Can you save Isobel?

[MisterRed]

Got to act 2, and she was just kidnapped. The annoying thing is that she just face tanked every hit, like her AC was 2 or something, and every enemy targeted her. I definitely could've easily wiped out the entire encounter, especially with all the friendly NPCs,but she just... went down by the second turn.

[RawCode]

sanctuary spell of cleric

[LcAnders]

Yeah I had to try 3 or 4 times. I just made sure on the first turn to surround her with my characters and firstly attack the main guy. The last attempt I was just super lucky on how the turns panned out and the winged guys got stuck outside fighting someone else who casted an AOE for like 2 turns so I didn’t have to worry about them

[Amateur Nitpicker]

Lol for that fight I positioned (unchained my party). Like one blocking the door, barricading using chest and funnelling them down. (on the down side I think my cleric had a field day)

[Madjar]

I enjoy having the fight go well until they roll back to back crits and she falls over, and I stand there like a lemon while she's taken away

[MisterRed]

Originally posted by A lie will remain a lie:

I enjoy having the fight go well until they roll back to back crits and she falls over, and I stand there like a lemon while she's taken away

Tbh yeah, I shamelessly reloaded this fight. Its the second time I reduced the difficulty too. First was because I just kinda didn't like Auntie Ethel, wanted to skip her, but also wanted her stuff. I don't mind consequences to stuff I do, but it was super difficult to keep her alive without sanctuary myself. My paladin ended up keeping shield of faith on her and that helped at least. Even managed to save Alfira in my winning attempt, which was difficult since she was trying to solo a horror all by herself, had to rush my Karlach in.

[Pocato]

I just barricaded 2 doors leading to the room with her, beat the dude and 1 winged creep (others cant find a way to the room.) then clear the area and win win

[Emerance]

Yes, you can cast things like invisibility, blur, mirror image, throw down darkness, dimension door her, heal her a ton, knock back the enemies and web them. Just need to CC and utility spell everything till the winged guy is dead. Then easily take out the manbats.

[BARTELS]

Note for anyone trying to abduct Isobel: She's immune to sleeping spells and potions. The only way I've found to take her alive is getting her to low HP, unequipping your weapons, toggling on non-lethal damage (in passive abilities), and punching her until she goes down. Make sure you don't kill the Harpers so they can distract the A.I. on your side, because the A.I. will kill her instead of knocking her out.

Edit: I also trying using a polymorph spell and turning her into a sheep (which is really funny because Marcus flies away carrying a sheep), but it completely bugged the game. After the cutscene was over both Marcus and Isobel were still in the fight and the game was still telling me to abduct her.

[sharpshot124]

FYI non-lethal applies to your melee weapons as well, no need to unequip them.

[Chopper]

Took me 3 tries and 45 minutes on balanced but I finally saved her!
I play Warlock with Wyll, Karliah and Lazael, Hit him with a Tashas Hideous Laughter, then I
kept punting him back and away from Isobel with eldritch blasts from PC and Wyll and let Karliah and Lazael sic him till he died!
Not easy but so worth it!

[jonathonsimon]

I was able to save Isobel and kill Marcus plus his entourage, then suddenly everyone including Isobel became hostile to my group. I had to kill everyone. I am beginning to believe that it is not possible to save her.

[Snobby Hobo]

You can save her, and by the way the game unfolds thereafter it's also what it assumes happens (you're missing out on a LOT if she dies).

You can put her to sleep with the feign death spell. Sanctuary is not great as she herself will immediately break it (big brain AI). I myself killed Marcus in 1 turn and then having Shadowheart just heal her was more than enough to keep her alive.

[Miro Fox]

Originally posted by MisterRed:

Got to act 2, and she was just kidnapped. The annoying thing is that she just face tanked every hit, like her AC was 2 or something, and every enemy targeted her. I definitely could've easily wiped out the entire encounter, especially with all the friendly NPCs,but she just... went down by the second turn.

Feign Death on her. now they won't attack her.

[Madjar]

Originally posted by Snobby Hobo:

You can save her, and by the way the game unfolds thereafter it's also what it assumes happens (you're missing out on a LOT if she dies).

You can put her to sleep with the feign death spell. Sanctuary is not great as she herself will immediately break it (big brain AI). I myself killed Marcus in 1 turn and then having Shadowheart just heal her was more than enough to keep her alive.

I went and barricaded the ♥♥♥♥ out of the room myself in the end, used a smokepowder I saved for an extra ♥♥♥♥ you to the undead who couldn't give half a ♥♥♥♥ about being turned

[woops]

Originally posted by Snobby Hobo:

I myself killed Marcus in 1 turn

cmon man, no need to falsely brag on an internet forum