Found the first thing that annoys me (spoilers)

[Pope Innocent the 69th]

"The statue starts to rotate, but the rusty mechanism is stuck."

Yes, I get it, I'm supposed to grease the bloody thing, but this is a lvl 5-6 fight/area, why the hell would I be carrying grease in my bloody inventory at this stage in the game? That thing is a lvl 1-2 item, by this point it's nothing more then excess weight and clutter.

I tried throwing other lubricants at it, including all sorts of oils. I searched the entire area and no grease at all whatsoever and the area is dangerous so I can't even teleport out to get some.

They really should have put a random bottle of grease somewhere in the room or allow the statue to accept other lubricants "than this specific one". There's a bottle of Arsonists' oil right beside it, that should be acceptable to use.

It's not a big deal, but very frustrating. I had to reload until someone rolled a nat 20, I am not going to leave this area, go shopping buy a bottle of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ grease just so I can do the 1 thing the devs consider to be a viable answer to this.

And to be clear, I fcking love this game, it's brilliant and they thought of so much while designing it, so why this petty thing now? What should have led me to have it with me by this point? Oh yes, I gotta carry some grease with me, because maybe at some point I'll have to grease something? Come on...

[Banelord]

a valid criticism. i ended up savescumming till my athletics check passed

[Kernest]

I think if we're talking about the same statue, there is a bottle of grease somewhere around there, just not very close to the statue, and the "Grease" spell or scroll should also work, if Gale has learned it for example.

Though I didn't try those options, I just found the bottle of grease.

[Non-binary Tiddies]

I didn't even consider grease for this puzzle. Lae'Zel usually has enough strength/athletics by that point to pass the check on the first try for me.

[Gaunter O´Damn]

Just punch it my guy, you don`t need grease. You just need a char with high enough strength...

[Yasahi]

You don't need grease. Hitting it also works, just be mindful of the damage as to not break it.

[Fluff]

Hit it.

Hitting things in this game fixes a lot of things. Locked chests. Closed doors. Stucked statues. Barbarians are the best rogues for a reason.

[Banelord]

Originally posted by StepBroccoli:

Hit it.

Hitting things in this game fixes a lot of things. Locked chests. Closed doors. Stucked statues. Barbarians are the best rogues for a reason.

Conan style! A thief with big muscles

[Scheneighnay]

I'm more annoyed by some puzzles in the endgame.

If I'm not missing a better way, remove curse and hold monster are required for a certain pair of puzzles.
It was just sheet luck that I happened to have those on my warlock.

[KittHaven]

I didn't even realise you were supposed to Grease it lol. I just kept interacting until an athletics check passed oops

[Pope Innocent the 69th]

Originally posted by Non-binary Tiddies:

I didn't even consider grease for this puzzle. Lae'Zel usually has enough strength/athletics by that point to pass the check on the first try for me.

took me like 10 tries. I also had Karlach and she kept failing too

[Pope Innocent the 69th]

By the way, I found a cup of oil near the shopkeeper of that area, so I suppose they did think about placing something close-ish, I just wish they also realised that other oils would also work in this situation.

[Fluff]

Originally posted by Scheneighnay:

I'm more annoyed by some puzzles in the endgame.
If I'm not missing a better way, remove curse and hold monster are required for a certain pair of puzzles.
It was just sheet luck that I happened to have those on my warlock.

You don't need to complete them if you don't want. You can just kill guardians, if we talking about 4 puzzles before Ansur

[PrawnWonton]

Just hit it. Even if you break the statues, you can still rotate it.

[Valygar]

There is a grease bottle in that same chamber..

[Woldy]

Reading these comments made me giggle.

Here is the best solution. Channel your inner barbarian. AND HIT IT!!!