Recommended level to do watchers keep?

[Ronin_bcd]

Hmmm, gets harder in chapter 6 someone said........harder how...I thought in general it was kind of low in terms of difficulty (but my party is all around 18th level), and that the demogorgon fight was particularly easy...what changes in chapter 6?

[rob_bedall]

Hey!!
after reading this thread i went back to WK but i can't seem to find any bastard sword on the first level??
where is it??
i can't find any secret doors!!
any help would be great!! cheers!!

[SixOfSpades]

The Bastard Sword that begins with an F is one of the BEST weapons in the whole damn game. And sorry, Rob, but you appear to have screwed yourself out of it (you'll NEVER find it) by entering the 1st floor of Watcher's Keep too soon. You see, the game adjusts itself to the party's level: If you're high-level, there will be more difficult enemies, or simply a greater number of enemies. If you are low-level, you will be facing fewer, weaker enemies. When you entered WK, the game removed some of the statues, to pose less of a challenge to you.

And one of the statues carried that Bastard Sword.

Now we know. Don't enter Watcher's Keep unless your party is at least Level 11-12, on average.

[rob_bedall]

hey!!
well i don't get it coz when i entered i was level 14-16 on average???
is there no way of getting it now without a mod??
cheers!!

[SixOfSpades]

That's funky, levels 14-16 should be more than enough, unless you were all Thieves, Bards, Clerics.....

Are you positive you searched all the bodies? That happened to me once, on my first run through the Keep. I missed what's arguably the best Longsword in the game because there were so many bodies I couldn't even see the corpse of their Captain. Realistic, I suppose. (Why can't we use a Fireball spell to dissolve dead bodies instantly?)