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The first time I was in Servus and Alina's House I didn't feel like searching for whatever fit in the teleporter control panel, so left intending to come back later. I promptly forgot about it until I was doing a final tour around Crow's Nest (and found it fairly quickly). Other than that, I only came across a handful of crates and barrels that I didn't get before (most of which I saw, but left until I was done doing something else, and then didn't go back).


For the zeppelin escort, my first attempt used a less than optimal strategy. The glitchy Target Lock (that doesn't necessarily lock) and target selection didn't help, either. If I'm pointed directly at a nest, in range, and hit the right stick, why the heck would the game target a flying demon way above me, or off to the side, and not at least cycle around to the nest? Anyway, the zeppelin made it to the point the captain decided to change the plan
I reloaded my save at the start of the escort, and attempted to be more systematic clearing the nests and towers. When available I tried to use the Wrath of the Patriarch on the densest cluster that was relatively close, and then flew around taking out individual structures and smaller groups, and also summoned a wyvern whenever I had a moment and thought of it (which wasn't often), figuring an extra target might help the zeppelin. I started off doing much better, but when Zandalor told me to redouble my efforts I noticed the zeppelin's health had dropped a fair bit. Looking back, I discovered it was mostly passed a platform that I had missed clearing 4 or 5 ballistas from. Rather than try getting to the end I reloaded a save from a few minutes previous, and made sure I didn't miss anything the next time. Somewhere after the mid point but before the final section I went up to level 47. The zeppelin's health started getting a little low towards the end, but they made it

After the conversation with Ygerna and Behrlihn finished I stood there and let them hit me a couple times while I cast Way of the Ranger, then used Splitting Arrows and jumped back to heal (didn't really need to, HP were about 80%, but I was expecting a tougher fight) and summon my creature (I assume it was off fighting a summoned demon after that, since I didn't notice it again until the fight was over). An explosive arrow at Behrlihn didn't seem to do much damage, but 2 or 3 normal arrows finished him off. His death animation blocked another couple arrows fired at Ygerna, so rather than wait I sidestepped to the left to get a clear angle, slightly before Ygerna tried to Rush Attack me. I rolled away, turned and finished her off with Splitting Arrows.

Cue final cutscene.




Before killing Ygerna, at level 47.12, I had 145 unused stat points (none distributed since level 15), and 87 unused skill points.

I used 2 malachite gems for healing auras, which left me with 65 to spare. Next game I'm going to have to be less stingy using level 10 enchantments and healing auras, or not bother reloading for malachite veins or FoV quests.

I did not use any charms in the game, but collected 5 lesser charms, 9 minor, 27 major, 56 blessed and 61 divine charms (7 of which were vitality, 3 spirit, 10 strength, 7 dexterity, 6 intelligence and 28 other).






Skills

Ranger Strength - 15
Splitting Arrows - 9+6
Explosive Arrows - 12+3
Way of the Ranger - 10+5

Poison Arrows - 1
Stun Arrows - 1

Death Blow - 1+4
Evade - 1
Healing - 1
Regenerate - 1

Lockpick - 0 (7 before reskilling for the end game)
Ranger Stealth - 5
Mana Efficiency - 6+4
Mindread - 1 (15 before reskilling for the end game)



Equipment (in a spoiler, since most of it was mentioned above already):