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I'm curious. Based on what you've seen of the various companions so far, which do you find so unbearable/annoying/awful that they won't survive very long around you for your first playthrough? Personally I dislike Astarion and if hirelings are fully customizable and thus an option, he's being replaced ASAP. I don't think he's badly written, quite the opposite, I just find foppish snobs very annoying.

Which companion will you dispose of? multiple choice
	Gale
	Shadowheart
	Lae'zel
	Wyll
	Astarion
	Karlach
	Jaheira
	Minthara
	Halsin
	Minsc
	AND THE RIVERS RUN RED! (they all have to go)
Votes accepted starting: 22/07/23 10:51 PM
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None! My goodness.

You monsters.

Wyll and Halsin for goners for sure. I'll still recruit Wyll at first just to gain some power or benefits for sacrificing him later. But Halsin, nah, he dies with the druids because I want to recruit Minthara later.

On my first run, I'll take everyone except Minthara - who is never coming along, ever, and since I assume there's no way to spare her, she'll end up dead. I'll probably turn away some of the other companions on my next runs (Lae'zel, Shadowheart, possibly Astarion). Never gonna kill them, though, that seems... extreme.

Yeah I'll sadly probably never get to recruit Minthara either due to how she wants to handle the druid grove. I assume that by necessity either she or Halsin will always bite the dust. But I'm sure there's people who dislike them for whatever reason and would snuff them out regardless, so on the poll they go!

Unfortunately for Minthara from all indications is mutually exclusive with Halsin, Jaheria, and Minsc at a minimum. That probably puts her out as an option for a great many player's parties.

Indeed. (Edit: Though I hadn't really thought this through. Since almost certainly one or the other of Minthara/Halsin dies by hand in any given playthrough, I ticked both those boxes. Event though I figure I'll have at least one Durge playthrough where everyone dies, I don't think that counts enough to tick every box.)

I expect Minthara will be joining most of my playthroughs. I very much look forward to her story more than any other companion really. And I don't really care that much for the druids or Haslin at all.

All of them. I'm creating my own characters in MP.

Minthara is going to get alpha striked on all of my playthroughs. Unless they added a way to talk her out of following the absolute at the goblin base, which I doubt.

Even on my evil playthroughs shes probably going to get alpha striked.i kind of fail to see why anyone going down the evil path would want to recruit her at this point other than meta reason that she's a hot drow.

I'd kill all of them for a single short companion, preferably a dwarf female though I'll settle for Helia :^)

Minthara becomes quite vulnerable to the player character after aiding her against the druids and the tieflings. So you will probably be able to talk her out of or into a bunch of things later.

Astarion. Everything about him is annoying, even his appearance.

And it is very good - means the character is actually done well and some people will absolutely love him.

Also, my first character is wiping the grove, so Halsin won’t make it as well.

I can't stand Gale

I've always liked the drow characters in the CRPGs thus far. BG1 and 2 in particular, and Viconia quite spesifically, but HotU also had some good ones. I'm just assuming Minthara is also the fun kind of evil elf. Though like I said, I'll never know most likely.

I suppose that is another aspect. For A noble from the first house of the Drow city of Menzoberranzan, that scene is a pretty big display of weakness that would be pretty contemptable if you are playing a more traditional drow. I mean, if the 'heretic' part wasn't already a turn off.

Gale is definitely high on the list of sacrificial lambs should they be needed just because of how he betrayed Mystra. But his story is somewhat compelling as he used to be an extremely powerful archmage and there are probably interesting things that can be done with the Netherese Destruction Orb after we extract it from him. His story might lead to powerful items and artifacts and if need be you can probably off him during or after the end of his quest.

Yeah but I'm not going to slaughter 50 people for her if I'm good, and she seems too incompetent to take as an underling if I'm evil. I'd rather just take Halsin on my evil runs.More power to you friend, but for me, she's just too incompetent, she let's the goblins party and get drunk when they should be hunting down the artifact.
I already found her to be a bit of a fool with what a mess the goblin camp was but that scene put it over the edge for me. My evil tavs will probably walk right into moonrise with her blood proudly on their hands while telling Kethrick I'm his new apprentice now.

yes Gale is not someone i trust at all and Wyll has a pact with evil herself so she says kill Tav and he has to do it [like hello]

Actually he doesn't. From the press footage fextra life gave us we see Wyll still has free will, he just gets punished if he disobeys.

Also I'm really excited to see how early I can kill Mizora.