Skip fights ?

[Chejie]

Hi guys !
I really enjoy playing BG3 but i'm really bad at strategic fights :'(
I'm at the end with Shar but can't survive the fight with Shar's sect.

Is there any way to skip a fight to continue play the game ? :')

Thank you all :)

[Mike Garrison]

Assuming you are talking about the fight in Act 3, that particular fight is completely optional, so yeah, you could have skipped it entirely.

It's not necessary to finish the game, although it is important specifically to Shadowheart.

[Angel]

no you can't just press a magic button to skip a fight, you can turn the difficulty down though and there are many fights you just don't have to do

[Detective Costeau]

If you're really struggling with a specific fight and just want to blast through it, you can do a lot with the custom difficulty options to tilt the odds heavily in your favor, then turn them back to whatever you were using before after the fight is over. It's not quite a 'skip fight' button but it's close.

The other option is to pull up some gameplay footage of the fight online and watch how other people have beaten it, that should give you some ideas for ways to approach the fight that might work better than what you've tried.

Best of luck either way!

[jonnin]

I would try to get some help if you want to do the fight. This is one of the hardest in the game, my 2 cents. It has a lot of people in it and they all do massive damage when inside a darkness area, and they can all cast darkness seemingly at will. I mean the 2 cent version is to spread out, get out of the dark, focus fire vicky, the pick the others off with whatever you have.
If you want to do it, tell us things...
your party level (all characters 12 yet? if not, go away and return later?)
your party makeup (not who, but what classes they are and anything special eg asterion/rogue/archer focused or gale/barbarian/throwing expert)

act 3 is where summoned goons becomes very, very useful. I usually have an elemental companion on all 4 of my party members (usually fire, but it depends on who the target is which type) from scrolls (buy and find these) along with the occasional ghouls and mummies and such. Their job is just to annoy the bad guys and keep some of them busy; if they kill something, that works too, but mostly, they are meat shields. That alone makes a lot of fights half as hard. Another thing is that many (I forget about vicky, she dies PDQ when all 4 of you have a go ) of the act 3 bosses use their reaction in special ways, so shocking touch or other reaction stealing tricks are a big deal in some of the boss fights.

[Olga 1987]

I won there on Balanced. You shouldn't try to talk to Viconia: she appears before the fight starts, so it'll be useful. Don't start the fight close to the boss: I made my group stay on the top of the stairs so that they couldn't be attacked from left or right. I made my Cold Magic Adept Gale drink Alert elixir and cast Snowstorm ("Пурга" in Russian), a lvl 3 Spell which creates Difficult terrain and makes enemies fall on their butts lol (including Viconia: very funny); after that, I waited enemies to try to approach me while bombarding them with arrows and AOE spells from Gale and Shadowheart. To avoid falling of your melee characters, make them wear special boots which prevent falling on ice (Nere's boots and another ones (I forgot their name)).

[River Victor]

Do you have Cloud Kill? The spell is amazing for this and you can move the cloud anywhere to eat up anyone. The sect members can use dark smoke to dispel it, but you can move the cloud anywhere anyway. When I say "moving", it's just another way of saying you recast it for free, so you can cast it over the smoke or anywhere else and use it to eat the entire sect.

The best place to fight them is to camp where you came in and use the stairs as choke point. There's only one staircase in and that's a looong bottle neck. Their attacks are trivial range attacks or melee stabs. Use the tankiest character to talk to the Mommy Superior and as soon as the fight starts, run the hell back to the entrance. Block the frontline of your camping spot with hindrance like Plant Growth or Everade's Black Tentacles to create a shaft of obstacle. The only way for them to get to you is to get past that kill zone. Plant the Cloudkill there and watch the cloud eat them. Welcome them at the edge of the cloud or hindrance and push them back or kill them. Better yet, plant TWO clouds if you have two casters like Jeheira and Gale, who both have Cloudkill. They will try to dispel your cloud with black smoke, but you keep recasting for free, so don't worry. BUT you must keep your concentrating caster out of attacks by retreating through the door.

Alternatively, you can replace Cloudkill with wall of flame or other AOEs.

[Chaosolous]

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