Originally Posted by Sniffinc
Originally Posted by Waez
Minthara

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I could never side with the gobbos, and knocking her uncon just to pick her up later is a little too meta for me.

I'm seeing a lot of people pointing this out. There's definitely no reason for most good characters to recruit her, only non-lethal extremists and evil characters have any logical reason to save her. It would be nice if she had some kind of protected status that prevents her from being killed before act 2, so more people could have the experience of an openly evil person helping to save the world lol.

Originally Posted by Waez
Minsc
Bro Minsc, loved this guy ever since BG1 and I think he was introduced to BG3 in a great manner. Not much of an arc to him since he is introduced so late though. They just buggered his game stats up royally - Minsc does NOT have 12 strength. In BG1 he was a brutal berserker, in BG3 he is defaulted to an archer. If you want to make him seem more like himself in play you need to respec him, that's a huge miss on Larian's part.

Yeah, I have always thought that was a baffling choice. Granted the default stat distributions all have multiple odd-numbered choices that functionally waste points, but his stats are exceptionally bizarre. I keep wanting to handwave it away but I can't even imagine a reason to do that. And it's such a simple fix, too!

The reason is that when Minsc was created barbarian was a subclass of ranger and Minsc clearly was designed for the barbarian subclass.

But people associate Minsc with being a ranger and Larian didn't spend any effort on Minsc and thus made him a generic ranger and slapped the default ranger stats on him which by now changed to a pur archer or dexterity weapon build as barbarian was made into its own class.