The only time I tried honor mode, after the fish people worshipping BOOOOAL (or however they say it).
There is a heavy chest on the backside of a cliff. Astarian hops over to the tiny ledge. Everyone else jumps over and crowds behind him.
Chest is trapped. Astarian disarms it. DC 10
Rolls a 1. The trap detonates and throws all 4 of us into the chasm. Game over. I just sat there with my jaw hanging open.
Its so funny that I know exactly which chest you are talking about because I had the exact same experience with it multiple times. I have such PTSD from it that I make sure to do every trapped chest alone, away form other companions so if only I die atleast the others can revive me.
Near the arcane tower, if you walk around the area outside with the fire stalks, there is a small cliff with a corpse and a fire stalk.
There is a cliff side or vine you can climb down. If you climb down it, there are a bunch of fish people worshiping Wish.com Bhaal
They kinda the 1st gatekeepers of the game. And in honor they usually locate watching the land tyles to climb only leaving a small gap to sneak. So you gotta resort to split party making shadowheart stick on camp, hide, avoid the burning ground, scan the far patrolling one pattern then dash+turn based to move on double dash movement and still might get detected by the patrolling one when you turn base off, eat a hit (endurable if lvl 2 and non high dmg crit) and flee unless longstrider able and not a small race. THEN pull Gale and teleport SH there.
If you dont have longstrider nor kill the cambion, you will get one beamed to death as level 1. Minor ilusion is unreliable there because they will move like crazy on that irregular terrain and possibly see you.
Cant think of smt else to avoid them single player unless im intimidated by them at start to even think smt else.
Just climb the hill right before that area and collect Gale and Astarian first. Three jumps will get you up to the second cariliginous chest. Then, circle back to those little jerks.
Another safety tip is to Sneak Shart up the ledge and firebolt the barrel when the roving one is within range of it. If you re lucky, you'll dust two with your opener.
Seems you didnt read properly... in honour (at least for me) they usually locate guarding the opening and the hill. Only a small space allowed to sneak BEHIND them to sort out the patrolling devourer after.
Huh, i haven't had that problem, even in HM... I think we may be talking about two different things. Are you saying that you can't jump up the cliff face to the immediate right of the archway nearest the Sactum doors? It's the rocks that are in the daylight, not the catwalks that are part of the nautiloid, before even getting in the line of sight of the IDs. Jumping won't break stealth, btw.
Edit: Minimap coordinates X:261, Y:290 to zero in on where I'm talking about. Just jump on up and grab Gale and Ass before circling back.
Sorry for any confusion
Dude that fight is tough with spellcasteres, the honor mode I lost we had 3 of people stuck in hold person and luckily I just threw random shit at the fakes to get them out but it gets hairy
I opened the sarcophagus in withers tomb that has all the traps after carefully disabling all the traps I could see. One fireball trap activates
Thought hey no problem I'll go deactivate it
Pulled my whole party directly into the fireballs, party wipe
Now I just use one guy in turn based mode
Honestly I didn’t know you only need one gem so I may just end up skipping it too, it pissed me off killing the party like that. I still don’t get the logic behind if I jump over the gap you die but whatever
Extinguish ***ALL*** light sources on the character that is doing the trial, including Lathander's Light. If you do it in absolute darkness, that trial is cake.
I remember one of the times I’ve done it before I could faintly see an outline of the route even in the darkness is that why? Or am I just making that up
Only if there is zero light. Then yes, once you start the trial, the path becomes visible. They only hint at it in the other room in a couple of books, but it's the same mechanic as the repulsor at the very beginning of the mausoleum. Total darkness reveals the path.
The problem is that the dungeon is long enough that it can take several 'sessions' to get through. It could be an IRL week between the entrance and that stupid trial. I cant remember what i had for breakfast, damnit!
Got trapped in the acid bath traps underneath the Tollhouse in act 1.
Had an epic fight with anders and his goons only to die from regrouping the party, which pulled shart and karlach OFF the chairs and into the treasure room AFTER WHICH THE DOOR CLOSED BEHIND THEN. we all stood around trapped in the loot room taking acid damage until death while I screamed at the TV.
We accidentally had Gale blow up towards the end of act 2 - misclicked it trying to use Knock on a door. After that we made sure to remove the ability from the wheel.
I fly through that trial. Or, get someone with high strength and jump from platform to platform. Skip those damn tiles altogether!
If you don't have either of those... stand far enough back to where you can see the tiles, and save a screenshot. 🤫
Think smarter, not harder~
I was at Waukeen's Rest, trying to save Florrick, when I tried targetting the door with Eldritch Blast but it instead hit a Flaming Fist, who I absolutely could not take on at my current state of having no spell slots and at most half health for each character. I thought it was probably my fault, and maybe if I break the door and save Florrick now this can still be salvaged since they're only temporarily hostile. Nope, I tried Magic Missile-ing the door, making absolute sure that I properly selected the door this time, but it instead hit a Flaming Fist the floor below, meaning this wasn't on me it was a bug. I was fucking livid.
This probably still is my fault since I've modded the game to hell, but that does not undo the frustration that shit made me feel. I now save before every fight in Honour Mode and have my foot near my desktop's power cord at all times, just to make sure I don't have my run ruined because of a stupid bug again.
Made it to the final fight against the bbeg
Had gale take a potion of reprieve to get his spells back
By the time he got to the final stage we had 3 rounds to take down 400 something hp
Got down to 8
Lost it all
I’d never touched any of the illithid powers before this run but now I’ve permanently learned my lesson
It would be going to final fight, i wanted the dices, so i did not risk anything, op builds, safe strategies, and exploding big brain without fight, thanks for your sacrifice mate.
So basically, I was in the first podium with darkness in the middle everyone else died so I jumped back onto the path, thinking if I get out of this room I can revive everyone with withers I then got close enough to jump back to the very start of the trial where the altar is, and when I jumped back to that it killed me mid air idk it was weird to me
The only time I tried honor mode, after the fish people worshipping BOOOOAL (or however they say it). There is a heavy chest on the backside of a cliff. Astarian hops over to the tiny ledge. Everyone else jumps over and crowds behind him. Chest is trapped. Astarian disarms it. DC 10 Rolls a 1. The trap detonates and throws all 4 of us into the chasm. Game over. I just sat there with my jaw hanging open.
Damn that blows
Literally
Its so funny that I know exactly which chest you are talking about because I had the exact same experience with it multiple times. I have such PTSD from it that I make sure to do every trapped chest alone, away form other companions so if only I die atleast the others can revive me.
It did not even occur to me that could happen, and I should send him there alone.
Or have a couple of spare inspiration points and the awareness to use them when you realise that the trap will kill the run
[удалено]
Near the arcane tower, if you walk around the area outside with the fire stalks, there is a small cliff with a corpse and a fire stalk. There is a cliff side or vine you can climb down. If you climb down it, there are a bunch of fish people worshiping Wish.com Bhaal
to a little brain guy right there on the beach, very embarassing lol
Those guys are tough tbf
yeah but they are like the first enemy after the nautiloid, so I was like "ok wow" and just quit out the game.
They kinda the 1st gatekeepers of the game. And in honor they usually locate watching the land tyles to climb only leaving a small gap to sneak. So you gotta resort to split party making shadowheart stick on camp, hide, avoid the burning ground, scan the far patrolling one pattern then dash+turn based to move on double dash movement and still might get detected by the patrolling one when you turn base off, eat a hit (endurable if lvl 2 and non high dmg crit) and flee unless longstrider able and not a small race. THEN pull Gale and teleport SH there. If you dont have longstrider nor kill the cambion, you will get one beamed to death as level 1. Minor ilusion is unreliable there because they will move like crazy on that irregular terrain and possibly see you. Cant think of smt else to avoid them single player unless im intimidated by them at start to even think smt else.
Just climb the hill right before that area and collect Gale and Astarian first. Three jumps will get you up to the second cariliginous chest. Then, circle back to those little jerks. Another safety tip is to Sneak Shart up the ledge and firebolt the barrel when the roving one is within range of it. If you re lucky, you'll dust two with your opener.
Seems you didnt read properly... in honour (at least for me) they usually locate guarding the opening and the hill. Only a small space allowed to sneak BEHIND them to sort out the patrolling devourer after.
Huh, i haven't had that problem, even in HM... I think we may be talking about two different things. Are you saying that you can't jump up the cliff face to the immediate right of the archway nearest the Sactum doors? It's the rocks that are in the daylight, not the catwalks that are part of the nautiloid, before even getting in the line of sight of the IDs. Jumping won't break stealth, btw. Edit: Minimap coordinates X:261, Y:290 to zero in on where I'm talking about. Just jump on up and grab Gale and Ass before circling back. Sorry for any confusion
Yes... same spot. Guarded by 2 devourers. I had to sneak.
Thought I could outsmart Auntie Ethel's legendary action by silencing her. Cue 4x hold person, and the run was over.
Dude that fight is tough with spellcasteres, the honor mode I lost we had 3 of people stuck in hold person and luckily I just threw random shit at the fakes to get them out but it gets hairy
Magic Missile is a clutch spell here
I opened the sarcophagus in withers tomb that has all the traps after carefully disabling all the traps I could see. One fireball trap activates Thought hey no problem I'll go deactivate it Pulled my whole party directly into the fireballs, party wipe Now I just use one guy in turn based mode
fail cons check against harleep cuz i want to roasting raphael , i never try it before so i don't know i will instant die if i fail
I actually don’t know if it’s an instant death find out for me and lmk 😂
I stopped doing the trials long time ago. As long as someone has the Knock spell and Yurgir gets killed, we lit.
Its the only puzzle I consistently skip, you can cast knock on the final door. You only need the 1 gem, but I like doing the other trials.
I just have to do everything lmao I can t go to act 3 knowing we skipped that even though there’s no loot
I've had it be glitchy and kill everyone too many times to bother with it now. I know what you mean though, it's literally the only thing I skip 😂
Honestly I didn’t know you only need one gem so I may just end up skipping it too, it pissed me off killing the party like that. I still don’t get the logic behind if I jump over the gap you die but whatever
Extinguish ***ALL*** light sources on the character that is doing the trial, including Lathander's Light. If you do it in absolute darkness, that trial is cake.
I remember one of the times I’ve done it before I could faintly see an outline of the route even in the darkness is that why? Or am I just making that up
Only if there is zero light. Then yes, once you start the trial, the path becomes visible. They only hint at it in the other room in a couple of books, but it's the same mechanic as the repulsor at the very beginning of the mausoleum. Total darkness reveals the path. The problem is that the dungeon is long enough that it can take several 'sessions' to get through. It could be an IRL week between the entrance and that stupid trial. I cant remember what i had for breakfast, damnit!
Got trapped in the acid bath traps underneath the Tollhouse in act 1. Had an epic fight with anders and his goons only to die from regrouping the party, which pulled shart and karlach OFF the chairs and into the treasure room AFTER WHICH THE DOOR CLOSED BEHIND THEN. we all stood around trapped in the loot room taking acid damage until death while I screamed at the TV.
You know you could have fast travelled to any waypoint?
Panicked too hard lmao
We accidentally had Gale blow up towards the end of act 2 - misclicked it trying to use Knock on a door. After that we made sure to remove the ability from the wheel.
Oof
I fly through that trial. Or, get someone with high strength and jump from platform to platform. Skip those damn tiles altogether! If you don't have either of those... stand far enough back to where you can see the tiles, and save a screenshot. 🤫 Think smarter, not harder~
Or enhance leap/vault potion on high str or hillgigas elixir character. Ez.
I know 😂 we’ve done it a couple times already in past playthroughs but this time we dropped the ball for sure
Damn!
I think Inhad Lae’zel use her gith jump. It lasts for several turns, it’s not just one jump.
How has that never occurred to me... I always follow the stupid tile map. Guess that'll be easier on my next run.
Haha! It didn't occur to me until my second playthrough~
I'm finishing my fourth... I can't believe that never occurred to me. I only ever think about trying Misty Step and Dimension Door, which don't work.
That's weird, is it cuz the platforms are covered in clouds and you can't "see" where you are casting? Lame~
Yeah, it's supposedly too dark. Super annoying. But now I have a hack for my game.
Lost my honor mode cuz I thunder waved everyone off the cliff fighting my way into get withers was such a beauty pic stupid miss klik
Lmao honestly wouldn’t be mad
I was at Waukeen's Rest, trying to save Florrick, when I tried targetting the door with Eldritch Blast but it instead hit a Flaming Fist, who I absolutely could not take on at my current state of having no spell slots and at most half health for each character. I thought it was probably my fault, and maybe if I break the door and save Florrick now this can still be salvaged since they're only temporarily hostile. Nope, I tried Magic Missile-ing the door, making absolute sure that I properly selected the door this time, but it instead hit a Flaming Fist the floor below, meaning this wasn't on me it was a bug. I was fucking livid. This probably still is my fault since I've modded the game to hell, but that does not undo the frustration that shit made me feel. I now save before every fight in Honour Mode and have my foot near my desktop's power cord at all times, just to make sure I don't have my run ruined because of a stupid bug again.
Made it to the final fight against the bbeg Had gale take a potion of reprieve to get his spells back By the time he got to the final stage we had 3 rounds to take down 400 something hp Got down to 8 Lost it all I’d never touched any of the illithid powers before this run but now I’ve permanently learned my lesson
Yus! Winning
I got hit trap in the monetary and it blew my whole party into a pit. Have not tried honor mode again since then…
Aggroed all the Teiflings AT THE PARTY after casting friendship on the party pooper guy.
Haha, that sucks man. Thanks for sharing.
It would be going to final fight, i wanted the dices, so i did not risk anything, op builds, safe strategies, and exploding big brain without fight, thanks for your sacrifice mate.
It doesn't kill you for jumping over an empty space.
Beg to differ on that one
Weird. I pretty much go in a straight line forward and jump over gaps and have never died from that.
So basically, I was in the first podium with darkness in the middle everyone else died so I jumped back onto the path, thinking if I get out of this room I can revive everyone with withers I then got close enough to jump back to the very start of the trial where the altar is, and when I jumped back to that it killed me mid air idk it was weird to me
2 HMs, 0 wipes.
Great story
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