To cut a long story short I quit playing this game after patch 1 as there was no way for me to achieve the story direction I wanted i.e. helping the tieflings in Act 1 while keeping Minthara alive. For me it makes no sense to have to kill her from an RP perspective as I can think of many reasonable ways of treading the middle ground.

But I keep seeing articles popping up saying it is possible to achieve this in an unmodded game. Recently one such article said you could knock her out non-lethally at the goblins vs grove encounter.

I'm wondering if anyone has tried doing that recently and can confirm it works or if anyone's found another way of achieving the same outcome without mods?