Baldurs Gate 3 final encounter with Ketheric (tactical mode)
1The Art of War: Using tactics to defeat General Ketheric
(show here in tactical/hard play)
If you can line up a killing field, funnel an army or bottleneck a mighty foe, this can be devastating.
Choose your attacks and defences, tactics and stragety to best counter your foes attacks, resistances and vulnerabilties.
So, concentration based spells like:
Firewall (fire),
Silence (nullify casters)
Darkness (blind and nullity archers)
Stinking cloud (nauseating)
Cloudkill (poison)
Cloud of daggers (physical: slashing)
Spirit guardians (radiant and necrotic)
and my favourite: Hunger of Hadar (blind plus cold plus acid damage)
The video below is 22 minutes long, but really it’s just a minute or so of setting up the funnel and then beating down the forces, taking out the dangerous foes like the illithid first.
Preparation is key to this fight.
First, I suggest (if you have them) sending minions like elementals left and around the back to draw attention and to dela with the undead.
To the right, send a fast moving, grounding covering hero to release Nightsong (just literally give her a hand up, all it takes)
Front and center, having your casters drop cloudkill and hunger of Hadar (or your best alternatives) onto the platform with Ketheric, then forget about him!
If you have freed Dame Aylin, his invulnerability is gone and he's busy wandering around cold and blind in a choking smog. Time to take out the trash!
Illithid first, then the rest, then the general. And the general again. You might note how I changed tactics around 15 minutes in, to better dela with the new foe.
Tip:
DON'T use 'heat metal' on the general.
Not because it doesn't work on him (it does) but because of a bug.
If he dies with the hammer on him, you get it; if he drop it and then dies, it disappears.
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Sorry, I don’t speak, but the video shows the way of it and the text gives the details that matter.
See also:
Act 1 guide:
https://ackadia.com/games/baldurs-gate/baldurs-gate-3-guide/
Act 2 guide:
https://ackadia.com/general-interest/baldurs-gate-3-guide-act-2/
Act 3 guide:
(to come)
(There are reviews for earlier BG games on site too :) )
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