BG3 Act 2: Freeing the prisoners quickly, quietly and easily. (As of 11/15/23 or 15/11/23)

[Rogue Arcadia]

So, I just did a BG3 attempt 1 and 2 of freeing Prisoners at Moonrise Towers and I've gotten a failed full-escape and a successful one, I'll let you guess which of these 2 attempts was successful (Hint it's the reason there's 2 attempts.)

Now attempt 1: I gave the gnomes their hammer (very successful on that front) and got to where tieflings were free, I didn't consider that even though I used a quarterstaff (I love playing Monks in general, figured it'd be best for me to play in BG3 in my first run)... a gnome was attacked and I reloaded, got back to that point (because no save point AFTER seeing what is essentially the Necromancer Armor appearance from Diablo 3 being cosplayed by Geralt of Rivia, Witcher 3 appearance, that's officially 3 3's now, WHOO!)

Anyway, here's what I did differently on run 2: I freed tieflings, Warden wasn't in her office for some reason, and I didn't bother with tossing the hammer over, I just busted down both walls tieflings>gnomes. Why? Well, couple reasons, main one is that Tieflings can move farther than gnomes 30ft vs 25ft in a single turn and thus get 10ft extra when dashing, second, since the main warden wasn't in her office, no one could "PULL THE LEVER KRONK!" and thus I could easily just bust out the gnomes second.

There are two things I'd change about my approach however: firstly, I'd have left someone capable of breaking down the wall near the gnome wall away from the group. I'd also leave one person watching the guards so I could go in TB mode and make sure that I wasn't caught.

PS- forgot this bit, but escape with the prisoners to Last Light... it's the perfect escape for you keeping cover, if you're going the infiltrate-spy route.

[Humpenstilzchen]

There is an even easier and safer way.

First give the gnomes the hammer but tell them to wait.

Then jump down that creepy hole where this beast sound comes out from and after that you can make your way to the backside of the cells, break the wall and free the gnomes who then go and free the tieflings.

Leave the majority of your group near boat when you free the prisoners.

This has the advantage that you can kill the guards who would usually wait at the boat without having the prisoners run into them because they appear after you break the wall but your guys are already there waiting for them while the gnomes are busy freeing the tieflings.

[Liraine]

I just killed warden and all guards before giving gnomes the hammer.