Insistent Summons (spoilers!)

[mna99]

On the Demon path, I'm in Act III getting summoned. I figured out that I can repeatedly beat the summons by just saving/reloading until I make the Will save on a Nat 20. Or I can hasten the process by using Toybox to automatically roll 20s with my main for the duration of the encounter. Same results, one just takes more time.

I've beaten the check more than a few times now, and in the wilderness it keeps happening, but not in Drezen. So far.

Anyway

What happens if I keep beating the Will save? The quest associated with this event (Insistent Summons) is marked as failing if I don't complete it in Act III.

[mna99]

Update: even using Toybox, it looks like (eventually) the game prevents all rolls of 20 on the Will save. You pretty much have to cheat (such as by increasing your base Will save to something stupid like 70) to keep making the save at that point, and if you do so, you wind up piling up a lot of xp that wouldn't normally be available.

I may continue on this way if I can use Toybox to penalize my XP each time to eliminate the XP I could never gain just through saving/reloading.

[mna99]

For those that want to try it, eventually, the game "gives up" and sets Intimidate check back to 32 and Will save back to 20. No more huge XP gains. And it lets you use Toybox for automatic rolls of 20 again. I'm slogging through Act 3 slowly, so I'm not sure what happens if I keep doing this, but I'll find out . . .

[mna99]

And as it turns out, nothing happens. You can't even advance past Act 3 until you complete the quest Insistent Summons. There's no bypassing it.

So for anyone that wanted to know, there it is. And I've seen several posts (mostly on Reddit, from last year) musing on this very question, without any definitive answers. Can't say that the answer is very interesting.

[Dale, Table Technician]

Just want to say that was really interesting. Thanks for testing it!