jumping into underdark from whispering depths with feather fall kills the rest of my party

[HalloweenWeed (US)]

Title. I use feather fall, all party members present, all affected by feather fall, but at the bottom only my jumping toon lives, the rest are dead and must be resurrected. My main toon was Gale, and he's not the one that jumped, and had to go through the special resurrect sequence to resurrect Gale. Tried this again from save, same result. Is there a way to get them all to the bottom alive?

I've watched a video, from early access, where they all lived, no resurrections. I cannot find many post-launch videos about this jump, nothing that helps.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Weird. Maybe a bug. I have jumped down there several times and they always all survived but since I´m there right now on my new monk toon I´ll test it as again. I´ll report back in a few minutes.

[Poptart]

I can't say if it's a bug depending on where they fell from. If any of them were affected by the webbing, or took too long to jump after the main character jumped - Feather Fall might've worn off. The safest approach is to destroy the webbing at the bottom so no one gets stuck, cast feather fall, and enter turn based mode for the jump.

[Chaosolous]

Yeah. If you have them following you mindlessly (grouped) then they will in fact jump to their deaths.

It’s not a bug, they’re just kind of dumb.

It makes no sense to let them float down if they don’t have feather fall on.

Cast it on everyone, but a much easier method is to group your party up and throw a potion of feather fall on the ground at the feet of your group so the splash zone from the potion affects everyone.

That trick works with healing potions and other potions as well.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Ok so I jumped down with feather fall (scroll)on my whole group and they all survived and they were also all on follow.

[General Malaise]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Yeah. If you have them following you mindlessly (grouped) then they will in fact jump to their deaths.

It’s not a bug, they’re just kind of dumb.

It makes no sense to let them float down if they don’t have feather fall on.

Cast it on everyone, but a much easier method is to group your party up and throw a potion of feather fall on the ground at the feet of your group so the splash zone from the potion affects everyone.

That trick works with healing potions and other potions as well.

Can you Haste them all with one Potion?

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by General Malaise:

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

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Can you Haste them all with one Potion?

Yes you can haste your whole group with one haste potion this way.

@ OP

Do you use mods?

[RhiTheWitch]

I just did feather fall as a cantrip on the whole party over the weekend without an issue. Maybe a bug or proximity issue? Mine just got K/O'd by the Minotaurs once they survived making it down from there lol

[LordNibbler]

The easy question: Are you sure that all of your party members have the buff?

[HalloweenWeed (US)]

Originally posted by LordNibbler:

The easy question: Are you sure that all of your party members have the buff?

Originally posted by LordNibbler:

The easy question: Are you sure that all of your party members have the buff?

Yes, seen the tooltips come up next to each.

Originally posted by Poptart:

I can't say if it's a bug depending on where they fell from. If any of them were affected by the webbing, or took too long to jump after the main character jumped - Feather Fall might've worn off. The safest approach is to destroy the webbing at the bottom so no one gets stuck, cast feather fall, and enter turn based mode for the jump.

I walked around to the spot where the web wasn't. Didn't have any status effects on my toons before I used the feather fall potion, and didn't move other than one toon jumping in.

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Yeah. If you have them following you mindlessly (grouped) then they will in fact jump to their deaths.

It’s not a bug, they’re just kind of dumb.

It makes no sense to let them float down if they don’t have feather fall on.

Cast it on everyone, but a much easier method is to group your party up and throw a potion of feather fall on the ground at the feet of your group so the splash zone from the potion affects everyone.

That trick works with healing potions and other potions as well.

I will try that, but I don't think it mattered as all my toons said they had the effect. However, I did not look at character cards on left to look for status effects, just seen the tooltips come up and went for it. I will watch for status effects on cards next time.

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Originally posted by General Malaise:

Can you Haste them all with one Potion?

Yes you can haste your whole group with one haste potion this way.

@ OP

Do you use mods?

No mods.

I was grouped 100% of the time. Only see one toon jump in, then after the cinematic see other toons dead on the ground. Taking damage - I think it was the area of Gale's body causing the (magical?) damage. Had to rush to get Gale's pouch quickly, then run outside the AOE. Went the wrong way a couple of times, killed by probably what was mentioned earlier, so I had to reload and try again.

I think maybe it might be grouping? I will try ungrouping, throw the potion in the middle of us, then jump to "oblivion." If that don't work, will try fire cantrip on the nearby web first.

[HalloweenWeed (US)]

Originally posted by LordNibbler:

The easy question: Are you sure that all of your party members have the buff?

Well if 1 or 2 didn't, wouldn't the other 1 or 2 be alive? That's not what happened. But like I just said, I will examine more closely next time, at work right now.

[saerwenne]

You probably used potion of feather fall, which works only for the person who used it. Meanwhile the scroll (or spell) of feather fall are aoe.

[General Malaise]

Much better to do everything else before going down there.

The Spectators, Minotaurs and Bulette are fairly doable by then. Lvl 5 I think.

[PsychoPsyops]

Might be a bug, but I find that if the party member acts with autonomy, it has different rules.

For example, try going out of group mode, and having each member go down one my one by controlling each one separately.

I’m in the habit of doing this tedious chore anyway, since the ai is so bad that partied members with autonomy aren’t smart enough to avoid fire, vines or traps on the ground, despite the leader actively avoiding them. And sometimes the leader you are controlling yourself will walk right into hazards they have spotted!

The ai and pathfinding are the biggest problems with the game.

[Metallicus]

Maybe you used a potion and not the spell? The potion only affects you.

[HalloweenWeed (US)]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Yeah. If you have them following you mindlessly (grouped) then they will in fact jump to their deaths.

It’s not a bug, they’re just kind of dumb.

It makes no sense to let them float down if they don’t have feather fall on.

Cast it on everyone, but a much easier method is to group your party up and throw a potion of feather fall on the ground at the feet of your group so the splash zone from the potion affects everyone.

That trick works with healing potions and other potions as well.

Originally posted by saerwenne:

You probably used potion of feather fall, which works only for the person who used it. Meanwhile the scroll (or spell) of feather fall are aoe.

Originally posted by Metallicus:

Maybe you used a potion and not the spell? The potion only affects you.

Yes, that was it. I had read somewhere that feather fall worked on all members of the party, but it must've been the scroll only. TY all! :)