How the hell do you get past Blackwater?

[Rotav]

First part of this area wasn't too bad... Until I got to the lava pit room. I basically can't hit any of the enemies in there at all. Unless I'm missing something about this, I'm clearly underlevelled for Blackwater despite my success with the earlier parts. I would leave this area and come back later, but I can't even pass the check to open the door that I entered from (why is this check even in the game??). Is there anything that I can do from this position, or am I really going to need to go back to a previous save when I didn't enter Blackwater?

[darkholyPL]

The monsters there have high AC but low touch AC. If you have them, use your touch AC attacks.
If not, then use the power of numbers, that is, summon ALL the things and hope that one of the very, very many attacks will be a 'nat 20' so it will always hit.
Also do the obvious things like buff everyone, bla bla you know the drill I hope.

[Duder]

That was a tough fight. What level are you by chance
I hit level 13 right before that and I still had 2 characters die.
Maybe go do some other quests and come back. Every little bit helps believe it or not, one level increase makes a difference.
Cast everything you can to increase your attack rolls. Bless, prayer, good hope, heroism
Don't forget protection from evil. If you have a Paladin or Seelah, Mark of Justice or Smite evil.
Also mirror image and displacement with blur as a backup on your melee guys

That's not even the first tough fight. There are more after that. Hope one of your characters has dimension door to get past all the locked doors too (I used up all the lockpick fuel)
Not sure if that's an exploit or not. I could teleport one character past the doors but not the whole party. There was one room I did it with invisibility because obviously can't take a whole mob of augmented demons on Core with one character

[gmwaddington]

What level are you. and who do you have with you?

If you entered Blackwater underlevelled, you may have to go back to an older save, and do some other quests first. I leave Blackwater until the end of Act 3.

[ajfusch]

Was that the lab with the cyborgs?
I just left and came back 2 levels later.

[Rotav]

Originally posted by gmwaddington:

What level are you. and who do you have with you?

I have Wenduag, Daeran, Regill, Arueshalae, and Greybor in my party. Currently at level 13.

Originally posted by Duder:

That's not even the first tough fight. There are more after that.

In that case, it might be best if I reload an old save and come back later...

[Schlumpsha]

It is also possible to save up Blackwater for later. There is no issue with tackling it in act 5.

[darkholyPL]

Or you could just use the game jurnalist mode.. eerrr I mean 'story' mode difficulty and just breeze through this content. It's not really plot important or anything, it was designed by fans to be put in the game, iirc.

[Rotav]

Originally posted by darkholyPL:

Or you could just use the game jurnalist mode.. eerrr I mean 'story' mode difficulty and just breeze through this content. It's not really plot important or anything, it was designed by fans to be put in the game, iirc.

True. I guess that's always a possibility. I like challenge but this area just borders on unfair at this stage.

[canuck250]

Originally posted by Rotav:

Originally posted by darkholyPL:

Or you could just use the game jurnalist mode.. eerrr I mean 'story' mode difficulty and just breeze through this content. It's not really plot important or anything, it was designed by fans to be put in the game, iirc.

True. I guess that's always a possibility. I like challenge but this area just borders on unfair at this stage.

but as stated you can come back. So it is meant to be a hard and unfair fight early on :)