Well, to balance out the fact I posted about the awful Marcus vs Isobel encounter, I decided to create a new thread to get a feel for which encounters Watchers really enjoyed in BG3. Mild tactical spoilers maybe? 
I'm presently getting close to the end of Act III having just dispatched Orin. The satisfying part of this fight for me was the dawning realisation that I could use thunderwave and Djinni summons to be rid of those sanctuary protected Reapers enabling the boon of bhaal on Orin's Slayer form. Knocking them off the platform into the abyss felt great! Any stragglers, a well placed explosive arrow did wonders with. The slayer chased Gale up the stairway who was frightened but it allowed several well placed Sunbeams. Then my fighter and summons finished the job without deaths of anyone.
My favorite overall from my single playthrough isn't particularly elaborate or challenging actually. But it was exciting for the breadth of approaches it allowed and it was the largest in scale at that point. It was clearing the very first room in the Moonrise Towers in Act II; just getting a hold in there. First time I tried, my entire group suffered a nasty demise due to that Hunger of Hadar spell. It just shut my entire position down. So to combat that, I sent my hireling ranger in stealth around the side entrance, picking off one or two absolutists in the process, starting combat that way. The enemy were all at sea after that and it very much was a satisfying rout.
An honorable mention would be the Cazador Vampire Lord fight in Act III. That one took me the longest to get right and mechanically it shares that circle of protective enemies from the Orin fight. I ended up jumping my dwarf fighter all around the circle to take out the ritual spawn which took time to approach with Wyll, Gale and my hireling Ranger keeping the vampire busy at distance. Seeing a zombie form of Astarion kind of rubbed me the wrong way though as he was actually dead back at the start of Act I . But I digress. The first attempt I thought I'd won when I pushed Cazador off the edge. I got quite the shock when he rematerialized back on the platform! It also seemed like if I protected against Lightning, he'd use necrotic attacks and vice versa, so he was always doing damage. Not having a cleric probably made it harder than it should have been but it was a tough battle that I was relieved to win.
So what were your favorite encounters from the game? Feel free to regale with a tale or two.
I'm presently getting close to the end of Act III having just dispatched Orin. The satisfying part of this fight for me was the dawning realisation that I could use thunderwave and Djinni summons to be rid of those sanctuary protected Reapers enabling the boon of bhaal on Orin's Slayer form. Knocking them off the platform into the abyss felt great! Any stragglers, a well placed explosive arrow did wonders with. The slayer chased Gale up the stairway who was frightened but it allowed several well placed Sunbeams. Then my fighter and summons finished the job without deaths of anyone.
My favorite overall from my single playthrough isn't particularly elaborate or challenging actually. But it was exciting for the breadth of approaches it allowed and it was the largest in scale at that point. It was clearing the very first room in the Moonrise Towers in Act II; just getting a hold in there. First time I tried, my entire group suffered a nasty demise due to that Hunger of Hadar spell. It just shut my entire position down. So to combat that, I sent my hireling ranger in stealth around the side entrance, picking off one or two absolutists in the process, starting combat that way. The enemy were all at sea after that and it very much was a satisfying rout.
An honorable mention would be the Cazador Vampire Lord fight in Act III. That one took me the longest to get right and mechanically it shares that circle of protective enemies from the Orin fight. I ended up jumping my dwarf fighter all around the circle to take out the ritual spawn which took time to approach with Wyll, Gale and my hireling Ranger keeping the vampire busy at distance. Seeing a zombie form of Astarion kind of rubbed me the wrong way though as he was actually dead back at the start of Act I . But I digress. The first attempt I thought I'd won when I pushed Cazador off the edge. I got quite the shock when he rematerialized back on the platform! It also seemed like if I protected against Lightning, he'd use necrotic attacks and vice versa, so he was always doing damage. Not having a cleric probably made it harder than it should have been but it was a tough battle that I was relieved to win.
So what were your favorite encounters from the game? Feel free to regale with a tale or two.
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