your character (the one whos talking) needs to have at least 5k gold with him to get the pass. Otherwise shell take it and attack you anyways, because you didnt give her enough.
@@IXUZO Tried that the first time around, but the pass isnt on her body when you just attack/kill her. So i re-did ~1h of progress since the last auto-save and tried again (this time saving right before the fight), now giving her all of my 4.6k gold -> stated: "not enough" and attacked me with the same result: no pass on her dead body. Reload -> Sold all my scrap-gear and potions (went up to 6,5k) -> got the option when triggering her this time, so i tried a couple of more times, going down 500gold per try, the last one being 5k which still was enough to get the pass. So it might be even lower (between 4,6k and 5k). Oh btw: if you dont want the pass/just her standard-loot, give all your gold to someone staying in camp, since the more gold you got, the more damage she does with her initial blow (4,6k oneshot my lvl 8 bard with 68hp)
@@boanoah6362 Tbh, i didnt even try that, since my party-setup makes killing her quite easy (can post my setup and a general strategy if you'd like) Important notice for the fight: - each dead skull will subtract 100hp from the boss, so i would suggest ignoring the Keeper completely. Just kill the skulls until the boss has just 6 hp left - the more money your chars have, the more dmg she will do with her initial nuke. So give all the money to the character who speaks with her, to get rid of that danger
Bruh, the Halsin portal fight is so rough on hard mode. The archers just pelt it from half way across the arena. I ended up just using a hastened LeZel to camp that entire area since enemies didn't seem to attack her. And then needing Shadowhearts Turn Undead twice was fucking vital. Wouldn't have passed without haste and turn undead.
The Thorms are some of the toughest mini-bosses in the game. I only fight them when I'm looking for a challenge. Otherwise, I reclass into a bard, get all the buffs, and talk them into offing themselves.
something i found that i couldnt figure out was in the trielta crags near the elevator i keep hearing something roaring, and yes killed everything in underdark except mushrooms and gnomes. p.s. if you give esther the owlbear egg, do they hatch it as well or no?
Don’t go to the mountain pass if you haven’t completed the grove. It will auto resolve it, and give you the worst ending for the grove. Same as any other region. Always complete the main or time sensitive quests before moving on
A question please: I've just got to Last Light and at the bit where I can meet Isobel and fight Marcus. Should I do that right away or go and try and find the cure to the curse mentioned 3 minutes into this video? Thanks!
Can you go to the underdark and forge and all that after you do all the shadow cursed lands and defeat the old guy boss throme or something like that? Without watching videos this is where I am but now I'm seeing that I've missed alot other places like the underdark and forge area.
The underdark and forge are part of act 1, probably better to finish them first. Even if you don’t get blocked off from going back you’ll overlevel everything quite a bit.
@@alexw4482 yeah that's what I was afraid of, I wanted to do a blind first playthrough and that's just the direction it led me, it's really an amazing thing though and I'll have to do that on next playthrough, seems I completed everything else and im having the best time anyways! thanks for the info!
The spear of evening is so good lol, I made Shadow a war priest/fighter then her and my pally/lock just camp in the shadows while my wizard spreads darkness everywhere. Nothing can hit you and you just wade through the shadows with Demon Sight on your pallock and the Spear on Shadow murdering everything, anything outside cant even hit you so they just run in and join the slaughter. The Dark Justiciar gloves are busted too, gives a 2-18 necro/turn dot as a bonus action with infinite uses
For what it’s worth if you take the carnage route through Moonrise, and why wouldn’t you, that glaive is one of the many drops you can pick up from enemies you kill
I'm taking my time to enjoy my playthrough but being in act 2 now i cant wait to get to act 3 and find out what happens with the dwaf from the myconid colony and Lady Ester both of whom I gave what they wanted and then pickpocketed back after and both still had the lines they normally do after completing the quests. And I am equally pumped to find out if Dammon can craft the helldusk Armor set as I had 6 infernal iron(after the character quest was completed) so I have another peice for an upgrade in Baldurs gate when he gets to a better forge.
an important question for me... if I have already entered the cursed lands of act 2 through the forge and cleared half the location except for the moon towers and the shaar shelter (etc. on trifles), will any of the characters of the plot die (tieflings, etc.) e) if I take and run away for a short time to fulfill the plot of laezel for the sake of all sorts of goodies?
For the portal fight in the Halsin quest, just stay near the portal, shoot the ranged enemies, and drop a Firewall. The melee enemies just run in and die.
@@user-mu8ok5xf8d I put 2 levels into paladin for Shadowheart and cast "banish the dead" + used the skill from blood of Lathander. Easy kills and tons of xp.
@@dmitrimaslov3168ew pally levels on a priest is a waste, i gave her 2 wiz levels and taught her fireball from a scroll, fireballs = ez quest between her and gale throwing out fireballs it was stupid easy (i gave her specifically 2 wiz levels for the evocation school so my fireballs dont tpk me if you were wondering)
Only started the video and this needs to be said, but no Mountain Pass IS part of Act 2, if you go there it acts the same as if you go to the shadow lands. I tried to go there while not having finished the goblin quest and when I got back all the tieflings in the grove were dead because it got raided by Minthyra.
The video starts with smth that isn't true. Entering mountain pass entirely cuts you off from the grove questline, if u haven't completed that u'll be unable to.
I used my infernal iron for kharlac. We also entered the shadowland in the far south east. got guided by a dryder. and attacked by Harpers. We met the shadow kid and played hide and seek long before we found Art in the inn. so, since we had won the game, our only choice was to fight him. Did the temple of shar BEFORE ever setting foot in moon rise tower. oh well. sorry all the people we were supposed to find. I am only watching this now because we are ready to go to baluders gate and want to see if we missed anything we could actually still get. And there is not. ah well. onward Don't forget you can find US! you didn't mention it, but i was glad to reunite and now have permanent summon
This is the case with ANY character that moves from one act to another, it really shouldnt be hard to put 2 and 2 together to know the person you killed in one act wont be in the next, and why is EVERYONE attacking the grove? I have seen not one person who sided with the grove bc every single complain i see in these comments is ppl who dont have damon in act 2 which means all of yall destroyed the grove in act 1, so many evil fucker bro wth
Funny fact in my game; the ambush failed because I was sneaking on the other side of that little bridge. The enemies appeared, but my character remained hidden. The player was quite surprised tho! I was able to sneak away, and the enemies remained there forever. Devs should definitely add a small circle of detection around enemies, so you need at least one roll when close behind them.
Huge tip for defending portal: cast Darkness on the portal. No one will be able to target it from range, making the encounter really easy
I feel stupid now
@Jewels_AoE4 you aren't alone with that feeling...
you can heal the portal with Aoe healing lmao like mass healing
I just had gale cast fireball after fireball😂
Wall of fire and everyone runs into their death
You can talk the toll house boss into killing herself with like two deception checks. No need to fight and it gives like 1100exp.
You can kill all the bosses in the city through dialogue. The guy at the Waning Moon drinks himself to death and the doctor will let the sisters cut him apart.
in a world where "Bitch, kill yourself" is taken literally
each familiar you kill chunks that health off the boss too, i think ideally you would assinate all the adds so she is left with 7 hp before engaging the boss
You can even kill a certain devil just by talking. Charisma characters are OP sometimes :D
@@VillainQueen*BARD ROMANCES EVIL DEATHLORD LICH*
By the way, in case no one else has pointed this out, if you go to the Mountain Pass before dealing with the goblin/druid questline, the Emerald Grove will be closed off, presumably cause they finished the ritual.
i found this out this hard way and just completely restarted
What happens to the tieflings? I'm thinking about restarting bc i need karlach in this playthrough. Funny enough, the grove is still open bc i took the idol.
@@wshadowgaming4854 I thought the ritual can’t be done without the idol , isn’t that why they tried to kill the girl?
@@ssbvegeta7643 which is why the grove was still open, they couldn't finish the ritual
@@wshadowgaming4854 what character build are you going for? Also did you multiclass at all?
There is a robe called the potent robe that u can get for saving the Tieflings in the tower. It adds your charisma modifier to ur cantrip, so very good for warlock players and anyone that uses eldritch blast.
Charisma casters already add charisma modifier to the spells they use, and I assume it wouldn't add it twice because that'd be busted. Actually better used on wis and int casters
It does add it twice. As he said, very good item
Which tieflings and which tower?
Moonrise Tower in the jail
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[Spoiler] But maybe important if you want said Robe and Achievement.
Alfira in the Last Light Inn, gives the Quest about saving them, then go to Moonrise Tower, and right to the Throne Room is a bloody stairway down. Go down to the Jail, Where I would recommend killing all the Guards first, then Talking to the Imprisoned Tieflings and then Gnomes. Have things like Hammer-type weapons prepared or clubs, as the Gnomes will need them to break out and they will also free the Tieflings. If you did not kill the Guards, they will attack you and the Escapees. The Boss of the Jail and her Handyman will wait by the Boats and slaughter the Escapes. So if you want the achievement of rescuing everyone, Kill the Guards beforehand before talking to the Gnomes. Once they escape by Boat, where you can go with them, Talk to Alfira again and she will give you her Robe, her Masters's Instrument and some other stuff. I do not know if this works in Dark Urge, for some important part of Act 1. Also, the Gnomes will give a good sum of money!
make sure to free the prisoners in moonrise tower before completing shar temple. good or bad ending inside the temple the prisoners get executed
yeah. i wish i had known this, but chose to keep the outcome anyhow. oh well
IMPORTANT: The raven spell (Ranger) or from the item spoken about here is more useful than what was mentioned. It can FLY over walls and buildings and get into places you can't and then pull levers, press buttons and activate things. This raven has been most useful and fun. Such an amazing game and so much fun to play.
Any class that can get Find Familiar can get the raven, so that includes Wizard and Warlock (Pact of the Chain)
Druids can also do this with flight form. If you have a character that can cast fly, you can do it to most places too- but you may also need another character to cast Enlarge/Reduce- Reduce, to get into some small spots. Of course, Druids can shapeshift into much smaller animals and burrow/get through small holes.
It's really fun replaying areas with another class and seeing just how different it feels when you can navigate areas in ways you formerly couldn't. It's amazing how much interactivity and verticality they managed to stuff into the game!
You can have the gith ambush detector before the ambush near the Road to Baldur's Gate way point. The long rest scene where you get the item can trigger before that. I got mine after clearing Rosymorn.
Crazy how act 2 is consider early part of the game. I spend 50 hours still messin around in act one. Barely got to the underdark
Act 2 feels like it took way less time than act 1
Well then you played the game like it’s supposed to be played :) well done!
There is another rare shield near the Last Light inn, buried in the graveyard over the bridge to the north. On the east side of the graveyard there is a perception and strength check to notice and then move rocks to get the Shield of Scorching Reprisal.
Thanks
for the life of me, i can't get rid of the rubble :')
@@dianed4938use karlach and interact with the rubble
Also, for the pixie bell: if you come there before agreeing to the ambush, you can just charisma your way into convincing the moon lantern holder into giving it to you. They'll walk into the darkness and eventually die in the shadows
Drider didnt, at least not for me. I found him in the graveyardy area, hed take damage for 2 turns then just heal, seems to do that indefinitely. Couldn't even kill him for ep, at least not at the moment. He won't initiate combat no matter how much i hit him and he fulls heals every turn and presently i dont have to means to down him in one round. Still disarming striked to get his sword though.
Did this even during the ambush but he walks off and dies and you cant get his loot nor the exp from the fight
Works even during the ambush. :)
@@Zepherlinkdamn, he didn't die in my game. I found him not far from the moonrise tower with half HP
Apparently with spore druid you can resurrect his body and have a drider just... hanging out
FYI - You can reduce the Gold Lady's health by killing the skulls that spawn with her. Every one you kill will knock about 100 hp off her life total.
As an MMO player my first thought was 'Six Skulls, Six Different Buffs'. It ended up right. When you've done Crazy Encounters for long enough, you begin looking for context clues. My friend stated that it never crossed his mind until I brought up that detail. Critical Thinking ftw.
@@katomamundara8106 MMO player cringe
@@vilxxblack2472 You're mad 'cause bad.
@@katomamundara8106 MMO player cringe
@@vilxxblack2472 virgins
You can get a Potion that gives one character +2 Strength permanently in Moonrise Towers by talking to the Alchemist Drow (I forgot her name). You need to refuse her offer at first and then (while having Astarion in your party) she will offer you another proposal. You have to convince Astarion to do it and bam, you have +2 strength for the rest of the game on the character you give it to.
Should mention astarion very much does not want to do this. I'm hoping I can take her down when I raid moonrise soon.
I'm wondering if you can pickpocket it from her
@qorpraltv5276 maybe... I haven' tried it though.
Maybe my approval was too low, but Astarion "broke up" with me after doing this, but I'm hoping there may be an option to make it up to him later... Apparently it makes him feel "used" even if it was ultimately his decision to go through with it. 😞
@@ChristyLynnSpinsnah, that’s how that works, however if you take control of astarion and do it he won’t break up with you
I mean, i got into the Shadow Lands and my first instinct was to have Shadowheart cast Daylight on herself... no issues whatsoever, explored everything.
Yeah this was literally the first thing I tried and it covers the whole party within the radius. GG EZ
casting daylight on her would be a waste since she is immune to teh curse, put it on someone else instead :)
I had no idea what I had to do so I went solo with shadowheart, I struggled in the first fight with the shadows for like an hour...
Then once I made it to the city I ported everyone there and got the blessing.
It doesnt work deeper in.
@@cizzymacyeaaaah but you still get put into turn based at some points. Plus in combat it could be uneasy. Its not hard to kill a spider anyways
Damn, I made the same mistake with the mountain pass area. I skipped it and then later just assumed it was an alternative entrance to the shadow cursed area 💔 ugh… that warning sign is horrible
It's important to know that if you complete all of the Shar temple before going to Moonrise, you'll automatically fail and be locked out of some of the questlines!
Not true! I killed nightsong before going to moonrise. Used shadowheart and had to convince her to do it, but it worked
@@jonarock4621 u literally lose out on quests like save the tieflings and the girl that gives u a potion with permanent 2 strenght.
This is what I was worried about!!!! Thank you
@@FenrirAltermy brother in christ if you managed to go all the way thru act 2 without finishing "save the tieflings" youve already failed it, if you dont finish that quest before entering act 2 its one of the ones you get locked out of... not to mention that is like one of the first quests you should encounter in the game so if you left it that long odds are you were never going to do it anyway, but you should because that is how you get halsin/mynthara companions depending on how you play it (im lumping the tieflings quest and the druids quest togrther bc you almost cant finish one without doing to other anyway)
As long as you stop at the pool portal this isnt true, killing moonsong is the trigger that permenantly cuts off access to act 1 and progresses the world state of act 2, just dont go and finish that last bit until you complete all the sidequests you want to do in act 1 and 2
As a comment on the aid spell, they aren’t temp HP. It actually increases your maximum hp. So you can have aid and temp hp at the same time.
I learn so much from these videos and then even more from reading the comments. This is such an awesome and helpful community! Which is a good thing because this amazing game has so much depth and so many secrets!
You can get the psionic detector before the bridge ambush. After all the gith missions at the creche, I did a long rest and had the encounter at the camp.
Same for me, I got the cut scene before going to the shadowlands
(As a cool little bonus for First Light Inn, anyone looking for a wizard hat)
In the stable with Dammon the blacksmith, use animal speak to the bull all the way to the right if you're facing the stable. It will turn into a different creature and Dammon will aid you in killing it. It drops a pretty cool wizard hat called "Hat of Fire Acuity". 😀
Do not do this! The create just want to be a cow and life a peaceful life! 😢
@@DavidVideoRecords It shows you it’s morbid thoughts, transforms into a sludge and aggros you 😂
"Use animal speak" my brother in christ i have permenant speak with animals on pretty much every single party member, i dont need to cast anything i just have it when i need it, also doesnt cost me any spell slots
No, just don’t kill the ox, it’s useful later on in the game
@@madamewenux Oh, what does it do? I'm damn near finished with the game done most of the side quests in Act 3 and about to kill Gortash and the Elder Brain.
Holy crap, I nearly didn't do the mountain pass because I thought it was a point of no return for act two!!! Thank you!!
Same! I just went back and got Blood of Lathander and did the entire Laz’eal crèche quest line and I can’t believe I almost skipped that whole storyline
I avoided it until the underleveled message went away and said I’m a good level. Which was 5.
@@KimoSmigielskiBoL is my favorite legendary so far
It isn't even Act 2 it's Act 1 lol
Tip for defending the portal!!
Go around last light in and grab every crate, then before the mission starts build a wall with the crates where the portal spawns in. This protects it from archers and mages then all you have to do is stand your ground in front of it
The githyanki Creche and Lathanders mace is in act 1 technically not act 2. All underdark and grymforge is also act 1.
under the moonlight towers where you get after first part of the fight with Kethric, there is an area with 1 guy and few brains. In that room/area there is a cage with a brain in it. Open cage, talk to the brain and get a really nice free summon.
Note that you need to have successfully mutilated the brain on the Nautiloid at the start of the game for this summon to be available.
you don't need to mutilate it to get it, doing that only makes it a weaker summon later
Neat little interaction, when you enter a populated area with the brain pet it will disguise itself as a kitty! Lol, nice touch
#1 little warning, if you go to the mountain pass without helping the grove, they will just close it down. so DON'T go there, unless it's the quest.... this vid makes it sound like nothing would happen or be concluded as warned by the game, but it WILL be. go to the mountain pass, but NOT before completing the main quest of map 1 (grove)
#2 you dont need the key to open the door for the metal, just a rogue with skill
The grove isnt the main quest of act one... its a sidequest, a long sidequest but still a sidequest nonetheless. ANY quest that is locked by progressing is a sidequest
Also, if you kill the strange ox in the grove in act 1, Damon will not show up at Last Light. Not sure if it’s a bug or the consequences of killing the ox but you won’t be able to progress Karlach quest or get the items if you kill that ox. Supposedly he is in act 3 still.
Strange Ox is even there is act 3, if you do not kill him and he asks for help. Not sure where the quest leads, but I will find out.
I killed him and I was still able to progress Karlachs quest AFAIK.
I was so confused as to why he wasn’t there. Why are those two things even related? I’m so sad now
Did you do the bug to recruit the paladin lady?
@@noratrevalyn5582 Which Paladin lady and which bug?
I actually missed Art Cullagh completely and he died after i progressed the story. We can actually still do the quest by using talk to the dead spell and ask the dead Art Cullagh about Thaniel.
TTtD is very underrated ngl, ever since i got the amulet for it at the start of act one ive used it every chancd ive got and let me tell ya, without spoiling anything, there are TONS of things you can only do if you use TTtD
There’s a secret shar sanctuary in the middle of the town, with an interesting dagger and fight. Theres kind of a puzzle to open it.
And it buff your stats temporary - that reall helps in other fights.
The INT, WIS, and CHA buffs are the most valuable here. +5 to each stat. I recommend long resting before interacting with the statues so that you get full use of the +5 buffs which only last until the next long rest. +5 is insane: means more spell slots, impossible to fail skill checks, super strong spell cast difficulty checks. Also, I noticed that it is currently bugged: for characters with Prepared Spells, if you make use of the +5 extra spell slots from the buff, the spells remain even after the buff is lost. This is HUGE (but I'd categorize it as an exploit).
SPOILER WARNING. If you have Astarion alive in your party, you can get a permanent +2 strength that can go above soft 20 cap. Location is in moonrise towers, talk to the NPC interested in blood. need to pass some dialogue checks and make certain decisions for you to get it.
Nice I didn't know!
I did this a few days ago and then gave it to the wrong character... 🥹
Spoiler:
Don't do it if you want to romance Astarion tho. He won't like that.
@@VillainQueen Never really expected someone to do that in the first place 😳
@@VillainQueen you can just say sorry aftwerwards and it evens it out
There's at least two more vendors at last light inn, depending on whether you save them and do their quests in act 1.
Two? One is the thief kid, who is the other one?
@@DavidVideoRecordsDeep Gnome who was tied to the windmill. Needless to say he needs to survive in the forge with Nere. And I think you need to convince him to stay in your camp for while. Then he will move to the inn.
@Frugustin the companion of the evil girl that plays the guitar, has the icon of a vendor, but when i speak to her, she doesn't sell me anything
About the Moonlantern: If you start the journey with the Driad, and the Harpers attack you. It doesn't matter if you save the Harpers bcs they are looting the lantern.
About the gith ambush: If you long rest after the monastery he will find you and will give you the Detector before act 2.
For the gold lady, I gave her all my gold and it still wasn't enough. Not sure what the minimum is. So I had to reload, and fight her from a more advantageous position. Circle the building and you can get on the roof. Best to ignore her and instead go for the floating heads. Killing those knocks 100hp off her at a time. Downside is, you don't get the signed trade visa. Plus side, I have no idea what it's supposed to be used for.
Can also just convince her to kill herself and not have to do anything
Minimum is 5000
In the moonrise tower there is a potion vendor , if you convince astarion to bite her she will tive you a potion that gives permanente +2 strenght
Yeah. And Astarion leaves you! Very gud!
I think the infernal iron is bugged, if you have the devil chick in your party before you speak with Dammon. You then hand the iron for her upgrades, then follow up for the armor crafting. Seems it doesn’t consume the iron if you do her upgrades first.
Yes its ture - but if you use all of them before help Karlah, you cannot help here :)
"the devil chick" 😵💫
the ventor who wants the egg, has an armor that adds 2 dex, and therer is a pair of gloves that sets your dex to 18
Yo WHAT?!? where? How? Wtf? Do i gotta kill her for it or something? Bc i gave her the egg and got basically nothing for it
@@surr3ald3sign near the mountain pass waypoint. You don’t need to fight her she’s a vendor too, so either buy it or pickpocket her
People on reddit have been saying to go through moonrise towers BEFORE doing shars gauntlet, so now I dunno what to do. That said, thanks for the heads up on mountain pass. I kinda ignored that zone, but Imma head there now before completing the shadowfell stuff
Somebody needs your help in Moonrise. If you complete Shar first, they are gone (is what I’ve been told)
@@KittyThaliaX23 I just defeated raphael's enemy. is it too late now? can I go back to finish moonrise towers then come back here?
@@SAsquirtle there will be a point in the temple when it prompts you that events will happen so you can explore just fine until then
Do moonrise before shar for Mizora romance...oh and save the tieflings.
@@dutch6947"save the tieflings" you are the second person ive seen talk about doing that quest before finishing shars temple... my brothers in christ that is an EARLY act 1 sidequest, if it isnt done by this point then its already been locked by entering act 2
The thing about the lantern was that I was playing a Warlock/Paladin using bind weapon, so me being the light bearer for the party was like perfect. Before going into act 3 I open the lantern just to see what happens and was like ahh shit but wasn’t disappointed because it was like we released a pixie into a world turning for the better :) happy ending for act 2
10:10 i get visited by that character before the ambush on the bridge. after completing creche story, he visited me and psionic detector worked for the bridge ambush
The thing with the infernal iron is that you have to use one of those at the grove to get Dammon to reinforce her infernal engine, leaving you with only two by the time you get to the inn. Still, I missed the one in the Zhentarim hideout so this tip was still very helpful. Probably would have found it but wasn’t sure if I was supposed to fight them. Ended up killing everyone when I went back. It was worth it
If you go into the gauntlet of shar next to where Balthazar resides in there there’s a locked door to your right (it’s level 21 so it’s pretty hard lock if you don’t have a rouge in your party or someone with efficient slight of hand). Once you get that sucker opened, there should be a piece of infernal iron in one of the chests! Hopefully this helped :-).
@@Salzzyyyyy oh yeah, I ended up find this and loads of infernal iron ages ago. I did a 200 hour playthrough and finished up about 2 weeks ago. Fantastic game! Hit a few game breaking bugs in the final act but found ways around them and finished up. One of the best gaming experiences of my life but I’m going to wait another month or so before I do another playthrough. Hopefully they’ll have it patched up by then. Playing Lies of P atm and it’s also fantastic. So many great games this year!
Mountain pass technically isn’t act 2 yet. That would be the shadowcursed lands. The underdark/grymforge and the mountain pass are still act 1.
Act 2 only begins when you get to the shadowcursed lands. Once there though the infernal rapier for saving zariels asset and convincing them to give you an extra reward.
The blood of lythander and the infernal rapier as far as I know are the only two weapons that early that give level 6 spells
Just a heads up, if you side with the goblins Dammon dies in the grove and will not be at the inn in act 2.
Help the guys stuck in a cave due to gnolls near the act 1 tollhouse and they'll put in a good word and give you the passphrase to get past the explosive ambush so you don't have to go into the zhent base hostile
Those guys died when I helped them, so in order to get the passphrase I used speak with the dead on them and questioned it out of them lol.
Tip for the portal, when I did it I cast wall of fire at the base of the rocks across where everyone has to climb up and then used disarming shot on ranged people so everyone ran into the fire in turn based mode and died trying to get up to me and the portal
1:17 warning if you go to the mountain path before doing the inn on fire and goblin village it'll end as Halsin dying and the inn burning down. Also you can do most of the Shar temple but once it asks you as far as what's happened on my playthrough so far you are locked into story for a bit after though the wording is a bit vague
For the infernal Armor, if you help Karlach with her condition first, you may not have enough pieces to craft the chest piece. You'll only be able to get the helmet and gloves with the remaining pieces. You do get more infernal Metal and Iron in later acts so you should be able to still progress Karlach's story. I did not get the chest in Act 2 and when I did have enough in Act 3, Dammon no longer prompted me to craft it.
You can find 4 infernal iron in act1 and 3 in act2. 2 for karlach's Quest and 3 for the armor
You can find more than enough to do it all, you probably sold a piece of it without realising it (like i realised at like the end of act 2 i had sold 2 pieces in act 1 bc i thought they were useless)
If you like to summon things, Gale can actually create a moonlight Lantern that summons a wraith.
How? Please tell me that sounds amazing
Yeah how do u do this
@@Darthforce122 you have to go to moontower 3rd floor
@@rileyevans2989 take Gale to Balthazar room and open the bookcase. Let him study the pentagram
@@buddylord3020how do you open the book case
Oh btw when doing the portal quest be careful to not let a npc follow you (for me it didn’t like my summon and followed me) when the npc was taken over by the shadow curse the entire last light inn was infected and insta killed
i did shars gauntlet before reaching moonrise tower. 2 side quests got insta- failed. saving any prisoners is no longer possible after shars tempel
Same. I was under the impression that the moonrise tower was the last thing to do and if I went in it would start. So I never went until after I did the gauntlet. Bummer
I’m very happy to come across your video as I didn’t bother going through the Mountain Pass, (as some character said it’d be easier) and took the elevator from the Grymforge instead. Now I won’t miss out on this stuff. Thanks for the tips also.
How much gold is needed to get the purple pass? I have around 1600 gold in my inventory and gave it all to the toll house collector. Said it wasn’t enough and initiated combat immediately.
Gave her 4,5k - still not enough. Rage gave her 8.8k, so its somewhere between 4,5 and 8.8k thats enough :D Ill try to reload and sell some stuff and get back to you, if i can make it to the critical limit
Got it, the critical limit seems to be 5k gold
From what I've seen it's 5-6k gold. Also, sneaking and killing all the skulls floating around before engaging her will dramatically reduce her health. About 100 per skull
>= 6000 gold 😅
BRUHHHHHHHHHHHHH I thought the mountain pass would bring me directly to the shadow curse lands like how the Underdark passage did. Thank god I'm still in the early stages of Act II, I'm soooo going back now -_-
That whole Halsin quest stressed me out coz it's so bugged. Halsin doesn't appear in the shoreline and is stuck in my camp. Had to do other quests, eventually just killed Art Culligan which unlocked new dialogues for Halsin and made me do other quests.
Somehow I got that Gith Psyonic detector quite a bit earlier. Not sure what triggered the encounter, maybe long resting after the Creche quest or something.
Dammon Was not there for me, My Karlach companion quests read" We can only hope Dammon Made it to the city and help us later"
don't kill that strange ox lol
I was so unprepared for Halsins quest. I wasnt expecting any of that lol.
Luckily i had Shadowheart and Gale in my party. You can cast longstrider on shadowheart and have her put up spirit guardians and run around the battlefield for the first bit. When it starts getting western (it will) i put her at the top of the steps by the portal and tried to do enough splash damage with gale and Tav (My rogue/ranger) so that anyone walking to SH will die instantly. I had Karlach as my other parry member but she kept going down and forcing me to use SH healing word. Next time i do that quest Id probably take Laezel or Wyll spec'd as a BardLock for some more crowd control.
Your video on the Shar temple isn’t there anymore, btw
When trying to protect Halsin and his portal, one easy method is to cast a stone wall or Darkness to obscure the portal. The ranged enemies will have to walk close to you or any corner just to get their sight on the portal, wasting their turns.
10:15 The ambush is not required to get the camp event for the Psionic Detector. That happened right after Creche events in Act 1 and going to sleep.
This video is exactly what I was looking for! After messing up the beginning of Act 1 and killing/missing some important vendors and therefore missing items, I was sour about it. Thanks for making this with as few spoilers as possible!
nice use of the ledge on the golden giant lady, but if you attack the spirit heads, they'll break her up, doing significant amount of damage
if you picked up the owlbear egg early on you can give esther that and with a charisma check the quest is done 🎉
I did this & then pickpocketed it back 😂
Note.
Party won't be ambushed by giths near road to BG if you skipped the pass or if you go there after you've already been at ambush point. Dunno if it is a bug, but i still got visited by - redacted - later at camp.
Dammon also sells the Darkfire shortbow which has haste.
I wont spoil it for you, but in the shar temple, look into the rat infestation there, very cool items and side quest with that.
I think act one is flawed! Their should have been a reason we need to go to the mount pass!
As it stands you can completely miss it if you are not paying attention.
Technically, the same is true with the under dark, but I feel like the story tells you to find the under dark and avoid the mountain pass:
If you have Lea Zel in your party she tries to get you to go that way as you find out there are gith there. If you fight the group of gith that are around there and find there map she is almost pushy to go in that direction
I went to Underdark first, and before the elivator I went to mount pass, I did not miss anything of those. It warns you because there are more stronger enemies in there. One thing I did different than him was to talk to the Gold boss to kill herself , she does have a lot of gold and a key, no pass.
my issue was once you find them giths with the dragon you cant really beat them unless you get pretty strong which i feel like you need to do most of the under dark to get to that point.
and you wont know where here creach is unless you beat them.
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Bruh there is a reason... Bae'zel literally doesnt shut up about it for the entirety of act 1 basically ANY time she opens her mouth she tells you very clearly to go to the Creche, which is in the mountain pass... if yall managed to miss it with all of that then i have some unfortunate news for you about a particular airplane
@@surr3ald3sign I don't believe she ever says its in the mountaint's
Bro there's SO much to this game. By time it releases on PS5 i'm going to have to rewatch this video and few others probably. lol
dont spoil the game for yourself man :((((
@@chase5298 I can't help it these kinds of vids are the only way i'm surviving the wait! 😭😭😭
I get that completely lol, but its a lot more fun going in blind! the great thing about the game is you can do things any way you can think of@@ThwipThwipBoom
Me who just got to act 3 right before this video came out. Oh well
I have yet to arrive in ACt 3 but I did kill the boss in Act 2 but I was still able to recruit Halsin by going back to the Last Light Inn with Talk to the Dead spell and used it on Art Cullagh and proceeded with Halsin's questline. Idk how that would work for you in Act 3 already though, but worth the try IMO
When should you go to the Moonrise tower? I encountered an ork and some goblins early on in the area saying they’d take me to the tower but I thought best to go there later, but not exactly sure? Please advise what you’d suggest
It's sad when I run into very rare items like the shield that gives 10 temp hp when I already had a lvl 4 aid spell that Shadowheart casts on my whole squad after every long rest for 15 temp hp for the day - same issue with the necrotic, life stealing sword. It's seemed like I'm over leveled since act 1 but when I read other's experiences, many seem to be in the same boat. I still equipped the shield but I wish Larian just made it a lvl 4 aid spell - I had that long before I got to the shadow cursed lands lol. Lathander's Mace is insane, though. Giving your healer the amulet that ensures max healing when using healing spells is a huge buff to any squad, too.
A lot of this assumes you weren’t doing an evil run, as most of these vendors or NPCs will be dead if you sided with the goblins
Quite simply dont be evil... you get literally nothing but trouble for it, making the game harder for no reason
@RageGamingVideos I just fkd up my run by leaving the moonrise towers area for last. I thought I could do everything to do in the moonrise towers on the way to kill Ketherik. But when I arrived, everyone in the prison was dead. Several missions failed because I didnt rescue them in time. My only previous usable save was just before entering the shadowlands.
Laezel will make you go to the monastery and creche anyway, so it's hard to skip it. She interrupts prog in shadow lands to go finish her personal quest.
Says Act 2, opens up in Act 1 content.
Act two starts when you enter the shadow cursed lands as that actually makes changes and progress quests in the world.
FYI the House of Healing has a backdoor near the waypoint...
i stumbled in there my first play through and didnt know what i was interacting with. You can also presuade the doctor to kill himself.
Toll house boss loses a lot of her health buffs if you kill the floating skulls around the house. Also Pro tip, engage her in convo and loot all the gold in the room and send all your gold to camp before the fight. Makes it so she doesnt one shot whoever is holding all the gold
FYI: The tollhouse keeper has a minimum gold limit you need to meet when giving her all your gold. Your character (the one whos talking) needs to have at least 5k gold with him to get the pass. Otherwise shell take it and attack you anyways, because you didnt give her enough.
im suffering that right now, if you kill her you can loot the pass?
@@IXUZO Tried that the first time around, but the pass isnt on her body when you just attack/kill her.
So i re-did ~1h of progress since the last auto-save and tried again (this time saving right before the fight), now giving her all of my 4.6k gold -> stated: "not enough" and attacked me with the same result: no pass on her dead body.
Reload -> Sold all my scrap-gear and potions (went up to 6,5k) -> got the option when triggering her this time, so i tried a couple of more times, going down 500gold per try, the last one being 5k which still was enough to get the pass. So it might be even lower (between 4,6k and 5k).
Oh btw: if you dont want the pass/just her standard-loot, give all your gold to someone staying in camp, since the more gold you got, the more damage she does with her initial blow (4,6k oneshot my lvl 8 bard with 68hp)
Can you give her the gold for the pass and then after use the dialogue options to make her suicide to get your money back easily?
@@boanoah6362 Tbh, i didnt even try that, since my party-setup makes killing her quite easy (can post my setup and a general strategy if you'd like)
Important notice for the fight:
- each dead skull will subtract 100hp from the boss, so i would suggest ignoring the Keeper completely. Just kill the skulls until the boss has just 6 hp left
- the more money your chars have, the more dmg she will do with her initial nuke. So give all the money to the character who speaks with her, to get rid of that danger
Bruh, the Halsin portal fight is so rough on hard mode. The archers just pelt it from half way across the arena. I ended up just using a hastened LeZel to camp that entire area since enemies didn't seem to attack her. And then needing Shadowhearts Turn Undead twice was fucking vital. Wouldn't have passed without haste and turn undead.
The Thorms are some of the toughest mini-bosses in the game. I only fight them when I'm looking for a challenge. Otherwise, I reclass into a bard, get all the buffs, and talk them into offing themselves.
I did pretty well, working out and doing all the stuff. Just didn't get the infernal iron from waukeems rest. Next play through.
something i found that i couldnt figure out was in the trielta crags near the elevator i keep hearing something roaring, and yes killed everything in underdark except mushrooms and gnomes. p.s. if you give esther the owlbear egg, do they hatch it as well or no?
Don’t go to the mountain pass if you haven’t completed the grove. It will auto resolve it, and give you the worst ending for the grove. Same as any other region. Always complete the main or time sensitive quests before moving on
Going to the mountain pass also means the tieflings leave the grove and die if you haven't killed the goblin leaders yet.
The signed trade visa is probably for something else beside it but you can use it as a scroll to caste flesh to gold and turn an enemy into gold
5:50 one piece of the iron is in the mason guild.
A question please: I've just got to Last Light and at the bit where I can meet Isobel and fight Marcus. Should I do that right away or go and try and find the cure to the curse mentioned 3 minutes into this video? Thanks!
Can you go to the underdark and forge and all that after you do all the shadow cursed lands and defeat the old guy boss throme or something like that? Without watching videos this is where I am but now I'm seeing that I've missed alot other places like the underdark and forge area.
The underdark and forge are part of act 1, probably better to finish them first. Even if you don’t get blocked off from going back you’ll overlevel everything quite a bit.
@@alexw4482 yeah that's what I was afraid of, I wanted to do a blind first playthrough and that's just the direction it led me, it's really an amazing thing though and I'll have to do that on next playthrough, seems I completed everything else and im having the best time anyways! thanks for the info!
You can go to the underdark after act 2.once you go to act 3 (baldursgate) i dont think you can return and are arealocked
The spear of evening is so good lol, I made Shadow a war priest/fighter then her and my pally/lock just camp in the shadows while my wizard spreads darkness everywhere. Nothing can hit you and you just wade through the shadows with Demon Sight on your pallock and the Spear on Shadow murdering everything, anything outside cant even hit you so they just run in and join the slaughter. The Dark Justiciar gloves are busted too, gives a 2-18 necro/turn dot as a bonus action with infinite uses
Where do i get the gloves? Ive got the rest but cant find those
Things you need to do in act 2 : go to mountain pass in act 1
For what it’s worth if you take the carnage route through Moonrise, and why wouldn’t you, that glaive is one of the many drops you can pick up from enemies you kill
I'm taking my time to enjoy my playthrough but being in act 2 now i cant wait to get to act 3 and find out what happens with the dwaf from the myconid colony and Lady Ester both of whom I gave what they wanted and then pickpocketed back after and both still had the lines they normally do after completing the quests. And I am equally pumped to find out if Dammon can craft the helldusk Armor set as I had 6 infernal iron(after the character quest was completed) so I have another peice for an upgrade in Baldurs gate when he gets to a better forge.
an important question for me... if I have already entered the cursed lands of act 2 through the forge and cleared half the location except for the moon towers and the shaar shelter (etc. on trifles), will any of the characters of the plot die (tieflings, etc.) e) if I take and run away for a short time to fulfill the plot of laezel for the sake of all sorts of goodies?
For the portal fight in the Halsin quest, just stay near the portal, shoot the ranged enemies, and drop a Firewall.
The melee enemies just run in and die.
I had shadow heart cast spirt guardians and had her run around and all the little enemies died
I did the same thing 😂
@@lokitopacheco if anyone got to the portal I thunder waved them to shadow heart
@@user-mu8ok5xf8d I put 2 levels into paladin for Shadowheart and cast "banish the dead" + used the skill from blood of Lathander. Easy kills and tons of xp.
@@dmitrimaslov3168ew pally levels on a priest is a waste, i gave her 2 wiz levels and taught her fireball from a scroll, fireballs = ez quest between her and gale throwing out fireballs it was stupid easy (i gave her specifically 2 wiz levels for the evocation school so my fireballs dont tpk me if you were wondering)
Aid is NOT temp hitpoints , its Until Long Rest Maximum Hitpoints, one of the strongest Clerics spell
Only started the video and this needs to be said, but no Mountain Pass IS part of Act 2, if you go there it acts the same as if you go to the shadow lands. I tried to go there while not having finished the goblin quest and when I got back all the tieflings in the grove were dead because it got raided by Minthyra.
The video starts with smth that isn't true. Entering mountain pass entirely cuts you off from the grove questline, if u haven't completed that u'll be unable to.
If you made it that far without doing the grove thats sort of a skill issue/ a you problem
I used my infernal iron for kharlac. We also entered the shadowland in the far south east. got guided by a dryder. and attacked by Harpers. We met the shadow kid and played hide and seek long before we found Art in the inn. so, since we had won the game, our only choice was to fight him. Did the temple of shar BEFORE ever setting foot in moon rise tower. oh well. sorry all the people we were supposed to find. I am only watching this now because we are ready to go to baluders gate and want to see if we missed anything we could actually still get. And there is not. ah well. onward
Don't forget you can find US! you didn't mention it, but i was glad to reunite and now have permanent summon
Your guides are amazing! All the better for my run because you're just a little ahead of my progress. Thank you!
Also, if you just go upstairs as suggested…you miss so much. So maybe see the vendors at the in first.
The only mistake I messed up on was that I was so invested in helping shadowheart I completely forgot to cure the shadows for halsim.
You should Disclaim that certain vendors are bound to ACT 1 decisions (Damon is one of them).
This is the case with ANY character that moves from one act to another, it really shouldnt be hard to put 2 and 2 together to know the person you killed in one act wont be in the next, and why is EVERYONE attacking the grove? I have seen not one person who sided with the grove bc every single complain i see in these comments is ppl who dont have damon in act 2 which means all of yall destroyed the grove in act 1, so many evil fucker bro wth
Funny fact in my game; the ambush failed because I was sneaking on the other side of that little bridge. The enemies appeared, but my character remained hidden. The player was quite surprised tho! I was able to sneak away, and the enemies remained there forever.
Devs should definitely add a small circle of detection around enemies, so you need at least one roll when close behind them.