Help for newb and stinking cloud

[Schnorble Schnacker]

PLayed DnD and BG3 but what i cant get my head around are these dretches with stinking cloud. 3 of them and my party in all incapacitated due to their stinking clouds and 5 turns later i havent done a single attack.

How can i boost my odds of not getting stunned, just seems like a joke how early game i have poor builds and spend most of my time just skipping turns and getting slapped

[Cursed Life]

Emebr can get a curse the remove the cloud.

[Swordman_Red]

Originally posted by Ryanatix:

PLayed DnD and BG3 but what i cant get my head around are these dretches with stinking cloud. 3 of them and my party in all incapacitated due to their stinking clouds and 5 turns later i havent done a single attack.

How can i boost my odds of not getting stunned, just seems like a joke how early game i have poor builds and spend most of my time just skipping turns and getting slapped

I'm fairly sure Stinking Cloud has Poison subtype and therefore should be completely negated with Delay Poison.

[.//slayer]

Originally posted by Swordman_Red:

Originally posted by Ryanatix:

PLayed DnD and BG3 but what i cant get my head around are these dretches with stinking cloud. 3 of them and my party in all incapacitated due to their stinking clouds and 5 turns later i havent done a single attack.

How can i boost my odds of not getting stunned, just seems like a joke how early game i have poor builds and spend most of my time just skipping turns and getting slapped

I'm fairly sure Stinking Cloud has Poison subtype and therefore should be completely negated with Delay Poison.

Yep, can confirm.

[Immortal Reaver]

Run away from clouds when it happens as first tip.
Early on, keep party way back (Hold command) and have Seelah (as Paladin she has highest chance to not be affected) engage, after they cast clouds, have Seelah fall back to the rest of party.
On lvl 3 and after, have Delay Posion ready on Camelia, it negates it completely. After you get lvl 3 spells get Posion Delay Communal.

[Kinoringan]

There are several ways to handle them.

1. Delay poison spell

2. Send someone to initiate combat, the rest stay far away. the dretchers will bombard the person who is attacking them with stinking cloud. The rest of the party just skirt outside the cloud and attack the dretch. Works if the room is big and wide.

3. Send someone to initiate combat (like lann). The rest of the party stay way way behind. Slowly kite the dretchers to your party and make them waste their stinking cloud on lann. Work best if you put grease (with selective metamagic) on the floor along the way.

[smellibear]

Delay poison communal scrolls are available in the first act. A limited supply but they're there. After that characters should have the spellbook lvls to deal with em

[Deo]

If you mean 3 dretches in Shield Maze - just kill one fast, and try to spread your party. Cold iron ammo quiver sold by vendor in mongrel camp, and you loot cold iron javelin\longsword in the Maze. Camelia has cold iron rapier on her. Without damage reduction dretches blow up fast. Can take some reloads.

I find it kinda amusing, that in Act 1 you are dealing with Stinking Cloud. It was absolutely OP in Kingmaker, and most enemies could not do anything about it even on Unfair - so now you having a taste of your own medicine in Wotr.

[HTakara]

turn off AI, have someone lure them to launch the stinking cloud then run back to the party pulling the fight away from the cloud. that's the easiest way to deal with it early game. they can only cast it once, so you shouldn't have any issues.