Just bring Quana to 1 HP ("living on the edge") before blessing her - you will easily one shot her with a party member with enough initiative.
My mindset for combat in this game is that the combat here is actually the complete opposite of what it is in other games... in most games today it's about "omgroflulz headshotz1!1337", here it is about solving the puzzle, the riddle a combat situation is. Like chess, but with fancy animation, magic and in 3D. Which is very enjoyable, I would LOVE to play arena, if I could connect to it.
Besides that - if you happen to forget the combination between playthroughs and / or have no lockpicks, you can always use thievery to get the information and the key to Surreys tomb from her petrified body.
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Having said that: yes, the last big patch is a bit buggy... but keep in mind that it was REALLY a big one and in software engineering such things can happen.
I have sent two savegames regarding the wand & shield-bug myself, with a bit of additional analysis... for me it's about waiting for my first tactician playthrough, because I want to go 2x caster. I'm confident that we will get a patch at some point which will fix it, but I'm also aware that sometimes bugs like this can be pretty nasty to find, especially when there is no good reproducibilty (I work as a software engineer myself and I HAVE spent whole working days on bugs which were fixed in the end by changing a single line of code before - this is not caused by the bug itself but by the reproducibilty... if it takes you 5 hour to reproduce wrongful behaviour, then you can imagine what happens).
Last edited by Firesong; 11/02/18 10:50 PM.
