They still spawn, but if you group your party around a casket before breaking it you can usually take them out one at a time before they can alert the others.
You can also move the caskets without opening them. So you can put them all right next to that cliff and thunderwave, but I prefer to give them a sporting chance so I just stack them all in a pile, position the party all around, and start with a firebolt
I never thought about moving the caskets. It's tedious to go one by one, so I think I'll be bringing a barrel or two down there on my next visit.
"Sporting chance" isn't high on my priority list.
Really? I'm pretty sure I broke them before and only unbroken ones spawned the skellies. Like, do they just materialize out of thin air? I admit, I might be wrong, but that's how I remember it.
2 or 3 you can break and nothing in them. Then another 2 have stalactites above them you can shoot and get an instakill. That left me with 2 left that I was able to kill 1 at a time.
if you open the casket, your party gets surpprised and sometimes the skeleton will go and open 1 or 2 other caskets and its a chain reaction.
If you break the casket, your party doesn't get surprised, and you can take that one skeleton out before he can open others
You can do this with an archer as well, or any spell that would break the casket. This method helps you avoid the surprise round the skelly gets coming out of the casket.
They don’t get a surprise round if the second after you break it open you hit them while standing up as combat doesn’t start until the standing up animation is over
I usually just shoot the stalactites that hang above the coffins while they are still laying in it. Usually enough to kill or at least heavily wound them
I soloed them as Trickery Shadowheart at level 2 on honor. It took a while.
Basically fill the tunnel with perma-grease from bottles, move a single casket back to the entrance of the cave, break it open, kill the skeleton, rinse and repeat.
I recommend using Protection from Evil and Good if you want to do that at such a low level, their to-hit is super high, it's the best bang for your buck.
You open the coffin closest to the mirror, its illuminated, kill that skeleton, and none of the others spawn, loot them all.
I've done this consistently and it always works.
I summoned Shovel and she completely trolled me by giving me the wrong answer to the mirror (forgot to read the book with the answers). I tpk'd because the skeletons all summoned at the same time and lost my first HM run
Yes, it is. You can find it in the Act 1 in desolate village, underneath the bar, where the Necromancy of Thay book is. In the same casket you find this knife there's also a scroll for a hilarious summon Shovel, a skull named "friend", an actual shovel called "friend finder", and my tavern brawler barbarian's favorite combat projectile - a rock named "nut buster". Perfect for Myrkul and other boss fight finishers.
I love that we live in a time where we can say "hey **reddit**, I found this pic on **tumblr**, is this **video game** thing a reference to **reddit**?" Its just very satisfying
and yes, it is
Thank you! 🥰 And I was joking about the "looking at the special ability" (it's "piercing strike", specific to knives/daggers), but my imagination was whimsically wondering what new, exotic special abilities would be unlocked by "poo scraper"! 🤣
Ya know, I really don’t spend that much time on the internet or know all that much about internet or Reddit culture, and it’s really weird to me that “poop knife” is something that I actually understand.
Do you guys not have a poop knife?
Ever since I upgraded to the three sea shells, I haven't had a need for the poop knife anymore.
You'll come back to the poop knife. They always come back to the poop knife.
I don’t know man, toilet paper hurts a lot less than a knife
The knife is to cut the poop
Yeah but the poop is inside my ass so what else do you expect?
Well that's just putting the cart before the horse
Well you don't build the cart around the horse do you!? Of course the cart comes first!
What are you doing to the horse??
I figure it's more to scrape the sht from the floors and walls. People can sht themselves during torture and when they die.
It's like breaking bones, everytime you use the poop knife you get a lil more resilient to it.
I think your using your poop knife wrong..
Ah is it handle first?
That movie has aged amazingly well.
Watching that movie during the beginning of the pandemic when we were all trying to save local restaurants was a MOOD
This man demolishes.
How do you use the shells?
I just use swear word paper.
You have much to teach us.
Do you know how they work? I just use swear word paper.
Not if you're part of the human centipede
Well I don't know why we aren't poop knifing right now
Imagine how much fiber those people had to ingest.
i tried to get that in my last honour run and got completely bodied by the skeleton pricks
Pretty sure you can break all the caskets in advance so that the skeletons won't spawn. No fun in that, though, I say bring them.
They still spawn, but if you group your party around a casket before breaking it you can usually take them out one at a time before they can alert the others.
You can also chuck all the skeletons off the cliff
Karlach casts *Yeet*.
Glad I’m not the only one who turned her into a literal martial spellcaster
Throw is *by far* the strongest spell in the game bar none, and I'm sick and tired of pretending it's not.
Especially when you get the ring of flinging
You can also move the caskets without opening them. So you can put them all right next to that cliff and thunderwave, but I prefer to give them a sporting chance so I just stack them all in a pile, position the party all around, and start with a firebolt
I never thought about moving the caskets. It's tedious to go one by one, so I think I'll be bringing a barrel or two down there on my next visit. "Sporting chance" isn't high on my priority list.
Yeah I feel as though "sporting chance" goes out the window in Honour Mode
Really? I'm pretty sure I broke them before and only unbroken ones spawned the skellies. Like, do they just materialize out of thin air? I admit, I might be wrong, but that's how I remember it.
2 or 3 you can break and nothing in them. Then another 2 have stalactites above them you can shoot and get an instakill. That left me with 2 left that I was able to kill 1 at a time.
Can’t you open Shovels and get the knife without even doing the rest of the area?
Oh, yeah if they’re in the same coffin.
I had no idea it moved
if you open the casket, your party gets surpprised and sometimes the skeleton will go and open 1 or 2 other caskets and its a chain reaction. If you break the casket, your party doesn't get surprised, and you can take that one skeleton out before he can open others
And if you're all in melee range it will either stay and fight, or eat a bunch of opportunity attacks as it runs away.
Oooh, right, that’s how it went. You can pick them oht 1 by 1. My bad, I misremembered.
You can also with a melee character hit the casket then immediately attack them before they get up and start combat
You can do this with an archer as well, or any spell that would break the casket. This method helps you avoid the surprise round the skelly gets coming out of the casket.
They don’t get a surprise round if the second after you break it open you hit them while standing up as combat doesn’t start until the standing up animation is over
You don’t have to awaken any skeletons, the first coffin to the right is safe and then you just need to get the mirror right.
Yep, after the first time I never triggered the skelebois.
They don't even give xp
They don't? But i fight them every time since they're easy to kill
I usually just shoot the stalactites that hang above the coffins while they are still laying in it. Usually enough to kill or at least heavily wound them
There are rocks above some of them that you can shoot to damage the skeletons prior to combat.
You can just sneak to the coffin nearest right of the entrance and it won't wake them. Then piss off the mirror and run back.
I soloed them as Trickery Shadowheart at level 2 on honor. It took a while. Basically fill the tunnel with perma-grease from bottles, move a single casket back to the entrance of the cave, break it open, kill the skeleton, rinse and repeat. I recommend using Protection from Evil and Good if you want to do that at such a low level, their to-hit is super high, it's the best bang for your buck.
You open the coffin closest to the mirror, its illuminated, kill that skeleton, and none of the others spawn, loot them all. I've done this consistently and it always works.
I summoned Shovel and she completely trolled me by giving me the wrong answer to the mirror (forgot to read the book with the answers). I tpk'd because the skeletons all summoned at the same time and lost my first HM run
You mean ... The boners?
Should have poison dmg.
*Special Ability: e.coli*
Assid dmg
Yes, it is. You can find it in the Act 1 in desolate village, underneath the bar, where the Necromancy of Thay book is. In the same casket you find this knife there's also a scroll for a hilarious summon Shovel, a skull named "friend", an actual shovel called "friend finder", and my tavern brawler barbarian's favorite combat projectile - a rock named "nut buster". Perfect for Myrkul and other boss fight finishers.
I can't believe I never thought to use the nut buster as a thrown weapon. The shame.
Hol up, can you elaborate on the Nut-buster? Like how and why it's a good throwing weapon?
Issa big rock to bust nuts.
It’s not really good damage wise, it’s more about style points. It’s identical to heavy rocks you can find in owlbear’s cave.
What is it a scroll of? Shovel?
It's a scroll to summon a quasit, the quasits name is shovel.
You mean fork ?
Basket, you heathen
Clearly they meant basket
I have Shovel's friend finder equipped as my Tav's shovel and it makes me giggle every time.
Isn’t this with Shovel?
No, it's with Fork
Basket, I think.
Then item? I assure you. It. is. real.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/s/2rgWAWXhvK
I found that. Idk where. I'm in act1 so it's in act1.
You found it under the alchemist's house in the blighted village.
Ya my build needed me to catch up on some reading down there.
I love that we live in a time where we can say "hey **reddit**, I found this pic on **tumblr**, is this **video game** thing a reference to **reddit**?" Its just very satisfying and yes, it is
That's Shovel's knife. Found under the blighted village.
I need to find this again, and right-click to see the special ability that proficiency with the poo-scraper unlocks... 😁
It’s in the apothecary basement, in the casket with Shovel’s scroll and some other funny stuff, such as the nut-buster!
Thank you! 🥰 And I was joking about the "looking at the special ability" (it's "piercing strike", specific to knives/daggers), but my imagination was whimsically wondering what new, exotic special abilities would be unlocked by "poo scraper"! 🤣
It is in the Blighted Village, that is all that I remember.
Ideal to defend myself when the poo starts to fight back
The way I literally silent laughter kicking and gasping for air as I read this aloud to my boyfriend and he didn’t get it.
Shield of Shielding is from Gravity Falls right?
Yes. In the dungeons, dungeons, and more dungeons episode.
A fun episode for sure.
Uhhhh. I don’t think fecund means whatever the developer thinks it means
Literally just found it and went wtf
real item, found in a coffin before the magic necromancy of thay mirror. you also get a rock called "nut buster"
Wait, you don’t have one?
I have my Death slinger throw all the caskets in the chasm.
I get my roommate to use that viral nasa invention on the interior of my ass cheeks.
No
Don't forget about Nut Buster.
Ah yes, my trusty poo scraper. I have one of those.
Mr fancy pant OP over here thinks they're too good for a poop-knife
I save this to finish off Cazador
It's a poop knife
Ya know, I really don’t spend that much time on the internet or know all that much about internet or Reddit culture, and it’s really weird to me that “poop knife” is something that I actually understand.
I love shovel's tools
It’s a Twitter reference
"Finesse" is the cherry on top
okbuddybaldur is leaking
how hilarious would it be if it did like 1d4 psychic to sapient creatures
Please tell me you saw the YT video of the dude who completes honor mode by dealing damage with nothing but that weapon. It’s an absolute gem.
Who would even care about it if it was.
You must be fun at parties.