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Comte please get us Vernon Roche romance DLC next thank you
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Jun 17, 2015 14:25
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Ugato posted:That and the innkeeper, her nose and face bloody from repeatedly being smashed against the table - as she was reaching for a knife - is the one that recoils in horror after I stop the lady from killing her and defend myself by killing people who want to kill me. Then continues to call me murder in Novigrad. gently caress you lady. Next time I let you get your skull caved in slowly. But they were just some good ol' Temerian boys! Cut down in their prime! MURDERER! She is a total rear end in a top hat. Maybe I'll just let her get hosed up next playthrough.
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Jun 17, 2015 14:27
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I liked how she tries to incite a mob against you but nobody actually cares, they're just mad that some rabble is ruining Priscilla's performance.
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Jun 17, 2015 14:52
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moot the hopple posted:Are other people finding blacksmiths in general really buggy? Most that I come across are noninteractive unless I meditate for an hour first, but for a couple smith that's not a guaranteed fix. Some smiths won't even appear in their designated spot during the day hours unless I rest. They're busy blacksmithing! Jesus can't a man practice his trade without some gross nerd monster slayer bugging him for some ridiculously dangerous and probably illegal crossbow bolts?
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Jun 17, 2015 14:58
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Aw, the Wolf School stuff is medium armor? I'm pretty married to light armor thanks to Cat School Techniques and it's tough to give up an extra 20% damage on my fast attacks even if the Wolf School gear looks great.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:00
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moot the hopple posted:Are other people finding blacksmiths in general really buggy? Most that I come across are noninteractive unless I meditate for an hour first, but for a couple smith that's not a guaranteed fix. Some smiths won't even appear in their designated spot during the day hours unless I rest. only 2 bugged merchants i know are the smith in the square in novigrad who will not show up without meditating, and the herbalist in the velen refugee camp abandoned site. The herbalist works the first time, and then after that i can interact with him but never go to the store menu.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:05
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Honestly, none of the generic armor school talents are probably better than any individual five point talent you could put in that slot. Its just a question of the getting the points to do it.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:05
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Woozy posted:Honestly, none of the generic armor school talents are probably better than any individual five point talent you could put in that slot. Its just a question of the getting the points to do it. That's true. I guess the other thing is that the Mastercrafted Feline armor stacks up so much attack power all on its own that I can't imagine wearing anything else. The Wolf swords are pretty sweet, though.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:07
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mastercrafted wolf armour looks great, witcher 2 style jacket and herb pouch, just what i wanted.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:08
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Broken Cog posted:30 hours in and already at that part? You must have rushed the main story like nothing else. I did most of the important side quest but little to no contracts or general exploration, so yes.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:08
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I completed the Practicum in Advanced Alchemy quest yesterday and now I am so poor holy poo poo. I'd been not giving a poo poo about money for so long that I didn't realize how much it would cost me to buy the recipes and craft superior potions and bombs.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:12
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Still just gently caress you forever if you're not playing Death March wearing a generic Harlequin romance linen shirt.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:13
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Relin posted:So irt the ending of the Witcher, is that a vision of the past or the future? NotAbigail implies skullheads are descendants and Alvin shows Geralt a frozen Vizima, BUT the book entry on skullheads say that they are long extinct monsters. So my thinking is he got whipped in to the past, then created the area in his mind to try to convince Geralt because it coincided with the Age of Frost or w/e that myth is. The White Frost is pretty much just an ice age, I wouldn't pay too much attention to what kind of monsters are running around. It's definitely supposed to be a vision of the future.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:21
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Ugh where the hell are all the superior potion recipes? None of the vendors seem to sell them and I'll be damned if I'm gonna sail around Skellige trying to open them from random chests.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:21
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:Ugh where the hell are all the superior potion recipes? None of the vendors seem to sell them and I'll be damned if I'm gonna sail around Skellige trying to open them from random chests. For a lot of them, you get them from doing the Practicum in Advanced Alchemy quest in Skellige. I think you can unlock it by asking herbalists about a master alchemist.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:22
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Harrow posted:Aw, the Wolf School stuff is medium armor? I'm pretty married to light armor thanks to Cat School Techniques and it's tough to give up an extra 20% damage on my fast attacks even if the Wolf School gear looks great. Cat School+Light Armor gets you the most sword DPS even with few/no points in the attack tree, it's really hard to justify anything else if you're shooting for big numbers that isn't based on cheesing Igni. Cat+Light with enough points in alchemy to get the toxicity and mutagen buff traits makes you a double-decoctin' god. Ekhidna+Archgriffin=press heavy attack to win. I'm hoping that once the DLC is out and I'm doing another playthough there's been some sort of balance pass.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:24
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Harrow posted:For a lot of them, you get them from doing the Practicum in Advanced Alchemy quest in Skellige. I think you can unlock it by asking herbalists about a master alchemist. I didn't even need to do the quest - there's a vendor near the quest starter who sold them for me.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:24
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Cephalocidal posted:Cat School+Light Armor gets you the most sword DPS even with few/no points in the attack tree, it's really hard to justify anything else if you're shooting for big numbers that isn't based on cheesing Igni. Cat+Light with enough points in alchemy to get the toxicity and mutagen buff traits makes you a double-decoctin' god. Ekhidna+Archgriffin=press heavy attack to win. I'm hoping that once the DLC is out and I'm doing another playthough there's been some sort of balance pass. That's exactly what I'm doing--well, without the Archgriffin decoction, because I haven't gotten the mutagen for it yet. The Ekhidna decoction is insane already.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:26
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Harrow posted:For a lot of them, you get them from doing the Practicum in Advanced Alchemy quest in Skellige. I think you can unlock it by asking herbalists about a master alchemist. I did that quest and he doesn't sell any of the potion/bomb/oil recipes (whatever he had I bought), just a bunch of glyph/runestone ones. I'm kind of annoyed by the whole alchemy process, I've probably spent more money and time hunting down the ingredients to make White Gull than I have any other single task.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:26
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:I did that quest and he doesn't sell any of the potion/bomb/oil recipes (whatever he had I bought), just a bunch of glyph/runestone ones. I'm kind of annoyed by the whole alchemy process, I've probably spent more money and time hunting down the ingredients to make White Gull than I have any other single task. That's weird. I bought superior Grapeshot, Devil's Puffball, Dancing Star, Samum, Swallow, Thunderbolt, Blizzard, and Tawny Owl from him. He also had a shitload of runestones. And yeah, making White Gull is a pain. I did that yesterday, too.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:28
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WoodrowSkillson posted:only 2 bugged merchants i know are the smith in the square in novigrad Assuming you mean the armourer in hierarch square - he is never there for me whenever I visit either. But if I walk up to the money changer guy a few doors down he instantly appears, even if I don't talk to the money changer. The guy in the market round the corner from Hierarch square, the one that crafts swords, is never there until I meditate right outside the shop. And then he usually won't talk to me until I run around for a bit then go back to him. Really weird. Other than these two all the merchants seem fine for me.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:32
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Harrow posted:That's weird. I bought superior Grapeshot, Devil's Puffball, Dancing Star, Samum, Swallow, Thunderbolt, Blizzard, and Tawny Owl from him. He also had a shitload of runestones. Eh,
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Jun 17, 2015 15:34
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Harrow posted:That's true. I guess the other thing is that the Mastercrafted Feline armor stacks up so much attack power all on its own that I can't imagine wearing anything else. For the swords I am leaning a Perun (+5% Adrenaline gain), a Chernobog (+5% Attack Power), and a Veles (+5% Sign Intensity); or simply loading up on three of each of one of those (most likely three Veles because sign intensity is my weakest aspect), but I like the idea of enhancing my adrenaline gain and attack power a bit more (synergizing with my armor and sword perks) and adding a little sign intensity for variety's sake. For the armor I am not seeing many options and am thinking Greater Glyphs of Quen in all 7 slots since I use Quen so much out of laziness, but I am open to other suggestions. In other news I have 3 skill points to assign and do not know what to go with - I have the first two fast attack skills and three points in Battle Trance (-20% adrenaline loss on hits taken per point), and enough alchemy skills to have tier 4 alchemy skills available, but they all seem underwhelming now that I am here. I guess since I have 9 bombs a slot I might as well take Cluster Bombs? Also the only "General" skill I have is "Cat School Techniques" - are there any that stand out as really good/useful that I should be using?
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Jun 17, 2015 15:40
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Harrow posted:That's exactly what I'm doing--well, without the Archgriffin decoction, because I haven't gotten the mutagen for it yet. The Ekhidna decoction is insane already. I figure the health regen on that has to be a bug/misplaced decimal point. There's no way it's intentional that you can jump five times or igni once or whirl once to restore your whole health bar.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:42
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Harrow posted:That's exactly what I'm doing--well, without the Archgriffin decoction, because I haven't gotten the mutagen for it yet. The Ekhidna decoction is insane already. Archgriffin is nuts. Any strong attack you make uses up 100% of your stamina (if you have any) and adds a flat 10% of the max health of whatever you're hitting to the damage you deal to it. So if you've got high stamina regen (like from, say, wearing light armor or having lots of points in signs or both) you're cleaving through enemies and healing yourself for huge chunks of health at the same time. There's another decoction (Wraith, I think) that auto-Quens if you ever take a hit for 1/3 of your health or more. With all the potions and the +30 tox general trait and the +threshold trait you can run all three at once without bleeding health, at which point you're capable of face-tanking skull level cyclopes on DM with one button.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:45
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:I did that quest and he doesn't sell any of the potion/bomb/oil recipes (whatever he had I bought), just a bunch of glyph/runestone ones. I'm kind of annoyed by the whole alchemy process, I've probably spent more money and time hunting down the ingredients to make White Gull than I have any other single task. Go to the vendor that's like, right next to him. If the recipes aren't there, maybe there is a level component to vendor stock? I know I had found at least one superior recipe in a random chest before I bought them, so that's a possibility.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:45
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Just stack same-type critical effects on weapons, imo. Poison and bleed for steel swords and freeze and burn on silver swords. Fill in any gaps with attack power on silver and armor piercing on steel. It couldn't matter less though because even DM combat is totally trivialized by the time you get to Act 2.
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Jun 17, 2015 15:49
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Finally finished this, after a whopping 80 hours. Managed to get what's probably one of the more satisfying endings: Ciri surviving and witchering it up, while Geralt actually settles down with Triss up north. Perhaps he'll be the second Witcher to die in bed  . I'm a bit torn whether it might not have been better if Ciri had ended up as the Nilfgaardian empress, but I think with his line being pretty much extinguished Emhyr won't have much cause to continue with his wars of expansion, so there's a good chance for relative peace either way. I really hadn't expected things to end on such a positive note.It really was a top-notch experience all around. The scenes with Geralt dad-ing it up with Ciri were pretty much pure gold.
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Jun 17, 2015 16:00
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Slightly off topic but the quest designer for Bloody Baron is probably now a quest designer on Horizon, that open world rpg that was shown at the Sony Conference https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dennis-zoetebier/5/12a/859?trk=biz_employee_pub Says he's working on an unannounced title at Guerrilla Games, but he may have just not updated his profile yet
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Jun 17, 2015 17:03
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I need to stop doing side quests. As awesome as the game in I'm beginning to suffer burnout.
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Jun 17, 2015 17:28
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ZombieLenin posted:I need to stop doing side quests. As awesome as the game in I'm beginning to suffer burnout. I finished all of mine and now I'm sad because the game is going to end. I have found lots of areas that seem related to quests I don't have though. I wonder if I've missed some or if they are primed for future content.
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Jun 17, 2015 17:30
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Cephalocidal posted:That was my first thought, re: pitchforks. Second thought: that's basically a lightly armored doublet. So... Geralt was killed by a doublet in his past life. Now it's all starting to make sense...
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Jun 17, 2015 17:33
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If I could turn this into a critique of the game, I will say this. Many of the side quests have too many components and, particularly after spending 10 hours running doing Novigrad's quests, these components seem to pretty drat heavy on fetching multiple things on opposite sides of maps.
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Jun 17, 2015 17:34
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What runes do people use in their equipment?ZombieLenin posted:If I could turn this into a critique of the game, I will say this. Many of the side quests have too many components and, particularly after spending 10 hours running doing Novigrad's quests, these components seem to pretty drat heavy on fetching multiple things on opposite sides of maps.
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Jun 17, 2015 17:56
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ZombieLenin posted:I need to stop doing side quests. As awesome as the game in I'm beginning to suffer burnout. Same here. I have no desire to run around the island map and there is so much left open there. I went back to the main quest. Now I'm just getting the Witcher gear and I plan on finishing the game when I have all that. If I can finish any side quest on the way that's fine, but I'm not going out of my way.
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Jun 17, 2015 18:09
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This game is really, really good. I just like wandering about and looking at things while travelling between places because it's so pretty.
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Jun 17, 2015 18:11
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isle of mists/assault on khaer morhen fails the plot to kill radovid sidequest nooooOOOO i wanted to see how that turned out
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Jun 17, 2015 18:12
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my new dog posted:isle of mists/assault on khaer morhen fails the plot to kill radovid sidequest nooooOOOO i wanted to see how that turned out It's almost like the notice about quests relating to important characters failing after Isle of Mists wasn't just a joke by CDPR!
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Jun 17, 2015 18:34
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I'm still in novigrad, and I'm thinking that since I'm on normal, I'll power through the rest of the game and start a DM playthrough where I do all the side quests. I don't want to burn myself out too soon.
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Jun 17, 2015 18:49
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I have the Ugly Baby next in my main quest queue - do I have to worry about finishing any side quests before that?
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Jun 17, 2015 18:53
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