Is there any reason to save Higba?

[stray cat girl]

Hi, guys. The title, really. I just... it feels like its wayyyyyy more effort than what its worth. Do I get some kinda great reward? Does he help out later? Does he help in other quest than the missing masgietrs one?

Thanks. And no real spoilers, please. I just want to decide if he's worth wasting my time and effort on lol.

[Chaoslink]

You get rewarded with a scroll that would cost you a few thousand gold to buy the ingredients to craft yourself if I'm not mistaken. You'll never see him again after saving him, but saving him is far from a hassle. Just walk out. If someone sees you, kill them. You'll face no repercussions from doing so.

[stray cat girl]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

You get rewarded with a scroll that would cost you a few thousand gold to buy the ingredients to craft yourself if I'm not mistaken. You'll never see him again after saving him, but saving him is far from a hassle. Just walk out. If someone sees you, kill them. You'll face no repercussions from doing so.

Huh. Well, alright. Here I was thinking you had to *actually* be sneaky. Thanks for the advice. May as well then.

[Chaoslink]

I mean, you can go the sneaky route. You can just as easily split your team up and have them all enter conversation with the patrolling magisters to keep them from moving while you have the last character sneak out. They should drop conversation if you get too close with Higba, but as long as you talk to them away from the escape path it shouldn't be an issue.

[navigator4223]

Aggro the magisters before doing this quest.

If you use "spirit vision", magisters who see you will attack you and you will face no repercussions for killing them.

I usually liberate Driftwood from the magister infestation as one ofmthe first things when I arrive there. Not only do I hate them with a passion, I also love the XP I get.

[stray cat girl]

I'mma be real with you guys. I literally didnt even get spotted. I just straight up walked out, someone saw him, then... seconds later changed his mind and walked away and I succeeded.

It was ♥♥♥♥♥♥' bizzare. Here my stupid-ass was worrying it'd be insanely difficult, and I just walked out.

[Chaoslink]

Yup. And even if you do get caught, you can listen to some funny dialogue from Higba then just fight a single magister that you should completely dominate and continue on unhindered.

[EolSunder]

Getting the most out of Higba quest. Find and talk to him in his barrel/room, laugh at his plight and he will reveal that he's planning on blowing stuff up. Agree to escort him out of the area. With a seperate character go find Magister Benson and inform him of what Higba is doing. He asks you to take him out of town and kill him (3000 EXP). Take Higba west
across the stream where he thanks you (6000 EXP) and you can talk to him for some info.

Now, he's there in the barrel. have your thief hide a ways away stealthed then attack the barrel from the other direction with your other members. Higba is revealed and combat starts. Sneak up behind him and RIGHT CLICK on him to pickpocket him, stealing all his explosives, including his BIG EXPLOSIVE that is OP and can lay waste to any enemy group later in the game. Kill Higba (2000 EXP) to finish up everything.

You'll get 11,000 exp, his reward for rescuing him, plus his explosives. Win win.

[stray cat girl]

Originally posted by EolSunder:

Getting the most out of Higba quest. Find and talk to him in his barrel/room, laugh at his plight and he will reveal that he's planning on blowing stuff up. Agree to escort him out of the area. With a seperate character go find Magister Benson and inform him of what Higba is doing. He asks you to take him out of town and kill him (3000 EXP). Take Higba west
across the stream where he thanks you (6000 EXP) and you can talk to him for some info.

Now, he's there in the barrel. have your thief hide a ways away stealthed then attack the barrel from the other direction with your other members. Higba is revealed and combat starts. Sneak up behind him and RIGHT CLICK on him to pickpocket him, stealing all his explosives, including his BIG EXPLOSIVE that is OP and can lay waste to any enemy group later in the game. Kill Higba (2000 EXP) to finish up everything.

You'll get 11,000 exp, his reward for rescuing him, plus his explosives. Win win.

I hope I remember this for when I eventually get back to playing this game, because this is super informative, even if its a few years later hahahaha. Thanks!

[EolSunder]

yea im surprised it isn't in the forum anywhere after these years, plus on other forums there is just so much bad info on you-cant-do-this, you cant-do-that, none of which is true, takes a little digging and experimenting to find out exactly how some quests work best.

[Calico-Jack]

Originally posted by alcoholic mystic:

Hi, guys. The title, really. I just... it feels like its wayyyyyy more effort than what its worth. Do I get some kinda great reward? Does he help out later? Does he help in other quest than the missing masgietrs one?

Thanks. And no real spoilers, please. I just want to decide if he's worth wasting my time and effort on lol.

See here's the thing are you looking for a meta reason (the game gives you something you can use to improve your party) or a moral reason.

Generally I tend not be into banditry - ie take quest with NPC A, Complete quest to get reward/XP, Kill NPC A to get a little more XP then loot them for whatever items they had/ you just gave them for quest completion.

I'm more likely to go with NPC B has a common goal - being hunted by the magisters, the same group that had me thrown in Fort Joy, where they were sponsoring a psycopathic deviant to experiment on live prisoners to figure out how to make them into living weapons, and whose local representative wanted to string me up and beat me to death with iron bars for simply telling him I'd saved his relatives from voidwoken.
And without spoilerising anything Higba will give you clues to closing another quest.

To get him out:
send half your party into the room just inside the door to the fishery (the one with the black dog nearby). Have one of them start a conversation with the patrolling guard that passes through there, have the other close the doors then get the other half of the party to get Higba. Walk him through the fishery. Keep an eye out for the guard patrolling the road outside, head directly across the road and round behind the pub to the broken bridge and teleport him to the other side.