Good Playthrough; Underdark or Mountain pass?

[Chaosolous]

Playing a good aligned character.

Is there any difference between going through the mountain pass or the underdark?

Is one recommended over the other for any reason, does it have any impact. Try to limit spoilers with vagueness.

[Glyph]

Do both.

[dustin1280]

Originally posted by Glyph:

Do both.

[Lamp]

Nah you're good. Whichever way- but underdark goes right to the shadowlands and mountain pass is a whole creche thing. In act 2 you can still go back to act 1 places as well. Cant go back from act 3 though.

[Gingermonkey]

Both, you dont have to choose

[Chaosolous]

Got it. I'll do both.

Any one over the other to do first?

EDIT: I'm level 5 btw.

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

Both for the XP and items. I think the underdark is somewhat easier overall, perhaps? On the other hand, the pass has the creche and the blood of ilmater. Both are interesting enough. Both. :)

[Foxrun]

You can do both

[His Divine Shadow]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Got it. I'll do both.

Any one over the other to do first?

EDIT: I'm level 5 btw.

Underdark first

[Jack the Roamer]

I say do underdark first, but it's more difficult, but simultaneously way easier because you can convince three bosses to just kill themselves for easy exp and levels. Also smokepowder arrows and Many Arrow become available... give Karlach a heavy cross bow and watch her murderize everything before she even rages lol

ALSO: you can buy some of the most potent poisons from an undead nurse at the house of healing. Venom poison that you can throw at the ground... dip all your party weapons and bows for massive 1d10 poison damage. If you have poisoner's gloves... you can stack like 4d10 poison damage. but even 2d10 form two attacks... (poison lasts until long rest)

[Empu]

Yeah, go to the Underdark first, higher level mobs at the créche, and some cool things happen :)

[Gingermonkey]

I would do Underdark first, and an area attached to that (no spoilers), then after doing that, go back for the mountain pass

[Cur]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Playing a good aligned character.

Is there any difference between going through the mountain pass or the underdark?

Is one recommended over the other for any reason, does it have any impact. Try to limit spoilers with vagueness.

If you do both you will get some weird dialogue options that don't make sense. There are things you can do in the underdark that will make for broken dialogue in the mountain pass and vice versa. It's not game breaking it's just weird to have party members talk about things like they haven't happened when you've already dealt with them.

If you do both you will be at a higher level or Act 2, but personally on my third play through I think it's just as fine to do one or the other. The story is "smoother" if you choose one and stick with it. Helps with replayability if you leave a section undone for the next go round!

[Ichthyic]

do the entire underdark including the forge, all the way up to the elevator that leads UP out of the forge area. do NOT take the elevator until you are ready to start act II. then, backtrack back to the surface, and start on the mountain pass until you reach the actual githyanki creche (they have taken over the lower floor of Lathander's Monastery - you can't miss it) do ALL of that, and then leave the creche and follow the path a little further while having Gale in your party. that will trigger a cutscene relating to Gale, and also mark the last of the things you can do in Act 1. entering the portal to the shadowlands is like taking the elevator in the underdark, and will end Act 1. at that point, if you have done everything in act 1, you should be just under level 7. both entrances to act 2 will see you enter the shadowlands, but from different directions. if you are playing a "good" character, then it would make more sense to take the entrance from the underdark elevator. if not (or you don't care), the mountain pass is quicker and you are already right there.

[Farsha]

Both.
Underdark and Grymforge have way more content.
In mountain pass there is just the temple with Creche basically.
But you want to do both for XP, items and lots of good stories and adventures.

[Estevan Valladares]

Being good, bad or "Shrodingger Douche", it does not really matter.
But the best way is to be "opportunist" and do both. Go get the lantern, get the blessing, then go back, and find the Harpers through the Underdark after. So when you get to Moonrise you have both sides open and it makes easier to traverse all the angles and you can quickly empty the tower before you forcefully need to face everyone.