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Delacroix posted:There are lots of recipes that require pieces of equipment and they are varied enough that there is no one true armour set. I prioritise DoT resistance because bleeding is obnoxious and a killer on death march. Casting Quen will immediately stop any DoTs on you, I think?
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:I won't say you're wrong about needing two points because I honestly have no clue either way, but the text for the second point in Delusion only mentions reduced casting time without saying it strengthens Witcher mind trick further. While I might be expecting too much specificity from the skill descriptions, that's where the vagueness/confusion comes for me. The only reason I know is prior to gaining those points I kept running into Axii options that said Axii: Requires Delusion 2, Delusion being the name of the first Axii skill. I never saw 3, so that's just an assumption on my part, but I think Delusion 3 just gives better intensity and the stagger on stun failure.
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May 21, 2015 11:56
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Autonomous Monster posted:Casting Quen will immediately stop any DoTs on you, I think? Does it? I'm not using Quen under any circumstances so it's a moot point. 
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May 21, 2015 11:56
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I wished that delusion was a true passive instead of having to be equipped. It's annoying sometimes to constantly have to switch it out in the skill tree whenever I walk up to a chump.
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May 21, 2015 11:57
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Orv posted:The only reason I know is prior to gaining those points I kept running into Axii options that said Axii: Requires Delusion 2, Delusion being the name of the first Axii skill. I never saw 3, so that's just an assumption on my part, but I think Delusion 3 just gives better intensity and the stagger on stun failure. Weird, thanks! Two points it is, then.
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May 21, 2015 12:00
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Elderbean posted:That Jenny O' The Woods fight is hard as gently caress, putting it off for now. Make sure you always refresh your Yrden also, it'll do a dash through you just as it runs out every time. Just get it in your circle and fast attack it like mad until its out of the circle, back off and repeat. Once I started going on the offensive it was pretty easy actually.
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May 21, 2015 12:01
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Delacroix posted:Does it? I know I've done it with burning, and I'm fairly certain with poison. Bleeding I'm not sure about, I don't think I've ever been hit with that one. Delacroix posted:I'm not using Quen under any circumstances so it's a moot point.  Relying on Quen for defence is a bad idea, but there's no reason not to throw it on before a fight just in case. It's not as if it blocks stamina regen like in 2.
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May 21, 2015 12:03
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I set the fps cap to unlimited and also changed the setting to perform max performance in the nvidia control panel and haven't had a crash in over 5 hours. Before doing that I had about 4 in four hours all while in inventory.
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May 21, 2015 12:06
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Quen is a crutch and I refuse to use it in most situations simply because I'd much rather spend the stamina on kickass stuff like Aard and Igni. That said I do use Quen on enemy types where the beastiary recommends it, such as Foglings. I can't recommend the Frenzy alchemy skill enough, whenever you have toxicity it gives you a really nice bullet time effect that lets you dodge big attacks and it really helps you perfect your game without Quen. The tier 1 oils skill is also really nice to have because it increases your chance to poison when using oils and who doesn't love poisoning monsters? It's also worth noting that 3 alchemy skills with a greater green mutagen equals an extra 450 vitality which is a huge boon to your survival and they all help to increase the length of your potions. I run swallow and tawny oil in my quick slots and usually go into my inventory to pop a thunderbolt before fights (my thunderbolt lasts almost 3 minutes with my current skills). I started my game on death march but put it back down to broken bones because of loving drowners but my next game will definitely be on death march for that extra challenge.
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May 21, 2015 12:09
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Demiurge4 posted:Quen is a crutch What difficulty are you on?
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May 21, 2015 12:20
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I've found a blocked corridor with boulders shining yellow to witcher senses with icon looking like a spiral with rays. Any idea what can I do with it?
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May 21, 2015 12:20
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Orv posted:What difficulty are you on? Second hardest, liberal use of dodge and roll keeps me safe (also bullet time). alex314 posted:I've found a blocked corridor with boulders shining yellow to witcher senses with icon looking like a spiral with rays. Any idea what can I do with it? Probably an illusion. You get a quest item later that lets you dispel these. Check out the bogs.
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May 21, 2015 12:21
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Demiurge4 posted:Probably an illusion. You get a quest item later that lets you dispel these. Check out the bogs. Many thanks, I hope I can go back to that place, it's a cave with elven sorcerer boss battle. e: got that item you've mentioned from quest companion. alex314 fucked around with this message at 12:34 on May 21, 2015 |
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May 21, 2015 12:23
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Demiurge4 posted:Second hardest, liberal use of dodge and roll keeps me safe (also bullet time). Yeah I've mostly been using Quen when going up against things that can one-shot me, and I just got the dodge invincibility trait maxed, so I shouldn't need it too much more.
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May 21, 2015 12:24
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So how viable is an Igni + Adrenaline stuff mage build on normal difficulty? I'm waiting for one or two more patches and maybe DLC to drop before playing.
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May 21, 2015 12:27
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Orv posted:Yeah I've mostly been using Quen when going up against things that can one-shot me, and I just got the dodge invincibility trait maxed, so I shouldn't need it too much more. That skill is really ridiculously good against skull level monsters because you won't take any damage against stuff like griffins or cockatrices when they wing sweep you while you're alt dodging, it entirely eliminates the need to roll backwards, it's great. Edit: What does adrenaline actually do? The tutorial said they're for combo's but how do I do a combo?
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May 21, 2015 12:30
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Does playing on the hardest difficulty give you better drops? I watched a bit of the prerelease GoG stream last week and when he was fighting the griffon he started off on the hardest difficulty setting, then turned it down and he mentioned something about not being able to get a certain drop. Is that something that made it into the final game or am I misremembering/misheard what he said?
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May 21, 2015 12:32
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sauer kraut posted:So how viable is an Igni + Adrenaline stuff mage build on normal difficulty? Igni is nice, especially in its second form (which is really useful for single targets.) However Aard is way better when it works, which is often with a mage style build.
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May 21, 2015 12:33
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Demiurge4 posted:That skill is really ridiculously good against skull level monsters because you won't take any damage against stuff like griffins or cockatrices when they wing sweep you while you're alt dodging, it entirely eliminates the need to roll backwards, it's great. Some of the skills you can learn will allow you to use adrenaline to do special attack,s but I haven't done much with them. There's also a hidden feature, which is that you do more damage the more adrenaline you have, but I don't know how significant it is.
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May 21, 2015 12:37
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Oh Dandelion, you've been busy. 
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May 21, 2015 12:39
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You can also get the general tree Rage Management skill that lets you use adrenaline points to cast signs if your stamina isn't full. Speaking of which I am retarded and didn't realize skills don't work unless you have them slotted 
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May 21, 2015 12:43
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Really, Captain Ghostkisser didn't even have like, five crowns to his name? A gold ring? Motherfucker doesn't need it anymore, c'mon! 
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I'm really enjoying my combat mage build, I'm only level 10 so just have both of the top two filled. I've got greater blue and red mutagens along with 3 of each colour slotted, the 40% sign intensity bonus is great - flamethrower igni sets everyone on fire meaning you can get a load of hits in, and I found a sword that has 20% chance to set enemies on fire so everyone is  the whole time.
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Autonomous Monster posted:I know I've done it with burning, and I'm fairly certain with poison. Bleeding I'm not sure about, I don't think I've ever been hit with that one. I'll keep that in mind for my second playthrough! I'm not using Quen as a matter of choice. I'm a silly goofball who wants to finish death march without using it. Besides, it doesn't solve the TW2 holdovers of awful telegraphing on monsters and absence of a true guard breaker. I prefer Yrden for damage avoidance due to those reasons. Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Some of the skills you can learn will allow you to use adrenaline to do special attack,s but I haven't done much with them. There's also a hidden feature, which is that you do more damage the more adrenaline you have, but I don't know how significant it is. It's an extra 10% damage for each pip. It's nice in a long fight where you want to squeeze in any boosts.
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Seeing a lot of people say they're not using Quen for Death March. Is there an achievement for that or is just a personal challenge?
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I like to cast Quen when I see an enemy in the distance. That way I'm shielded, the stamina regens almost immediately since combat hasn't started yet, and I can switch to a different sign. Then I just use Quen as an "oh poo poo" button.
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I noticed enemies can accidentally hit and even kill their friends with projectiles, that's a nice touch. Had a bandit leader down to almost no health and he caught a crossbow bolt from his buddy to the back and died.
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ghetto wormhole posted:I noticed enemies can accidentally hit and even kill their friends with projectiles, that's a nice touch. Had a bandit leader down to almost no health and he caught a crossbow bolt from his buddy to the back and died. Now try headshotting bandits with your crossbow.
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Jesus the outcomes of your choices in this game are a hell of a lot harder to parse out than in Witcher 2. I decided to free the spirit under the tree so it would help the children in Crookback Bog, that I assumed were fueling some unholy witch stuff. It did rescue the children but now it burned down almost all of Downwarren, the Crones put a deadly curse on Anna, and after she dies the Baron hangs himself. Anyone else get a happier ending to that shitshow?
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ghetto wormhole posted:I noticed enemies can accidentally hit and even kill their friends with projectiles, that's a nice touch. Had a bandit leader down to almost no health and he caught a crossbow bolt from his buddy to the back and died. I cleared out an entire band of ??-level renegades by positioning myself so there was a crossbowman taking out all of his comrades. Then I finished by reflecting a bolt into him as well. RedneckwithGuns posted:Jesus the outcomes of your choices in this game are a hell of a lot harder to parse out than in Witcher 2. I decided to free the spirit under the tree so it would help the children in Crookback Bog, that I assumed were fueling some unholy witch stuff. It did rescue the children but now it burned down almost all of Downwarren, the Crones put a deadly curse on Anna, and after she dies the Baron hangs himself. Edit: Also, if you don't rescue him, the crones eat the children. The spirit isn't exactly evil, the bad stuff happening as a result is mostly because of the Crones. Broken Cog fucked around with this message at 13:18 on May 21, 2015 |
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EDIT:Oh, since it was the last thing I did last night, my Geralt now has a Leon Kennedy hairstyle because he went to a drunk barber. Coin well spent. Poetic Justice posted:I set the fps cap to unlimited and also changed the setting to perform max performance in the nvidia control panel and haven't had a crash in over 5 hours. Before doing that I had about 4 in four hours all while in inventory. OK, I just tried this, and with vsync on to prevent menus from running at literally thousands of FPS (typically causes havoc with GPUs), the game immediately seems more responsive than setting the hard cap at 30 or 60, even with vsync on. It's like input latency is somehow dramatically reduced or something. This is only jumping right into the game, so I can't say anything about stability, but I had the same problems with freezing/crashing in menus. I'll report back if anything else pops up. Oh, and for those wondering, since vsync can often cause huge dips when you cannot maintain a given framerate, The Witcher 3 buffers the frame updates, so if you can't maintain 60, don't worry about it. Just set framerate to unlimited, and turn on vsync, if you can only get 50, you will still get 50, and most importantly it will FEEL like 50. Hell, just quickly jumping in an 50 without the artificial 60 cap enabled and it feels even more like 50 than it did prior. This is especially true in those Graphic Novel scenes, which run at 30 but looked and stuttered prior to just setting framerate to unlimited. So even if this doesn't help my stability, thanks for this. Kiggles fucked around with this message at 13:29 on May 21, 2015 |
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Some of the skirmishy/inconsequential fights I like to spam Quen liberally and laugh at the dumb monsters/people as their own attacks end up bitch slapping them back in the face. I'm also still not used to the alt dodge and instinctively use roll way more than i probably have to.
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Jesus Christ Geralt, calm the gently caress down! After getting into a barfight and leaving White Orchard, not as soon as I left the palace did I get into a another scrape looking for the imperial spy. I tried to play it cool and offer everyone a round. Then said we could go our separate ways. One of the options, when asked where your going is "not your concern" or something similar. Geralt turns around slowly, emphasizing every word: "Is it just me, or is that none of your loving business" and murdered them. WTF Geralt!
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chaosapiant posted:Jesus Christ Geralt, calm the gently caress down! Options in the dialog are ruder than they appear. :itisacaranalogy:
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What's the Gwent card I need to get before leaving White Orchard?Comte de Saint-Germain posted:I'm putting all my political capital into making the silver monocle from the prologue wearable. One thing at a time. Make a HUD option to remove floating numbers TIA. I've played 100 hours of Witcher EE and Witcher 2 and never had floating numbers in those games.
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I'm getting a 640 MB patch on Galaxy! Yay! It's downloading at 100 kilobytes per second! Not yay!
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patch just hit:quote:Changelog: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Patch 1.03 changelog: wonder how good the performance increases are!
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Please tell me someone has heard something about being able to zoom the camera out. Also the movement being such a pain in the arse but I appreciate that's much more complex to change.
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RedneckwithGuns posted:Jesus the outcomes of your choices in this game are a hell of a lot harder to parse out than in Witcher 2. I decided to free the spirit under the tree so it would help the children in Crookback Bog, that I assumed were fueling some unholy witch stuff. It did rescue the children but now it burned down almost all of Downwarren, the Crones put a deadly curse on Anna, and after she dies the Baron hangs himself. I'm not sure on how it all works, but I ended the curse rather than killing the botchling and killed the Tree Spirit. The kids all died, which made me sad, but Anna - the wife - lives but goes crazy. Later on you go Witch Hunting with the Baron and you save Anna and kill the beast. The Baron seems to calm down a lot and swears that he will take the wife to the ends of the earth if it means she gets the help she needs. The daughter gets really confused and whatnot. I'm just wrapping up Novigrad so I haven't got to see if there's more of an impact later. chaosapiant posted:Jesus Christ Geralt, calm the gently caress down! A lot of the time you don't have a choice in who wants to fight you. Ability points in delusion are the exception. I really like the way the signs work in combat. Quen is OP, but there are lots of instances where it's just not viable (take for instance large packs of enemies where Igni and it's cone of effect can be more useful or Axii and it's "get hosed stop hitting me" effect can be more useful). I also like how different enemies need different tactics to beat. I dislike how so many of the non-wraith bosses seem to be really similar. Quen, hit-hit, lose Quen, hide for regen, rinse-repeat.
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