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The truly skilled player plays as few cards as possible to secure the win, showing his undisputed superiority and making the opponent regret taking the table.
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I'm really disappointed by Delayed Recovery. I didn't realize it only took into account potion Toxicity, not Toxicity from decoctions. I mean, that's probably a good thing, because maintaining a Toxicity over 70% is trivial with decoctions, but it makes the skill entirely useless for me because, well, I like to use decoctions. At least it freed up some points for me to take Efficiency and Cluster Bombs sooner. Now to rush that Practicum in Advanced Alchemy quest so I can get superior bombs and go full-on mad bomber.
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Jun 16, 2015 16:34
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Bernard Tulle in the tournament quest is the only Gwent player in the game who actually plays the game with any sort of intelligence. He's still crazy beatable, naturally, but if you get a bad initial draw, you're probably gonna be up the creek.
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Jun 16, 2015 16:36
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Aurain posted:Bernard Tulle in the tournament quest is the only Gwent player in the game who actually plays the game with any sort of intelligence. He's still crazy beatable, naturally, but if you get a bad initial draw, you're probably gonna be up the creek. There's one shopkeeper in Novigrad, that I was sure was cheating. He probably wasn't, but I beat him only after I had pretty much every spy and hero card available. I've found him as hard as first game in the tournament.
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Jun 16, 2015 16:43
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I'm missing cards and I don't know who to play for them. I'm near the end game (Final Preparations). I've beaten the Gwent quests, I did High Stakes, I took the cards on Zoltan's quests. I've played every shopkeeper around as far as I know. I guess I'm going to have to go down the list on gwentcards.com and try re-playing everyone who gives random cards. Everyone I play right now gives me materials or nothing.
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Jun 16, 2015 16:44
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Earwicker posted:so I am new to this series and have been mostly enjoying the game but what is up with the dude's voice? it's the exact same "growled whisper" used by the dudes in Deus Ex and in the Batman movies and its very silly and very distracting.
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Jun 16, 2015 16:45
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Levantine posted:I'm missing cards and I don't know who to play for them. I'm near the end game (Final Preparations). I've beaten the Gwent quests, I did High Stakes, I took the cards on Zoltan's quests. I've played every shopkeeper around as far as I know. I guess I'm going to have to go down the list on gwentcards.com and try re-playing everyone who gives random cards. Everyone I play right now gives me materials or nothing. You probably missed some at a vendor then and have all the random cards. Check innkeeps and there's a Person in Distress merchant you need to free who will return to Claywich Village in the middle of Velen. I missed him and a lot of people seem to, he sells a copy of the 10-strength Nilf archer and healer archer and a Crinfrid Dragon Reaver. Innkeeps have most of the cards for sale, plus a couple random merchants in central Velen.
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Jun 16, 2015 16:52
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Palpek posted:In all honesty you're the first person I've seen annoyed by Geralt's voice. Maybe there are more people who just don't post about it but it's a criticizm that doesn't really come up.
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Jun 16, 2015 16:54
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Any hints for fighting poo poo tons of wraiths at once on death march? Doing Family Matters, all constantly teleporting around me from different directions and stunlocking me, I absolutely cannot do it at all.
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Jun 16, 2015 16:58
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Pellisworth posted:You probably missed some at a vendor then and have all the random cards. Check innkeeps and there's a Person in Distress merchant you need to free who will return to Claywich Village in the middle of Velen. I missed him and a lot of people seem to, he sells a copy of the 10-strength Nilf archer and healer archer and a Crinfrid Dragon Reaver. I'll check Claywich then, thanks. I thought I had been pretty diligent in picking up cards from vendors but I clearly missed something! I just want that quest out of my log.
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Jun 16, 2015 16:58
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I cant get enough of dropping a Frost card then a Villentretenmerth (spelling?) and lighting up like 10 cards. My Card Advantage Boner goes crazy.
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Jun 16, 2015 16:59
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Rycalawre posted:Any hints for fighting poo poo tons of wraiths at once on death march? Doing Family Matters, all constantly teleporting around me from different directions and stunlocking me, I absolutely cannot do it at all. When a wraith teleports, either dodge twice or roll. The hit detection on that little post-teleport combo they have is way bigger than it would appear to the eye. Follow up with as many Fast Attacks as you can fit in, don't bother with Strong Attacks. Good luck.
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Jun 16, 2015 17:02
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Snuffman posted:Oh! Horse Races question: IIRC there's flyers on the square by the announcer (Or was it on the black board? Can't remember.) for another 3-race circuit at the Vegelbud estate. There's also 3 races in Skellige and then a final one in Novigrad.
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Jun 16, 2015 17:08
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Levantine posted:I'll check Claywich then, thanks. I thought I had been pretty diligent in picking up cards from vendors but I clearly missed something! I just want that quest out of my log. There is literally nothing in that village of interest other than a grindstone and that merchant, who is only there after you free him from bandits on a nearby island. Very likely you missed him
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Jun 16, 2015 17:17
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CJacobs posted:I wouldn't say The Witcher is an intelligent commentary on the state of fantasy novels... it's just a series of fantasy novels. Particularly good ones, though. Are they really? Being that I'm so interested in the background fluff of the game universe now, I'd consider diving into... *gulp* genre fiction... so I can learn more about the white frost, wild hunt etc. Unless there are some neat Lexicanum like wiki sites that delve into witcher lore.
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Jun 16, 2015 17:23
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:Are they really? Being that I'm so interested in the background fluff of the game universe now, I'd consider diving into... *gulp* genre fiction... so I can learn more about the white frost, wild hunt etc. Unless there are some neat Lexicanum like wiki sites that delve into witcher lore. I'm reading 'blood of elves' atm and it's pretty dece
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Jun 16, 2015 17:36
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Scandalous posted:Keep an Yrden circle down at all times, dance around that. Moon Dust bombs if you've got them, Tawny Owl and Thunderbolt potions for stamina regeneration and sword damage, so you can get individual ones down faster and keep both Yrden and Quen active whenever possible. Thats what Ive been doing, with the exception of Moon Dust which I dont have. Best Ive managed on the second fight is killing 1 of the 5 wraiths.
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Jun 16, 2015 17:46
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Azazell0 posted:I was exploring happily in Skellige and suddenly ran across a level 48 Archgriffin. (I'm level 35.) It whooped my rear end pretty handily, when all of a sudden my tactics didn't seem to work poo poo anymore. The reward will probably be another relic sword a few points below or above my mastercraft griffin sword. (although I did find zerrikanian saddle bags just by exploring ?'s in Skellige) i know exactly where youre talking about. that son bitch has to be the hardest fight in the game
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Jun 16, 2015 17:51
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Rycalawre posted:Thats what Ive been doing, with the exception of Moon Dust which I dont have. Best Ive managed on the second fight is killing 1 of the 5 wraiths.
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Jun 16, 2015 17:57
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e: gently caress sorry
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:Are they really? Being that I'm so interested in the background fluff of the game universe now, I'd consider diving into... *gulp* genre fiction... so I can learn more about the white frost, wild hunt etc. Unless there are some neat Lexicanum like wiki sites that delve into witcher lore. The first two are short stories about Geralt and good reads. After that it switches to a political intrigue serial focusing mainly on Ciri.
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Jun 16, 2015 18:26
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Rycalawre posted:Thats what Ive been doing, with the exception of Moon Dust which I dont have. Best Ive managed on the second fight is killing 1 of the 5 wraiths. Edit: Also 
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Jun 16, 2015 18:28
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I like how when I mentioned what I did at the end of the Get Junior quest to Zoltan (I killed that mofo) he's all woah bro taking it to extremes and Geralt kind of just nods like yeah whatever don't gently caress with Ciri. I feel like if Geralt said yeah bro when I got there he was hanging out with the corpses of the 5-6 women he had just been torture killing Zoltan would have understood.
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Jun 16, 2015 18:40
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Szurumbur posted:And I didn't really understand how the "High Stakes" Gwent matches' difficulty is rather inverse? The first match was the toughest, the second a bit easier, the third difficulty is mostly in the fist fight after the end and the fourth was pathetically easy. Also I loathe how there doesn't seem to be actually unique cards - even the Hero cards I already have seem to exist in the CPU's decks, and the Baron gave me a Djikstra card, which I had first seen used be some random merchant. It's a bummer and takes a bit out of the enjoyment of completing the strongest deck in the whole world. Sasha was the only one who really gave me a fight, in the final round she kept drawing more cards after I ran out and was forced to pass but my lead was large enough that I was able to hold on. I steamrolled all of the other players.
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Jun 16, 2015 19:40
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Gwent is hard if your initial draw is not great. I have matches where I draw no spies/decoys and it's like "welp". Other matches I have all of them out and I end up playing every single card in my deck by the end. I thought the first match in High Stakes was the hardest as well, they seemed to get easier as I won.
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Jun 16, 2015 19:56
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The first two were pretty rough for me because my opponents were heavy on spies, decoys, and medics both games. Thankfully I am also heavy on those and out-lasted them. My biggest challenge in that tournament was the mandatory fistfight vs a fist-firing machinegun that was like 8 levels higher than me.
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Jun 16, 2015 20:23
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Bort Bortles posted:The first two were pretty rough for me because my opponents were heavy on spies, decoys, and medics both games. Thankfully I am also heavy on those and out-lasted them. My biggest challenge in that tournament was the mandatory fistfight vs a fist-firing machinegun that was like 8 levels higher than me. I found the best thing to do against those kinds of opponents is just wait until you get a really good disrupt in, the kind that staggers them, and do a big punch plus maybe a small jab if you think you have the time. Then block and wait for the next disrupt opportunity. It takes patience, but you win every time. This guy here put up a big fight but I landed him in the end! 
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Jun 16, 2015 20:53
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For some reason my Geralt has +250% Sign Intensity completely naked and with no mutagens or abilities equipped. Dunno if that's a display bug or I'm somehow actually getting those stats, with my gear on I'm up over 400% displayed Sign Intensity 
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Jun 16, 2015 21:06
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Pellisworth posted:For some reason my Geralt has +250% Sign Intensity completely naked and with no mutagens or abilities equipped. Dunno if that's a display bug or I'm somehow actually getting those stats, with my gear on I'm up over 400% displayed Sign Intensity There are threads about it on the CD Projekt forums too, but they're down for scheduled maintenance at the moment.
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Jun 16, 2015 21:16
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Pot Of Shoe posted:I found the best thing to do against those kinds of opponents is just wait until you get a really good disrupt in, the kind that staggers them, and do a big punch plus maybe a small jab if you think you have the time. Then block and wait for the next disrupt opportunity. It takes patience, but you win every time.
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Jun 16, 2015 21:25
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Levantine posted:Gwent is hard if your initial draw is not great. I have matches where I draw no spies/decoys and it's like "welp". Other matches I have all of them out and I end up playing every single card in my deck by the end. I thought the first match in High Stakes was the hardest as well, they seemed to get easier as I won. That's why you play Nilfgaard, use those healers to revive the spies the opponent used and hopefully draw some spies yourself. If you play Nilfgaard and you draw neither medics nor decoys nor spies, there's some black magic at play. Also, RE: fistfights, it really helped me to challenge those dudes at the Kaer Trolde feast over and over (where you can win Hjalmar's sword). Once you learn to anticipate and parry those quick jabs, you're set (for most opponents anyway). GrossMurpel fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jun 16, 2015 |
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Jun 16, 2015 21:37
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One of my favourite stupid Gwent tricks is playing the 9-point nilf spy, using the scorch dragon to force a discard, decoying the dragon back, then recovering the spy from the opponent's discard.
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I found that with fistfights if you keep the opponent at range he will always do a long lunge that's really easy to parry and then just lay into him. Repeat.
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Jun 16, 2015 21:48
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GrossMurpel posted:Also, RE: fistfights, it really helped me to challenge those dudes at the Kaer Trolde feast over and over (where you can win Hjalmar's sword). Once you learn to anticipate and parry those quick jabs, you're set (for most opponents anyway). Those fights were weird for me because they'd always start with Geralt staring off to the side and getting blindsided.
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Jun 16, 2015 21:49
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Pot Of Shoe posted:I found the best thing to do against those kinds of opponents is just wait until you get a really good disrupt in, the kind that staggers them, and do a big punch plus maybe a small jab if you think you have the time. Then block and wait for the next disrupt opportunity. It takes patience, but you win every time. The typical strategy in fist fighting involves getting enough distance so the enemy will often go for a windup punch which you can easily sidestep and punish. However this won't always work since different enemies have different recoveries and stamina regen. And in some matches, the ring gets smaller and smaller, giving you little room to breathe. If you want to cheese a fight, you can corner an opponent and constantly spam strong attacks (it generally prevents any counter attacks), and you'll deal stamina damage at a faster rate than they can regen (however some have insane stamina regeneration). But the reliable method is go for the counterattacks (strong attacks are much easier to counter). You get a much bigger margin of error in counter attack if you HOLD down the parry button during their attack animation (or when their health bar glows red). Basically you don't need to tap parry to counter.
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Jun 16, 2015 21:56
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moot the hopple posted:Those fights were weird for me because they'd always start with Geralt staring off to the side and getting blindsided. Oh yeah that's a good point, always hammer space + A (or whatever the controller equivalent for dodging sideways is) as soon as the fight starts. I don't know if it's possible to get an unavoidable hit right at the start but I've always been able to dodge it and my load times are poo poo. Dongattack posted:I found that with fistfights if you keep the opponent at range he will always do a long lunge that's really easy to parry and then just lay into him. Repeat. Meh, I've had it happen quite often that the opponent would simply close the distance and then do that quick jab. Or punch me right in the face while I was trying to dodge back after parrying and attacking him.
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Jun 16, 2015 21:57
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Here's the fistfighting method that carried me though the entire game: Step back and keep your distance Wait until enemy steps forward (This means they're going in for an attack) Pound them with two quick attacks Rince and repeat.
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Jun 16, 2015 21:59
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Broken Cog posted:Here's the fistfighting method that carried me though the entire game: I use this as well. It has served me well.
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Jun 16, 2015 22:01
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I've been avoiding the fistfighting quests because  but maybe I'll give 'em a go if there are ways to make it less tedious.
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