Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Help Tips & Tricks Balthasar fight - this really isn't fun anymore

I tried it at least 15 times and always get wasted. Party is level 7 and Gale is done for within two rounds tops. I'm there with Karlach, Lae'zel, my Paladin and Gale. Since he is out of business the fastest - everyone is aiming at him - I can forget all the fancy AOE spells I equipped him with. The rest of my party goes down one of two rounds later, since there's an insane amount of enemies and Balthasar always succeeds at his death spells.

he hangs out at the back, on my second try, i popped him with a spell that cause a knockback... turns out he's a lousy flyer. just need to get the angle right.

He keeps teleporting like crazy and fires death cloud after death cloud. And in between, perfectly healthy characters are kicked into the abyss, if they're too close. Also I have the impression of the game trolling me. They land criticals by the numbers, while my folks land critical misses.

Have you done everything else you want to do in region, as I think this might be a point of no return moment. Maybe come back to it a little later?

Also this is a story point for Shadowheart, who also happens to be quite handy against undead. Are you deliberately avoiding having her on the team?

I killed Balthasar in his lair at the temple. It was hard fight, ironically with Gale as the last man standing. But Balthasar is gone. Sadly also Shadowheart, since I didn't take her to free Nightsong. I may roll back a save to take her with.

First time I did this fight was on balanced. I found it annoying because one of the large undead would consistently push the closest party member off the edge of the rock, killing them in the chasm. I had to reload twice and then I just ran into the center taking some opportunity shots. My party was PC Gloomstalker, Wyll, Shadowheart and Karlach. I burned down Balthazar before he could do much, he got 1 turn before dying where he summoned his scripted adds, drank a speed pot and then ray of sicknesses some one twice. Shadowheart turned as many undead as she could reach on her first turn then it was a fairly straightforward fight.

Second time I did this was on Tactician. Party was PC Warlock/Sorceror, Astarion as a Gloomstalker, Shadowheart Light Cleric and Lae'zel. I jumped down and stealthed the party and opened combat with Astarion from ranged. Everyone else was undetected and I was able to get all of them into combat and attack from stealth. Balthazar died on the first turn before taking an action. Scripted adds didn't even show.

Dont approach him from the point where you jump down, go into sneak and go somewhere top rightish, not the cliff just up the stairs and defend position with wall of fire and such

Player fault if you start the fight from a position where your characters can be pushed off

To confront Balthasar while he still is in the temple. He doesn't spawn his army of undeads there and you only have to deal with his guards. He went down within two rounds. Interestingly, the ensuing boss fights, including that Orc woman were much easier. Gale and Halsin casting ice storm had her down in round one. Same with Kethric Thorm and the monster he turns to.