Corlagon's was probably the trickiest place so far. Sometimes I had to back up a Beacon or two to get out of a tight spot. Worked it out though and didn't have any other problems. Silver Helm in Myst was also kind of tight in places. Found out that that secret door with the switch by the Master Monk will close if you Lloyd's Beacon in there, so had to maneuver the mobs so I could run from the switch to the door.

Icewind Keep was easier than I expected. Set a beacon at each door switch but really just kept moving forward one beacon at a time till I go into the treasure room. Set a beacon there and then beaconed back out and sealed the secret door again.

Gharik's Forge up next. That should be pretty easy - I've done that by mostly running through in the past. Varn looms in the future as the big challenge.

I've set a beacon right next to them but them really don't move at all around that first corner.

As I said, open to suggestions.

I SHOULD have saved a game before I ever opened that door, but I only use one saved game per party and I'm past that now. I'm not sure it would have made a difference but it might have. I've tried setting a beacon as close to them as I can get, in hopes of inching it forward gradually, but no success. I've lured one all the way to the top of that little ramp all by himself and he will still not cross that line. He does the rapid back and forth thing no matter where I move, even though there are no other creatures around him, which tells me that none of them are ever coming off that ramp.

I've also tried getting a couple of them down to low health in hopes that they will flee back down, but no luck with that either. For the most part they just stick in that one corner.

I don't suppose Sleep or Paralyze would work? I guess they'd just stop moving and still block the passageway.

That ramp turns 3 or 4 more times before you get to the bottom, so I'm nowhere close enough to being able to see the chest.

Got the Varn chest key and the Captains code. Had set a portal in the middle of the radiation room and was just going to do the pools with the codes one at a time. And that is turning out to be weird also. In the past I always remember just walking into each pool and it would ask for the code. Some of them don't seem to work unless you get them just right. I've done two so far and many, many attempts on the others and I just can't get it to work. Maybe it's the fact that there are still lots of Defenders and such in there, but I don't know why that would affect it.

Took me a few reloads to do the hive. Wasn't sure if regular magic worked on the Queen (I should have remembered but I didn't). Tried with blaster and then daggers and neither of those was doing the trick, so finally went to Shrapmetal (at expert level).

On one of those efforts I tried Shrinking Ray on him. It shrunk him down to a pretty tiny size, but I still couldn't get past him - running up the sides or jumping or any combination. I'm wondering if the game engine actually reduces his 'physical' size in terms of space occupied or just reduces his visible size and damage.

By the way, I've never used that before, or Mass Fear or Charm. It seems like it might be kind of fun to use those in places and maybe there are some other interesting spells I've never tried.