Boulder's Gate 3 (there maybe Droobs ahead)

I was wondering whether to go back and do it again. I tried so many times though and was starting to get frustrated. At one point I managed to kill the boss and 4 enemies that surrounded Isobel, but then she ran into my cloud of daggers and killed herself. I had a few choice words to say at that point

How do you ?

Re Dammon, I saw him first and did the next part of the quest. Also gave him more infernal iron to make some armour. Wasn’t sure if there was more than that.

I went back this morning, did it first time with no problems at all. Very odd. I think there is a fair bit of luck involved sometimes.

Although the trick for me seemed to be to

A cleric is immensely useful in that fight (and in all of act 2) due to Turn Undead, Spirit Guardians and being able to heal and/or Sanctuary anyone that gets focused. It's good damage, good defence and helps turn the action economy in your favour.

But it's also really random and can be either easy or very difficult when you have that many NPCs that can act in wildly different ways.

I've not done it yet. After reloading, I left the inn to ambush the convoy, then kept exploring… I suppose there is the chance things will have gone south on my return.

I found out someone at work is playing this and we were talking about it. He asked how far along I was and I said I was at the beginning of act 2 after about 60 hrs. He looked at me with bewilderment. "Really? I'm midway through act 2 after 30 hrs". I thought there's no way, maybe he got confused or something but it certainly sounded like he was further ahead than me, confirmed he was in the Shadowlands. So ended up talking about some memorable encounters and I talked about how I used Karlach to start a fight by shoving an enemy into a giant spider pit. Again he looks at me confused. "Who's Karlach?" Turns out not only did he miss out on Karlach, he's also missed out on Wyll which I find even more impressive as he was literally right there in the grove to talk to. Saying he's finding it difficult now as enemies are around level 6 or 7 and he's still at 4. I just don't know how you can play a game like this and not scrape the entire map for all there is.

I just got out of the Grand Mausoleum and am about to return to Moonrise Towers to kick some butt. I was expecting the Mausoleum to be big-ish but I think I ended up being down there for about 5 hours! It's absolutely brilliant. Stuff I did:



Missed some stuff to do with rats I think, but they were annoying.

So now I have the can I go wherever I want? I thought this part was going to get annoying but I think I've got the stuff I need to traverse it relatively quickly. Although those are bloody brutal.

I think I just lucked through it the first time. Lucky crits killed the feathery bastard in the first turn and the rest was just mopping up. I had no idea what the consequences could be until I saw other people talk about losing the fight.

I can easily see how it could go to hell even if you don't do anything "wrong" though, just due to randomness and how silly the AI can be.

I've lost a bit of momentum on this, partly because I started playing FC24, partly because I'm not a massive fan of the Act 2 map so far. It's got a bit more interesting as I've found a couple of characters and events but I much preferred act 1 so far. I found the shadow curse thing initially a bit annoying, then a bit pointless once I got the pixie blessing. But I guess its part of the story so I'll just go with it.

Just got to Moonrise so things should probably get a bit more interesting again now.

I also tried having Wyll in my party for a while, but I just can't do it. He's too annoying!

I mainly find Wyll and Lae’zel annoying, but more so Wyll.

I was tempted to put Lae’zel and Karlach in together for maximum attack damage, but I think I need Gale for the moment. Shadowheart is a must!

I'm at a similar place in Act 2 and definitely agree. It feels less alive (probably meant to be really). Issue for me is there seems to be far fewer character interactions compared to Act 1 and my relationships don't seem to be moving that far. Looks boring too.

Hoping it picks up at Moonrise then Act 3 is back to being exceptional.

Yeah exactly how I feel. Will start on moonrise over weekend, hopefully it will start to pick up again.

Weirdly I enjoyed the underdark, but that place seemed much more alive and interesting.

Still found a few interesting things though and enjoying it, albeit not quite as much.

Is there much point in circling back to the mountain pass? I guess there is the creche, but not sure if it’s like the underdark, which I wouldn’t have wanted to miss out on.

I've found a submarine!

It was fairly easy to work out what's is for, plot-wise, but I didn't want to me up quest progression by using it too soon. So now I'm trying to find the trigger point, which I think is the floor below where I am now...