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Oh God I'm struggling so much on Death March than I ever was on Blood and Broken Bones. It's not even the reduced XP from quests and generally being under leveled for just about anything, its the tedious fights 1v1 with say an ekimura who is 6 levels above me, who has a crapton of HP and barely gets grazed by my silver sword with oil on. I can dodge his attack patterns but if I hit him for 120-140 damage a swipe and he has well over 4K hp... well I'll be here for a while, long enough for Geralt's beard to grow back on. The spectres were on my level (7) and the goddamn ekimura guarding the griffin witcher set was 13. Lolwut? And then come the amount of creatures in the wild in general. Between 2 settlements I found 20 wolves roaming in 1 horde, in a nekker nest around 2 packs of 6-7 nekkers each and rotfiends or drowners just keep on spawning 2 by 2s seemingly infinitely. I have to get out of combat, wait for them to patrol a bit further out and rambo raid their nests. Only then can I finish cleaning shit up. I literally dodge more than I hit.
Can anyone recommend me a sword/alchemy build? For now I put 3 points in Axii for dialogue options and got to Refreshment (25% heal from any potion I use...) I'm still not sure if I want to upgrade quick attack or heavy attack. Both seem valid for now, but I do find myself using light attacks more I feel. If I want to go Ursine armor will that profit more from heavy swings or?
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On June 17 2016 23:24 Latham wrote: Oh God I'm struggling so much on Death March than I ever was on Blood and Broken Bones. It's not even the reduced XP from quests and generally being under leveled for just about anything, its the tedious fights 1v1 with say an ekimura who is 6 levels above me, who has a crapton of HP and barely gets grazed by my silver sword with oil on. I can dodge his attack patterns but if I hit him for 120-140 damage a swipe and he has well over 4K hp... well I'll be here for a while, long enough for Geralt's beard to grow back on. The spectres were on my level (7) and the goddamn ekimura guarding the griffin witcher set was 13. Lolwut? And then come the amount of creatures in the wild in general. Between 2 settlements I found 20 wolves roaming in 1 horde, in a nekker nest around 2 packs of 6-7 nekkers each and rotfiends or drowners just keep on spawning 2 by 2s seemingly infinitely. I have to get out of combat, wait for them to patrol a bit further out and rambo raid their nests. Only then can I finish cleaning shit up. I literally dodge more than I hit.
Can anyone recommend me a sword/alchemy build? For now I put 3 points in Axii for dialogue options and got to Refreshment (25% heal from any potion I use...) I'm still not sure if I want to upgrade quick attack or heavy attack. Both seem valid for now, but I do find myself using light attacks more I feel. If I want to go Ursine armor will that profit more from heavy swings or?
IIRC there's this thing where an opponent that's 5+ lvls higher than u gets bonus atk & def or something like that. How focused are u on quests in general compared to exploring?
Never tried it, but can u use the scaling option to make ur opponents to scale down (instead of the usual upscale) to your level?
I'd help with the other stuff if I could, but I've only stuck to Sword & Sign and Cat.
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On June 16 2016 17:02 Kipsate wrote: HoS on Death March some bosses are brutal, BW was easier in comparison for me. Yeah that was hard too when I started it up. Although I really did love the variety and how much they changed things up. Hardest for me was + Show Spoiler +Iris' worst fear. Granted he/they were swordwielders, they were also monsters so I didn't know u could parry that red powered up atk (from what I've been told). And I was using a 50/50 Sword/Sign build with Cat set, so quite squishy.
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use cat school technique and generally stack crit and crit damage, alchemy refreshment is a good start, probably want to get whirl or rend next. Then more attack things or alchemy, whatever floats your boat.
Thing is to get the crits going now.
use quen and the backstep, you should dodge almost everything and if something gets through, then quen absorbs it. Thats how i play at least, i guess you can also go heavy armor and stack HP and regen things, i just prefer the witcher 1 Geralt that dodges and whirls around like a mad man, its more in lore for me.
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Canada13378 Posts
I think I'm gonna do a not NG+ death march run based on everything i've read the scaling goes nutso if you death march on NG+ and you start at a high enough level.
I may also just wait to do that for when I get a new video card in a few months so I can play this game once through on the prettiest settings. I'm on medium with my 760 right now to get always over 60fps. Even high settings drop to closer to 30fps constant and it makes combat much harder when it feels so choppy without a 30fps cap.
I havent been playing ANY gwent so I missed cards in the novigrad quest line with triss at that party.
So for my next run I'll need to do the gwent collection but in this one im planning on completing all contracts and 2ndary quests
And I've found out that secondary quests don't actually do anything for your completion and I messed up the keira metz one long ago. RIP NG+ run I'll do a more concerted achievement hunt XD
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On June 21 2016 10:41 ZeromuS wrote: I think I'm gonna do a not NG+ death march run based on everything i've read the scaling goes nutso if you death march on NG+ and you start at a high enough level.
I may also just wait to do that for when I get a new video card in a few months so I can play this game once through on the prettiest settings. I'm on medium with my 760 right now to get always over 60fps. Even high settings drop to closer to 30fps constant and it makes combat much harder when it feels so choppy without a 30fps cap.
I havent been playing ANY gwent so I missed cards in the novigrad quest line with triss at that party.
So for my next run I'll need to do the gwent collection but in this one im planning on completing all contracts and 2ndary quests
And I've found out that secondary quests don't actually do anything for your completion and I messed up the keira metz one long ago. RIP NG+ run I'll do a more concerted achievement hunt XD What's your level? According to this you should start NG+ no later than 52.
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Canada13378 Posts
On June 21 2016 17:57 Xarles wrote:Show nested quote +On June 21 2016 10:41 ZeromuS wrote: I think I'm gonna do a not NG+ death march run based on everything i've read the scaling goes nutso if you death march on NG+ and you start at a high enough level.
I may also just wait to do that for when I get a new video card in a few months so I can play this game once through on the prettiest settings. I'm on medium with my 760 right now to get always over 60fps. Even high settings drop to closer to 30fps constant and it makes combat much harder when it feels so choppy without a 30fps cap.
I havent been playing ANY gwent so I missed cards in the novigrad quest line with triss at that party.
So for my next run I'll need to do the gwent collection but in this one im planning on completing all contracts and 2ndary quests
And I've found out that secondary quests don't actually do anything for your completion and I messed up the keira metz one long ago. RIP NG+ run I'll do a more concerted achievement hunt XD What's your level? According to www.reddit.com you should start NG+ no later than 52.
I don't think I'll hit 52? We shall see doing all the sidequests and main story I've just gotten to skellige and am level 25
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Netherlands45349 Posts
are you sure that 52 is not supposed to be a 32.
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On June 22 2016 02:04 Kipsate wrote: are you sure that 52 is not supposed to be a 32.
Might've been 32 before both Xpacks, but hell thats low. With both Heart of Stone and Blood & Wine coupled with the original game you might hit 50+. 52 would be ideal for sure because you'll want Aerondight before going to NG+ and afaik it's req. level to equip is 52 exactly. But you might have to grind out the last few levels?
I'm actually managing quite nicely now. Almost all wrapped up in Novigrad, can set sail to Skellige and I'm lv 19. Just doing some Cat Gear hunts now since that's most likely what I'll be using for the rest of the playthrough. Also damn Gwint... I dunno how to win with Milfgaard... I just feel their card draw (spies or those graveyard card guys) is just so poor. I'm sticking with Northern realms with Foltest Siegemaster.
edit: apparently I just don't have the spy cards and the 1-point archer medics, that's why my Northern deck feels better.
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IIRC the recommended lvl for HoS was either 30 or 32+. At the end of HoS I ended up at 38 I think, I just remember it being one level below the Viper gear level requirements, and BaW has plenty of quests in the lvl 40 range.
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Just finished it... Kinda botched the ending... Was also hoping some more bros like Dandelion would come to visit. Kinda sad for Gerald as well.. Seems like no matter how hard he tries he cant stop the world from slowly going to shit.
Cheers to Mr. Zapkowski and the CD Project Red team for creating one of the most memorable stories of our generation.
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so, just curious.
+ Show Spoiler +Who in their right mind would want to end up with Yennefer, the belittling heinous bitch?
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On June 22 2016 16:34 B.I.G. wrote: Just finished it... Kinda botched the ending... Was also hoping some more bros like Dandelion would come to visit. Kinda sad for Gerald as well.. Seems like no matter how hard he tries he cant stop the world from slowly going to shit.
Cheers to Mr. Zapkowski and the CD Project Red team for creating one of the most memorable stories of our generation.
It's "Sapkowski", not "Zapkowski"
And you should really read the books. They're good.
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On June 23 2016 17:33 GrandSmurf wrote:so, just curious. + Show Spoiler +Who in their right mind would want to end up with Yennefer, the belittling heinous bitch?
+ Show Spoiler +Well lets say it was actually me on Geralts place I probably wouldn't but having read the books Yen was the obvious choise for Geralt.
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On June 23 2016 17:45 Manit0u wrote:Show nested quote +On June 22 2016 16:34 B.I.G. wrote: Just finished it... Kinda botched the ending... Was also hoping some more bros like Dandelion would come to visit. Kinda sad for Gerald as well.. Seems like no matter how hard he tries he cant stop the world from slowly going to shit.
Cheers to Mr. Zapkowski and the CD Project Red team for creating one of the most memorable stories of our generation. It's "Sapkowski", not "Zapkowski" And you should really read the books. They're good. Already read some of them.
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On June 23 2016 19:31 Vaelone wrote:Show nested quote +On June 23 2016 17:33 GrandSmurf wrote:so, just curious. + Show Spoiler +Who in their right mind would want to end up with Yennefer, the belittling heinous bitch? + Show Spoiler +Well lets say it was actually me on Geralts place I probably wouldn't but having read the books Yen was the obvious choise for Geralt.
+ Show Spoiler + That is it indeed. If you only know her from the game(s), yeah she mistreats him badly and is aloof/cold, but if you have read the books you'd know what they've been through together and you'd know the bonds they share (not just because of the Djinn). Triss in the books behaves differently from what you see in game too. She is in love with Geralt from the books-time, but let's just say she wasn't opposed to the idea of doing something horrible to Ciri when she was a child while Yen did try to shelter and defend Ciri at the time. Triss also takes advantage of Geralt and uses his amnesia you see in the 1st game to jump into his pants and used magic on him in the books to get him to shag. Basically as always the books provide a more in-depth perception of the characters, a more rounded point of view. In the books neither Triss nor Yen are without blame in one way or another. But in the books the focus is clearly on Yen Geralt and Ciri with Triss in the background, while in the PC games Triss takes the lead role and Yen for the most part is in the background.
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Hong Kong9144 Posts
this is my experience thus far
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So my new playthrough has me using a very heavy Sign Intensity build with a Focus on Igni and Quen with a minor focus in Combat.
A few thoughts with the expansion packs installed. Gourmet is INSANELY overpowered on Death March where you can't passively restore Vitality through meditating. It saves you so much gold on food and alcohol replenishing Swallow that it isn't funny.
Secondly, sign intensity builds in general just seem way more powerful than anything focused on combat. Aard and Igni make dispatching groups of humans or swarming monsters a breeze, and Igni with extra sign intensity makes taking down more difficult monsters like Leshens and Vampires a breeze since they're vulnerable to it, to say nothing of what it does to fucking Drowners and Water Hags.....
I've actually been struggling not to outlevel the main quests and make them trivial with all the side questing I've been doing. It's really easy now that I know what I'm doing, but hopefully the later quests make up for it. Still haven't seen what either of the expansions have to offer yet still working up to them.
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I used a heavy sign build on my 1st playthrough, on Blood and Broken Bones. It made the game laughably easy. Plus there is the fact that green/blue mutagens are about 20x more common than red ones. You can hit around 380% by the end of vanilla game, I think I had 384% Igni melted everything except Imlareth. Hilarious part was I melted a high level Fire Golem with my Igni which for some reason does not have immunity to fire? Only succubi do as far as I know, but in the vanilla game you find exactly 2 and don't have to kill either.
I'm currently wasting my time on Skellage because I got there on lv 19 and the quests and mobs mostly range from 13- 15 on Ard Skellige. So for 15 minutes of me running around doing quests I get 1-5 XP points... this is probably the part I hate the most about this game. Underleveled for the quest but you did it? 3-5XP + downgraded relic sword. Overleveled? waste of time + 3-5XP.
Btw I just had a pretty awesome experience during my 2nd playthrough in Skellige + Show Spoiler [Quest to kill the Penient Wraith near…] + You know the 2 pricks that tell you to sod off in the tavern where the guy who posted the witcher contract is? In my 1st playthrough I played Mr. Nice Guy and didn't stir up any trouble. This time however I fuck em up, killed em, went to jail and got Blackmailed by Madman Lugos into helping his son in the cave of dreams. I had no idea this quest existed, I usually only help Crah's son and daughter (who I nominate for Queen). Pretty cool stuff.
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Messed around with all sorts of builds about a month back, when I had to replay the game since I lost all my previous saves. Sign build Igni was melting everything, but then I ran into some Wraiths and I could not scratch them. I stacked all the sign intensity I could, but Igni and alternate Yrden just tickled. Heck, even the Igni initial damage tickled, it was the burns that did all the work.
Also I remember in the early versions Igni would set pretty much any enemy on fire, even if they were 20+ levels above you. Now it just didn't anymore .
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