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Post by Kappa Neko on Apr 28, 2024 19:43:39 GMT
Agreed and my favourite resolution to this quest ---- If you wait after dealing with the Nightsong the butler will pop up to remind you and there will be way less people to kill so, yes good move going early. Also when he transformed back, was he dressed? Since when one iteration of Alice did it she ended up naked and in a different body and was wondering if it was just a her thing or a common glitch. --- Her deciding to spare the Nightsong is I think approval based, so high approval she auto spares her, low approval she doesn't. Psychevore romanced her as a Dark Justicar and seemed happy about it if I remember correctly. So I don't think she dumps you in that path, unless you make her pick between you and Shar or something. --- And I like his chest. The treasures we collect on the way. How does one even get low approval with SH? That girl is so messed up she loves whatever my character does, no matter if goody two shoes or complete evil. It took a bit longer as a durge but her approval was exceptional anyway. I honestly have no idea how to get her to hate you. Maybe by bad mouthing Shar nonstop so she kills the Nightsong out of spite like a child?
While the game is as reactive as no other it is kinda weird how SH flip flops between disgust at some of his choices, his urge and being cool about tadpoles, and then being all in love as if he's the sweetest guy ever. I guess there's a limit to how reactive and immersive the game is. Which is fine, but it's kinda amusing.
Fingers crossed the fucked up SH romance is worth it then?
My durge is not naked or anything when transforming back, sadly, lol.
Minthara and durge is really interesting. She's ruthless and pretty awful herself but she's actually super concerned and disgusted with giving in to urges like that, being so unpredictable and frankly stupid. Being in control is very important to her and my durge is just not, he totally is a loose cannon. Everybody says so and yet they stick with him so it's their own fault when he gets everyone killed!
I'm looking forward to what kind of options I'll have at the end. You can tell Minthara you'll rule the cult together at some point. That would be cool! Minthara would be a good fit for a evil genius kind of character. Powe hungry but NOT insane like a full blown durge. She disapproves of quite a lot. They are not the same at all.
If I ever get round to romancing her I'll do it with a good character to see how much she can be softened. I read not as much as Astarion. She seems to have a certain kind of morality and doesn't seem to enjoy needless cruelty, unlike Astarion who enjoys seeing everyone else suffer to make himself feel better. So in a sense he's worse than her. Her vulnerability and extrem loyalty makes for an interesting character. SH, Astarion and Min are all three super vulnerable characters who've been brutally abused. It makes sense for such messed up people to stick with an evil character. They don't really know any better. And, well, Laezel is just a fanatic who tags along because it's her job to hunt mind flayers and not turn into one. She's super indoctrinated too, so I guess she's not that different from the others. Like SH she doesn't even realize how awful her upbringing was and that her people are terrible. And my boy is happy to have them never question their faith. Not just because he likes misery but also because as a follow of Bhaal he doesn't see anything wrong with that kind of insane unhealthy devotion. He thinks Shar is a brilliant goddess and SH is doing great things in her name.
The Shadowlands were like am amazing theme park for him. And he actually thinks the cult is amazing. So I'm having a bit of trouble roleplaying him the way I want. The story demands that he needs to get rid of the cult so he can be free of the tadpole. But really, what's not to like about it? He's getting amazing powers. The cult is so insane he should want to join them. Logically he should try to kill the emperor and make sure Orpheus stays imprisoned and then rule the cult with the netherbrain as his minion.
So I guess I have to roleplay that while he thinks the cult is awesome he didn't like being ordered around by Ketheric as an errand boy. That's insulting. He needs to get rid of those three in order to take control of the cult.
I'm really curious how this plays out and whether or not the bad ending differs from the one you could get last year before the new epilogues. Even as a good character you could go random evil at the end. I hope there's a proper durge ending or maybe a few even depending on your choices.
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Post by Curious Crow on Apr 28, 2024 20:20:11 GMT
How does one even get low approval with SH? That girl is so messed up she loves whatever my character does, no matter if goody two shoes or complete evil. It took a bit longer as a durge but her approval was exceptional anyway. I honestly have no idea how to get her to hate you. Maybe by bad mouthing Shar nonstop so she kills the Nightsong out of spite like a child?
While the game is as reactive as no other it is kinda weird how SH flip flops between disgust at some of his choices, his urge and being cool about tadpoles, and then being all in love as if he's the sweetest guy ever. I guess there's a limit to how reactive and immersive the game is. Which is fine, but it's kinda amusing.
Fingers crossed the fucked up SH romance is worth it then?
My durge is not naked or anything when transforming back, sadly, lol.
Minthara and durge is really interesting. She's ruthless and pretty awful herself but she's actually super concerned and disgusted with giving in to urges like that, being so unpredictable and frankly stupid. Being in control is very important to her and my durge is just not, he totally is a loose cannon. Everybody says so and yet they stick with him so it's their own fault when he gets everyone killed!
I'm looking forward to what kind of options I'll have at the end. You can tell Minthara you'll rule the cult together at some point. That would be cool! Minthara would be a good fit for a evil genius kind of character. Powe hungry but NOT insane like a full blown durge. She disapproves of quite a lot. They are not the same at all.
If I ever get round to romancing her I'll do it with a good character to see how much she can be softened. I read not as much as Astarion. She seems to have a certain kind of morality and doesn't seem to enjoy needless cruelty, unlike Astarion who enjoys seeing everyone else suffer to make himself feel better. So in a sense he's worse than her. Her vulnerability and extrem loyalty makes for an interesting character. SH, Astarion and Min are all three super vulnerable characters who've been brutally abused. It makes sense for such messed up people to stick with an evil character. They don't really know any better. And, well, Laezel is just a fanatic who tags along because it's her job to hunt mind flayers and not turn into one. She's super indoctrinated too, so I guess she's not that different from the others. Like SH she doesn't even realize how awful her upbringing was and that her people are terrible. And my boy is happy to have them never question their faith. Not just because he likes misery but also because as a follow of Bhaal he doesn't see anything wrong with that kind of insane unhealthy devotion. He thinks Shar is a brilliant goddess and SH is doing great things in her name.
The Shadowlands were like am amazing theme park for him. And he actually thinks the cult is amazing. So I'm having a bit of trouble roleplaying him the way I want. The story demands that he needs to get rid of the cult so he can be free of the tadpole. But really, what's not to like about it? He's getting amazing powers. The cult is so insane he should want to join them. Logically he should try to kill the emperor and make sure Orpheus stays imprisoned and then rule the cult with the netherbrain as his minion.
So I guess I have to roleplay that while he thinks the cult is awesome he didn't like being ordered around by Ketheric as an errand boy. That's insulting. He needs to get rid of those three in order to take control of the cult.
I'm really curious how this plays out and whether or not the bad ending differs from the one you could get last year before the new epilogues. Even as a good character you could go random evil at the end. I hope there's a proper durge ending or maybe a few even depending on your choices. More thinking like less than 40 approval rather than negative. That's easy to get if you leave her at camp watching the soup, don't let her cut herself and maybe sprinkle some naive lines at her. "Yes we totes should worship Raphael. " stuff. To get her to truly hate you could just try attacking her a bit. They tend to dislike that.
He should make his own cult, with blackjacks and hook horrors!
There was a really pretty picture of the Durge standing in the dark moonlight in the update screenies, so the new endings should at least be pretty. Always found the evil endings kinda lacklustre, especially after the epilogue hit. Evil people want resolution too. :C Even if it's just a bunch of uuhs and groans.
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Post by Cyberstrike on Apr 28, 2024 20:24:39 GMT
Agreed and my favourite resolution to this quest ---- If you wait after dealing with the Nightsong the butler will pop up to remind you and there will be way less people to kill so, yes good move going early. Also when he transformed back, was he dressed? Since when one iteration of Alice did it she ended up naked and in a different body and was wondering if it was just a her thing or a common glitch. --- Her deciding to spare the Nightsong is I think approval based, so high approval she auto spares her, low approval she doesn't. Psychevore romanced her as a Dark Justicar and seemed happy about it if I remember correctly. So I don't think she dumps you in that path, unless you make her pick between you and Shar or something. --- And I like his chest. The treasures we collect on the way. How does one even get low approval with SH? That girl is so messed up she loves whatever my character does, no matter if goody two shoes or complete evil. It took a bit longer as a durge but her approval was exceptional anyway. I honestly have no idea how to get her to hate you. Maybe by bad mouthing Shar nonstop so she kills the Nightsong out of spite like a child?
While the game is as reactive as no other it is kinda weird how SH flip flops between disgust at some of his choices, his urge and being cool about tadpoles, and then being all in love as if he's the sweetest guy ever. I guess there's a limit to how reactive and immersive the game is. Which is fine, but it's kinda amusing.
Fingers crossed the fucked up SH romance is worth it then?
My durge is not naked or anything when transforming back, sadly, lol.
Minthara and durge is really interesting. She's ruthless and pretty awful herself but she's actually super concerned and disgusted with giving in to urges like that, being so unpredictable and frankly stupid. Being in control is very important to her and my durge is just not, he totally is a loose cannon. Everybody says so and yet they stick with him so it's their own fault when he gets everyone killed!
I'm looking forward to what kind of options I'll have at the end. You can tell Minthara you'll rule the cult together at some point. That would be cool! Minthara would be a good fit for a evil genius kind of character. Powe hungry but NOT insane like a full blown durge. She disapproves of quite a lot. They are not the same at all.
If I ever get round to romancing her I'll do it with a good character to see how much she can be softened. I read not as much as Astarion. She seems to have a certain kind of morality and doesn't seem to enjoy needless cruelty, unlike Astarion who enjoys seeing everyone else suffer to make himself feel better. So in a sense he's worse than her. Her vulnerability and extrem loyalty makes for an interesting character. SH, Astarion and Min are all three super vulnerable characters who've been brutally abused. It makes sense for such messed up people to stick with an evil character. They don't really know any better. And, well, Laezel is just a fanatic who tags along because it's her job to hunt mind flayers and not turn into one. She's super indoctrinated too, so I guess she's not that different from the others. Like SH she doesn't even realize how awful her upbringing was and that her people are terrible. And my boy is happy to have them never question their faith. Not just because he likes misery but also because as a follow of Bhaal he doesn't see anything wrong with that kind of insane unhealthy devotion. He thinks Shar is a brilliant goddess and SH is doing great things in her name.
The Shadowlands were like am amazing theme park for him. And he actually thinks the cult is amazing. So I'm having a bit of trouble roleplaying him the way I want. The story demands that he needs to get rid of the cult so he can be free of the tadpole. But really, what's not to like about it? He's getting amazing powers. The cult is so insane he should want to join them. Logically he should try to kill the emperor and make sure Orpheus stays imprisoned and then rule the cult with the netherbrain as his minion.
So I guess I have to roleplay that while he thinks the cult is awesome he didn't like being ordered around by Ketheric as an errand boy. That's insulting. He needs to get rid of those three in order to take control of the cult.
I'm really curious how this plays out and whether or not the bad ending differs from the one you could get last year before the new epilogues. Even as a good character you could go random evil at the end. I hope there's a proper durge ending or maybe a few even depending on your choices. I'm currently playing a good thief trying to romance Minthara, she is a paladin who is sworn to follow the Oath of Vengeance, so she is of a lawful persuasion she will use what others might consider "cruel" but only when she is out of options. Side note: having recruited her to my team she only wears her casual outfit even though she has armor equipped the armor won't appear at all. She's an interesting character I'll say that. Shadowheart reminds a lot of Liara and Leliana but I feel like the writers and/or Hasbro executives are sort pushing her as the "canon" love interest and IMO that is why she comes off you can't piss her off short of pissing and shit on an alter to the god she worships (and depending on how you persuade her she might actually at the end be OK with you doing that)". Karlach is fun but tragic. Lae'zel is gruff but if you can break her free of the control of the gith lich queen is when she comes alive sadly, I hate going to that damn creche' and doing that whole quest line.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Apr 28, 2024 20:36:55 GMT
He should make his own cult, with blackjacks and hook horrors!
There was a really pretty picture of the Durge standing in the dark moonlight in the update screenies, so the new endings should at least be pretty. Always found the evil endings kinda lacklustre, especially after the epilogue hit. Evil people want resolution too. :C Even if it's just a bunch of uuhs and groans. Yes, blackjack and hook horrors, perfect! I haven't even seen any of the new epilogues yet. So I've only seen all vanilla endings since you could all do them one after another with little replay. And evil was definitely the shortest. Just kinda OK, I guess. I'll finish durge first and then load my first PT again. Thing is, been so long I have no idea which saves are which anymore for the the different endings. Going to be annoying trial and error...
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Post by Finvola on Apr 30, 2024 7:32:02 GMT
It's been a while! I was actually dealing with cancer the last time I posted. This game helped me get through the rough times I had leading up to treatment. I couldn't be treated locally and had to spend around 6 weeks away from home for treatment. I did come back on the weekends a few times but it was too hectic and I ended up deciding to stay there full time for the remainder of treatment. In December I completed a game on Honour Mode as a tiefling DUrge Paladin. It was my third attempt at HM, so the third time's a charm, I guess! I went for treatment in mid/late January. I didn't finish until early March and it took several weeks to start even feeling remotely human again. Once I got past that, I started playing again but settled on Tactician because I was out of practice and wasn't sure I was ready for the pressure of HM again. Now it's almost May and Tactician is starting to feel too easy for me. I watch a lot of videos and I take inspiration/bits and pieces of what other people do and incorporate it into my own playstyle. I'm experimenting with different builds. I am a Gloomstlaker/Assassin (yes so original) but she is pretty much deleting everything with relative ease. I named her Florence Pew-Pew. I have Karlach as a Monk/Thief and Bardstarion. I wanted to make him a swords bard but I went with Lore because I wanted to hear him insult enemies with vicious mockery as a reaction. I love vicious mockery, but I think Minthara might even be the best at those insults. I had her as a Bardadin in the past and her insults cut deep. I probably will finish within the next day or two. I'm trying to decide what I feel like doing. I just have to finish off Gortash. Karlach will enjoy punching him in the face with her monk abilities. But there's side stuff I can do in between if I want, like Free the Artist, Hag Survivors. Not really sure if I feel like it or not. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I might just fight Gortash, hand in Dribbles' body parts while I'm in the neighborhood, then finish the game. It has been quite fun. However, I think I would like to try another Honour run. I avoided so many things when I did it back in December because I was worried about wiping. I didn't fight Raphael, Ansur, fights I'd normally find really fun. This time, I might as well go for it. I have my dice, what do I have to lose? Oh, my pride. I just have to think about who/what I want to play. Someone who is CHR based and can pass difficult checks, most likely. We'll see. I will have a think about it.
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Post by alanc9 on Apr 30, 2024 18:37:16 GMT
Put in a bit more time with Sylvie the dwarf bard in Act 1. Does anyone else have the impression that there's a bit of a difficulty hole in late 3rd level? There were a lot of fights available that I really wanted to wait to do, like Karlach's pursuers. But the party made it to L4 in the Sunlit Wetlands, so good to go.
For once, a bard-specific dialogue option was suboptimal. Or maybe not? Had to knock out Mayrina's brothers since they didn't appreciate Sylvie's point. But maybe that's the best available outcome for them?
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Post by alanc9 on Apr 30, 2024 18:39:29 GMT
II wanted to make him a swords bard but I went with Lore because I wanted to hear him insult enemies with vicious mockery as a reaction. I love vicious mockery, but I think Minthara might even be the best at those insults. I had her as a Bardadin in the past and her insults cut deep. You made me realize that there's so much in this game that I've never even tried. Thanks.
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Post by Finvola on Apr 30, 2024 19:59:22 GMT
You can hear everybody's in this link:
I think Shadowheart's is pretty good too. She sounds very angry though!
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Post by azarhal on Apr 30, 2024 20:36:16 GMT
... I think Shadowheart's is pretty good too. She sounds very angry though! ... She's stuck playing a bard, of course she's angry!
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Post by Finvola on Apr 30, 2024 21:24:41 GMT
Haha, true! I have only kept her as a cleric but change her domain. I like making her a Tempest cleric.
In my current save, Karlach doesn't feel quite right as a monk but she's punching the snot out of everyone. I just wanted to try something different and I've never really played monks before, other than the hireling a time or two. I think Astarion works as a Lore bard because he's got the right amount of snark/sass to pull off those insults.
In that video, I get a kick out of default DUrge's vicious mockery. (Voice 5) He sounds so cheerful and insane at the same time.
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Post by Finvola on May 1, 2024 3:35:48 GMT
I decided to kill some time. I did Hag Survivors and attempted to finish Free The Artist and then I remembered just how much I hated Lady Jannath's Estate and said "F Oskar and F this house" and left. I should have blown him up in Act 1 along with the Zhents. Then I decided it was time to fight Gortash. I let Karlach have the honors of punching the crap out of him.
Now I guess all that's left to do is to finish the save. I've done just about everything there is to do, but I haven't decided who I want for my final team. I'll have a think about it. Maybe I should roll and let the dice decide!
I'll start my new Honour save tomorrow because it's too late in the evening now. This current save will be my 13th, I think. Well 13th completed. 15 if you include the two failed Honour saves, but I wasn't very far in on those anyway.
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Post by Kappa Neko on May 2, 2024 17:12:37 GMT
What is the trigger for SH's love scene? I'm at the beginning of act 3, her approval is exceptional and nothing is happening. Is it tied to wrapping up her personal quest? Does it take longer if she's a Dark Justiciar? At first I thought that the two long rest events I had cancelled it out but then I slept twice more but got no more events. I got the relationship talk about what it means to love a DJ, if that helps. I wouldn't care really but I went to the drow twins and SH is not up for it until she finally gets naked with my boy first. So I was wondering... I was sad to learn that I locked myself out of the most epic boss fight in gaming history by accepting Raphael's deal. Only a moron would go for it but I'm playing opposite to my first PT as much as possible. I googled what the difference is and even though apparently you can go to the House Of Hope to steal the contract you don't get the boss fight. Confirmed?
A question about this for people who have done this since the new epilogues: is there a consequence now for giving him the crown and for straight up not honoring the deal? I read that the game didn't react at all which I find surprising. Then again, the game didn't give an epilogue to any of the factions either before. Has this changed? Minthara's reactions to the dark urge confuse me. On the one hand she disapproves of giving in to the urge and considers him a loose canon and she said she'll watch her back too. Didn't like the butler's gift either. On the other hand she is now totally awe struck and super into him. First she didn't like needless cruelty, then she approved of twisting the knife and disemboweling that one wounded thug on the beach. Which one is it now?? I guess the game just pushes her on you as love interest for a ruthless character even if she disagrees with a lot of things you can do. I mean, SH goes from disgust to adoration all the time too. Btw tadpoled SH is nightmare fuel. Those rotten teeth are repulsive and every time she smiles now I want to close my eyes and run away. I can take the others looking fucked up a lot better. Something about her is super repulsive to me. My durge looks better this way somehow. Astarion is painful to look at but not exactly disgusting. And Laezel spends all her time at camp since I got Minthara. So I haven't had to look at her much... Lying on my couch twiddling my thumbs waiting for the thunderstorm to pass. After googling the probability of getting my PC fried and finding several reports about people getting electrocuted by their wired controllers I decided not to risk it, lol.
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Post by azarhal on May 2, 2024 19:07:09 GMT
What is the trigger for SH's love scene? I'm at the beginning of act 3, her approval is exceptional and nothing is happening. Is it tied to wrapping up her personal quest? Does it take longer if she's a Dark Justiciar? If she's Dark Justiciar, you need to finish her personal quest to trigger the love scene from what I remember.
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I've always managed to avoid going half illithid. I save up my rolls just for this because I hate how they look. I know there's a mod for that but I'm holding off using mods until the patches and hotfixes calm down. I know there's a big patch coming soon, so I figure if I'm going to add any cosmetic mods I'll do it after.
I am probably missing out by not using all the powers but I didn't spent all that time in character creation only for them to look hideous. I started my new Honour save last night. I am going with another Gloomstalker/Assassin because the Tactician save I just finished was basically a test run/warm up exercise. When I did HM back in December, I avoided a couple of optional bosses in Act 3 so as to not push my luck. I always felt like I was one bad roll or misclick away from wiping. Well, Raphael and Ansur in particular. This time--well, if I make it that far, I will take on everything. I don't like skipping bosses. So far I made it to the grove and haven't encountered any trouble. I picked up the companions, did the crypt, headed to the grove. I wasn't really trying to defend the gate that hard because they usually do a decent job themselves. My party was safely up on the hill and stayed there. Aradin died, which has never happened before. I laughed so hard when Zevlor didn't even try to hide how unbothered by it he was. I think he said "Oh, Aradin died?. Oh. That's. A. Shame" and I just busted out laughing. That's about as far as I've gotten so far.
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Post by Curious Crow on May 2, 2024 19:49:35 GMT
I've always managed to avoid going half illithid. I save up my rolls just for this because I hate how they look. I know there's a mod for that but I'm holding off using mods until the patches and hotfixes calm down. I know there's a big patch coming soon, so I figure if I'm going to add any cosmetic mods I'll do it after.
I am probably missing out by not using all the powers but I didn't spent all that time in character creation only for them to look hideous. You could wait until act 3 starts and then just gorge yourself on them, since once you reach Rivington you need to eat the Astral Tadpole yourself to get all veiny but eating the normal ones shouldn't really do anything except give you powers.
And agreed on not wanting to loose out on those five hours in the creator, powers be damned.
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Post by Kappa Neko on May 2, 2024 20:04:43 GMT
And agreed on not wanting to loose out on those five hours in the creator, powers be damned. Excuse me, my drow looks amazing now! Pfft... (Seriously, this is such an amazing shot!) But yeah, I won't be doing that again, especially not to my pretty companions. But for evil durge it's perfect. Corrupting everyone inside and out is so cool. The powers are quite nice, I have to say!
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Post by Cyberstrike on May 3, 2024 12:45:44 GMT
Who should I go after I first: Orin or Gortash? In my recent playthrough Orin has captured Lae'zel but I did sort make a bargain with Gortash that I would go after her. So if I don't get rid of Gortash first I would lose Lae'zel (or the captured the party member)? I mean I plan on getting rid of them of both.
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Post by Ravenfeeder on May 3, 2024 17:13:52 GMT
Who should I go after I first: Orin or Gortash? In my recent playthrough Orin has captured Lae'zel but I did sort make a bargain with Gortash that I would go after her. So if I don't get rid of Gortash first I would lose Lae'zel (or the captured the party member)? I mean I plan on getting rid of them of both. You can do it either way if you want but I think going after Gortash first makes the most sense. From a story point of view he's the one with the resources to come after you and from a game point of view there's something in Orin's area that links towards the end more. The hostage is not time limited, or limited by anything outside of Orin's plot.
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Post by Cyberstrike on May 3, 2024 22:29:50 GMT
Who should I go after I first: Orin or Gortash? In my recent playthrough Orin has captured Lae'zel but I did sort make a bargain with Gortash that I would go after her. So if I don't get rid of Gortash first I would lose Lae'zel (or the captured the party member)? I mean I plan on getting rid of them of both. You can do it either way if you want but I think going after Gortash first makes the most sense. From a story point of view he's the one with the resources to come after you and from a game point of view there's something in Orin's area that links towards the end more. The hostage is not time limited, or limited by anything outside of Orin's plot. Thanks for the info!
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Post by alanc9 on May 4, 2024 2:31:04 GMT
So, having bamboozled a Zhentarim courier out of his cargo, Sylvie figured it was time to get a quick payoff. Didn't quite work out; I guess Zhent middle management isn't quite as gullible as the lackeys. Still could have made it work, but... .. it's one thing to screw up a guy's life with ridiculous lies, and it's another to personally murder him because he bought the ridiculous lies. Sylvie's naughty, but not bad.
That fight should have been ugly. Lousy starting position and stuff which goes boom everywhere around you. Fortunately, there were some very questionable AI responses. For some reason the enemies decided to target Gale at all costs, which led to a couple of them using Dash to get to him, even eating AoOs to do so. So they couldn't attack, their allies couldn't detonate their explosive stuff without causing a friendly-fire incident, and Karlach could clobber them as they approached. Meanwhile, the archers went for high ground, only to discover that Sylvie and Astarion both took Sharpshooter at L4... Turned out to be a pretty good payday after all. Still don't know what to do with the box. (Don't tell me.)
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Post by Ravenfeeder on May 4, 2024 9:27:49 GMT
Lousy starting position and stuff which goes boom everywhere around you. I kill off the Zhents every time mainly to loot their cave of all the barrels that go boom. I like to have a large collection waiting at camp for whenever I choose to use them - which I hardly ever do, but knowing I could is a happy place.
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Post by Finvola on May 4, 2024 19:32:12 GMT
I just did the Zhent hideout last night. Being that I'm on HM, I'm kind of looking for stuff to do. I'm waiting to level up again before taking on the Spider Matriarch and Ethel, so I'm just sort of wandering around looking for XP. I suppose I will make contact with the goblins next. Anyway, I went into the Zhent hideout, brought the chest back, got my reward, bought a few things from the merchant. I got the Titanstring bow, drank a STR potion, then started a sneak attack. I took out all but 2 right away. I was pretty nervous they would set off the barrels, but they both seemed to be focused on Karlach, rather than shooting fire arrows or throwing alchemist fire. Then again, she did just launch their leader into the merchant guy, killing them both. I didn't talk to Oskar before starting the fight. His dialog is different if you talk to him to the first time after. He seems afraid to leave. If I wasn't trying to be careful with the smokepowder, normally he uh "accidentally" dies by explosion but I'm really trying not to take any big risks right now, lol. I grabbed all the barrels to save for later.
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Post by Finvola on May 5, 2024 7:54:49 GMT
I leveled up to 5 and took a long rest. I still had a short rest left but I needed to rest for spell slots. I was going to backtrack and fight the things I felt I was more or less ready for. I ended up getting the camp scene with Lae'zel and failed the roll, so I ended up having to kill her. I had inspiration but I wanted to save it for things to come, like bargaining with Auntie Ethel to free Mayrina and get the hair as well. I've never failed this roll with Lae'zel before, or if I did, I would have reloaded. Wyll joined in on her side. I guess because his tent was next to hers and he wasn't in the party at the time? I really didn't want to kill Wyll, so I hoped knocking him out would work. I didn't want to kill Lae'zel either but that's the stuff you can't plan for in HM and you just have to deal with it. I was able to revive Wyll but nobody said a word about it at camp the next morning which was odd. After that, I went back to the grove to confront Kagha. I had planned on fighting her and the shadow druids. I think almost everyone approves of you choosing to fight, or at least nobody disapproves of it. Besides, I like fighting. It was pretty easy because Gale counterspelled her moonbeam or whatever it is she casts. She didn't get another attack in. Karlach threw druids into other druids and that was about it. I stole the idol for Mol, moved onto the next target--the Spider Matriarch. I messed that up a little but it wasn't too bad. I got spotted after burning the second batch of eggs and combat started sooner than I wanted, but it was fine. I didn't know what to do next, I didn't quite want to start killing the goblin leaders yet. I had already taken out Gut (that's what gave me the level up) but I wasn't ready to take on Bore Raggedy or whatever his name is yet. I wasn't sure if I was ready for the Hag either. I recorded the Hag fight from my original HM run and looked at it just to see what level I was at when I did it and it looks like I was also level 5, so I figured, sure why not. Let's do it! I decided not to bring a caster because spells make her LA kick in. I got the hireling warrior. I brought Karlach, Bardstarion (swords bard this time) and the hireling. I only wanted to cast one spell and one spell only, which was Silence. But that didn't really do anything because Ethel walked right out of it when combat started. But that was fine too. She went down in one round, or rather, her HP was at 25. She never made clones or anything. I think the game loves to troll us sometimes because it always seems to pick the least suitable party member to do the talking if you're planning on bargaining with Ethel. It switched to Karlach to do the talking. I was like "Oh dear" because I was fairly certain she wasn't going to pass the deception check for saving Mayrina and getting the hair.By some miracle, she did. Well, it was bardic inspiration added to the roll more like. I grabbed myself a Connor on the way out. He's great for exploring the underground. Next up was the Goblin Camp. Being that I lost Lae'zel, I was down a warrior and decided I wanted to knock Minthara out and recruit her later. I did that and had a think about how I wanted to deal with Bore Raggedy. Fine-- Dror Ragzlin. I was thinking about how I wanted to position everyone and all that but I got a little sidetracked. I killed the goblins near where Gut was and made a deal with the spiders. The spiders ran off ahead and initiated combat before I had a chance to do anything. Some of Ragzlin's followers were neutral/yellow and didn't attack me at all because they were fighting the spiders. Ragzlin never got anywhere near me, I focused on him and he went down fairly quickly. The neutral goblins finally turned hostile, but that was just a matter of having Karlach yeet them into a hole. I haven't used any tadpoles yet. I might wait until Act 3 because as I mentioned in an earlier post, I don't like going half Illithid and being ugly and I can't guarantee I will pass that check to refuse. I'm sure I'm missing out on a whole bunch of awesome abilities but I don't see myself using them until after the next patch and will use a mod to keep the ugly away. I'm doing just fine without using them right now but that might change once the enemies start getting tougher. I kind of felt like I did these boss fights at too high of a level but it was better to be safe than sorry. I think I have become a better player since the last HM run I did. Or maybe I'm feeling overconfident and I'm in for a rude awakening once I reach the underdark. I will say now I'm absolutely going to cheese Grym. Whether it's throwing a bunch of stuff down on his head or launching an Owlbear from the top ropes.
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