Act 1 missable content

[kirill-busidow]

Can someone post what content is missable after 3 day timer before attack?

[provokastoras]

1) library: the cultists will set the crusaders on fire wiping the order of the flaming lance. if you go before that they can be saved in grey garisson attack they will haste your goup with a 1 hour duration buff
2)Marketplace hurlum will kill Daren immidiatly as you meet him and you will not have the chance to save him. the thieflings and the mogrels might also be gone or you loose the chance to offer them to join the attack. The thieflings in grey garrison disable a trapped corridor for you opening the way to a powerful sumoning item that can summon 1 liliyent azata and 3 other azata at higher levels.
3) tower: if you go after the attack happens you won't meet greyboar there he will show up during the attack at the tavern instead and kill the leader for you as per his instructions.

[kirill-busidow]

1. Who is "Daren"?
2. How to get 2nd time inside grey garrison? I talked to thieflings, they ran to defenders heart. How to get in grey garrison with "secret entrance"?

[FeurinLongcastle]

Originally posted by kirill-busidow:

1. Who is "Daren"?
2. How to get 2nd time inside grey garrison? I talked to thieflings, they ran to defenders heart. How to get in grey garrison with "secret entrance"?

Daeren, a recruitable character (Oracle class)

[kirill-busidow]

Ok, here what i found.

I have counted 8 timer related events in Act 1:

Recruiting Ember
Recruiting Woljif & Finnean
Recruiting the Thieflings (Market Square)
Recruiting the Crusader Wizards (Blackwing Library)
Recruiting the Desna Initiates & doing Starward Gaze (Market Square)
Ramien & Hulrun conflict
Estrod Tower (Greybor leaves if you arrive after the tavern attack)
Encountering Daeran’s servant to prompt his recruitment quest.

[kirill-busidow]

Can Daeran be recruited _after_ tavern defence if you got quest from servant but did not actually visited his villa, got into fight and recruited him?

[Brian Sirith]

Not Finnean. I recruited Woljif, did the gray garrison, then went for Finnean.

[mreed2]

Originally posted by kirill-busidow:

Ok, here what i found.

I have counted 8 timer related events in Act 1:

Recruiting Ember

Incorrect. Ember can be recruited before or after the tavern defense. There may be cosmetic differences, but she still there and can be recruited.

Recruiting Woljif & Finnean

If you haven't released Woljif before the attack, he's lost forever. I think if you've retrieved him from prison before the tavern defense you can complete his companion quest after the defense, which means that you can still get Finnean as well.

Recruiting the Thieflings (Market Square)

You can 100% rescue the Thieflings regardless of situation -- they are part of the critical path. You may not be able to recruit them to join you in the attack, but the Thieflings will always be present in Market Square, and will always reveal the secret passage into the Grey Garrison.

Recruiting the Crusader Wizards (Blackwing Library)

Yeap. Note, however, you will always be able to rescue Storyteller, because he is part of the critical path.

Recruiting the Desna Initiates & doing Starward Gaze (Market Square)
Ramien & Hulrun conflict

Yes, this is correct.

Estrod Tower (Greybor leaves if you arrive after the tavern attack)

True, but this is a cosmetic difference only. He can't be recruited at this time (no matter when or if you visit the Tower), and meeting him here has no impact on how he interacts with you later.

Encountering Daeran’s servant to prompt his recruitment quest.

He can show up before or after the tavern defense. You do have to venture into the proper location within Market Square for him to trigger, but the first time you do he'll be there asking for help.

Really, do you think that Owlcat would be foolish enough to lock several companions behind a hidden time limit? Especially after the backlash they received for doing something similar in Kingmaker?

On second thought, don't answer that. :)

[provokastoras]

Might got his name wrong I mean the head of the initiates of the Desna temple... hurlum looses patience with him after day 3 and executes him. Not sure what he does saving him. If you do not however you have to either kill hurlum or let him kill the desna followers locking you out of the azata path.
You can still be an azata if you kill the iinquisitor after day 3.

[kirill-busidow]

Any boss/special monster that you cant do if you did not manage to kill before Tavern defence?

[B Unit]

Originally posted by kirill-busidow:

Any boss/special monster that you cant do if you did not manage to kill before Tavern defence?

If you didnt kill the necromancer in Market Square before tavern attack, you wont be able to fight the demon in the same spot after the tavern attack

[Khloros]

So act one is really rough If you rely on spell casting.

Spell casters in general are really weak at low levels but in this game it's made even worse because Evey enemy, minimum, has DR fire 5, and a lot of them have DR 10 so your gimped even further. Combat gets a lot better later on.

[Immortal Reaver]

Originally posted by provokastoras:

Not sure what he does saving him. If you do not however you have to either kill hurlum or let him kill the desna followers locking you out of the azata path.

You can convince Hurlun to postpone the execution to after the demons are gone and Ramien tells you he will run away.