I stand corrected. I couldn't get the conversation to trigger before the Yurgir encounter/Raphael scene even with maxed out rep after the latest hotfix, so I guess it triggering before that was not intended. Which is ok for me as it is quite easy to max out his rep before you reach the shadow cursed lands if you are a more evilish character. I think having Raph's quest together with exceptional rep as a trigger is good because before the latest hotfix it triggered way too early in Act 2 for me.
Edit: The downside of a later trigger is of course that the chance is higher to trigger the post-Araj version which, as I said before, is not nearly as good because there is just one dialogue option where he tells you that he manipulated you at first and then happened to catch feelings for you. If you don't choose that option you're never getting that bit of information. And the "I care for you"-part seems to come a bit out of the blue. The whole convo does not flow naturally.
Last edited by Veranis; 11/10/23 04:59 AM.