Window of Opportunity |
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Hannag |
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| Location | Cloisterwood |
| Suggested Level | 13+ |
| Next Quest | On the Ropes |
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Window of Opportunity is a Quest in Divinity: Original Sin II.
Important NPCs
Window of Opportunity Objectives
- Help Hannag defeat the Magisters OR help the Magisters defeat Hannag.
Window of Opportunity Walkthrough
At the Cloisterwood Ruins (near the waypoint), you will encounter a Sorceress fighting off some Magisters. You will need to dodge the various Steam Clouds and magic being casted in order to reach her. Alternatively, you can easily approach her by teleporting near her. Either way, she will teleport away to a higher area after you speak with her, and the Magisters will follow her there.
Tip: If you run straight towards her, you should make it to her just before she begins casting her lethal lava technique.
If you talk to the Magister Knight, offer to help him kill her, which will award you with experience. This will not trigger a fight with Hannag, so it is safe to select.
If you talk to Hannag now, you can choose to side with her or to kill her. In order to persuade her that you are on her side, you will need to pass a Persuasion and speech check.
Tip: If you do not have high enough Persuasion but want to help Hannag, it is recommended that you kill the Magisters without talking to Hannag first.
Hannag Side: If you choose to assist Hannag and kill the Magisters, try to kill them as quickly as possible to avoid getting her involved with the fight. (There is a chance that she may sacrifice herself, causing you to have to go through the same difficult Voidwoken fight as detailed in the Magisters Side below.)
After you defeat the Magisters, read the following before proceeding to talk to her again.
Serious Bug: Do not immediately inquire Hannag about mastering your Source, or else the quest might not close properly. If you do so, she will only give you the quest reward and then potentially disappear from this area.
When you talk to her, end the conversation immediately and she will interrupt you and give you a Planar Gateway Skillbook as well as the quest reward (a Rare item along with some other goodies), and then close the quest.
After this quest is closed, talk to her again and you can then ask her about mastering your Source, which will initiate the On the Ropes quest.
Magisters Side: If you choose to assist the Magisters, be prepared for a very difficult fight. Hannag will sacrifice herself to open several portals that continually summon Voidwoken. These portals take no damage from physical attacks and can only be damaged by magic.
At some point during the fight, Hannag will be "reborn" as an undead who can use a magical lava attack which kills instantly. She should be killed as soon as possible. A simple strategy is to try to stunlock her early on so that she cannot sacrifice herself. She doesn't have any immunities, and has a fairly low amount of Physical Armour.
If the Magister Knight is still alive after the fight, you may talk to him for the quest reward (which is the same quest reward as helping Hannag). As an added bonus, you can kill the Magisters afterwards as they no longer serve a purpose.
Warning: This will lock you out of the On the Ropes quest, which is not recommended for first-timers. Alternatively, if you go to the Blackpits first you can complete On the Ropes without ever speaking to Hannag (DE).
Tips & Tricks
- 7500 party experience for offering to confront the Sorceress for the Magisters. Easiest way is to use Peace of Mind, jump next to her with whichever spell (chat is initiated) and when battle starts you go first. Take away her physical armor and knock her down with your Peace of Mind character. Game over, you win.
- You can convince the Sourceress that you are on her side by passing an Intelligence, Memory, or Constitution Persuasion check. You receive an additional 7500 party experience.
- Siding with Hannag will net you 22,500 EXP (7,500 for each magister), a rare item, and she can give you a new source slot.
- Siding with the Magisters is much harder, but will net you 97,650 EXP and an epic item. Note you must keep the Magister Knight alive (other two don't matter) in order to get the majority of the EXP and the reward (Around 56,500 EXP). EXP may vary somewhat based on how many voidwoken get through the portals.
- Killing Hannag before a portal has a chance to spawn any voidwoken will prevent it from doing so. Any portals that have already spawned voidwoken will continue spawning them.
- A very easy way to eliminate the Magisters is to simply teleport them into the Sourceress' fire. Since she casts Fireballs outside of battle, they will get hurt during your turn while you wait.
- Hannag sells Source Skillbooks. It is worthwhile pickpocketing her to steal a couple from her for free, but be sure to save before doing so in case you get caught. Generally, avoid causing the bottom bar (in the pickpocketing system) to turn red.
- Ifan has special dialogue options related to Deathfog if you learned that she invented the Deathfog device that killed the elves. This can happen with her alive or with her spirit, and if she is alive he can choose to kill her for her invention.
AnonymousIf you go with Option 3: Side with Magisters (do not kill Hannag before she can open portals) - 153,900 XP total, make sure to loot Hannag before she revives. You'll get a bunch of spellbooks assuming you pickpocketed her/initialized her loot table. You can then loot her again when you kill the revived version of her.
- Anonymous
Damn she’s the worst. If you want to side with magisters for max xp and have Ifan in your party, be ready for tons of bugs in your personal quest. Ones I killed her and voidwoken, I was stuck in conversation with her spirit. I restarted my save AND HER SPIRIT FKN DISAPPEARED. The most frustrating thing is, it cannot be fixed with mere save-load or loading recent saves. You literally have to load saves, which were hours ago in order to make this work. Hate this sack of s..t
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O I managed to finish her off w/o letting her open those accursed rifts. Simply sniped her (after the 1st shot she started her pre-sacrificial chant w/o initiating combat, so I followed up w/ more panicky forced attacks and finished at the 3rd shot). Dunno whether there'll be pandemonium when I return but that's for a different night
- Anonymous
Decided to kill Hannag, but battle didnt end after eliminating all the enemies. So I was skipping turns for couple of mins before realised that Fane became hostile (still under my control tho, thats why I was able to skip for him as well) towards Sebilla and Lohse (for some reason Red Prince and magisters werent his enemies). Killed Fane, battle ended, ressurecter him and we are all chill. Hope it wont affect anything in the future. Dont know what caused this, but he was the one "saving" that lame knight by teleporting him away, so it might be the cause, watch out.
- Anonymous
Playing DE and I can confirm that running direct toward Hannag will just get you killed by lava.
Approach her from the south side and stand outside of cloud area, then teleport to her with Cloak and Dagger. She will then start conversation immediately as you landed.
Those magisters are super easy to deal with and no needs to cheese.
- Anonymous
I wonder is this patch difference or not, I saw the 2018 comment which used way too many words to describe the normal talk and steal method.
In my case, after siding with Hannag, I discovered she was too busy throwing the forever-missing fireball that she can't even trade with me.
Seeing this "Window of Opportunity," I just straight up stand next to her and steal everything and she was just too busy to even notice the theft.
Btw, during the preparation phase of her reborn, there was a source orb on her.
Don't know would it stay in the reborn version inventory or you have to pick it up before it's gone.
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probably my least favorite quest in the game. its so garbage that for the best results you have to keep alive a suicidal magister who charges headfirst into lava and necrofire with 0 magic armor. ally ai is so garbage.
- Anonymous
So I’m screwed. I wasn’t paying attention and started the fight unprepared and fled the scene. I went to do some other quests and when I came back all the magister were dead and now I have to fight Hannag and there’s already some voidwoken hanging out waiting for me. I know I messed it up from the beginning but if anyone has any good suggestions on how to beat this I’m here for them
- Anonymous
If she sacrifices herself, the spirit does not seem to be anywhere around. Is this a bug?
- Anonymous
Im so sad man, I'm on an honor mode, did all her quests without talking to her. Then I decided to go for the max xp which is to kill her then the magisters and it went horribly wrong. When hannag respawned, she one shotted 2 magisters and one of my party members so i couldn't reload... I basically missed 75k xp from that stupid interaction. Im so mad man. the only way to save the magisters, i guess, is to teleport them far away... I just didn't know lol.
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Max XP for DE:
Option 1: Side with Hannag - 45,000 XP total
+7500 XP for accepting quest from Magisters
+7500 XP for persuading/convincing Hannag that you are an ally
+ 22500 XP for killing 3 Magisters (7500 XP each)
+7500 XP for killing Hannag
Option 2: Side with Magisters (kill Hannag before she can open portals) - 82,325 XP total
+7500 XP for accepting quest from Magisters
+7500 XP for persuading/convincing Hannag that you are an ally
+56100 XP for completing quest with Magisters
+11225 XP for killing Hannag (before she can open portal rifts)
Option 3: Side with Magisters (do not kill Hannag before she can open portals) - 153,900 XP total
+7500 XP for accepting quest from Magisters
+7500 XP for persuading/convincing Hannag that you are an ally
+7500 XP for Hannag dying and opening portal
+7800 XP for 4 Volatile Voidlings (1950 XP each)
+37500 for other Voidwoken (4 Necro-Wing, 2 Vampiric, 2 Flayers each worth 3750 XP)
+7500 XP for killing Hannag Reborn (she drops a uniquely named power framed, large flame rune called 'Hannag's Flame Rune Of Power')
+56100 XP for completing quest with Magisters
+22500 XP for killing 3 Magisters (7500 XP each)
- Anonymous
You will know that all of Hannag's void minions have spawned when each of the three portals has disappeared, summoning a special enemy: Hannag Reborn, Void Flayer, and, Aalbrk the Flayer. The portals teleport at scripted moments, and they can catch on Necrofire, which will destroy them before they can summon their final enemies, so watch them closely. Also, you can pick up some extra experience (7500 I believe) by persuading Hannag that you are on her side and that you will kill the Magisters for her, before talking to her again to initiate combat with her. You probably want to kill the Magister Ranger and Inquistor beforehand (Teleport them in conversation far away from the Magister Knight.), as they will focus the portals. I also teleported the Knight into box of Ornate Chests I set up below the ledge, for his protection and the portals'.
- Anonymous
If youre concerned about being evil for killing her like i was you guys should know, there is a letter to be found in wreckers cave right by a npc called Zanisima The Scientist, in the letter it details how Hanag has been helping produce death fog in exchange for coin. So shes flat out evil as hell , don't feel bad about killing her. I'll be killer her next time.
- Anonymous
Welp. I went to get the ON THE ROPE quest first then only get WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY quest. What I ddi afterward - I killed the Magisters, got myself the reward (Plannar book) for helping Hannag, stole all of Hannag's spell books, and killed Hannag. Note - While Ifan was busy chatting with Hannag, Fane stole all her books, and wait awhile, she will accuse Fane of stealing the books, and fight ensued. So - WIN WIN WIN situation for me ;)
- Anonymous
When on the 2nd floor just use a summon to smack her and she will kill it with lava, then teleport her into the lava. Then throw the magisters in too while you're at it. Killed all 4 without entering combat.
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If you still have the gloves of teleportation and 1 character with teleportation naturally this is a breeze. Talk to her first and make her retreat to the second level of the ruins. Once there, position yourself so you can teleport her near where Alice Alisceon is. Have the second character teleport her from there down towards Jahan. Have a crossbow/bow shoot her while standing near Jahan. Jahan will then kill her before the portals open. The magisters will ever join you down there to collect the reward. You can then kill them there and Jahan will help.
- Anonymous
I teleported her into her own lava before battle started. Then completed the quest for good items and exp. And then teleported the magisters into the lava.
- Anonymous
Cheesed this one by attacking the magisters with 3 characters while one of my guys teleported her to the main floor of the cathedral after she relocates. If you get in to battle with the magisters while the sourceress is still moving around, the combat status won't trigger for her.
- Anonymous
Another easy trick: let her lava one of yours guys then use Terrain Transmutation on the lava +under her and she'll instantly die, before she summons portals.
- Anonymous
Managed to cheese her by teleporting and then somehow knocking her down right at the moment the fight started so she couldn't sacrifice herself. After that, talked to her ghost. For some reason, when I try to read her memory the dialogue just closes.
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I beat the quest without even knowing, I sent my incarnate in and killed her in like two hits
- Anonymous
So afters some tries i just managed it to steal 5 source spells from her with thievery 6 and and to get the on the ropes quest after. :) the trick is : 1. Talk to magisters and tell them that u will handle it. (get 7500xp) 2. Walk straight to Hannag with ur persuation char and do ur best stat pers. (get another 7500xp) 3. Let one char talk to her and remain in the dialogue whilst u unchain ur thief and let him pickpocket her from behind. As soon as u got the loot bring him away from her before u end dialogue with ur talking char and bring the group together at the stairs. 4. Now comes the trick: after she moans that she got robbed and u can approach her again unchain a char again and start a dialogue with her but her facing AWAY from the magisters so her aggro zone is pointed towards the wall. 5. Now u can proceed as u like in a group of 3 killing the magisters; i did it the safe way by teleporting all three magisters down the pit and starting there the fight there. After u killem she should give u a reward and the quest. Enjoy :)
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Did this at lv 12: I talked to the magisters to start the quest saying I'll talk to Hannag. Then used terrain transmutation to slowly burn the Magister Knight to death which didn't agro anyone. Then just started killing the last 2 magisters without even talking to Hannag. She didn't join the fight and afterwards I asked about source and I received On the Ropes.
- Anonymous
I telepprted alice's corpse demon on the magisters and they killed them all. Then gone back to her fire field
Inadvertantly ended up agreeing to help both the magisters and Hannag. The key appears to be killing the magisters without getting Hannag involved. I cheesed it by teleporting all 3 magisters down into the courtyard on top of the lava, instantly killing them one at a time. This never generated combat between my party and the magisters. I don't feel bad about it because I've found myself in plenty of unfair fights as another poster mentions. Then I pickpocketed a skill book from her - you have to be careful because she will bust you in the middle of it if you get too greedy. After that, I initiated dialogue with main character. This took a couple tries to get Hannag to respond with the proper dialogue to end the Window of Opportunity quest. You will know you have the right dialogue when she says "she prefers them dead". Immediately end the conversation when you see that, and it will close out Window of Opportunity and grant 18,700 EXP. I did NOT get any gifts from Hannag upon closing Window of Opportunity. You can then initiate dialogue again and receive On the Ropes.
- Anonymous
First pickpocket her for the skillbooks.
I cheesed her with "Living on the Edge" + teleporting her into the lava she summons on you. Your character will still die from burn damage after leaving lava so have a Rez scroll handy, but you avoid combat altogether. Her corpse had 5 source skill books and a source orb.
- Anonymous
The persuasion check is much easier if you mention Gareth's parents would vouch for you. That is if you saved their farm for them. Also I think Gareth has to be dead for his parent to be alive. He died on my honour mode run on the lady vengeance when Dallis attacked. Really want to see what else changes later down the road without him around.
- Anonymous
The guide above suggests teleporting one of the magisters into her field of fire to easily kill them, however doing so for me immediately caused her to enter combat and kill herself. Careful!
- Anonymous
I kill the magisters, she talks to me, Window of Opportunity closes, but she never offers me On the Ropes. When I speak to her about source, she says "I do not give myself for free, and you have nothing you may offer." That's it... Would love a way to get On the Ropes!
- Anonymous
After I killed the magisters and talked with her she saw the magisters bodies, called me a killer and turned hostile
- Anonymous
For those having the same issue as me and as described above as serious bug (if you don't immediately quit the dialoge after initiating conversation with Hannag after killing the magisters, she does not give you the book and the Window of Opportunity quest does not close): you can still close the quest by choosing various dialogue options after the first conversation. Starting a topic and saying you'll leave right after worked for me, she suddenly said I deserve a reward, gave the book & quest closed.
- Anonymous
If you want to maximise XP gains, you can do the following:
Talk to the knight and say you will talk to the sourceress - get 7500xp
Sneak/teleport/invisibility behind Hannag with any char - she will teleport to higher ground
Position your team by the magisters and attack (without initiating fight with Hannag) and kill the magisters for 11250xp each
Walk up to Hannag and she will comment that the magisters are dead - no need for persuasion check
This way you maximise xp and do not need to pass the persuasion check. Also you can initiate "on the ropes quest"
While in dialog mode with Hannag, I also pickpocketed her with another char (my thief) and got 3 skillbooks for free...
- Anonymous
^%#&% this lizard. rip two honor mode playthroughs. Approach with extreme caution. Summons insta kill lava portals on your head. Additionally magisters hitting her after you persuade check will still cause her to suicide summoning several enemies with high initiative that will kill the magisters you weakened then proceed to maul you before you get a turn, just lol.
- Anonymous
I always want to kill her because
1. She made the Deathfog Bomb.
2. She keeps moving and the character is running behind her trying to talk to her.And the lizard female walking is just too "something".Same with the Gravekeeper in Stonegarden.
3.The Lava Portal is plain cheat.Kills 2 characters one 1 turn.
4.The fight with the sacrifice gives exp.
But i kill her after One the ropes and when the character learns from the dwarf that she made the bomb and gives the option.
- Anonymous
If you want to kill her super easy: just use the Terrain Transmutation skill (Polymorph) and drop the lava on her. You need to smuggle the lava out of combat to the right side from the left, then you can climb to the highest point and insta kill her with the lava (then there is no combat). I guess if you keep moving the lava with you to install kill any enemy. (Yes, it is cheesy, but then there are a lot of unfair fights, so I do not feel bad.)
- Anonymous
I tried doing her quest, decided to help her, and passed the skill check, but when her turn comes up in battle, she just sacrificed herself anyway, is this normal?
- Anonymous
I didnt even try to bypass her, just clicked on her to interact, it makes you auto run into the steam cloud field but if your char is fast enough to interact, she won't have time to cast her spell. Same thing on the 2nd interaction just click on her.
- Anonymous
I managed to kill Hannag, however I had to kill everyone there. Magisters and Hannag alike.
I started the battle with the magisters without a caster in the battle, during the first round I teleported hannag into the battle (so Hannag wouldn't be the first to perform). Stunlock her to death, and proceeded to kill everyone else.
Easiest cheese to win the fight:
Get her to kill herself with the lava fall.
I just used an Incarnate and attacked her till she got the lava which fell on the incarnate and her.
GG.
- Anonymous
This lvl 15 recommendation to the fight is a joke. Just did it with lvl 12 party in under 3 minutes: A Ranger, a summoner, Red Prince (default build), Beast (default build). I CC'd her twice.
- Anonymous
I killed the magisters and then she runs up to me asking " OH MY GOD THERE HAS BEEN A MURDER! WAS IT YOU? " I'm like, uh yeah ***** you literally just asked me to kill them, viola. Then she became hostile and I had to kill her also. I think this was a bug
- Anonymous
OK, this guide is a bit unclear.
here's how to get the most XP out of this if you plan to let tannag live.
1. talk to magisters first, feign ignorance, tell them you will have a chat with the sorceress. (7500)
2. detach someone you can make invisible. use cloak and dagger to jump that person behind Tannag.
3. talk to Tannag. tell her you mean no harm. she will jump away to the upper platform.
4. repeat step 2, but this time jump up to the platform and again walk behind her while invisible.
5. talk to her again. Now you get the persuasion check. memory worked for me, others would probably work. (7500)
6. kill the magisters. talk to her again, with the same person as before. you will get the ropes quest.
7. talk to her with a DIFFERENT character, and this will close the window of opportunity quest.
there, took me a few tries to get it right. :P
- Anonymous
The guide doesn't talk much about if you decide to help Hannag. Once you kill the magisters, talk to her and ask her questions. She will give you the quest On The Ropes. If you have Ifan in your party, he will demand to interrogate her. In order to finish this quest, you have to talk to her a couple of times and choose different options until she rewards you with a source Skillbook (of which this guide makes no mention). I got Planar Gateway in my run. The conclusion of this quest does not remove the Pet Pal talent, but it's confusing from reading this guide. That is referring to On The Ropes quest.
- Anonymous
After I helped Hannag against the magisters; she gives me the Planar Gateway Skillbook, but only if I leave the conversation immediately when I get the choice and not if i choose another dialog option. I can then talk to her again to get the other quest. Is it intended?
- Anonymous
if you're having trouble getting close to her without dying, just use tactical retreat or something similar to get close to her. she will initiate dialogue and you'll have to pass a difficult speech check.
- Anonymous
Does she remove Pet Pal from all party members or just main?
- Anonymous
I killed her before she opens portal. 25 initiation rogue, adrenaline+4 AP=2 backstub+turn into chicken=death. Now the magister commander doesn't know what to talk(it goes blank close after initiating conversation), so I killed them to close the quest.
- Anonymous
How do you close the quest if you turned don the magisters?
- Anonymous
easy way for this quest go to blackpits first and save gwydian then talk with hannag and say her to you already saved gwydian and can help her too then defeat magisters thats all
- Anonymous
Persuasion lv 3 along with int 33+Clear Of Mind(+3)+Food(+1)=37, passed.
- Anonymous
Ignore everything, just walk straight to her. If you talk to her right before she finish casting her lava it WON'T hurt NOR kill you. Teleport is also your best friend but I haven't really needed it.
- Anonymous
I used teleport to get her close to my characters. While talking I attacked with my backstabber and used polymorph on her. You can then kill her in polymorph.
It almost feel like cheating, but hey, it's in the game so it's a feature.
- Anonymous
You can use the living on the edge skill to ensure you survive long enough to speak to her. To win the fight against the magisters by cheating just cast teleport during the fight to drop them into the path of the fireballs that Hannag is tossing around. Since she isn't following the turn based combat rules you can sit back and watch the magisters get burned to a crisp.
- Anonymous
you can pick pocket her, she had tons of source skill books in her inventory.
- Anonymous
All those having problem in talking to her.... just cast cryogenic statis (permafrost) and when she is still go and talk to her.... This is a solution only if u are following her and unable to talk as she keeps moving.
- Anonymous
Are there extra ways of getting more source point slots if I dont want to kill all the animals?
- Anonymous
I talked, then fought and then half way through she calls in void teleporters and I had to fight 4-5 void creatures on top of magisters. Not easy when just level 11.
Think you can fight magisters first without talking.
- Anonymous
I was able to kill Hannag before she self sacrificed EZPZ, by platform sniping her with a crossbow with one character, then sneaking up on her with another character and casting Chicken Form on her. This disabled her self-sacrificing move and made it extremely easy to just beat her to death with all of my characters.
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