Is Minthara Worth Recruiting In Baldur's Gate 3?
doesn't offer a lot of rewards for choosing to run a morally evil playthrough. However, Larian Studios has helped remedy that to an extent through patches and hotfixes, which have put content involving Minthara that ended up not working back into the game properly by fixing the triggers. But there are still big downsides to recruiting Minthara despite those fixes that leave whether she's worth recruiting lingering.
[Warning: The following article contains spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3]
At release, bugs prevented hundreds of lines of dialogue Minthara from triggering when she was recruited as a party member, making her a lackluster companion. Considering the sacrifices required to recruit her, these bugs made it generally not worthwhile to take the evil route. Although these bugs have been mostly fixed, that might not necessarily mean Minthara is now worth recruiting.
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The standard way to recruit Minthara is by siding with the Goblins in Act 1, participating in the attack on Emerald Grove, and killing the Druids and Tiefling Refugees. This means that Halsin is removed from being an option to recruit to the party since he's on the opposing side, and Halsin and Minthara are meant to be exclusive so that both can't be recruited in the same playthrough. As such, using mods or workarounds often results in Halsin and Minthara glitching and their spots at camp overlapping because one or the other is meant to be there, not both.
The recruitment consequences line up with the pros and cons of romancing Minthara in , which makes sense considering romancing her means committing to helping the Goblins against the Druids in the name of the Absolute. The
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