Understanding the Boon of Bhaal
The "Boon of Bhaal" often manifests as a potent defensive status, most notably the Unstoppable condition. This typically activates on individuals favored by Bhaal when an ally perishes nearby, significantly reducing incoming damage for a limited duration.
Strategies to Counter the Boon of Bhaal (Unstoppable)
Effectively stopping or mitigating this boon involves tactical approaches, primarily when facing enemies empowered by it:
- Preventing Activation:
- Isolate Targets: Focus fire to eliminate individuals one by one. Strategic positioning or abilities that move enemies can prevent others from witnessing their demise, thereby not triggering the Unstoppable condition.
- Overwhelming Force/Alpha Strike: Defeat the key Bhaal-aligned individual swiftly before the Unstoppable condition can trigger on them or other nearby allies.
- Crowd Control: Utilize spells or abilities (e.g., Hold Person, Polymorph, Stunning Strike, Sleep) to incapacitate multiple threats. This can prevent them from reacting to an ally's death or from becoming a threat while Unstoppable is active on another.
- Managing Active Unstoppable:
- Multiple Small Damage Instances: The Unstoppable condition typically reduces each instance of damage taken to 1. Employ attacks or spells that deliver numerous small hits (e.g., Magic Missile, multi-hit melee abilities, certain area-of-effect spells that hit multiple times) to overcome this.
- Strategic Delay: The Unstoppable status is usually temporary, often lasting for one or two combat rounds. If tactically sound, switch focus to other targets or adopt defensive postures until the condition expires.
- Apply Non-Damaging Debuffs: Even if damage is negated, the target can still be affected by conditions such as Blindness, Silence, or effects that reduce their movement or combat effectiveness.
- Forced Movement: Abilities that forcibly move the affected enemy (e.g., pushing attacks, Telekinesis) can reposition them disadvantageously or away from vulnerable allies, even if they are not taking significant damage.
Important Considerations:
- Some abilities referred to as a "Boon of Bhaal" might be inherent passive traits on specific characters. In these instances, "stopping" the boon equates to defeating the character.
- If "Boon of Bhaal" refers to a status or allegiance undertaken by your own character, reversing this is typically tied to major narrative decisions, specific quest outcomes, or may not be possible without reverting to an earlier state of your progression. Such boons are often a consequence of long-term choices.
