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I loved my half Alchemy half Swordplay build, completely ignoring sign skills. I had Quen intensity Wards installed on all of my armor so it was totally insane anyway and basic Aard and Yrden handled their respective enemies just fine.
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I used Quen pretty much all the time because I'm really bad at not getting hit and Swallow doesn't heal fast enough. I never realized just how much tolerance that alchemy skill adds. I went through the whole game thinking decoctions were totally useless. Megaman's Jockstrap posted:There's a sword skill that makes you immune to damage at any point during your dodge animation. Unfortunately the hit will still drop Quen if it's up. Sindai fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jul 1, 2015 |
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Jul 1, 2015 19:52
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Geralt's got a bum knee and can't move for poo poo without heels already.
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Yeah, Alchemy's great for either casually dropping a few points into or going whole-hog into being a cluster-bombing mutant murderbeast. Sword build? Adds to oils and several decoctions add great effects/survivability. Signs build? Petri's Philtre that never ends. Plus being drugged out to hell and back and entering a conversation/cutscene just never gets old. Alt-Quen is very situational, but it's a nice panic button if you took a bad hit or were caught out of position.
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Jul 1, 2015 20:43
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I really hope you have like 5 potion slots when the expansion/EE comes out. I started actually using them more at the end but it was still a drag to go into the menu.
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Jul 1, 2015 20:44
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I really hope you have like 5 potion slots when the expansion/EE comes out. I started actually using them more at the end but it was still a drag to go into the menu.
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Jul 1, 2015 20:45
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I really hope you have like 5 potion slots when the expansion/EE comes out. I started actually using them more at the end but it was still a drag to go into the menu.
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Jul 1, 2015 20:55
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Ok so I've googled around and found a few sites that do pieces here and there, but if any of you know of a site where all the alchemy recipes are, Id appreciate it. I do so enjoy having the enhanced and superior recipe of something but not the regular one. 
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Jul 1, 2015 20:59
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MoraleHazard posted:W3 has much more fantasy-esque armor. Are you crazy? Witcher 3 is full of padded jacks and gambesons that were pretty much standard issue to all light infantry forces everywhere, since they were expected to buy their own equipment. Chainmail was extremely expensive and only available to aristocrats or people whose equipment budget was subsidized, and plate was pretty much the exclusive purvue of landed aristocratic knights. The only armor that really looked weird to me was the witchhunter jacket, which had those incredibly stupid flanged metal elbow pads. Well, and the wild hunt warrior armor, but they are alien elf monsters from beyond time and space so they get a pass. Some of the witcher gear had some goofy bits too, but it at least looked reasonably practical for the most part. Crigit fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Jul 1, 2015 |
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Jul 1, 2015 21:00
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JetsGuy posted:Ok so I've googled around and found a few sites that do pieces here and there, but if any of you know of a site where all the alchemy recipes are, Id appreciate it. I do so enjoy having the enhanced and superior recipe of something but not the regular one. Aren't some of them just a random drop?
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JetsGuy posted:Ok so I've googled around and found a few sites that do pieces here and there, but if any of you know of a site where all the alchemy recipes are, Id appreciate it. I do so enjoy having the enhanced and superior recipe of something but not the regular one.
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Crigit posted:Are you crazy? Witcher 3 is full of padded jacks and gambesons that were pretty much standard issue to all light infantry forces everywhere, since they were expected to buy their own equipment. Chainmail was extremely expensive and only available to aristocrats or people whose equipment budget was subsidized, and plate was pretty much the exclusive purvue of landed aristocratic knights. The only armor that really looked weird to me was the witchhunter jacket, which had those incredibly stupid flanged metal elbow pads. Well, and the wild hunt warrior armor, but they are alien elf monsters from beyond time and space so they get a pass. Some of the witcher gear had some goofy bits too, but it at least looked reasonably practical for the most part. I stand corrected. I thought chain shirts were much more common among foot-soldiers. Seems weird though with NPCs in these padded cloth jacks and steel gauntlets. Although surprising, I'm guessing that was at least somewhat common too? Moral_Hazard fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jul 1, 2015 |
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JetsGuy posted:Ok so I've googled around and found a few sites that do pieces here and there, but if any of you know of a site where all the alchemy recipes are, Id appreciate it. I do so enjoy having the enhanced and superior recipe of something but not the regular one.
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Ravenfood posted:Please this. More bombs/potion slots would be gorgeous. Actually, I'll go the other way and say more bomb slots first. Potions are okay but a faster inventory menu access would be alright, whereas with bombs you have to equip and use them in an even more tedious way than potions. Plus, most potions last a whole fight's worth so you're only using them once or twice a fight. Putting potions at the very top of the inventory screen and making it the first available tab and opening up all of the inventory slots to bombs would be my pick. Or let you put 4 potions on the D-pad and change the sheathe/draw sword commands to something less immediately accessible. Or remove them, Geralt's pretty good about switching appropriately as-is. I certainly don't need that kind of control on the D pad. 
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Bort Bortles posted:I have to disagree with the bolded 100%. I hate hate hate that there could be a drowner 5 feet away and the game decides its time to sheathe my sword. Other times I pull it out because I see bandits with archers down the road and I want to use my arrow-deflection skill, but the game refuses to acknowledge that I am in combat until I swing the sword in anger. The only time the game should do anything with your sword for you would be when combat abruptly starts -otherwise I want to decide when combat starts and begins; if I draw my sword it is for a reason and I want Geralt to 'enter combat' so I can deflect arrows. Otherwise yes I agree with your post Yeah, I get that there's the automatic sword draw when combat starts, but there's no point to being able to manually sheathe and unsheathe your swords if it doesn't also put you into/out of combat controls. (and while you're at it fix the bug where if you immediately hit the attack button out of a cutscene you will often not pull out your sword and try to fistfight dudes coming at you with swords)
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Bort Bortles posted:I have to disagree with the bolded 100%. I hate hate hate that there could be a drowner 5 feet away and the game decides its time to sheathe my sword. Other times I pull it out because I see bandits with archers down the road and I want to use my arrow-deflection skill, but the game refuses to acknowledge that I am in combat until I swing the sword in anger. The only time the game should do anything with your sword for you would be when combat abruptly starts -otherwise I want to decide when combat starts and begins; if I draw my sword it is for a reason and I want Geralt to 'enter combat' so I can deflect arrows. Otherwise yes I agree with your post
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I just broke down a bunch of pelts and poo poo and went from 160 lbs of gear to 90. Nice. If you are struggling with loads of gear, that might help you. I wanna get rid of other stuff too but there are even quest items I can use break down on, so I don't want to gently caress myself over.
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ZearothK posted:What level is it and where can you find it? Vikar Jerome posted:i did the same. i lol'd at my dumbness. also I agree that the automatic sheathing is pretty annoying vandalism posted:I just broke down a bunch of pelts and poo poo and went from 160 lbs of gear to 90. Nice. If you are struggling with loads of gear, that might help you. I wanna get rid of other stuff too but there are even quest items I can use break down on, so I don't want to gently caress myself over. Quest. Scandalous fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Jul 1, 2015 |
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I would kill to have a better idea on what is weighing me down. Bolts were pretty bad, but after going a bit trigger happy I've gotten them down to about 6 weight units or so. Even with that I'm still riding ~120ish. I may just start dropping poo poo and rebuilding my inventory from scratch. Maybe get a notepad. Note to CDPR: that is a sign of a Bad inventory system.
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OAquinas posted:I would kill to have a better idea on what is weighing me down. Bolts were pretty bad, but after going a bit trigger happy I've gotten them down to about 6 weight units or so. Even with that I'm still riding ~120ish. I may just start dropping poo poo and rebuilding my inventory from scratch. Maybe get a notepad. Edit: also first play through I was carrying all 3 witcher armour sets with me at all times which I kept forgetting about, poo poo is heavy man
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Jul 1, 2015 23:58
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Weapon/armor repair kits also get heavy, especially if you've been hording them.
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OAquinas posted:I would kill to have a better idea on what is weighing me down. Bolts were pretty bad, but after going a bit trigger happy I've gotten them down to about 6 weight units or so. Even with that I'm still riding ~120ish. I may just start dropping poo poo and rebuilding my inventory from scratch. Maybe get a notepad. Pay attention to the weight stat that every item has. Some of those junk items can be heavier than you'd suspect, like if you have 20 bear pelts that'll be at least 4 or 5 pounds. Clear out your inventory, alchemize a whole bunch, make some swords/armour and sell them or just sell the raw ingredients. Horse saddles are like 6-7 pounds each and some of the only things I bother dropping instead of selling or dissembling because seriously.
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late game tip - don't pick up horse gear, armor, weapons, or anything else besides recipes and quest items
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Protip: the weight stat is the total of the stack, not per item. For a while I thought a bunch of particularly abundant crafting materials (dwarven liquor) were really heavy.  vandalism posted:I wanna get rid of other stuff too but there are even quest items I can use break down on, so I don't want to gently caress myself over.
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I kept a bunch of items that used to be quest items and became junk just in case they came into use again don't do what I did
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The most important "inventory" stat is not weight, but how much garbage you have to scroll through to get to your potions. Drop all those books and letters and contracts ASAP, it's a huge quality-of-life improvement.
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MoraleHazard posted:Seems weird though with NPCs in these padded cloth jacks and steel gauntlets. Although surprising, I'm guessing that was at least somewhat common too? Medieval armor use is a bit surprising sometimes, but these gambesons are like 20 or 30 layers of tough linen. They were known to stop arrows at moderate ranges and be real tough to cut through. Stabbing was another story, though. They were also prone to getting infested with lice. As far as gauntlets I don't actually have any idea. It seems a bit weird to have metal gloves when you can't afford heavier body armor. Edit: Here's a weird nerd going on at some length about how media usually gets light medieval body armor wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzeLAGuCucg His channel is pretty fun in general, although he does tend towards the long winded a lot. Crigit fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Jul 2, 2015 |
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Yeah, especially since a breastplate is just a slab of metal buckled on (for cheap versions, anyway). Gauntlets are far more articulated and difficult to make--you'd think they'd be the part that commanded a premium.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:The most important "inventory" stat is not weight, but how much garbage you have to scroll through to get to your potions. Drop all those books and letters and contracts ASAP, it's a huge quality-of-life improvement.
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UraniumFuelElement posted:there's no point to being able to manually sheathe and unsheathe your swords if it doesn't also put you into/out of combat controls. uuuuh, what if you want to fistfight a bear?
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loving Devourers  I'm doing the master armorer quest where you have to fight three or four of the fuckers at once. They drain so much health with each hit. Three hits and I'm dead. And they're quick as poo poo, too.
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I am accumulating a lot of coloured mutagens. After combining them to greater types is there any further progression? If not is there a place that offers more than 2 coins for them?
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You use some combination of them for decoctions(?), but aside from that no. As for the price, I'd check dedicated alchemists and if they don't then likely not.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:The most important "inventory" stat is not weight, but how much garbage you have to scroll through to get to your potions. Drop all those books and letters and contracts ASAP, it's a huge quality-of-life improvement. Do you play with a console controller? It's way easier to navigate the menu UI with mouse and that way you don't have to get rid of all the neat books you picked up. Moridin920 posted:Which you won't answer. buy me a red text and shut up already
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420 Gank Mid posted:Do you play with a console controller? It's way easier to navigate the menu UI with mouse and that way you don't have to get rid of all the neat books you picked up. Oh I play with a mouse - I can't even fathom using a controller in the menu. I still find it awful that I have to hit i, click the right tab, then scroll in that tiny window and hover over each potion since a lot of them have the same image. Anything that saves steps in that is worthwhile. Before I sold my books, I just didn't use more than 2 potions, it was too annoying.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Oh I play with a mouse - I can't even fathom using a controller in the menu. I still find it awful that I have to hit i, click the right tab, then scroll in that tiny window and hover over each potion since a lot of them have the same image. Anything that saves steps in that is worthwhile. Before I sold my books, I just didn't use more than 2 potions, it was too annoying. I only started using potions when I switched to mouse, it's crazy how much better the menus work compared to a controller. CDPR has hinted at on their forums that the next patch is going to rework inventory so it's likely we'll see a dedicated potions tab, or filtering (non-quest)books into another tab
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A dedicated potions tab that comes up as the default tab when you hit i would be the next best thing to more potion slots, sounds good to me!
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Whoops, I accidentally (re: the Cat and Wolf quest) let the Cat Witcher live because I thought, "Surely, all dialog will lead to conflict and I'll be forced to kill him, but I wonder what he says if I pick this" At least I got his sweet sword and the letter about his school.
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Anyone else got hit with that Skellige music bug? I finished the King's Gambit quest and now anytime I load a game I have this really overwhelming music track playing from the coronation ceremony. The only way to kill it is to fast travel between the continent EVERY time you load a save. Might just wait for 1.07 and see if it fixes it.
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