Getting Minthara as companion by knocking out

[slquoue]

What are the precise conditions to achieve this? I read you should deal with her before Razglin. Would she be the first of the three bosses you'd deal with in the Goblin Camp?

[Metallicus]

She only needs to be dealt with before Dror Ragzlin and before anyone hits the warning drum. She also needs to be Temporarily Hostile. The best way to create this condition is to steal something in her presence. Make sure you use only melee with non-lethal combat toggle. I usually keep the non-lethal toggle on Lae'zel's hotbar so I can be reminded if I see it on and turn it back off if I forgot.

[alanc9]

I have seen reports that Temporarily Hostile isn't a requirement anymore. I take it those are inaccurate?

[TaKo]

knock her out with non-lethal melee attacks, and defeat the other 2 goblin leaders

order shouldnt matter but make back ups just in case

if you made sure to not have killed her when you get the quet-log update for having defeated all the goblin leaders you should be golden short of any bugs happening

[LordNibbler]

Here's a guide with the exact steps. (I used it as reference and it did work as intended)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3110543554&searchtext=minthara

[AokiYakumo]

Originally posted by slquoue:

What are the precise conditions to achieve this? I read you should deal with her before Razglin. Would she be the first of the three bosses you'd deal with in the Goblin Camp?

You need to knock her out before her faction tag flips (Usually as a result of killing Ragzlin, which is why you deal with her before him) and she registers you as a full-on opponent. Easiest way to do this is to have Shovel start a surprise round with Lae'Zel & Karlach within smacking distance, have Gale on hand to pop the eyeball, and have your Tav break the drum in the room. You should have 2 turns to deplete her 67 HP with nonlethal attacks turned on (hence why we picked Mama K & Lae for the beatdown) which should be plenty to do the trick.

After that, you HAVE to clear the Goblin Camp of Dror Ragzlin and Priestess Gut before your next Long Rest, else you'll have to beat her down all over again. If you want to do anything additional past that point, do it during the same adventure day as you would for knocking her out (buying items from Roah, slaughtering the rest of the camp, finding the entrance to the Underdark, rescuing Halsin, etc.).

That's really it, honestly. Hope this helps.

[Estevan Valladares]

Doing this is easy, and people still forgetting to tell that if you dont do the "warning thing" it is pretty much the hard way and has a much bigger probability of not working.

But anyways, you need to remember that if you do this, you are locking yourself out of a chunk of content. While some might not "care", I guess most do not even know you are.

Like someone says around Reddit: "Getting Minthara as a companion this way is 100% worth the very dumb 'RP chain of events cost' Larian is letting us pay here."

[lord_faust69]

Didn't a recent update make it so you can knock her out during the druid grove raid?

[seeker1]

Yes. But to me if you're not going to go through with the raid, it's just a lot of extra steps.

I always knock her out in camp.

[AokiYakumo]

Originally posted by lord_faust69:

Didn't a recent update make it so you can knock her out during the druid grove raid?

Yes but that is MUCH harder than it looks, because you need to do that while fighting like 20 adds, and you have at least 4 uncontrolled allies who WILL TAKE POTSHOTS at her.

I tried like 5 times to trigger the knockout during the raid. First 3 I ended up wiping because I never did the raid before. other 2 times I managed to clear the raid but one time Minthy got neck-swiped by Arka's crossbow bolt and the other she got geeked by an errant explosion.

It is just so much easier to get the KO in the camp where you only have to worry about her and like 4 goons. That's even with the fact you have to clear Gut and Ragzlin before the next long rest.