"Soft step trial"? Nothing happens, nothing to do?

[HawlEffect]

I was walking around in the Temple of Shar and went in a room that said "Soft Step Trial".
Ok, so I had Astarion go around by himself and disarm all the traps, flip levers and push buttons,... and at the end there seems to be some kind of altar (with something on it that you can't take), but apart from a few plaques to read, there's nothing to do and nothing to get.

What's supposed to be happening here?

[45ay3asdasd]

There's an orb that you take, it's part of shadowhearts quest

[Xmerwynd]

U must collect the items on the altars and place four of them on a platter in a room east of the fast travel point in the crypt to progress to the next area and advance the story line.

[45ay3asdasd]

Originally posted by Xmerwynd:

U must collect the items on the altars and place four of them on a platter in a room east of the fast travel point in the crypt to progress to the next area and advance the story line.

you can advance the storyline without doing the Shar temple at all

[Izuzul]

Did you cut yourself and offer blood at the alter?

[HawlEffect]

> There's an orb that you take, it's part of shadowhearts quest

As I said, there's nothing for me to take. Whatever's on the altar, it doesn't register as an object that I can take.

[HawlEffect]

Originally posted by Reconciler:

Did you cut yourself and offer blood at the alter?

Unlike the other trials, the altar for this particular trial is all broken in pieces, so there's no place to offer blood

[Xmerwynd]

Originally posted by fauxes:

Originally posted by Xmerwynd:

U must collect the items on the altars and place four of them on a platter in a room east of the fast travel point in the crypt to progress to the next area and advance the story line.

you can advance the storyline without doing the Shar temple at all

UR absoluely correct as to the Main Quest line, I should have elaborated one that I was referring to a Shadow heart line and the Kill Ketheric quest line.

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

All Shar's Trials are easier to be done solo - well, except the self-reflection one.

Faith-Leap Trial is easy as hell, one cheat would be max your brightness and you can clearly see the dark cloud shrouded, puzzle like paths, just make a few jumps and you can easily reach the end altar and grab the Umbrel Gemstone and use the teleportation device to get out.

Self-Same Trial is relatively easy as long you have a formidable team. Sneak your way to the backside of each reflection and start there for the surprised turns on them reflections. Do this trial last if you can because if you gang bang a reflected image that's not your corresponding party member (i.e. Karlach fights Shadowheart's Reflection), you will get cursed that can only be removed if you go to long rest. Umbrel Gemstone drops from last killed reflection.

Soft-Step Trial, the easiest way to do it is sneak as far as the left side (facing final room where Umbrel Gemstone is) and trigger the oil seeping traps or what not (or if you're fast enough to beat the shadow that goes from right to left in first half of the puzzle then you can disregard this step), get yourself teleport out, and go again same path, left and all the way to the end of the dead end you will see a window it's actually big enough for medium size character to jump through which makes you able skip the key-finding and the other 2 shadows on the right side of the second half of the puzzle.

[HawlEffect]

> shadow that goes from right to left in first half of the puzzle then you can disregard this step), get yourself teleport out, and go again same path, left and all the way to the end of the dead end you will see a window it's actually big enough for medium size character to jump through which makes you able skip the key-finding and the other 2 shadows

There are no "shadows". I don't know what are you talking about? The whole place is empty apart from traps and boxes.

[HawlEffect]

Ahhhh..... Ok, I had walked right past the statue built into the wall at which you can offer blood. The broken stuff earlier didn't matter. The way I'd gotten in was just by lockpicking the gates

Now that I've offered the blood, there are shadows...

Ok thanks everybody.

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

Originally posted by HawlEffect:

Ahhhh..... Ok, I had walked right past the statue built into the wall at which you can offer blood. The broken stuff earlier didn't matter.
Now that I've offered the blood, there are shadows.

Ok thanks everybody.

lol good luck

[HawlEffect]

Lol yea ok, with my druid in pather "prowl" mode that trial was trivial.

[XERIDIAN]

Originally posted by Reconciler:

Did you cut yourself and offer blood at the alter?

Apparently he didn't get the part of the plaque that said Take what Benefits you, then steal the ritual dagger from the Sharr Temple and come back to make a blood offering. Some people are only deep enough to play angry birds, you can't hold it against them. lmao