How do i get through poison clouds and traps?

[King Of Lolis]

Im at the witch holding the girl hostage part in that swamp.
In the cave theres ton of poison cloud and some flowers that explode when you walk through.
I tried everything. Cant detect the vent in middle of them so i have no idea where im throwing the stuff on it(dont have much either,i just collect gear and potions), nobody has wind spells and well fire spell dosent do anything beside lit the floor on fire. If somehow i pass through,other companions trigger it and then lose 50% of health all.
Cant exactly disarm the traps, vent is 30 while flowers are 10 and theres lots of them.
Even if i rush through it, my party will be low health and barely any spells due to previous upstairs fight and the witch is a boss fight which i big failed because i have no idea how to save the girl or quickly kill the witch. Party is me the bard,shadowheart,gale and karlach

Anyone got any easy solutions for someone like me who sucks at these types of games?

[Piperbird]

Break your trap guy from the rest of the group, leave everyone else away from the traps. I throw junk on the vents - the masks you get from up above are perfect for this. Once the vents are covered the gas goes away, and you can take your time disabling the traps.

[King Of Lolis]

Originally posted by Piperbird:

Break your trap guy from the rest of the group, leave everyone else away from the traps. I throw junk on the vents - the masks you get from up above are perfect for this. Once the vents are covered the gas goes away, and you can take your time disabling the traps.

I havent killed the mask dudes because game said i can be non lethal at that moment combat started.
But i cant see the vents and if i get close i activate the explosion.
Trap guy is kind of me or astarion but hes at camp

[Mr Pibbleton]

If you cast protection from good and evil on a character then put on one of the masks from the table it'll get rid of the gas while that character is nearby, as long as your group sticks close to that character you can just walk through all the traps unharmed.

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Give your ppl Elixir of Poison Resistance and just walk through the cloud. Or just give it to 2 of your guys, and let them stand on the vents...alternating blocking them so the other 2 can go forward...

[seeker1]

You want Astarion, or your trap guy, the one who's best at disarming traps, when you're in Auntie Ethel's underworld. You've now learned this. Both the flowers and vents can be disarmed. But if you don't trigger the flowers, lower trap DC, the vents won't start spilling out gas. So it's really only the flowers that MUST be disarmed.

The vents can be blocked. Put something big and heavy on top of them, not a dagger or a feather, it will block the gas coming out of them. Yeah, the masks work, and BTW though it might seem useful to wear them, don't. But they block the vents nicely.

I used to trigger the gas traps myself all the time, did the only yutzy thing I could think of, which was to dash and jump and whatever else I could to get through them as fast as possible; and what I found funny, I always joke about the game's daft AI and pathfinding, but it's true, after rescuing Mayrina, she would walk back up through the poison gas clouds and die, acting as if she didn't know it was there.

Fortunately, I found out ... spoiler? ... a certain optional sidequest involving hags in Act 3 DOESN'T require her to be alive.

[Amsterdamaged]

Even when you stunned your enemies (who wore those masks) you can loot them and take the masks.

If i remember correctly there is also somewhere nearby a table with masks. And just backtrack a bit, then you can go to camp and bring Asterion with you.

[Piperbird]

Originally posted by King Of Lolis:

Originally posted by Piperbird:

Break your trap guy from the rest of the group, leave everyone else away from the traps. I throw junk on the vents - the masks you get from up above are perfect for this. Once the vents are covered the gas goes away, and you can take your time disabling the traps.

I havent killed the mask dudes because game said i can be non lethal at that moment combat started.
But i cant see the vents and if i get close i activate the explosion.
Trap guy is kind of me or astarion but hes at camp

There are some masks on a table up above, on the other side of the door. You can also use ropes, clothing, pretty much anything. When you do the motion to throw, you can kind of move the items around and the vents will show up when you mouse over them.

[Raz]

You probably have 4 or more Protect from Good and Evil by now. I know Wither's Crypt usually gives 2 ~ 4 of them.

Have all your party members cast that on themselves. Put the Masks from the table on everyone and you can just hop, skip, and have a gay Ol' merry time walking past the traps.

I would advise fighting the masked people though. Ethel summons them in her fight. You can knock them out, leave them. Once Ethel is dead you can go back to them to remove the masks to save them. Long Rest. Come back, and they are up and walking around with one of them you'll see again in Act 3.

[seeker1]

So, my understanding is you only need one party member wearing the mask, and you can just cast Prot Evil on them, and wearing it, they can waltz right through the traps and rescue Mayrina. But if you want 4 party members wearing masks to go through the traps wearing masks, yeah, you'll need to cast it 4 times, it's a single target spell.

I actually saw that at the Wiki, but also the warning you should know: if you put on the Mask and you don't have that spell active, you need to make a WIS saving throw every turn or Ethel possesses you and takes control of you. And if four party members all put on the Masks, without that protection ... you get the Game Over screen.

(it's all laid out here)
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Save_Mayrina

[King Of Lolis]

Thanks for the advice guys. Il try once my steam deck charges up later

[Raz]

Originally posted by seeker1:

So, my understanding is you only need one party member wearing the mask, and you can just cast Prot Evil on them, and wearing it, they can waltz right through the traps and rescue Mayrina. But if you want 4 party members wearing masks to go through the traps wearing masks, yeah, you'll need to cast it 4 times, it's a single target spell.

There is a ton of the scroll in Act 1. I rarely have less than 4 to 6 by the time I am level 4 and going to deal with Ethel. I just hit the Blighted Village and I already have 3 of them without buying or stealing any from merchants at the Grove.

The point of putting a Mask on all four people is that it saves a TON of time and keeps you from taking any damage along the way. Because of how janky pathing is, it isn't uncommon for one party member to be a step or two behind, triggering the traps and taking damage. If all four have a mask on, this isn't a problem. In the department of time saving, you're not bothering to disarm every single trap on the way to Ethel.

Four scrolls, time saved, damage not taken.

[8-Bit Ears]

I always just used a scroll of feather fall and jumped all the way passed the poison, never used the masks or scroll of protection from evil.

You can jump allllll the way down past the poison

[jonnin]

Originally posted by 8-Bit Ears:

I always just used a scroll of feather fall and jumped all the way passed the poison, never used the masks or scroll of protection from evil.

You can jump allllll the way down past the poison

This is the way. Just don't land on any flowers, and 3 jumps gets you past all of it without touching the gas. Even shovel can do it, its not one of those need 20 str to jump it tests. Going back the other way might take that, though :)

you can also just run through it and top off at the bottom. Its not that hard hitting. Throw potions to heal all 4 of you at once if you used your spells.

[King Of Lolis]

Originally posted by jonnin:

Originally posted by 8-Bit Ears:

I always just used a scroll of feather fall and jumped all the way passed the poison, never used the masks or scroll of protection from evil.

You can jump allllll the way down past the poison

This is the way. Just don't land on any flowers, and 3 jumps gets you past all of it without touching the gas. Even shovel can do it, its not one of those need 20 str to jump it tests. Going back the other way might take that, though :)

you can also just run through it and top off at the bottom. Its not that hard hitting. Throw potions to heal all 4 of you at once if you used your spells.

this was also bugging me but how do i throw a potion to heal all? regular health potion yeah? I threw it on the ground with all of us close and just healed me

[Raz]

Originally posted by King Of Lolis:

this was also bugging me but how do i throw a potion to heal all? regular health potion yeah? I threw it on the ground with all of us close and just healed me

You have to get everyone close together. Close to the point they cannot move any closer. When you throw the potion at your feet, the indicator will highlight allies who will all be within the area of effect once throw (excluding yourself, but if you get it right in the middle of the three of your companions and the other two show as tagged, you should be fine).

If need be, I can record a video to show what I mean.

EDIT: Noticed I was low on health and did the video anyways. Its still uploading as of this edit.

https://youtu.be/9jhGJwKIklQ