Help A Guy Out With Nwn2

Ok... I am in the final battle with Garius where some of my party turns against me. For me I have Qara, Neeshka and the evil Ranger turn against me. Everythime I fight the battle I lose, even on easy level. He throws up the barriers and I eventually lose. One time I got to the point where only He and Neeshka were left alive, but I couldn't attack them because they were on the other side of the barrier and I was out of all spells with my stil alive characters.

What am I doing wrong? What is the secret?

I would go online and find a walkthrough, but I am in Iraq and all game sites are blocked. I am lucky that NOTEBOOKREVIEW isn't blocked.

Any help would be appreciated. I just want to finish this so I can move onto Mask of the Betrayer.

 

You could always just cheat, oh, and watch the spoilers.

 

Reverse!

Now, remember the save you made before you entered this room? Reload it, and take the time to redistribute your equipment. Take all the equipment off of characters that are going to leave your party, and empty their spellbooks, save for spells that you can use to buff other party members before heading into the room. Yeah, it’s cheating, in a sense, but it’ll make things a bit easier than they would be otherwise.

When you have your equipment sorted out, buff yourself thoroughly, and use the short-duration spells last. Don’t bother with any six seconds/level duration spells, like Haste, as they’ll time out during the conversation with Garius. When you’re ready, head back into the room, blow through the Garius scene as quickly as possible, and get to fighting. Don’t forget to activate one of Grobnar’s songs; Inspire Courage will help increase your attack and damage quite a bit. Also don’t forget to summon Elanee’s little pet, and Bishop’s as well if you manage to have him around.

Black Garius

Garius is a difficult fight, as he’ll summon in a Balor demon right off the bat and start warping around the room. To win this fight, you’ll have to defeat him, his Shadow Golems, the Balor, and any of your teammates that fought against you.

One thing to keep in mind here is that you’re going to be able to rest in between this fight and the game’s real final fight, so feel free to use any once per day actions. Don’t forget that you can right-click on the ground and select "special" to call up the spells that were taught to you by the Ritual of Purification; the Soothing Light ability will be especially handy as you and your teammates start to take damage across the board, but are too spread out to easily heal.


These barriers are going to be a major problem for you here.

Anyway, you’ll want a hasted character to start running at the beginning of this fight. The shards of light that keep you separated from Garius can be brought down, but only if you run behind them and activate the statues on Garius’ side of the room. Light walls will rise up behind you as you move, though, so only the first two characters to pass beyond the statues of the Shining Sun and Aurora Chain will be able to move on; any other characters behind them will be stuck in the first quadrant of the light shields. There’ll be plenty to do there, though, as the Balor will keep them busy, alongside multiple Dread Wraiths that appear.

So, you’ll want your two strongest melee attackers to move past the Shining Sun and Aurora Chain statues and wrap around to where Garius and his team is located. You should have at least three characters (Zhjaeve, Elanee, and either Sand or Qara) capable of casting Summon Creature IX, so plop a couple of them down next to the Balor, and the last character cast the spell through the shield so that it pops up next to Garius. That will keep him distracted while your two melee characters move in and start wearing down the Shadow Golems and your erstwhile teammates.

Tip: Don’t worry overmuch if a character or two dies here; it’s going to happen. There’s no need to keep them alive or cast Resurrection or anything, unless you feel that the character is vital to your efforts. They’ll come back to life after the fight is over.


When all of the demons behind the shields are dead, summon elementals near Garius to help finish him off.

When the Balor and the other Wraiths are dead, have your spellcasters re-cast their Summon Creature spells through the shield to the area where your two melee characters are fighting Garius. Even if the melee characters go down, the elementals should still be able to finish off Garius and his cronies. Don’t forget that you can fire arrows and cast other spells through the barriers as well, so feel free to use them. You don’t need to use the True Name ritual on Black Garius, thankfully, since you already did it in Crossroad Keep.

When Garius is dead, you have as much time as you need to rest and rebuff before the final fight begins. Click on top of the portal here (you may have to switch camera views) to start it. One thing to remember to do is to have Zhjaeve memorize the spell Undeath’s Eternal Enemy. Although it may seem like it doesn’t have very many effects for a level nine spell, if you cast it while your group is in a tight bunch, it will render all of them immune to level draining effects, which the King absolutely adores.

 

First Phase


It’s time to finish this.

He’s heeeerrreeee. Guess you arrived just in time, as the King is ready to enter the building. He’s big, he’s bad, he’s ugly. Equip your Sword of Gith and go to work.

There actually isn’t a huge amount to say about this form of the King. He warps around the room attempting to unload melee attacks on your party members, making it difficult to track him or even know what the heck he’s gettig himself up to. At the outset of the fight, have your spellcasters cast their summoning spells while your melee characters rush in and start their business. This is a pretty straightforward pounding after this point, and the beast should all relatively quickly.

Second Phase


It’s just like that one part in Evil Dead, but with less Three Stooges references.

After the King is harmed enough, he will split himself into a large number of smaller creatures and attack with those; they’ll come flooding out of the statues that are scattered around the area. Again, not much to do here save attack them. Be sure to check and ensure that you have as many elementals running around as you possibly can; they may get level drained, but that’s not really a concern to you. If they go down, resummon them as best you can.

As you defeat the smaller Kings, the statues here will become purified, one by one. When you’re down to one or two statues to cleanse, you may want to gather your party around Zhjaeve and recast Undeath’s Eternal Foe on everyone. You can turn Puppet Mode On for all of your characters to get them to stand still. You may also want to pop out a Mass Heal if you have the time, along with any other wide-area buffs from your other team members. When that’s done, turn off Puppet Mode and finish off the remaining enemies.

Third Phase

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...but bigger. The King has regrouped for the final fight, and you have to take him down before he manages to wipe the lot of you off the face of Faerun.

At the outset of this fight, the King will begin stealing power from the five Illefarn statues that circle the area. You’ll have to run up to each of them and bash them in order to actually harm the King at this point; use as many of your melee characters as needed here to quickly plow through them, since they won’t be able to damage the King. Your elementals and summoned creatures should be able to hold him back while you work on the statues.


That is one big monster.

When all of the statues have been bashed to death, head to the portal in the center of the room and attack it with the Sword of Gith. It has a huge amount of damage reduction to any sources of damage except for the sword (something like 25/-), but you may be able to use Khelgar to overwhelm it if you want to use him as a secondary attacker. Of course, if your main character is poor at melee attacking, you may want to just give Khelgar the Sword of Gith and let him use it. He won’t get the buffs that it confers on its owner, but he’ll be able to attack more often than you will.

After the portal falls (it will take quite a while!) unload all your characters on the King of Shadows. When he goes down, he goes down for good. Congratulations on finishing one heck of long game!

 

Use a proxy website to open up restricted sites, unless they blocked those too.

www.gamefaqs.com will definately have it.

 

Necro- as I stated, those sights are blocked.

Lithus- thanks for the detailed info, I will give all this a try, I will have to backtrack a bit to strip the rebel characters, but a good idea. I didn't know that you could deactivate the columns.

Flip- that is blocked also.

 

What kind of character is your main? If you take their equipment off it does help a little, when they switch to evil they get new equipment.

Navy, save yourself some grief. The ending, IMO, is one of the worst from playing a single player RPG that I've run across in some time. I was left with the feeling of......."thats it?". Did not care for it. The end fight was fun, with minimal hassle but.....you'll see.

Hope it works out for you.

 

There is also a dialogue option, when speaking with Bishop, that will get him to leave the fight so you don't have to deal with him. I'm not sure if it's restricted to a particular set of events. In my game, Bishop left me at the Stronghold and returned in the final room. Then I convinced him to leave.

What Lithus posted is basically what to do. Get Khelgar and another strong character around the back of the room to take down the shields. The other characters will probably die but it's not a problem.