Act 3: House of Grief
Step-by-Step Walkthrough
- Another optional location. It's not too bad and I like the shield for Shadowheart. You can easily skip this if you want, the shield isn't THAT amazing, but it's pretty great.You can also get a +2 to a chosen ability score, but we're pretty high on ability points as is. I beat HM most times without doing this. Head to the NW of the map to find the House of Grief.
- Go inside and talk to the attendant and agree to the mapping of the heart.Go in the room and sit on the bench with Shadowheart. Just remain silent and let her handle it. Enter the door that opens when she's done.
- Follow the path down until you get to the big circle door and go through.It's kind of a big fight, but it is manageable.Keep 3 people back by the entrance. When the fight starts, cast darkness and have them come to you like we did at the goblin camp. That makes it pretty simple. Walk up until you reach this point, and then darkness/spirit guardians before starting the conversation. Since Lae'zel was using darkness, I used potion of speed on Astarion and MC. Confusion works really well here, give them a turn to group up.
- After the fight, enter the Armory to the SE.There is a wall to find with perception. I think even if you don't pass, you can manually select punch with Astarion and hit it. If not you can fly past it.Go into the room up the ladder to find a Hastily Written Note.
- With the note, head to the west room. Ignore the prisoners for now.Interact with the mirror behind them. The best strategy is to apparently give up 3 memories and then try the religion roll. The religious roll is 25 though, so pretty hard to pass. I've only done this maybe once, so don't worry, it's not necessary to win, just probably makes things slightly easier. At this point, we've already dead with the most difficult fights though (if you're skipping netherbrain). You can try with each character.
- Afterwards go talk to the prisoners, then leave.