Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Act 3 Teleporter PRoblem

I know there are a thousand and six posts about this, but hear me out. I'm on the broken teleporter quest, and I'm *this close* to being able to finish it. I know I'm that close because I did it once before, accidentally, and easily, and had the teleporter fixed with the red gem (yes, from friendly mister elemental) in place before I even knew that Serrick would want me to fix it (the Raanar asked nicely first).

However, that was three days ago, and after fixing the teleporter I somehow neglected to save my game, and went off and got killed by a pack of crystal gargoyles. So today I fired up the game again, thinking it would be easy, and I'd just do again what I already did once.

Only I can't. I can't get anywhere near the teleporter or the Elemental this time. I've tried coming at it from every single direction, and I cannot find a path that doesn't trigger the "random" teleportation. I even tried being all smart and throwing my teleporter stone into the shroud where I knew the Earth Elemental would be. I threw it directly into a teleportation trigger (D'OH), so now I have the stone but I can't get back to the teleporter or, for that matter, the elemental.

So my question is, does anyone know a path to avoid the triggers? Are they always the same or am I stuck with some horrible combination of random that's making my life hell? I know it should be posslble, having done it before, but after TWO HOURS tonight trying to walk to that spot and trigering teleporters, I've had to physically restrain myself from punching my new monitor, and I am so angry and frustrated with this game that the less restrained parts of my imagination are HAPPILY commiting homicide on the creators.

I think I'm going to make a nice hot cup of tea and get the hell away from this game while I see if any of you kind souls can help. Thanks.

There is a pattern to the teleportations. IIRC I got to the teleporter platform section by heading north from the stranded Raanaar (there is a lava vent just south of where you end up which periodically emits fire (at the bottom of the screen at 1024x768).

I also have a problem, I managed to get to the center of the area with the random teleporting, that lava ring. Yes there was a few elementals, but no King? Where is the king so I can get the 'porter gem for the fix? There's a chest in the middle too but no gem in it.

The teleporter is south of the eastern edge of the lava ring, and the elemental king is south of there.

Map

There is no path to follow where you WONT get teleported. What i did notice, there are regeons (rings on the map, similar to london's zones) where the teleportation direction changed. on the outer ring of the map, if you head north, you get teleported south. These directions changed as you got closer to the centre (i didnt write down the directions at the time, but will do it when i get there this time (currently in act 2 again about to go to act3).

Hint: If you want to incorporate your teleport pyramids.... make SURE to save before you start doing that, i ended up running around for about 3 hours trying to reach my pyramid, because i dropped it on a teleportation line, so everytime i teleported to the pyramid, i instantly got teleported via madness to somewhere far off.

The pyramids DID help me somewhat though, by throwing them on the area where i coudnt seem to get to, then using the other to get there.... but as i said... carefull, you may just end up throwing it onto a segment of madness.

Short route

Here is a short(ish) route to the solution... after you kill the elemental king, just head north to the teleporter.

The blue squares are where i used my teleport pyramids to get into the lava circle.

Hope this helps (and please dont shoot me, if its not perfect.... that was how i got teleported, but some of those teleport"zones" are very close together)