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It's not permanent. You'll have to fight whichever teammate equipped helmet if low persuasion. After death It's gone. Easier to avoid though of course. Have one character with high persuasion regardless and pet pal also. Fane is best for thievery> but sneak and thievery both.. I didn't have any sneak at all.. anyways off topic lol.

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Ok i found the note, it is called "Magister's lab directions" and it's lying on the big table in the center of the room with traps and buttons

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AFTER DAEYANA KILLED MAGISTER, I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG BUT DAEYENA AND TYRILLE KEPT ATTACKING ME????

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incase anyone needs some potential cheese for the final basement fight in arx against daeyna and the plants, if you can, entangle the contaminated horror before it gets to move to make it useless for 3 rounds ( unless you move into melee range of it) and try and kill everything else if possible in those 3 rounds ( managed to just about kill them all, save for 2 of them of which 1 plant was full hp/full armor and other was half hp).

if you have a ranger ( ifan was my dedicated ranger in my PT,) leave the ranger in stealth in the alcove where you enter the basement in (the spot that has a small opening in the corner) and then position the rest as you see fit, I had my scoundrel go stealth behind daeyna in the corner so I managed to kill one of the plants that buff the CH with her first turn by using flurry on its back and then regular right clicks to kill it

the reason why you leave the ranger in the entry hole is, because when I was down to just the CH, he was just stuck trying to get over to my ranger in the hole ( I think its TP ability was maybe on CD from TPing onto the HG next to the entry to kill 1 of my guys) so it was just staring menacingly at my ranger behind the wall and just skipping its turns giving me easy free hits with molotovs with my scoundrel who was in the north corner of the arena, and my ranger could just walk out from behind the wall, shoot 1/2 fire arrows at the CH then go back behind cover and end turn

rinse and repeat and I killed him with 2 of my party left alive (barely).

I did the battle when I was lvl 19

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Listen very closely:

You can miss/forget/screw up/kill/etc. any part of this, or even completely ignore it all if you want, and you WILL STILL BE ABLE TO GET A FULL SET AFTER THE DIFFICULT-ISH FIGHT IN ARX.

The game will check what pieces you do not have yet, and will drop what is left. This ALSO means it recognizes if you have ZERO PIECES and will DROP THE ENTIRE SET FOR YOU.

Do don't feel confused or like you messed something up or screwed yourself. You literally can't. The only difference is if you have some of the set before Arx or not.

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Alright so... Assuming you have everything but the gloves and you beat the Contamination Horror (well done!).

And you don't even know Trigger Spores. But you have the spores...

Put the spores on one of your characters. You can learn 'Trigger Spores' from the Magister Report, near the room's entrance (not the desk furthest from the entrance). You now need to allocate the skill to the character the learned it (in the skills menu). Cast it on the character with the spore. MAYBE it kills them, maybe not. If not, just kill them (take off their armor!) and when they DIE, voila, the gloves!

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i need gauntlets i am act 2 and dayaena is dead

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(sorry for the english), what i found is that if at the end of the Battle at the first encounter her Buff is still active, she wont speak to you, and Will just walk and disappear

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The sewers have a **** ton of things in them, but no Contamination armor area in Definitive Edition.

They have trolls and kids, no armor set. They have death fog, no armor set. They have a ton of other ****, no armor set.

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There is a way/glitch to get an extra Contamination Spore in Act2 during encounter with Daeyena. Here is how to get it:

1. Approach Daeyena and speak with her. Choose any non-hostile option and let her execute magister prisoner to create the gauntlets.
2. During any point of next part of the dialog with Daeyena, quicksave and quickload. Finish the conversation.
3. Behind your character at the other side of the road there will be a Contamination Spore lying on the ground (hold Alt key to highlight items).

So, Daeyena will have the gauntlets and you can get this extra Contamination Spore. You can't create an extra pair of gauntlets from that Contamination Spore, but I guess it can be useful as a backup option to make the gauntlets yourself if needed.

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The most usless armour from this DLC. Theonly good piece for mages is gauntlets, cause thery have 2 sockets for runes. Any other piece is bag for both mages and physicial damage builds

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She's so bugged, I hate dealing with her. She drags your companions into the blast field and gets angry, and is just all-around bugged. She'll go hostile and fight with Peeper as well as the Elf element thing if she gets in range. Don't do spores kids, it changes you

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The last location in arx pretty difficult fight. The main creature immune to most types of damage. The way to cheese it:
Before initiating conversation, place a death fog barrel at a lower level and place all your team on the above levels.
Make sure the character that initiates conversation has high initiative and can jump
Once the monsters appear, jump above and teleport one of the plants on the barrel, thuse killing the main creature and the plant.
Use teleport freely on the cretures into death fog.

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Accidentally got in the radius of the blast when she kills the magister in act 2 and she became hostile

10/10

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so can you get multiple copies of the armor or what? the writing on here is vague. kill her get almost a full set of armor. then go somewhere else and get another set of armor?

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Where is daeyna in arx?

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I have yet to manage to find a way to make the spores work when getting the helmet.. I killed Daeyana early on, act 2, because she was bugged and wouldn't talk to me after killing the magisters; managed to find all the other armor pieces throughout the game and now the helmet it the only part I have left, but the problem is that nothing I do to get the helmet works:
1) Tried killing the paladin and looting him: no helmet;
2) Tried killing the paladin, looting, putting spores on his "loot box" and trigger spores: no helmet;
3) Tried killing the paladin, looting, putting spores by his body and trigger spores: no helmet
4) Tried putting the spores next to him, after the fight but while he was still alive, and trigger spores: no helmet;
At this point, I don't know what else I can do :( If there's something I'm missing, or if I really can't get it at this point because it's definitely bugged or something like that, I would really appreciate to know it.

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Din gäri är contamination

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Playing DE, In Act II - I put the Contaminated spore on Magister Carruther's corpse after killing him and then used Trigger spores and got the gloves. He's the captive magister of Daeyana at her little camp in the NE Reaper's Coast x440,y320. This was after I killed Daeyana and Tyrille and got the greaves and boots looting her corpse (only drop after killing her, can't pick pocket it appears).

Prior to this I had tried repeatedly to use the spores on the magisters corpses in the Black Pits where you get the Cuirass and got nothing.

It's either Magister Carruther's is the one you have to spore burst or possibly you have to talk/kill Daeyana first before spore bursting will create gloves but either way it worked out for me.

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Don't need to kill a party member to get the Gauntlets of Contamination if you already have the spore. Just move the contamination spore into the inventory of a dead corpse and cast Trigger Spores near it. Then just loot it from the corpse.

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Haven't finished arx to see if this screwed me, but I used Corbin Day to up the level of all my uniques, and doing so caused the quest to close before I had acquired the helmet

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If Daeyena is alive and you want to give her the Cuirass Armor (the one from the Blackpits) the dialogue choice will appear ONLY if the character that is DOING THE TALKING is having the item in his/her inventory.

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Has anyone tried to max out fire/poison resist with Red Prince, the Demon talent, bonus from leadership, and equipped with Contamination set? Wouldn't bleed poison over fire explode for better heals? Really thinking of trying one day but don't know if I'll be wasting time doing so.

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You can complete the set with no issues even if you never go to the encounter in Act I, and you don't need to do anything with any of the spores you find either. I didn't meet Daeyna in Act I, didn't do anything with the spores I found, didn't kill an elf in Act II, but completed the rest of the set in Act IV when I found Daeyna corrupted and defeated her (Deathfog really trivialized that fight).

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From what I can tell, if you blow up the Spore in Act II without creating the Gloves, you're SOL and will never finish the armor. This is a really frustrating quest that's way too easy to screw up.

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So if you didn't bring any trap disarming stuff and you also realized that the fire rune instantly destroys the vases you attempted to use from the advice from Houdini in the previous comments - don't worry - If you don't talk to Malady after committing genocide you can just have one of your characters pop out the portal and run into town to buy a bunch of disarming kits.

Also for some reason one of the runes would not let me grab it without the disarming kits so Imma call this a legit bugged quest.

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i'm having fun fighting this, after take down devaour. the devaour set is the most op set ever. shouldn't be in game but it happens.

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I started the fight on the boat from stealth and the quest didnt start, Daeyena didnt have any dialogue, I killed her and she didnt have any loot.

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Easy way: deathfog box
Easy-but-take-longer way: fire (obviously)
My 2 char all have tele and nether swap, one dark knight and one elementalist. Before starting the fight, unchain your mage/archer to the higher ground near the exit (just to be sure), make some oil puddles all around the lower ground. Start the fight and keep putting the enemies down the fire pit, try to target one at a time. Make sure the knight have last rite to revive the mage/archer (if you have last rite, you also have insane blood suck so don't worry).
I did both way and win easily, i even do the hard way 2 times in a row (i forgot to save and put on the helmet, and kill my knight lol)

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I saw many of you guys said this fight is the hardest so i came prepared, turned out its not that tough.
I positioned my lone wolf mage right near the exit (so she can fight with ease and escape easily) and my lone wolf high retribution with revive idol down talking.
(I was going to pour some oil down there to slow enemies and turn the ground into fire hell but i didnt cause it would be too much graphic for my poor laptop lol)
Then I just keep spawning fire laser and fireball while my knight keep fortify and heal with item, honestly he did so much damage himself doing this.
My mage died first (obv) but i used last rite on her (of course my knight has necromacer skill lol) and also time warp (yes my black knight is Fane)
The fight end with both my char 50% HP and the 3 momentum flower still there doing nothing.

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Bugged quest , all my contamination spores is gone idk why, and i got only the cuirass.

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if you pickpocket keene and get caught, he will fight you without the plants

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Love the laughable nonchalance of the last sentence: "Defeat the enemies within to acquire a full set of Contamination armor."

This battle was insane. Easily one of the hardest so far, and my 2-person Lone Wolf party each do 900+ damage. There are 7 very powerful plant enemies, and the most powerful one has like 6k vitality, 4k phys armor, 3k magic armor and does over 1k worth of damage. Oh, btw, he also has 6AP every turn.

The first time we fought we both were wiped out in like 2-3 turns. Not even close. My advice would be what someone else wrote -- get the boss plant's magic armor to 0 and then Charm and keep it Charmed for the rest of the battle. At least you won't have to worry about killing it until the end, and it'll take out half the enemies for you.

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I suggest to modify the last phrase of this page when it says: "The entrance to the research facility is at X375, Y230. Defeat the enemies within to acquire a full set of Contamination armor".

I would rather say: "(...). Defeat the enemies within to get any of these results, depending on your previous actions.

a) You killed Daeyena in Act I obtaining 1st and 2nd pieces (leggings and boots). Then, in Act II at the Black Pits, you obtained peacefully the 3rd piece (armour) from the magisters. Then, in Act IV after this fight at the sewers, you will obtain the 4th and 5th pieces (gloves and helmet). You have a complete set.

b) You didn't kill Daeyena in Act I. Then, in Act II at the Black Pits, you obtained peacefully the 3rd piece (armour) from the magisters. Then, in Act II near the Saw Mill, you killed Daeyena and obtained the 1st, 2nd and 4th piece (leggings, boots and gloves). Then, in Act IV after this fight at the sewers, you will obtain the 5th piece (helmet). You have a complete set.

c) You didn't kill Daeyena in Act I. Then, in Act II at the Black Pits, you obtained peacefully the 3rd piece (armour) from the magisters. Then, in Act II near the Saw Mill, you didn't kill Daeyena. Then, in Act IV after this fight at the sewers, you will obtain the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th pieces (leggings, boots, gloves and helmet). You have a complete set.

d) You didn't kill Daeyena in Act I. Then, in Act II at the Black Pits, you didn't obtain the 3rd piece (armour) from the magisters. Then, in Act II near the Saw Mill, you didn't kill Daeyena. Then, in Act IV after this fight at the sewers, you will obtain at once the 5 pieces (leggings, boots, armour, gloves and helmet). You have a complete set.

e) You have chosen any of the previous options, but you have sold any of the pieces before starting this fight at the sewers in Act IV. You don't have a complete set, because the game considers that your acquired and sold pieces have been acquired anyway. Therefore, you can't acquire them again after this fight, even though you don't have them equipped in your characters or stored in your inventory.

Guess which option I chose in the two playthroughs I've made.

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I killed Daeyena in act 2. I have all pieces except the helm. I cleared the dungeon, but the Paladin didn't have the helm on him. I've tried putting the contaminated spores on his body and casting Trigger Spores on him, but it's not working. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

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killed Daeyena right next to the elven altar thing and didnt even lose the "Elf Friend" tag, lol

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What utter bullshit the fight in Arx was...all of my party was dead cept Sebille, I ran away with her to take advantage of the ''Boost Flowers'' I had already destroyed and when I came back the Contaminated Horror (The giant anus) was simply dead, easy clean up after that. This last act is being a complete joke in it's difficult spike.

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What exactly is Trigger Spores? What skill tree is it on?

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hi guys, so sadly Daeyena died in my run on the ship. i looted the contaminated greaves, boots and i got trigger spores. now i am at the reapers coast where she is supposed to be if she were alive, all i can find there are 2 flawed seeds. anyone know what i should do to continue the quest? i have read somewhere that i can create the gauntlets myself if i use trigger spores near a magister in black pits, can anyone confirm this and maybe go a little bit into detail?

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hello. i'm stuck with finding the helmet of contamination.
in our game, we killed daeyana in act2.
now, in Arx, with won the fight against contaminated flowers, and the contaminated paladin died. we tried to put unperfect spore in his inventory, with no results.
we tried to put perfect spore in, no results...
we tried to used the Futeko's mod "The Relics of Rivellon - Stand Alone" to recover the quests, but even if we tried many answers, canno't find a good one to get the helmet...

have any ideas ? someone (3april2021 08:16) post a reply with same situation talking about a player character becoming contaminated... do we have do do something to do that ?

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In definitive addition: I did not get the gauntlet drop. But planted / put a spore in the inventory of the dead paladin and cast active spore spell. Poof! Gauntlets created!

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i killed daeyana in act 1. i killed the enemies in the magister's lab and got a piece of the armour. however i was stuck with 4/5, until later, I found that my main character was contaminated. i let my other party members kill my main to trigger producing the last piece of the armor (gauntlets).

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For the final fight, I carried a deathfog crate from the sewers, sneaked in, placed it, snuck into battle positions, snuck behind and spoke to the paladin. After speaking to him, I blew up the deathfog crate and it made the fight instantly easier lol

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Final fight in arx was a bit difficult. That is, until I managed to charm the horror, GGEZ.

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Got the Contamination Spore in the Blackpits, doesn't seem functional. I don't know if it's meant to still be in my inventory, or if the quest has bugged. According to the quest log, Daeyena has the Gloves, Boots and Cuirass/Breastplate.

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She is not fightingthe magisters. Just standing around.

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The gauntlets are the first item I've seen with more than one rune slot. This is in DE

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Are those "Contaminated Spore" items, like in this guide, or "Flawed Contamination Spore" items (which seems to be the case)?

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"In the Blackpits travel to X: 716, Y: 164 " There's no such location in the Black Pits, I suppose you mean in the Reaper's Coast. It's the location where one can find Herman, but the whole spore that spawns gauntlets is weird, I can't reproduce that.

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I have the entire set, but my ranger has zero persuasion. Therefore could not pass the check. I let my warrior with high persuasion complete the dialog and persuasion checks. Then I swapped the armour with my ranger. No problem it just took time to find a solution.

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What's the level of the last boss you have to kill? i have been farming at reaper's coast all my left over quests to try and get stronger so what level would you guys recommend considering that the armor scales to lvl 19 im expecting the boss to be hard asf but also he is available as soon as you get there so im not sure what to expect

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Spoiler about the quest in Arx:



Is it possible to save Daeyena during the final fight?

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major bug with the spores - no possible way to get this to work.

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Can't get this. I got everything except gloves and helmet, don't have any spores. Wtf?! I'm in Arx, killed the Paladin, have no clue what to do now.

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Finally got this armor and it's very strong. The fight in Arx was difficult but I was able to quickly kill the small plants that buff the big one and then focus down the big fella. In order to equip the helmet, I used the mirror on the Lady Vengeance to temporarily give myself 5 persuasion, equipped the helmet, then switched back to my original stats. The set also has four rune slots, so with four runes of power I got an extra +12 to intelligence.

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If you equip the helm and fail the persuasion check, killing the character removes the debuff, but it seems you can never unequip the helm. Increasing persuasion does not work, as the persuasion check never occurs again.

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You'll need Persuasion 5 to pass the checks when equipping the helm or you will go mad.

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Just put the spores in a dead body and trigger.

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So I just had encountered Daeyena and had decided to speak to her. She killed the magister and received a piece of armor. I walked away from her, got in a fight with the group of elves that perform the ritual and decided to reload my game. When I did that and went back to Daeyena, I found 2 flawed contamination spores lying on the hill in between her and magicockerel!!! I now have 3 contamination spores and haven't started the conversation with Daeyena yet.

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the armor requires 13 cons. If you equip it on an elf char, then you will need 19 cons in order to be able to use flesh sacrifice. Otherwise character will unequip armors while in battle, which is pretty stupid. Armor gives you +3 cons, therefore you will need to spend at least 6 points on cons.

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So I never ran into Daeyena in Act 1 and found her at her little lab in Act 2. Does anyone know if it's possible to get the boots now or have I missed my chance?

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Axt lab coordinates are actually x:375 y:229 and the trapdoor coordinates to reimonds basement are x:327 and y:224. This guide sucks

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Can you still get the full set in act 3 of you killed daeyana in act 2?

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i stole the item from the wounded guy then talked to her, she tried to show me something and cast a spell and i guess it didn't trigger because i stole the item.

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You can get the guantlets without a party member having to die. Don't help the magister with the breastplate, instead take your flawed spores out of your inventory and throw them next to one of the magister's, then cast trigger spores. The magister holding to gauntlet spore will die from this. Combat will start with whoever didn't die, kill them too, then you can loot both the breastplate and guantlets

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For anyone wanting to use this armor; don't. You need to be poisoned or standing in poison so you don't die of a small bleed just by standing around. Healing doesn't work when this is in effect.

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Went to blackpits, got chest armor spores and trigger spell. Went to elf chick, remembered this quest was active. Split the two spores i had between Beast and Sebille and used Fane to trigger. Neither character dies, their magic armor breaks and they get poisoned for 3 turns. No loot or anything. What's wrong?

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Hello I am putting this contamination set to my main char : an undead dwarf.
The last piece I obtained was the helm of contamination
It is possessed by a kind of plant spirit and if I wear it, I get possessed (madness) and I have to kill my main char with other chars. The madness cannot be dispelled by clear mind.
Anybody experienced this? How to get rid of that plant spirit I want to wear that set

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For the gauntlets you need other person beside your member party to die too. I use contamination spore near magister and then the magister die with the gauntlets in their loot. I use it on near dying magister when i meet daeyena 2nd time.

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If you dont wanna collect everything piece by piece, you can just ignore all of them and fight Daeyena (whose wearing the full set) in chapter 3 at Arx in Magister's lab

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This does not work. I use contamination spores (not the flawed ones) and Trigger Spores does not make it explode. Neither in the inventory nor on the ground. The flawed ones explode but the other does not do anything at all. Is there a bug ?

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I have to ask if I do something wrong. So I have the spore in my inventory and cast Trigger spores on him. He dies and the spore disappears out of my inventory but no gauntlets whatsoever. I tried casting on myself, one someone else, dying on hit, dying over time. Same outcome everytime. I hope I'm not stupid

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Warning! If you try to trigger the spores to get the gauntlets and you have the idol of rebirth in your characters pack the idol will trigger, you will waste your spores, and you wont get the gauntlets. Now I get to go back to a previous save from about an hour ago.

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Do you get the full set from the arx area if you already killed Daenya?

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I want to say that you can miss this quest entirely on Fort Joy, and still pick it up with an encounter near the elf encampment.

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Where the hell is the helmet if still in Reaper's Coast?

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If you have an undead character, have him hold all the spores and stand near the wounded magister. When Daeyena triggers the spores, she will first walk in front of the magister and the cast the spell, and the erupted spores on your nearby undead will kill her.

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anyone figure out a build with this set yet

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Where is reimond's basement. I can't find it with that coordinate. Is it even right?

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Before talking with her in forest (reaper's coast) drop spores, otherwise she'll trigger them during dialogue and kill you instantly.

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In act two, the Counting Your Chickens quest is creating an upsetting issue with this one — a little. The issue occurs once you escort the chick to the rooster, then choose the dialogue choice to not kill the chick. When the voidwoken chicks spawn, daeyena and Tyrille get pulled into that fight and because of how close they are to the start of the fight— and they definitely want to kill you.

Teleporting the rooster south doesn’t move the fight; the voidwoken spawn in the same place. However, netherswapping (netherswapping specifically since it doesn’t do damage) Daeyena and Tyrille north, results in a -20 loss of approval but if you time it perfectly and get lucky, you can distract them by keeping them in dialogue while they’re further north (I put them as far north as I could towards the elf season trial and caught them before they crossed the road). I don’t know if it had an effect, but I did also raise their approval to 100 with the character that knew netherswap. While they were kept in dialogue, my other two characters completed the fight.

So if you’re playing with just two characters I think you’re SOL. Also, I encountered the old bug where the chicks endlessly revive each other. I had to reload a save and kill them all round one. Good luck.

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The magisters attacking Daeyena in Fort Joy gave me no experience, is this normal?

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Idk what happened but i blew up the seeds with fane and now he's constantly poisoned which gives him constant regen

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How irritating. Taking Peeper to Magicockerel triggered these as enemies.

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Tip for the fight in Arx: using Trigger Spores will apply knockdown on any enemy creature caught in the area, with the exception of the Scion/Paladin. So it's very useful to learn Trigger Spores on all your characters and use it in that fight!

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I have two flawed contamination spores in lohses inventory, takes off all her armor, switch character cast the skill on her, but still no gloves, am I doing something wrong?

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I'm running the GOG version, but I have the same latest version as Steam which is 3.6.64.2709. (I know because I've played with my friend who plays the Steam version and you can only do so with the same version.) As I was playing the game he was hosting, I stumbled into this ship. I was surprised by it because I hadn't seen it before, so I looked into it and obviously found this. I was excited to try going to it in my solo game, but I'm not seeing it in my solo game which was started quite a while ago. Is it possible that this shows up only in a fresh game, or am I missing a step somehow?

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Where are the gloves?

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So I wanted to save the chicken and when I tried I instantly went in combat with an army of chickens and the scion was siding with them ... I blame Zelda for this!

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I saved Daeyena and found two Flawed Contamination Spores next to the Magicockerel's henhouse on Reaper's Coast. Those two facts are probably not connected, but for completeness sake.

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