Baldurs Gate 3 Most OPTIMAL and OP Act 2 Route

this Baldurs Gate 3 video is for Act 2 the best  route the most OP builds in gear now this is a continuation video from another video that I  have created that looks just like this it is titled balers Gate 3 the best possible start for  new players act one best rout most will be builds and gear you can find the link to this video  right down here in the description Under full game guides and then click this if you have not  watched this video then this current video You Are watching won't make a

lot of sense it won't  really be viable because we are continuing the four builds that we have at the start of that  video and the routing will not include every Quest it will not include all the side craft that  we don't need it will not include wiping out the entire map we are simply getting the items we need  for those builds in the most efficient and fastest way possible to progress our current characters  before I get the Act 2 video I must make two Corrections on the previous video This i

s is due  to patch six that came out in Jan or February 2024 and this involves getting lazelle's silver sword  of the astral plane there is they increased the leash range from the the Walken's rest Waypoint to  when triggering the cut scene so what you have to do now is separate everyone from the party as you  normally would but you have to make sure that the other characters are in Camp before you walk  too far with ls out otherwise she will leave the party and you're not able to have her solo 

get the silver sword of astral plane so to do that as you can see here I have Lael not linked  to the rest of the group then I'm going to take these three characters and just run them away  away from Lazelle for just a little bit you know not too far at least I don't know a few screens  two or three screens away so lasa is all the way over here by herself she has not triggered the  cut scene the other characters are far enough away and now I can send them to Camp so what  that does is our three

characters are now in Camp there there we go but lazel is still out in  the wilderness and now whenever she triggers the cut scene well the game's still like it's it's  buggy sometimes there we go so switch back to LEL and then when she triggers the cut scene she  will not leave the party because she is the only controllable character out in the game world so  here's the cut scene we're going to skip it and you'll see here that lasel my kin will blah blah  blah blah blah but she didn't leave th

e party if any of the other characters are clo like at the  Waypoint due to patch six lelle will talk to the party leader and then leave the party to talk to  kith rag Voss so that is correction number one the second correction may not entirely involved patch  six but I forgot to mention in the previous video that in the emerald Grove that is right here on  the map I know it's a little hard to see with all the text you have to talk to Roland and you have  to tell him to stay and defend the emera

ld Grove because if you don't the NPC named Mattis will not  be available to buy from in Act 2 at the lights hope in and you will not get the Cape of cunning  broom if you fail to do that so where do you find Roland well whenever you enter the emerald Grove  here he is near this training grounds so just talk to him and then he's right here his name is  Roland just talk to him tell him to defend Emerald Grove that's all you have to do and then you're  all set for act two and for those that couldn

't follow those instructions when you talk to Roland  he's going to be in a group conversation you need to persuade him your main character is built for  persuasion this should be easy with friends and guidance if you followed the previous video guide  it's very easy to pass if you're on honor mode and you fail then I guess you won't be getting the  cap a cunning groom so there you go also this is Mattis but you cannot buy the cape from him until  act two so I just want to show this now because

in my playthrough it's bug and he doesn't appear  but we'll still get the cape again this video is a continuation from the previous video so please  watch it if you don't you'll have a cleric a fog Cloud Archer a tank Monk and default lasel which  we will be replacing in act two so here is what you're going to do you're going to click to the  shadow cursed lands from the uh Rosy Mo Monastery the crush yel or whatever it's called so whenever  you click here it's going to say you're about to progr

ess your adventure you're going to be visited  by kith rag Voss at night you can do absolutely whatever you want here when you go to bed it's  up to you it doesn't change the story or alter any kind of loot so again do whatever you want in  this little cut scene and then once you load in when the next day comes you're going to leave Camp  which will put you into the shadow curs lands act two as soon as you load in you're going to get  a cut scene where a goblin approaches you with a torch just j

ust kill the goblin just kill the  goblin it's level three it has very low HP you should be able to onshot it at this part of the  game and then take your cleric your main character and then animate Dead skeleton so that you have  a skeleton archer at the very start also if you don't already summon shovel and uh any other  summons you might have through Scrolls I didn't have any in my playthrough unfortunately once  that's done you're going to immediately go to camp and you're going to start Cam

p buffing here is the  order which you're going to do some Camp casting you're going to swap out LEL for Gail he is our  camp casting cleric him specifically there's a reason we use him as you learned in the previous  video we're going to have him warding Bond the entire party giving resistance to everything  and more Armor class then we're going to have him protection from Poison everyone so that you  have advantage on rolls against poison then we're going to swap him out have one of your summo

ns or  anyone hit the main character so that Gail because he's warding bonded with the main character will  receive damage and because Gail is Gale and he received damage from not being in the active party  he will just restore his HP it's programmed into the game to be that way and it only works with  Gail for some reason and for whatever reason this restores his spell slots so you can warding Bond  and protection from Poison your entire party no problem next up you're going to have Gail cast 

death Ward and freedom of movement on everyone again this step will take some time because you  can only cast it once then you have to kick him out of the party hit your main character let him  restore his health invite him back to the party and then he will have his spell slot return  cuz it's a level four spell slot but you will have death W and Freedom Movement on every single  character this way which is really nice especially for Honor mode but you won't need it for the  easier difficulties

but it's nice to have just in case also death Ward Gail because Gail might  die if you take a lot of AOE damage and you know all the damage you're taking is split with Gail  who will naturally restore his HP over time in the camp just passively like he's doing now but if he  takes a big hit or if everyone takes a big hit he will go down and you will lose death W and you'll  have to rebuff all over again so it's better to just do it now anyway move everyone close cast  level four Aid with Gail o

f course then swap your healer boots to Gail and then AOE heal everyone  so you have a plus three HP on everyone then have Gail cast daylight on lasel sword so to do this  you would select LEL and then you want to push your F button I don't know what it is on keyboard  or I'm sorry on controller and then you can use the U button to pull out your weapon so make sure  she has her sword pulled out cast daylight push F push you to pull out the crossbow have him cast  daylight again and then swap to

your healer and have him do it for theow you don't have to do it  for his sword if you don't want to because we're going to be using the buff from The Sword and then  swapping it out anyway later on if you decide to even use the sword for the buff which you won't  really need in this act but uh you're going to AOE heal everyone so everyone has overhealing of plus  three HP or you know temporary Max HP and then uh after that uh you just put Gail back in the camp  this next step is not intended by

The Game and is currently a bug but we're going to abuse it anyway  now I want to tell you that this will most likely be patched you need to check the description of  this video and I'll have it in the very first line you know update with the date it was patched okay  also scroll down further check the pinned comment that's the very first comment that I will pin it  will always be on the top and I will update you there as well if this is patched but what you're  going to do is you're going to u

se a transmutation wizard hirling which we have set up from the first  video you really need to watch that first video but you go up here get your transmutation wizard  which for me is Sir fuzzle lump that's his default name I didn't name him that and you're going to be  using him to stack or Buffs and this is how you're going to do it so talk to your transmutation  Wizard and then tell him to follow me and then kick out lasel there you go now you're going to  select your transmutation wizard yo

u're going to you're going to cast your transmuter stone the  only ones that we need are the Constitution saving throw one the dark vision for lasel because all  of our other characters have dark vision and then movement speed so I'm I'm just going to cast the  movement speed one and this is how it works so now we've created the the stone here I'm going to  move this into our healer's inventory which will give him plus three movement speed now I'm going  to kick him out of the party not remove h

im from the game just wait for me in Camp there we go and  what'll happen is you'll notice that the stone is gone from our inventory but we still have the buff  uh transmitter Stone movement speed so now when I reinvite him back to the party follow me there  you go and we select him once again he can't cast a spell again but as you know from the previous  video if we cast featherfall which is a ritual spell and does not cost a spell slot we will gain  the ability to Cast transmuter Stone once ag

ain and this time I'll cast the Constitution one there  we go and you'll notice I still have the buff for the movement speed now we can move this again  to the main character's inventory there we go and now he has both Buffs and then one once again  you got to talk to your transmutation wizard tell him to wait in Camp and then reinvite him back to  the party you know this only takes a second this is much faster than the stuff we did with Gail and  then once again cast feather fall so you can get

that transmutation spell back and then we can you  know just rinse and repeat for all your characters now I want to mention there's a bunch of other  ones to cast here like uh the resistance ones you don't need this resistances do not stack in this  game because everyone will have warding Bond you already resistant to everything in the game like I  said you only need Constitution saving throw dark vision for Lazelle everyone else already has it it  does not improve it and movement speed once yo

u're done with that we can move on the next step is to  use your eldrich knight hling you're going to add LEL to the party remove Shadow heart and then  you're going to have your eldrich knight equip lel's sword and then pack bind it and then give  it back and this will prevent lasel from being disarmed later in the act next up you're going to  swap the hirling for will who is our good Berry crafter and have him spam a bunch of good berries  and give them to aarion to feed his necklace then you'

re going to have aarion bite will for the  happy buff now it's time for your concentrations you're going to swap back Shadow heart to the  party lelle will cast protection from evil and good on herself Starion will cast Shield of faith  on LEL Shadow heart cast protection from evil and good on herself and speak with animals and then  you the Healer will cast protection from evil and good on yourself as well finally your Elixir Buffs  for the day your healer Lazelle and shadowart will all drink e

lixir of cloud giant strength if you  don't want to use those and you want to save them for act three you can drink the regular ones and  if you just don't want to use Elixir because you feel like they're cheating then don't aerion  will drink the elixir of blood lust you should have plenty of these if you followed my guide  once you are done with all of those Buffs this is what your game should look like I'm going to  show you all the Buffs here our main character has the invisibility warding B

ond protection from  Poison long Strider Aid freedom of movement death Ward transm transmutation Stone movement speed  sylvanas's blessing Constitution protection from evil and good elixir of cloud giant strength  aerion has the same thing ex appe heal so is Happy uh the temporary hit points which my main  character doesn't have because you know I had to slap them around to get Gail to restore his points  I I could I'm going to get this later anyway it doesn't matter it's not a big deal and um S

hadow  heart has levar's love she's also got the uh you know the amulet we got earlier that lets her talk  to it for the the key Point restoration speak with the animals LEL uh you know she's got the temp HP  check out our stats our character stats page is here it's ridiculous so 27 strength on our main 18  decks 16 con 17 in 16 wisdom 18 Charisma and these are going to go up by five in just a little while  we're going to boost Charisma by five we're going to boost um you can boost boost uh what

is it uh  I think it's con no it's int Charisma and wisdom all of these are going to go up by five and it's  going to make the game real easy for act two the entire day no long rest no short rest needed even  on Otter mode you don't need to rest okay and you can look at the other character stats they're all  pretty beefy and ready to rumble also everyone is resistant to everything so that's good also  this is why your HP total should look like on Explorer difficulty and here's your HP totals on

  any other higher difficulty finally for weapon Buffs and enchantments you can see 21 AC 19 AC 22  AC and 20 AC uh bow has daylight on it uh lizel sword has bound weapon in daylight so we're all  set now I want to mention again this guide will not cover every quest in act two this guide is  simply meant to Mid Max your time getting all the good loot for our four builds and to get a lot  of XP along the way the easy way the fast way the most efficient way and get our butts to act three  so with

that said the first thing we're going to do is we're going to travel West and then curve  around South and there is a goblin Camp here and you are simply to kill them just kill them don't  even talk to them just start blasting now if you want more XP you want to start blasting before  you get within sight range otherwise they send the hyena off to die and that's lost XP that's  a lost ear you want to focus cani first because he casts Fireball other than that these other uh  goblins are very easy

to kill Lazelle should be able to kill three uh Shadow heart can kill three  and then the other two characters can very easily clean up this is an easy fight just kill them all  once they're dead you're going to use your healer who should have the spider liar equipped and then  play the spider liar doesn't matter what song you play this will summon carice and uh there's a  few things you can do here you can just kill him straight up or if you want to minmax your XP you  can follow him along and

there will be an ambush and you can kill the ambushers and then carice and  that will just give you you a little bit more XP than you normally would have so we're going to do  that with our setup doing intimidation is easier than deception because it will allow you to use  thury along with guidance on one character giving you Advantage you do have to roll two higher  than the other choice but with Advantage it's mathematically Superior so it's much easier to do  so if you are doing honor mode t

his is the route you want to take so here's a neat little trick  when you get to this part you can summon your zombie into this house which will automatically  aggro the har without the dialogue and carice will still be on your team and everything carice  kills will give you XP so you can just let them fight and then as far as your zombie goes well  he's you know he's in combat right and uh just leave let let them chill your other characters  aren't in combat so every you can have your zombie fi

ght if you want you can have your zombie  attack carnice carice doesn't know that you Summit it so there you go and then whenever your zombie  dies let carnice clean up once he's done cleaning up he'll be weakened and then you can finish  him off and take his Lantern by the way you'll need to resummon the zombie and put it in combat  otherwise you don't get XP for cis's kills it's only 90 per kill so it's not a lot but it's still  worth another honor mode tip is you can simply summon your zombie

at the very you know maximum  range as soon as the zombie arises you can attack carness miss or not it doesn't matter and then  you can resummon the zombie infinite times and rinse and repeat until carness is dead meaning  you never have to drain your resources or fight him if you don't want to this is the easiest way  to lame it you don't need to do this in easier difficulties though just a reminder when you're  doing the zombie technique on honor mode you want to make sure that one of your ac

tual characters  finishes off uh carness cuz you won't get XP if you don't so we got him down to 10 Health we're  just going to run up and slash him and then now we get the XP once carness is defeated you're  going to loot his Lantern and I'm going to just send that to Camp we're going to loot the lantern  which triggers the cut scene there's a fairy in the lantern if you release the pixie it's way  easier to just Traverse the rest of the of the Zone if you want to be mean and smash the lantern 

whichever character you choose to smash it will be cursed with clown face makeup for until you you  cleanse the curse it's actually pretty funny if you want to rle play as Joker or something then do  that but we're just going to release the pixie and none of these choices matter they all have the  same end result so there we go the next thing that you're going to do is you're going to have  your summons wait and then everyone's going to be separate from the you're going to take your  healer jus

t your healer and you're going to go east and then North along this path up here so by  doing this what we're going to do let's just walk through this house here walk over this way what  we're going to be doing is unlocking a fast travel right here at the ancient sigil which uh you know  you can just click and walk there or you can jump I mean it's only it's it's kind of a big jump so  just go ahead and walk right here to this Ancient Ancient sigil and get that fast travel once you  have the the

Fast Travel north kind of Northwest there is a little area over here you're going  to jump to we're just going to jump over there and right over here hold your ALT key there's a  night Orchard you're going to give that to Shadow heart for massive approval there's nothing in the  pouch anyway we're just going to jump right back over and then we're going to continue up this tree  branch East all the way up this way and uh there's many ways to solve this part but the easiest is  to just play the g

ame yeah you can pickpocket the kid and and attack him and stuff but it's  way easier to just run up here as our healer is the one that can see invisibility so this kid is  going to be like will you play with me just just play with him okay who are you it doesn't matter  you want to play fine all right and uh all right let's begin so he's going to go he's going to run  invisible and he's going to R run behind this cart so we can see invisibility so we just run to the  cart and there he is simple

you weren't supposed to all right then we're going to say let's play  again good idea and then we're going to enter stealth which the game should have done for us  already there it is we're simply going to walk back into the Hut we're going to inter turn base  mode cuz we're not going to we're not going to worry about these other characters and we're just  going to sit here at this wooden chest the child will run all the way back up here and we'll find  him again so there we go we can see invis

ibility so we can we don't want to pickpocket them we're  going to un stealth and then talk to him I can't and then he gives us the Ring of shadow and this  is insanely useful for a Starion if you want to have him solo murder entire towns because it has  pass Without a Trace which is a pain in the ass to get without multiclassing and being inferior  to multiclassing but because we can just cast it from this ring we're going to be using this in  act three a whole hell of a lot to wipe entire Maps

full of mobs without them ever breaking  stealth this thing is insane it gives you A+ 10 to stealth right now aerian stealth is is um okay  game I didn't want to switch to him I just want to check his stealth you know levels or whatever  uh so his stealth right now is 14 so with a plus 10 that's 24 like oh no one's going to catch that  and then with Advantage you know that's even more that's like having a plus 30 to stealth so there  you go once you're done with the Healer fast travel back to t

he Waypoint and rejoin your party  the next thing you're going to do is we're going to grab an item and we're going to go slightly  South and then hard West so we're going south down this road Road and then once it curves around West  we're just going to go all the way west as much as we can following into this little house here and  there are invisible enemies so just again summon a zombie so you don't get spooked let the zombie  be the one that's startled there we go zombie and uh now you can

fight these without being surprised  once you are done cleaning up the measles which is a kind of a funny name for a mob uh they don't  really have anything good but uh right up here there is a Potter's chest and we're just going to  use lasel to crack it open because she can jump straight up there and then she can just smashy  smash there we go and then the Luminous gloves we can go ahead and grab those and then equip  them to lasel replacing the wondrous gloves we'll send that to camp and yeah

awesome stuff now  we're going to continue North curving around West until we get to the last Light in now for a quick  uh P tip when you get to the gates here of uh last Light separate your party take lasel who is your  wearing all the radiant tank stuff and you're going to run up here and you're going to tickle  this dead raven which is going to summon a bunch of zombie Ravens you know Resident Evil style  and uh lasel will be surprised but the Ravens are just going to explode in Holy Light s

o they'll  attack they'll attack laselle they'll Miss and then they will explode and that's how the build  works oh it's so funny and then LEL can clean up the remaining on so you can just slap them around  but uh the crows are all going to pecker and just blow up now once you enter the town you're going  to be approached by jira so are we're going to say number one here lost in the dark just this once  I wish people would just say hello easy give me a chance to earn your trust I am not a true S

oul  because of this artifact tell jira you know about the artifact to destroy the absolute ins just  number one the entire way through and that'll get you into town now there's a lot of items to  get for our builds in this town and that's why we went here first very first thing as soon as  we enter the town Gates on the west side right here is Quarter Master tally and uh if you want to  persuade her for some camp supplies you can it's really easy to do but we're going to go let's see  your wees

and this is what we're going to buy the three main things you want to buy are the cloak  of protection which is this Armor class and saving throw plus one The Shield of devotion which we  are only using as a swamp from glowing shield on our healer to either cast Aid uh or just have one  extra spell slot for casting that's it it's just a swap and we're going to get a better Shield later  in the ACT anyway and then Amulet of the Harpers and the only reason we're wearing this is when we  don't nee

d the perap of wound closure this gives us advantage on wisdom saving throw checks which  is just it makes a lot of things easier in the game because this game has way more wisdom saving  throw checks than any other check in the game and to get advantage on that makes everything simple  um the only other things that I'm actually buying are just potions of flying and viz speed arrows  I'm buying uh conjure Elemental dominate person black tentacles greater invisibility Scroll of  seaming uh just y

ou know you can refresh this vendor infinitely for for potions and for ammo  for bullet or for arrows not bullets there's no bullets and and for Scrolls by just getting a  hirling respecing them and leveling them up next to the vendor then you're going to give the cloak  of protection to Shadow heart now Mattis should also be nearby right here on my screen so click on  him buy the cloak of cunning broom and then give it to a Starion so my game was bugged and I didn't  have them and so I had to u

h hack this one into the game files but here it is and what this does  is whenever you cast disengage you create a fog cloud and in combat as long as your fog clouds are  touching they will not disappear so you can make a wall of smoke and this will allow you uh combined  with a ring we're going to get a little bit later allow aerion to solo the rest of the entire game  without ever being detected or attacked by enemy AI ever again next up you're going to head north  and you're going to talk to

Damon who is the uh tling that you helped save earlier in the game  so we're going to talk to Damon from Damon you're going to buy the dark fire short bow now this is  just used to swap in cast haste and then swap back out this is not used to actually do any kind of  fighting more items so from Damon's Forge you're going to walk up the stairs here and inside there  will be a chest we'll worry about those inside or those uh perception checks later so we're going to  go inside and there is a rusti

c chest here in the back and and you can just go ahead and smash this  open I'm using lasel because she hits the hardest there we go and inside is the Rippling Force  mail which we're going to equip on our healer as our best in slot armor so you'll notice that  we lose an armor class by putting this on but we gain Force conduit which reduces damage taken up  to seven instead of two from the splint armor so this is definitely an upgrade also we're going to  go to camp and uh we're going to equip

Gail with uh the armor that we just took off the adamantine  splint armor to reduce the damage Gail takes when we get hurt so the shape shifters Boon ring I'm  going to say is optional I'm personally not going to get it but you can talk to the strange ox  and piss him off and he'll turn into a giant ooze you kill him you grab the shape shifter's  Boon ring which gives you a 1 D4 to all checks when you are shape shifted the only time that I  ever plan to use shape shifting if I need to is with a

scroll uh which I just bought earlier in  the video scroll is seeming there we go so this will let you disguise which will give you a plus  four to rolls when doing dialogue checks if you put the ring on I don't need it though so I'm not  going to get it now from Damon's Smithy little area here you're going to proceed West down the  stairs and underneath this little area here so there we go we are now underneath curving around  South we're going to enter this door here which is Facing East once

we are inside the door we're  going to proceed East and then we're going to go into this Northern room here and there's another  way to get here without dealing with combat but we're going to scoot these boxes out of the way  just move them out of the way there we go stack them up and then there's a spider web here you  can just attack the spider web and that'll kill the spider web and we open the doors and there is  a fight up ahead but we're going to walk through here once again and there is a

crumb or a cracked  wall which you will need piercing damage for while aerion has a piercing damage dagger so we're  going to get that cracked wall and then break it open for or you can use budgeting you can you  can punch it down if you want I'm just going to dagger it down there we go now inside this hole in  the wall there's a whole area and there's a bunch of mean locks in here and on otor mode they can  be kind of dangerous they can actually be pretty pretty annoying so I like to just summ

on a zombie  and then group them all up and then fight and then have them just come in you know a few at a time  fight them this way but on any other difficulty you don't have to be so cautious so go ahead and  clear them out one of the mean locks will have a covert cowl which this is not really the best  item to have but it's pretty cool it's just a nice looking helmet in this room you'll go through  the Southeast door here and then there is a heavy chest and inside after disarming the Trap and

lock  picking of course and these are very easy to pick especially with gloves of thievery and asterion  as we've built him up I mean we have a 17 to 20 bonus it's a difficulty 10 so unless we roll a one  there's no failing it and it just eats one of your kits so again this is very easy to open no problem  here so once we crack it open we now get the suc ring and that's going to go on lasel now there's  plenty more to do at last Light in but we're going to teleport back to the shadowed Battlefi

eld and  go to moonrise towers and to get there we're going to go from the Waypoint Southwest all the way down  here one thing I like to do is pick up The Wraith win Town fast travel which is when I go Southwest  I cross this bridge here then I just go north and again there's no battles there's nothing to worry  about just grab that fast travel at some point on your way to moonrise you're going to encounter  maora so uh most of these you can't really fail I'm just going to answer number three th

is be  your best and then we'll rescue your asset if you end Will's packed and then performance is easy  to do for us uh which is what I recommend so just do performance cuz you can again do thury there  and this is easy to pass it the all the ones are pretty easy to pass so there we go and if that's  done the next Waypoint is moonrise Towers so we started at shadowed Battlefield we went Southwest  across the bridge we went North and got WWI town then Southwest and got moonrise Towers now I went

  from the toll house and went down and around uh but you can just go west from tall house and then  South and that's a lot quicker I just went around for whatever reason before we get more items  at moonrise Towers we're going to from the Fast Travel Point head north and if you didn't kill  uh the spider holding the lantern or the Goblins they will be here as undeads if you dismiss them  or use persuasion to avoid that fight which is why you shouldn't do that because it sucks when  they're all

in dead and we're going to clear out everything around this little Tower here to  the north this is a pretty easy fight these are level five Shadows with only 16 HP uh 34 on the  cursed Harpers 9 HP there they might have a bit more and higher difficulties but just smash them  down once you have cleared out the enemies there are plaque on this uh this little statue section  here you need to read them in a certain order so we're going to read the northernmost plaque I'm  going to align my compass

here in the top right facing north and spin it around and this is the  plaque on the North so we'll click that one first and then on the west side that one would be over  here we're going to click that plaque next and then finally the one on the east side which is the  final remaining plaque we're going to click that and it's going to open a secret little tunnel here  which we can now go into and receive some nice Buffs once you've come down the stairs the three  statues will give you a buff so

the northeastern statue will give you plus five to intelligence  I'm wearing the warped head man of end so this doesn't really matter but I'm just going to put on  the main character anyway because why not and as a main character you do have uh the cleric ability  to get Advantage so just use that it makes winning the role much easier uh you can bless yourself  while someone someone else gives you resistance if you want it doesn't matter too much but there  we go easy win that's a plus 5 in for

the rest of the day and then the center is plus five Charisma  so we're going to again use our main character cuz our main character is our Charisma character  which will make all dialogue for this act super easy so again use your cleric powers and there  you go easy win for that now we have plus five Charisma and then I'm going to use Shadow heart  and she's going to do the wisdom rooll here in the Southeast by clicking the plaque and she is also  a cleric so there we go to be gred we already h

ave plenty of stuff here uh we don't need any Buffs  and now the reason we gave her the wisdom buff is because as a monk her wisdom uh determines how  hard she punches with her passives and then also this opens a secret little doorway I'm still  going to use Shadow heart and we're going to make a little blood sacrifice on the altar here  uh cleric of sh there we go and that's going to give you some little loot here so we got potion  of angelic reprieve necrotic resistance which we don't need and

a scroll of blight and revivify  I've got plenty of revivifies but I'll take that Scroll of blight and there we go don't don't yoink  this dagger if you pick this dagger up it forces you into a fight which the XP really sucks it's  a tough fight even on easier difficulties and it it only exists to uh drain you know your uh your  daily resources so you can now safely leave and uh go up the stair time to go back to moonrise  Towers so we're going to take that fast travel back now now that we're a

ll buffed up with some  awesome Plus stats and uh everything should be pretty simple we're going to walk in and they're  just going to let us in because they're dumb Dums and they don't realize that we're going to murder  them all here in just a little while and yes it is recommended to murder them all because easier  XP that way and uh I'm just going to say I have a message from near who should I report to and  then you can say in her name or leave it doesn't matter and that's a plus 45 XP the

first thing  we're going to do is we're going to walk south into the moonrise towers and then we're going  to take the very first thing West and talk to L tarve here there we go and then what do you have  to offer and then here's what we're going to buy you're going to buy the Sentinel Shield and then  give that to aarion and that will give him more initiative to get the first turn in combat next up  just west of land carve is Roa Moonglow hopefully you didn't kill her in act one because she's b

ack  once again from Roa besides buying useful Scrolls and arrows and potions of course you're going to  buy the Drake throat glaive and this is a swap we going to use to give bonus damage to anyone else  in the party later we can twincast this and buff two people's weapons now it's time to get a plus  two permanent strength potion from the vendors you're going to return to the main hall room and  facing south you have the absolutes door we're going to go into the door to the left of that so  we

're going to go east and then South into this doorway here go ahead and pop that open and then  you're going to talk to araj obra hopefully I said that name right whenever you get to this Choice  say I'm listing also you'll need a Starion which you should have with you by default if you're  following my guides so there we go what kind of potion is this exactly sounds interesting let's  do it we're going to pick number here there we go bels to and uh if you want to get approval from  aarion which

you should do you should say he's his own person uh because you will get disapproval  when he bites into her anyway so go ahead and pick number one here there we go blah blah blah blah  blah and then say just spider the potion sounds useful sorry because there's something wrong with  her then you're going to say don't be dramatic it's just a bite one nip and you're done there you  go yes she tastes awful I know but the potion's super worth it also you can talk to her with each  character and de

pending on your race you'll get a different potion so you might as well grab it it's  free when you're done getting the potion open her trade and buy the Thunder skin cloak put it on  your healer and the risky ring which we might use an act three I'm still doing the math on it to see  if it's worth using but go ahead and buy it anyway also feel free to talk to her with every other  character so I'll talk to her with a Starion here welcome back and then I'll say I hear you trade  potions for true

so blood and then all right let's do it and then you get a free potion and it's it's  dependent on your race but just do this with every character that you feel like before we recruit  Menara we do need to get more items so do not step into this main room we want kic Thorne and  his dog Squire to be in the main room so we don't want to mess this part up this part is actually  pretty easy to do we're going to head north and simply walk out to the front entrance here of the  moonrise towers and t

his is going to be a mission uh for aarion who's going to break into a bedroom  and steal an item for us so as aarion what you're going to do you're going to push o to go into the  overhead camera mode and then zoom out as much as you can and your mission is to get up here up  top there's a few ways for you to do that you can drink a potion of flying or you can shoot an arrow  of teleportation which I have six of so I'm going to uh try to shoot an arrow of teleportation looks  like that's not wo

rking too well but over here on the east side I'm going to zoom my camera in just  a little bit cuz it's a little foggy there is a platform right up here this wooden platform which  I could just shoot you can also use a buff uh to your jumping ability path is interrupted let's  see okay we can shoot that ladder so I'm going to shoot the teleportation up here and then now we  can climb the ladder there we go now there's two doors we're going to go to the right most door or  the westernmost door t

he nor southwesternmost door and we're going to lock pick it key so this one's  a little bit harder to lockpick so we're going to get some guidance and with all of our bonuses we  should be able to do it okay we got a we we got a crit at 20 so but it's it's pretty easy to do  we have plenty of of Thieves tools if you fail it will break a thieves tools you just try again it's  not that of a trouble so now we're going to walk through the door and inside we're there's Stu you  can Loot and do here

but this room is unimportant what's important is the room to the Southwest here  which is this room we're going to lockpick this door now and there's no dog in this bedroom to  bug us because we haven't triggered you know the dog moving away yet another natat 20 holy crap  let's go we're in here now and this chest is a mimic so what you want to do is you want to uh uh  you want to let's see uh cast disengage here cast a few disengages actually because we want to make  some fog clouds and then we

're going to enter turn base mode so these fog clouds don't go away we're  then going to range attack the wooden chest cuz again it's a mimic there we go there's the mimic  and then we're going to bonus action disengage so that there's another fog cloud and then bonus  action hide and then end end our turn which is going to put our other characters into you know  having them do a turn whatever we're going to wait for the environment to do its thing and then we'll  go back to aarion here or I mea

n this mimic is not that difficult but it's still it's just it's just  nice to do so again we're going to walk out of the fog Cloud fire an arrow at the mimic there we go  and that now put us an official battle and then we're going to disengage so that we make a another  fog Cloud walk back into our previous fog clouds and then use our second bonus action to hide and  you can see that the mimic can't see us we have high stealth the mimics just going to be sitting  there like a doofus and we're g

oing to we don't have the ring yet to be able to shoot inside our  fog Cloud so we have to step outside of the fog cloud and then fire so now we're no longer blinded  so we're going to shoot again there we go now that we're outside of the fog Cloud we create a new  one by disengaging walk into the fog clouds and then hide and you just rinse and repeat till this  thing is dead it's really really really simple so what one more shot it's dead going to walk back  out take them out and when we get th

e ring it's so much faster there we go the mimic is dead and  inside the mimic is the spine shutter amulet which we're going to give to lasel also there's some  other junk in here you can you know play around with it if you want now take aerion and teleport  him back to the moonrise tow way point because you don't want him jumping off the roof and taking any  damage then reunite him with the party there are three more items for us to get in this act and  we're going to get them before we do anyt

hing else before we progress the story or do a bunch  of fights or you know meat grinding or murder hoboing whatever you want to call it but for now  we're going to teleport the group back to moonrise Towers fast travel I know it's only across the  bridge and we're going to go north and as West as possible and get a fast travel uh to leave  the ACT we're not going to actually leave the ACT we're just going to get the Fast Travel for  now so again we're going to go north up to uh this one Tower w

here we got those Buffs and then we're  going to curve around and then go west so this is what it looks like on the map from moonrise Towers  I went North and then here's that Tower with the Buffs we got and then I just go straight west now  I want to mention on honor mode don't proceed any further because there is an ambush right here  and on honor mode they they will kick your butt so what you need to do in honor mode separate  one character from the party have them drink an invisibility potio

n and then run up and grab the  Waypoint that is a way to do it or just save this till last it's a GI Yankee Ambush but on all  other difficulties in honor mode just go ahead and run up and kill them all once you've gotten  the Waypoint and cleared the gith yink Ambush it's time to head north and just barely North  is this pathway so here's the bridge go up here your characters will climb this naturally and head  north and you're going to clear out all of these mobs and when you clear them out y

ou're going  to go down into the morg here so go ahead and do that once you are inside the morg go ahead and  pop open these double oak doors then run backwards or to the side here kind of out of the way make  sure your party follows you then summon your own zombie just pop them out then take your zombie  your uh whatever this guy's name is the zombie's name and on the ground are multiple other zombies  and just attack one that's going to wake everybody up it's a nice little Ambush that you just

avoided  there then from here you can take out the zombies no problem once the zombies are done you're going  to separate the party and then take a Starion and this is a solo ja for him later he'll be joined  by lasel for some smashing if you want to do it I recommend avoiding the combat encounter I'm going  to show you on honor mode it's just not worth the XP but for now we're going to take Aion here and  lockpick this door all the way to the West it is a difficulty 18 but that's it's super ea

sy to do  and there we go not 20 hey we're getting on that 20s this video unlike the other one where we lost  every R once you're inside this spooky room here on the left side is a carab bazin's poison really  good for a Starion so go ahead and grab that then there's a lever that you should go ahead and pull  we're going to pull that lever then up here you got some elixir of Hill giant strength potion  of superior healing some cold nasty congealed blood if Aion gets thirsty not really uh just go

  ahe and grab the potions here but this opulent chest is what we're after we're going to go ahead  and disarm it again with a Starion this is super easy there we go 38 boy oh boy and then log pick  it and uh you're going to be glad you got this item this item is really good so pop it open  and there you go that is the eversight ring so this makes it where you cannot be blinded so we're  going to pump that bad boy on right now cuz it's insanely useful and what I'm going to take off  is the stran

ge conduit ring since I'm not really going to be concentrating on anything for a while  I don't really need this this is just a good swap to put on if you want you could throw you could  throw this on Shadow heart for now if you want uh you I I wouldn't replace any blazel stuff but um  yeah there you go and so what this does is that whenever we disengage we make a fog Cloud but now  we can't be blinded so we can shoot from within the fog Cloud which means AI will never Target us  ever again next

up we're going to take uh Starion over here to this metal door we're also going  to take LEL and go to the metal door as well and this door is a little bit harder to breach  so if you followed my guide your asterion should be more than powerful enough to open this door go  ahead and lockpick it this one is a difficulty 30 make sure you pop on guidance and there you go  so we are able to get it open go ahead and Par aeran up with Lazelle in the party menu so that  they both walk in tandem togeth

er and then you're going to use laelle for her acrobatic Feats  now if you drink the uh elixir of cloud giant strength then your Lazelle is more than capable of  jumping across this Gap with her natural talents otherwise you'll have to use her Misty step or  her gith Yankee psionic jump Powers go ahead and pick up this gilded chest here quickly then  and then we're just going to jump back over drop the chest for aarion here and uh aarion will  now lockpick that one open and this cape we're going

to replace in literally the next area but  it's good for the next few fights okay this is a capes are rare you might as well pick them up and  here we have a flesh melter cloak we're going to go ahead and give that for now well we're just  going to pick it up with LEL since she's already here just go ahead and equip that to her again  we're replacing her cloak in literally the next area but but for two fights we're going to use  a flesh melter cloak why not so this next part is a fight which is

optional you don't have to do  this fight you can skip it but I like to do it for the XP and we're going to take lazel jump across  that Gap once again jump across this Gap and uh it's okay that your lasel gets beat up because  we're going to be replacing her fairly soon so feel free to take the big heavy jumps here it's  totally fine and we're going to make her descend down into this acid pit now remember we're pretty  much resistant to everything thing there is a bunch of enemies down here an

d uh we're going to  get surprised as soon as we jump down here there we go she's now surprised aarion here up top can  uh improvise you know or or rather he can throw this chest onto something down below and uh deal  a lot of damage cuz this is a heavy heavy chest so feel free to throw this on top of enemies uh path  is interrupted okay well that sucks well that is because I'm standing on the wrong side but yes  a Starion can take this chest and then chunk it down on enemies let's throw it on t

his ooze here  now when we do that there's something that we need to make sure we do here we go 116 damage to the  chest um unfortunately I guess I didn't hit the Ooze that much what you want to do with a Starion  is you can shoot down below but after you're done shooting you need to run away from the ledge and  hide and fog Cloud yourself because if you don't these enemies can pull you down into the pit I  think it's the hollow armor that does it but um you know lasel is more than powerful enou

gh to  handle herself down here you know we can kill an ooze turn around you know maybe kill another ooze  okay not that time but just finish up the fight after the fight is over you can jump back up to  the top but instead of returning to where aarion is you're going to continue through the cave and  it's just a shortcut to another fast travel point so we're going to go north and leave the cave and  uh yeah there's like a backpack and stuff here but it never has anything in it even after patch

six  let's see uh nope still nothing okay there we go so we're going to leave the ominous cave and  uh what the heck was that aerion followed us outside I've never had that happen that actually  that's weird we're we're going to separate him okay that's not supposed to happen he's supposed  to stay on his side of the cave but it it doesn't matter okay he's hiding he's chill we're going  to avoid this little fishing docking area for now don't walk near that instead we're going to uh  use uh lel's

jumping powers to completely bypass it and just jump up these Ledges here there we  go and up and at them and then we're going to go south once we've you know jumped up top here  and we're going to continue we're going to avoid Raphael for now and we're just going to jump  around them okay so we're headed south and yes we can you can dig this up if you want and then  there is the ancient sigil Circle fast travel Waypoint for the grand Mausoleum which we will  now take a Starion and teleport him

up top and everyone else go ahead and just drag the whole  team together you know might as well you don't have to but um there's no there's no fights  or anything but it's always nice for the pals to stick together you know the the braady bunch  or the the Scooby-Doo crew whatever you want to call them go ahead and grab uh oh what's her name  Shadow heart it's been a long day of filming guys and group them back together everyone's nice  and back and also yes lazel is wounded I know but it's fin

e now you can approach Raphael I'm  going to do a little safety save so I don't mess this up and then we're going to make sure that we  talk about aerion scars while we're here so we're talking to rapael blah blah blah I picked number  one number one be pointless of me to number one chances are number one than yours alone friendship  and guidance don't use friendship on honor mode there we go in Truth uh number one so if you which  this I should not relish its uh number [Music] one all right and

there we go so um okay aerion was  in stealth mode that's why we safety saved because we didn't talk about his scars let's try that  again I'm going to load game and I'm going to untill aerion I guess Rafael didn't notice some  there he was off hiding in the back so make sure aerion isn't stealthing otherwise you won't  get the dialogue okay now that Rafael saw aan uh there's a proposal serious bu anyway so uh  what scars and then he takes his shirt off why didn't you tell me earlier all right

also on this  screen you can click deal we'll help you if you help a Starion uh it doesn't really matter though  because he'll help us steer in regardless now you got through all that dialogue make sure another  safety save we're going to head into the mo and Liam entrance we're not going to do the full thing  though we're just grabbing the items right now so we can go murder hoboing to get some levels we're  going to go ahead and open this iron fence and then on the east side there is a room an

d a chest  pretty sure the chest yeah traveler's chest right over here in the south side and uh you can just  bash this sucker open you can use lasel to smash it or whoever but inside is a vivacious cloak and  we're going to put that on lazel I told you we're only having her wear that cape for one fight  and there we go put that bad boy on and you're going to you're going to be wondering why the hell  isn't lazel wearing the Thunder skin cloak and the reason is is you have to be actually hit for

it  to trigger whereas Lazelle well once she respects and becomes Menara and becomes a tank she won't be  attacked she won't be hit anymore ever but uh as Menara you'll able to cast spells and this is your  heal if you do get hit so there you go and uh this is just extra safety in case um like this when  the enemies get dazed they don't want to attack you again this is anti-aggro on your healer all  right now we're going to proceed North into the northernmost room here in the mosum this is wher

e  we're at and this is the puzzle solution so there are three buttons we have to hit first button is  right here on the right side or the West Side this is called moonrise Towers we're going to hit that  button there we go it's going to Glow then on the east side is the grief painting we're going to  hit that button there we go hit that button and yes there's traps everywhere but there there  are it's old they're dead they don't work who cares so finally on the North side is the general  you're

going to hit that button there you go and that will open the pathway woo spooky then we're  going to go down Into The Gauntlet of sh but we're not going to complete this right now we're just  grabbing one more item down here and then our we can go rescue Menara and murder hobo the whole act  all right skipping that cut scene so I'm going to explain the puzzles as we go through the gauntlets  we're going to proceed North stru and open the door this is the the quickest and easiest way to  get to

this item so here we go again we're opening The North Door here so we're going to pop that bad  boy open and then while facing the camera North we're going to do this puzzle and this is how you  do it I'm going to separate my characters so they don't walk into the force field and I guess the  I'm going to separate my summons too and we're going to go all the way to the east side here  just like this there is a vent there who cares walk near the force field then you're going to  curve around and

push that button so it looks like this without touching the force field and there  you go so to solve this puzzle you have to turn off these uh Mystic thoral lights so that you can  see the force fields that's the solution now from here we're going to go west this way and don't  worry about the traps it's whatever who cares they don't do they're not going to hurt you walk  up the stairs continuing West and uh you can loot the sarcophagus if you want there's just some gold  all right but you're g

oing to jump across these little mushrooms yay and the summons can come too  you don't want to leave them in the temple come on summons I can't do a whistling sound but uh  you know here they come and you're going to jump across these mushroom platforms headed west there  we go we're headed west now there is one fight in here it's a very easy fight it's so easy and uh  what we're going to do is um we're just going to walk all the way to the southern top we're not  going to go down we're just goi

ng to walk over here and with our healer as the leader he can see  invisibility so we're going to get right over here and there is the cloaker and now all we're going  to do is just summon a zombie next to it and then range to attack it down that's all we're doing  so there we go it's in a fight with the zombie and it's summoning more fantasms that's fine don't  worry about the fantasms and the fantasms are just going to like Freak the Freak Out on the zombie  and then we're just going to use ra

nge of attacks on the cloaker that's all there is to it boom 18  that's his turn hision you know the drill I don't have to record this part also the chest under the  cloer has some money and a random scroll it won't be polymorph for you it could be probably not  though then proceed North through this doorway now at this point we're just here for one item  so if you want you can separate the whole party grab aarion it's another solo adventure for him  we're going to lockpick the door go ahead the

re it is difficulty 14 super super easy for him it's  just another day in the office once you enter the room here there's a bunch of crap you could loot  if you want it's you know it's just whatever man and uh go ahead and proceed now there's some rats  here and they're praying to an altar so if you pray to the altar you gain necrotic resistance  which hey guess what we're already resistant to everything you don't have to you you don't have  to do anything you don't even have to interact with th

e rats you could kill the rats if you want  I mean you're going to kill them later anyway but for now we're not and uh you can use this lever  to open this door or pick it it's up to you there we go and well that didn't open the okay yeah  that unlocked the door we're going to stealth and we're going to walk around these doofuses that  want us to have a little battle where they summon some orbs and do some other tricky things we're  not into that right now we're not we'll do it later they can wa

it it's it's okay it's not their  turn yet what we're going to do is we're going to stealth to this North Door this vault door come  closer we have candy not right now also vampires don't do vampires like candy blood flavored candy  anyway lockpick the door it's difficulty 30 so you're going to have to you know do a little  bit more of elbow greasing that's not how you say that phrase anyway it broke our stealth but  it doesn't matter we're in the vault go ahead and loot the chest look at all th

is cool stuff and  uh you know we'll just you know pick up all that stuff stuff there in that first chest the second  chest hey look at that good stuff all around the third chest is what we're after this one has the  callous glow ring we're going to give that bad boy to laelle and now we're ready to murder hobo so  at this point I take the Crushers ring and I give that bad boy to Shadow heart for more movement  speed then I put on the callous glow ring and laelle and AKA manthara here soon is fu

ll best  in slot her build is complete but because this is default lasel and not radiant tank Menara we  got to go get Menara but before we do that we want to at least hit level eight just makes things  easier now it's time to get some easy XP and to do that we're going to again we're going to run lasel  down into the ground because like I said this is the last time we're going to be using her so we're  going to take lasel and teleport to wraith wind town just LEL you don't need anybody else I m

ean  if you want to bring the whole group you could but uh from wraith wind Town Pan the camera West into  the building and you're going to position lasel at the bottom of this little staircase here so just  go ahead and click that and she will pathfind her way over here it's a pretty short jaunt and we're  going to pan the camera up the stairs and whenever you see Gary goth thorm over here at at the safe  which it's a little hard to see but we're going to just chug an invisibility po on lasel w

alk  up the stairs and whenever this character here this Gary goth Thorn is over here at the window  seal facing south we're going to get behind her while we're invisible hit that turn-based mode  and then use pushing melee attack on the boss and this is a Boss by the way 96% chance to hit  here we go and it's like a baseball bat look at her fly so what we just did is we knocked a boss  all the way really far down here and uh let's see is it currently our turn it is and we're just  going to go n

ear the window seal here and uh we don't have any more attacks I wish we did but we  currently don't so we're just going to inter turn these little skulls are going to run up and attack  us and that's fine and uh what we're going to do is we're going to kill the boss before she gets up  and if she does get up it doesn't matter she's at 23 HP we can just shoot her she's dead also these  skulls are they sure are taking their time to move not sure there they go now these skulls will go  away once w

e kill the boss so there's no reason to really kill them uh they don't give XP I'll  even show you I'll I'll kill one like they have 23 HP they're oneshot right so I can kill a skull and  then I'll finish off the boss with a ranged attack and uh and that's the fight oh well they do give  XP now so smash all the skulls because they'll despawn after the Boss by the way the boss is is  already all the way down here if uh she has 4 HP now so um you can just one-hot her any time there  is an achievem

ent for killing her before she uses any of her gold so if you want the achievement  kill her first load your game then come back kill the skulls then kill her maximize that XP gain  now this boss has an interesting weapon which I'm not going to be using but it's called Twist  of Fortune it's a special ability lets you deal more damage whenever you consume the target's  gold so you can reverse pick pocket give people a bunch of gold and then onot them with the blood  Money ability I again I'm not

going to be using this weapon I'm just going to go ahe and pick it  up just because it's kind of cool and yeah there you go all right so lazel is now going to teleport  to moonrise towers and our next contestant is our main character our charismatic social character  who is get going to transform also to uh the moonrise towers and this character is going to  do a little bit of drinking so I again I don't why did it switch to LEL again I don't know go to  moonrise Towers on the Healer and from m

oonrise Towers we're going to take a sharp West into  this building this is the waning moon building and we're going to just do a little safety save in  case we screw up if you're on honor mode you can skip this step cuz you might screw things up but  your healer can technically tank this fight until it's easy easier to do and you're going to walk up  and talk to fizo bald Thorn and we're going to get a bunch of inspiration from this guy so it's just  a drinking game we're going to sit down and

uh what is it you're serving pick up the tinkered and  you can do saving throws you can do slide of hand you can do cleric saving throws uh so we're going  to do that cuz you know Advantage is nice to have and uh we'll go ahead and do resistance bless is  the exact same thing so there we go and we're just going to continue to do this and exhaust all the  dialogue once the bartender explodes in a pile of guts get lasel in here and kill all the neutrals  now I'll mention if you do the fight normal

ly it's annoying because he's basically immune to  nonelemental damage and it takes a while and you get 500 XP but if you talk them into blowing  himself up it's 520 XP and it's much faster oh and you can level up LEL and just pick whatever I just  picked ability Improvement it doesn't again we're not going to be using her for very much longer  once you've cleaned up the bar it's time toan clean up the docks you're going to take your lasel  teleport to the Grand maum and remember that fish area

that I told you to avoid well you're going  to unavoid it and go kill some fish boys that's right we're just going to leap and jump as a frog  lady would a lot of people call Isela frog lady I think she's more like an alien lady but whatever  we're going to go down to the docks and yeah she's a little wounded she's a little batter go ahead  and use that second wind why not you know boom pump your fists get 11 HP I don't know how that  works but we're going to get surprised here and uh here's the

fun part about being surprised we're  going to go into the door we're not going to break the sides we're going to make the enemies break  the sides and when we touch this chest they're all going to jump out there they are and yeah just  kill them all you can solo this as LEL maybe not on honor mode but uh everyone else can there's  a reason we're using lasel for this look at all their health bars we haven't even attacked them  we one shot everything that we come across we can attack multiple ti

mes so that's one that's two and  then we have our great weapon attack uh against this guy that's prone that's three and then we  end our turn and everyone else gets proned and knocked down and reverberated and they're never  going to land hits once the fish people are dead then you're going to teleport to the Grand maum  now for this next step you want to bring your full party or at least your talking character and  you're going to just travel straight South that means across this tree branch i

nto this building  here and boy oh boy did they glitch out did y'all see that stretch and then unstretch oh man so once  you're in the house of healing you can climb down this Roots right here so go ahead and climb down  the roots there we go down we go and climb down the roots once again and I just want to remind  you even though patch six hit they still didn't fix this glitch if you want to heal a zel if you  want to cheat open your difficulty increase it and then decrease it and then taada yo

u you gained  some HP we're at 114 health and now we are at 151 we're fully healed so again if you want to  cheat you can but uh you're going to go ahead and and kill malice storm if you're on honor mode  I would try the persuasion route and bring your full party but if you're on easier difficulties  then it doesn't really matter uh again I can solo this would Layel and this is a really cool scene  so you'll have to watch it yourself after further testing I have mid maxed the XP on this dialogue

  you're going to need to bring your healer for the talking click student yes do you enlighten me  then you're going to use your cleric religion to pass the role give yourself guidance that's  fine easy to pass that one the next one is a little bit harder you're going to uh your subject  is Tainted Char's Sor must only be granted to the willing then you're going to do the sisters  require a willing volunteer a master of the art and this one's pretty hard to pass it is a 21  and uh you can give y

ourself friends for Advantage there you go or give them friends you can't do  that on honor mode so just stick with guidance and try to pass this one without spending any  of your uh inspiration points so you can really maximize the XP so there we go I'm going to skip  this cut scene real quick cuz it's pretty brutal now check this out we got 640 experience and then  look at this ACO did my homework plus 75 XP and then you get inhumane trials that's another plus  75 exp and there's more there's

way more this is so many inspiration points Familia side that's  from LEL oh man yeah the XP just pours in it's crazy how good this is an apple a day keeps the  scalpel away no it doesn't uh I wish that would be cool if you could eat one thing for the rest  of your life every day and be healthy it'd be nice but anyway basically uh malice Thorn lays on the  table and all the nurses stab him to death it's pretty fun and uh you definitely need to loot  this battered loot go ahead and loot that you

can loot the money you can loot all this other  crap too if you want and uh you don't need the key and you can send this to Camp whatever and  then have LEL or whoever just kill these sisters kill the nurses they're pretty easy and you know  they're worth a good amount of XP so just clean them up has once you've cleared out the nurses  go ahead and move South through the double oak doors and uh up here to the east there is a nurse  that you can buy stuff from or you can just kill her we're just

going to kill her and then take her  loot but if you wanted to use her as a vender you can and then we need to inspect these two corpses  also but we're just going to kill her real quick there we go and then we're going to uh click  on the corpses there and so this is arabella's father and the mother so that sucks sucks for  Arabella but hey it's just it is what it is oh look who's over there it's Arabella literally  you know a screen away so we're going to go out throughout the Northeast door h

ere and around the  corner and then we're going to talk to Arabella by opening the fence let's see and uh yeah so what  we're going to do is tell her parents are dead it sucks but that's just how it is hello Arabella  and then hey she's waving look some Shadows happen she binds them the wind right out what are you  doing out here it's not safe you notice the girl shivering in let's see your parents are dead sorry  to say you and then persuasion check there we go find them I will friends cuz why

not easy easy  easy new all right now she'll go to the camp see you later that's another plus 75 exp and then hey  look these Shadows that are just bound here just derping around just chilling guess what they're  also free XP so just smash them boom Plus 90 exp and then there's another one to kill we'll just go  ahead and just BL a equitment really dude teleport the party back to moonrise towers and we're going  to do our level UPS cuz everyone should be level eight at this point though a little

bit over  that's totally fine and so for your healer you're going to go storm sorcerer so here we go cleric  level eight we don't want to be a cleric though and to multic class once again you have to change  your difficulty from explore to balance I get so many comments about this so again if you can't  multiclass change your difficulty and then you can hit this multiclass button and we're going to go  Sorcerer And then for our spells we are going to pick chromatic orb which is already selected

for  us here and then any kind of Shield spell so can trips uh these don't matter too much you can pick  whatever you want I personally went with Mage hand and minor illusion Ray of frost and Bone chill  and for spells I want chromatic orb and shield now again subass is going to be storm sorcery  and when you cast a level one spell you can fly as a bonus action meaning you can reposition if  you're getting surrounded as a Healer it's very important to be able to fly but even though  we can tech

nically fly for free later or with potions this we're still going to be using storm  sorcery in the later levels for the most benefit for shadow heart who is your monk character your  monk tank you just put another level into monk you get some passives evasion and Stillness of  Mind these are pretty cool so no no big brain stuff needed for aerion you're going to put your  level into cleric so you should have four levels of cleric four levels of Rogue your can trip does  not matter at all and uh

prepared spells just use whatever you feel like you're not really using  much Spells at all and uh for here's the argument right ability Improvement putting two more into  dexterity helps you with stealth it helps you with all sorts of fun things but for Pure damage  and that's what we care about Sharpshooter is a plus 10 it's a plus 10 you you want damage with  the ster and he's your damage healer he's your hardest heating character in the entire game go  with Sharpshooter now before we get Men

ara we're going to do a little bit of XP farming and getting  some tadpoles so at moonrise Towers we're going to go south into the entrance here we're going to  shut the doors so there's no Witnesses and we're going to kill kill everyone outside now this adep  maram and zeelot Malik will both drop Tad poles so let's just get those Gates closed get our party  surrounding you know right here in the middle nice and nice and snug we'll get we'll put a zombie  over there for the two ghouls to play wi

th and then LEL can get the opening strike and yeah just  kill everything out here once they're dead and remember it's maram and Malik go ahead and get two  tadpoles so we're going to enter going through the South doors once you get into this main little  foyer here we're going to turn East and walk through the Eastern door this is uh where uh well  this is just a little area here you're going to go in here and the next Tad poll is on lindella now  you can talk to her and you could do a little g

ame where you can make these nolles turn on her and  kill her or you can just kill everything in here I'm just going to kill everything from here I'm  going to teleport everyone back to the moonrise Towers fast travel it's just faster and easier  this way in my opinion we're going to go back into the main foyer and this time we're going to go  through this rightmost door down into the prison area and there's a there's a few we need to grab  here they're not too hard to get but we're going to go

through this door while got to wait for  my characters to run there and uh technically if you want you can murder hobo everything out  here but uh I tried it earlier and uh the entire cast first floor second floor Etc like if you wipe  out all of moonrise Towers it's 8,000 experience which is not too bad it's a little timec consuming  it took about 40 minutes uh to do so anyway once you're down here in the prison area you will  turn to the north and go through these heavy oak doors and there are

two tadpoles out here to  grab now I if you're not playing on honor mode I would just make a save if you're playing on honor  mode be prepared to kill everything out here and I'm just going to make a little quick safety save  there we go and run up East through the docks and you're going to see this zenim shipping crate now  don't attack this instead what you're going to do is steal it and they're going to get mad that's  normal perfectly normal being arrested for and so I'm going to talk my wa

y out of it and I'm  going to use persuasion do you really care if this ENT treant goes missing like do you really  care bro like friendship and guidance let's go it's a real easy thing to pass and there you go  they don't they don't care we convinced them it's ours now and just by picking it up that gave us  two tadpoles now let me just tell you about this Barrel because this Barrel is awesome this is atic  explosion barrel with a very large radius so it will put a very large circle of acid on

the ground  and so I'm just going to send this to my Camp uh because you know it is um it is a little weighty  but uh there you go it's not quite an explosive Barrel it's an acidic Barrel also you can kill  everyone out here uh if you want the XP but uh we're going to move on to the next tadpole we're  going to go back into the prison and we're going to go uh in the west here and then we're going to  curve around South and this will be a mission for Lael Lael will do a little solo Mission here a

nd  earlier on if we killed the guard we could avoid doing this but it's just easier to just have  LEL do it so I'm going to separate the party grab laselle jump her over the bridge here an  efficient p and you want to make sure she has some amount of HP cuz we're going to throw her  down this hole and yeah if you want you could uh you could featherfall her but it's only 30 damage  the towers blood which Gale also takes by the way because of where the Tad are coming from there's  a lot of voices

going on right now okay so we're going to go uh right up here to this corpse this  is Northwest and we're just going to go to zeelot there's a lot you should take a look and there's  a tadpole onto the that body pretty simple stuff there we go I can send the rest of this stuff  to Camp which is funny cuz I can't fast travel at the moment but I can still warp things to  Camp which is always I don't know fun there's a dead Goblin in here it doesn't have anything good  you're going to proceed East

and get the heck out of here wasted there we go and there's there's  there's a fight up ahead so we're just going to LEAP right into the fight you can stealth around  if you want uh and you know get the jump on these two things on on the easier difficulties these  are not dangerous they're hook our lasel is more than powerful enough to take these out but yeah we  can just uh stealth right up to this one and just murder it and my game is not loading but yeah just  go ahead and take these dudes o

ut once they're dead proceed Northwest here and you'll just climb  out of the hole go ahead and climb out of the hole here there we go CED Rock and from here you can  fast travel back it's actually pretty quick to do so uh otherwise you're you just end up you know up  here behind the prison cells you can jump down if you want uh yeah let's just do that screw the Fast  Travel and uh cuz we might as well kill the warden while we're up here I'll go ahead and show you  that too cuz the warden has a

nice amulet for our healer and uh let's just go ahead and jump down  here minus 7 HP it's fine only minus three cuz of warding bond and we're going to go into this  little middle area here I'm just going to jump lots of jumping in this little section and uh this  door well it's uh you know it's locked but hey we're just going to you know smash her open that's  fine and there's the warden so we're going to just kill the warden now and die warden die you were  witnessed assaulting someone oh no an

d yeah the warden goes invisible so you'll just have to wait  a turn for them to reveal they're they're kind of a ranged kite build they like to just attack and  run away they'll probably run up the ladder and then oh no this thing saw a Swifty do right so so  be prepared to fight multiple things but uh we're going to loot an amulet off the warden so just  just kill everything you can they won't alert the upper floors it's fine so the warden has this  the spell Crux amulet you can give this to y

our healer if you want you can give it to oh I'm being  arrested all right just kill everybody that bugs you down here also in this Tower uh this uh these  switches opens the cells I wouldn't open them right now until you murder hobo everything else  and there's no enemies left at all then free the prisoners yeah while you're down here just just  kill the rest of the guards it's good XP while you're down here you can talk to wolin and the  teling and tell them use persuasion that you'll break th

em out and that's another 120 XP so while  you're down here there's a couple enemies you shouldn't kill because it gets a little buggy when  you free manthara and that is in this room there are these two questioners if you kill them uh the  NPCs will start acting a little weird uh there's going to be two of these like looking characters  these zealots or these whatever they are the adeps and they will like follow Menara around they'll  be leashed to her if you kill them before you free Menara so

just just leave them alone for now  I would leave all these characters alone and come back later to kill them next up what I'm going to  recommend that you do is you take lelle and you take Shadow heart your two highest DPS characters  and you just clean out everything that is not in this main room because when you walk in this main  room if you aggro anything in here it red flags the entire Zone it makes Krick just skip all the  dialogue and if Menara dies she Perma dies so in honor mode you w

ant to wait and come back later  with jiro's army to clean this out but in all the other difficulties it's fine just start killing  everything on the first floor once you've cleared the first floor pop up these Rafters as you did  earlier and then you can clear out the second and third floors and the top floor and the reason  we're clearing it out now is because Krick is sitting here doing nothing whereas normally he's  at the top floor and if and you really want to have the top floor cleared be

fore you fight him  later you want to have the first floor cleared before jira's Army shows up later it just makes  things way easier and we'll hit Level 9 before we do the harder parts of act two now a few things  I want to mention is uh there's a few NPCs you don't want to hurt for instance don't hurt ared  oblodra because you need her for act three stuff I wouldn't mess with this Pilgrim either that's in  her room and then rowa Moonglow is going to Agro but if you just knock her out and don't

lethally  kill her and her Goonies you should be fine for a small interaction with her and act three though  if you do kill her it's not the end of the world we don't need her for anything it's just a fun  little side quest you can do in act three now that I've cleared out most of moonrise Towers  let's go get Menara finally I've also kicked a Starion out temporarily just because why not  so I'm going to run into the throne room here and here's the choices we're going to make stay  silent simpl

y watching all right don't kill her she's a loyal servant of the absolute she's not  lying she served the absolute faithfully and then we get to choose the fate of these Goblins the  Goblins are yours thank you I'm going to enjoy this though that choice doesn't matter now help  the third choice fight me if you die or you kill me you're free to go this gives you the most  XP so we're going to do this and they're two shable like they're they're really really easy  to kill like they have almost no

HP so just beat them up and kill them now go down the stairs to  the prison and we're going to build Menara out which I've already killed just about everyone  so what I'm going to do first is the these two adepts because I didn't kill the enemies inside  they will go back to their posts here and uh this one's going to go up the stairs we're just  going to go ahead and Ambush this one kill him now and oh missed okay well we got to hit him again  there we hit him and he zoned so let's go follow hi

m let's go beat him up real quick that's pretty  funny yeah they're just walking it off let's just cck go ahead and clear the enemies in this room  now there's not too many and uh what do we have here this is yeah we're just going to clear the  enemies at the top before we rescue Menara more you know it's just easier this way while you're up  here you might as well just kill uh disciple Zell as well and get another tadpole also you might as  well kill krick's dog now if you didn't decide to kill

almost all of moonrise Towers you'll want to  shut this door turn off the Torches in the room and then don't even engage dialogue with these  two characters simply just kill them then you're going to give Menara an invisibility potion and  then walk her out to the Fast Travel point but because I've already killed everyone in the tower  I don't need to make her invisible there's no one to stop us assaulting this is the easiest most  efficient way to do this the answer choices to get her out are

pretty simple we need to get out  of here let's go then just walk her to the Fast Travel Point that's all you got to do that is uh  straight up the stairs and out the front door what she's P the little fire area here that you know  blocks off the Zone all you got to do is tell her where to find your camp and then just talk to her  in your camp with your main character I don't know why she runs back into moonrise Towers uh I guess  she forgot our purse or something like that's not where our camp

is bro after Menor Sade we can go  ahead and release the prisoners since everything's dead outside it's uh it doesn't really do much  in act three but but it's it's just a nice thing to do you know there we go and the prisoners will  run out and then you'll get the quest reward it'll turn green there it is going all good afterwards  you can teleport to last slide in and then talk to wurn you'll see a quest marker on your map to  show you where he's at and he's right here should be right in here

there he is so just go ahead and  talk to him we are so close to level 9 and there's a few places we can go so here's where we started  act two at if you go down here there's a fight that you can do also from Shadow to Battlefield  up here there's a few fights you can do they're pretty easy and uh just go do them you should be  level 9 so to be more specific right in this area is a big fight also in this part of the map here  in the kind of Northeast there is the he who was this is just a quest

for gloves that summons a  bird and if you take the gloves off you you lose the summon it really sucks it's huge waste of time  you could kill him for XP cuz he's level six but it for role players killing him is considered an  evil action cuz it's a good guy he's very Justice oriented it's up to you finally the other big  fight is this is where we started the game this is where we killed that Caravan at the very start  then just go south from there and then there's more of these shrub monsters y

ou kill the small  ones they explode big ones can't root us because we have freedom of movement uh buffed up once  you've killed those mobs you should be level 9 you absolutely should be level 9ine by now you're  going to head back to camp and you're going to kick out shadowart and invite Gail and we're also  going to talk to Menara and invite her so uh get that done also now's a good time to give uh Shadow  heart that night Orchid that we picked up way at the start Menara will be hanging out wi

th how so  just talk to her and then invite her to your party and then go through the dialogue I can help you  fix it I can help you fix it starting with General Thor you'll join me in this battle will of course  you'll be a valuable Ally sleep well and then you can talk to her again there she goes now she  leveled up now we can invite her to the party the emperor is the reason have made it this far let's  see and if the GI oh she's already joined there we go that's cuz she's leveling up so now

we're  going to and we're going to Respec her at Withers so I don't know why but my Menara is missing  a body she's just a a headed hands that's some VR stuff right there but anyway we're going to  make her a level one cleric let me get everything on the screen here so we're going to change her  class to cleric her C trips will be sacred flame guidance of course we need guidance uh and produce  Flame there we go her subass will be light domain and then we're going to go her deity cannot be  chan

ge from Lost that is purely how uh she works you can't change her deity and then we're going  to clear her stats here and we're going to give her 16 strength doesn't matter if it's plus two or  plus one does not matter at all Dex is 14 and then Constitution 12 int is dump stat which is eight  wisdom 16 and Charisma dump stat 8 you can change her skill proficiencies to whatever you want I'm  going to go ahead and do medicine or no I'll keep Insight I don't need religion I'll do medicine and  you

can keep Rel it's really whatever the heck you want and there we go that is level one done levels  2 through five are also all cleric so here we go I will again she has no body or legs I don't know  what's going on with Menara in my uh my save file but we're going to prepare spells later we don't  need to do that right now I'll go over that when we get there level three cleric all right uh again  she earns drown magic fairy fire and then you can prepare spells nothing special here level four  cl

eric uh you can learn a new can trip I like thury uh we don't really or you can do resistance  I'll just go with resistance and then for the feet you're going to choose dual wielder because yes  we are using two weapons so make sure you pick dual wielder and there we go then at level five  uh nothing else again her race learns Darkness that's really cool and there we go the rest is  going to go into fighter now level six we are now multiclassing into fighter here we go and then  the fighting sty

le is going to be defense you want a plus one to armor class while wearing armor very  simple there is nothing to pick up at level seven and then at level eight we are going to become a  Battle Master as a Battle Master you're going to choose evasive footwork repost and sweeping  attack and I know sweeping attack sucks for damage but it's not about how much damage you're  dealing it's every time you hit something they get a whole bunch of conditions applied to them so  when there's like four peo

ple swarming you and you sweeping attack them you're just going to be  glowing and blowing up everything around you it's really nice at level 9 your feet is going to  be ability Improvement also make sure you're putting the levels into fighter and you're going  to go plus two to strength and the reason why is we're going to have her strength so high she does  not need an Elixir at end game and she can drink a different Elixir because she is our main tank  what you're going to do now that you've

leveled up Menara to 9 is you're going to give everything  that LEL is wearing ing to Menara and then we're going to say goodbye to laelle she is no longer  going to be in service now you don't need to give her the silver sword of the astral plane you're  going to give her the blood of Leander and The Shining stav of skulls next you'll use Gail to  give Menara all the Buffs that we did earlier also remember that because manthara is a Dr she  does not need the dark vision transmutation Stone she

actually she has better dark vision than  everyone else uh Gail can't really see in the dark but our character is an elf so we can see  a little bit further also I went ahead and gave her the spider's liar back that we stole from her  and uh I'm going to wear The Battered loot that we picked up from that robot surgeon dude also it's  time to give her some Perma Buffs so you're going to give her auntie Ethel's hair with the plus one  strength and then you have that plus two strength potion in you

r inventory that you're going to  hand her over to here's the spells that I ready to for Menara I have Spirit Guardians this is an  AOE damage concentration animate dead for another Skelly Archer spiritual weapon for just an extra  summon that deals damage Prayer of Healing don't really need this you can take this one off if you  want uh maybe put another level one spell on there like Bane or something or maybe Shield of Faith uh  but don't really need this one so I'm just going to go ahead and

yeah I'm just going to go ahead  and put a shield of faith I like Shield ofth Faith uh also command always useful protection from evil  and good you could probably remove this one and add something else like Sanctuary uh it's really  I don't know it it depends if you're fighting faas and then we got Shield of faith of course and  then healing word this is the one that you can heal a creature you can see this is just a way to  pick up someone if they are on the ground or toss someone to heal to h

eal ourself because when we  cast a spell we receive healing from ourselves so you'll notice hear that Menara comes preloaded  with a bunch of tadpole Powers which is really awesome but we're going to pump her up full of  them so here is everything that you're going to dump into this and the reason why is the more  Tad PES you use the better cold a week gets which this character is going to trigger or proc cold  a week more than anything so in it goes cold the week psionic overload that's this o

ne right here  in the top middle then you're going to go to Stage front this one is amazing there we go next up is  ability drain that one's right up here with then Force Tunnel right down this way displacer or  displace then we have Repulsor and then we can learn transfuse health and you would think what  about perilous Stakes nah don't need it we're just going to go with uh Shield of THS way way way  more useful so what this means is that anytime you Pro Rock reverberation which deals a little

  bit of uh you know radiant damage to a Target you will call the target as in you will just execute  it immediately if it is at 12 or less HP it's it's so broken for your clerics level 9 you're going  to put the point into Sorcerer And then for your spell that you're going to learn you're going to  learn fog cloud and for your metam magic you're going to do twined spells and extended spells  because your job is a buffer and a debuffer you're not doing ranged or careful like who cares  about tha

t for aerion your fog Cloud Rogue you're going to put the level into cleric so now you  have four Rogue levels and five cleric levels also ignore the text on the screen you don't need  to learn fog Cloud you already have that learned and uh the twin and extended mam magic that  was for the previous slide so at monk level 9 or at level 9 you're going to have one level into  cleric and eight levels into monk you're going to pick up ability Improvement feat and the reason  why we're going plus two

strength is because you can now switch off the cloud of giant strength  Elixir for blood lust Elixir which is actually a DPS Improvement and don't worry in act three  we're going to be uh switching her entire spec so that she can wear gloves that give you 23 strength  meaning she can still be freed up to use bloodlust Elixir and not lose any damage and now for more  Camp buffing but now we have the ability to do twin casting so we're going to use that with the  Drake throat glaive so on your hea

ler you're going to equip the Drake throat glaive just temporarily  and then on Menara or whoever you want you're going to get real close to the Healer and you're  going to drop your weapons and we can only enchant two weapons with the Drake throat glaive per  day so there's leth ander's light on the ground and then we're going to take the shining staber  of skulls put that on the ground and walk away so on your healer you're going to need at least  three of these sorcery points so I'm just goin

g to sacrifice a level one spell slot by clicking  this create sorcery Point that's going to convert one spell slot into one sorcery point so there  we go now I have three sorcery points I'm going to click this metamagic twin spell button and then  I'm going to click the dra Elemental weapon spell that's from our glaive and then I'll just use  Thunder as the element I'm going to select the blood of Leander and The Shining St of skulls and  now both of them are enchanted so mentho will now come a

nd pick the weapons back up off the ground  and they are now stronger than ever before for the whole day the rest of the day we're going to put  The Shining saver of skulls uh blood of thander and Main I like this The Shining St of skulls  in the off hand and and uh you can see that it it deals an additional 1 D4 Thunder damage  and this one also deals 1 D4 Thunder damage so again that's 2 to8 bonus damage that we have for  the rest of the day it's just really nice also I just want to note we do

n't really have a level  five spell at the moment uh for our cleric so hold on I'm hitting the wrong button here you can  see I have no level five Spells at all yes I could upcast something if I want to or I can just use my  level five spell slot to convert to sorcery points right and then we're going to create five sorcery  points from that and remember that amulet we got from the warden well guess what I can put that  amulet on okay and then I can use that amulets ability to restore the level

five spell slot or  recover a level six spell slot which um you know I don't technically have but we can just go ahead  and do that and the game it didn't give it to me of course uh but you would want to do that for a  level five spell slot and then you can can convert that to more sorcery points and the cool thing is  is you can convert sorcery points into spell slots so you can restore your level one level two level  three Etc spells so you you just have so much spells to work with now and fro

m now on anyone  that has uh really or any items that have really useful spells like this haste bow you're going to  want to have so you can twin cast it on enemies on allies you know just well you don't want to  haste the enemies but you get what I'm saying and as far as Elixir go yeah we're using the giant  strength at the moment just to pump up the Titan string bow for damage but later on you're going to  be using Slumber potions to get your spell slots back while keeping your sorcery points

and then  uh Arcane cultivations you know different tiers of that so you can just get spell slots to convert  into sorcery points to convert into better spell slots also remember this purple Shield we bought  gives you a level one spell slot so you can again convert that to sorcerer three points you can also  yoink the pearl of power amulet I said that word pearl of power amulet and uh use that to restore  spell slots to convert to sorcery points to restore bigger spell slots yay so why is manth

ara  so much better than lasel well it's because of Soul branding this is her unique special snowflake  ability and what it does is it gives you 3 to9 additional fire damage and movement speed it says  is 1.5 M but it's actually more than that so her movement speed right now is 15 M but when we cast  it you'll notice here that her movement speed is now 20 M you may be thinking well it lasts three  turns so 1.5 * 3 no no no look now it's down to two turns still 20 M and then when this goes down 

to one turn remaining which it is right now still 20 M and then you'll see it drop off back down to  15 M so it it's it's way more than the tool tip says but the cool thing is is this is an amazing  pre-buff thing like I have three skeleton archers you know 3 to n damage adds up that's uh you know  nine damage now that Archer that's 18 damage this one is 27 damage you know throw it on you know  another ranged character like a staring here that's 36 damage and then you walk through the  door and

you blast everybody it's just free damage and this is a bonus action in combat so uh it's  it's broken as hell another Power Spike at nine is again the twin casting we can now channel Shield  of faith on two of our party members so I've got it on Shadow heart and Menara so our armor class  is through the roof we got 25 AC on Shadow heart 22 on Menara it's it's over like they can't do  anything also you can twincast heals you can twin cast Buffs debuffs you know you can swap on that  haste bow tw

incast that before you walk through the doors and fight a boss the possibilities are  just endless all right time to get another tadpole you're going to teleport to the last Light in and  we're going to talk to Isabelle and we're going to do this a little bit smartly here we're going  to do this a little bit pre-planned you know kind of like seeing the future kind of sort of I don't  recommend doing this on honor mode because it can really screw things up make a safety save before  you do this o

f course and and we're going to we're going to split the party up a little bit here so  including the skeletons so Isabelle's room should be facing North Here There It Is we're going to  just uh walk right in front of the door with our main character and Shadow heart Shadow Heart Is  Our Big Bounce not really big bouncer I was going to say big bouncy but now Shadow heart is going  to be our bouncer upstairs we're going to position Menara about right right around there that's fine  we're going to

put Aion upstairs as well as a rooftop sniper so let's uh get him going up there  there and again you want everyone positioned like in a spot where they can shoot downward and  then we have the skele the Skelly bros we're just going to put the Skelly Bros up top as well  and we'll reposition them once they get up there cuz it's easier to see the floor and click on it  and stuff oh there we go all right looks like uh we need to reposition Shadow heart here so we're  going to go in and we're goin

g to go right about right about here on the door now time to rest main  character healer will be the one right here we're going to summon our zombie as well let's get our  skeletons in position so skeletons put one there we're going to put one there and this other one  can cover a Starion so we've got eyes all over the place everyone's nice and spread out we've got our  characters we're going to do the safety save now can't give up and then we're going to pop out the  zombie and then we're going

to very quickly talk to Isabelle while all this is going down and uh  Isabelle gets attacked so that's why we're doing all this uh security detail anyway I'm going to  skip the going to save us save you how do you figure that number one but good all right number  one I wish you luck number one while here comes the trouble oh boy and uh y I've been blessed what  are my instructions are clear Take The Girl to touch her and I'll kill you says the simp here  come the big batty dudes to abduct child

ren oh no poor Maul all right everyone's in position so  we're all set and uh yeah everyone's going to kill the wing demons and then our healer the zombie and  Shadow heart should be able to pumble down flaming fist Marcus who has the tadp so when you kill  Marcus glute the tadp now unfortunately I did have one casualty this Harper NAA died and if you're  curious if you should load game or not essentially all you have to do and I just jumped straight  on her corpse all you have to do is simply l

ook them up in the wiki nesa apparently will guard  moonrise towers and attack it and in act three help you fight the final boss so I don't have that  for me but I don't care it's it's just one crappy little NPC I'm not too worried about that also  with our tadpole make sure to pump an into Menara yeah man that way now call the week is up to 13  HP we'll get more later and that'll complete the whole tree basically until these unlock all right  so now let's get Howen as a permanent party member e

ven though we won't use them in our combat team  we can turn them into something that casts Buffs on us later makes feasts so what we're going  to do is is when we're here at last Light in we're going to go uh to the northern part of the  first floor and there's going to be this guy on the bed named art CAG and uh we're just going to  talk to Art CAG here there we go flame and skip dialogue and that name he mentioned thanel who is  that there we go and then we're going to pull out the loot that

we found and play a little bit so  that's going to wake him up there we go and then say I killed malis thorn do you know him and uh  don't say Howen is dead say what what do you want from him the darkness and then leave and then go  to camp and then talk to Howen and then Howen will come here and talk to this guy so here's Howen and  Camp being a book nerd so we're going to interrupt his book reading probably reading something dirty  okay so uh there's a flaming fist recuperating last Light seem

s he escaped from the curse and he  spoke of a boy called thanel surv and he's like oh we need to speak to this guy I'll go see him  right away and he just vanishes he just teleports away as the game intended you know drw's in their  teleporting magic right doesn't even transform to a rat so you don't oh here he comes how's kind of  slowly walking over just go ahead and talk to Art Cola and he'll just appear there there you go  blah blah blah not sure was there anything that could offer guidance

and there we go so now Howen  is going to have us meet him on the side of town and this is this is actually a really difficult  defensive fight I'm going to I'm going to teach you how cheese it but um on honor mode it really  sucks but this party is more than capable of doing it but you there's a way to solo it if you want  to cheese it or cheat it rather by just healing the portal unintentionally so right over here on  the North uh north side of town is this big old stone and I really recommen

d that you save before  doing this fight because things can go real bad there there's a lot of like Scrolls you can use to  like make this easier but our party is pretty much built to wipe the floor with these two encounters  so I'm going to make a safety save and I'll show you the encounter a little bit of it all right  so let's talk about how to cheat this encounter before I show you to heal the portal you have to  go to tactician mode confirm it and then go back to Explorer mode and confirm i

t and that will heal  the portal and you just have to last like five turns and then you win but three of our party  members have Spirit guard and that we're just going to have Spirit Guardian walls just standing  around killing everything so uh let's go ahead and talk to Howen to get the whole process started and  uh I'll I'll show you it's pretty wild there we go you're here now we can all right let's do it very  well all right once I begin the what am I to do I need you to stay here you can co

unt on me there we  go and so a ton of enemies are going to spawn in like right now and your job is to kill them all  and yeah so what we're going to do is everyone cast Spirit Guardians and we're going to cast the  radiant version so there we go we've cast Spirit Guardians we're just going to now uh March over  and walk all over all the shadows and that's going to hurt the crap out of them there we go also um  because we killed one we can now attack again so again we have blood lust that's why

we have blood  lust that thing has a lot of Health this one have I did I hit okay it's going a opportunity attack  we can just hit it with our Shield why not there we go didn't do anything though all right so that  ends his turn and now for our main character's turn against Spirit Guardians and it the screen's  going to get flooded with enemies you may think oh this isn't so bad no it's it's it's about to  get way worse as a matter of fact I'm just going to put this character kind of here in the

front  and end this turn I could have shot yeah I know I could have shot but it's whatever you know we got  plenty of other things that can do some shooting make use your skeletons to make a little wall  make a little blockade and uh things get really out of hand really quickly here but right now  they're fine and then of course Menara also Spirit Guardians and we're going to put her over here  kind of in defense of this Zone there we go and she can also Soul branding herself why not you  know

just for more damage doesn't really hurt and again this whole air this whole area is going  to be just flooded with bad guys it's it's so cool to see but right now you know we're kind  of on top of the mob clear he's walking around the spirit Guardians he's like no no no I'm  not touching it and he's teleporting too here comes some more and you'll you'll see this top  part just still I'll skip ahead I'll just skip ahead well I was going to show you uh just I mean  you'll have to look at all thes

e bodies all these corpses right and uh this strategy is working a  little too good because it's killing everything the second they spawn in hin will then pull a  boy out of a portal and then uh we need to get him somewhere safe and then he's going to take  him back to Camp we're going to go to camp and talk to him about it we're going to be like hey  alen you know how do we fix this and he's going to be like there's another boy out there and like  oh yeah that boy that we got that sneaky ring f

rom way earlier in the video he's going to be like  what video what are you talking about St and all right make sure you talk to Howen back in Camp so  you can progress this part of the story what stay behind how can I help only the missing half May  once athel's Essence is found what then reasoned with I sort of I met a sort of Shadow child before  a little boy named Oliver around Daniel's age and I truly mean all right leave it to me if you want  me I'm yours stay here for now and now we just

go back to Oliver and we know where he's at he's uh  over here at the uh shadow of the battlefield so we take that Waypoint and then we just go up the  little wooden tree trunks here and this fight is the exact same thing uh he summons a bunch of  ads and you kill them and it breaks his shield and then you win the fight so we're going to talk  to Oliver now and Oliver is a little [ __ ] so uh we're going to do a safety save not back to I  still think you might I know who you really are where you

really belong I'm not going back like  it or not you don't belong here and then he opens a portal of course so we go through the portal  and it just teleports us you know at a different spot of the map it's not like its own unique area  so this is the fight he's going to summon a bunch of ads and we just beat him up it's really simple  also on higher difficulties don't attack the night Dome Shield cuz it'll hurt you twice as hard as  you hit it it has 300 HP so unless you have 600 hp somehow yo

u know there's no reason to attack it  when you kill the ads uh that it summons that he summons it breaks the shield and that that's how  you win the fight it's real simple it's really brainless okay brain dead once you break his  shield the fight is basically over he starts winging and complaining and then you can be mean  or nice to him it doesn't really matter uh just lint Daniel your strength nobody's to blame here  of course you will you're bound to each other and there you go it's all good

when you get back to  Camp the kid will be reformed he'll tell you what happened and yep everything's good now you have uh  Howen as a permanent party member that you can add anytime and then you can confirm this by talking  to Howen in your campel rests well and then you can be like I need you by my side out there and  it's the same as any other party member so there you go the next thing we need to do is free the  night song so that we can kill Krick Thorne and also get jira so we're going to

go ahead and do  that now we're going to teleport to the Grand mum and we're going to go back into the gauntlet  of sh by going into uh again we've already done this earlier we're going to go north into the  far back of this building here I'll show you inside the mausoleum we did this portrait puzzle  you're going to once again click this gym and go down now there's a few ways to proceed from  this main room here you can hop skippity jump over the mushrooms like we did earlier to end  up in thi

s room again to do that encounter or you can just simply go north and do this encounter  both encounters have a similar mechanic where they summon these purple umbrell Tremors if you don't  kill them they will summon more and more ads until you do and uh just just kill the purple things  and then kill the ads after the fight we do need to return to that West room that we were once  in earlier right over here uh to find The Relic talked about the Zar all that kind of fun stuff  so we're just goin

g to walk our way west and yes there are more rats you can ignore them you can  mess with them if you want but we're just going to go west and it's it's another encounter just  like we had kill the purple things spawn enemies by the way on higher difficulties using radiant  damage on these justice justice CR dudes not the best idea so for badow heart you're going to  go to passives and change it from radiant to psychic that'll be just fine but anyway once you  finish the encounter Head West thro

ugh the doors and then talk to balazar now we just want to kill  him here and now because it makes it way easier than dealing with him later but uh if you want you  can you can do all the dialogue persuasion checks for some XP and then turn on them and that's  totally fine or just straight up attack them whatever you want to do after the fight he does  drop a helmet that has the ability to summon un dead or animate dead unfortunately if you take  this helmet off it unsummon whatever you used so

it's kind of pointless and uh unless you're  playing a strict summoner build there's really no point now it's time to go all the way East  and fight yuar or you can try to talk him into uh you know just not fighting but it's really hard  it's like three if I remember correctly it's like three persuasion checks uh difficulty 21 so we're  just going to go all the way East as far the game allows us there's a fast travel wayo right here  I'll show you on the map let's go ahead and grab that right qu

ick there we go looks like I already  got it and uh North is the gauntlet of sh we'll do that later we want to go East though and uh if  you're looking East there should be a displacer beast that uh you can follow it's basically just a  trap but um you can follow the displacer Beast and start the U yuar encounter if you don't feel like  uh saving loading this is what I would recommend for Honor mode as soon as you see the displacer  Beast attack it which starts combat with your gear and all of h

is minions they're going to be  forced to like normally what happens is you get lured right here at the bottom and they just blast  you from the top it really sucks but if you shoot the displacer Beast as soon as you see it they  will be forced to reposition and come over here and you can fight them on your own accord if you  want now if you're playing on any difficulty but honor mode the fastest way is to just convince  your gear to off himself however if you're on honor mode this is how you sh

ould do it when you  get to this part and the displ Beast runs down the stairs this is where we're at on the map take  your main character separate your minions separate everybody put them into stealth and you can leap  across this little Gap here and uh because we can see invisibility with our main character cuz he  has zat's eye we can just put a bunch of explody barrels around these guys and then kill them  before they ever get a turn that's the easiest most efficient way to deal with this fi

ght in  honor mode just cheese it with barrels or you can am Bush them and fight them normally it's up  to you for everyone else that wants to go the uh convincing routes make sure that you send your  party to Camp because they will disapprove of all the things you're going to tell this demon and  you don't need them around uh you can summon them back from Camp you know in just a few seconds it's  not a big deal but uh you definitely don't want to lose approval with aarion and Menara because you

  just you got you just got Menara for one and um I mean Shadow Hearts approve is high aan is not so  make sure that they are all at Camp so they won't get pissed off when you talk to your gear and then  I'm just going to un stealth and then that started the fight so you have to actually come down here  and talk to him normally you can't just walk up behind him and tap him on the shoulder here's the  answer choices for talking your way through it we're going to skip skip skip skip put that thing

  down I'm here to talk you know Raphael perfume trick snd I've had dealings with that devil maybe  we can help each other let's share our experiences about Raphael the then you're going to pick uh  show me this contract he'll sing you a little song and then you want to say your contract is a  song then persuasion the lyrics are a trick your followers get rid of them and um I don't have  uh anyone with me to buff so I'm just going to do friends cuz I put them back at Camp so they  don't get disa

pproval and there we go easy pass all right so now the margon will just kill each  other so you're not finish it the displacer can hear you right and this one's kind of sad this  one he's got to put down his his pet cat sad day stay still and he he old yellers are and  then exactly uh you know self remove complete the contract and you'll be reborn in a verus free now  if you fail this one you can just summon everyone back from camp and kill them it's not that hard  but uh you know here we go and

we got a natat crit 20 this video is so many natat 20s anyway so  he pulls out a sword and then he guts his his uh stomach and then there you go They're All Dead now  on honor mode don't count on that happening but uh yeah there you go easy peasy now look there's a  whole bunch of other ways to solve this room I'm not going to go over them because they're very  inefficient on time you have to play detective and like Snoop out these rats and go all over  the damn Temple killing rats it sucks it'

s real pain in the ass it's a huge time sync so I don't  give a [ __ ] I'm not going to teach you how to do it also now I can't confirm this because I don't  know why redditors think this is superior but for a Starion who is your range DPS he currently has  well he has gloves of thievery on he really should have the gloves of archery on for that plus two  damage um but for whatever reason and I don't know why everyone on the internet thinks that the dark  justi gloves over here are superior and

and these things they yeah they do an average of two damage  you know one to four necrotic and strength saving throw whatever so if you you want pick these up  give them to your aerion I don't know the math of why they think this is better maybe because of  crits or something I I have no idea and yes before someone leaves a comment some know-it-all about  YouTube you know who has like two subscribers and know up videos are like bro you know as a YouTuber  you're supposed to act like an absolute

Authority so that people subscribe and watch your videos  and no I don't believe that I make videos for myself I make videos that are honestly truthfully  brutally honest and honestly I don't know what the math is as to why Reddit thinks that the dark  justiciar gloves are better I have no clue and so I'm going to admit that to you I don't know why  they think they're better I don't think they're better but hey pick them up just in case if they  are whatever anyway before you go you got to pick

up this umbral gem on the ground this uh just hold  your ALT key it's in Orange so just picked up it's near the oran's bed thingy where the cat dies so  there you go from here it's much quicker reunite with your party of course and then teleport to  The Gauntlet of sh fast travel point and then we're going to head north down the stairs and I'm  just ignoring the rats I don't care the rats are the whole way to solve the your gear problem but  screw it so now facing west is the first door or the f

irst trial now for the trials we're going  to be using Shadow heart solo so we're going to separator from the party and then we're going  to go into this westernmost door here and uh unfortunately yes you can go through this trial  without activating it but you won't be able to get the loot at the end so you have to click on  this sacrificial Bowl make a little sacrifice here offer your blood and Char's name there we go  go through this middle door this middle door now every guide ever is going

to tell you to Dr an  invis potion and hit some buttons that's that's stupid what we're going to do is we're going to  just kill the Shadows because the Shadows give XP they give 110 XP and why would we not want to  you know do that so I'm just going to run up and murder some shadows and yeah I'll you'll have to  stealth up to them but uh remember Shadow heart has the boots of speed she can click her heels she  is very very fast has a lot of movement so just in her turn base mode and punch out t

he Shadows  boom kill them easy Dead all right if you're on Otter mode you you might not be able to oneshot  these guys but you should you honestly should we're going to make our way to this little gay  right here so you can just click there but again there are shadows that you will need to kill but  hey turn base mode you know that that's what turn base mode is we're just going to walk up to the  Shadow and kick his butt and here we go and it took me out of turn base mode to teleport me back  s

o obviously we're going to have to do it whenever the Shadows sight cone is not in front of us but  there it goes and you know I can just click heels outside of combat you know start running up here  and don't worry about the grease we have freedom of movement and again I'm just going to click  right behind here and it's still it heard the click I guess but anyway you can figure it out you  want to kill the shadow for XP now of course the if you break this wall here there is a key inside  which

is the solution but I mean we're Shadow heart we're basically super man okay we don't need  no keys we do not need to hit a button on a wall to open any of the doors we can simply walk up to  the Iron Gate and then punch it we're that strong yes that's right we can just crumble these Gates  no problem we're going to continue West here and then we're just going to again punch through the  gate boom and it doesn't stand a chance grab the orb it's going to teleport us to the entrance  and then we'r

e going to go ahead and go to the next trial here which continuing North there will  be another door here here and the door is right here that's trial number two here's the real lame  way to beat this trial go to go to your inventory take everything off that's right well leave your  leave your regular clothes on okay but uh you're going to take off all all your weapons you know  I mean I guess your weapon is your fist but there you go Ooh La La right so go to the sacrificial  Bowl bleed some mor

e into it there we go and then slap that gear back on all right just as as  intended so now when you enter the room here and by the way you're fighting your clone in this  trial your clone will be right up here up top you can let them get advantage and spook you it  doesn't matter that they have no gear so you can just pumble them they won't be able to hurt you  you're literally a tank so just kill them your dead clone will drop the umbrell gem so yoink that  then grab that umbrell transporter a

nd it's off to the final trial very easy very simple go ahead  and leave and continue North down the path here and uh yeah we got one more trial to go it's the  trial the leap of faith trial once you've walked down the winding staircase and there's some  rats observing some upside down bouba statue there will be a wooden door here you go through it  and this is the faith leap trial now the easiest way to beat this trial is to Simply scroll your  camera forward and then left click this little cor

ner and the AI will do everything for you but  let's say that gets patched you don't need a PO of flying you don't need some intricate guide  the solution is right here on the floor check this out look this is the solution this is the  room you start here on the right You Walk This Way you go down the middle and you can walk this  way and then you get to the end of whoops you get to the end of the room and then there it is it's  that simple now one thing you must remember is to go to the Altar a

nd make your sacrifice because  don't forget that otherwise there won't be an orb to loot but anyway we made the sacrifice and now  all you got to do is just left click that corner right there just left click that corner Shadow  heart knows what to do she's not a stupid girl maybe I don't know and she will just properly  walk the path there you go it's done it's over you did it then don't walk into the purple death  Cloud okay just left click the umbrell gym you'll yo it with your Force powers a

nd then that's  uh then you just left click this you teleport back now you're not dead this is the easiest way  to beat this trial from here gather your party because we're going to go into a library and bust  up some skellies now west from the uh what is this called again the faith leap trial we're going to  go uh just a little bit West just a few steps and then West is the uh silent library now there's  going to be a big purple orb in the middle that silences the holy area the reason we're goi

ng to  kill the purple orb is not so we can cast spells but because if you don't it will resurrect these  justic whatever the these book nerds okay these Undead nerds in a library so kill the purple  thing kill the skellies once you've cleared the bad guys from the entrance as soon as you Pan the  camera inside turn it towards the north then on the second bookshelf you're going to loot a book  that's called The Night song now it is trapped but it's just a little acid Splash it nothing too  bad a

nd uh it's called teachings of Lost the Night song so grab that book then while you're still  on the north wall you're going to walk towards this button here all the way to the West that's  near this gate and then you're going to push this button we're going to push that button there we  go and then we're going to walk in and there's really nothing of Merit I mean you can check the  bookshelves there might be some spell Scrolls and stuff but nothing too crazy you're going to click  on this middl

e pedestal thing of a jig and then put that book in there and then insert it there  you go now I'm going to tell you right now you have to do this if you want to keep Shadow heart  I have not found a way to keep Shadow heart in the party if you skip this step so we're going to  walk in here and there is the Spear of Knight and you're going to take Shadow heart and she's going  to loot the Spear of Knight she doesn't have to equip it she just needs to be holding on to it  you also have the dark j

usticar half plate which is it's okay armor I don't really plan to use it  for anything but you know it's kind of heavy so we're going to send that to camp and then in the  chest is the helmet which is a decent hel it's not a bad helmet we might actually use this later  on in act three uh but for now we're going to send it to Camp so there we go now we can teleport  out of here and go back to the gauntlet of sh and from The Gauntlet of sh fast travel we're going to  go East we're going to pan th

e camera go east up the stairs and East up the stairs again and then  we're going to go North to this little ancient altar thing and you should have four umbrell orb  thingies my main character has one the umbrell gem and then we know that shadow heart has three of  them also I'm going to make a safety save because things can get really hairy with uh with Shadow  hard here and we're going to insert The umbrell Shard yeah man insert it there we go it's inserted  90 XP very cool wait and then she'

s going to get a little prayer and uh you can be like uh you know  just say whatever anyway then you're going to hop on the lift there we go get make sure everyone's  on it all the All Aboard everybody and then click the rightmost or the eastern most gem also while  you're traversing you can open your inventory and everyone sinks into the bottom it's kind of funny  wee look at them go look how glitchy it is oh there they go anyway I just want to share that  little bug once you're at the bottom t

here is another ancient Altar and this time you're going  to insert the three umbr gems so we're going to select Shadow heart open the ancient thingy open  our inventory we're going to grab all three at once chunk them in there insert them and then  that opens the door more XP yay now there's a fast travel point in here but this is kind of a  point of no return if you want to do anything in act one uh you can't go back to act one after you  go into this Shadow fell entrance but there is an ancie

nt sigil Circle here in the Fast Travel make  a safety save of course and if you have anything else to do in act one at all for any reason which  you shouldn't but if you do go do it now because you can't go back after this and uh in here  you're going to have to make a decision you're going to have to make a decision to kill someone  and if you do it's a bad ending it really messes up act three if you do so you shouldn't kill that  person down here but uh that's up to Shadow harded you you got

to work it out I mean this thing at  the top of your screen that says we got to free the Night song clearly doesn't say we got to kill  the Night song but it's up to you bro once you're inside the shadow fell everyone's got feather  fall so feel free to hop skip and jump all the way down don't be afraid of that fall damage you  won't get any we also you can't kill these they'll just disappear when you hit them it's kind of a  bummer I wanted to farm them for XP and try to get them to drop some l

oot but sadly that is not  the case anyway we're just just do a little bit of Super Mario jump time here woohoo and you're  going to you're going to jump all the way down to to the to the middle down here where this big  circle is this part of the video is going to be a little out of order so the context won't really  make sense for the next flip but we need about 700 experience points in order to hit Level 10 before  we fight Merkel the big boss fight of act two and here's how we're going to do

it well you remember  earlier in the video when I told you not to mess with the ritual dagger we're going to teleport  to moonrise towers and then we're going to go north from the Fast Travel into this Tower and  we're going to yoink that ritual dagger and uh lorewise Shadow heart is no longer partt of Shar  and so it's totally okay so go in here and that's going to be 240 XP so yeah you remember this room  right I'm going to have to show you cuz someone in the comments will be confused and you

go in here  and you you simply just loot this ritual dagger just pick it up and then you're going to fight  three Guardians and yeah they're pretty tough on honor mode but hey we're level like like nine  at this point we could take these dudes easy just kick their butts next up we're going to kill some  Shadows we're going to teleport to wraith town and we're going to go to the Mason's Guild there's  really nothing here to loot and I wasn't going to include it in the guide but if we don't clear

  out the Mason's Guild then we're short about 600 XP to hit Level 10 and that's no fun because we  want to fight Merkel with everything we got so we're going to just kind of walk right in front  of the Mason's Guild here you can see that the there's some stone statues I've already opened the  door just walk inside the door here and uh we're going to go inside and then we're going to walk  through the statues into the main room into this kind of blue looking room here really big room I'm  going

to turn to the west and go into this corner here there is a ornate wooden hatch we're going to  go down that there we go just go ahead and go down the hatch then we're going to walk up the stairs  and you want to bring your whole party because you need a to pass the perception check walking along  towards the Western Wall this wall is a little bit brighter than the other parts and there is a  keyhole thing here there we go we figured it out so get a St in pick that lock let's crack here we  go l

et's crack it open yes sir you know roll the dice easy to open now here's what you want to do  you're going to go through here subtle steps and there's really there's not much going on right  now now there's a chest don't touch that chest it's trapped so just continue walking along if you  do decide to touch the chest these Gates will rise up and lock you in then there's some fire statues  that will shoot you just use Shadow heart to punch through the metal gate and you can free yourself  very e

asily there's nothing in that chest worth it when you come in here this room is lined with the  Shadows just walk down in the middle and uh let's let's let manthara she's the main tank let her  you know get in there so everyone's beating on her that's what we want and there's just tons of  Shadows and you're going to kill the them all and that's going to set our XP really nicely once  the fight is over right click this Mason's log and read it that's another 95 XP now again I had  to I'm I had to

add these clips in After I film the next like 10 Clips so the context is going  to be a little bit off uh the video is going to continue as if you had just freed the Night song  that's where we're picking up oh man okay more editing mistakes okay one more tip before you  talk to Jahira at moonrise Tower which the next clip is going to tell you to do go to moonrise  Towers go into the prison area and there's going to be a ton of Undead mobs that will be there  for the event which you can then ki

ll there's a lot of them and it's a lot of XP so clean them  out and um I'm I didn't bring a stere in because again that's what my video tells you to do anyway  you know back to the regular schedule programming wow what a riveting crazy cutscene hopefully your  Shadow heart spared the nights song also that loud shriek in the game man oh man anyway so what we're  going to do now is as soon as you're here and you're done uh patting Shadow hard on her little  tippy top of her head and giving her a

smooch uh no smooching right now but what you're going to do  is you're going to tell aerion to go chill in the camp I suppose for the lady of I need you to stay  in Camp for a while stay in the camp there you go so we're kicked out the stering he's just going to  walk into the into the night you know as vampires tend to do spoilers he's a vampire I think you  already figured that out by now now anyway what we're going to do with our thre man party here  is we're going to then go to camp and her

e's the thing if you're playing on honor mode breath deep  this is going to be a little uh harder to do but you're going to get put will in the party you  have to have will in your party to get a very powerful sub sword that lets us summon anyway  we're going to tell him to join us now if you really want the laziest way to have will in your  party in honor mode is just make him resp him into a fighter give him the silver sword of the astral  plane even though he's not a GI Yankee it's still good

and he's all set a level 9 fighter is really  brain dead easy to play even on honor mode so but because I'm on an easier difficulty he's not even  going to see combat our Menara and our shadow heart can Solo or Duo rather the entirety the  rest of act two no problem so anyway once we've got will in the party we're going to then travel  to moonrise Towers we don't need to go to last Light in you can go to last Light in if you want  to see Isabelle and get a little cut scene but it doesn't do any

thing so this part's a little buggy  because of how we um prid the this whole fight right there's supposed to be a big epic Siege  here in a big fight when you normally play the game there are tons of corpses on this bridge to  loot well it's all it's just vendor junk anyway we're already rich so we don't need to do that  but because we already cleared moonrise Towers we can just go straight to the boss no problem  and to there's a few things that we're going to do as we uh as we walk there and

that is we're  going to get jira as a permanent party member and it's a little tough to do it's a little buggy so  if you're on honor mode and it bugs out well that sucks uh make a backup save go like right now  quit if you're on honor mode quit the game out save quit go to your save file directory and make  a backup because this can bug out so anyway for everyone else though you're going to talk to jira  and it it's a little buggy again this this whole part's buggy I can't even skip the dialogu

e so  I detect a hint of Envy then you're going to say then consider yourself persuaded and she's going  to temporarily join your party as a sidekick from here we're going to just go up and fight Krick  and then the part that bugs out is afterwards she might not go into proper positioning to be able  to recruit her and uh we'll get there at time but um you're going to walk up the staircase and then  you're going to walk uh North into this room with the carpet here the little red and white carpet

  then you're going to turn west onto the stone floor and then if you turn South this is the boss  fight door the game will auto save as soon as you step up onto these stairs so that's cool and what  you're going to do here is you're going to select Menara and you're going to to Soul branding Menara  and you're going to Soul branding your um Shadow heart there we go then you're going to enter  turn base mode and you're going to Dash with both manthara and Shadow heart and by doing that when  you

enter the doorway you will be able to start this fight already dashing now I just want to talk  about this little cut scene real quick there's a bunch of persuasion checks you can pass and it's a  very minor buff to the the fight later on it just allows you to start start the fight with a freed  Night song rather than having to walk up to her and then free her it's really hard to pass and you  can do it if you want but for the sake of everyone else watching this video I'm not going to do it  so

I'm just going to pick any of these options the the options do not matter all right so this  boss fight uh is pretty damn easy uh we uh I'm just going to pass on everyone that's not really  going to be fighting Menara is going to run up and beat the crap out of Krick Thorn and then so  is shadowart that that's the whole fight so once you beat Krick down a bit you don't have to fully  kill him cut scene plays stuff happens now this is the part where you have to make sure jira does  not bug out c

an such a be so jira must navigate to stand next to the big hole here and sometimes  jira simply will not do that she'll stand around and you can't interact with her at all it sucks  it's not fun but I'm going to show you now because I can Mouse over her and there's a speech bubble  she is not bugged so we're good the next step is we're going to kick Shadow heart not Menara we're  going to kick Shadow heart out of the party just a little bit so we're going to talk to Shadow heart  she's going to

do some dialogue talk to her again and then I need you to stay at Camp there she goes  now we have three out of four we're going to talk to jira and we're going to tell her don't you want  to see how this ends and then we're going to tell her join me then now she is technically bugged  right now she is bugged when you talk to her she'll say this line fine thing and that's it she  won't give you the option to leave to go stay at Camp she won't give you the option to talk to her  about anything e

lse so if you want to keep her in your party that's fine if you want to remove her  from the party as of patch six in February 2024 all you have to do now is go talk to shadowart  or whoever you want and put join me and then say swap out with jira you want something now if you  want jira back in the party it's it's bugged right now it'll fix itself in act three but right now  jira is bugged you cannot invite her back to your party though she is part of your team in order to  get her in your part

y you have to dismiss one of your party members then pick a party member that  is not your main character because if you do this with your main character you lose rep so pick  another character in your party and then kill jira and then have Withers revive jira and that  will put her back in your party so that's how the the jira crap works and at act three it's all  normal it's all good it's all Gucci but that's how you get her in your party earlier than intended  I guess so with Will in your par

ty we're going to get a summon sword and unfortunately the problem  with the summoning sword is that while it's a good summon if you remove the sword it unsummon the  character but it's such a good summon it's worth your weapon slot to have and I'll show you why  so once you're down here in the gooey membrin area you're going to pop that cherry and you're  going to then separate the group and then you're going to pair will up with your main character  not with Meara no no no she's a baddie all r

ight we got will and the main character you have to  bring your main character or this does not work carefully we're going to tread carefully we're  going to go East down the road here and we'll kill these brain cats later don't you worry we're  going to continue East left along the on the fork and then on this Fork we're going to go left again  so we're traveling north we're going to open the gooey teeth door here yummy look at the those  nice flaps and uh we're going to continue North into thi

s Tad polling Center side side there we  are Centre with an E they spelled I know that's how it spelled but they spelled it wrong we're  going to go slurp this brine pool you know and uh go bobbing for a tadpole there we go we got A plus  one tadpole then make a safety save here and we're going to talk to this mine flare pod and surprise  surprise it's mazora yep she's the one trapped in the pod you have a choice the left or the right  to your now if you examine the left it's a it'll kill her ri

ght or you no you can examine it but  don't push it okay but if you examine the right it's to open the pod if you failed the skill check  you can still open the pod so examine the device on the right decipher and we deciphered it cool  so we connect our mind to unleash the device and activate it that's going to pop her out this is  the important part click the persuasion one you'd think we'd get a reward for going through all  this trouble and this is how you get the summoning sword so there we

go and she gives it to us as a  reward and this lets you summon a really badass cambian so again this is just a nice little swap  to have on your healer which is kind of a Summoner kind of a necromancer later in act three but um  you know instead of melee fighting or just have like if you blown the buff on this and and and you  don't need the defensive Defender buff you don't need any of the your other weapon Buffs like plus  19 strength then you slap this bad boy on even though you're not profi

cient with it you can still  summon the can cambion with it and the cambion is super powerful it's really nice also this is  out of context for a guide for balers gate but if they ever made a TV show a movie or an anime  or whatever the heck then canonically this would be the party that does this in act two it would be  will it would be Menara and it would be shadowart that's the canonical party for this little area  anyway we're going to now run back to the start and reunite with our party but

there's a whole  bunch of people in here and you could free them or you can kill them now if you want to release them  it's going to aggro the whole zone so don't do it we'll come back later and release them if you want  to kill him it's just like 1,000 XP now it's time to get us which is that brain cat from the start  of the game so what I've done is I've reunited my party but I'm leaving will at the entrance he's  just going to stare at the wall because he's in timeout and uh we're going to ag

ain Venture East  as we did just a bit ago but this time we're going to go south we're going to go to the ride Fork and  we're going to open the flesh rot door M look at all this flesh rot doors continuing South if we  continue along Southwest There Is Us in a cage oh boy now we're going to click the cage doors there  we go and he's going to say chop no no touch bad and then we're going to use persuasion like n  touch good touch good friends guidance hit him with all the things there we go easy

pass easy you  you seeing wrong blah blah blah anyway now we're going to open the cage door he gave it he gave us  the key we are free we are free bars now we have us as a summon so in your bar you have conjure us  now you have your own little brain cat there we go look at him he's actually very powerful now  he's got a lot of Health he's got some pretty cool abilities and yeah definitely something that  you want to have and if he dies you can just pop him back out and uh let's see he is uh once

per  short rest so there you go and he will last all day he's not on a timer you can even talk to him  he's a little companion look we are here for you here for you and you can be like uh you may draw  the wrong sort of attention now this is why they call it brain cats I always wondered why they call  it brain cats we will not cause you any trouble friend we will project a different form that will  cloak us from all but your close acquaintances I feel like the voice actor had a lot of fun with 

this your friends shall see us as we truly are all others shall see a kitty a small Predator  they kitties can walk anywhere and they are most cun they are most [ __ ] kitties anyway there you  go we got us and don't forget to give Menara that final ilth brain worm there we go that completes  her brain is fully warmed up boyo go until we can unlock the outer layer she is good to go all right  so we're going to eventually murder hobo every single thing that we can down here before we fight  the

final boss of act two but first we're going to get a little safety area especially for our honor  mode players and if we return to the part where we just started here we're going to travel east  and then at the fork we're going to go left and then at the second Fork we're going to go East  continuing East just straight ahead here there's this uh flesh rot door and yes there's a path to  the left and a path to the right don't worry about that right now we're just going to continue  East and we're

going to go down here don't go down this elevator this is to the boss you can't  come back you will screw over your save if you do that instead we're going to go to this Southeast  corner here and use the restoration pod now this is like getting a free long rest infinitely so uh  yeah it's really really nice and uh you have you can go Hog Wild use all of your spells use all of  your powers make sure that you summon everything you can on every character just go balls to the  wall crazy here and

start slashing and killing and murderize all of the intellect devourers and yeah  just kill everything if you think the undead room with all the zombies is like a lot of enemies or  something you have to remember you can spam your abilities down here you have Sunbeam from Blood  of Leander uh mathara is fully geared to counter this entire room completely by herself just walk  through the enemies and watch them explode and die it's that easy and if anything survives after  the first turn you have

Channel Divinity Radiance of the Dawn and that's just going to just explode  everything around you and walk into them it's too easy there's a permanent buff down here and it  is in the southeasternmost corner you're going to have to uh well once you clear all the zombies  you're going to jump over these this little Gap and we're going to be doing a little brain puzzle  so you touch the console and then you begin to manipulate the mind and essentially what you have  to do is you got to match the

shapes over here by connecting the dots to the shapes over here and if  you Mouse over it you'll see that this is a motion and then if you Mouse over this this is a motion  so you just have to connect the dots and it's pretty simple I'll show you the solution well I  also want to teach you how to solve a puzzle like this in a video game for the future the simplest  way is let's let's activate emotion on both sides so we're going to click this now the only dot  that we can connect to is this one

so we'll go ahead and connect that dot there we go so now  those are connected now if we connect emotion over here this is the only dot that it can connect  to so there we go so when we when we do this one and we do this one well the what is the quickest  way to to go from this dot to this dot but when we click on this dot what is the quickest way to  go from this dot to this dot well it's these two on the Outer Edge so we're going to connect here  connect here and then connect there and there

you go so that one's done and of course you know you  have to connect all of them to the middle here to connect to this wall to open the door and uh yeah  we'll just continue along it's that simple and this is what it looks like it looks complicated  but it's super simple you start with uh the yellow one here and uh sorry for color blind people  but you just go kind of down middle and then right here you're going to go yellow on East Side  following along the outer rim here connecting then for t

he blue one you just go straight like South  then you go west and then you like like it it's four connections then for purple you go to the  west and then up top and then up top and then you connect that one and then for the blue blue one  or the green one you go to the right like there there's no messing this up they like it's it's  too easy man anyway once you pop the puzzle open you need to loot the waking mind here this is the  only one that's worth picking up the other things aren't really

worth that they don't give you  the perm buff now that you have the waking mind we're going to go ahead and give it to our healer  because we're going to apply the perm buff to our healer so I'm going to take the Healer character  and this is where I'm at on the map right here and I'm going to jump across this Gap Southwest so  this is what it looks like this is this is where I'm at on the map right here just straight south  on the whole map and uh we're going to click this mind archive interfac

e glorious I'm I'm going  to actually safety save first and uh there's actually two Perma Buffs here this one is the  resident Stone the most broken item in the game it's really going to make things easy I'm going to  talk about that in a bit but for now let's get the brain puzzle Perma buff so mind archive interface  we're going to interface with the waking mind and for story purposes you can use all the other minds  too but they don't give anything so we're going to interface with that and ins

ert it now if we talk  to this slack skinned head here blah blah blah blah and uh what Aid are you offering number  three catch the and then say I'll do it isn't telling everything touch my mind all right then  IL reach out and erase her mind and there you go now we have gizara mind barrier and what that does  is um it gives you advantage on intelligent saving throws and because our character has um well 17  in he's the best one for it just to note if your character full dies you lose this buff

forever so  don't die and now for the second kind of AA Perma buff thing and this is the resonance Stone and  you're going to have Shadow heart loot this one this goes in her inventory and it is so so good  let me talk about what this is and what it does so this gives you vulnerability to everything  around you including yourself to psychic damage all right so this changes the entire game you're  going to switch your passive on your monk punch to to to psychic and you're going to leave it there 

the rest of the game you're going to be punching for twice as hard now like okay so it say 6 to  n no you're going to be hitting for like 20 plus and once you get more wisdom later on in the game  you're just going to just onot almost everything it's so stupid it goes through resistance it makes  them vulnerable it's so crazy powerful now it does have a downside okay so you have advantage  on physical checks that means dodging and blocking and all a whole bunch of stuff right but  disadvantage

on mental saving throws well guess what uh as Shadow heart you you're going to have  insanely High wisdom as Menara very high wisdom your healer High wisdom uh and uh asterion well  he won't have high wisdom he'll have some wisdom but he's going to be not standing next to Shadow  heart so it's totally fine this thing is just rid it just makes the game like piss easy this is  the most broken thing in the game and it is it sometimes bugs and will not work in act three but  sometimes it will I don'

t know what causes this or if or when it will be fixed I actually haven't  played act 3 in about 4 months so it could be fixed for all I know now I want to mention it  does not work against robots and it does not work against the undead which well that sucks and  the next few fights are undeads but hey this thing it it breaks the game and like like just using  us psychic damage psychic damage enjoy having double psychic damage forever and then Menara is  just fully loaded look concentrated blast

double that's 72 damage it's nuts oh I also forgot to  point out that when you do this brain puzzle there's a skeleton here and a sword and a pile of  skulls and there's some okay items you can loot um I have yet to figure out a build for either  that helmet or the gloves and the sword's okay it has psychic damage but it's nothing special  and I'm sorry for not showing the items but they just suck but they're it's just free loot and I  I I don't know man like I really want to make a build with

the brain drain gloves I just haven't  figured one out yet time for level 10 that's right so for your healer you're going to put your level  into sorcerer for the spell you're going to learn reduce and enlarge where's it at it's this one  right there and then for your metam magic you're going to learn Quicken spell so it you can now do  it as a bonus action really really cool for your radiant tank you're going to put your level into  fighter so now you have five cleric five fire and she gets ext

ra attack this level oh it's so good  right before the boss fight for your monk tank you can go with another level of Monk so so one cleric  9 monk you get an AOE detonation attack where you can use an action or a bonus action to punch  targets and then spend key points to detonate that for a 5 m explosion which will chain with  all your other passives or if you want you could go into fighter level one for defense fighting  style but when we hit Level 12 we're going to be three thief and the res

t monk so it's going to be  nine monk three thief and no cleric want ever now since we have the restoration pod we can do some  really wacky pre-buff before the boss fight so since I have will as a berry maker he's a druid  so he has Druid summons especially at level 10 he's got dryad he's got uh major Elemental minor  Elemental the drad can summon a wood wde so you know pop those out if your will as a berry maker  if he is a fighter then you know everything's fine Menara can summon a skeleton a

nd Shield of faith  on herself you can Shield of THS on everybody which is a plus 10 barrier that explodes when  it's broken so every single sumon can have it let me just show you how ridiculous it is right  now every look at all these bubbles this is just crazy this is broken overpowered you don't have to  do this for any difficulty but honor mode and even then you don't have to do it it's an easy boss  fight but it's still fun to do uh Shadow heart can Shield the faith on herself and then your

  healer can well you can death W every summon if you want uh Three Skeleton archers shovel cambian  us are all summoned you can twin cast enlarge on manthara and Shadow heart you know uh big girl  DPS and then level five eight on everybody you can five ex your sorcery points use your spell  Crux amulet and get that level five back and of course when you're ready take the elevator down  and it's it's an easy fight all right time to explain the fight Mechanics for those that can't  figure this si

mple stuff out so Krick Thor is the boss he's going to transform into a big skeleton  that's occupies the middle these little undeads on the left will keep spawning in and when they reach  the middle they will heal him in his skeleton form the brain cats and the mind flare just kill him  whatever over here the Night song you have to have someone assist her by moving your character  next to her and then freeing her from these ghost hands and every once in a while uh Krick Thor will  rebind her an

d uh is if she is bound you cannot hurt Krick Thorne so when she is in this state you  can't hurt the boss that means someone needs to always stand next to her to free her from binding  and that's essentially the fight you have a whole Army every everybody's full buffed uh he's only  one level above you and um if you pass the all the persuasion checks you know at the top of the  tower then Night song starts the fight Unbound so there you go and if you want to cheese the fight  even more further

beyond go into turn based mode right now make everyone Dash walk forward to  trigger the cut scene and then you start the fight with double movement speed everyone will  have 40 m of movement to just run all over the place and dunk on everything you can even throw  invis potions and make everything invisible and then run right next to the boss and of course  Night song and start that way if you want after the fight make sure to loot krick's Shield to  your healer character and then you know migh

t as well put the other stuff in the camp and then  once you're done you can use the portal back to the surface after the cut scene you'll have to  talk to both Menara and jira to get them both to permanently and officially join your party  after all the dialogue and cut scenes you can go pick a Starion back up and have him join your  party level him to 10 and you're going to pick a cleric so you're level six cleric level four Rogue  and you get the ability to knock things backwards uh whenever

you deal lightning damage and you're  always dealing lightning damage so you're always knocking things back it's it's really awesome  anyway if you want there's a bunch of dialogue you can do if you rescued wolin from the prison  the Little Gnome guy you can talk to him and offer to help him in act three though there's no items  we really need from the drop or anything of the sort and uh other than that all that's left is to  teleport over here to the road to balder's gate and then uh you know I

would make a permanent save  not like an auto save because uh once you leave the ACT you can't come back also if you don't have  too many quick saves going on I recommend loading one of the quick saves before you kill the Night  song or save the night song make a permanent save there so you can see what happens when you kill  her and you can also see what happens whenever you have Gail blow up the you know everything in  underground that's a fun one but other than that you're done with act to t

here's nothing really  left to do on the map everything's explored everything's killed everything is looted that well  you're going to use so you can go to act three now and if you want I will eventually make an act  three video and it's going to take a while I've got other games to play um balers gate doesn't  pay the bills I'm sorry anyway that's the video thank you so much for watching leave a like leave  a comment I read every single comment I know I have like 100,000 subscribers but I have

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