>Playing Witcher 3 DLC >Get Plans for Grandmaster Ursine

you're in the wrong for playing shit open world games with fetch quests

Is it true that the wild hunt are aliens?

>cheating
>not using superior wolf armor

you suck dick on multiple fronts

>>376896641

As opposed to playing what?

>>376896721

Ursine is one of the best looking sets, easily.

you can easily tens of thousands of crowns just fucking around in skellige collecting hidden treasures and selling them

>>376896728
Diablo 2

>>376896602
Your supposed to gether the materials needed over the levels you need to get too. If you didnt go full retard and started crafting all sets on one non new game+ playthrough then you should have what you need. Maybe a few pieces needed for those grandmaster sets but, the stores in Toussant have what you need.

>>376896719
no, theyre from a different dimension
like most races and monsters in the games and books

>>376896721
worst witcher gear in the game. who the fuck needs 3 oils

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>>376896972

>Playing Grind: the game

>>376897020

>Playing in Toussaint
>Not using Griffin to look like a knight

>>376896972

I've played 200+ hours of Diablo 2
What's wrong with playing Witcher 3 which in general consensus is considered worth playing?

>>376897029
>not playing the objectively greatest game ever

>>376896987
Pretty much this. By the time I reached the lvl of the armor, I only missed a couple of ingredients that I could make myself or buy directly in the crafting screen.

Also, Griffin is best set.

>>376896602
It's a single player game, just play how you want to play. But yes, you are a faggot for doing it.

>>376896719

no just inter dimensional elves

>>376896602
>Playing Witcher 3 DLC
>Get Plans for Grandmaster Ursine armor
>Im a huge autistic faggot and want the game to be as easy as possible so obviously i need to upgrade my already overpowered witcher set immediately
>Roughly estimate how much time and gold it would take to farm the materials through monotonous tasks
>Use console command to spawn in set instead to save myself 5+ hours so I can continue the main story

Also:
>so I can continue the main story
>can
At which point does a main story require top tier witcher set? Confirmed turboautist, kys.

I didnt craft a single fucking item on my previous death march playthrough, witcher sets are literal babby-mode cancer.

>>376896602

lol scrub

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>>376896602
>using armor that is not Manticore or white shirt

Yes you are very wrong.

>>376897171

If you were even half as good as you think you are you wouldn't get hit at all and armour would just be an aesthetic choice.

>>376896602
Depends what you want out of the game. If you're in it mainly for the story and looking cool then it wouldn't matter to you personally unless the set has some epic story behind gathering all the pieces.

I was playing through Splinter Cell Blacklist but halfway through the game, it started getting tedious and I was only interested in finishing the story by that point. I considered just watching a movie version of it on youtube but decided to just trudge on through since I already had it installed.

>>376897171
this post is cancer

>>376897261
>If you were even half as good as you think you are

>Witcher 3
>having anything to do with good

Only challenging fights in the game are in hearts of stone DLC, rest can be considered more or less filler. Witcher sets and weapons just remove the requirement to pay attention in combat, you can literally just R1spam everything to death.

>>376897141
A specialized sign build is my favorite way to go so Griffin set is the best for my build but, that horrinle diarrhea green color. Thank God for the dyes Blood and Wine introduced.

>>376897171

>Autistic
>Not wanting to spend time doing repetitive tasks so you can spend more time on the main game

Do you know the actual symptoms of autism?
An autistic person is more likely to spend their time farming the gear.

>>376897530

You'd have to be a downy to misinterpret that sentence

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>tfw

>>376897594

Who the fuck is so shit at the game they need to farm for diagrams? You get nearly all of them during quests.

>>376896602
>wearing this armor in Toussaint
[sweating intesifies]

>>376896602
eh, you're fine. I didn't bother with crafting armor and swords at all. You'll always get better shit from looting enemies/chests.

>>376897286
was it worth it?

>>376897594
Again, at which point in the game does main story progression require you to have top tier witcher set?

>>376896602
I used the console for certain schemata and ingredients like the troll liver. Fuck that randomly generated shit, and the game gives me the two most useful oils (necrophage and hanged mans) always at last. Also fuck ingredient farming, even with the icl mod it takes forever.

Weirdly enough I did have more than enough gold and mats for my grandmaster set, though.

>>376897254
>playing on easy difficulty
wow

>>376896719
More or less
The witcher 3 gets really far out near the end of the main campaign

>>376897683

You really don't, all the late set require rare ore or monster parts you need to go out of your way for to get.

>>376896972
kek

>>376896602
If you're already in Tousaint and don't have 200k, you fucked up somewhere.

>>376897836

It doesn't, but I got tired of wearing clown suits and liked the look of the Ursine set.

>>376897871
>implying
Played on death march.

Not really. Maybe if the game was fun, and hunting down armor or obtaining the materials was interesting or took you to neat locales.

But they don't, and it isn't. Also the end result (continuing the main quest) is garbage too for that matter, so you lose by default either way, same as me.

should I play with keyboard or controller?

couldn't stand the consolized controls in W2 after coming off W1

>>376898108
>couldn't stand the consolized controls in W2
Same in W3

>>376897815
Hes talking about the grandmaster ursine set. As in witcher gear, the best gear in the game. Hardly any drops you get will ever surpass witcher gear. Maybe only that special olfieri sword or the Tesha Mutna sets. Even those depend on when you grab them.

>>376897094
>not just wearing your tourney armor.

>>376896602
>Not having dozens of relic swords you can sell for mad dosh at that point
Doing it wrong, senpai.

>>376898062
So you CAN continue main story without wasting 5 hours farming an overpowered unnecessary set? Imagine that! and no need to use cheats either, problem solved!

>>376896602
Yes, you get all the gold you need just by doing the blood and wine quests and selling all your shit.

If you clear out the three major bandit camps and sell all the shit you get that should get you enough money.

>>376898108
Why couldn't you stand them? It's not like Quen requires combos or some shit.

What game do you imagine this is?

>>376898226
grandmaster witcher armor is better than any other armor in the game, but you can get better steel and silver swords so you won't get the bonus for 6 pieces only the bonus for 3 pieces

>>376897094
Griffin makes Geralt look chubby

>>376897828
The ending was pretty shit gameplay wise because at the very end you're basically forced to sneak behind the final boss to trigger a cutscene fight and then press F enough to not fail the QTE to finish the game. Should've watched a youtube movie and not wasted so much time playing through the missions/10.

And all my bitching about the missions is because they didn't introduce anything new after the first half of the game. It's just throwing more guys at you after every mission. Overall it was a 6/10 stealth game for me as that's what I was looking to play for when I picked it up.

>>376896602
>he can't into inventory management
>ishygddt

>>376898108
>W2 controls were consolized

You realize Witcher 2 was originally a PC exclusive right? It didn't get ported to consoles until a year after its launch. How could the controls in that game be consolized if it was meant to be a PC exclusive? Are you retarded?

Also 3 has pretty similar controls to 1, I much prefer KMB to a pad.

>>376898416
*3 has similar controls to 2, sorry, not 1

>>376898274

It's not about not being able to complete the main story without Witcher gear. It's about wanting the gear but not spending 5 hours away from the actually interesting content of the game.

>>376896972
Weird that you added a number at the end of Diablo.
Almost as if you think super fast lootfest is better than one of the most tense and atmospheric dungeon crawlers ever.

It doesn't matter because Quen is the only armor you need, so all outfits are cosmetic anyway.

Armor matters as much in TW3 as it does in FFXV.

>>376898491
people complain about quen so much but if you're bad enough to constantly get hit and wait for quen to recharge and cheese the whole game like that then you're a bad faggot who intentionally is not having fun because you suck.

I'm around a third of the game but

>weapons and armor break sorta quickly
>the repair costs are extremely pricy
>I barely have shit of gold


what do

>>376898416
>How could the controls in that game be consolized if it was meant to be a PC exclusive
Not implying Witcher 2 has consolized controls, don't even remember if it did. Probably didn't. But
>implying Devs can't decide to design a game with gamepad in mind regardless of whether it is pc exclsuive or not.
Are you fucking retarded

>>376898491
Witcher gear gets you big bonuses to damage/magic/alchemy as well as special abilities so it's worth getting, armor isn't just defense.

>>376897910
>you need to go out of your way for to get.
>need to go out of your way
I'm pretty sure a Witcher killing monsters isnt going "out of your way"

>>376898108
kb&m
Make sure to install the mod which removes the softlock and don't use the hardlock on at all.

This mod is a gamechanger, it turns the god-awful asscreed/batman combat into full charatcer control combat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ1959hkgMQ

>>376898491
if you use your stamina only for quen you won't be able to dispose of crowds with igni/aard and won't be able to do the whirlpool speed attack

>>376898597
Loot weapons and armor from every corpse, sell everything you get.

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>>376898609
>implying witcher 2 was designed with gamepad in mind

>>376896972
TOPEST KEKUS

>>376896602
>Am I in the wrong?
you're playing the witcher 3, so yes

>>376896602
the main story is the only good part. everything else is boring busy work to pad out the playtime

>>376897117

>Diablo II
>Objectively greatest game

You must have awful taste

>>376898560
The combat sucks and is riddled with technical issues.

Quen is an exploitable obtainable early in the game, and Death March is piss easy. That's called bad game design and it stands out, if nothing more as a testament to how little fucks the developers cared.

TW3 wasn't designed by video game developers, it was designed by filmmakers. 450,000 lines of voiced dialogue and they couldn't even write a good story. What irony.

>>376898597
>weapons and armor break sorta quickly
>the repair costs are extremely pricy
I didn't really find that it breaks quickly. But I gotta say, it depends on what you hit I guess.
But the repair costs are around +100 shekels iirc which is totally fine. Unless you really go deep with crafting runes, you should have more than enough money for that.
Also pick up every armor/weapon repair set you find

>>376896719
>Is it true that the wild hunt are aliens?

nope. they're just time-travelling extra-planar non-human super-intelligences

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>>376898821
>as a testament to how little fucks the developers cared.
>TW3 wasn't designed by video game developers

>>376898821
wow nice argument fagtron you sure wowed me with your hot opinions

>>376898328
Yeah, thats pretty much what I said. I wouldnt worry about the bonuses, I remember most of them being shit.
I remember that silver sword that the lady of the lake gives you outclasses witcher silver swords but, I dont remember a special steel sword outclassing witcher steel swords.

>>376897171
>Confirmed turboautist

you're the turboautist, since you failed to correctly infer that "so i can continue the main story" meant without wasting 5 hours grinding, not that the set was required to do so. difficulty with context and inference is a sign of autism, anon. get tested.

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>>376896602
HOL UP

>>376898696
Never did I even fucking imply.
>Missing the fucking point.
Even if some dev made the game exclusive to PC, they can still design the game/control/UI with gamepad in mind. Because for some fucking reason some people love gamepads and devs gotta pander to them.

>>376898696
>that menu design
Yes, yes it was designed with ketchups in mind, you tremendous dork.

>not just rolling with light armor for the sweet crit damage bonus the entire game
Smh my head

>>376898996
trying to play Witcher games with a gamepad gives me AIDs so you're wrong.

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>>376898821

>>376898978
Ignore all. Woo Cerys instead.

>>376898625
I went the whole game without looking at TW3's spreadsheet. Call it luck I guess, call it intuition. Maybe just call it bad design.

TW3 loves to pretend it's an RPG and that numbers matter beyond just slapping on whatever the game throws at you naturally. Bonuses to that garbage doesn't change how bad the gameplay is, and it doesn't add any "role-playing" advantages to Geralt. It's just numbers. You have the highest numbers, congratulations.

Did your numbers fix the final boss? The narrative?

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>>376898978
Fuck Ciri, marry Triss, kill Yenn

>>376898893
>>376898896
>>376899038
You guys excited for Cyberpunk?

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>>376897164
>>376896719
Wait, I've heard that somewhere.

>>376899036
I am not referring to CDPR when I said dev.
I am not implying Witcher 2 or 3 was made with gamepad in mind.
You fucking idiot.

>>376899065
sorry that you feel that way man, try playing another game

>>376899162
wanna fuck?

>>376898978
DELETE THIS. CIRI IS NOT FOR SEXUAL. REPLACE WITH SHANI OR SOMETHING.

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>>376899132
obviously

>>376896972
>Overrated game: The Post

>>376898938
i crafted a relic lvl 47 tousant sword (can't remember which one) that gives you 300 armor piercing. 15% burning chance. 30% bonus to quen. higher damage than grandmaster witcher swords and some other bonuses along with 3 rune slots

it didn't even require any fancy expensive crafting materials. was practically free

>>376897171
>witcher sets are literal babby-mode cancer.
>he doesn't like to play dress up time with gerald

>>376898627

Witchers kill problematic monsters.
They don't kill a monster, leave the area, meditate for 5 days then kill the monster again 4+ times in a row.

>>376898821
>it's piss easy because I literally have no self control and have to use quen on everything
Man, you're one whiny faggot.
If they locked quen behind some extra requirements you could only fullfill by going full signmaster I bet you would cry that it is too hard and skills are locked away.

>>376896602
>he fell for the Witcher 3 is good meme
You're not in the wrong but you sure are a gullible idiot.

>>376898597
Protip: don't get hit as much and don't spam attacks while your enemy is guarding to keep down the wear on your equipment.

>>376897667
that trailer made it look like we'd be getting so much more than we got. Dont get me wrong i love the game as it is but it would've been amazing to see more of the wild hunt and having an Iorveth storyline like they had planned. Also https://tcrf.net/Prerelease:The_Witcher_3:_Wild_Hunt/Vital_Spot_System

>>376899034
>not using manticore for the aestethics and simply throwing the rune words on it to make it light armor

Feline armor is the best desu.

>>376898274
Not him but I had to use the Appearance Menu Mod almost immediately
almost every armor in the game is so laughably bad, you're forced to play the majority of your playthrough with ugly as sin costumes that have nothing to do with the character of Geralt

I wouldn't stand playing as a buffoon so much, it's out of character for books Geralt and it's awful as a player

So yeah, appearance is so important for some people, that ignoring it would make the rest of the game worse, if not unbearable
I would have dropped it during the first 5 hours if I at least didn't have the chance of changing Geralt's look

>>376899276

What do you classify as a good game then?

>>376899065
What I'm really salty about is how axii was put into conversations.
There are like 10 prompts max in the whole game plus 2 dlcs and it's always completely worthless/doesn't even work.

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>>376899207
desu i wouldn't mind an alternate edition

Shani, Philippa and Keira? Cerys? Nilfgaard fencing qt?

What's even the point of the Grandmaster bonuses for wearing multiple of the same set? They're all useless

>>376898821
>That's called bad game design
Atrocious softlock and wonky as fuck hitboxes are bad design.
Saying that an entire aspect is shit because some shitter will spam something is retarded

>>376899267
>meditate for 5 days then kill the monster again 4+ times in a row.
Which you dont have to do. If you had to do that you probably missed or ignored a lot of contracts.

Anyone else have problems finding enough herbs? I have like 15 uncrafted potions and 10 uncrafted oils because I don't have the herbs and herbalists never have the right ones

>>376898821
Name one RPG that doesn't have a very OP and cheesy method of success for even the shittiest of players.

If you feel the need to cheese the game, then you're just admitting you're a shitter and are bad at games. Don't blame the game because it anticipated fucks like you who'd not be able to progress without the lowest common denominator technique.

>>376899434
Feline armor starts looking cool but, by master it looks dumb with the mail sewn in everywhere. By grandmaster the shitty hood ruined it.

>>376899769
I love OP mage builds in my videogames but I fucking hated Quen in W2 and W3
It just feels like you're skipping the entire gitting gud at combat, and it blocked stamina regen in W2 as well
I like fleet-footed though (i-frames during dodging) which is almost as overpowered

>>376899550
Don't know about the other sets, but the manticore one gave an extra 30 toxicity points, which worked well with the mutation that gives you more damage the more toxicity you have.
I think my fully buffed and inpotioned Geralt had something like 310 toxicity points, and when I used all that capacity I gained like +200% damage.

>>376899729
I only ever bothered with potions at the beginning(et everything once) and then when I saw that one is available for upgrade.
So I didn't really try to actively upgrade them all the time. But have you tried alchemists(flask symbol) instead of herbalists? Also some ingredients might only grow in certain areas.

>>376898232
My Geralt hasn't worn anything else since I got the tourney armor

>>376899930
That's medium armor though, isn't it? And sign builds got fucked to oblivion so that's not even useful
Also I'm running with three decoctions and don't even know what I would use the additional toxicity for since I don't really need any other effects

>>376899270
It's piss easy with or without Quen. Dodging is only difficult because of input delay and DaSII hitboxes.

>NO THE GAME HAS NO DELAY AND THE HITBOXES ARE PERFECT STOP WHINING ABOUT GOD MODE EXISTING AT TIER 2 OF MY GENERIC PALETTE OF LEVEL UP TREES

Whatever floats your goat my man. Game is poorly made at the most basic of level.

>>376899780
i think he was talking about stats not aesthetics

>>376899729
Go to alchemists instead of herbalists.
All your herb problems should be gone once you get to skellige. Especially if you do the quest for that master alchekist there.

>>376899994
>And sign builds got fucked to oblivion
whatthefuckamireading.png

>>376900036
>>376899932
Alchemists have a slightly different set of herbs that aren't helpful
>once you get to skellige
I'm in fucking Toussaint m8 and still have the same problem

>>376900017
>Dodging is only difficult
Pressing once button at the right time is difficult? You didnt have to prove further that you're a shitter, we knew that already.

>>376898978
Where's Shani?

>>376900051
Not my fault you didn't play the game at release
Using Aard and shit is a poor subsitute for being a pyromancer

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>not wearing Viper

>>376899612
It's bad because you CAN spam it. Early and effectively.

It wouldn't be as bad if it was a late game skill, and you actually had to tailor some kind of build to be able to use it effectively to the point of breaking whatever balance the game has.

It's bad because the developers looked at it and said "this is fine".

is there any light armor besides cat? I wanna keep spinning

>>376900083
>I'm in fucking Toussaint m8 and still have the same problem
Well I didn't. So I'm not sure what to tell you here. Honestly though, because as said, I didnt pay that much attention to upgrading potions and oils, so I've no idea what you did differently. I didnt even gather much myself. Pretty much everything I found in bags, crates and chests.
It almost sounds like you need something special(probably not the case, but it does sound like it.)

>>376900162
You got the wrong door, the leather club is two blocks down.

>>376899994
How did the sign builds get fucked? I haven't played since beating BaW on zhe version it came out with.

Anyways, you can simply get the runewright to turn the manticore armor into a light one, for the crits. Ot like having 3 sign runes if worth all that much, especially if you're going to just mow down ene,ies anyway.
I used 3 decoctions as wekl and then just threw other pots into my head to fill the toxicity out, simply for the damage bonus from that mutation. Without that special mutation there really is noo need for another 30 toxicity points. It really just depends on how you want to play.

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>>376900132
best girl is reserved

>>376899769
>Other RPGs may or may not do it
>That makes it OK

Other RPGs may or may not have good gameplay, even if they are exploitable, but OTHER GAME isn't the subject of discussion.

>>376900229
theres good crit damage light armor you can find. its just not part of a set

>>376900132
On the frontlines sucking millions of soldier dicks.
Healsuts gonna healslut.

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>>376900229
you can spend 30k gold on the Rune Wright and make anything light armor. I made my Viper Armor heavy armor for instance
>>376900239
fuck you

>>376896602
yeah the locations for the bear armour are pretty good.

>>376899276
>lets be contrarian to imitate some sense of taste

How does shit like you find a reason to get out of bed each day?

>>376900229
if you burn 30k on the runewright and another 2-3k on the glyphs he needs he can make any armor with 3 rune slots light. at the expense of these slots of course

>>376900259
Igni got nerfed into the ground
At release, you could stunlock most bosses with it. I loaded up my old save and I couldn't even set harpies 10 level below mine on fire with 100% chance
>>376900259
>Anyways, you can simply get the runewright to turn the manticore armor into a light one, for the crits
Doesn't that destroy all the rune slots?

>>376900212
>It's bad because you CAN spam it.
>It's bad because the developers looked at it and said "this is fine".
kek
>Hey Anton, should we put in some limitation here?
>Nah let it be. Sooner or later there's gonna be one idiot too stupid for the combat system, so he'll need to resort to something. You know Gregor, its about accessability these days
>I guess you're right Anton. We dont wanna be labeled as ableists. Plus, letting them chose how they wanna engage in combat is also good.

>>376900083
You dud something severely wrong of you still have trouble with herbs in fucking toussaint. Once I unlock the special alchemist all my ingredient problems were gone in all 3 of my playthroughs, apart the shitty unique drops like troll liver.

>>376900238
>I didnt pay that much attention to upgrading potions and oils
Well there's the difference m8, I wanna upgrade my swallow and thudnerbolt and blizzard. I also have a mod that auto-applies oils so I at least want the base version of every oil
>>376900434
The Beuaclair alchemist, the one that has an entire shop filled with shit and laments about people never buying interesting stuff? He has like 20 ingredients for sale

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>>376896602
>playing single player grind fests
Yes, you are in the wrong

>>376896602
all armors are useless because combat is easy

>>376900212
>because something IS spamable means it HAS to be spamed
You're a very special person, anon.
It's a single player. Not like people who spam quen directly hurt you in anyway.

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>>376900162
For me its the Griffin set. Classic medieval design combined with extras pleasing to the fighters eye and a wooden green aesthetic that comforts the naturalist's senses

>>376900303
Genre tropes don't count when discussing a game within that genre? Okay.

>>376900212
>It's bad because you CAN spam it. Early and effectively.
That is like saying Devil May Cry combat is bad because you can spam the fuck out of Stinger/Killer Bee, or that Ninja Gaiden is bad because lol Izuna Drop.
YOU spammed it and didn't even fucking try to engage combat differently.
Go kill yourself you fucking piece of shit.

>>376900517
>playing multiplayer games for the braindead masses

but it's cool cos you can watch people play your build on twitch! faggot.

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>>376900320
>those textures

>>376900162
Viper was the shit.

>>376900723
fuck off grafixfag, this site is 18+

>>376900694
Nice deflection, faggot. Now go back to farming 70000 bear asses

>not having enough resources on hand to craft all needed materials to craft gear
What a scrub

>>376900390
Oh that, that hardly fucked sign builds, it simply made normal igni use viable again.
Now it's either: want to make a single enemy burn for sure? Use secondary fire.
Want to make it waste time by burning? Use primary fire.
You did set the harpues on fire, but post nerf secondary fire igni only ignites them for 1 second instead of 4, but you ignite them for the whole duration you set yout fire stream on them.

Also you can just download the unfix if you want.

It doesn't destroy rune slots, but it occupies the three slots on the main body. The other slots from trousers, shoes and gloves are still free to use.

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>>376900723
what's wrong with the textures

Also Level 1 ursine looks godly, too bad the looks get worse as you keep upgrading it

>>376900390
>At release, you could stunlock most bosses with it. I loaded up my old save and I couldn't even set harpies 10 level below mine on fire with 100% chance
I just recently beat the game again but on GOTY version and I remember being able to burn almost everything with 100% chance everytime.

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>>376900871
>dat fucking coat waving in the wind
How did they do it? Seriously the best thing about it. It'd get fucked now and then but most of the time it was pure "technology!"

>>376900513
No idea what the alchemist was called. That one druid dude who has you bully another druid to open up his shop.

But again, you did something really, really wrong if you made it to BaW and you don't even have shit like swallow on superior yet. My guess is you're some faghot who keeps rushing through everything, so just use the console.

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>>376900871
Nah that's bullshit, level 3 when it becomes a grey padded jerkin is the best. But grandmaster wolf is the best set by far.

>>376900835
>You did set the harpues on fire, but post nerf secondary fire igni only ignites them for 1 second instead of 4
No, I know what the burning animation looks like and they simply kept attacking through my Igni
>Now it's either: want to make a single enemy burn for sure? Use secondary fire.
I obviouly haven't tried it out much with the newest patch, but back at release if you didn't have 100% burn chance, firestream would get you fucked because the enemy would jump through it and attack you before it started burning
>Also you can just download the unfix if you want.
Link? All I can find is "hurr durr completely overhaul signs" mods. If there really is a mod that simply restores signs to their glory from release then I might burn all my money on making a medium armor and respec into a blue build again. I would also love you eternally for the information

>>376901013
I played every sidequest in the main game and HoS
My current save is on like 218 hours
I think my swallow is enhanced. I guess everyone besides me just loots every single bush they can find?

>>376901008
Did you let him live?

>>376900576
>>376900689
What are you guys on about? I didn't use Quen throughout the game. At one point I wanted to, but it ruined what very little entertainment I did get out of the combat.

Why can enemies counter it in some form? That might have been cool. Quen is all OP and shit, but it requires timing and baiting.

Did you guys like Quen or something? You don't have much to say about it or its implementation.

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>>376901058
Wolven looks decent in the first two levels but anything higher than that looks over-designed

>>376901013
>That one druid dude who has you bully another druid to open up his shop.
You mean Gremist? The one you also play Gwent with?

>>376901134
>I played every sidequest in the main game and HoS
>My current save is on like 218 hours
I gotta say something seems fucked. Not saying its your fault, but something went wrong somewhere if you're that far and you're still on basics. I've only now returned from Skellige and half my potions are enhanced already, and I never loot bushes. It just happened from what I got out of crates, bags and enemies.

speaking of sign builds: how do you deal with enemies immune to them? I've had to run with archgriffin decoction most of the time because of bosses or golems immune to signs

>>376901270
>Why can't*

>>376901067
What you're saying is full of bullshit. Either something broke on your save, or they (weirdly) did enhance fire resistent for that one enemy type. I had no problems setting shit on fire with the firestream, but they only burned for one additional second once the firestream rnded, which was intentional.

Also the point about needing 100% burn chance for the firestream on vanilla is bullshit as well. Nothing but the wild hunt shits and elementas could do anything against the firestream. On the contrary, getting that last igni perk was actually a complete waste bevause everytjing burnt so easily.

But well, whatever. I don't mind you not liking the nerfed igni, as it's a fucking singleplayer anyway.
Here you go: http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/1026/?

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>>376900162
>Not wearing black manticore

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>>376901161
I actually had to think about that one for a bit. I chose the "your remorse is fake" line to get more information, but he didn't really answer it.
That was probably the one decision in the game that stalled me the longest. At the end I just went with "wolf school loyalty" and did it. But I carried that with me for a while.

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>>376901474

>>376901134
Well, it sounds like you're an extremely unlucky fellow, then. I had most shit on superior by the end of vanilla and didn't have to try hard.

>>376901321
Yeah, that's the one I meant.

>>376901463
I'll try it out, thanks
I'm not imagining the nerf either, here's one of the million threads about it
https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/699808-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/72205388

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>>376901474
>black
>has spikes
edgy as fuck

>>376901515
That and the cat school guy who killed that village.

>>376901270
>why can't enemies counter it in some form
Because, as some anon already said, it's pretty much a failsafe for people who utterly suck at the game.
It's for retarded shitters and I really don't see why this gets your panties in a bunch that much.

>>376901474
God damn, this looks pretty good.

>>376897097
Play what you want, if you need /v/ to say what to play you are a moron

>>376901309
>adding mail
>overdesigned

yeah no.

>>376896719
Yes in the sense that they're not from the same world.

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>>376901707
Yeah that dude. Also made me think for a while.
>tfw 12 fucking crowns for a leshen and a pitchfork in your back

>>376899780
Really?
I only started liking it when it got the mail sewn in.
Geralt wearing sleeveless vests not protecting anything seems kinda dumb in his line of work.

>>376901707
Cat dude is a real cunt which he shows clearly if you decide to fight him. Fuck Cat and everything they represent except their armor, its pgood

>>376901562
>Went from 2400s+ in damages igni burning to 45ish damage
That for example is complete bullshit. I looked at the code because I wanted too se what the unnerf did back then and literally all it did was make a special firestream burning effect whose only change to the regular burn was the duration. It still deals the same x% of max HP damage.

I van only imagine that continuing a save after patching made some shit go awry.

>>376901864
Oh, he's a cunt, there's no doubt about that, but he's a SEMI-justified cunt. If he'd JUST killed the people in the barn and like, stolen a fancy bauble from the village to cover his costs I would have let him go.

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How's the Elder Blood supposed to stop the White Frost ? This shit makes no sense to a point where i stopped caring about but i just remembered, i read the books a while ago as well and i don't seem to recall anything about it

>>376901863
>Geralt wearing sleeveless vests not protecting anything seems kinda dumb in his line of work.
Yeah that rubbed me the wrong way as well. Probably the main reason why I didnt pursue Cat gear further.

>>376901860
>>376901864
>give him a swallow because you want to grant him an honorable fight
>get witcher pocket sand in the face as thanks
Geralt also asked him "this wasn't the first time that happened was it?" and he avoided the question. But I still had some empathy for him, due to the way the villagers fucked him over.

>>376901338
I remember most enemies including bosses apart for select few being succeptible to Axii alt form even ones that are of higher level.
Failed Axii will stun or stagger them.
Aard staggerd everything if your stagger chance was 100+% I even remember knocking out some bosses completely, killing then instantley with the followup.
Igni burn is pretty good sometimes outdamaging you.
Yrden's slow is useful for certain enemy types.
If all fails or if you are that inept you can spam quen or its healing alt.

>>376901707
>The butcher of blaviken having any right to judge cat bro.

No i did the same i just used a glitch to get coins

>>376901941
Just tried it against a few random barghests
>catch them all in Yrden
>alt Igni sets them on fire for absolutely ridiculously low amounts of damage
>they can lunge through the stream even while on fire
I only have blue skills and Efficiency for more sign intensity, and I'm better off swinging at them with my sword
Also, the "burn" of regular Igni is laughable. You said they burn for one second but that's highballing it. They burn for the exact tick that you do damage, the actual effect is that they get pushed back a bit and recover within 0.2s

>>376901712
Because I wanted to use Quen, but I didn't want the combat to put me to sleep.

it did anyway, so there are bigger issues than Quen

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>>376901998

The books don't explain what the White Frost is, either, aside for the world has been getting colder. CDpro was pushing the danger of the White Frost to the front a lot more than the novels did even in the first Witcher game, though.

obviously the solution is Ciri should just take a giant ball of heat and shoot it through a portal into the sun made of ice that is the White Frost and let their collision defuse both problems, though.

>>376901998
Buy the DLC, the writing is better.

I'm joking, of course.

>>376902559
I have no fucking clue what you are bitching about by this point
you claim quen is so spammable it makes the combat shit
but you never even fucking used it
game is not even designed around the fucking sign to begin with which is obvious since you are managing/have managed to play the game without it
now you are claiming the combat is shit anyways
make up your mind you autistic fuck.

>>376902517
hurr im a durr, guess barghests are immune to that and weak to Aard instead
Tried it on a water hag, she got lit on fire with the proper "panicking" effect
Firestream still did about 2k damage per tick though while my fast attack DPS is about 1700
How much Sign Intensity should a blue build have? I don't remember

>>376902517
Not the guy you were arguing with but.
In my experience the stream sucks because people just walk through it and hit you.
On the other hand the regular igni 100% burns and does 400-1100 damage per second for about five seconds. Since I invested points into it.

>>376902764
I don't even remember the game ever mentioning the White Frost apart from that weird, out of place mandatory discussion with the dude looking for the white whale.

Then again, I checked out after Kaer Morhen and left the room when the flashback exposition movies started playing, so there might've been something about it in there.

>>376902804
Well the way you usually do it is to set them on fire with a regular Igni and then just cast firestream again and again until they die, which is made possible by a blue build's insane stamina regen
Just using firestream as a starter will indeed fuck you up because it takes a second or two to set fire to them, so you wanna either do it when they're slowed by yrden, staggered by aard, already on fire, or just came out of an attack

>>376902804
>stream sucks because people just walk through it and hit you.
only if you don't have 100% burning or didn't burn them long enough/tried to firestream a bugger that is about to hit you in 0.1 sec because there is a very small delay.

>>376901998
Ciri basically stops time in the universe where the white frost began.

>>376902794
>but you never even fucking used it
I never used it because it was broken. I wanted to use it because of the concept, but after testing it in combat it was horrendously overpowered and ruined the combat.

And yes, after about 15 hours I figured out that the combat was never going to get better, and that it suffered from technical faults. This doesn't change what an afterthought Quen was, it just ended up being that most of the gameplay was an afterthought.

>>376903112
So combat is shit regardless.
Good for you.
Go play another game instead of continuing to waste your life with it or bitching on a chinese cartoon forum board you fucking autismo.

>>376901998
It doesn't make any sense because it actually has no sense.

In the books at some point, the white frost is described as a natural phenomena tied to the cycles of climate change that affect every planet. Basically what modern science calls the snowball Earth theory. If I remember correctly, the explanation that Sapkowski gives coincides with the High-obliquity hypothesis of such theory, according to which the Ice age could be the consequence of an axial-tilt or magnetic pole shift of the planet.

This means that it is not magical in nature, nor there is a way to predict it, stop it or harness its power.

>>376903242
Glad we agree on something.