Maze Spellhold Stone Wall Trap - undisarmable, or is it?

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So, I am going through BG2 again, and I really wanted to "get revenge" on that stone wall trap in the spellhold maze. Planning this from the start, my disarm trap skill was 120 natural (i don't even have the patch much less a mod or exp remover) and I go in to try and do this trap. Fail/squish, re-load, fail/squish - re-load. Polymorph self into green slime, fail but trap is NOT set off, just the fail message - no squish. Ok, so I think, hey, this MUST be disarmable or I would have set it off, right? Drink 4 potions so that detect trap is now 200, fail every time/squish.

Would one not think that a fail message without setting off the trap would mean that it IS disarmable, at least in theory?

Thoughts/comments?!?

 

No. You were just dexterous enough to escape getting caught.

 

No, it's not disarmable. I'm surprised it's even detectable, but then I suppose that would help you avoid it. But regardless, if you have 100 or more in Detect Traps, any trap you cannot disarm cannot BE disarmed. Trap difficulties are set from 0 to 100, and those set at 100 are just plain undisarmable, even if you were to have the maximum number before looping around to 0.

As for fail-squish and fail-not-squish, that's probably just because you weren't standing in the activation area that one time. Sometimes when you go to disarm a trap, you step on it, and sometimes you don't. I've even had experiences back in BG1 where I would successfully disarm a trap and yet still set it off because Imoen walked over it to disarm a point on the far side of the trap.

 

FWIW, you can use the trap to your advantage if your party is at the southern end of the corridor.
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Launch an area effect spell (I use cloudkill) at the other end of the corridor and watch the waiting yuan-ti wipe themselves out on the trap as they try to get at you!

 

AFAIK, "mechanical" traps can not be disarmed. And I think it is one of the tips you receive when you load or save game. And that one seems like a mechanical trap.

 

DEsuma: Even a simple Horror or Chaos does a great job!

 

This is true, but if the spell succeeds then they might wander off in the wrong direction - I want something that'll make them charge me. In addition, I usually have a fully charged wand of cloudkill by that point.

 

Um, so let me get this straight. You planned a whole new game just to disarm that trap? You could have just read a walkthrough.

It never bothered me. I usually just avoid it(you dont have to go through it) or resurrect the party member who died by it.

 

I usually cheat and jump across it with ctrl+j just because it annoys me that much.

 

Thanks for the replies everyone.

No, I did not start a whole new game JUST to try disarming the trap, but since I it took me out the other times I played, I knew I wanted to try it.

Also, I never trust other people, so I confirm everything myself - or at least I try too.

 

You can summon a couple of monsters and send them through the hallway first...they take one for the team and your party members live to fight on.

 

Summons trigger the trap, but it is still there and eager to squish you.

 

Meh just go around it. I kinda knew you couldn't disarm it after my thief had his skill at 100 so I didn't bother anymore

 

kuemper, there are two spots which trigger the trap....just make sure that you send two monsters, one monster at a time, to trigger the spots. Then your party can proceed without the trap snapping shut.