insanely helpful guide. As other's have mentioned, all of the most popular guides involve some cheese strat before you've annoyed him by destroying the steel watch. With your help, I managed to get the achievement first try.
@@suryavegeta12 I had 2 characters in act 3. One i stopped playing because i wasn't enjoying it. The plan was to play normally with the 2nd character and keep the 1st character around for cheese. After i cleared the foundry i double checked the guides i had earmarked and saw that there was a strat for if you did things normally.
Great video. FYI for those reading, in Honor Mode you can't shoot those traps / buff launchers with arrows as they are resistant/sturdy. You have to hit them with bludgeoning or throw things at them.
I shot the traps down in honor mode with my stealth archer using titanstring, sharpshooter and cloud giant strength potion. Sturdy comes before resistance, which means you will deal enough damage to destroy them if you did your character right.
Thank you for this. I kept failing to get this achievement despite following other videos' advice. On my 5th (or 6th?) playthrough, I finally got it following yours. Thanks!
10/12/24 update: I followed this video exactly, except when I got into the room with the traps that he shoots I could not destroy them because they were 'sturdy'. I switched to a bludgeoning weapon and smashed in one I could reach, and it exploded and hurt me. I figured this would count as a tripped trap and decided to kite Gortash outside like the video anyway just to see how hard he was before I re-did it without breaking the trap. To my surprise I was able to kite Gortash to the outside where his buffs ran out and kill him and his back up rather easily and the achievement popped! I hope this helps anyone going for this in Patch 7
I should clarify as I did in other comments that that's a legendary bow and the character has the sharpshooter feat, so the sturdy stuff should be bypassed easily by the sheer amount of damage. Alternatively, a lot of people switched to lightning damage and it got the job done.
Thank you so much! All I did was disarm the traps outside, send Astarion in to throw a spell or two to get the action started and get out quickly before any of those bulbs were thrown and then fought it all outside. Worked great. Thank you!
Worked like a charm, thank you! The only fiddly part was that I had to shoot Gortash three times to finally get him and his soldiers to chase me outside, they just did not want to leave.
This made the encounter an absolute cakewalk lol thanks Only thing I did different was mstep/fly across from south span, saved a bit of time, other than that 11/10
This worked really well for me, only one try in tactition, I had to kill the three roaming steel watchers outside, and the one that came with gortash. What carried the most was a Open hand monk, and a ranger with constant use of arrow of many targets. Thanks!
I don't remember how, but by some miracle I got this achievement on my first playthrough before even knew that this achievement existed. I remember it involved ganging up on him with my heavy hitters in the throne room before he transformed.
Got it by sneaking up to the top floor, killing the steel watchers and smashing everything inside the room. When I came back after the steel watch factory, I fought him with all the traps smashed to bits.
this was insanely informative and clear on exactly what to do. thank you for an actually good guide to follow. oh i also got the achievement first try too.
Anyone struggling with the traps, note they're classed as "sturdy" & immune to piercing damage, I found it more reliable to have Gale cast the acid splash cantrip on them
This worked first try in tactition, I had to kill the steel watchers aswell. Open hand monk and a ranger constant use of target of many arrows. Thanks!
This is completely bugged for me, beat him now 3x in a row not triggering anything but the things in his room that give him his shield. Ive destroyed the steal watch. I did sneak his rooom earlier with astarion for loot but didn't trigger traps. At this point the only thing getting triggered is me wondering why the achievement isn't popping.
Ungroup party. Open door to start fight. Go back outside and regroup with party. Then easily kill everybody who comes through the door, including Gortash.
Let him talk Giant strength potion Turn based mode Makeshift weapon Grab him Before he hits warp to the bridge Move him to the edge Push his geek ass off Profit.
By the point i had to get his netherstone i was on his bad side cos i destroyed the steelwatch and the iron throne, and so everyone at wyrm's rock was hostile, n being a retribution durge i didnt wanna kill anyone i didnt need to and just greater invisibility'd my party and accidentally got this achievement cos we didnt trigger any traps otw to Gortash 😂
In this video I destroyed the foundry and did the Iron Throne too before facing him. I wouldn't feel that bad about killing banites if you're on a good run, but I was concerned about the flaming fists. It is implied in some writings you found that the remaning guards are bad apples and the good ones left, so...
I dunno what I'm doing wrong, I tried this achievement exartly how it was shown in this video, and it didn't work :/ Been having this issue all day, tried it several times doing several different methods
doesnt work post coronation/destruction of iron throne, which what the video is about. the area is hostile so you cannot fast travel. also gortash is hostile as well.
Weapon Type: Longbow, Two-Handed Damage: 1d8 +8 Piercing, +2 Piercing Range: 18m Proficiency Requirement: Martial Weapon Proficiency Rarity: Rare Weight: 1.1 kg Value: 1000 Location: Looted from Steel Watch Foundry Boss, Baldur’s Gate City (X: -291 Y: -163), Act 3 Promised Victory: On a hit, possibly inflict the Guiding Bolt upon the target. Gontr Mael: Glowing: This object shines with a glowing light in a radius of 6m. Weapon Enchantment: +3 Gain: Celestial Haste Spell, Level 3 Transmutation Spell, and Light (Permanent) No special arrows. The character is a commando build, rogue(assassin)/ranger(gloom stalker) with the sharpshooter feat. If you have any problems bypassing the sturdy feat, try with eldritch blasts or acid splashes.
It's weird that I never even got out of stealth, was never caught by any of them, no traps triggered. Gortash died and his underlings aren't even mad at me because they didn't even see me but still I did not get the achievement? makes no sense.
I might be stupid, or my game is broken (or if I might have triggered a trap during coronation, but that was too far in the past for me to pull up a savepoint), but I did everything exactly as shown, three times and it didn't work at anytime. took the same steps to get there too, after the coronation, destroyed the steelwatch, etc. nothing.
Did you trigger any traps in the room below with all his minor minions? If you fought that battle before going upstairs to Gortash and triggered any of the traps, those count against the achievement.
I don't know what I am doing wrong. I tried this fight 4 times and I never get hit by a trap. I am able to pick up the Grenades before they explode. This is frustrating me.
If they haven't changed too much with the various patches released since, you have to outmatch the "Sturdy" resistance with your damage output. With that character I was using a legendary bow + the Sharpshooter feat.
Interesting I did this or at least am pretty sure i did it correctly and still didnt get the achievement only differences are I bypassed the walk by using a flight potion and flying off the drawbridge to the locked door I did go in the middle door not the side door but no traps went off so i figured I was clear, i did clear the traps but admittedly when i did so i used melee and got caught in the blasts so i wonder if thats the reason may have to try again this time
Odd, my traps have the Sturdy buff and can't be taken out with the arrows, did they patch this? Hopefully disarming them doesn't void it, it's my only option. Edit: disarming seems to trigger them. I'm gonna have to use lightning spells it seems.
Sturdy as "you have to deal more than 10 damage"? I've the Sharpshooter feat in that character, so I'm certainly doing more than that. I'm interested in knowing if Larian changed something, I'm playing Rogue Trader atm but I want to come back to BG3 and do something different.
I ended up having to use my lightning spells because nothing else worked. Even Jaheira with the same bow as you were using couldnt dent the traps. I got the achievement though, thank you! @@AvrengostGames
The stun traps on the outside shouldn't count towards the achivement, if nothing changed recently. I suggest disarming them anyway, just to be on the safe side and not having to deal with them during the fight. They can explode with AoEs during the combat, it happened to me when I was doing some tries. Safety first 😅
why'd you take the long way to get there? You could have just jumped from the bridge instead of going all the way to the leveler. edit: either from inside the keep or on the other side.
On that character I have a legendary bow, the Sharpshooter feat and some items that increase damage. You can try with a 3d10 damage cantrip from Gale or Wyll (his Eldritch Blast), also examine the traps and have a look at what kind of damage they are vulnerable to.
Glad this exists. Most videos on this achievement focus on pre-coronation Gortash, so I appreciate the hell out of this
insanely helpful guide. As other's have mentioned, all of the most popular guides involve some cheese strat before you've annoyed him by destroying the steel watch. With your help, I managed to get the achievement first try.
Just save before doing the cheese strat, get the trophy and load back to playing it your way.
@@suryavegeta12 I had 2 characters in act 3. One i stopped playing because i wasn't enjoying it. The plan was to play normally with the 2nd character and keep the 1st character around for cheese. After i cleared the foundry i double checked the guides i had earmarked and saw that there was a strat for if you did things normally.
Great video. FYI for those reading, in Honor Mode you can't shoot those traps / buff launchers with arrows as they are resistant/sturdy. You have to hit them with bludgeoning or throw things at them.
I'm doing the honour mode right now. I might update it as I face him again
Eldritch Blast with Agonizing Blast also works wonders on them (though you still might have to take two shots at one or two of them)
I shot the traps down in honor mode with my stealth archer using titanstring, sharpshooter and cloud giant strength potion. Sturdy comes before resistance, which means you will deal enough damage to destroy them if you did your character right.
bro just get 'Bonespike glowes' and you can kill everyTHING xd
Thank you for this. I kept failing to get this achievement despite following other videos' advice. On my 5th (or 6th?) playthrough, I finally got it following yours. Thanks!
10/12/24 update: I followed this video exactly, except when I got into the room with the traps that he shoots I could not destroy them because they were 'sturdy'. I switched to a bludgeoning weapon and smashed in one I could reach, and it exploded and hurt me. I figured this would count as a tripped trap and decided to kite Gortash outside like the video anyway just to see how hard he was before I re-did it without breaking the trap. To my surprise I was able to kite Gortash to the outside where his buffs ran out and kill him and his back up rather easily and the achievement popped! I hope this helps anyone going for this in Patch 7
I should clarify as I did in other comments that that's a legendary bow and the character has the sharpshooter feat, so the sturdy stuff should be bypassed easily by the sheer amount of damage.
Alternatively, a lot of people switched to lightning damage and it got the job done.
Thank you so much! All I did was disarm the traps outside, send Astarion in to throw a spell or two to get the action started and get out quickly before any of those bulbs were thrown and then fought it all outside. Worked great. Thank you!
Glad it worked out!
Thanks, literally my second to last achievement I needed! Worked first try!
Worked like a charm, thank you! The only fiddly part was that I had to shoot Gortash three times to finally get him and his soldiers to chase me outside, they just did not want to leave.
just did this and it worked flawlessly, had to use Eldritch Blast to take out the traps though instead of a bow. thank you!!
Wow. This made the fight a piece of cake. Awesome prep.
You're an absolute angel, I finally got the trophy after watching 4 other methods. Thank you!
Thanks man I finally got the trophy. It was a tough one but once I followed your steps it worked swimmingly!
This made the encounter an absolute cakewalk lol thanks
Only thing I did different was mstep/fly across from south span, saved a bit of time, other than that 11/10
Thanks for this! Was one of the last achievements I needed and worked like a charm!
Just did it! Worked perfectly as described! Thank you again!
This worked really well for me, only one try in tactition, I had to kill the three roaming steel watchers outside, and the one that came with gortash.
What carried the most was a Open hand monk, and a ranger with constant use of arrow of many targets. Thanks!
Thanks for this video. This strategy helped me earn the trophy after like 6 attempts.
I don't remember how, but by some miracle I got this achievement on my first playthrough before even knew that this achievement existed. I remember it involved ganging up on him with my heavy hitters in the throne room before he transformed.
Got it by sneaking up to the top floor, killing the steel watchers and smashing everything inside the room. When I came back after the steel watch factory, I fought him with all the traps smashed to bits.
still works as of 10-22-24 thanks so much and i did it on honour mode liked and subbed as well appreciate that video so much :D
Thank you! Finally got it. I couldn't take down the traps with arrow but witches' bolt worked great
Thank you for the video. Call Lightning worked for me on the traps.
My arrows don't do any damage but I used lightning spells instead and got the achievement anyways. Thanks to you a lot!!!
Thank you so much, this trophy is just all around dumb and bugged but your method worked, thanks again!
this really really helped, first time and everything, thanks a lot!!
Glad it did
this was insanely informative and clear on exactly what to do. thank you for an actually good guide to follow. oh i also got the achievement first try too.
Nice to hear.
Tysm. Im trying to platinum on ps5 and this really helped me
I just did this and got caught up by the Steel Watcher but fret not. I still clapped Gortash way easier with your help!😅
Thank you! Got it first try after watching this video
Anyone struggling with the traps, note they're classed as "sturdy" & immune to piercing damage, I found it more reliable to have Gale cast the acid splash cantrip on them
Just did it! This is the best video for Godtash
Thanks this worked wonders on my honour run!
This worked first try in tactition, I had to kill the steel watchers aswell. Open hand monk and a ranger constant use of target of many arrows. Thanks!
Powerful invisibility + turn base mode + surround Gortash with gunpowder barrels (at least 10 barrel) step away and blow it up , you're welcome.
works smoothly, thank you so much! 😊 used witch bolt on the traps
This was perfect, thank you!
This is completely bugged for me, beat him now 3x in a row not triggering anything but the things in his room that give him his shield. Ive destroyed the steal watch. I did sneak his rooom earlier with astarion for loot but didn't trigger traps. At this point the only thing getting triggered is me wondering why the achievement isn't popping.
Great, it worked! Thanks dude!
If anyone is not able to destroy the traps just use witch bolt, In my playthrough gale has it
Strategy worked great, thanks!
Ungroup party. Open door to start fight. Go back outside and regroup with party.
Then easily kill everybody who comes through the door, including Gortash.
Let him talk
Giant strength potion
Turn based mode
Makeshift weapon
Grab him
Before he hits warp to the bridge
Move him to the edge
Push his geek ass off
Profit.
By the point i had to get his netherstone i was on his bad side cos i destroyed the steelwatch and the iron throne, and so everyone at wyrm's rock was hostile, n being a retribution durge i didnt wanna kill anyone i didnt need to and just greater invisibility'd my party and accidentally got this achievement cos we didnt trigger any traps otw to Gortash 😂
In this video I destroyed the foundry and did the Iron Throne too before facing him. I wouldn't feel that bad about killing banites if you're on a good run, but I was concerned about the flaming fists. It is implied in some writings you found that the remaning guards are bad apples and the good ones left, so...
I got this achievement totally by accident, on my very first play through. I used the runepowder bomb on him and it blew up the traps
It worked, thank you!
I dunno what I'm doing wrong, I tried this achievement exartly how it was shown in this video, and it didn't work :/ Been having this issue all day, tried it several times doing several different methods
are you setting off the traps on the floor below; where all the adds are? Cause that stops you from getting the achievement also.
thank you! super helpful
this was so helpful, thank u so much!!
my goat
bruh just pop a giant potion, pick his ass up during the coronation, fast travel to Wryms Crossing, then push him off the cliff below.
Just did this fight yesterday. Wish I would have seen this first.
You can just jump/fly down tho the passage from rivington without a lot of the fighting.
You can also just fast travel while using him as an improvised melee weapon and then just yeet him off the bridge to lower city.
Interesting, can you elaborate a bit more? I'm interested
doesnt work post coronation/destruction of iron throne, which what the video is about. the area is hostile so you cannot fast travel. also gortash is hostile as well.
Arrow does not do any dmg on traps on the wall.
Inspect with T, they are vulnerable to lightning damage, shoot with lightning arrows ;)
Super useful!!
Thank you for this
120+ hours in, and only now am I realising that you can move boxes to use as aid to jump up higher...
No shame in that
still works, super clear guide. easy as can be this way
Thanks man
Thanks for this video. I did this but still didn't get the trophy. I'm not sure where I went wrong, lol. I'm going to try again.
Please do, and let me know what went wrong.
You are an absolute lifesaver.
Let's not get over our heads😂
Regardless you saved me 60 hours of gameplay lol
OP do you mind sharing what bow your ranger was using? And were they normal arrows?
Weapon Type: Longbow, Two-Handed
Damage: 1d8 +8 Piercing, +2 Piercing
Range: 18m
Proficiency Requirement: Martial Weapon Proficiency
Rarity: Rare
Weight: 1.1 kg
Value: 1000
Location: Looted from Steel Watch Foundry Boss, Baldur’s Gate City (X: -291 Y: -163), Act 3
Promised Victory: On a hit, possibly inflict the Guiding Bolt upon the target.
Gontr Mael: Glowing: This object shines with a glowing light in a radius of 6m.
Weapon Enchantment: +3
Gain: Celestial Haste Spell, Level 3 Transmutation Spell, and Light (Permanent)
No special arrows.
The character is a commando build, rogue(assassin)/ranger(gloom stalker) with the sharpshooter feat.
If you have any problems bypassing the sturdy feat, try with eldritch blasts or acid splashes.
I wondered if it was that bow! Thanks for all the info OP appreciate it. My main is a warlock so I'll def plan on using EB if the bow gives me issues.
got it, thanks
You're welcome
Very good!
Thank you!!
Do the traps on the first floor where the coronation takes place count or only the ones inside Gortash room?
Does it still count if I triggered the traps at an earlier point in the playthrough, but in a different encounter having nothing to do with gortash?
It might, I'm not sure. It's difficult to replicate at the moment, given the time element between the two events in the same playthrough.
nope it doesnt, it happend to me :C you cant activate any trap at any moment (Any Gortash traps).
It's weird that I never even got out of stealth, was never caught by any of them, no traps triggered. Gortash died and his underlings aren't even mad at me because they didn't even see me but still I did not get the achievement? makes no sense.
It's weired that you destroy the traps, the explode and no one of the oponenents reacts.
Got sharp shooter and it doesn't shot the traps
I might be stupid, or my game is broken (or if I might have triggered a trap during coronation, but that was too far in the past for me to pull up a savepoint), but I did everything exactly as shown, three times and it didn't work at anytime.
took the same steps to get there too, after the coronation, destroyed the steelwatch, etc. nothing.
Same :(
Did you trigger any traps in the room below with all his minor minions? If you fought that battle before going upstairs to Gortash and triggered any of the traps, those count against the achievement.
bro after all this they patched the traps...i'm shooting them with the Gontr Mael too and they're just saying "sturdy" 0 Damage when shot 💀
Do you deal enough damage to overcome the Sturdy's 20 damage threshold? Sharpshooter feat or using some spell? Someone had good results with Witchbolt
I don't know what I am doing wrong. I tried this fight 4 times and I never get hit by a trap. I am able to pick up the Grenades before they explode. This is frustrating me.
I think the problem you’re having is the fact that the grenades are getting thrown. That counts as a trap activating
nice
At 6:27 I cant destroy the traps it just wont, what can i do now ?
If they haven't changed too much with the various patches released since, you have to outmatch the "Sturdy" resistance with your damage output. With that character I was using a legendary bow + the Sharpshooter feat.
@@AvrengostGames thank you
thank you so much dude
Tried this and did everything in the video but i still didn't get the achievement 😭
waaat.... I sat there for 10 minutes trying ranged... Only lightning worked for me
Ok, but didn’t the traps inside of gortash’s chamber technically activate?
Does it matter that I already triggered the once on the first floor fighting the goons?
Probably but not sure if the game considers the floor Gortash is in.
@@AvrengostGames I can imagine so since I beat him using your steps and didn't get it
Bow didn’t work but I had call lightning that worked
Is this also post Iron Throne?
how come the steel watch are dead ? you did fouyndry first ?
Yes, foundry already done
Dont know why but i cant get this trophy
Thanks
Interesting I did this or at least am pretty sure i did it correctly and still didnt get the achievement
only differences are I bypassed the walk by using a flight potion and flying off the drawbridge to the locked door
I did go in the middle door not the side door but no traps went off so i figured I was clear, i did clear the traps but admittedly when i did so i used melee and got caught in the blasts so i wonder if thats the reason
may have to try again this time
How do u get him to go upstairs?
He goes there after the coronation
@@AvrengostGames thank u but it’s been 2 long rests and he’s still in the throne room ?
@@GamingNerd8432 Have you talked to him and let the coronation event unfold?
Why are the robots all dead to begin with???
They took down the Foundry first.
Odd, my traps have the Sturdy buff and can't be taken out with the arrows, did they patch this? Hopefully disarming them doesn't void it, it's my only option.
Edit: disarming seems to trigger them. I'm gonna have to use lightning spells it seems.
Sturdy as "you have to deal more than 10 damage"? I've the Sharpshooter feat in that character, so I'm certainly doing more than that. I'm interested in knowing if Larian changed something, I'm playing Rogue Trader atm but I want to come back to BG3 and do something different.
I ended up having to use my lightning spells because nothing else worked. Even Jaheira with the same bow as you were using couldnt dent the traps.
I got the achievement though, thank you! @@AvrengostGames
What if he isn't there?
i was gonna comment "where else???" but i reached the second floor and he wasnt there also hngggg
I cant trigger them even before the fight? xd
Did you attack them?
@@AvrengostGames i triggered trap on the roof, (before fight with Gortash) :(
The stun traps on the outside shouldn't count towards the achivement, if nothing changed recently. I suggest disarming them anyway, just to be on the safe side and not having to deal with them during the fight. They can explode with AoEs during the combat, it happened to me when I was doing some tries. Safety first 😅
why'd you take the long way to get there? You could have just jumped from the bridge instead of going all the way to the leveler.
edit: either from inside the keep or on the other side.
How is your ranged attack strong enough to destroy the traps? It does nothing for me 🥹😭
On that character I have a legendary bow, the Sharpshooter feat and some items that increase damage. You can try with a 3d10 damage cantrip from Gale or Wyll (his Eldritch Blast), also examine the traps and have a look at what kind of damage they are vulnerable to.
@@AvrengostGames ah thank you! I just got confused as i was using the same bow as you in the video but it was doing nothing.🙏🥹