Are you in ARX?? !!BE WARNED!! <<<<<<< LONG POST

[Spatho]

You just get to arx and find this fancy part of town called the consulate and think what fantastical treasures may alie, stick around this is a doosie!

Well then, giddy up for the most mundane ♥♥♥♥♥tick of a quest you will ever wish you never walked into!!

FIRST: You must clear through narrow rooms and kill these Cursed Revenants easy right?
WRONG. They will literally respawn at full hp if there is any cursed fire in anywhere in the entire complex . Which the entire complex is entirely on fire .
>Best course of action: use fire bombs to mix it all up into one fire and bless it. Then try and burn down the ♥♥♥♥♥es before any one of them shoots a cursed fire arrow, which they all have unlimited of .

For me one of the ♥♥♥♥ers shot an arrow OUT of the complex into the city, so when they respawned outside they literally murdered 6 civilians.

SECOND: If youve managed to best the stupid ♥♥♥♥ers after 3 hours, and like 9 points of source. CONGRATULATIONS you have made it toooooo ..... THE ARENA.

what is the arena you might ask?? Well its a small space jam packed with 5 enemies who spam spells like madden and fear, so you literally never have control over your team (point in time where every one of my party members was mad)
>kill them right? WRONG there is like 8 mirrors placed around the room that you have to destroy manually through physical damage. Even though they have 30hp it takes at least 2 hits from your best character. If you dont kill them guess what.... all the enemies you kill respawn with full HP just like the ♥♥♥♥ing skelling♥♥♥♥♥es!

THIRD: : Youve finally managed to beat the arena? GREAT! you are now in lizard land. If you are lucky enough to pass a intelligence check (luckily i did god knows how much more if you fail) and now you meet princess lizard ♥♥♥♥♥.
>If you dont have the red prince she immediately decides she wants to annihilate you. Time to fight right? GUESS ♥♥♥♥ING WHAT BOIS... she spawns MORE of the Cursed Revenants

So by this point if you still manage to have any source to have to bless and enough time to position the ♥♥♥♥ers so their infinite cursed fire arrows stay together so you can bless it and kill them quick enough, congratulations you got yourself a necklace!
If you dont because you didnt stock up on 12 points of source: good luck because you sir are trapped in combat forever ♥♥♥♥♥

If you want a decent necklace i give this quest 8 cursed fire arrows out of a source point

[BloodNog]

Lol, this whole sequence pissed me off the first time I ran into as well.

[[SOTI] IKilled007]

Spent 45 minutes in combat with the Cursed ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at the consulate then teleported out of combat and never went back. Finished the game without doing that quest line.

[Boink]

There's a technique to doing the Princess fight: teleport the curse'ds in the first turn and put them down, hard. You absolutely have to burst them down before the entire area gets napalmed into vast cursed necrofire zone.

There are two of them, on the high rocks to the SW and SE of the Princess. Station people on the SE rock (port across from the rock you start on) and send your lone tank to talk to her.


You get bonus points if you stupidly spent an hour+ clearing the entire consulate, then did the mirrors, then pressed on... and none of your party have any source left for blessings, have used up all their blessed waterballoons and potions and so on.

Especially if you're playing Honor and it just autosaved.

[Spatho]

Originally posted by Buff:

Spent 45 minutes in combat with the Cursed ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at the consulate then teleported out of combat and never went back. Finished the game without doing that quest line.

oh i wish i did, i wish i did. Out of every item i used to finish it, the most valuable i lost was my sanity

[Spatho]

Originally posted by Boink:

There's a technique to doing the Princess fight: teleport the curse'ds in the first turn and put them down, hard. You absolutely have to burst them down before the entire area gets napalmed into vast cursed necrofire zone.

There are two of them, on the high rocks to the SW and SE of the Princess. Station people on the SE rock (port across from the rock you start on) and send your lone tank to talk to her.

if you dont know that before hand and you dont expect combat, you cant prepare for this. Hopefully someone reads this and saves 2 hours of their life and sanity <<<

[Boink]

Originally posted by Spatho:

if you dont know that before hand and you dont expect combat, you cant prepare for this. Hopefully someone reads this and saves 2 hours of their life and sanity <<<

2hrs?

Lol, that was just the consulate.

Then the mirrors.

Then the Princess.

No way back................

p.s.

It's technically not cheating if you reload when your entire party is on 5% health (again).

[Zlaayer]

OP read my mind. Preach, brother!

Chain teleport is your friend for this awful quest.

Devs need to reduce respawn distance, and get rid of that glitch necrofire in the wall.

[Raynezazki]

Yeah I hit that fun fire in teh wall bug and couldn't complete that quest. Just awful design all around really.

[[SOTI] IKilled007]

They should give us the option to roll Cursed Revenant as a character. Talents would be Immunity to Death and Drive the Enemy Insane.

[Sovereigndrake]

I just got to the consulate and literally alt F4d. I'm not dealing with this ♥♥♥♥ tonight.

[Sprinter220]

You don't have to kill any of the cursed revenants in consulate. They don't even give any experience.

And if you have to fight those in the dream, you can get tornado and vaporise to clear cursed fire surfaces without requiring Source.

[Sagekun Jr.]

I kinda liked the fights to be honest (had a bunch of summons that made mirror bits easier to deal with) :D But the consulate part was annoying... Had to tornado the whole place before combat. Took a while.

Edit: Though the 4 dreamers bit was nasty because of charm... Watching my party members throw all my expensive grenades at me crushed my wallet.

[jack_of_tears]

Well, thank you. It saddens me that I'll never get this quest line finished but I appreciate the fact that you've saved me hours of pulling my hair out for nothing. This game is fantastic but sometimes they build these fights so they're not even fun.

[Sephrinx]

This whole sequence seemed like a "roadblock" type of quest. Designed to simply take a lot of time, and nothing more.

[Smakit]

I was too stupid to realize they spawned in the cursed fire only and assumed you had to do something else to stop their respawning. So I just checked the rooms, killing them several times as I did, and made my way to the portal more or less ignoring them.

Didn't have an issue with the arena though it was a PITA to wander around breaking all the mirrors, but we killed them easy enough. With the princess also just killed the mains, left the revs alive, and exited through the portal.

It worked, but was mostly a pointless endevour without the prince. It was definitely a slow moving though without ending the combat and had the same experience as you where it aggrod civilians. Unfortunately, the reavers didn't kill them. Instead a single paladin tried to fight them and about 6-8 civilians aggro'd, ran into the outside corner of the building, and did nothing.

They didn't die, enemy never attacked them, but each round had to watch as the horde of peons stuffed their faces in the corner with the occasional buff from the paladin. Good times.