Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Help Tips & Tricks Underdark to the tower - was there a better way?

I couldn't figure out how to get to the bottom-left corner of the map, despite the tantalizing marking of the ruined tower. Finally, I found a place where Lae'zel could make a leap across some jagged rocks. The other characters weren't strong enough, and although they are carrying about 1000 feet of rope, she had to explore alone. Killed some fire fungus, and then found a place where I could jump up shelf fungus on a wall. The first time, one broke and I was stuck, but I reloaded and was more careful to cling to the wall and made it all the way up. From there, there's a teleportation portal back down -- ah, and up again (if I'd just gone there first could I have saved all the jumping?). And there's a fake wall which leads to a portal in to the swamp. Soooo, I fast-travelled the rest of the party to the swamp, and had them meet up with Lae'zel there, and then everyone hopped back through the portal, walked through the illusory wall, and then the other portal down.

That all seems a little silly.... was I supposed to do this another way?

There's a couple of other ways to it from memory, one of which is jumping along ledges alongside the fort, although that one results in a rather nasty fight. But there is another path which doesn't involve all that jumping.

If you can get any one character to a location, then I believe you can go to and return from camp with them selected to drag the entire party with them to the difficult-to-reach location.

I found a way to avoid that fight, requires the first jump, then scale down, then one more jump where the poison fog is, however at the bottom there is the random bulette. But yea the other fight is NASTY lol haven't won that battle.

Yeah this seems awful to me. It feels like a cheat or exploit.

When you get to the ruined fort you can jump from the bridge to a ledge, it wraps around and there are some petrified grow and near the camp with gold on the ground a spectator (small beholder appears). You can also go to the beach and jump up from there.