♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Intellect Devourers

[pegritz]

How the ♥♥♥♥ are you supposed to defeat these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ things? They oneshot every character I have, and yet I HAVE to go through them.

Seriously, the combat in this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ garbage.

[DeadBeat61]

Try seducing them.

[Recjawjind]

Howwww about.. just killing them? Guiding bolt perhaps? Mabye... hitting them with a sword, pushing them and moving away?

[Yojo0o]

This is the fight where your party members explicitly warn you about the danger and recommend keeping your distance, and the enemy cannot do anything to you until it closes the distance, right?

Did you charge in anyway?

[MeatGolem]

Have you tried getting up to higher ground? Pushing them into the fire? Sneaking up and shooting a flaming arrow at the exploding pod further up the crashed ship?

[Recjawjind]

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

This is the fight where your party members explicitly warn you about the danger and recommend keeping your distance, and the enemy cannot do anything to you until it closes the distance, right?

Did you charge in anyway?

Its a pretty great tutorial on having to be a bit more careful, because low level characters are squishy.

[Jack the Roamer]

You should let your enemy come to you, they will try to expend their action, leaving them vulnerable. Intellect devourers will use dash to try to get to you, you should take advantage of that since they used their action point.

[Yojo0o]

Originally posted by Recjawjind:

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

This is the fight where your party members explicitly warn you about the danger and recommend keeping your distance, and the enemy cannot do anything to you until it closes the distance, right?

Did you charge in anyway?

Its a pretty great tutorial on having to be a bit more careful, because low level characters are squishy.

Indeed. BG3's early game does a good job of giving you helpful advice to succeed, while not holding your hand so tightly that failure would be impossible.

[ahmannw]

I saw Sven get his butt kicked by those Intellect Devourers so I've always kept my distance. Never had difficulty with them with shoot and run.

[Dragon Master]

I find the best strategy is to sneak up to an overhang using turnbased mode to keep out of sight of the intellect devourers, cast bless, then let loose with ranged attacks and spells.

The intellect devourers die before they can reach you.

[Lord Adorable]

"Be careful. One strike could be lethal."
The game says this when you encounter the Intellect Devourers at the crash site.

It's basically telling you to play smart. So when the game says "One strike could be lethal." how do you avoid being attacked? You keep your distance and take them out from beyond the reach of their claws or force them to use up their action and then you kill them before they can retaliate.

Also you don't actually have to go through them. There are other ways to proceed that are relatively less dangerous, though not by much.

[Swimfan]

Aaaaand here we go :-P
Nothing against OP but we'll have to brace ourselves for posts like this now that BG3 seems to gain in popularity.
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@OP: Do you mean the first fight on the beach? Read your skills and use what you have available. Everything on the ship is easy-peasy tutorial, you need to apply a little bit more tactical thinking after that.

[Swimfan]

Originally posted by ahmannw:

I saw Sven get his butt kicked by those Intellect Devourers so I've always kept my distance. Never had difficulty with them with shoot and run.

Yes but Swen
a) played an earlier version and
b) had like what? 4 critical misses?

Those two can be rough because the enemies in the tutorial area are deceptivly simple but intellect devourers are a perfect introduction because they can only harm you up close and they need one turn to get up your face.

[MeatGolem]

Well to be fair, I'm sure many people new to D&D will probably find that encounter hard, especially if they are playing a squishy. It's very easy for low level D&D characters to die. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets toned down a bit in live.

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by Swimfan:

Aaaaand here we go :-P
Nothing against OP but we'll have to brace ourselves for posts like this now that BG3 seems to gain in popularity.

We really do, because D&D can be quite unforgiving, especially if you're new to it. So that is no slight against anyone, but to call the combat garbage after it gives you fair warning is a little much.

So here's the general tip for Baldur's Gate 3 or just overall D&D: If you're warned, it's usually a good idea to heed said warning. If not, well, just like with dialogue choices, your actions will have consequences. Some of those consequences may be fatal.

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by mindflayerslayer:

Well to be fair, I'm sure many people new to D&D will probably find that encounter hard, especially if they are playing a squishy. It's very easy for low level D&D characters to die. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets toned down a bit in live.

Casters especially. That's probably one of the main reasons Gale is the companion who has died the most during the Early Access: A combination of newbieness, low levels being rough and him being a Wizard.