I fought all these people not knowing he was doing a ritual that would kill my whole team in 1 turn

This fight is completely optional. Don’t enter the Bhaalist red cloud wall as a party! Separate Astarion from your party and sneak him down the path to the door flanked by two torches. Pick the lock & exit the red cloud wall by entering the building (which stops the Ritual Chant timer for him). The enemies on the cliff & building ramparts will all focus their attention on Astarion, but they’re mostly weak Level 3 & 5.

The encounter design in act 3 is atrocious. If an enemy isn't spamming invisibility, they're spamming stun. If they're not spamming stun, they're spamming prone. If they have none of these, they still have 1000 layers of unstoppable so you have to spend 2 hours hitting them before you can actually damage them. As if every single fight in act 3 wasn't cheesy enough, these edgelords in the temple all have sanctuary so you have to stand around like a little bitch waiting for them to hit you so you can actually fight them. It's not necessarily hard since you get so op in act 3, but it's just so fucking tedious and boring. I just want to be done with this game, act 1 and 2 were a blast but I'm starting to hate this game with how much of a slog act 3 is.

This fight is so annoying. I finally catch him up there, and he teleports all the way to the bottom where I cant reach >:(

Thank you!! I wasted a lot of potions of speed and flight but got them in the end

I used hide and put a smokepowder, oil, and wine barrel down. Then used your technique with Gale and the others. I set off the barrels using Gale. Farslaerwas so weak that I finished him off with Karlach.

no. its impossible to jump from there without triggering combat. They must have patched this. It just does not work

was about to get my ass handed to me so I reloaded, made everyone drink invis potion and crossed the bridge, make Wyll trigger the fight and then Karlach, Astarion, and I ganged up on the ambusher like that one Jojo meme

Now that I've beat him. I'll look up a way that proves how genius other people are. Fight took me at least 20 minutes.

Idk why but each melee hit is counting 1 of damage on him, it doesn't matter who's hitting him, It's impossible pass through him.

This ambush is deadly!

Used the wind walker spell, surrounded the red fella unseen. Then turned back to normal and kicked his arse. It was total cheese, but it worked.

I used explosive arrows to knock to sanctuary assassins off the ledge, then just magic missiles to remove unstoppable from chanting dude.

doesnt work, i am getting spotted as soon as i try to jump!

If i ever meet whoever designed some of these BS fights i would beat the shit out of them. The stress is literally shortening my life span. If a DM had set a game up like this no one would ever want them as a DM again. I just want to finish the game and be done with it. I'm on my 5th character trying to get through this game now and i haven't finished it once yet. The slog is unbelievable. The difficulty modes mean nothing.

thank you so much!!! mwah

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