What clever ways are there of going about the Goblin Camp?

[Artemis]

Easy enough to get the priestess but the other 2 pretty much agro the entire camp no matter what I do. It's too easy for them to summon reinforcements or actually completely bugged (the war drums).

[dulany67]

There are signal drums all over. Destroy the drums before going aggro with an individual group.

[michael199310]

Originally posted by ArtemisOrNova.ttv:

Easy enough to get the priestess but the other 2 pretty much agro the entire camp no matter what I do. It's too easy for them to summon reinforcements or actually completely bugged (the war drums).

For the drow, just destroy the eye, its summoning the goblin with special ability.
As for the red guy, I suggest to position around the throne and pummel them with bombs and spells, so they don't get a chance to react. Note that if you kill all 3, you will need to fight with the rest of the goblins, so I suggest fast travelling if you're low on resources.

[Velesianus]

They've patched this since early EA but "barrelmancy" still works.

There's a ton of oil barrels and a few gunpowder ones in the basement. Just head down there as though you were going to bypass Act 1 but instead fill your party's inv with barrels and then go back up.

Use these to kill the large gentleman and his mob in one shot.

Gut can be quietly killed in her room and the Drow can be lured to the edge of a cliff using illusion and then shoved off with none being the wiser.

Boom, all three dead and you can do it a the start of the game at level 1. Might take a few f5/f8 cycles though if you've never done any of this before.

[Artemis]

Originally posted by dulany67:

There are signal drums all over. Destroy the drums before going aggro with an individual group.

I've done that and then the goblins just do the animation for it where they're standing so like I said, bugged.

[Creativity]

skill issue

[dulany67]

Originally posted by Velesianus:

They've patched this since early EA but "barrelmancy" still works.

There's a ton of oil barrels and a few gunpowder ones in the basement. Just head down there as though you were going to bypass Act 1 but instead fill your party's inv with barrels and then go back up.

Use these to kill the large gentleman and his mob in one shot.

Gut can be quietly killed in her room and the Drow can be lured to the edge of a cliff using illusion and then shoved off with none being the wiser.

Boom, all three dead and you can do it a the start of the game at level 1. Might take a few f5/f8 cycles though if you've never done any of this before.

If you yeet Minthara, you can't loot her corpse.

[dulany67]

Originally posted by ArtemisOrNova.ttv:

Originally posted by dulany67:

There are signal drums all over. Destroy the drums before going aggro with an individual group.

I've done that and then the goblins just do the animation for it where they're standing so like I said, bugged.

Hmmm.. Just did it last night without issue.

[Artemis]

I'm glad it's working for you but the one beside Minthara is the first stop of her goblin friend when you engage her so I broke it, greased the goblin on a second attempt and both times he just finished his movement and started pounding on the air and the whole area went permanently hostile so for me it's very much not working.

[Gin]

In the room where you first see the priestess, there is a gate that goes underground which has some spiders in it, you can succeed a dialogue option with the spiders which tells them to go and eat goblins. So they just go around and enter fights with goblins while you can either help or just watch them do it. They can die however.
I am a drow character in case they attack you on sight or anything. But I succeeded a deception check which made them fight goblins, even tho I did have a Drow dialogue that mgiht have done the same thing, not sure.

[Wavelord]

I convinced the prisoners to eat goblins. then I pushed most of the goblins and one of the leaders into the prison down below.. easy fight with the survivors.

[tensai.industries]

Originally posted by ArtemisOrNova.ttv:

Easy enough to get the priestess but the other 2 pretty much aggro the entire camp no matter what I do. It's too easy for them to summon reinforcements or actually completely bugged (the war drums).

You can send the Drow to the Druid Encampment and kill her there. I did kill the other without any drums sounded (unlinked party m,embers and set them up in strategic places in the room) but I still aggroed the first goblin outside the room. Sometimes silence can help

[Pyracles]

I've been collecting all the oil and explosive barrels I can find and storing them in my camp. Planning to bring them out while the goblins are non-hostile and lay them in a string through their camp. Only undecided issue is whether I'm going to do it to the leaders or the goblins outside.

[Swimfan]

Originally posted by ArtemisOrNova.ttv:

Easy enough to get the priestess but the other 2 pretty much agro the entire camp no matter what I do. It's too easy for them to summon reinforcements or actually completely bugged (the war drums).

Huh? Bugged? Have you seen the HP on those drums? Always destroy enemy tools like that first.

[Cenwalh]

Originally posted by tensai.industries:

You can send the Drow to the Druid Encampment and kill her there. I did kill the other without any drums sounded (unlinked party m,embers and set them up in strategic places in the room) but I still aggroed the first goblin outside the room. Sometimes silence can help

About this particular choice, I found it very awkwardly implemented. After Halsin mentioned that if we kill the 3 leaders, the Goblins would scatter, the game somehow let me know that it would be possible to lure Minthara out to the druid camp and kill her there. I was like, yeah nice, a bit of cloak-and-dagger deception.

However, once I told Minthara where the camp is, my entire party received a massive disapproval - as if I had consciously chosen to betray the druids and kill them and go the "evil" route...
Not only that, but the quest for "dealing with the goblins" changed to "no need to kill the leaders anymore, the goblins are going to attack the druid circle"

What did I miss here? Was it possible to remain loyal to druid circle/Halsin AND lure Minthara out of the temple and kill her?

[R3sistance]

If you sneak attack kill, only a few people usually go investigate, you can also do similar things with minor illusion, easier to kill smaller groups. I used this to lure out the bugbear and pushed him down into the pit with the spiders, he killed the spiders but wasn't able to stand up to being bombarded above with projectiles and spells.

Lured him out by having Asterion range sneak attack somebody through the wall.