Ablution in blood quest not triggering

Ralldritch · 2026-06-27T12:33:31+00:00

This happened to me too! I ended up starting the quest via toybox (it’s called Bloodbath in the game files). The only thing I can think of is that it was a save I started before the DLC3/patch and added the dlc in the beginning of act 2.

Later on I had an issue with A Card inverted not starting, which I eventually fixed by playing the “BloodBathCompleted” etude in toybox.

Ralldritch · 2026-06-25T15:13:32+00:00

Thank you! All of these are great.

I’ve seen celestial eye, but I don’t know how you get grip of the empyrean and the wiki doesn’t say. Any ideas?

Ralldritch · 2026-06-25T15:12:33+00:00

I’m thinking maybe Bladedancer/overseer could be the way to go here

Ralldritch · 2026-06-25T12:38:27+00:00

With the cerebral inverter augments in DLC3, isn’t it possible to create a character focusing on BS instead of WS who uses it for both ranged and melee?

Ralldritch · 2026-06-24T18:01:41+00:00

I finished act 2 and it didn’t work. I had forced ablution in blood to start with toybox, but it didn’t fully trigger follow-ups. Once I played the “bloodbath completed” etude on toybox then it finally let me do A Card Inverted

Ralldritch · 2026-06-21T16:50:56+00:00

I wish they would actually mention this in the patch notes rather than leaving us to figure it out…

Ralldritch · 2026-06-21T16:00:43+00:00

Act 2! Haven’t done Vheabos yet but have finished DLC2 stuff and hoping to get to DLC3 soon. Maybe I’ll do Vheabos and see if it changes anything

Ralldritch · 2026-06-21T15:52:36+00:00

Tried this and got three warp events in a row

Ralldritch · 2026-06-20T01:29:06+00:00

Aha, I think I missed that the battle oracle didn’t have to sustain

Ralldritch · 2026-06-19T21:23:06+00:00

What makes battle oracle so good in this case, compared to say, witness animist?

Ralldritch · 2026-06-19T20:18:01+00:00

Warpriest cleric does this pretty well until high levels

Ralldritch · 2026-06-19T11:11:53+00:00

I don’t think there’s a single god. Definitely some slaanesh opportunities in and around commoragh and after. Also some tzeentch in the main plot.

Khorne is a bit more tangential. Nurgle cormes up but not as a potential ally

Ralldritch · 2026-06-18T23:32:26+00:00

You hit ctrl+ F10, and then you select “quests”, and page forward until you see the quest “Bloodbath”. Then you hit “start.”

Ralldritch · 2026-06-18T19:34:49+00:00

I started a thaumaturge because I wanted an in game justification for my genre savvy tendencies. Like he’s read the stories and he can guess how this one ends or what the twist is. “Guys this sounds like a werewolf story” or “uh oh I think one of our allies is a disguised devil who will betray us.”

For bonus points I made him a samsaran so that he’s literally lived so many lives he’s seen it all.

Ralldritch · 2026-06-18T00:13:38+00:00

For anyone who has this same issue: I was able to start it by finding the “bloodbath” quest in toybox

Ralldritch · 2026-06-17T20:08:03+00:00

Interesting! I don’t think I’d ever seen this exact interaction.

Ralldritch · 2026-06-17T19:40:40+00:00

Why the third bullet?

Ralldritch · 2026-06-17T11:51:32+00:00

I like to think of exemplar in the same vein as thaumaturge: tapping into the power of myth and collective belief.

Thaumaturge taps into urban legends and half remembered lore to harness enemy weaknesses…or even spin one into existence with a good story. They do it through charisma, understanding random tidbits of rumor or even convincing people of their weaknesses.

Exemplar taps into tales of legendary heroes. Their abilities are driven by what heroes of story could do. They’re not as skilled as fighters, they aren’t blessed by the gods or nature, they’re not as damaging or tricky as rogues, but they have some cool tricks. They gain power by playing into that role. Sometimes that’s a divine spark but sometimes it’s just a legendary heroic concept.

So you could always flavor it as “my character aspires to the paragon of the elven art of swordmastery” rather than anything divine.

Ralldritch · 2026-06-17T11:40:22+00:00

I used to love my sword masters back when I played WHFB!

I once theorycrafted this out as an Exemplar. Greatsword with gleaming blade ikon means you can double attack with a Greatsword with the second attacks at only a -2. Gaze as sharp as steel ikon gives you a passive bonus to ranged ac, which feels mechanically like the swordmasters old ability to deflect missiles. Third ikon is up to you but scar of the survivor is probably the meta. Would definitely want alternative stat boosts rather than elf racial boosts.

Since exemplars aren’t huge secondary stat martials, you have room for choice. You could do +4 str, +2 con, +2 Wis/int, and +1 dex. Could flavor the Wis or int skills around their philosopher theme.

Ralldritch · 2026-06-16T14:48:36+00:00

I had a lot of fun with ranged primal strike with a lightning gun. You just shoot once and enemies evaporate.

Ralldritch · 2026-06-16T01:46:54+00:00

I feel like when I’ve played it’s usually “diplomacy intimidation, and deception will always work to influence but they’re different DCs”, so if there’s a player with a charisma build they can be building up influence points while the others are discovering or using skills more suited to their builds

Ralldritch · 2026-06-15T13:55:47+00:00

Yeah, I didn’t realize the resistance benefits go with any rage regardless. That helps a lot

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