Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Patch 5 combat encounter difficulty discussion

All I can say about one thing, the Drow and Spectator encounter caught me by complete surprise. I was sneaking around with my Lolth Drow Ranger Bounty Hunter, inspecting the various petrified Drow, leaving the rest of my party back at the Selune Fort and that Spectator literally flew right past me. My sneak check passed the first time so I just stood there letting it move past me, but I failed my second check. So it immediately charmed the Drow back. But, I succeeded on my third sneak attempt and it was out of sight from everything else.

With how the AI works in this game, even if your in combat, you are sneaking, hostile NPCs don't try to actively search for you. So, while still in combat, I sneaked back to the Fort and pressed the "Run Away" button. To my surprise, it took me back to the camp (instead of just stopping combat). So, I went ahead and rested and continued down a different path. Later in the play through, I am now coming up from the bottom of the area to where the Drow are. They are all still charmed but the Spectator is nowhere to be seen. Coming from the bottom, these 8 or 9 Drow are WAY too much, especially with positioning on top (gaining Advantage).

This encounter is quite interesting as I was hoping to use the Basilisk Oil, and being Drow, that they would not be hostile but I found out from doing some research that this encounter is just that, a fight. I had to just leave this fight alone because of how difficult it was with all the Drow awaken, even with the Spectator not to be seen anywhere.