Bateau
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So is anyone playing a full alchemy build at higher levels? I want to try it out but I’m afraid the inventory management would sour the experience.
At lower levels, i’ve found skulls impossible. It seems like there is level scaling of damage going on.
Shortly after starting the game, i had this quest to protect these battlefield looters from ghouls. They were WAY above my level, but i managed to kill them all with tons of dodging around, except for the last one. The last one was one level higher than the rest, granting him the skull, and this made him have god mode. I basically did zero damage to him no matter what i did and of course he basically two hit me. If i was really good and lucky, i could spend half an hour slowly killing him maybe, but it seemed unlikely to be a great idea. So i came back a single level later, with the same gear. Then he died easily.
What i said was that Geralt can only take on those bandits because the player knows how to dodge and the AI does not.
Pound for pound, bandits do more damage (weapon quality and skill?) and can take more damage (armor quality and skill?). I think this makes sense from the story POV for monsters, but not for Generic Bandit #32.
Also, this is not Geralt’s first rodeo. He is supposed to be some bad ass legend whom everyone fears.
Part of this might be due to poor itemization though. I’m a semi completionist and have been doing all of the side quest things. Why is it that 80% of the recipes i find require level 30+ when i’m 5-7?
Yeah surprise surprise it’s a frigging video game, the gameplay doesn’t make “sense”. Like most video games.
It also doesn’t make sense how you can gulp down a roasted chicken in the middle of combat and recover health in 10 seconds thanks to that. Gameplay concessions.
I thought they patched out eating during combat? You can chug potions, though.
You can eat if they are in the quick access slot.
There’s definite level-scaling going on, mostly they gate higher level monsters behind tons of HP.
As a level 13 I spent a good 10 minutes defeating a single level 15 Noonwraith. Not at all exciting.
Another thing… all those scripted events where you’re fighting with “allies”, yeah they do no damage at all, you’re supposed to do all the work. Really crappy watching 4 people beat the crap out of somebody for 4 minutes and his health bar doesn’t change.
So, I’m well over 80 hours in, at level 18, and I just started Skellige.
Best 50 bucks I’ve ever spent on a video game.
The rock troll quest is very charming, highly recommended.
Just hit my first quest bug with the unopenable cellar door in the Apiarian Phantom quest. Supposedly you can trigger a necessary dialog if you spam the door with open attempts, but that didn’t work and I had to abandon the quest.
You are doing it wrong. Read the bestiary and learn/implement weaknesses. If you catch a Noonwraith in a Yyerd trap thing, you’ll do like 10x damage to it.
Is anyone else using blade oils? I find them very helpful.
Well, yes. Of course. If you’re not, you’re probably not playing at the proper difficulty.
I had problems with that too. It seemed as if the “hit box” to interact with the door was badly placed. I was finally able to activate it when I was facing the door at an angle, positioning myself at the bottom of stairwell, as far to the left side as I could get.
No I wont. I did that. I tried bombs and oils too with their 10% this and that.
I fought that wraight for 10 minutes because even though I had a fully upgraded silver sword for my level, I did pathetic damage to it. Oils, bombs. Little difference. I could not have beaten it faster at my level, I even had a full set of witcher gear.
Just a 10 minute slog.
ShivaX
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There is just no way. You were doing something horribly wrong because there is no noonwraith in the game remotely like that.
If you try to fight them outside of the trap, then yeah they’ll take no damage. If you don’t, you’ll kill them very quickly.
In fact there is no fight in the entire game that would take that long unless you’re fighting a level 33 with a level 10 or something equally stupid.
You weren’t using the trap right. It’s exactly what you’re describing.
Was it a random encounter or a contract? The contract monsters are generally a lot tougher than normal ones.
The main thing you have to deal with when fighting wraiths is that they will go noncorporeal and only materialize to attack. To force them to materialize so that you can slice-and-dice them, you need to use either the Yrden sign or Moon Dust bombs. In fact, the only signs I use against them are Ydren and Quen – none of the others seem to have much effect. You also need to watch for them to spawn mirror images of themselves. These will attempt to encircle you and may be able to drain you while healing the wraith.
It was a contract monster and it had a gazillion health. I was winning against it for 10 minutes, there was no quick and easy way to beat it, I tried plenty of oils(that make a marginal difference, look it up, they won’t save your ass.
Try the “Grave Hag??” at level 14, bet you’ll have some excuse as to how she is balanced as well.
Yeah, I read about that odd angle thing in a couple of places but couldn’t get it right. I’ll give it another go when I run out of other stuff.
I didn’t have any specific issues with any conquests so far, as long as I read up on them and learned the best ways to fight them. Not sure what to tell you - what you experienced isn’t the same as what others are experiencing. Could be a bug, could be … something else. I did the Grave Hag one, I’ve done all of them up to the high-teens (I’m level 18 atm), without any trouble, as long as I played smart. This is on the “hard” difficulty.
Yeah, the contract monsters are going to be particularly tough earlier in the game if you are underlevel for them. The best thing might be to wait and try again after you’ve levelled up some more.
