femme fatale quest

[lhalmeida]

for some reason I can't capture the lady in the femme fatale quest even though I have chains in my inventory
any tips?

[Barara]

get her to half HP first to capture

[Paszenger]

She also needs to be engaged with one of your party before another can use capture.

[blindseye]

Yes, you need chains. Attack her from front and back, the front attack needs to destroy her armor and knock her health down to less than 50%, then attack from the rear, but don't actually attack her, use the icon that says capture her. You still have a chance to fail. It may take a few attacks to get her health below 50%. Be careful not to use stacking like poison or she may die her next turn before you get a chance to capture her. This is all true when capturing enemy combatants and animals (though you need rope and not chains to capture animals).

[mikejunt]

She is really miserable to capture in Region-locked mode because it can be easy to out-level her to the point where you will easily one hit kill her with virtually any attack.

I once had to whittle her down by letting her melee an archer and then letting the archer slowly punch her down to the threshold. It might be easier to equip one party member with the worst weapon you can find and intentionally have them focus on handling her.

Another option is to use an attack with a very very low base damage; give a swordsman the Rampart shield and then intentionally don't let them get any buffs (IE have them start next to her and move first so there's no time for them to get Galvanization or anything else from the rest of the party's actions) and whack her with Tactical Slam - it's only like 30% strength.