Recruiting minthara. Too costly?

[Norbac]

Minor spoilers ahead.

Siding with minthara automatically removes wyll and karlach from your party.
Gale leaves as well unless persuaded.

Halsin is a druid and you can't recruit him after destroying their camp.

Edit: unless you cheese the game, you will lose wyll, karlach and halsin. Gale has to be persuaded to stay.

[RhodosGuard]

What? WEIRD how the lawful good characters just leave your party if you lead a goblin army to slaughter a camp of innocent refugees and a circle of druids.

Maybe if you like the lawful good characters, dont play an evil character.

[Edstyles]

Originally posted by Norbac:

Minor spoilers ahead.

Siding with minthara automatically removes wyll and karlach from your party.
Gale leaves as well unless persuaded.

Halsin is a druid and you can't recruit him after destroying their camp.
Then i'm 95% sure you can't recruit jaheira because she's literally your enemy.

You lose FIVE companions and you are left with lae'zel, shadowheart and astarion.

I understand the choices you make should have consequences, but they overdid it.
Been playing the last 10h with a party that I don't like because I have no choice, all for the sake of a character that hasn't even joined my party yet. What the ♥♥♥♥.

Thanks for letting me know cause i was thinking of doing this next playthrough

[Kalil]

The hirelings work well enough for any gaps you may end up with :)

[Rookie0879]

Yeah. Minthara is an excellent character, and in Act 2, she has a major character development. I really want to get her to the party... But doing so pretty much ensures a bad ending overall. It is way too costly to recruit her. IMO, her quest should be reworked to give some skill checks for the player to allow us to get her into the party without going full evil.

[Norbac]

Originally posted by RhodosGuard:

What? WEIRD how the lawful good characters just leave your party if you lead a goblin army to slaughter a camp of innocent refugees and a circle of druids.

Maybe if you like the lawful good characters, dont play an evil character.

Here comes the 1st dude missing the point.

One playstyle is heavily gimped in a game where you are supposed to choose your own path.
I'm not saying your companions should kneel to your genocide episodes, i'm saying there should be more variety.

[Coffee Addict]

thats why we do multiple play throughs one where we team up with the good peeps and then the dark urge where we kill everyone except minthara

[Teddy]

Originally posted by Norbac:

Originally posted by RhodosGuard:

What? WEIRD how the lawful good characters just leave your party if you lead a goblin army to slaughter a camp of innocent refugees and a circle of druids.

Maybe if you like the lawful good characters, dont play an evil character.

Here comes the 1st dude missing the point.

One playstyle is heavily gimped in a game where you are supposed to choose your own path.
I'm not saying your companions should kneel to your genocide episodes, i'm saying there should be more variety.

I haven't tried evil playthrough, so I'm curious, are there more evil characters that join later on? I can imagine you might miss out on 2 characters from previous baldurs game if you are evil since they are not (just my speculation).

[KingOfFriedChicken]

It sucks that it takes so much more time to get her but her sweet embrace is worth it! IM COMING MINTHARA MY BABY BOO! lol

[deRuyter]

Originally posted by Norbac:

Originally posted by RhodosGuard:

What? WEIRD how the lawful good characters just leave your party if you lead a goblin army to slaughter a camp of innocent refugees and a circle of druids.

Maybe if you like the lawful good characters, dont play an evil character.

Here comes the 1st dude missing the point.

One playstyle is heavily gimped in a game where you are supposed to choose your own path.
I'm not saying your companions should kneel to your genocide episodes, i'm saying there should be more variety.

Actually he was spot on. You ended up doing something very evil and are confused as to why all the good guys in your party left you.

[Quineloe]

any drow is worth more than those five losers.

[D-Black Catto]

Originally posted by Norbac:

Originally posted by RhodosGuard:

What? WEIRD how the lawful good characters just leave your party if you lead a goblin army to slaughter a camp of innocent refugees and a circle of druids.

Maybe if you like the lawful good characters, dont play an evil character.

Here comes the 1st dude missing the point.

One playstyle is heavily gimped in a game where you are supposed to choose your own path.
I'm not saying your companions should kneel to your genocide episodes, i'm saying there should be more variety.

not only that, you have to be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid to team up with the antagonist anyway. the "evil" path was poorly done in this game

[deRuyter]

A better discussion would maybe be the lack of evil aligned party members compared to the neutral/good ones and how evil playtroughs will typically lock you out of 90% of a games content, meaning if you want to enjoy most of the content you really can't follow that path.

[Double]

I killed the hell out of her and took her armor for my rogue. Didn't even know she was a possible companion until I saw the loot bags in her inventory lol.

[Twyt]

Originally posted by Norbac:

Originally posted by RhodosGuard:

What? WEIRD how the lawful good characters just leave your party if you lead a goblin army to slaughter a camp of innocent refugees and a circle of druids.

Maybe if you like the lawful good characters, dont play an evil character.

Here comes the 1st dude missing the point.

One playstyle is heavily gimped in a game where you are supposed to choose your own path.
I'm not saying your companions should kneel to your genocide episodes, i'm saying there should be more variety.

It's funny how the same crowd screams about companions being evil and horrible people but then acts confused when the vast majority of the companions leave after real evil is committed. Not saying you are one of those people, but the cognitive dissonance on those forums is strong,

[ObsidianButterfly]

They did a really bad job with Minthara, honestly, and her possible recruitment should have been changed. It was very obvious she was never intended to be a companion, but they changed that at some point and never went back and fixed her recruitment.

What they should have done is, after you reduce her health to zero, a cut scene plays where she is weak enough that the Guardian is able to break the Absolute's hold on her. She realizes what has been happening and swears revenge on the Absolute and all those connected to it, then asks to join you in pursuit of this. At THAT point you should be given the option of taking her or killing her.

The way it is now is just terrible, honestly.