Cannot recruit Morinth despite high Renegade score

[d.saffection]

Hello!

On my first playthrough I followed a Paragon approach for the most part, so now I've been replaying the game with a much stronger focus on Renegade (same goes for ME1). More importantly, though, I've been exploring many alternative choices, and the most interesting among them, for me, was choosing Morinth over Samara.

The option was available to me right away on my first playthrough, but this time, it never works. I've tried three times now (to a point where I know the entire loyalty quest by heart) and collected additional Renegade points in between, but I never get the final Paragon or Renegade conversation option which seems to be a prerequisite for the choice between the two. My Renegade score is almost full, and I've now completed every single damn quest in the entire game and only need to go through the Omega-6 relay, so there's really no way for me to acquire aditional Renegade points (except maybe through some overpriced DLC, but I'm not sure there are additional Renegade points to be gained from them). And even so, I can't help feeling something isn't working properly. Does anyone have an idea? Do you actually need the maximum possible Renegade score for this to work?

Cheers!

[Craftian]

After getting Morinth's interest with the appropriate topics at Afterlife, the option to resist her brainwashing should unlock the ability to recruit her. Then again, why would you want to? Even playing as a Renegade, Samara is a far more powerful and reliable companion.

[Valthejean]

Morinth is one of the biggest disappointments for me for ME3.

She doesn't even make an appearance...just a few letters and then a banshee soldier. What a let down...

[d.saffection]

I know Morinth's special power isn't as cool as Reave by far (and the thing with ME3, as well), but I'm just curious about the interaction with her, i.e. possible dialogues in her cabin and so on.

See, that's just the thing: I get neither the Paragon nor Renegade option to resist her even though I've chosen all the appropriate topics. Or is there some specific dialogue option I have to pick for it to work?

[ositodefelpa]

Take a look at this post - it may explain what is going on here:

https://forum.bioware.com/topic/120787-a-mass-effect-2-persuasion-guide-how-to-get-both-persuasion-options-everywhere-long/

Be quick, though, as I think they're taking this site down soon.

[d.saffection]

Thanks, this certainly explains the mechanics! Then it seems like I won't be getting Morinth in this playthrough no matter what I do and shouldn't waste any more time with it. Although I'd almost be willing to edit a savegame for that, but who knows, I may start a third playthrough in a couple of years and can recruit Morinth then...