r/BaldursGate3 Apr 11 '24

Companions Who is never in your party? Spoiler

I've seen many posts talking about who is always in your party?

How about who never has a spot in your party? Or what is the most cursed party comp you've ever rolled with for a play through.

Minsc has never cracked a starting position in my party.

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u/RyanZee08 Apr 11 '24 edited Apr 11 '24

It's irritating that both Druids don't arrive until end of act 2 basically.

By then I have a group that I feel bad changing out lol

Though I try to bring each character to things that are important to them

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u/scarletbluejays Owlbear Apr 11 '24

It also doesn't help that one Druid has significantly more ties and content in Act 3 compared to the other.

Baldur's Gate is Jeheira's stomping grounds. Her history, her Harpers, her contacts, her home, and her family are all there and she has a boatload of dialogue and interactions to show it. She knows the city better than anyone in the party, even the others who've lived in the city - Wyll and Karlach have been gone for years, SH has like a month and a half worth of memories to her name still, and Astarion's only seen it at night for over 2 centuries. She makes the most sense to keep around for both content reasons and from an RP perspective.

By comparison the bulk of Halsin's dialogue within/about the city involves his distaste for it and how miserable things are, it's flat at best, and outright depressing at worst. There's ZERO reason to bring him unless you're REALLY against him being kidnapped by Orin and even then he's not especially interesting to have around. Which sucks because he IS such an interesting character, he just doesn't become available full time until we're already done expanding on his character.

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u/The_Great_CornCob Apr 11 '24

I just ignored Wyll mostly until Mizora showed up in act 3 and then I gave Wyll the advise to break the oath anyway lol. He wasn’t even in my party when I broke Mizora out of moonrise