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It seems, there's no satisfying way for a decent character.

Fast traveled out of the Underdark. Came back he's dead and no one's there.

I made a deal with That made the fight quite doable for me (level 5 party: Fiend warlock, Lae'zel, Shadowheart and Gale)

Yeah, I just found out and did it that way. Much easier and satisfying.

You can actually jump into the lava (with the use of a fire resistance potion) and recover his body and parasite).

I just killed the Duergar first and then I blew up the debris to fight Nere as well.

This seems to be the way the game intends you to do it for nice characters. The fight is mega hard otherwise.

For less nice characters: You can also kill everyone else in the room first before you let him out. Alternatively, fast travel or rest twice and come back, the duergar all leave if Nere suffocates, but leave his loot.

I killed all duergar first and then killed Nere alone. Easy battle at level 5.
If you ally with rebels

Killed all of them, Nere and Duergars , they asked from me too much, and they slaughtered gnomes.

I found a hi ground position, separated my party into 2 spots, and started taking out the duergar. It was rough at times. Cloud of daggers kept them from coming up a ladder. Killed one guy...animated him into an archer. Grease on other avenues of approach. Corners to keep the archers from shooting as much as possible. Level 5 with Lazael, Shadowheart, Astarion,and myself as a Bard.

It doesn't matter if you make a deal with the Duergar or not. The minute you blow the blockage, they will run right over and stand in the fire and then they will all attack you. This game really has the greatest artificial stupidity ever.

Just finished the spectator fight, the one with the statues. Quite a struggle because I F5'd at a precarious, stupid moment. Anyway, after many reloads finally finished it off, went into the cut scene but had no choice but to fight the happy guys I just freed because I wanted teh icy, part 2 starting running on empty, succeed there too.

Fight over, party is all over the place but we're still grouped, so they all run up to me. Gale runs through his own blade cloud.

There's something contradictory about being so stupid you run into your own blade cloud, then have the mental genius to survive the concentration check. Cosmic justice, on the other hand...

How many times did I want to punch Jaheira for leaving a bunch of shadow-cursed vines at the bottom of the stairs towards the Steel Watch Foundry? On the other hand, as a tabletop DM, I can confirm that even players are completely ignorant of their character's surroundings sometimes.

Shouldn't overdramatise it however. The companions are reasonably well with avoiding bad surfaces or aoe, with the exception of Cloud of Daggers. The player should know this at level 6, when the Nere fight is on the table. BTW from the about 8 Nere fights I had, only in one the duergar of Brithvar turned hostile, for unknown reasons. In one fight I turned them and in one other the gnomes hostile by stupid use of aoe.

It was definitely not a general issue, but during the Nautiloid and early Act 1, Tav couldn't stay away from flames (before I'd found out how to put them out), and helping a certain someone off the funeral pyre in Act 3 turned those Heapside stairs into a minefield. It happened five or six times, that I'd clicked a little further away and somebody either stepped into the vines or ran into the secretive transaction. The latter was eventually fixed with knuckle sandwiches, but I didn't find a way to dispel those vines. As for the Cloud of Daggers, I think I had that issue just once.