Visit the Gith Creche, Via the Mountain Pass??

[SteveTheMad]

Evening,

My plan was to go to Moonrise via the Under Dark ( not via the pass ). but wanted to take Laz to her Creche first, but the Entrance to that area is called the Mountain pass.. when you enter, there is another quest marker mentioning the Mountain pass.. the journal is amended to say you enter the cursed lands ( even though your not in them yet ) via the Mountain pass.. does this mean I can no longer go to Moomrise via the under dark?

Visit to the Creche, is the last thing I have left to do.. odd a Chapter 1 objective is in what looks like a Chapter 2 area?

Steve.

[schakal3000]

No need to worry. I first went to the mountain pass until the creche and then entered the shadow cursed lands via the underdark, no problem at all.

[SteveTheMad]

Thanks @Schakai3000, @Geist That`s all done and dusted, Underdark and Grymforge are explored.. like I said. only thing left to do was go to the Creche ( wanted to finish before moving on to Moonrise ) :) XP , Exploration and Story :D

[Larry]

Apparently you're still in chapter 1. Chapter 2 is the next area after the Underdark and Mountain Pass. You can still go back to zones in chapter 1 and do side quests after having gone to the underdark and mountain pass even though the game warns you twice before progressing(Once in the underdark just before the elevator and once before going to the mountain pass and again to the next area). Apparently the only reason for this is because you need to have completed the goblin quest or else it will automatically complete to it's default: Destroy the druid enclave and kill the thieflings.

What I did was 100% the Underdark right up until using the elevator then I moved to the Mountain pass, did the Creche for Lae'Zel and then moved on to Elminster. Gale only requested two items in my playthrough and after that the game said giving him items to consume wasn't working anymore and he never asked for 30+ hours for another item or got any negative traits for waiting around after that.

If you want to go back to the earlier areas and clear both parts for your companion quests there's one part in Act 2 that will be the true no point of return. It's the Shar Temple.

I think the safest option is to do all the content in both the Underdark and Mountain Pass up until you reach both points of no return(Elevator in the Underdark / Shadowcursed Lands just after Mount Pass) and then when you've done all quests move onto the next area from either the Underdark elevator or Mountain Pass but don't progress Act 2 by completing the Shar Temple

[Morgian]

Mountain pass and Underdark are both act 1. There are quests that start in act 1 and resolve only in act 3, too.
There are a couple of quests between entering act 2 and finishing Moonrise tower.

You could never enter Moonrise via the Underdark, that is misinformation. The Underdark exit into the shadowlands is near the other one, but the Underdark has more area than the creche. And both are on the other side of the shadowlands map as Moonrise.