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Also giving the gem to radovid's witch hunters was such a bad idea. I was all for helping him catch her since she's an evil poo poo but he believed a group of bumbling idiots over a seasoned witcher.
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Jun 9, 2015 17:44
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radiatinglines posted:The movement and combat is clunky as hell in this game. Understatement of the month right here. Grapplejack posted:Also giving the gem to radovid's witch hunters was such a bad idea. I was all for helping him catch her since she's an evil poo poo but he believed a group of bumbling idiots over a seasoned witcher. Witch hunters are property of Novigrad, aren't they? The stupid cult of the eternal fire is HQ'd in Novigrad, right? They have their own temple guard, who also police Novigrad itself. Does Radovid employ his own witch hunters who happen to look exactly the same as the ones employed by the CotEF?
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Jun 9, 2015 17:46
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Grapplejack posted:Also giving the gem to radovid's witch hunters was such a bad idea. I was all for helping him catch her since she's an evil poo poo but he believed a group of bumbling idiots over a seasoned witcher.  I did the same thing.
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Jun 9, 2015 17:47
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Grapplejack posted:Igni is still good because it removes armor for those enemies. Always cast it a few times. I'm still not sure Melt Armor actually even does anything.
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Jun 9, 2015 17:47
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Swedish Horror posted:Is it ever explained why Radovid goes crazy and starts his witch hunts? Also, what did Phillipa do to piss the entire world off? If you choose Iorveth's path in W2 you find out that Radovid is a pretty much a monster. As he leaves Loc Muinne he watches people being murdered, mutilated, raped, impaled, and burnt alive, and he stands there smirking with smug satisfaction.
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Jun 9, 2015 17:51
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I have a quick, probably dumb question. For all the perks I unlock in the character menu, do they need to be snapped to a mutagen slot to become active? Like if all my slots are sign based, will acquired tolerance not be active? I ask because I couldn't use alternate Igni until I put it in a slot.
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Jun 9, 2015 17:54
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Emron posted:I have a quick, probably dumb question. For all the perks I unlock in the character menu, do they need to be snapped to a mutagen slot to become active? Like if all my slots are sign based, will acquired tolerance not be active? I ask because I couldn't use alternate Igni until I put it in a slot. Yes they do, which means you can only have 12 active perks no matter how many points you have spread around. I find that means that min/maxing your build is the only realistic way to go, which makes you a powerhouse eventually. I've been leaning heavily on Sun & Stars but now that Quen regenerates my health I'm thinking I don't really need it anymore.
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Jun 9, 2015 17:57
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e: bah nm Pick the hardest difficulty then get mad that the combat isn't holding your hand. Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Jun 9, 2015 |
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Jun 9, 2015 17:57
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:Understatement of the month right here. The Eternal Fire got kickstarted in Temeria, but after attempting to storm Vizima and getting gutted by Geralt and Foltest, Radovid saw a useful tool to nurse his sorceress grudge and gave them room to breathe in Redania. Novigrad is "free" but is basically a Redanian puppet state. Even if it wasn't, the war effectively makes it such. Ergo, Eternal Fire gets free reign.
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Jun 9, 2015 17:58
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Big Bidness posted:If you choose Iorveth's path in W2 you find out that Radovid is a pretty much a monster. As he leaves Loc Muinne he watches people being murdered, mutilated, raped, impaled, and burnt alive, and he stands there smirking with smug satisfaction. That happens in either path if you don't rescue Triss. (When you rescue Triss she places the blame entirely on Sile, instead of the Letho and the Nilfgaardians blaming the Lodge of Sorceresses as a whole).
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Jun 9, 2015 17:59
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GrossMurpel posted:I'm still not sure Melt Armor actually even does anything. I don't think most monsters actually have any armor just massive hp wells. It seems to up damage against people and earth elementals. Mr.Citrus fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jun 9, 2015 |
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Jun 9, 2015 17:59
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:Yes they do, which means you can only have 12 active perks no matter how many points you have spread around. I find that means that min/maxing your build is the only realistic way to go, which makes you a powerhouse eventually. I've been leaning heavily on Sun & Stars but now that Quen regenerates my health I'm thinking I don't really need it anymore. poo poo, I've had griffin, sun and stars, and the vitality one for 14+ levels without using them.
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Jun 9, 2015 17:59
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Moridin920 posted:Bro just get good. Sorry the game won't let you hit every single time from any distance. You can 'choose one' just close the distance. You don't need a ruler, just learn how far he'll go and successfully connect. Yeah other comes will teleport you closer or help you out, that doesn't mean all games need to. Alright, the combat system is a feature. What's the pro way to swim around underwater?
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Jun 9, 2015 18:03
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Swimming is just kinda frustrating and you have to get used to it
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Jun 9, 2015 18:04
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Wiseblood posted:That happens in either path if you don't rescue Triss. (When you rescue Triss she places the blame entirely on Sile, instead of the Letho and the Nilfgaardians blaming the Lodge of Sorceresses as a whole). Ah, I always save Triss because it makes the most sense from a role playing perspective. No matter what the stakes are, Geralt always seems like he would pick saving one of the handful of people he actually cares about.
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Jun 9, 2015 18:04
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radiatinglines posted:Alright, the combat system is a feature. Move the camera to turn. Don't touch the 'a' or 'd' except for in very specific circumstances. That applies to just regularly moving around, too. You can loot things from a pretty decent distance, you don't need to swim right up to the crate or whatever.
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Jun 9, 2015 18:11
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Emron posted:poo poo, I've had griffin, sun and stars, and the vitality one for 14+ levels without using them. You still have to put points into skills you won't use just to unlock the later levels, but eventually you can buy potions to reset your skills and go full points with the skills you actually use. It seems like a lot of people here are maxing the Potion tree to great effect, does anyone want to talk about their build? I've been funneling points into Igni and Quen and while it's super useful in the wild, it's a lot harder to use in some of the scripted battles where you have to fight a huge mob in a tiny space.
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Jun 9, 2015 18:14
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:You still have to put points into skills you won't use just to unlock the later levels, but eventually you can buy potions to reset your skills and go full points with the skills you actually use. Griffin spec (medium armor boosts sign intensity) and sun/stars aren't in a branch though, they're in that weird mutagen class. Respeccing sounds good to me at this point--are there a limited number of potions to do so available in the game?
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Jun 9, 2015 18:17
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Everybody mad about keybaord movement controls knows that gamepads are USB now right?
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Jun 9, 2015 18:17
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Swimming kinda sucks with a gamepad, too
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Jun 9, 2015 18:18
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Yeah, I've been using my 360 controller.
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Jun 9, 2015 18:20
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Swedish Horror posted:Is it ever explained why Radovid goes crazy and starts his witch hunts? Also, what did Phillipa do to piss the entire world off? I don't know if this is specific spoilers but I'll err on the side of caution. Definitely key points from W2. Phillipa is about as evil and ambitious as they come and from the very first moment she gets her hands on power (and this is well before the games, even) she has plans to acquire more and more. Taking Iorveth's path in W2 basically has her admit at one point that she, through the Lodge, wants to rule the entire North from the shadows both through destabilizing the power structures in the north and by secretly taking over the new "free" nation that Saskia is setting up in Vergen. In W2, while Sile is the one to recruit Letho for the first assassination on Demavend but it's Phillipa's plan from the start to solidify power behind the scenes. For Radovid specifically, Phillipa is implicated in the death of his father the previous king and Radovid gets to spend his formative years watching her subvert his rule through clever manipulation and embarassing him whenever possible. He grows up hating and distrusting Phillipa specifically, which expands to all mages and then to anyone he finds halfway suspicious; Loc Muinne was probably a tipping point when it's "revealed" that there was a Secret Mage Conspiracy to kill some/all of the northern kings and take power for themselves through the restoration of the Conclave. That this conspiracy isn't as extensive as he believes doesn't really matter. The cracks in Radovid's psyche started early and by the time W3 rolls around he's well into paranoid crazytown.
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Meiteron posted:I don't know if this is specific spoilers but I'll err on the side of caution. Definitely key points from W2. Yes, the reason for Radovid's insanity and subsequent witch hunts can probably be directly attributed to Philippa. She is not a Good Person.
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Jun 9, 2015 18:22
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Emron posted:Griffin spec (medium armor boosts sign intensity) and sun/stars aren't in a branch though, they're in that weird mutagen class. Respeccing sounds good to me at this point--are there a limited number of potions to do so available in the game? That doesn't mean they're useless though. If you're running a Signs build, you definitely should have Griffin Techniques equipped. And about the potion of clearance
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Jun 9, 2015 18:23
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Regarding skills, I'm not sure if it's a bug or not but some of mine have the gold 'equipped' border around them even when they're not actively slotted, and I can still use their effect, notably for the alternate modes for signs, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6yT5IzizwU PS4 version if it makes any difference.
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Aishan posted:Regarding skills, I'm not sure if it's a bug or not but some of mine have the gold 'equipped' border around them even when they're not actively slotted, and I can still use their effect, notably for the alternate modes for signs, for example: I've noticed that on mine too (also PS4), didn't think anything of it. If I can use alt signs without having to equip them, I'm definitely continuing with the signs build 
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Jun 9, 2015 18:27
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http://thewitcher.com/news/view/1059 There was a contest for artwork, winners are cool wallpaper material.
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Jun 9, 2015 18:29
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alex314 posted:http://thewitcher.com/news/view/1059 
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Jun 9, 2015 18:33
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Broken Cog posted:Yes, the reason for Radovid's insanity and subsequent witch hunts can probably be directly attributed to Philippa. She is not a Good Person. There is no single character I wish I could kill more than Phillippa. I don't think any single person is responsible for more deaths in the witcher universe than she is.
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Broken Cog posted:Yes, the reason for Radovid's insanity and subsequent witch hunts can probably be directly attributed to Philippa. She is not a Good Person. Hell for a perfect encapsulation of this when you run into Philippa in Wild Hunt her very first reaction to Geralt is assuming he's there to kill her, and Geralt is not the kind of guy who runs around killing sorceresses without good reason.
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Jun 9, 2015 18:34
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While we're talking about Sorceress', who was the one that gets burned to death on a pyre in Novigrad? Her description makes out she was a big part of the Witcher 2 but I honestly couldn't remember her.
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Jun 9, 2015 18:35
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Is there a way to kill Phillipa
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Jun 9, 2015 18:39
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poptart_fairy posted:While we're talking about Sorceress', who was the one that gets burned to death on a pyre in Novigrad? Her description makes out she was a big part of the Witcher 2 but I honestly couldn't remember her. Barber (Barbesse?) and peddler in Vergen.
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Jun 9, 2015 18:39
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Emron posted:Respeccing sounds good to me at this point--are there a limited number of potions to do so available in the game? Don't know whether they're limited or not but there's one that's "missable", one in Novigrad and two guys with 5 each in Skellige. 1000g each.
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Jun 9, 2015 18:40
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Ooooh right, I never met her. 
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Jun 9, 2015 18:41
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I didn't even realize Geralt knew her, whoops.
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The 1.05 patch seems to have fixed the romance "bug" where if you didn't explicitly tell Triss "I love you" but still slept with her and completed Yennefer's quest, you no longer get the awkward threesome scene that locks you out of romance with both of them and instead you end up with Yennefer. I previously beat it on 1.04 and got an ending I didn't really like, so I just finished it again last night post 1.05 and the romance ending seemed to have changed. This doesn't seem to be documented in the patch notes, so I had to share somewhere.
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Jun 9, 2015 18:44
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dyzzy posted:I didn't even realize Geralt knew her, whoops. You get an entry about her on the character page when you see the scene in Novigrad.
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Ugato posted:Don't know whether they're limited or not but there's one that's "missable", one in Novigrad and two guys with 5 each in Skellige. 1000g each. I just read that link, and I definitely murdered my way out of the first one. Oh well, there's others!
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