Baldur’s Gate 3 Player Discovers Third Way Of Recruiting Minthara

Summary

A Baldur’s Gate 3 player discovered a third way of recruiting Minthara to the party.
It’s possible to defeat Ketheric before Minthara is imprisoned, while keeping her alive during the combat.
By cleverly handling the fight and interactions, players can recruit Minthara under unique circumstances in the game.

Baldur’s Gate 3’s eighth and final patch has been released, meaning this version of the game is the one players will be picking apart in the decades to come. Baldur’s Gate 3 is so popular that enterprising players have already discovered almost everything you can find in the behemoth role-playing game.

However, something we’ve learned from similarly popular role-playing games is that there’s always something more to find. In this case, Soft_Stage_446 has discovered an alternate method of recruiting Minthara to the party.

The Path of Most Resistance

The two most common methods of recruiting Minthara are similar. The first is achieved by following Minthara’s orders to invade the Emerald Grove. Predictably, this choice isn’t the most popular because players are forced to kill all the tieflings, a group that includes several beloved characters. After celebrating the gruesome scene, you then encounter Minthara in the process of being sentenced by Ketheric Thorm at Moonrise Towers in Act 2. You’ll then have to break Minthara out of Moonrise Towers Prison to recruit her to the party.

The second method is similar, except instead of raiding the Emerald Grove, you can just knock Minthara out at the Goblin Camp. She’ll still wind up in Moonrise Towers in the same situation, allowing you to recruit her here if you wish.

The third method works with either of these starting points. While Ketheric is sentencing Minthara, the player can interject and provoke the assembled horde of enemies into combat. The ensuing fight is very difficult, especially if you want to protect an unarmed, unarmoured Minthara from an untimely death. The drow doesn’t make it easy for you either, often charging head-first into the fight’s strongest enemies.

However, with clever manipulation of Baldur’s Gate 3’s aggro mechanics, as Soft_Stage_446 masterfully demonstrates, you can emerge victorious in this fight with Minthara intact. The subsequent interaction plays out similarly to rescuing her from prison, except with the occasional missing dialogue and strange interaction.

As with the aforementioned “knocking out” strategy that allows you to have both Halsin and Minthara, interactions between Halsin and Minthara using this method are also strange and not quite intentional.

So, if anyone fancies defeating Ketheric while simultaneously protecting a suicidal paladin, you now know it’s possible. Best of luck.