Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Hag not offering Hair deal when below 10 HP on her turn

Title says it all. I am getting the hag below 10 hp, and on her turn, she's just healing herself, attacking, and trying to escape. Last try I had her surrounded and silenced, and she still just disappeared and took Mayrina with her. Total BS. Is this a bug, or have the devs just decided we're not allowed to win the fight in the teahouse? I mean, I can kill her; done that several times trying to land on less than 10 hp at the start of her turn. But I really want that disgusting clump of hair.

You can kill her in the house, but I believe you have to hurt her in a fight beneath her house, in her lair, if you want to get the hair option.

As to whether or not the hair should be an option if you can beat her down before she escapes through the fireplace? I don't know, I guess, maybe, whatever?

That may well be the case, but it's just stupid. Hag will bargain for her life in the basement, but not in the dining room? Seriously?

Remember this is early access. The encounter is clearly designed with the expectation that Ethel escapes into her lair and you track her there. There are other elements of the planned boss fight that you miss if you just kill her upstairs as well. As a result of early access feedback showing players will try to - and can - finish her off before she makes it to the fireplace and away, presumably this will be tightened up for the full release, either by guaranteeing Ethel’s escape so we can’t “cheat” by killing her upstairs, or else by properly implementing a fight to the end with her in the hut. Or the whole structure of the encounter might be overhauled. We’ll see in August!

Yep. Get her down to low HP in her lair. Make the right options to get the hair

It's not logical, but it feels like a clever punishment for cheesing the fight.

That being sad, it's not logical, either, that the hag isn't cheating us. Larian tells us over and over again what a bad idea deals with hags are, just for there to be no consequences (yet).