The Iron Throne is Hell

[(H.G.D) F xxy[N]Gradius]

Please someone save me from this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ level design. Six rounds to explore an entire dungeon while infinite Sahuagins jack infinite nets out of their infinite peckers all over your face. A mod, a cheat, anything to make this feel less like a prostate root canal.

And if your response is "Lol it's easy", save us both some time and bite your fingers off. I'm not interested.

[The Silver Otter]

Save before you start. You don't need to explore the entire area. I've never gotten through it and gotten all the prisoners out. I know it's frustrating but it is doable. I recommend you take someone that can cast sanctuary to protect one of the prisoners in particular.

[Kafik]

So there are spells that help free you. There's boots from act 2 that can prevent you from being stuck. I think the saughin are only like level 8 so try to get on them fast, if you're using someone like Karlach or Lae'zel jump can put you right on top of the mobs so you can kill them in one or two turns. Pretty sure Misty Step gets you out of the nets too.

Also if you're frustrated just turn difficulty down to story for this one part. Unless you';re already playing that difficulty.

[Moffin Bovin]

buy scrolls of misty step and dimension door. Have everyone drink a speed potion when there's 3 rounds left.

[ThreeLeggedCow]

I got the sh*ts and used cheat engine. I have no regrets. F*ck everything about that area.

[Syyinnia]

I found this strategy helped me out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkgXJQsTzMQ

[Izlude]

Originally posted by ThreeLeggedCow:

I got the sh*ts and used cheat engine. I have no regrets. F*ck everything about that area.

I appreciate your honesty.

[Jamrey]

there's no shame in lowering the difficulty, you get an extra 2 turns

[brendan_in_china]

First 2 times I shat the bed doing it. It was the worst, plus bugged out forcing reload.

Then I optimized for mobility and it was possibly the most satisfying encounter in the game.

Have:
- Longstrider pre-cast on arty, remember it's a ritual
- Dimension door, multiple
- Arcane Gate, so satisfying stepping from one side of the map to the other,
- Misty step, lots of
- Equipment that boost speed, almost everyone
- Haste, on key people, but don't lose concentration!
- Duke Ravengard open doors too, he's also got actions
- Omeleum cast 'Teleport to submarine' at least once, he can run down and do it again to save any one person within range on last turn. Bonus points if you loot his cell and/or he casts Teleport 3x.
- Sanctuary, put it on vulnerable prisoners and break it to cast again once they're in safer area
- Lightning and cold spells to quickly kill wet sahuagin which you must.
- Summoned creatures to interdict sahuagin.

Didn't do this, but try:
- Fog cloud/Darkness to break LoS so sahuagin can't shoot prisoners at range.
- Throwing Speed potions at distant prisoners, so they can make it. Bonus points for well placed Haste spores that prisoners naturally will run through.

[Empukris]

This is the only area that I really spam haste. Haste is broken in this game and i try to avoid of abusing it but this map? I think it is design with haste, misty step. The sahuagin mostly spawn in 1 room if im not wrong so send your tank there. Worse come to worst you can just suicide there and buy some time. You can res your dead char in wither as long 1 survive.

So the general strategy is to send each of your party member to 4 direction. Some jail cell will took longer time as they have more defender. But speed potion or haste kind of a must have in this map.

[101Asa]

Play on easy gives you 8 or 10 rounds.

[wendigo211]

There's a lever to close the door to the waterlogged section where the Sahuagin spawn. Get the people out of that section fast, a Hasted longstrider thief is good for that section (four dashes a turn), and seal it once they're clear. That way you don't have worry about Sahaugin that spawn, they'll all be trapped in that section.

My first try on Tactician I rescued all but one prisoner, my second try I got them all.

[Marigold]

I managed to get everyone out except one person my first try. Idk how I did it but I think it's fine. Just spam dash and unlock everyone in like the first two rounds pretty easy from there. Fish guys don't deal much damage and you can kinda ignore them if you have to. If you wait and are slow to unlock everyone more fish people spawn and will make it impossible. Also split your party 1-1-2. Your highest movement characters should just run past the fish people and go sttraight for the levers.

[Totino]

Lol it's easy

[SoloQ]

Longstrider is actually really useful. I try to have it on one character in my party along with the improved leap ability. When you combo them it's an absurd amount of mobility. And you can prebuff Longstrider and it lasts all day.

Or by that point make everyone upgrade their illithid powers to get Flight and layer Longstrider on it. It's one of the few fun events in the game because of it's time limit. You can't lollygag around like you can everywhere else. They really did a good job on that one with capturing the sense of tension trying to escape.

[wendigo211]

Longstrider is something I have on all my active party members all the time. It lasts until you long rest and it's a ritual spell, why wouldn't you spam it on everyone?