The Gauntlet of Shar, otherwise known as Shar's Sanctum, in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3, is a large and complicated dungeon within Shadow-Cursed Lands. To complete it, you'll need a va꧙st reserve of timℱe, resources, and sheer determination.

Several quests will lead you into 💛this gauntlet's depths. No matter where you're coming from, all roads seem to lead to Shar's Gauntlet. But do all roads lead out? You'll need to carve your path to the secr⛦ets held in the dark and trust in, at least, the hands of powers greater than yourself.

Updated February 21, 2024 by Alexis Campbell: Fixed text errors incorrectly labeling Yurgir as Yulgir. Added minor western section of Shar's Sanctum to include mini-enemy in the area. Patch 5 Honour Mode changes to Balthazar have been added, as well as relevant links to guides on Balthazar and Yurgir boss fights. New warning section detailing all affected quests at the end of Shar's Sanctum included.

Shar's Sanctum Overview

After entering 168澳洲𝐆幸运5开奖网:Tho📖rm Mausoleum and completing its puzzle, you'll be brought to Shar's Sanctum. Inside, there are a number of quests you can complete:

• Find The Nightsong
• 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kill Raphael's Old Enemy (Yurgir Quest); Break Yurgir's Contract
• 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Find Thorm's Relic (Spear of Night)

Completing all of Shar Sanctum will require you complete each of these quests to various degrees, gathering Umbral Gems and solving unique trial puzzles.

For the Sanctum, we highly recommend adding Shadowheart to your party.

Gauntlet Of Shar: Completing The First Night Puzzle

As you enter Shar's Sanctum via the floating platform (usable via the crystal on the ground), you'll eventually come to enter a chamber with your first Umbral Gem inside and a statue of Shar surrounded by purple light.

If you near the statue, you will be repulsed back by an invisible force.

Ignore the statue for now and continue to the far right or left side.

There are four chambers in this room at each of its corners. Each chamber is guarded by a trap at the doorway, so disarm the trap before entering.

Inside the chambers, a lever can be found against the wall closest to the Shar statue. Pull it to lower the lanterns outside. There are two lanterns for each lever.

When a lantern is lowered, snuff out the light by interacting with the lantern.

Upon all eight lanterns being snuffed out, a secret path to the Shar statue will be revealed. Toggle off Group Mode and send one person into the path to retrieve the Umbral Gem and reveal the next doorway.

If the secret path to the statue doe💦s not reveal itself to you, ensure you are not carrying any lit objects like torches or spell-affected items. Stop casting any light magic you may be wielding.

Facing The Reconstituted Duelist And Justiciars Of Night

As you walk into the next main section behind the Shar statue, you'll be approached by the Reconstituted Duelists. Whatever yo🔥u say to him does not matter much here.

After a few lines of dialogue, you'll be interrupted by spawned Dark Justiciars. Within this gauntlet, you will need to fight them each time they appear. The D꧋ark Justiciars are not your friends.

Ignore the Reconstituted Duelists and fight both the Dark Justiciars and the vortexes that will continuously summon them.

Dark Vortexes will reappear after 🔴being destroyed if the Reconstituted Duelists are still alive, continuing the fight almost endlessly unless all vortexes and justiciars are defeated in the same turn.

For this fight, it is recommended to use Radiant spells, which the Dark Justiciars are vulnerable 🎀t🧸o. Spells like Spirit Guardians will work tremendously well here.

Use the Reconstituted Duelists as cannon fodder until the fight eventuaꦆlly subsides and all parties are defeated.

After the fight is completed, you will have two directions to follow:

• Left - Shar's Trials, Balthazar, x3 Umbral Gems, Silent Library, Waypoint
• Right - Yurgir, Umbral Gem, Raphael's Quest

We recommend at least going far enough to the left to grab the Shar Sanctum Waypoint for ease of travel.

Yurgir And Raphael Quest

If you choose to go right, you'll first be baited into a trap by a Displacer Beast. You can either follow it into its room or take a back route via jumping at the top of the stairs to the right wing, allowing you to start an encounter with Yurgir on the same level.

When speaking with Yurgir, you'll have three options:

• Persuade Yurgir to let you help him break his contract.
• Persuade Yurgir to kill his minions and then himself.
• Battle and kill Yurgir.

Yurgir is a difficult fight (especially if you begin on the ground and even more in Patch 5 Honour Mode, thanks to his Legendary Actions), so we recommend trying your hand at the other options before plunging head-first into battle. If you're having trouble, refer to our 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:official guide on his fight.

Breaking Yurgir's contract will require you to speak with the rats in the marked area of your map and find a Broken Effigy and a book called One Becomes Many (Coordinates: X:-709, Y:-723). Kill the spawned rat and then the Justiciar that app༒ears after to 🎐return to Yurgir and finish the quest.

Regardless of how you clear the quest, take the Umbral Gem beside the statue when you're finished clearing this area.

Balthazar And Thorm's Missing Artifact

After passing the Shar's Sanctum Waypoint, ignore the stairs and enter the far western wing. Once again, you'll come💞 ▨across a large room with the Reconstituted Duelists.

Following a brief exchange, you'll be swarmed again with Dark Justiciars. There will be far more in number this time, and a Justiciar Crusader (a boss version ofꦑ the justiciars) will spa🤡wn in the second wave.

Large area attacks and Radiant damaging spells and weapons will work wonders here. With the justiciars each having an extra attack, you'll want to ensure you keep their numbers down as much as possible.

After killing all the justiciars in this area, you'll be allowed into a secret chamber on the far western side of the room where Balthazar and his cronies hang out. Speak with them.

You can choose to fight them in the room (though this is not recommended for a first-time playthrough to enjoy the full story; you'll get your chance later), or you can accept his quest to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:find an item within the gauntlet.

Additionally, you can convince Balthazar to give you a summoning bell. Ringing the bell will grant you an extra temporary ally in Flesh, Balthaz🐓ar's golem brother🐟, to join any single fight in the Sanctum.

There is a persisting bug that makes it impossible to speak with Balthazar at the Dark Urge on some playthroughs. This is a random glitch and not always guaranteed, but a game that encounters this bug cannot reload a previous save 🍌to correct it. Instead, you mu🍌st speak with Balthazar using a different character.

West Wing, North Side: The Vault

The door to the north is definitely worth the resources you'll spend trying to reach it. Unlocking it allows access to "The Vault."

The DC to unlock it is set at a high 30, but a success will grant you access to three chests of highly valuable objects, resources, and artifacts.

West Wing, South Side: How To Defeat The Cloaker

If you choose to go through the west wing and take the southern exit, you'll find a new area inside, in which there is a kitchen and rest area as well as an altar to Shar.

Before venturing further, speak with the altar and pass a DC 14 Religion check to be granted the "Nightsinger's Favour." This boon gives Resistance to Necrotic damage until your next long rest.

Beyond the kitchen area and further south is a mushroom-ladden area. You may notice a large, open area up the stairs and a gilded chest on the far side. It's pretty obvious that this is a trap, so get the better of it by instead taking the rocky side path directly left of the entrance.

Sneaking around, your party will need to pass a Perception check to notice the enemy Cloaker on the mushroom above the chest. Since you snuck up to i🌼t, ꦜyou can get the drop on this enemy.

We recommend attacking with your highest initiative attacker (your most Dextrous attacker, usually) to start the fight and Surprise ജthe Cloaker. From there, hammer on it as fast as you can.

You should defeat the Cloaker on Turn One or Two before the Cloaker has the chance to use its dangerous Phantasm ability, summoning two 𒈔to three more Cloakers for the fight.

If you don't notice the Cloaker with a Perception roll, you should attack the area with an area attack spell like Fireball or Ice Storm. This will help reveal the Cloaker and Sur🐬prise it in the same t🦋urn.

Once the Cloaker is defeated, you can loot the chest for an extremely valuable Elixir of Necrotic Resistance and Arcane Cultivation.

From here, there isn't much else to explore, so return to the kitchen to restock on s𓃲upplies before heading back into the rest of the dungeon.

Shar Sanctum Trials

Down the stairs from the Shar's Sanctum Waypoint, you'll find a long hallway with two doors on the left side and a set of stairs further down to another hallway with two doors. Between the upstairs doors and the first right door on the lower level, there are three trials.

Each of these trials begins by entering the room and interacting with the Shar offering bowl at the start. Your prize for each trial is one Umbral Gem, totaling three.

Silent Library

Beside the Faith-Leap Trial is the Silent Library and a shortcut elevator you can fix (via a broken lever on the floor that you take up th❀e elevator to r⭕epair).

Inside the Silent Library, there are several books with tips for completing the other trials and the sanctum, as well as a puzzle to a one-of-a-kind item. These are all guarded by the Librarian and a set of Dark Justiciars.

Defeat all Justiciars and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:complete the puzzle past the iron doors on the ground floor to ꦏaccess the item. Finishing this room isꦓ required to advance Shadowheart's and Balthazar's questlines.

What To Do With The Umbral Gems - Entering Shadowfell

Once you've found all Umbral Gems, you can return to the top of the grand sanctum in the room to the right of the Shar Sanctum Waypoint, facing the top of the giant Shar statue.

In this room, approach the device with the single Umbral Gem inside. Insert one of your gems into the empty slot.

The platform disc in Shar's hand will float toward you. Jump on and interact with one of the crystals on the disc itself.

The disc in this room is known to have errors with registering your attempts to click the crystals on the disc. If you can't interact with it, step off the disc and step back on to try highlighting the crystal again. Jump around ♉if needed. A save-reset should not be needed - just a little finaglingꦏ.

Following this disc down and filling in the Umbral Gems in the next device (three in total needed).

This will open the doors to the statue on the other side and the way to Shadowfell.

Facing The Nightsong And Balthazar

Approach and interact with the pool at the depths of the Gauntlet of Shar.🉐 After doing so, you'll be transported to a🐼 new realm known as Shadowfell.

If you choose to enter the Shadowfell, you will receive a warning message that will warn you that certain quests will be affected but does not explain which. We have detailed these quests here:

Spoilers Ahead

Halsin & The Shadowfell	Failing to complete all of Halsin's ꦅquestline, including finding Oliver and defeating his minibattle, will result in losing Halsin as a companion in Act 3 as well as forever dooming the area to be plagued by the Shadow Curse.
Rescue the Tieflings and Ironhand Gnomes	Failing to rescue t꧙hem before this dungeon will result in them all being sacrificed to the Absolute. Their bodies will appear as lootable corpses in the Act 2 final dungeon. Wulbren Bongle and the Ironhand questline cannot be correctly progressed in Act 3.
Gale's Romance	Gale's Act 2 romance scene occurs only before the complet🦩ion of the Shadowfell. Completing this quesꦕtline before receiving this scene will result in the questline being locked. Act 3 Gale will "break up" with you, stating he wishes your relationship could have gone deeper.
Rosymorn Monastery -🍬 Blood of Lathander &꧑; Gith Creche	Failing to complete the Gith questline will result in the Gith leaving the creche at Rosymorn Monastary. As one of them carries the key required to reach the final treasure room🐬 of the Monastery, you cannot progress the Blood of Lathander questline unless the key to the astral blockade has been taken and used.
Flaming Fist Dowry	If you have not en♐tered Waukeen's Rest, the man in the fire (and possibly Counsellor Florrick) will perish. If you have but have not yet finished the dowry questline, the man at the fire will leave at this point, making it impossible to finish this questline as you can no longer give him the ring you found in the haystack.
Recruit Minthara	As all the prisoners perish at the end of this questline, Minthara's unique encounter with Ketheric Thorm can no longer be viewed. Likewise, if it was viewed, she'll disappear (and pr෴esumably die) in the dungeons.

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While in Shadowfell, you will have the Feather Fall status as a Passive Effect. Jump from island to island on the w🔴ay down to the glowing ligh𝔍t at the heart of this area.

Once at the base, you'll encounter Balthazar and the Aasimar known as the Nightsong. You will have two options here:

• Allow Balthazar to take the Nightsong to Ketheric to further his plans.
• Stop Balthazar and kill him.

Allowing Balthazar to take the Nightsong will 🐻result in failing Shar's quest and strengthening Ketheriꦕc Thorm.

If you choose to fight him, know that the168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Balthazar fight is not an easy one without the aid of a good cleric, so having Shadowheart or another cleric is highly recommended here. In Honour Mode, he also boasts seve🥂ral dangerous changes, including a Legendary Action.

While there are lots of enemies to deal with, Balthazar himself can be dealt with quite easily by Shoving him off the platform and sending him to a gravity-related death.

If you stop Balthazar, you will again have two more options:

• Defy Shar (and change Shadowheart's mind, if present) to spare the Nightsong.
• Kill the Nightsong with the .

Regardless of which you choose, this will end the quest and thereby complete the Gauntlet of Shar. When you're done and ready to leave, interact with the portal in front of you to return to the Thorm Mausoleum entrance.