What level do you suggest fighting the Githyanki Patrol at bridge, Act-1

[wilsonjeff389]

I was at Level 5 and got my butt handed to me.
Any hints,or experiences

[Illuminary]

Origineel geplaatst door Furluge:

Fight them? Why are you fighting them?

Because some of us chose a different response that Voss was able to figure out. I let LZ do the talking but mouthed to her to play along. Apparently she's a bad liar.

[Daniel]

Origineel geplaatst door Anna:

Level 5.. i use a cheap trick but Im not ashamed of it.. Laezel goes down to talk to them, I separate Gale from the group, leave him standing up there, with a clear view of the enemies. Me and Shadowheart walk down to join Laezel in her conversation with the gith. When the fight starts, Gale who is not engaged in combat casts a fireball on all enemies. My remaining team finishes the rest. Done and done! I know it is not fair but their attack also isnt..

I wouldn’t feel bad about it. Most of the fights are hand placed to perfect detail by Larian to instantly put you into a disadvantage. First fight at Moonrise Tower comes to mind, where you spend 3 turns to crawl out of the pre-scripted Hunger of Hadar & Black Hole combo after having your first spell denied by CS to maybe get a chance to actually participate in the fight yourself. Just ended up placing a Cloud of Dagger and firing a Cloudkill into them before they had a chance to do their ‘you? No, no, die.’ “dialogue”.

Did the same in BG1 & 2 without feeling bad about it one second. I just don’t have 3 hours per fight to wait till enemies miss some crucial abilities.

[Narky]

5. This fight is tough regardless. But you can pass the conversation without having a fight at all.

[Cthulhu]

one of the best fight in the game, i had to try 2-3 times, and i won with all my party dead and one last with like 3 hp lol, im sure this can be done better; why kill em? because there is nothing in the lore for me to make me to have any sort of mercy with ghitianky, you will understand later, and Laezel will understand too, and even Voss!

Origineel geplaatst door Anna:

Level 5.. i use a cheap trick but Im not ashamed of it.. Laezel goes down to talk to them, I separate Gale from the group, leave him standing up there, with a clear view of the enemies. Me and Shadowheart walk down to join Laezel in her conversation with the gith. When the fight starts, Gale who is not engaged in combat casts a fireball on all enemies. My remaining team finishes the rest. Done and done! I know it is not fair but their attack also isnt..

i did something similar, but with no member back out of combat, and this is nothin unfair, what u are talking about? those ghit are damned raiders that are hunting the artifact, no matter what they are saying, all lies you will see

[Anna]

Origineel geplaatst door Cthulhu:

i did something similar, but with no member back out of combat, and this is nothin unfair, what u are talking about?

Oh I had this fight many times in Early Access.. By unfair I just mean, for the purpose of my roleplaying, leaving one member purposely out of combat doesnt sound right. However, when I ran there Leeroy Jenkins style, the gith always targeted Gale and almost always killed him. And because I dont want to waste resources, like Elixir of Vigilance to increase his initiative I decided to be done with the fight as quickly as possible. Noone is killing Gale, not under my watch. Thats all.

[in]

Origineel geplaatst door DragonMaster:

Origineel geplaatst door Furluge:

Fight them? Why are you fighting them?

Why Kill them?! Because whole place goes aggro once you have the encounter with the their so called goddess that wants you to kill the one that is helping you that in the artifact. Or at least in my first play through they all went aggro. That was one of the hardest encounters for which I played through at level 5. You need to take it one group at a time and there is really only one place you can sleep at IIRC. But it is doable trust me.

Just remember that your AOE spells like "spike growth" for example will be a big help to you.

Fyi those are different gith in these 2 encounters. One group is some warriors led by Voss. Another is inquisitor Wwargz and co.

[PlasteredDragon]

Origineel geplaatst door Furluge:

Fight them? Why are you fighting them?

Because they are evil and killing humans?

[Vnz]

I used Hold Person, Command Drop Weapon at lvl 5.

[Kaisha]

I summoned a bunch of ghouls. They have dead corpses conveniently lying around and that easily overwhelmed them.

[old.school]

Origineel geplaatst door Anna:

By unfair I just mean, for the purpose of my roleplaying, leaving one member purposely out of combat doesnt sound right

Dont think of it as intentionally leaving someone out of combat. Think of it as telling someone to stay and watch your back while you negotiate. How many movies or tv shows have you watched where the hero goes to talk with a group of people who may or may not be trustworthy but the hero has a backup like some of his friends watching his back from hiding or from high ground?

[Anna]

Origineel geplaatst door old.school:

Origineel geplaatst door Anna:

By unfair I just mean, for the purpose of my roleplaying, leaving one member purposely out of combat doesnt sound right

Dont think of it as intentionally leaving someone out of combat. Think of it as telling someone to stay and watch your back while you negotiate. How many movies or tv shows have you watched where the hero goes to talk with a group of people who may or may not be trustworthy but the hero has a backup like some of his friends watching his back from hiding or from high ground?

well, yes.. I kind of justified it to myself that Im protecting my crucial team member and based on our previous encounters with almost anyone in this map, there will be mayhem :)

[hungerStrike]

I used to stand on the roof of one of buildings in Wakeen's Rest and pluck them one by one at level 4. Tedious. Now I talk my way through, generally. But Hold Person helps.

[zombygunner]

tons of ways to do this with or without cheese tactics i thought we were not supposed to engage them hence the dragon ( if this is the right scene ) i never was high enough level at that point to do anything by the time i came across it and when i did i knew i couldnt kill them all. I assumed it was a written out scene that wasnt supposed to win anyway so i never tried

[DragonMaster]

Like others say let Lae'zel do the talking and then go on your merry way and they'll go on theirs. The real fun happens in the Creche. Which is where I'm currently at is in the creche working on the removing the parasite quest.

[Xanikk]

Origineel geplaatst door wilsonjeff389:

I was at Level 5 and got my butt handed to me.
Any hints,or experiences

It's a tough fight even at level 5. You really have to bring all the advantages you possibly can and it doesn't hurt to save scum.

I recommend setting down some powder barrels and then igniting them. Since it won't let you do it beforehand for this fight you will have to do it during the combat. It's ok if a party member or two dies if you respec Shadowheart to life spec cleric she can get them back up quick. Two of my party members died but we still managed to defeat this encounter. It's tough but doable!