How do you prevent Shadowheart to leave the group?

[nub]

How?

[Giganx]

Unfortunately if you didn't get the persuasion option it means your approval wasn't high enough, and it seems that if your approval isn't high enough when you get to the Nightsong she leaves for good.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Boss:

Kill her and she will be unable to leave, because she'll be dead. Then get a hireling to replace her. It'll have much better stats than her default stats, and it'll be much less annoying.

lol

though that way she surely still counts as departed

[Boss]

Hey, I'm a problem solver, not a details guy. I solved the problem presented to me, which is her doing the act of leaving. I don't care about semantics. You want that taken care of, call a semantictician

[nub]

Originally posted by Boss:

Kill her and she will be unable to leave, because she'll be dead. Then get a hireling to replace her. It'll have much better stats than her default stats, and it'll be much less annoying.

Wow how clever. So when I exit the place, Shadowheart won't be there to leave me?

Also if I beat Bathazar will Shadowheart not leave me?

[Sentient_Toaster]

I don't think I needed to pass any skill checks in that dialogue to keep her.

I had inquired about her before in conversations, but - never pushing things when she was holding back, and taking a neutral and curious attitude towards her beliefs rather than either implying that I shared them or rejected them as unacceptable. Her approval meter was... close to full, IIRC.

During the Nightsong conversation, my choices were trust Shadowheart followed by pointing out sparing the Nightsong might help Shadowheart learn about her own past that she'd been made to forget. Neither had a skill check attached.

[go fast, eat ass]

Originally posted by Boss:

Kill her and she will be unable to leave, because she'll be dead. Then get a hireling to replace her. It'll have much better stats than her default stats, and it'll be much less annoying.

Do not forget putting the body in a chest and carrying it with you till the rest of the game.

[go fast, eat ass]

Originally posted by nub:

Originally posted by Boss:

Kill her and she will be unable to leave, because she'll be dead. Then get a hireling to replace her. It'll have much better stats than her default stats, and it'll be much less annoying.

Wow how clever. So when I exit the place, Shadowheart won't be there to leave me?

Also if I beat Bathazar will Shadowheart not leave me?

For Shadowheart not to leave you you have to complete the trials, kill Balthazar and let her deal with Nightsong whatever way she wants.

[CtrlAltDelicious]

Originally posted by nub:

Originally posted by Boss:

Kill her and she will be unable to leave, because she'll be dead. Then get a hireling to replace her. It'll have much better stats than her default stats, and it'll be much less annoying.

Wow how clever. So when I exit the place, Shadowheart won't be there to leave me?

Also if I beat Bathazar will Shadowheart not leave me?

Kill Balthazar, yes. (if for no other reason than him being a freak of nature) Then when speaking to the Nightsong, just trust her. The Nightsong will mention something from her past, she will be too curious to kill her. You don't have to persuade her.
To gain approval with her, don't ask her to spill secrets shes not ready to. There isn't really a trick to Shadowheart. She likes it when you are mean to Lae'zel. Give her a Night Orchid in Act 2. Allow the Loviathar priest to punish you in Act 1.