Act 1: Grymforge
Step-by-Step Walkthrough
- Talk to the welcoming party, tell them you have the boots, then say you won't give them a single coin.
- Head up the stairs past the waypoint, then wrap around to the right and head back. There's some good loot on the way (for selling, not wearing).
- To the left if you follow the dead shar worshippers up the hill, towards the back is a path down and around. There will be a cliff to climb down, and a short path that leads to a chest. There's a shield in here that Shadowheart can use for awhile.
- You'll come to some dwarves and rothe trying to break some stones. Talk to the rothe and convince them to help you kill the dwarves. Don't stand near the ledge, the dwarves love to push you off. Once the fight is over, ask the rothe to break the stones for you. Don't use friends on the rothe, it might run off during/after the fight and they will turn on you. If you need a potion of animal speaking, Derryth (myconid colony), Arron (grove) sell them.
- Take the MC and only the MC down the path the rothe opened up. Go slowly and either disarm or jump over the traps until you get to the gate at the back on the far end of the bridge. In general, the horizontal plates are traps (jump over them) and the circles are traps (walk around them).Lockpick the gate at the end. You can take the Sharran Idol to sell, and on the ledge is a chest that has a robe (Protecty Sparkwall) for Lae'zel to wear until Act 3.
- Fast travel everyone back to Grymforge to meet up (equip the robe). Turn around and head past the boats. Into the door, in the back right is a button to press that lowers a wall. Loot the chest and the bombs behind it.
- Head back and up the stairs as if on the way to Nere. Talk to Elder Brinthvar outside of Nere's fight room. Tell him you hate true souls, then you're not a true soul, [deception] the cult lied to me. Then take the job to help him (this will give an option to have half the dwarves help you in Nere fight). You can persuade to get more gold, it usually succeeds for me.
- He tells you to get rid of the scrying eye. Just lead it back to where we worked with the rothe and have Astarion throw it into the pit. This one has really bad pathing, so it might be easier to just push it in.
- Head back to Elder Brinthvar, past him is a path to jump to, go there and follow it. Not towards the switches overlooking the lava, go the other way where you have to jump a hanging bridge to the north.
- Enter the first door on the right, go all the way up and back to a skeleton that has a shield mould and take it.
- Turn around and go down some steps and to the left to the door you see. There will be a fight when you open it, so I would suggest opening it with Astarion. It should be a pretty easy fight.
- After the fight, loot the chest to get the Firestoker. Equip that on MC.
- Head back to the waypoint. Go up the stairs and turn as if you're heading to the rothe, but instead go up the stairs to the left. On the first platform there is a cragged rock to climb down. Follow this path to spawn some mimics to kill. Once they're dead you get some loot, the gloves are nice, but I kept the archery ones on.
- One last thing to do before we head to the mountain pass creche. Head back to the path where we went to get the Firestoker. Instead of going north, go up to the right where there are some switches. Use misty step to cross the gap and get to the forge. Use the new waypoint to warp the rest of your team.
- Head over towards the south to fight some guys guarding the medium mould. Grab the medium mould, take Astarion down the path behind them to find some mythril ore.
- Come back and head down the stairs to the forge. Take your first left to get ambushed by some fire imps. I haven't found a way to have this not be an ambush, so just make sure you have good health to survive it. It's not too difficult, just annoying.
- Grab the mithril ore and elixir of fire resistance when done.
- Head toward the forge and jump to the right. Follow the path through the lava with Astarion. Jump from the rocky parts to the next rocky part. Grab the chest on the island and open it for a necklace for Astarion. Have Astarion open the box so that he gets the cutscene (MC can still unlock it for him).If the lava monster aggro's, either die in the lava and rez Astarion, or have him lead it back towards the forge to where your party can fight it. Make sure to use ray of frost to stop his healing ability. It's probably easier to kill him later when we come back for Grym.
- We are done here for now, so take the waypoint to Waukeen's rest and head to the mountain pass.