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After refunding Crimson Desert I had an itch to play open worldish rpg so I reinstalled Witcher 3. I forgot how much fun the game is. I am playing on death march difficulty. It's not super difficult thanks to quen sign but some fights where you are outnumbered can get really annoying. I am currently investing a bit into sword but will commit into heavily into alchemy after few levels because I always do sword/sign and ignore the potion related skills.
Any tips on alchemy Geralt? I am guessing I should focus on toxicity tolerance so I can chug more potions in the future when I have more of them available.
 
hawkisnight said:
After refunding Crimson Desert I had an itch to play open worldish rpg so I reinstalled Witcher 3. I forgot how much fun the game is. I am playing on death march difficulty. It's not super difficult thanks to quen sign but some fights where you are outnumbered can get really annoying. I am currently investing a bit into sword but will commit into heavily into alchemy after few levels because I always do sword/sign and ignore the potion related skills.
Any tips on alchemy Geralt? I am guessing I should focus on toxicity tolerance so I can chug more potions in the future when I have more of them available.
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I forget what specific perks are involved but alchemy Geralt can crit like 100% of the time with the right build.

That's what I used on sneed march difficulty.
 
I used this video before that goes through the best builds based on each Witcher school armor. I think the Cat School build is the one that uses alchemy to get full crit, I'm not sure if it's completely covered in this video or if I got it in one specifically for cat build but it will give you a start on what to set up. The last time I played I was using the Bear School build that was fun, this reminds me I need to go back and finish my Death March playthrough.

 
I remember alchemy being disgustingly OP once you had enough point invested into it and upgraded all potions. By the end, i was killing monsters ten levels above me on death march.
 
I was always of the opinion that Witcher 3 should have switched its genre from Action RPG to Action Adventure.

Geralt got his memories restored at the ending of Witcher 2 and what we play in Witcher 3 is book Geralt with over 100 years of experience.
A progression system and MMO-esque lvl areas only distract from the game feel and immersion.
Geralt should be fully decked out and enemies should have static stats according to their species.

The game would lean more into the Monster Hunter formula of:
Macro decisions -> preparations with alchemy, bombs and traps.
Micro decisions -> Hack'n'Slash combat with all techniques and signs.

Of course, I never got that, but I used the following two mods back then and had far more fun than with vanilla:
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/992
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/750
 
Gravityqueen4life said:
I remember alchemy being disgustingly OP once you had enough point invested into it and upgraded all potions. By the end, i was killing monsters ten levels above me on death march.
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One of my biggest gripes with the game is that it's incredible easy, even on Death March, once you figure out their system.
You level too fast, you make too much money and the gear is too good.
I purposely used the White Orchard viper swords and gear you start with until level 16, just to feel challenged.
This was at release, so I doubt they changed much.

So, since I don't like gimping myself and came to terms with how the game is, in my new run I'm doing now I'm just doing fun meme builds.
Going for bombs & crossbow and it's way more fun then I anticipated.
Poison bombs + Oriole to heal myself in poison cloud, cluster Dragons to set all niggers on fire, cluster Grapeshots to watch people and monsters blow away etc
I'll try to post recordings soon.
 
Witcher bros im gonna level with you all. I dont want a witcher 4 that will probably shit on my ending of blood and wine. If there is a witcher 4 it should focus on an player created character or playing around the conjunction of the sphere period.

I like ciri but her being the mc although makes sense in a way, people forget shes basically the most super special awesome entity in witcher and she can basically do whatever the fuck she wants. Im not gonna completely shit on ciri for now because of her inclusion in W4, so i hope they are writing something good to justify this potential trainwreck.
 
00R-Gundam said:
writing something good
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You saw the trailers didn't you? where Ciri's now a bitter, pissy, manly and ugly looking bitch that got Witcher mutations even though she doesn't need them as she's got her super special elder blood shit.

She's both an adult and a woman which make it an impossibility that she'd ever survive the trials in the first place. She'd also have to go completely against Geralt and Yen's wishes, neither of them would ever want her to do the trials, especially Geralt.

On top of all of that, the trials make you infertile so she could never pass on her super special god making elder blood to anyone else, because having kids is akin to being Hitler to the trannies, women and fags that work at CDPR now. Them handwaving any and all of that away as they are GOING to do with some "muh elder blood" is SHIT writing.

That games going to suck ass and be a preachy propaganda spewing waste of money and time. CDPR is dead and has been so since Cyberpunk came out. They should have let Witcher end at 3 with Geralt living out the rest of his life happy in his own goddamn vineyard with Yennefer by his side, where Ciri stops by often to drink, get more monster hunting info, and shoot the shit with her Mom and Dad.
 
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00R-Gundam said:
Witcher bros im gonna level with you all. I dont want a witcher 4 that will probably shit on my ending of blood and wine. If there is a witcher 4 it should focus on an player created character or playing around the conjunction of the sphere period.

I like ciri but her being the mc although makes sense in a way, people forget shes basically the most super special awesome entity in witcher and she can basically do whatever the fuck she wants. Im not gonna completely shit on ciri for now because of her inclusion in W4, so i hope they are writing something good to justify this potential trainwreck.
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Im not going to play witcher 4 and im more interested if the homos at cdpr can make a good game using cyberpunk as a setting. But in honestly i dont think so.
 
I am a simple man. No Geralt, no buy. The W4 would need to be spectacular for me to even pirate it. I have no interest playing a lesbo power fantasy character. The player/reader cared about Ciri only because Geralt cared. Without that she's a nothing character. The chapters focused on Ciri love/rape adventures lost me in the books completely to the point I put down the books for couple of months without urge to continue reading.
 
Cryptosporidium 138 said:
On top of all of that, the trials make you infertile so she could never pass on her super special god making elder blood to anyone else
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I hate to give CDPR any benefit of the doubt, but that would actually be the one legit reason for Ciri to want to do the trials. At least in the book the whole plot is around everyone trying to get Ciri pregnant because her child is the last line in the prophecy who will have the ultimate powers to rule or destroy the world. Of course you have to ignore everything that would say it's impossible for her to do it (too old, female, there are no more witchers who know how to do the trials unless they pull one out of their ass) plus whatever other methods she could go, like becoming a full sorceress or at the very least having Yennefer or one of the others teach her how to make "birth control potions". Worst case scenario she goes through some kind of medieval hysterectomy, but we're going too far off the trail. I'd also prefer they do anything else with the Witcher universe for a new game, but Ciri has always been a walking MacGuffin who can do anything, so of course they'll take the laziest route and make her the main character. At least I'm not going to be able to buy a PS5 any time soon (or 6 by the time this game finally comes out) so I can wait and see how things develop then maybe I'll buy the game after they make a collector's edition with all the patches and DLCs included like I did for Witcher 3.

In other news CDPR released an April Fool's video yesterday. I see they are making great use of their time instead of making sure Witcher 4 is going to make any sense at all.
 
Hamburger Detractor said:
there are no more witchers who know how to do the trials unless they pull one out of their ass
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I wonder how bullshit that is. Witcher being made are still in living memory, obviously, and Salamandra was able to take enough knowledge from the lab in their smash and grab to make their own inelegant version. It could just be stashed in the massive library somewhere.

But yeah, too old and being a woman still applies.
 
Hamburger Detractor said:
no more witchers who know how to do the trials unless they pull one out of their ass
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This too, it's been a minute since i played three but Vesemir didn't even know it right? Yen did? Yen would never tell Ciri how to do it either.

Hamburger Detractor said:
one legit reason for Ciri to want to do the trials.
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I mean i guess? but Ciri would just get with someone she wants to be with at the end of the day right? now that she can somewhat control her powers and can basically speed blitz anything with her teleports on top of her being trained by every damn Witcher at Kaer Morhen, AND Triss and Yen since she was a kid. It's not like any random soldier or even group of soldiers could just walk up and rape her at this point. Again, she doesn't need the Witcher mutations because her blood is so much above anything the potions/enhanced senses the trials could give her.

But she has always been the MacGuffin, so she's just the mannish, loud, ugly political mouthpiece in the new game, fuck all the lore and any writing that would make sense or do her character justice.
 
Is there any reason for Ciri to actually go through the trial of the grasses considering shes basically a god? All it will bring is downsides to her rather than any advantage. The only thing she can take from the witchers is their knowledge on monsters.
 
00R-Gundam said:
Is there any reason for Ciri to actually go through the trial of the grasses considering shes basically a god?
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She can drink the Potions, MAYBE get a slight boost to her senses? i think that's all she gets out if it. even then, She's so ludicrously powerful that i don't think even Utility potions like Black Blood would do much of anything for her.

00R-Gundam said:
The only thing she can take from the witchers is their knowledge on monsters.
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Geralt's her dad and Eskel and Lambert are still around who also think of her as family, she can go ask them how to fight any monster under the sun and they will happily tell her.
 
00R-Gundam said:
Is there any reason for Ciri to actually go through the trial of the grasses considering shes basically a god? All it will bring is downsides to her rather than any advantage.
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Short answer is no.

Like you said, she's basically a god. She can teleport across the universe, travel either direction in time, and has the ability to learn magic if she wanted. Doing the Trial would get her a supermetabolism (already covered by magic), ability to drink potions (ditto) and be probably immortal (again, magic), except it comes with the fun game of playing Russian roulette with five bullets. It's retarded.
 
00R-Gundam said:
Is there any reason for Ciri to actually go through the trial of the grasses considering shes basically a god? All it will bring is downsides to her rather than any advantage. The only thing she can take from the witchers is their knowledge on monsters.
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Super Hans v2 said:
Short answer is no.

Like you said, she's basically a god. She can teleport across the universe, travel either direction in time, and has the ability to learn magic if she wanted. Doing the Trial would get her a supermetabolism (already covered by magic), ability to drink potions (ditto) and be probably immortal (again, magic), except it comes with the fun game of playing Russian roulette with five bullets. It's retarded.
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She should have mastered sorcery with Keira, Triss, and Yennefer. Witcher skills are pleb-tier compared to full-on magic. There is a reason Geralt has to keep working with Yen and Triss even if he chooses to break off his relationships with them. Ciri being put through the trial of grasses and choosing to focus on Witchering limits her potential.

It's like, what if you get a kid who has powerful magic blood, and you force him to be a paladin who mostly relies on melee with little in the way of magic skills, leaving most of his potential untapped.

hawkisnight said:
After refunding Crimson Desert I had an itch to play open worldish rpg so I reinstalled Witcher 3. I forgot how much fun the game is. I am playing on death march difficulty. It's not super difficult thanks to quen sign but some fights where you are outnumbered can get really annoying.
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Death March isn't that hard if you've got the right equipment. I had a high-level sword that I used to crush Imlerith. And even if you don't, proper evasion, healing, and timing can win a battle for you.

The last time I truly struggled in battle was with the Ofieri sage. Even Detlaff I defeated once I figured how to beat him.
 
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