Is grymforge and underdark optional?

[Bastila Shan]

Or can we go straight to buldars gate in the full game through that gate which is locked in ea near the gythranki people?

[GrandMajora]

NO, Baldur's Gate is act 2 content. Act 1 is you getting to Moonrise Towers, which can be done by traveling through the Underdark, or throw the Shadowfell.

[Bastila Shan]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

NO, Baldur's Gate is act 2 content. Act 1 is you getting to Moonrise Towers, which can be done by traveling through the Underdark, or throw the Shadowfell.

So you have to miss either the underdark or shadowfell?

[Dovahbear]

You can go through both if you want to I presume, just you have to do one or the other to reach Moonrise Towers.

[Homer Morisson]

Originally posted by Bastila Shan:

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

NO, Baldur's Gate is act 2 content. Act 1 is you getting to Moonrise Towers, which can be done by traveling through the Underdark, or throw the Shadowfell.

So you have to miss either the underdark or shadowfell?

You very likely can do both, but then again, BG3 is developed from the ground up as a game where you can never see all content in a single playthrough, so I would strongly advise not doing both optional paths in the same playthrough, but to rather do just the one so you can keep the other one fresh for your second run.

[Stestorm [SCO]]

Actually Baldurs gate itself is act 3..act 2 is all the shodow stuff that can be reaached by either going straight to it at the end of act 1 above land route or by doing the extra underdark and grymforge stuff..either way you end up in the act 2 content and depending on act1 choices will also depend what zone you start act 2 on

[mitchincredible]

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

Originally posted by Bastila Shan:

So you have to miss either the underdark or shadowfell?

You very likely can do both, but then again, BG3 is developed from the ground up as a game where you can never see all content in a single playthrough, so I would strongly advise not doing both optional paths in the same playthrough, but to rather do just the one so you can keep the other one fresh for your second run.

I disagree. There's so many permutations with what can happen with events that missing any area on a single playthrough means you miss out on unique story.

[Farsha]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

NO, Baldur's Gate is act 2 content. Act 1 is you getting to Moonrise Towers, which can be done by traveling through the Underdark, or throw the Shadowfell.

The BG city is Act3. Act 2 is around Moonrise towers.
And Underdark is optional you can take 3 differen routes to Moonrise towers. Though in reality most of us will try to explore everything.

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Considering there are 2 surface exits I assume yes you can skip the underdark un thay area, may not be entirely avoidable across the entire game we don't know

[Dionysos]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

NO, Baldur's Gate is act 2 content. Act 1 is you getting to Moonrise Towers, which can be done by traveling through the Underdark, or throw the Shadowfell.

I will do both ... because of crispy EXP :P

[Bastila Shan]

Wait i assume if im not going to explore all routes just to maximise my xp that i will still get sufficient xp to progress nicely and end up at max lvl by act 3?

[Hub]

Originally posted by Bastila Shan:

Wait i assume if im not going to explore all routes just to maximise my xp that i will still get sufficient xp to progress nicely and end up at max lvl by act 3?

I'm pretty sure devs thought about that ....

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Bastila Shan:

So you have to miss either the underdark or shadowfell?

We don't know, because EA cuts off before you actually make it to Moonrise. But both paths lead to the same goal. I don't see why you would want to double back after taking one path to Moonrise, unless you're just a completionist, or really desperate to squeeze out as much XP as you can.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Stestorm SCO:

Actually Baldurs gate itself is act 3..act 2 is all the shodow stuff that can be reaached by either going straight to it at the end of act 1 above land route or by doing the extra underdark and grymforge stuff..either way you end up in the act 2 content and depending on act1 choices will also depend what zone you start act 2 on

That doesn't make sense. I thought the devs told us that at Full Release, act 1 would have roughly 30% more content added to it.

Also, we know the game will consist of 3 acts, and there are 3 major antagonists. So it seems logical that Ketheric would be the villain of Act 1, then Orin and Gortash taking up the roles for acts 2 and 3?

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Stestorm SCO:

Actually Baldurs gate itself is act 3..act 2 is all the shodow stuff that can be reaached by either going straight to it at the end of act 1 above land route or by doing the extra underdark and grymforge stuff..either way you end up in the act 2 content and depending on act1 choices will also depend what zone you start act 2 on

How do you know the Shadowlands is Act 2? If true, if you pick the route to get to the Moonrise Towers by using the Shadowlands route, you will lose out on a lot of area in Act 1 in the Underdark. It's a pretty large area. And we know for sure the Under Dark is in Act 1.

I am not very knowledgeable of D&D and all the areas of the world in it. But are you just guessing the Shadowlands is Act 2 or have some official info it is? And we also know Act 2 is the largest Act. Larian said so. Which means it is huge, considering what we all ready know of Act 1.

[cire87]

i think the raft in the under dark is the cut off point for end of act 1