Am I right in thinking you can't recruit Minsc unless Jaheira survives Moonrise ?

[Element UK]

I'm assuming Jaheira needs to be at the bank when first meeting Minsc. Just a shame she always dumbly charges in and gets killed. Any mystery as to how to save her ?

[Willow Rivers]

kill as many cultits in the tower you can before going after nightsong to make the battle easier not as many enmies.

Heal her use sanctuary on her, etc. Use crowd control spells on the enemies to keep them from attacking, etc.

[seeker1]

Have Jaheira join your party (at least initially, as only an NPC). Then you can control her and "save" her from the game's terrible AI.

I do believe you do need her to recruit Minsc, yeah.

[Hobocop]

You can recruit her as a controllable ally during the siege.

[Element UK]

Thanks, just so darn hard to keep her from killing herself. No idea how she is supposed to have survived over 100 yrs with those tactics lol

[[TG] zac]

Fog cloud, darkness other spells that block line of sight can help a ton.

As does mass aoe nukes followed by upcasting hold person to lock down whoever is left standing.

As one person above said having her join the party also makes it work.

Conversely there is also an option to sneak into the towers at which point you can cause "accidents" for a number of the inhabitants or assassinate a number before drawing attention.

[Brian_the_Brute]

"real" Jaheira doesn't need to be at the bank or where you find Minsc, just needs to at least be alive and at camp. You need to switch to non-lethal and use a melee attack to bring Minsc down, other attacks can easily kill him instead.

At moonrise you can cast sanctuary on Jaheira or just keep tabs on her health and cast healing word as needed.

I just ran through that encounter and used Shart's mass heal a couple of times which works on my squad + all the Harpers and had the whispering promise ring to grant extra 10HP to everyone as well and that kept (most) everyone alive.

[Brian_the_Brute]

There's a "mod" for you to resurrect Jaheira and fix your game possibly. It's just a text file with SE commands, but the mod gives some directions:

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/9277



Osi.DB_Dead:Delete("S_Player_Jaheira_91b6b200-7d00-4d62-8dc9-99e8339dfa1a")
Osi.DB_PermaDefeated:Delete("S_Player_Jaheira_91b6b200-7d00-4d62-8dc9-99e8339dfa1a")
Osi.DB_PreventPermaDefeated("S_Player_Jaheira_91b6b200-7d00-4d62-8dc9-99e8339dfa1a")
Osi.RemoveStatus("S_Player_Jaheira_91b6b200-7d00-4d62-8dc9-99e8339dfa1a", "KNOCKED_OUT")
Osi.RemoveHarmfulStatuses("S_Player_Jaheira_91b6b200-7d00-4d62-8dc9-99e8339dfa1a")
Osi.SetHitpointsPercentage("S_Player_Jaheira_91b6b200-7d00-4d62-8dc9-99e8339dfa1a", 100)
Osi.PROC_CharacterFullRestore("S_Player_Jaheira_91b6b200-7d00-4d62-8dc9-99e8339dfa1a")

[AokiYakumo]

Originally posted by Element UK:

I'm assuming Jaheira needs to be at the bank when first meeting Minsc. Just a shame she always dumbly charges in and gets killed. Any mystery as to how to save her ?

1) You need Jaheira alive, but she DOESN'T need to be involved in the Guild quest save for the initial discussion with NFK. All that matters past that point is Minsc not dying and you keeping the mindflayer from being a shut-in lookin ahh little bih.

2) Easiest way to protect Jaheira in Moonrise, full-stop dead-ass, is to ask her to fight alongside you. She'll join your party as a temporary PC at this stage, which you can take advantage of by playing Jaheira as Jaheira does. I can reliably keep her safe with a well-timed Sleet Storm most of the time (the Zealots which are the problem children here have sh*t DEX), but it does mean doing a frontal assault with a full party AND laser-focusing Z'Rell and the acolytes before the Fists/Harpers make their moves.