Stuck in Grym Fight - Wheel Won't Work

[The Hallowed Witch]

Hi! I'm currently super infuriated because every guide says that I have to interact with the wheel to get the lava flowing again, but it is not an interactive item in my fight. I've tried resetting the forge entirely by pressing the button to go up, flipping the lever to slam the anvil, and releasing the mould (which causes a "freeze" status). I am at a complete loss as to what to do here. I've gotten him down to 24 health and killed the fire imps that spawn in.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[shokitoo1]

managed to solve?

[shokitoo1]

Forging follows a very precise sequence, failing to do each step can result in different mechanisms becoming stuck and unusable.

insert mold and ore

Activate the lever, the platform lowers

Activate the lava valve, lava fills the platform => this is when you fight the boss for the first time

Activate the lever again, the mold opens with the item inside.

[egg-]

exact same issue. can not finish the fight as I can not bring him down within first 2 rounds. Not possible for me to interract with lava wheel midfight either..

[Spiegel]

Guess i was lucky i pressed things in the right order. I usually muck up these things. Hope it gets patched soon.. Btw, this was the first fight i had to look up online how to beat. Its so finicky with the lava, cant believe how many times i accidentally stepped in the lava when attacking with my melee characters. Reloaded so many times.. Glad that is over and done. Hope you find a solution.

[The Hallowed Witch]

Originally posted by shokitoo1:

Forging follows a very precise sequence, failing to do each step can result in different mechanisms becoming stuck and unusable.

insert mold and ore

Activate the lever, the platform lowers

Activate the lava valve, lava fills the platform => this is when you fight the boss for the first time

Activate the lever again, the mold opens with the item inside.

Yeah, I did the forge part properly. It's the fight that is my problem, as per my post. I can't activate the lava wheel during the fight with Grym, which is the problem, as he needs the Superheated status effect to take damage. The lava disappears and I'm left being unable to do anything but keep him Prone.

Thank you for replying though! i'm hoping reloading the game again will maybe fix it, haha. But so far, no fix.

[caliborn]

Originally posted by The Hallowed Witch:

Hi! I'm currently super infuriated because every guide says that I have to interact with the wheel to get the lava flowing again, but it is not an interactive item in my fight. I've tried resetting the forge entirely by pressing the button to go up, flipping the lever to slam the anvil, and releasing the mould (which causes a "freeze" status). I am at a complete loss as to what to do here. I've gotten him down to 24 health and killed the fire imps that spawn in.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

having the exact same issue as well, no matter how many times I load a new save after doing the initial sequence in the correct order, the lava wheel becomes completely unusable after like 2 rounds. really hoping someone can find a fix or they patch it soon!

[The Hallowed Witch]

having the exact same issue as well, no matter how many times I load a new save after doing the initial sequence in the correct order, the lava wheel becomes completely unusable after like 2 rounds. really hoping someone can find a fix or they patch it soon!

hey! i actually opened my game after letting it sit overnight and reloading the save after so much time actually made the wheel interactive, but i reloaded to before i started the cutscene. i hope this can help, i do not understand what was fixed to make it happen but i was finally able to progress eventually haha

[an0dize]

The fix for me was to not walk onto the mould platform during combat. If I walked from the middle to the mould platform, he would target me, get close, and the lava would disappear. The lava would stick around if I never stood on that.

[Inward Seaward]

This fight really highlights how annoying and limited the combat is. I don’t have enough movement, spells or actions to do all of this BS. This game needs to let you tweak the combat to your liking the limit on spells and movement isn’t fun at all

[Pieshaman]

Luckily for me the wheel worked, cause I already was thinking of hammering him, but I was unable to get him on the right spot.
once he was like half in it and I did the hammer but it was miss.
so I nearly panicked but I managed to do it anyway and survived barely standing
only my cat died instant from the first lava when cutscene began

[SinAscendant]

Originally posted by AwkwardLoser:

This fight really highlights how annoying and limited the combat is. I don’t have enough movement, spells or actions to do all of this BS. This game needs to let you tweak the combat to your liking the limit on spells and movement isn’t fun at all

You... don't need movement, spells, or actions? You literally just sit one party member next to the lever, one next to the wheel, and the other two somewhere that they can hit the boss to move it.

If you have Minor Illusion you can drop that right on the hammer as well and trivialize the fight. All you gotta do is hammer him 3 times max.

[Myrden]

I had this issue too. Apparently the reason was due to a quick save during the video of the boss emerging. Reloading to a previous save fixed it for me.

[Atlamillia]

I had the same issue. But after restarting the fight, I realized that I kept breaking the wheel after hitting it with Thunderwave. When the wheel gets hit, it starts to spin the opposite direction and become unusable. Be careful with your spells! And good luck!

[Mr Diegos]

the same problem now. even if i reload and wheel starts to be usable, no lava flow on using it

[Velvet Storm]

Originally posted by MrDiegoSPB:

the same problem now. even if i reload and wheel starts to be usable, no lava flow on using it

I redid that fight a few times. I think if the fight is too close to the valve, you can't use it? Seemed like that for me. What I did, I separated my team : someone tank-melee close to the valve, your squishiest near the lever and the range attackers at the far back to lure the fight closer to the middle of the area instead of staying in the entrance.
That way, the valve stay available at all time and doesn't receive hits/spell impacts.

Also, if the enemy is close enough to the middle of the arena, you can smash it by activating the lever of the forge :P