Cursed skulls in Lady Jannath's estate

[Frederik]

Whoever made those skulls deserve to be shot. You can't go up the stairs, you can't kill them. Who the ♥♥♥♥ thought they were a good idea?!

[Arcanium Sirkan]

I searched it up in the net and looks like it can be bypased with pure firepower, literally. I had gale cast fireball and it can destroy the cursed skulls.

[Ashfelt]

You can also fly to bypass the skulls with some careful manoeuvring.

[Batailleuse]

Originally posted by Frederik:

Whoever made those skulls deserve to be shot. You can't go up the stairs, you can't kill them. Who the ♥♥♥♥ thought they were a good idea?!

CURSED aka ... some people have a remove curse spell. which you can cast on those skulls and they do nothing after that.

just enter turn by turn mode, run to the skulll, remove curse, and its disabled.

DND was always easier for people able to use their brain

[Zef]

I never even tought of using remove curse on those skulls lmao.

I just cheezed my way through with misty step, dimensional door and moving to the top in turn based mode so the skulls need to wait a turn to attack you.

[Greebo]

Originally posted by Batailleuse:

Originally posted by Frederik:

Whoever made those skulls deserve to be shot. You can't go up the stairs, you can't kill them. Who the ♥♥♥♥ thought they were a good idea?!

CURSED aka ... some people have a remove curse spell. which you can cast on those skulls and they do nothing after that.

just enter turn by turn mode, run to the skulll, remove curse, and its disabled.

DND was always easier for people able to use their brain

There's a bit more to it than that since they can only be approached safely from behind, so you need to use another character to take the hit from most of the skulls in turn-based mode, then cast Remove Curse with another character during that turn.

[Frederik]

Originally posted by Ashfelt:

You can also fly to bypass the skulls with some careful manoeuvring.

Tried that and you still get pushed down. I managed to get to where I needed to be by flying in from the outside, but it's awful game design

[Zef]

Originally posted by Frederik:

Originally posted by Ashfelt:

You can also fly to bypass the skulls with some careful manoeuvring.

Tried that and you still get pushed down. I managed to get to where I needed to be by flying in from the outside, but it's awful game design

Not really, there is almost no filler content in BG3, as such battles and quests like these are handcrafted puzzles that require you to think.

[Frederik]

I disagree that it's a puzzle. It's more of an annoyance more than anything. But yeah it is so far the only segment that has been abhorrently bad

[Raythered]

Originally posted by Frederik:

I disagree that it's a puzzle. It's more of an annoyance more than anything. But yeah it is so far the only segment that has been abhorrently bad

I don't understand how you can disagree that a puzzle isn't or is a puzzle, just because it is punishing dosen't negate that there is a trick to how the skulls work and once you figure it out there are multiple ways to avoid or negate them. You might not enjoy it, but it is just as much a puzzle as the 4 trials beneth the prision or the rooms of the gauntlet.

You can examine the skulls, see what they are weak to, hit them with that, double damage from fire means a fireball with smash em easily. You can jump past them, fly past them, or misty step and teleport past them. There was an armour from ACT 2 that made you immune to knockback, make use of some remove curses etc. There are multitude of ways past them.

The invisable ghosts are another matter, found them more annoying than the skulls, but again, spells like fairy fire, throwing some bottles of water or see invisability helps, and even turn undead can do work.

People face roll through most quests and encounters complaining things are too easy, and when something like this or the time limit on the Iron Throne crop up you see the fourms filled with complaints about precived bugs and too much limitations.

The quest was a pain in the ass, but i still had fun working out the skulls, more fun than if i just when in on autopilot and smote them all with the paladin, wouldn't even have been a memory then.

[Space Hamster Family]

use Fireball

[Wiegs]

If you can fly up to the balcony from the outside there's really only 1 skull to pass

[m ;.]

There's so many ways to solve this, even on tactician.. Give it some thought

[SoloQ]

I just used the remove curse clerics get. They go pop. Do a long rest if you need the spell casts.
It is arguably a puzzle. A puzzle to test your knowledge of the game's mechanics.

[Foxrun]

Originally posted by Ashfelt:

You can also fly to bypass the skulls with some careful manoeuvring.

and jump. and dimension door, and mist step

[Smiley]

The mechanics of this area are broken. The people here going "just think about it" don't understand that the skulls act out of turn and will not just knock back your character, but will rip them sideways into the full tumble down all the stairs due to jank and bad design.

Add on top of that Larian's infuriatingly trashy camera decisions, the constant auto-focus and the inability to see up a floor so you can plan your moves accordingly and you have a recipe for an entirely un-fun experience made from mistakes and poor judgement.

0/10 area, needed bare minimum QA and was lazily kept in the game as is.