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The Underdark is a huge areathat can overwhelm you after experiencing the big world above. Act 1 ofBaldur’s Gate 3is a walk in the park compared to what dangers await you below. While in The Underdark, you may have stumbled upon an ancient tower guarded by highly reactive turrets. This is the Arcane Tower.
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This tower is hard to get into due to its defenses and mysteries. With the right character and Scrolls, you should be able to walk through the tower with ease to uncover the secrets and loot within the Arcane Tower.
How To Get Past The Turrets
Assoon as you walk upto the courtyard of the tower,a turret will have sights on your whole party. You should allow the turret to keep looking your way whileun-linking a party member that can sneak by.
The turret in the courtyard won’t shoot you unless you walk into the courtyard, sostanding at the ruins with your party will be safe.
You shoulduse your Rogue characterto sneak through the courtyard. Use Jump tohop across the red sightswhenever possible, andreturn to Crouch.
Behind the turretin the courtyard, there is ahidden chest. With asuccessful Perception check, a dirt moundshould be revealed. You need tohave a shovelon someone in order todig out the chest.
Toget past the next turret and up the stairs,you may need to take a few hits if your sneak isn’t successful.You will be able to survive a shot or two by the turretsand will be able to easily hide behind the pillars once more.
How To Get Through The Tower
Once you enter the tower, there will betwo more turrets preventing you from moving freely. There is anelevatorin the middle of the room, but there is no need to waste your time sneaking over there because it isnot functioning.
You need to reach thebalcony doors on the left. This requires you toquickly sneak past the turret’s line of sight.
For this next section, you may want your character to have aScroll of Featherfall. You will have tojump off the balcony onto the blue mushrooms. Jump from mushroom to balcony until you reach thevery bottom floor.
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How To Turn On The Elevator
Your next goal is to figure out a way toturn the elevator on.As you reach the bottom floor, you maypass a Perception checkand findthe hole of a pipe on the side of the building.
Using arat familiar or transforming into an animalas a Druid will allow you to slip into this hole and enter the basement floor. Alternatively, you can justlockpick the door around the cornerif you are using a Rogue.
There is astrange tree at the back of the buildingwith two flowers at its base calledSussur Blossoms. These flowers willsuck the magic out of you, so you are unable to use any spells. TheSussur Blossoms are needed in order to restore power to the elevator.
It is worth noting that if you wish to bring the rest of your party forth, you canuse the Sussur Blossom’s to disable the turretsmagical powers.
Bring the flowers inside andinteract with the generatorin the center of the room. You canadd a Sussur Blossom to the menu as if you were craftingsomething. This turns on the power.
Restoring powerto the generator not only turns on the elevator butdisables the turrets.
On thefloor above the generator,there are threeTimmask Spore, which is part of the quest ofRemoving The Parasiteif you have spoken to Omeluum in the Myconid Colony.
What To Say To Guardian Bernard
Now that the elevator has power, you canexplore each floor of the tower in peace. You should not head to the first floor without exploring, though. There arerobots on the first floor that will attack if you do not provide them with the correct response.
There arebooks you can read throughout the tower that will give you a sort of password to respond to the robot with. Using thecorrect phrase in dialoguewill make Bernard and the Animated Armor passive.
Reading the bookon floor just before the highest level, titledThe Roads to Darkness, will allow you to have thecorrect dialogue optionto pacify Bernard.
The dialogue option will be,“Or art thou friend, a rescue from my lonely wake?”
There arethree different dialogue optionsyou can use on Bernard that will cause him to act differently or gift you something.
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Result
“The silence stretches on - I’m all alone. / Please, can I hold your hands, for just a while?”
Torn Paper on a table against the elevator on the floor before Bernard.
Bernard hugs you.
“These empty sheets are all that’s left of you. / The last of all the thoughtless gifts you gave.”
Parchment Paper near the table with Bernard.
Bernard gives you a Potion of Greater Healing.
“There is a light in every living thing. / It’s crawling t’wards the surface to survive.”
Dusty Book on the first level, where you entered.
Bernard will turn hostile.
“How can I trust? How will I ever know? How can I show myself, my darkest me?”
Threadbare Book on the floor above the generator room.
Bernard places a Guiding Light ring on the table.
If you do not see the rest of these dialogue options, go back andreread the books and speak to him again.
How To Enter The Secret Basement
If you have managed to make Bernard place down thering of Guiding Light, you canequip Guiding Light to reveal a secret buttonon the elevator. This secret button willlead you to the lowest levelof the Arcane Tower. This is theowner’s secret laboratory.
Secret Basement Loot:
Following thenatural path up from the secret basementwill lead you to unlock a path to the generator room. There is alever next to the stone wallthat will open a doorway.
There is abutton on the bedroom floorof the tower, in a corner. The only way to utilize this button is by acquiring aDog Collar from a gravenear the Sussur Tree Waypoint.
You candig up the grave and equip the collar. With the collar on, using the button in the Arcane Tower will dispense unlimited meat.
Unlocking The Mundane Chest
The last thing you will want to find in the Arcane Tower is theMundane Chest.This is a gilded chest on theright side balcony of the floor you first entered.
At first glance, the chest will be nothing special. The contents will show mundane things such as a spoon and a cup. If you hover over the chest, you’re able to read that thevalue of the content is 691. This means that there is more than meets the eye.
With asuccessful Arcana check,your character will understand the trick at play. Youdo not need to pass this check in order to get the loot.
By placing these items into your inventory, they willtransform into valuable loot. The Mundane Chest holds magical scrolls andMystra’s Grace boots.
