You can complete lathander's blood without the items/crest (spoilers)

[PhamTrinli]

Once you get to the final chamber in the creche and solve the statue puzzle in the left alcove (turn first statue to face west and second statue to face east), you arrive in the secret area containing the force fields and traps and lathander's blood (a legendary mace)

The first force field you bypass by destroying the power crystal to the left, above the doorway, with ranged attacks.

You can navigate around the 2nd force field by just going to the left climbing up the rocks and around. Destroy the second crystal there.

Disarm the second trap.

Go to the edge of the cliff and look left, destroy the 3rd crystal below with ranged.

Go passed the 3rd force field (now deactivated)

Go all the way up to the pedestal, on the left side, rotate your screen so you can see directly below on the cliff wall and destroy the 4th crystal.

Go back to the pedestal and take the mace (don't worry about the crest)

You'll get some narration about bad things happening if you take it. Ignore

Once the defenses activate, just use ranged attacks (fire arrows work best) to destroy the crystals feeding the central rings within 4 turns (may vary depending on your difficulty setting).

This will deactivate "the bad things" and you will now have the mace and can walk away with it safely ^^ No need to go hunting around for the various items to complete the crest!

[Spookyghost]

i did this and my character who picked up the mace vanished

[black_jack_oo7]

Originally posted by SpookyGhost:

i did this and my character who picked up the mace vanished

same here was trying to figure out where they went.

[FoghornFarts]

It was honestly more fun to outrun the explosion, lol

[navigator4223]

Haha, true! Also did it this way. 18 Dex gloves + pact helped a lot (you get the item this way by passing a 30 DC).

[Ronin Gamer]

Originally posted by PhamTrinli:

Once you get to the final chamber in the creche and solve the statue puzzle in the left alcove (turn first statue to face west and second statue to face east), you arrive in the secret area containing the force fields and traps and lathander's blood (a legendary mace)

The first force field you bypass by destroying the power crystal to the left, above the doorway, with ranged attacks.

You can navigate around the 2nd force field by just going to the left climbing up the rocks and around. Destroy the second crystal there.

Disarm the second trap.

Go to the edge of the cliff and look left, destroy the 3rd crystal below with ranged.

Go passed the 3rd force field (now deactivated)

Go all the way up to the pedestal, on the left side, rotate your screen so you can see directly below on the cliff wall and destroy the 4th crystal.

Go back to the pedestal and take the mace (don't worry about the crest)

You'll get some narration about bad things happening if you take it. Ignore

Once the defenses activate, just use ranged attacks (fire arrows work best) to destroy the crystals feeding the central rings within 4 turns (may vary depending on your difficulty setting).

This will deactivate "the bad things" and you will now have the mace and can walk away with it safely ^^ No need to go hunting around for the various items to complete the crest!

It's not that hard to get the crest, so I'll just do that. But thanks.

[Spiegel]

Thanks! I will try this. I was so angry becouse i accedently sold one of the weapons to a dealer that became hostile later so no way to get the crest without loading a save several hours back..

[zpc]

Why deactivate it? Grab the mace, run through the portal and enjoy the show.

Bye bye Githyanki (the place gets nuked by the Lathander defense canon which aims at the building)

[hollia.360]

You can split the party, send 3 back to camp, and sacrifice one. After the explosion, the one you sacrificed ends up next to you in camp as a dead, glowing blob on the ground. Revive them and you're good to go. The sacrificed character still has the mace on them after you revive them.

[Pieshaman]

I never figured out how or what.
I just grabbed the mace and destroyed the 4 thingies.
It was a little stress cause Im the ranger with the best shots but I was stuck inside the force field ofcourse, but I managed to do it by giving all my best arrows to karlach and laezel and made them do it with crossbows just in time xd

[hollia.360]

Originally posted by Pieshaman:

I never figured out how or what.
I just grabbed the mace and destroyd the 4 thingies.
It was a little stress cause Im the ranger with the best shots but I was stuck inside the force field ofcourse, but I managed to do it by giving all my best arrows to karlach and laezel and made them do it with crossbows just in time xd

After the third try I was too lazy to try to knock out the four orbs 😂

[TaraForNow]

Originally posted by SpookyGhost:

i did this and my character who picked up the mace vanished

I have this issue and i don't know how to get my main character back? Have you resolved this?

[Gorlami]

Originally posted by TaraForNow:

Originally posted by SpookyGhost:

i did this and my character who picked up the mace vanished

I have this issue and i don't know how to get my main character back? Have you resolved this?

same issue. lost my character while my party remained. No card, no revive, no body. went to camp and did a long rest and now im hardlocked with my party unable to wake up.

[Gorlami]

Originally posted by Dead Man:

Originally posted by TaraForNow:

I have this issue and i don't know how to get my main character back? Have you resolved this?

same issue. lost my character while my party remained. No card, no revive, no body. went to camp and did a long rest and now im hardlocked with my party unable to wake up.

I reloaded my save and my guess is that having anyone through the portal, shadow heart in my case. I got a cut scene this time around with everyone inside.

hope that helps

[Snuptik]

Originally posted by PhamTrinli:

This will deactivate "the bad things" and you will now have the mace and can walk away with it safely ^^ No need to go hunting around for the various items to complete the crest!

i just cast knock on the door and dont need the puzzle :p
knock is total broken in the game.

[Dervish]

I just did the puzzle that gives you the item that prevents the place from destroying itself when you take the mace