The barrel tip is huge actually because guess what, just above Dammon there is a room full of empty barrels. Gee I wonder what I'm gonna do with those. 😂 Also a tip from me: talk to the Art Cullagh guy who's asleep cause of the curse and then go to your camp to tell Halsin about it. It will cause him to leave your camp for a bit and be at the Inn instead, and he will help in the fight. Him and Jaheira teaming up again was sweet tbh. Edit: Also easy way to help Isobel is to cast Protection from Evil and Good on her. It is concentration but if things go really bad this will give Marcus disadvantage on his attacks against her because he counts as an aberration. If you cast Sanctuary on her the turn before that should give you a bit room to set up the rest of your party to just ruin Marcus' day.
I put spike growth down in the hall and the demons killed themselves walking through it, also it seems if you do the dialogue check and tell isobel hes trying to capture you she runs away instead of staying still to fight.. that was a problem the first few times cause the demons just mobbed her and anyone they paralyze then insta crit making it super hard to save her if they get to her.. so pretty much just block demons however you can, focus the dude and its actually not as hard as it seems.
I also recommend combo-ing spike growth and insect plague when you level up. That is also how I killed everyone in Raphael's home, I stood in a room and spiked+plagued the door(as a druid) :) I hope the simple barrel block tip helps as well! Have a nice day!
Best guide on YT, tyvm. I didn’t even talk to her in my first wt in fear of getting her kidnapped. In my 2nd wt now, I hope you’re ready for my paladin Marcus. You now have a new sub🙃
Welcome! One trick here: when you are barricading doors with crates or barrels, make sure you leave no gap big enough to pass through, because after the latest patches, demons started coming through small gaps in the barricades. You can test it with your own character, if you can walk to the other side of the barricade that means demons can pass through as well. Before the latest big patches you could do with 3 barrels like you see in the video. I think you would need more right now because at my latest playthrough it was more rough. Good luck!
@@GilGaladGaming cool,thanks. I’ve already gathered around 35/40 empty barrels and crates since the time of watching your video. Enough to hold out anything 🤣
Our first honor run Isobell was taken on the second turn... our second (And current) honor run we managed to save her thanks to barricading the doors... even when Jaheira decided to ice storm (or whatever its called) at the big main door and break the barricade through a wall
Exactly what I needed for honor mode...so many tutorials assuming that marcus was the problem!!!~ No!~ I always kill him first round, then izobel gets ganked by those birdy people and gets deleted. Thanks for the tips
Update: it generally worked, with addition of scroll protection against good and evil + stone-skin on Izobel prefight. However!! Jaheira nuked my barrels with her thunder spells to get my demon customers sitting in front of the door lmao. Thanks again! :)
That does work but it is situational because when the player with the sanctuary makes an attack, it cancels the sanctuary and also you can not cast sanctuary on them for 1 turn because they get a condition "sanctuary blocked". So yeah sanctuary is a good idea but we can not control if Isobel attacks or not so it can only be a temporary solution in time of need
Yeah, it didn't work. Perhaps the game developers adjusted the mechanism in the later patches (after the video was posted.) Or rather I missed something.
I had difficult time doing this again in my other playthroughs. I think they patched it but not entirely. You need to put boxes and barrels really close to each other, try going in and out of the room yourself, if you can pass the barricade you made, monsters can pass too. Thank you for watching! I hope this helps!
I have the same issue. Really tried different drops with the barrels, nothing seems to work now (sept 2024). My party is level 5, perhaps that is why I am struggling with the fight :(
bro why do i have to come to a video like this to even have a chance to pass this encounter. and if you let her get kidnapped it makes your whole experience in that area that much worse. horribly designed imo
They could have given people more time to save her. It happens really fast and if you don't know it will happen , chances you'll be able to save her is very slim.
Hey, I am a bit confused by your comment because not all classes have all the spells. You can simply recruit someone from the camp that has sanctuary spell, (since lock spell doesn't work here do not worry about that one), or you can temporarily change your class for this fight to a class that can use sanctuary. They did not delete the spell from the game, you just need to be or have someone in your party that can use sanctuary so what do you mean by you don't have those spells? Also, the real tactic is to just put barrels or crates in front of the door so monsters can not open it! Very effective and you dont need any spells
This was a tough encounter for me. It didn’t end well. Thanks to a save prior to the fight and your advice, I saved the Cleric. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the comment!
The barrel tip is huge actually because guess what, just above Dammon there is a room full of empty barrels. Gee I wonder what I'm gonna do with those. 😂
Also a tip from me: talk to the Art Cullagh guy who's asleep cause of the curse and then go to your camp to tell Halsin about it. It will cause him to leave your camp for a bit and be at the Inn instead, and he will help in the fight. Him and Jaheira teaming up again was sweet tbh.
Edit: Also easy way to help Isobel is to cast Protection from Evil and Good on her. It is concentration but if things go really bad this will give Marcus disadvantage on his attacks against her because he counts as an aberration. If you cast Sanctuary on her the turn before that should give you a bit room to set up the rest of your party to just ruin Marcus' day.
@@leila13dnd thank you!!!
it also helps to disarm Marcus and pick up his weapon.
I put spike growth down in the hall and the demons killed themselves walking through it, also it seems if you do the dialogue check and tell isobel hes trying to capture you she runs away instead of staying still to fight.. that was a problem the first few times cause the demons just mobbed her and anyone they paralyze then insta crit making it super hard to save her if they get to her.. so pretty much just block demons however you can, focus the dude and its actually not as hard as it seems.
I also recommend combo-ing spike growth and insect plague when you level up. That is also how I killed everyone in Raphael's home, I stood in a room and spiked+plagued the door(as a druid) :) I hope the simple barrel block tip helps as well! Have a nice day!
I didn't do most of these, but I did cast sanctuary on her. Then I watched her slip ln some ice right after haha.
Sometimes it's like she is fighting against you 😅
Best guide on YT, tyvm. I didn’t even talk to her in my first wt in fear of getting her kidnapped. In my 2nd wt now, I hope you’re ready for my paladin Marcus. You now have a new sub🙃
Welcome! One trick here: when you are barricading doors with crates or barrels, make sure you leave no gap big enough to pass through, because after the latest patches, demons started coming through small gaps in the barricades. You can test it with your own character, if you can walk to the other side of the barricade that means demons can pass through as well. Before the latest big patches you could do with 3 barrels like you see in the video. I think you would need more right now because at my latest playthrough it was more rough. Good luck!
@@GilGaladGaming cool,thanks. I’ve already gathered around 35/40 empty barrels and crates since the time of watching your video. Enough to hold out anything 🤣
Our first honor run Isobell was taken on the second turn... our second (And current) honor run we managed to save her thanks to barricading the doors... even when Jaheira decided to ice storm (or whatever its called) at the big main door and break the barricade through a wall
Thats funny! Umm..jahera..what are you doing jahera?! And its good to hear barricade still works!
@@GilGaladGaming it was scary in the moment XD, we still ended up losing the run when we fought Myrkul
I used a similar strat with creating a barrier to stop arrows hit the portal halsin goes through with stone wall.
They killed Isabel literally at the first round, I don't even have a chance to save her
Yeah, it requires a bit of preperation 😆
This video helped me, but not completely. All I needed was to move some boxes to stop the door.
Exactly what I needed for honor mode...so many tutorials assuming that marcus was the problem!!!~
No!~ I always kill him first round, then izobel gets ganked by those birdy people and gets deleted.
Thanks for the tips
Update: it generally worked, with addition of scroll protection against good and evil + stone-skin on Izobel prefight. However!! Jaheira nuked my barrels with her thunder spells to get my demon customers sitting in front of the door lmao. Thanks again! :)
@Kam1goroshi woohoo! 🙌 Glad to hear 😊
I just cast sanctuary on Isobel. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That does work but it is situational because when the player with the sanctuary makes an attack, it cancels the sanctuary and also you can not cast sanctuary on them for 1 turn because they get a condition "sanctuary blocked". So yeah sanctuary is a good idea but we can not control if Isobel attacks or not so it can only be a temporary solution in time of need
thank you, you helped me a lot!
idk barreling the doors doesnt seem to work for me. Cool guide though ! Thank you.
Yeah, it didn't work. Perhaps the game developers adjusted the mechanism in the later patches (after the video was posted.) Or rather I missed something.
I had difficult time doing this again in my other playthroughs. I think they patched it but not entirely. You need to put boxes and barrels really close to each other, try going in and out of the room yourself, if you can pass the barricade you made, monsters can pass too. Thank you for watching! I hope this helps!
I have the same issue. Really tried different drops with the barrels, nothing seems to work now (sept 2024). My party is level 5, perhaps that is why I am struggling with the fight :(
bro why do i have to come to a video like this to even have a chance to pass this encounter. and if you let her get kidnapped it makes your whole experience in that area that much worse. horribly designed imo
They could have given people more time to save her. It happens really fast and if you don't know it will happen , chances you'll be able to save her is very slim.
Here from the future. I must say because of this video being over 2 months from now, I don’t have all those spells
Hey, I am a bit confused by your comment because not all classes have all the spells. You can simply recruit someone from the camp that has sanctuary spell, (since lock spell doesn't work here do not worry about that one), or you can temporarily change your class for this fight to a class that can use sanctuary. They did not delete the spell from the game, you just need to be or have someone in your party that can use sanctuary so what do you mean by you don't have those spells?
Also, the real tactic is to just put barrels or crates in front of the door so monsters can not open it! Very effective and you dont need any spells
very nice tip and all but am here to stab Isobel >:D In Bhaal's Name.
GASP* Selue protect us all!