Karga in Baldur's Gate 3 - a strong boss, the battle with which completes the quest "Save Mairin". After talking with Aunt Ethel in the Tea House, you will be able to explore her lair. Ultimately, you will have to fight evil spirits in order to rescue the missing girl from her clutches. Of course, things are not so clear-cut, and at the end of the battle, Karga will offer a deal.
In the article we will talk in detail about how to defeat Karga and whether it is worth killing her in BG3: all the consequences of a choice and a fork, and on what conditions it will be possible to let her go.
In a separate guide, they said What happens if you give your eye to Aunt Ethel.
How to prepare for the battle with the Karga
Karga is not an easy opponent, so it is better to prepare in advance for the battle with her. Restore health, stock up on resources and rest. Necessarily equip each member of the squad with a bow.
Recommended Squad Composition
The following unit is perfect for fighting Karga:
- Astarion - dexterous and able to self-heal. It also deals good damage.
- Gale - acts as a magician, causing significant damage. In addition, he is able to put out a burning cage.
- Shadowheart – will heal the squad and be able to resurrect them.
How to kill Karga in Baldur's Gate 3
There is a certain tactic and sequence on how to defeat Karga. It is worth paying attention to her skills and tricks, which we will discuss later.
Put out the fire on the cage
The first thing Karga does is throw a fireball at Maireena's crooked cage. So that the girl does not die, put out the fire: Throw a water bottle, or cast an ice spell, or you can summon rain to put out the flames.
Alternative option - activate control sphere, but you have to get to it.
Get in a good position
Take a position at the very beginning of the battle. Ideally, the whole team should have bows in their arsenal. It's best to stand next to the torch, but be careful not to step on the trap. This position will allow you to attack the enemy from a height, be next to it and copies.
Attack copies
Karga constantly creates copies. In fact, these are the same bosses that have the appropriate arsenal of skills and attacks. Need to damage them of any kind, so that they disappear and stop bothering. If you ignore them, you will receive damage and debuffs.
Kill the fake Mairin
On the second turn, Karga will create an illusion of Mairin, and also free the real one from the cage. Need to kill the fake girl - she is in the distance, behind Karga, it is enough to shoot at her.
Watch out for invisibility
Aunt Ethel sometimes goes into invisibility and teleport. By the movement of the camera, as well as bleeding, if it is superimposed, you can understand where it has moved. This is the reason why bleeding on the boss is a must.
Lower the difficulty level
If the level of the characters is too low or the equipment is not good enough and it is not possible to kill the Karga at all, then lower the difficulty during the battle. This will allow you to defeat the boss.
Is it worth it to kill Karga?
When her health is low, Karga will offer to negotiate. Life in exchange for things of interest to travelers. After answering, move on to the final choice:
- Nothing good will come of it. Let Mairin go - the girl will stay with the detachment, Karga will run away.
- Leave the girl to yourself. I will take the power - allows you to get an item Aunt Ethel's hair, with its help you can increase the indicator of any characteristic by 1. Karga and Mairena will run away. The task will fail.
- Then I choose a dead hag - allows you to continue the battle and kill Ethel.
- Intimidation: if you want to live, give both Mairin and this power of yours - must be thrown out 20 in a test of charisma. If you fail, you will lose the opportunity to take both. If successful, take Aunt Ethel's hair, Mairin will stay with the squad.
- Deception: now help will arrive in time for me. Give both the girl and the power, then you will be spared - must be thrown out 20 in a test of charisma. If you fail, you will lose the opportunity to take both. If successful, take Aunt Ethel's hair, Mairin will stay with the squad.
If you decide to deal with Karga, you will receive a huge amount of rewards, scrolls, potions and weapon:
- Xnumx gold.
- Potions of Healing.
- Invisibility potion.
- Poison and toxin.
- Scrolls: Thunder Wave, Detect Thoughts, Slideshow, Blindness, Scorching Ray, Blizzard, Zoom.
- Battlestaff Corellon's Grace.
- Darkened talisman.
- Alchemist's fire.
- Acid bottle.
Thus, if you want to get an increase in characteristics, release Karga, but try to save Mairin. If you want to get potions, gold and scrolls, and a good weapon as a bonus, then just finish off the old woman. Read the rest of the assignment how to save Mairin and resurrect her husband.
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Of course, this made me laugh like hell, like if you can't handle it, lower the difficulty. She can even get stuck on Valor without even entering her closet.
And yes, there is a little trick to identify a real marina from a hag, you just need to pay attention to the hag's life frame, it is specific to all bosses.
The first time, after the dialogue, the illusions simply stunned me. The second time, Karlah led the dialogue and intimidated her by +1 to stats. But still, some feeling of incompleteness remained, so I loaded up for the third time and quite easily took out the hag without dialogue. It turned out that she had 4 hp left, and I had 2 moves in reserve - Shadowheart and Willa. And I just threw her a fireball (the second one for the battle)
There wasn't much loot - epic stuff, as listed above, some gold and a couple of potions. True, I traded with the granny at the top (sold her axes and armor, lol)
I play on balance, for the first time
If you deliver the final blow with a BARBARIAN, you can use INTERIMATE: you will need to roll only 15, and with 2 dice) I gave both the hair and the girl to “EASY”)
But the real fight with the Hag is only in the 3rd act, but here it is, it’s a sandbox. So the article is, to put it mildly, incomplete. Or change the title - here we are not killing Karga, no way.
And in any case, she is a fairly easy boss, although the 2nd fight with her is much more interesting. And there again we need to save someone. Oh those Hags...
I killed her in the hut. Composition: Dark Seduction (pathfinder), Will, Shadowheart, Karlach.
If you attack a hag in a hut, then she runs away on the second move, and on the first she only goes into invisibility.
Throw a fireball with Will at the approximate location of Karga, and as a bonus action cast an evil eye on wisdom. Then Shadowheart is cast in the direction of Karga horror, then with the ranger and Karlakh we finish her off. If the Redcaps are also aggroing you, then this is not a problem, they will not have time to reach and attack you while you finish off the Karga
I threw her into the abyss on the 2nd turn with a thunderbolt
I got through with her. After the first move, I immediately guessed the real one, and in the meantime she ran into a corner. There I stood up as two Persians, who did not let her go out and threw on dumbness. AND ALL. She is weakness!
I had it all wrong. I placed satellites on stealth, taking the height inside the house, and burst through the main entrance with a main berserk from my foot. in the dialogue he attacked a hag, left her 6 hp in battle and she teleported. Mairin remained at the table to sit. I did not talk to her and rushed to catch up with the hag. when the final battle took place, I managed to guess the original hag on the first try, so in the battle I ignored both illusions so as not to waste moves and CD abilities on them. the hag offered a deal, while among the answers there were no options with checks - deception and intimidation, because. Mairin was not in the cage, she remained sitting at the table in the house. returning to Mairin, he said that he had dealt with the hag. taking a few steps towards the exit, she teleported to the coffin with her husband's body. gave her the wand, let her wander with zombies, now it's her headache, not mine.
You need to take a magician with you. The magic shoot spell on the 2nd circle of the spell allows you to destroy all illusions in one turn and calculate the real hag.
I threw a corgu in invisibility off a cliff and killed it with 1 blow, but I was left without a reward ahahaah
I have no scrolls and gold after killing a hag, why is that?
Here is a guide to the demo version, the rewards are different in the release.
The article was written after the release of the game, this can be seen from the screenshots (the version of the game is indicated there, not early access).
Because here the player bought a bunch of things from her in the Grove, the money that he gave her for goods and fell out of her corpse
Before that, there were no manipulations, deals and dialogues with Karga. Consequently, the money did not fall from the goods, they drop and just like that.
but that's not true)) where did she get the staff of Corellon's Mercy? and I’ll tell you where - earlier you stole it and then sold it to granny Edel in the Emerald Grove, and when she turned into a kagra, all the grannie’s loot remained with the hag. so don't mislead the players.
Literally just dropped all the same, so don't mislead the players
This is not true, you could trade with her, but the money will fall anyway
I confirm! Granny Edel was robbed by Astarion back in the Emerald Grove, so after the death of the hag, she had only the Darkened Talisman and two bombs - with combustible and poisonous mucus.
Two bombs, an amulet and some kind of precious stone also dropped. There were no scrolls, money or anything else.