Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Goblin boss at windmill & Wyll issue

If you go to the Goblin boss at the windmill with Wyll, he wants you to beat him up but keep him alive for questions.

But using Knockout on him still doesnt allow you to talk to him after, am I missing some other way to complete it?

NVM, I reloaded and just had to damage him to a low amount of HP without killing.

But then even after getting the the cutscenes, and Wyll asks you to kill it, it stil ltriggers the 'Why did you kill it' cutscenes with Wyll lol.

I haven’t seen any use for the knockout feature yet. If they are planning on keeping it, it should really be fleshed out.

It's really difficult dealing enough damage to trigger the cutscene without killing the goblin, the knockout feature should work for this and other such instances.

Agreed. If you knock somebody out you should be able to talk to them (wake them up) and then get any dialogue that you normally get for subduing them in combat.

You need to put it at something like 2 hp for he to beg for his life. use a character with weak dmg like Gayle or Will to poke his last remaining HP. The fight will end instantly if the goblin boss gives up, no need to fight the other mobs. Yes, it should be easier (I think that the fight should just end once ''you kill him'' and the goblin should not be able to go lower than 1 HP during the fight).

And Yeah, the Will quest is kinda buggy atm.

I actually blew all my spells killing all the rest of them first, and yes I clobbered him with Wyll and Gale as I use caster Quarterstaffs on each (Resistance one from Ethel on Gale as he's the squishiest and the Entangle one for Wyll).

If you have talk to the dead and haven't accidentally necrotic'ed him to death the way I seem to keep doing you can use that to advance the quest.

The first time I did this fight, I killed only one goblin and lowered the boss's health and then he calling time-out on his own. I reloaded because I wanted the XP from killing the lot, and then knocked out the goblin (using knockout, but he needed to be low health) and triggered the cutscene - but like you, despite having JUST finished interrogating him, Wyll still acts like he died without talking to him first.