Baldur's Gate Legacy of Bhaal Difficulty Guide Part 5 - Conquering Cloakwood

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Published on September 22, 2021 1:53:27 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVW6QnupTyU

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In order to secure Coran as a permanent party member we need to complete his quest "Coran the Wyvern Hunter." Wyverns are extremely challenging on Legacy of Bhaal difficulty, and the Wyvern you need to kill is a unique Wyvern with higher saving throws than a typical Wyvern. This means tactics like Web, Charm, and Blindness which worked for us earlier are not effective, so we must relay on gruella tactics to isolate the Wyvern in question. Firstly have an archer enter the cave and use Algernon's Cloak on the northern adult Wyvern, (the non-unique adult Wyvern) so the other Wyvern's kill it. Once that's done immediately retreat and exit the map and return from the south. When you get back to the cave you'll find the Wyverns outside allowing you to aggro them individually. Use your wand of Monster Summoning to take out the baby and the wand of Paralyzation to take out the adult. Once you take out the appropriate Wyvern you will trigger dialogue from Coran to return the Wyvern head and complete the quest, securing him as a permanent party member.

Now we are ready to flood the Cloakwood Mines and complete chapter 4. There is one challenging fight at the entrance to the dungeon involving a well balanced group of enemies. In order to defeat them, Charm their warrior Drasus and use him to tank. Keep your tank back while letting your archers take out the enemies attacking Drasus. Once all the other enemies are completed focus your attacks on the wounded Drasus to defeat him.

Finally, we have the boss of Chapter 4, Davaeorn. Davaeorn has Protection from Normal Missiles, the ability to teleport using Dimensional Door, and a powerful charm ability. Charm has little effect against a single party member, so equip your tank with the Paws of the Cheetah from the earlier fight with Drasus and have him chase Davaeorn. The speed of your tank will cause Davaeorn to use all his Dimensional Door spells up before using the charm ability. Simply wait out the charm and then join the rest of the party, switch everyone to melee weapons, and engage Davaeorn. Once all his spells are expired he isn't much of a threat but this fight takes a long time due to his many defensive spells.

Once Davaeorn is defeated we can flood the mine to free the slaves and get a large experience reward as well as advance the plot to Chapter 5. Now we can enter the titular city, Baldur's Gate!

0:00 Coran the Wyvern Hunter
2:54 Drasus and company
6:00 Davaeorn
7:22 Flooding the Cloakwood Mines

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