What level should you be in Underdark and other areas?

[LitePack]

Is there a level suggestion per area for this game?

My current play in the Underdark has been pretty brutal...
* Minotaurs - 2 beat me up pretty bad but i made it.
* Bulette ate me up now multiple times. Seems best thing to do it take your hits until it leaves and just try and keep one character alive to bring back the others.
* Hookhorrors... 1 is a challenge.. 4 of them... not a chance.

Doing my best to avoid any of the play through videos or tips but thinking maybe i need to level up the characters (currently level 4) before i get to Underdark.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

[Ommamar]

Not necessarily about level, my first play through I went there at high level 3 and hit level 4 probably a quarter of the way through. I did find out that there are some things you want to get on the overland map before you go down there that will make things a lot easier. The Bullette wasn't to hard but I did use the command halt trick a lot on it, at the time I had a heavy caster/ranged party so by keeping it halted I could plink it down with minimal damage done. I think the hard thing about that fight is it burrows then comes up to hit your back line characters. The halt strategy while spreading your party out is helpful but expect to see one at least but maybe up to three party members down at the end of the fight.

[EnemigoDeLaMafia]

5 should be optimal I'd say. In my game I had just enough experience to go to 5 after doing everything in the surface.

Alternatively you can get there at 4 and then just do some easier quests.

[kaulim]

tbh Bulette was a breeze for me at lvl 4 and i didn't know it was a thing until it popped up lol. walking around underdark and all of a sudden the game paused ,went into tb mode, i was like wtf... clicked on end turn thinking it was a bug and bam this giant creature appeared and knocked my gale to half hp.

My composition was a bm ranger pc, karlach shadow and gale. The fight started with bulette very close to my party and i got initiative first - so things were straight forward. Blinded and Webbed it with familiar and pet, then just proceeded to unload my attacks on it and it didn't last 2 turns.

best part was i had Gut with me, reanimated the corpse and took it to literally demolish the duegars in a quest after.

[Broan]

Level 4 Party can be fine, if you know what you are doing
Level 5 would be recommended if it is your first Run imo.

Some things may catch you off guard down there, with the health pool level 5 brings and potential Level 3 spells on casters, it feels way more managable. In BG3, especially in the first ones - the difference between one level and another is pretty significant. Maybe take a look around elsewhere and finish stuff to get lvl 5 first, it is not necessary, but it does make Things way easier.

[CorwynCorey]

The Underdark is, both in this game and the lore, where things start getting tricky. Tactics, observation and a lot of caution is definitely part of just how different it is under the world, as opposed to on the surface. Surface danger is so much lower than what exists in the Underdark, that it explains why even drow cities have walls, and tight security.

It simply is a harder way of life.

So entering at level 3 or lower, while possible is not recommended. At all. While doable at 3 with extreme caution and luck, level 4 is a good place to start... and level 5 is when a team of 4 should be ok in many ways.
Usually.
Mostly.

By the time the team is level 5, where a huge power spike happens, two major things come together. With casters starting to really come into their own with spells that are a real upgrade, and strikers often getting their second attack, the things that can be handled changes dramatically. And, of course, the second thing is a growing familiarity with some of what your fave team composition can actually DO. Knowing your tactics well is far better than having the new options, overall... and by then the team (and the player) are more used to how they can work together. The combos that can be done. Level 1 skills and spells are, in essence, just as useful in end-of-campaign fights (bless, as an example, or command) as they are in those first levels.

[Zackerie]

I like going while 4 and leveling to 5 off the minotaurs. then going back up top and clearing the rest of the goblins, the hag, and the gith patrol. Got to six before "saving" nere.

[BeautifulFlowerField]

I found the harpies and gnolls to be by far the hardest encounters in the game, you may be under itemized.