Am I missing something with the peculiar flowers?

[Senkoau]

So trying to deal with these noxious clouds of explosive gas and the peculiar flowers are confusing me. I examined them and they're immune to everything except piercing damage which they take half damage from but repeated shots with the crossbow does nothing. Is there something simple I'm missing or is this a bug?

[Quacksalber]

Can you be more specific? Do you mean the sussur blooms or something else?

[Orion Invictus]

There are other types of damage not shown there. It has neither resistance nor immunity nor weakness to those.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by EH!:

Can you be more specific? Do you mean the sussur blooms or something else?

The explosive flowers in Ethel's lair.

[Quacksalber]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by EH!:

Can you be more specific? Do you mean the sussur blooms or something else?

The explosive flowers in Ethel's lair.

Oh, lmao.

[Jeronimosss]

Those are considered traps, aren't they? If so, just disarm them.

[Senkoau]

I could disarm them but I want to mimize time in the poisonous fumes so I thought I could just shoot them as half damage from a crossbow should destroy them.

[victorvnv]

Originally posted by Senkoau:

I could disarm them but I want to mimize time in the poisonous fumes so I thought I could just shoot them as half damage from a crossbow should destroy them.

Easy way to do it: knock out the masked guys in the room before . The masked guys carry “heavy stones”. Throw the heavy stones into the vents and they shut the vents down

[Senkoau]

Thanks but I'm more trying to figure out the plants, I can try to rush past them but nothing I do seems to damage them even a magic missile blast when they're supposed to have force vulnerability does no damage so I'm trying to figure out what I'm missing in case its important later.

[Lod101]

don't they have some form of robustness?

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Senkoau:

Thanks but I'm more trying to figure out the plants, I can try to rush past them but nothing I do seems to damage them even a magic missile blast when they're supposed to have force vulnerability does no damage so I'm trying to figure out what I'm missing in case its important later.

They only take damage once they've been identified (perception check). Before that, it won't work.

[Supply Slut]

Originally posted by Senkoau:

I could disarm them but I want to mimize time in the poisonous fumes so I thought I could just shoot them as half damage from a crossbow should destroy them.

What I usually do is vast feather fall on the patty, immediately enter turn based mod, then just jump along through the traps. Usually gets me most of the way with minimal issues

[AzureTheGamerKobold]

There is a reason you cant deal damage to them, but the easiest way to deal with them is this.

Step 1: cast protection from evil on 1 party member
Step 2: put on one of the masks from the previous area, protection from evil protects you from the effects of the mask.
Step 3: you can now see through the illusions ie the traps and you can now walk a character forward disabling all the traps in an area. Insure your team sticks close to you as you walk.

This is the best way to deal with this area... the reason you cant attack those flowers is because they aren't real. they are illusions... its all in your head. The mask reveals this... and allows you to just walk through the area no issues.

Hope this helps.

[Senkoau]

Oh thank you that makes sense, I'm well past the area it was just nothing I did would damage them and that worried me. Now if I could just figure out where I put the items I was saving for Gale to eat went.

[Kafik]

Originally posted by Senkoau:

I could disarm them but I want to mimize time in the poisonous fumes so I thought I could just shoot them as half damage from a crossbow should destroy them.

Drink a poison resist elixir. I did that last playthough on one character and I don't recall them taking any damage.

[Senkoau]

Thanks but I'm was more concerned by why I couldn't damage the plants than how to not take damage. I was throwing shoes into a vent then reloading till Astarion got 30 to disarm it.