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A site called RPG-Gaming has just put out a character builder that's up to date for Blood and Wine, which is great cos up til now I'd been using one that didn't even have the Heart of Stone changes in it. Just as an example, here's the build I'm gonna be shooting for after reading this post:10 Beers posted:I did a straight alchemy run with only the first heavy attack skill maxed, and it's ridiculous. My blade oils never wear off, and Grandmaster Wolf armor lets me have 3 oils on each sword. So I always have beast oil and hanged man's venom on my steel one, and always have necrophage oil on my silver sword, and had vampire oil on all the time during B&W. I can have 3 decoctions going all the time, they last forever, I have 9 of each bomb, and each bomb explodes into 6 other bombs. It's a really effective build. and realising that wolf armour might be a good set bonus after all, so I'm gonna take some of the ideas from that. ALCHEMY / COMBAT - EUPHORIA
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Do what the guy in this build did and combine the few pieces of armor that give max crit chance and damage. Combined with euphoria and hybrid combat/alchemy build you'll do monster damage.
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Is there anywhere where you can reliably get the archgriffin decoction recipe? I'm on NG+, nearly at the end quests, but I've missed that recipe so far. I've bought and read both books from the herbalist in Kaer Trolde, which have expanded my bestiary entries but haven't given me the decoction recipe. It's really frustrating because I want to switch to a Bear school build but I'm missing the best decoction to go with heavy armour. Edit: ignore this, I already have it. For some reason it's beneath the potions in my inventory screen rather than up the top with all the other decoctions. kim jong-illin fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Jul 12, 2016 |
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Jul 12, 2016 21:57
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Megazver posted:Do what the guy in this build did and combine the few pieces of armor that give max crit chance and damage. Combined with euphoria and hybrid combat/alchemy build you'll do monster damage. I finally, finally, after tons of grinding, made enough money to switch over from grandmaster manticore to grandmaster griffin w/ entanglement and freezing aard. Signs are fun as hell to mess with, and freezing aard is insane and I think better all around than the euphoria build, but euphoria is way better vs single target. I don't have to worry about getting hit anymore but doing water hag + succubus + that 50% damage from vit regen + gourmet + archgriffin for 5% vit damage on strong attacks was insane. I should run it in grandmaster ursine armor w/ the heavy armor skill for even more damage, but it's just crazy. 8k damage swings at level 45. How well do rend + archgriffin work together, not well?
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Megazver posted:Do what the guy in this build did and combine the few pieces of armor that give max crit chance and damage. Combined with euphoria and hybrid combat/alchemy build you'll do monster damage. Euphoria and thunderbolt will triple your damage anyway, it's the range enchantment that is really doing it for this guy. Nothing about the build prevents skull level enemies from one-shotting you, so being able to deal 10,000 damage from outside their striking range is more important than going from 3-hit kills to 2-hit kills.
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Jul 12, 2016 22:29
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jonnypeh posted:I just completed the story. What a great cliff-hanging ending that was, the one where Ciri becomes a witcher, but you don't realize it until the very last scene, especially after having told Emhyr that she died.. I was already doubting myself and asking: "where did I gently caress up, was I really such a poo poo (step)parent?" Witcher Ciri ending just doesn't feel right to me, I'm glad I got Empress Ciri.
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Jul 12, 2016 22:46
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Dr Snofeld posted:A site called RPG-Gaming has just put out a character builder that's up to date for Blood and Wine, which is great cos up til now I'd been using one that didn't even have the Heart of Stone changes in it. Just as an example, here's the build I'm gonna be shooting for after reading this post: 
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Jul 12, 2016 22:57
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I just had to share this infuriating moment I had collecting all the B&W gwent cards this afternoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2mxdTeYv5c loving unbelievable.
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Jul 12, 2016 22:59
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Sometimes the winning move is to not play a card.
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Jul 12, 2016 23:10
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Is there a reason to ever use my steel sword when my silver one does 3 times the damage?
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Jul 12, 2016 23:58
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Tequila Sunrise posted:Is there a reason to ever use my steel sword when my silver one does 3 times the damage? Silver deals heavily reduced damage to non-monsters.
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Jul 13, 2016 00:00
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Yeah I never understood why they made the silver sword damage numbers higher than steel.
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Jul 13, 2016 00:03
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The Duke posted:I just had to share this infuriating moment I had collecting all the B&W gwent cards this afternoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2mxdTeYv5c 
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Jul 13, 2016 00:40
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Wine Wars idiot #1: Help me! I'll pay you! Me: Haggles another 125 out of it Wine Wars idiot #2: No, Help me! I'll pay you more! Me: Attempts to haggle for an extra 150 Idiot #2: Stop trying to take advantage of me!!!!  Safety Factor posted:I'll say. You were ahead and both you and your opponent had one card left. Nilfgaard wins ties so you should've let them take that round if they were able to and won the last. Forgot about Nilf's cheesy rear end faction power! I realized right after I could have just won the 3rd round by passing and playing my extra card I would've gotten by winning round 2 since he wouldn't have poo poo on the last round. Still pretty loving lame though. The Duke fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jul 13, 2016 |
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Jul 13, 2016 00:42
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The Duke posted:I just had to share this infuriating moment I had collecting all the B&W gwent cards this afternoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2mxdTeYv5c Always assume the AI has a scorch. Because they almost always do.
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The Duke posted:I just had to share this infuriating moment I had collecting all the B&W gwent cards this afternoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2mxdTeYv5c learn how to bait out scorch early, gosh also theres literally no reason to play that catapult. he has a single card. if its a spy, you win. if its not a spy, you win next hand
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Tequila Sunrise posted:Is there a reason to ever use my steel sword when my silver one does 3 times the damage? And for god's sake get a new steel sword. The damage deficit should not be 3x.
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Jul 13, 2016 02:14
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unless its iris, the sword that just lets you literally heart-stab humanoid bosses
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chaosapiant posted:And for god's sake get a new steel sword. The damage deficit should not be 3x. I think it's only that much because I just forged some new Viper Silver Sword I found in a crypt. Also thank god for the Tamerian armor DLC, it was such a huge upgrade to my current stuff. I spent about an hour farming random poo poo just to sell so I could afford all of it.
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Jul 13, 2016 02:29
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Just got Whirl or whatever it's called and it doesn't seem very good, am I using it wrong? Just wasting all my adrenaline and stamina for damage I could be doing with fast attacks anyway.
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FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:Just got Whirl or whatever it's called and it doesn't seem very good, am I using it wrong? Just wasting all my adrenaline and stamina for damage I could be doing with fast attacks anyway. Spoilers for HoS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soMCiY0RvmE
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The Duke posted:Spoilers for HoS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soMCiY0RvmE
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Jul 13, 2016 02:43
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Posted a while back about Wolf School Armor. I collected all the maps and found all the armor except Part 1. Apparently Part 1 Wolf School Armor sometimes get glitchy and you can't open the chest in Kaer Morhen basically meaning I can't even upgrade the armor because I couldn't get my hands on the first set of armor anyways. Oh well, going to try the Cat School armor now.
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Jul 13, 2016 02:51
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Spin-to-Win is good for needing to dps in a small window of attack like the centipedes that you can only damage for like 5 seconds after trapping them.
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I started an NG+ Death March run the past few days My first playthrough I spammed Quen like a motherfucker, and I'm trying not to do that this time and use more of the other Signs and Potions upgrades On one hand each battle is exhilarating and exciting On the other hand I am very frequently learning I am a bad Witcher 3 player 
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21 Hoot Salute posted:
On the plus side, congrats on finding your balls since quen is for cowards. 
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Quen is a good safety net for counter-cuts. I wouldn't trust myself fighting one-hit enemies to ever use a quick attack stagger defensively without Quen up. It allows you to play more aggressively. Also Northern Wind.
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Arglebargle III posted:Quen is a good safety net for counter-cuts. I wouldn't trust myself fighting one-hit enemies to ever use a quick attack stagger defensively without Quen up. It allows you to play more aggressively. Also Northern Wind. I stand by my long held stance. As I've said the times I've used quen intentionally I can count on one hand.
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anyone on ps4 ever deal with the bug where the steel sword is invisible after you start NG+? is there any way to fix this beyond redoing the entire intro again without having that sword equipped?
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It'd be cool if they patched in the ability to hang the Iris painting and the Caretaker's Spade at Corvo Bianco, seems like an oversight. At least I could hang Starry Night 
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Jul 13, 2016 05:49
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I never realized until my current playthrough that Starry Night by Van Rogh was actually one of Iris's paintings under a pseudonym.
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e:Never mind.
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Verviticus posted:unless its iris, the sword that just lets you literally heart-stab humanoid bosses
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DoYouHasaRabbit posted:Posted a while back about Wolf School Armor. I collected all the maps and found all the armor except Part 1. Apparently Part 1 Wolf School Armor sometimes get glitchy and you can't open the chest in Kaer Morhen basically meaning I can't even upgrade the armor because I couldn't get my hands on the first set of armor anyways. Oh well, going to try the Cat School armor now. Cat School is nice armor, plus the School of the Cat witcher from one of the DLCs comments on it. Also  
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Arglebargle III posted:Quen is a good safety net for counter-cuts. I wouldn't trust myself fighting one-hit enemies to ever use a quick attack stagger defensively without Quen up. It allows you to play more aggressively. Also Northern Wind. Yeah, it's hard to use whirl against more than 1 opponent without Quen to absorb a hit as you wind up.
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I downloaded the Witcher Silver Sabres mod because they looked cool, but I've decided I don't like it (stats are too high). Can I safely remove the mod or will that do Bad Things to my savegame?
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RatHat posted:Yeah, it's hard to use whirl against more than 1 opponent without Quen to absorb a hit as you wind up. I do it all the time? WIth igni lighting everyone ablaze it's even easier. Make sure you're moving around as you whirl.
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Dr Snofeld posted:A site called RPG-Gaming has just put out a character builder that's up to date for Blood and Wine, which is great cos up til now I'd been using one that didn't even have the Heart of Stone changes in it. Just as an example, here's the build I'm gonna be shooting for after reading this post: My Vanilla/HoS build was essentially this: http://www.rpg-gaming.com/tw3.html?a=05155565a5b5f5g5&b=031521436393b5&c=33&l=00510a20f31141b51460670b80g900a01b23&m=02152238&u=a Where I played a little from time to time with what third sign thing I used, but that's about it. Kind of what I'm using atm in NG+, after mutagens. http://www.rpg-gaming.com/tw3.html?...&m=02152238&u=a I'm not sure about what the last upgrade I'm using is atm, I think it's the sustained glyphs, not sure. I'm kinda running out of things to use, but now that I see how awesome that Synergy is, i might have to invest in alchemy some more. Alchemy builds look like they'd be fun as gently caress. EDIT: I'll probably switch the Euphoria soon. The metamorphosis mutagen is kinda cool, but I have not really noticed anything. That could also be because even when I'm rocking 3 extra decoctions at no toxicity I notice no difference. JetsGuy fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jul 13, 2016 |
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Hah. I kept researching new mutations without realizing you can only activate one at a time. Lame. ... I can step outside the boundaries of Land of a Thousand Fables really reliably. Took my new friend for a tour of Touissant.
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Xander77 posted:Hah. I kept researching new mutations without realizing you can only activate one at a time. Lame. Thats consistent with the skill tree though. Also, don't forget the bonus of researching other mutagens in that the more you research the more of that center column that opens up for you.
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