How the hell am I even supposed to win fights on act 2?

[BhaalSakh]

I just arrived at the mountains, my party is lvl 5. The first enemies I see are two death shepherds, with ghouls thrown into the mix. How the hell am I even supposed to fight these guys? The moment I kill one enemy, the death shepherd ressurects it. If I kill a death shepherd, the other one ressurects it. I really don't know what to do at this point, the game is ridiculously hard.

[[CGN] T]

Well first, change it to story difficulty (if u want)

if not, u need to play tactical maybe load sometimes and try your best to throw of enemies anywhere u can so they cant even ressurect anything. If not possible maybe burn them or something.

[ptirodaktill]

Go trough the dungeon, its much easyer that way. Also more XP. These undeads are menageable on lvl 7, when you have freedom of movement on your tank and some AoE Juice on your mages.

[BhaalSakh]

Originally posted by ptirodaktill:

Go trough the dungeon, its much easyer that way. Also more XP. These undeads are menageable on lvl 7, when you have freedom of movement on your tank and some AoE Juice on your mages.

You mean the Underdark? I went there on level 4 and got my ass kicked. Maybe it's more manageable at level 5, I'll give it a try.

[ANDY JHONSON QUISPE HUAMANI]

Just arrived there, it0s hard, turn undead is useless, also you can't damage by healing death like in Divinity, it's really forcing me to use the explorer difficulty.

[Mad Max]

Common sense would dictate to try to kill them both at the same time.

Or find some way to hard cc the other like Tasha's Hideous Laughter.

[Rzuh]

Get both of them down to as close to 1hp as possible before executing either or with two ally turns. Clean up the rest but be careful, the ghouls will cannibalize downed teammates causing them to die.

[katzenkrimis]

You'll have to start the game over.

Your class is wrong and your party is rubbish.



Kidding.

[ANDY JHONSON QUISPE HUAMANI]

Originally posted by Mad Max:

Common sense would dictate to try to kill them both at the same time.

Or find some way to hard cc the other like Tasha's Hideous Laughter.

That's so easy to do with the DnD rules.

[Mesond]

Originally posted by katzenkrimis:

You'll have to start the game over.

Your class is wrong and your party is rubbish.



Kidding.

You can change class at any time in this game. And respec.

[ManureTruck]

The game is supposed to be hard if you are playing on Tactician difficulty and choose certain routes. They are giving players choices.

If you aren't good enough at the game/tactical thinking/preparing pots/items/spells for a particular encounter, then reduce the difficulty or load an older autosave/quicksave and route through Underdark instead.

Also there should have been a warning screen when you first started on your route saying you were about to enter into an area that is painful for characters of your level. That's basically Larian saying "we really suggest taking the Underdark route unless you're a hardcore andy who loves pain."

If you aren't on Tactician difficulty then the problem is that you aren't good at tactics (basic tactical thinking is still needed for Balanced difficulty). This is a tactical combat game, brute-forcing stuff won't work unless you get really lucky with rolls. On that note it's also possible to lose to bad rolls even if you do everything right - unless you have Karmic dice enabled which I think removes the possibility for insane fail-streaks in combat.

[Martyrofsand]

Originally posted by Rubeus:

You mean the Underdark? I went there on level 4 and got my ass kicked. Maybe it's more manageable at level 5, I'll give it a try.

So in the Underdark when I first get there I tend to go take on the beholder while avoiding the minotaurs and burrowed enemies until I can get to the mushroom settlement. The dark dwarves are much easier to deal with by comparison.

You don't have to fight every tough enemy. If things are 1 shooting your party avoiding them is the correct decision.

[ManureTruck]

Originally posted by Martyrofsand:

So in the Underdark when I first get there I tend to go take on the beholder while avoiding the minotaurs and burrowed enemies until I can get to the mushroom settlement. The dark dwarves are much easier to deal with by comparison.

You don't have to fight every tough enemy. If things are 1 shooting your party avoiding them is the correct decision.

Right, I fought the Spectator/drow as well and it was easy - I didn't fight the duergar until after I got the mission to kill them from the myconid sovereign (got by the initial contact with them with conversation checks). the game keeps 25 autosaves/quicksaves history and offers many routes to get to the same places for a reason. Some routes are harder, some are easier. The game is very well designed to appease both casuals and masochists, although if you're too casual you may not realize you can go back and take a different route in the first place...

I also make a hard save whenever I zone into a brand new area. It really opens up possibilities for me in case I get hardstuck (I haven't yet).

[Kabreras]

Use your "dipomacy for dummy" tool
https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/Fireball

[BhaalSakh]

I switched to easy mode. I should have done this from the start. It's not actually ''easy'', it's just manageable. Feels like the default Normal mode from any other game. Now I'm having fun.

[CIA]

The level 3 spell Spirit Guardians works wonders on that encounter