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.

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    I dunno what I did exactly, but by the time I got there, Nere was already dead. I didn’t have a big fight at the end of act 1.

  • Dalek Thal@aussie.zone
    3·
    2 years ago

    Huh, I have no memory of such a fight - my conclusion to Act 1 was a fight against the Githyanki inquisitor (equally fucking hard though, the dice were being hugely unkind to me). Was this in the underdark? I never did go down there for long.

    • Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yes, OP describes a fight in the underdark. I managed to skip it by accident even though that’s the route I took.

    • Taffer@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Oh shoot I forgot that there’s other paths now besides the underdark. Wife and I have just been revisiting the early access content.

      • Dalek Thal@aussie.zone
        2·
        2 years ago

        Honestly the almost immediate beholder and minotaur encounters from one of the entrances left me too terrified to return. Ended up taking the mountain pass instead, and it was beautiful.

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Taffer@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • h3rm17@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    2 years ago

    We obliteraded the duegar first, didn’t lile how they treated the gnomes almost did not make it. Party was me, a dark urge tief vengeance pala, my SO, a true fist monk, shadow and astarion. All spell slots out, no short rests left. Then (all this without resting, of course), we did Nere. Did not last two rounds.

    • OrderedFromZanzibar@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, same here. Got messed up in my initial fight with him and all his pals, so for my reload I hung out on that wall next to where he was trapped and made them come up to me. Much easier fight that way haha

      I had no idea there was a rebel situation and you can get allies during that fight, that’s pretty neat

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    2 years ago

    Fireball-Quickened Fireball on the first turn takes out a lot of the duergar, after that it was just mopping up.

    • Taffer@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      I used a crooked wand of fireball I found for pretty similar results, evens the playing field quite a bit at the cost of some healing afterwards