Mind Flayer Area – Baldur’s Gate II

This guide will walk you through the Mind Flayer Area in the Temple District of the city of Athkatla in Baldur’s Gate II. This area’s code in the game files is AR0711.

Note: The Temple District Sewers and Mekrath’s Lair walkthroughs can be found on their own pages.

6 – Mind Flayer Battles

In these three rooms, you’ll face increasingly more difficult mind flayer battles. In the first room you’ll encounter two archers, an assassin, two fighters, a cleric, a mage, an umber hulk, and a single mind flayer (worth 40,000 xp total). In the second room, you’ll encounter three mind flayers, two ultharids, and an umber hulk (worth 69,000 xp total). And in the third room, you’ll encounter an alhoon, three mind flayers, two ultharids, and two umber hulks (worth 83,000 xp total).

Mind flayers typically use Psionic Blast to stun their opponents, and then repeatedly use Devour Brain to remove 5 intelligence per cast. If a character is reduced to 0 intelligence by these attacks, then they’ll die, which means mind flayers can kill quickly. There are a couple of ways to combat this: summoning creatures to distract the mind flayers while you kill them with ranged attacks, or drawing them to you one or two at a time, and killing them before they can kill you (usually with the help of the Haste spell). See our Defeating Mind Flayers page for more tips and strategies.

If you can defeat all of the mind flayers in the three rooms, then in a container in the final room, you’ll find a Hammer of Thunderbolts +3 (which Cromwell can use to craft Crom Faeyr +5), a Wand of Wonder, and Illithid Correspondence (which doesn’t relate to anything else in the game).

Exits

• B) Exit back to Temple District Sewers.