Smiling Maiden Protrait quest

[Tully]

Very strange how the item is cursed yet you can't use remove curse spell on it. The spell even says you can remove curses and hexs on creatures and objects. Key word being OBJECT and the painting is an OBJECT. *haha*

[Lod101]

you break the curse, but there is something in the painting that is causing it to be cursed again.
alleviate a symptom, but not its cause.

[butbka]

There are curses and there are curses ;)
I think in-game description is simplifiied one.
Quick google search gave me this:
"Remove curse was effective on most curses, but strong curses, like those on weapons and armor, were usually not permanently removed, just lifted long enough for the person afflicted with a cursed item to get rid of it."

[Tully]

Originally posted by Lod101:

you break the curse, but there is something in the painting that is causing it to be cursed again.
alleviate a symptom, but not its cause.

Errr I guess? But isn't any anime I've ever seen a priest or something usually strolls by and move the curse off an object?
Even way back when priests were around to remove curses off objects, they generally never "recurse" themselves.

Just seems like a rather pointless spell if it can't even do that it's intended to do. Literally the first instance I actually tried to use that spell since I started playing the game.

[Tully]

Originally posted by butbka:

There are curses and there are curses ;)
I think in-game description is simplifiied one.
Quick google search gave me this:
"Remove curse was effective on most curses, but strong curses, like those on weapons and armor, were usually not permanently removed, just lifted long enough for the person afflicted with a cursed item to get rid of it."

That could be it or just forces players to go and get the "torch" to solve the quest in a specific manner. Not a massive deal, just sorta surprised consider usually have 16 different ways to solve quests in this game.

[butbka]

Originally posted by Tully:

Just seems like a rather pointless spell if it can't even do that it's intended to do. Literally the first instance I actually tried to use that spell since I started playing the game.

There are tons of useless spells in DnD until DM decides that you need one of them for some quest :)

Originally posted by Tully:

That could be it or just forces players to go and get the "torch" to solve the quest in a specific manner. Not a massive deal, just sorta surprised consider usually have 16 different ways to solve quests in this game.

Yep. And it looks reasonable enough that powerful Undead can bestow curse usual 3rd level spell can't remove.

[Lod101]

Originally posted by Tully:

Errr I guess? But isn't any anime I've ever seen a priest or something usually strolls by and move the curse off an object?

wait BG3 is an anime?

Originally posted by Tully:

Even way back when priests were around to remove curses off objects, they generally never "recurse" themselves.

the spirit in the painting is the source, like you casting disspell curse, so can the spirit just cast curse.

Originally posted by Tully:

Just seems like a rather pointless spell if it can't even do that it's intended to do. Literally the first instance I actually tried to use that spell since I started playing the game.

fist instance for me was stealing from the church

[butbka]

Originally posted by Lod101:

fist instance for me was stealing from the church:RelicII:

Such a waste of experience that's not neccessary anymore due to level cup :)