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Whirl and Rend are both so absurdly powerful techniques, and each one just as valid. Whirls fucks up groups pretty hard, while Rend just devastates single targets, especially if you lob a Northern Wind bomb at them and can charge up rend. And when you add Severance runeword? Holy McFuck Balls. I've put severance on my mastercrafted ursine swords for now, as I'm 36 and doing Heart of Stone. Didn't yet get the chance to nab Belhaven and Aerondight in B&W.
Also: The Caretaker + Show Spoiler [rant] + What a fucking ridiculous clown of a boss. Disgusting piece of shit not only heals per swing but the fucking souls he summons to eat up and heal himself... beyond infuriating. Took me 20 minutes and fucking 4 decoctions and 5 thunderbolts + 4 swallows. It's not about his moveset, not that he steals life on hit from you, but about how much of the bar the fucking cunt gets back from the souls he summons. You cannot kill all the souls possibly, you cannot stagger him to not consume them and you have to get lucky for them to spawn far out, spread and out damage his heals. What a fucking PRICK of a boss. It felt so cheap and I felt so cheated. This fight was by far worse than any Dark Souls boss. EVER. He's a cheap little shitty gimmicky boss that heals from 1/3rd to full in the span of 3 souls on Death March. Holy Fuck.
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Finally finished Blood and Wine. The last boss fight is hard in a stupid way on Death March.
+ Show Spoiler +The Swarm of Bats he attacks with in the air has a very specific timing for how it has to be dodged, and was one shotting me even with a full Quen shield. At first I tried reloading to an older save so I can finish the Grandmaster Griffin set hoping I could mitigate enough of it to survive a hit and keep fighting, didn't work. It HAS to be dodged. Fortunately there's at least one video on youtube that shows the exact timing. Once I saw it, the rest of the fight was relatively easy.
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On June 30 2016 01:32 Latham wrote:Whirl and Rend are both so absurdly powerful techniques, and each one just as valid. Whirls fucks up groups pretty hard, while Rend just devastates single targets, especially if you lob a Northern Wind bomb at them and can charge up rend. And when you add Severance runeword? Holy McFuck Balls. I've put severance on my mastercrafted ursine swords for now, as I'm 36 and doing Heart of Stone. Didn't yet get the chance to nab Belhaven and Aerondight in B&W. Also: The Caretaker + Show Spoiler [rant] + What a fucking ridiculous clown of a boss. Disgusting piece of shit not only heals per swing but the fucking souls he summons to eat up and heal himself... beyond infuriating. Took me 20 minutes and fucking 4 decoctions and 5 thunderbolts + 4 swallows. It's not about his moveset, not that he steals life on hit from you, but about how much of the bar the fucking cunt gets back from the souls he summons. You cannot kill all the souls possibly, you cannot stagger him to not consume them and you have to get lucky for them to spawn far out, spread and out damage his heals. What a fucking PRICK of a boss. It felt so cheap and I felt so cheated. This fight was by far worse than any Dark Souls boss. EVER. He's a cheap little shitty gimmicky boss that heals from 1/3rd to full in the span of 3 souls on Death March. Holy Fuck.
Concerning Caretaker
+ Show Spoiler +The fight is designed to take a while, but he's not really threatening. Once you figure out his pattern of attacking, you can unload a lot of damage into him before retreating back to deal with the souls he summons.
I built for sign intensity and I found I got more damage in on his vulnerable phases with Igni's flamethrower than I did with my sword.
The fight takes a while but it isn't difficult at all. His shit is really easy to avoid.
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+ Show Spoiler [caretaker] +Never claimed his moveset is hard to dodge or to predict, the infuriating part is him negating 10 minutes of my hard work in the span of 1 soul harvest. I can easily dodge in and out of his swipes with the shovel, I can dodge his charge attack, I know how many times I can hit him and dodge the group-eruption AoE he does. But when he is at 1/3rd HP and 2-3 souls spawn on top of him and he heals back to almost full I get my jimmies rustled hard. His moveset is not different from any archgriffin, forktail or even water hag. He leaves huge openings and telegraphs his attacks but none of these monsters have cheap mechanics that restore them to almost full health in 3-4 swipes. Maybe he heals for less below Death March. Wouldn't be the first time the game's difficulty gets artificially boosted on DM.
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On July 05 2016 23:46 Latham wrote:+ Show Spoiler [caretaker] +Never claimed his moveset is hard to dodge or to predict, the infuriating part is him negating 10 minutes of my hard work in the span of 1 soul harvest. I can easily dodge in and out of his swipes with the shovel, I can dodge his charge attack, I know how many times I can hit him and dodge the group-eruption AoE he does. But when he is at 1/3rd HP and 2-3 souls spawn on top of him and he heals back to almost full I get my jimmies rustled hard. His moveset is not different from any archgriffin, forktail or even water hag. He leaves huge openings and telegraphs his attacks but none of these monsters have cheap mechanics that restore them to almost full health in 3-4 swipes. Maybe he heals for less below Death March. Wouldn't be the first time the game's difficulty gets artificially boosted on DM.
+ Show Spoiler +I dunno, I didn't find him to be that hard on death march. Granted, I died the first time or two I met him but once I got the rhythm down it wasn't that bad, I had way more issue with the frog prince before I figured him out. There's quite a few opportunities to rend when he's vulnerable to unload a shit ton of damage. The rest is just rolling around to kill the spirits before he eats too many.
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Just finished Blood and Wine, Hearts of Stone was pretty good but this was fantastic.
On July 05 2016 22:06 Vindicare605 wrote:Finally finished Blood and Wine. The last boss fight is hard in a stupid way on Death March. + Show Spoiler +The Swarm of Bats he attacks with in the air has a very specific timing for how it has to be dodged, and was one shotting me even with a full Quen shield. At first I tried reloading to an older save so I can finish the Grandmaster Griffin set hoping I could mitigate enough of it to survive a hit and keep fighting, didn't work. It HAS to be dodged. Fortunately there's at least one video on youtube that shows the exact timing. Once I saw it, the rest of the fight was relatively easy.
That attack instagibbed me on Blood and Broken Bones on my first try, then I just avoided it by spamrolling, might have gotten lucky but it didnt hit me again. I had a total glass cannon sword build, loved the damage I was doing in the end, ~+200% from Euphoria etc.
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So, I am just trying this game. And I have to ask.. was the movement clunky/weird to anyone else? Is this just something I have to get used to? Did it not bother anyone else?
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On August 06 2016 22:51 travis wrote: So, I am just trying this game. And I have to ask.. was the movement clunky/weird to anyone else? Is this just something I have to get used to? Did it not bother anyone else?
Thought the exact same thing at first, told my friend who made me buy the game that i wasn't a fan of the combat, then half a dozen hours later i started loving it. It's just a matter of getting used to it yes.
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On August 06 2016 22:51 travis wrote: So, I am just trying this game. And I have to ask.. was the movement clunky/weird to anyone else? Is this just something I have to get used to? Did it not bother anyone else? yea the movement are one of the downside of the witcher
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On August 06 2016 22:51 travis wrote: So, I am just trying this game. And I have to ask.. was the movement clunky/weird to anyone else? Is this just something I have to get used to? Did it not bother anyone else?
Go to gameplay options. And change (movement i think) from standard.
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On July 05 2016 22:06 Vindicare605 wrote:Finally finished Blood and Wine. The last boss fight is hard in a stupid way on Death March. + Show Spoiler +The Swarm of Bats he attacks with in the air has a very specific timing for how it has to be dodged, and was one shotting me even with a full Quen shield. At first I tried reloading to an older save so I can finish the Grandmaster Griffin set hoping I could mitigate enough of it to survive a hit and keep fighting, didn't work. It HAS to be dodged. Fortunately there's at least one video on youtube that shows the exact timing. Once I saw it, the rest of the fight was relatively easy. + Show Spoiler +I did die a couple of times but not nearly as much as when I was up against Imlerith. Although I think it was just me trying to win via trying out various abilities to beat Imlerith instead of just learning his attack pattern. At least for me, all I really did vs Detlaff was to run as far away as possible. Sometimes he completely ditches attacking with bats, most times it just makes timing the dodge a lot easier since he's so far away. But yeah the second is the only threat, his other forms were a joke.
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Ending spoilers. No expansion pack. + Show Spoiler + I got the ending where Ciri ends up being a witcher.
I was quite emotionally invested in the end, having thought she had died. I thought the ending was a perfect bittersweet ending. Everything from the character interactions, to the lighting, to the down-tempo music made for a very melancholy environment.
Which is why I was kind of disappointed in how Ciri's survival was handled. There was no explanation at all. It was just classic hollywood 'and the good guy survives no matter what even if it's dumb.' Had she died for good I would have rated the ending 10/10, or if her survival was explained a 9/10. The no explanation survival took artistic perfection and ruined it.
Overall the Witcher 3 was an awesome game. 35 hours for me to complete, with very immersive stories. I recommend it to anyone.
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Witcher III GOTY edition 60% off now on steam in case anyone is interested.
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I'd suggest getting it on gog instead. Steam is ok, but gog generally has far more customer friendly policies. Same price of course.
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Buying it on GOG has the added benefit of CD Projekt keeping all the money for themselves.
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+ Show Spoiler +fucking shitty princess doesnt believe me and her guard doesnt do jackshit either dumbest death ever
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Surely Steam deserves at least a little bit of money for providing the platform and marketing to studios such as CD Prokjekt Red?
On that note, does anyone happen to have some knowledge on how platforms such as Steam and GOG earn? Would be interested to learn a bit more about how the money flows in this industry.
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Sure, steam deserves some money from the games on steam, and generally speaking steam is not the worst, it is definitively an okay platform.
However, gog is simply a lot more customer friendly. No DRM, meaning i can freely share my games with my girlfriend as opposed to steams "only one of you can play at the same time" policy (Which is still nice enough and can be circumvented if you really want to). Gog also has a 30 days refund policy, which i suspect is one of the reasons steam actually started having a money back thingy too. Those kind of business decisions should be supported, especially if everything else is equal. Which it is in this case. If i get the same game at the same price at gog vs steam, i will choose gog. If something else speaks for steam, i might choose steam instead (I do have a gigantic steam library)
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