Act 3: Tower of Ramazith
Step-by-Step Walkthrough
- We've cleared out most of the random stuff in Lower City and the Sewer. Since we're level 11, we can start clearing out some of the bigger area's to get ourselves to 12 and the last pieces of gear.
- The first place we will clear out is the Tower of Ramazith. Head to Sorcerous Sundries and talk to the vendor again. Tell him you know about the Nightsong. He'll spawn some portals upstairs, and tell you to take the one with the right answer. The furthest portal to the left is the correct one.
- This will take you upstairs to meet Lorroakan. You can just tell him Nightsong is dead, or whatever. Just don't agree to help him (tell him you'll bring her but she'll kill him, etc). After the conversation,, go to camp and talk to Nightsong. Tell her his plan and she will head off to the tower to help you kill him. I would cast twin haste and spirit guardians before going back into the portal as the fight starts right away. Also step through the portal with Astarion. The way they stand after coming through the portal, I always had a character standing in Astarions way and he had to jump over them to move to attack, wasting a bonus action. This starts a fight with Lorroakan, a couple of weak lackies, and some elementals. Focus down the elementals first and the weak guys, they buff Lorroakan. With haste and spirit guardians, this should be a simple fight at level 11.
- Once the fight is done, you can go down a level. There's some awkward floating table/box jumping or you can use the fly action. There will be a few signs and things to interact with on this floor. We want to interact with the warp that is next to the sign BELOW. This warps us to a couple of magical levers with INT checks. We want to get past these to get Lae'zel's best in slot staff and robe. When you equip the staff, there will be a new action Kereska's Favor, and you want to cast bolts of doom. This gives you some free buffs and spell usage. I dual wielded this staff + the one that Lorroakan dropped for Lae'zel.
- Next go back to the teleports and go to the VAULT one. I usually just explore with 1 person. There's a lot of traps in the vault, and they're easier to avoid if 3 people aren't buzzing around you.
- You can loot and explore as much as you want. Eventually you want to take these 2 path's to unlock the main door. To Karsus Lever Silverhand > Abjuration > Silver To Elminster Lever Silverhand > Evocation > Wish These 2 levers open up the rooms back at the start that will get you some good loot. Once you've looted those, you can head on out, we're done here.In the Elminster room, there is the Tharchiate Codex. Whoever reads this book first, will get a permanent buff that gives you +20 temp hp on every long rest. It's probably best to give to Astarion, but I accidentally forgot and read it with MC bard. I don't think it will make a big difference, usually we're not close to dying. You will need to cast remove curse to remove the initial curse from the character, but after that you're good. After reading that book with anyone, you can read the Necromancy of Thay again (with Shadowheart). This unlocks a new level 5 spell Danse Macabre, which summons 5 or 6 zombies to fight for you. It's good to throw out in some of these fights to distract the enemy from attacking you. Make sure to check all the shelves for some rare and powerful magic. Might be useful when we're throwing everything we have at the netherbrain.