For most of act 1, fights felt reasonably difficult. There were only a few points where I had a tpk. However, between early access and now, that last fight felt like a sharp spike in difficulty.
My first time through, it took me and my wife 2 days to finally cheese it. This time around it still took us 3 or 4 reloads and something I’ll talk about in the spoiler section before we made it.
It seems like you suddenly need to get good at really strategizing or find some extra wrinkle to make it possible. But I’m curious to hear how other folks managed to get through the fight.
Spoilers
I had no idea until today on our third reload that you could recruit the duergar rebels to fight with you against Nere. Suddenly having an entire army of allies to help out really feels like how the fight was intended. It was only through abusing running away to long rest and have Withers res folks that we managed to take everyone on by ourselves before.
I had always figured there was some weirdness in encounter balance and not that I had missed the way the fight is supposed to play out. If someone here managed to take down Nere, his followers, AND the rebels, please let me know how you pulled that insanity off. I can already tell that Act 2 is going to force me to step up my game on the strategy end of things.
Is this the fight that happens in the Harper’s little camp? I first thought due to how many dudes it kept spawning every turn and how I couldn’t flee from it, I was supposed to lose, but no. Dying there just gives game over. 😬
I’ve been everywhere else, obtained every magical item (and only fed like 3 to Gale), and should have gotten as much XP as possible and this fight still seems impossible or that I was supposed to have a McMuffin to help win it that for whatever reason I don’t. Plus, I killed that winged dude in 2 hits right off the bat, but this just triggered him to knock out the woman and take off, which made me start to question how this game handled script triggers because it’s so jarring to complete one action, and then have a cutscene trigger showing something else happening.
No, this was if you went down to the underdark. I forgot there were other options for where to go when i made the post. I’m excited to do another playhthrough and check that route out though, it seems intriguing.