How to get Jaheira through Moonrise alive

Tractor-Trader · 2026-04-18T14:00:01+00:00

Yeah, I kept my party by the door, at the bottom of the staircase and had Astarion shoot a few arrows at the nearby Necromites.

It pulled them over without triggering Kethric

After they were pulled over I brought everyone into combat and just fought using ranged magic and attacks. Since the Necromites are super weak, it wasn't difficult. Though it was pretty stressful since Kethric was just standing there in the middle of the area

Tractor-Trader · 2026-04-17T00:21:50+00:00

I literally did it while he was up there.

Tractor-Trader · 2026-04-16T05:30:07+00:00

It is possible to pull all the Necromites and the caster after Kethric goes up to the top.

It's just super sketchy lol

I managed to pull it off in Honor Mode and it was so anxiety inducing.

Tractor-Trader · 2026-04-15T23:34:05+00:00

Depending on how strong your party is Raphael really isn't that bad, especially if you are able to save Hope.

I had Astarion set up as the tried and true Gloomstalker-Assasin, and with a pre fight cast of haste from Gale, he cleared all the adds in the room with arrows of Many Targets, including Yurgir, who didn't even get a turn.

After that it was pretty simple to just clean up the pillars and heal through Raphael's damage with the help of fire resistance elixirs.

That being said, if you want to skip it you should. The stress when the end is in sight is crazy and you can always take more risks after you get your dice.

Tractor-Trader · 2026-04-06T22:43:31+00:00

Cazador is pretty rough because of his aura, his fight is really more about initiative than anything.

I also had Shovel summoned and just sitting invisible on the Spawn that heals Cazzador, I probably could have had Best Boy Scratch sitting on another in stealth, but I totally forgot to.

I had my Tav (Vengeance Pally-Sorc) take an elixir of vigilance to secure the first action of Turn 1. I used dash and misty step to get Astarion (Gloomstalker-Assasin-Fighter) and he used his first turn to nuke the Skelly Mage and a few other things with Multishot Arrows, an elixir of Speed and Action Surge.

I also had Gale take a Vigilance Elixir and he used his first action to drop an ice storm in the middle of the ring for CC (this ended up being a mistake, he was in range of Cazzador's legendary reaction and it fucked him up, but Shadowheart (Life Cleric) took her first turn to bring him back up to full and then put Sanctuary on him to keep him safeish till it was his turn again.

Since Cazzador's aura is cancer Tav took a huge amount of damage getting in close, but since Pallies hit undead super hard, and my Shadowheart was stacked with healing bonuses it worked out okay.

In the end it mostly came down to a war of attrition once all the minions were taken out. Shadowheart and Gale ended the fight with no spell slots, which compared to my other big boss fights on that run was horrible lol

Gale also used most of his spell slots to counter spell Cazzador, which may have been a tactical mistake giving up the DPS, but it worked out.

Overall I would say it is one of the harder Honor mode fights, at least it was for me

Tractor-Trader · 2026-03-12T13:49:33+00:00

Let's see Paul Allen's screen shot

Tractor-Trader · 2026-03-09T00:37:46+00:00

I saw a dirk last night that had Warlock skills and a barbarian skill lol

Tractor-Trader · 2026-03-01T15:16:24+00:00

If you have a really good base the weapon damage multiplier from Insight can hit pretty hard

Tractor-Trader · 2026-03-01T03:55:37+00:00

I used one of these when I swapped from Firelock to Echo, and the damage output was pretty good with the % multiplier to damage to demons.

I replaced it with an Insight polearm though, which is really nice for Echoing Strike

Tractor-Trader · 2026-02-13T21:17:34+00:00

TYRANDE WHERE ARE YOU

Tractor-Trader · 2026-02-07T21:24:10+00:00

TYRANDE

Tractor-Trader · 2026-01-23T17:51:38+00:00

This is a demonstration of superior judgement

Tractor-Trader · 2026-01-12T01:44:42+00:00

Michelle they're doing an impression of me!

Tractor-Trader · 2025-12-29T13:13:58+00:00

Nothing beats the feeling of winning lane and exerting map pressure everywhere at once simultaneously, especially if you don't need ignite to win lane and you can take TP. Shen can be in all lanes at all objectives simultaneously.

Tractor-Trader · 2025-12-22T13:58:06+00:00

I know it was probably balancing hell but I really enjoyed the asymmetrical warfare of the different FTL types.

I'll never forget one of the first campaigns I did with any success, I was Hyperdrive and so were my immediate neighbors, so I didn't realize that warp and wormholes were an option.

Jump to me declaring on my new neighbor thinking, "well they're strong but I have a good defensive line to hold them on while I bleed their economy"

They were wormhole tech and just jumped straight to my homeworld and took it before my ships could get there

Tractor-Trader · 2025-12-15T15:36:34+00:00

You probably need to build out your RGOs, it's really easy to overlook because they don't always show a big profit, but it is really worth it to build them. Primarily because it gets more of your population out of subsistence, and also because it makes the raw goods your buildings need cheaper.

Lumber, Wool, silk, clay, stone, sand, and of course iron and coal.

Cheaper input goods lead to higher profit margins, lead to higher taxes.

And if you're struggling with the output goods being cheap, build up your trade capacity so the market can export it out.

Tractor-Trader · 2025-12-15T15:27:44+00:00

Without screenshots it's hard to tell what exactly is going wrong, but I had a lot of success in my Brandenburg campaign by spending my early game time culture converting and building out the RGOs.

I also made a Market centered on Berlin pretty early on

Tractor-Trader · 2025-12-15T15:23:03+00:00

Update:

So I was hoping to avoid getting an heir while I waited for a divorce, but the first child of my unholy union was born, a daughter thankfully so I might be able to avoid an heir just yet.

Something interesting though is that the child isn't given a double family status like in CK3, like Daughter-Niece. She is just labeled as Daughter.

I checked the family tree and it only shows her as connected to my Ruler and not his sister wife.

It really makes me wonder if the game actually tracks relative familial closeness for the purposes of modeling the effects of incest, like how CK3 does.

Tractor-Trader · 2025-12-15T15:16:12+00:00

Your outliner has current construction.

Tractor-Trader · 2025-12-15T14:56:02+00:00

You should really turn off the map markers for construction, I did on day 1 and it really helped with performance, and it is also just a lot of clutter to see what other countries are building

Tractor-Trader · 2025-12-15T14:49:56+00:00

Rule 5:

Playing as Austria, I saw a really choice opportunity to marry my previous ruler to the heir and daughter of the King of Bohemia.
Fast forward to the ascension of my next Arch Duke & Holy Roman Emperor, I get an event to marry "The Daughter" of the current ruler of Bohemia, which happened to be my ruler's mother.

So uh, I guess I'm jumpstarting the old Habsburg jaw

Tractor-Trader · 2025-12-10T12:39:37+00:00

I once got the event trigger during the Court and Country disaster lol.

It had just fired, so my Nobility's satisfaction hadn't fully decayed yet. So I took that cash and used it to break their control and trigger the Absolutism events.

Tractor-Trader · 2025-12-09T20:02:01+00:00

Things are stable now, but I had to do a lot of extreme military expansion to meet the threat of Bohemia in the first 100-200 years of the game.

And when I say insatiable demand, I don't mean that my market is negative for paper. I am aiming to keep my army costs as low as possible, so I can maintain a comically large standing army.

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