Halsin portal defense is by far the worse mission in the entire game

[Goose]

so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying

[victorvnv]

I kill all enemies before they even hit the portal and usually have 2 turns left when they run out of reinforcements

[Dr.Abscondus]

The only danger to the portal are the archers. If they fall down they can't shoot, so just make them fall down. Ice, grease, whatever.

[Zeev]

The FUN part becomes when the druid joins the party and fails to follow me all the time.
Good times.

[Panda]

Originally posted by Interstellar Samartian:

so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying

1) It's ez, too ez.
2) You can't miss if your target is an object.
3) Wall of Flames + any hard terrain will solve any problem as long as you have enough brain cells to position them correctly.
4) You are supposed to have arrow with multiple hits here, use it, if not - double wall of fire is a lazy and the easiest solution.

[Kittybass]

I cast Darkness on the portal, have Shadowheart cast Spirit Guardians to clear the undead near the portal. I'll use a scroll or cast something like ice storm or sleet storm to make the the archer undead slip and fall and then I'll either throw a fireball on them or use the fire bombs. Just have a tank to dispatch anything that gets too close to the portal.

[Mike Garrison]

Hunger of Hadar works pretty well on those archers. They get blinded and so they can't shoot the portal. Fireballs will kill massive numbers of enemies at a time, because while there are a lot of them, they have low HP. As with every other battle in the game, spirit guardians is amazingly effective.

The wraiths are a PITA because they will drain strength or even life from your characters. Definitely high priority targets for elimination.

[RhiTheWitch]

The spike growth as a druid if you have any is really awesome for that. Slows down a lot of the enemies and if you combine it with other AOE stuff

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Originally posted by Interstellar Samartian:

Originally posted by Recjawjind:

What do you dislike so much about it?

What do i dislike about 5 bajillion enemies bullshitting their way past me to hit a portal, landing every single shot?

Just kill them, they are not that hard lol. XD

[RamboRusina]

I thought it was fun exp farm. I kinda got the feeling you weren't supposed to kill them all before the timer ran out, but alas it could not be helped. Hopefully honor mode will make the fight harder.

[Sentient_Toaster]

It feels like shadow-cursed creatures that are literally made of magical darkness probably shouldn't be hampered at all by magical darkness and should have the equivalent of Devil's Sight, but oh well. :P

[Hex]

Wall of Fire and Shart whirly light thingy go brrrrr

Last time I did it, nothing even got past my defenses at all.

[Kafik]

AOE, stay near Halsin, don't go try to Rambo far away guys.

[French Indochina]

Originally posted by Interstellar Samartian:

Originally posted by Recjawjind:

What do you dislike so much about it?

What do i dislike about 5 bajillion enemies bullshitting their way past me to hit a portal, landing every single shot?

just cast darkness on the portal, it makes it much harder for enemies to hit it. also invest in crowd controlling abilities, it's really not that difficult of an encounter if you learn the mechanics of the game

[Leonnie13]

I staged the area with a glyph ward or two before the fight and the cast wall of fire to eat up some ranks. Casting darkness on the portal is a good idea that I'm going to try next time.

[Revenant]

I really liked the Halsin portal defense -- and trust me, there are a LOT of fights in BG3 I thought were lame. Don't get me started on the Shar Temple fight.

I can see the Halsin fight being really difficult if your party is heavily melee-focused and doesn't have a lot of crowd control or AoE. In my case, I had two separate characters who could cast Wall of Fire, so I just BBQ'd about 90% of the enemy before even seeing them.