Just finished a runthrough on deathmarch with no armour all DLCs gourmet buffed up quen and built up stamina regen was essential.Thoght I did OK for an old bugger (I'm 61 ) till my missus started to rip through it even quicker with her build that she wont share with me ! Good stuff on here so cheers!
@@leonelpeon I was leaving the brothel and forgot to get dressed { as one does from time to time } and thought "stuff it I will see how this goes !" tried just using the basic first up swords but I would need about 200 years.
Im 33 and both me and the mrs still like playing games with eachother! Reading your comment made us both smile and would love to be still playing when we get to your age! Take care buddy and hope you keep enjoying playing!
I was hoping for more skill slots, i never liked the idea of having to equip passive skills from the brown tree with only 12 slots to play around with.
It my first time playing W3, and I decided to do Death March and go w/Alchemy. I think Alchemy makes the game more interesting because it's made me focus the aspects of the game that really make it unique. Studying/crafting and preparing for each battle has been really fun. I'm still early on but Alchemy seems really strong as well.
@@lmfaoayo I've been using it, euphoria, whirl and alchemy can still clear out a whole bandit camp on death march by just holding down the attack button
Alchemy is the way to go on DM and second with signs, you made right choice, the guy who explains in the video is a little ... just a little bit of a n00b.
My personal favorite build to run is 3 skills in combat tree, 3 in signs, and 6 skills in alchemy. Unfortunately it mean i dont get to utilize the general skills. (they are good but i prefer the bonus percentage from the corresponding mutagen) in my personal opinion alchemy is the strongest and the more skills you take from that tree the stronger the build.
Wish they’d do an update more friendly to builds. A lot of good skills in the game i want to pair with others but only 12 slots. Have to pick and choose.
Even though I replayed it like 4 times, I never bothered with builds or maxing signs. Now on my 5th playthrough, I have realized I was missing out. Spraying people with fire seems so fun!
On my 3rd ever playthrough since launch; I'm playing Deathmarch. I use an Alchemy build, 3 slots dedicated to heavy attack up, heavy crits up, and fast attack up, top two mutagens are greater reds, combined with the alchemy skill that increases the effectiveness of my mutagens, they're at 75 percent attack up. I use one of my four new slots for axii delusion, for the extra xp in convos as well as the combat usefulness, and the rest are alchemy abilities. I'm geared towards bombs, all the abilities except the time slowed while aiming one. I have three gold abilities, one that makes me immune to bomb and bolt effects, one that makes my bombs do triple damage at half the ammo count, and rage management to keep my signs available as often as possible. Alchemy skills are poisoned blades (for now) all bombs do +150 damage, all bombs crit (manticore armor), cluster bombs so each bomb is four bombs, and each alchemy skill increases bomb damage by 15 percent. Not joking when I say I generally do not need my swords anymore, nothing (except so far Imlerith) has survived a carpet bombing run, and even he had less than a quarter of his health left after and I only had to hit him once to finish him. Best part of the build is the skill that makes my get a random potion effect for free with any potion drunk, combined with the healing 30 percent on any potion or decoction I drink. Finally, I have the mutation that makes it so that any time I deal a critical effect to an enemy (freezing burning, poisoning, bleeding) I get a random decoction activated that lasts 120 seconds, and I can have up to 5 active from the mutation. So if I drink 2 potions and a decoction, then maximum trigger that ability, I'll be under the effects of Four potions and six decoctions at once, and I'll just barely be toxic. Pop a white honey for a heal, a toxcitiy clear, and a chance to start again. This build is retardedly overpowered and stupid fun. P.s, don't sleep on a crossbow build, that cat eyes mutation is so fucking useful--you can stunlock most enemies infinitely for serious damage bonuses.
I'm still in the beginning (Finishing up Baron's story) and igni axii plus the shield gets me through. I really only use the shield on tough boss fights. I didn't know bout the one where Gerald does the cool sword trick. I'm unlocking that next. I normally set the enemies on fire and slash em down. If they're too aggressive I'll use axii to sit em still and get in a finish. This game is truly amazing.
I’ve had multiple play throughs in the past and wanted to revisit one of my favorite games. I looked up this video to get a strong start for my next play through and let me just say, this video is so much better than I expected. I not only have a good plan for early game but now late game as well. Thank you!!
Well, thank you for pointing out those basic buffs and skills. 'Devil at the Well' has always been a bane to me (ha! I know it's an early one, but I had to come back to it so much). So, replaying this video a lot to catch all what was said, I now have a better grasp on the vital skills.
Nice video, i think i will just use all those best skills in my build for this playthrough. I'm trying to play as much as the Geralt from the books as possible, he was well rounded, using all what he can for his advantage, didn't focus on one aspect only. So i'm using Signs whenever i can, Oils but mostly for bosses, some potions (but early on you don't have much of them) to buff attack or heal in the middle of the battle. But i think this will be a good one to try - you probably still can go through the game without any special build. PS i'm playing on Bonebreaker
Games difficulty isn’t really hard you can crank it to death March probably won’t even notice a difference tbh I would recommend playing it on death March anyway makes it a bit more fun definitely use oils whenever possible
Gourmet, Arrow Deflection, also the skill that applies BLEED, and the Alchemy Skill that applies POISON. You can apply DoTs on things you're fighting constantly, and add a sword that has a chance of applying Fire. Arrow Deflection allows you to take out archers BEFORE the Melee mobs. Just turn of the stupid Game Music so you can hear when the Bow or Crossbow TWANGS and hit BLOCK AXII (not AARD) is GREAT for taking down Harpies, they will fall to the ground and you can COup de Grace them for a one-shot kill
Alchemy builds are the strongest. I've beaten the game twice in death march and the sign build was far more difficult where the alchemy build was much easier. The strongest/useful one is 3 blocks of alchemy and 1 block of signs, though you can skip signs all together and just go full alchemy. I personally use the griffin school armor because yrden is really op. You'll want 4/5 sign skills maxed, Melt Armor/Delusion (swap these two), sustained glyphs (gives two traps), magic trap (empowered yrden spell), and then delusion and puppeteer (if you want it, on death march it's hard to puppet them cause they attack so fast). Next in the alchemy you'll want: side effects, acquired tolerance, tissue transmutation, hunters instinct, protective coating, fast metabolism, poison blades, killing spree, heightened tolerance, frenzy, and the all powerful refreshment. You probably want to go Euphoria in the mutation tree. This means you get +1800 vitality and if you use oil you do a crapton of damage to the chosen enemy. In addition your decoctions will last literal hours and your potions like swallow will heal instantly and then regen you for 5-10 minutes or so. On top of that you will do somewhere around +300% in additional damage. Melt their armor and watch enemies 10+ levels ahead of you just die. There are two slots left over where you can use generals or what ever. I would probably go delayed recover and metabolic control. But at this point it's flexible.
Is there a tutorial for the alchemy build you’re using. There are no recent or alchemy build videos since the update and things have been nerfed and buffed apparently so I don’t know how to build a good alchemy build
imo the bomb build seems to be the best option for early stages (specially on deathmarch) since only with two to three skills you can literally wipe all the enemies with one or two bombs, the downside of this is that it makes the gameplay a bit boring since its way more fun to play around with words and signs to destroy the enemies but if you want a fast pace at the early stage the bomb build is definely a good option.
I found general:strongback to be a must to delay the time between stash visits or dismantling items. It's such a pain to be slowed when you exceed the carrying limit! Maybe I'm missing some trick but I never don't equip this one.!
It is wild you did not mention the two skills Heightened and aquired tolerance, both level 1 skills that drastically improve every build out there. Having a ton of max toxicity and a higher cap before negatives (I think 80%) means you can run multiple potions simultaniously. Turn your alchemy focused geralt into someone who can cast as good as a sign build who does as much melee damage as a sword build. Or be a combat focused geralt with stacked on buffs.
I tend to lean into ard, especially the sweep variant. Super useful for crowd control. Combined with Griffin armour and eventually piercing cold. Part way through a run just now. When I reach kaer morhen, think I'll collect the wolf set and do a iack of all trades for a change. Great video, thanks.
Nice video. But in my opinion the general skills are only good for the school techniques. Most other perks can be attained through alchemy/signs/decoctions. I'd rather not waste skill points and skill slots on the general tab
I am just using light attack skill, skill to buff igni and the skill to slow time. And literally I am fighting level 10-15 monsters and bosses as level 5 on hard difficulty. Just start with igni, then spam light attacks, dodge -> repeat. Doesn't really even matter how much hp they got as long as they don't hp regen more than you can make damage.
just picked up complete edition. New to Witcher but seen some of the Series on Netflix. still groggy on different signs and meanings and such. ill want to use a protective shield and end up blowing a fart at them..
some good general info here cheers, can i add Focus from the general tree which is very good from early game right thru imo, it boosts ur weapon damage and sign intensity from Adrenaline points and if like me u dont use any Adrenaline skills so u have damage buff all the time in combat then u get even more of a buff
I feel you chose generally fun perks. But I only play on death March and tbh I just focus 100% on dps and alchemy and ignore sign along with that body tree
Adrenalin whirlwind plus signs by tier3 alchemy intensity boosts. That mxed by crit chance and hit plus dmg was a kibd of dervish build whirling through enemies while fueling the whirlwind constantly again with adrenalin... but paired with alchemy boost to sign intensity you have a very well rounded hybrid. Armor set is Wolf or a combination of Cat Wolf and Griffin Signs I used was actually just Igni (lighting enemies on fire is very powerful) and very rarely Quen. Axii tier1 was maxed for jedi mindtrick option. Favorite build so far. After the recent update I was forced using Gourmet, though. They massively nerfed healing speed of regular food. Once I have the basic build finished I will reskill since Gourmet is just wasting a slot after you unlock potion bonuses
I just started the Witcher 3 game some time back, and I am done with Velen main quests, atm am doing the side quests and exploring Velen before going to Novigrad.....my question as a beginner would be what skills should I invest upon because I have seen a lot of videos and I am confused af rn......I prefer to be on the aggressive with strikes and using signs....i would use oils too for ease of eliminating foes....is there a discord, I can join in to talk witcher 3 game? Thanks
Are the number of skill points needed to unlock tier 2,3 and 4 rows in the skill tree less now? Considering that they nerfed from 5 to 3 max level of some skills
3 minutes into the video and I'm liking and subscribing , I LOVE how to the point you are and how quick you speak, Jesus Christmas what a breath of fresh air
Thanks for the vid! Im going through my first play through right now. Quick question though, in the wolf build could you have whirlwind in there and does it apply the bleed effect? thanks!
When will i unlock the extra ability slots now i see only 12 of then i have bough the blood and wine dlc but havnt completed the base game yet what to do plz help
At what point do you get additional skill spots? I’ve done a play through before and pretty certain I beat the game but doing another play through for the new graphics update and only have 12 skill spots to use. Also have never seen the Bloodbath button either.
Side Mission in Blood & Wine (it triggers automatically when you receive a letter from someone) completing it unlocks mutations (bloodbath is one of these) and the more mutations you unlock the more of those extra 4 skill slots you unlock
I have a piercing cold aard build going on rn, and it literally freezes and exploded everything human sized and knocks over and stuns most other enemoes
I just don't get why everybody is ignoring Fixative. +50% permanent damage for the steel sword and for the silver +50% for 3 monster types you choose. Sound like a no brainer right?
No it isnt. This isnt even a build. He showed you 4 types of areas to start and two skills two pick first from each category. Obviously its going to be your choice. So if you want signs start with melt armor. If you want more health, poison and bomb damage do alchemy. Its not that hard.
He also clearly said that the entire thing was not a min maxxed build or endgame and that ideally you wouldnt use one of each color. So its like you didnt even watch.
I’m so overwhelmed by this game and I’ve owned it for many years now. I’m a very casual player and old school. Why can’t all these powers level up automatically. I find myself spending so much time learning how to work this thing rather than actually playing. Maybe I’m just too old. I miss playing Zelda in the 90’s.
Hi guys! What do you think, what is the experience in terms of wanting a wolf school ability with the corresponding set! I'd like to build a sword and signal skill for a kind of hybrid half! Strong or Fast attack is better? Or it just depends on which one is nicer to me? Thank you very much!
Bro Im gonna ask something if it's possible. I want the nilfgaard lose the war, and not kill radovid , but I still want ciri became Witcher . Is that ending possible?
Dam, I only have the 4 signs to use...I didn't know he could do more than those. Granted, I'm not that far but still. That's awesome! Lots to look forward to
Did they nerf Quen? I'm doing a new playthrough, on the second highest difficulty, now that the update released. The last time I played was my first and only playthrough shortly after the game released, and I faintly remember Quen being able to block at least a few hits by weaker enemies. Now any hit will shatter the shield, making it very tedious to use (at least around level 10 where I'm at now)
from what iv seen they have nerfed almost everything especially food but they did decrease the amount of skill points u need to use to max skills and needed to unlock next tier of skills
I played a sign build my first play through years ago and jumping back in found them to be much weaker. I've switched to a different build for a change, and its more fun. But all of them are good in their own way.
@@Balorian In the last two days since I've made that comment I've leveled up a bit and made some griffin armor. With the increased sign intensity and stamina recharge the sign build feels better already. But quen is still really weird. A wolf from a random pack will one shot my shield, same as pretty much any other enemy in the game so far, but a wolf summoned by a leshen needs 3-4 attacks to break it for some reason.
Fighting in this game is stupidly easy, you can even do it while naked. Look closely to the enemy, if they raised their hand (about to attack) click the dodge button and quickly hit attack even if they still not finishing their attack animation. Attack only 2 or 3 times and dodge again. For the fistfight tournament, the last 2 fight is the easiest (bear and troll) because of how large the fighting arena is. I had to raised the diffulty because of this (not death march). On my first play I always make a mistake by always look to my Geralt and not the enemy, resulted in Geralt died quickly.
Why would you recommend melt armor when it's well known that: - armor on humans is broken. - armor on monsters is very very scarse, only a handful of monsters actually have armor values.
I can't wait to play the remake of the first game and then hopefully the second game cuz I never played those and someday possibly a new Witcher game and cyberpunk 2 but they need to make sure it's ready although I love the first cyberpunk it suffer from the same thing kingdom come deliverance did and was released too early
@@nuckchorris3054he’s talking new game plus stuff you get from blood and wine on your previous playthrough I think so dude but I’m not sure I never played new game plus I always just restart lol
I prefer the combat skill that gives you a chance to knock down opponents when you do a successful parry. Great for people holding shields because it opens them up to a finisher or makes them drop the shield. I also use the one that makes quick attacks apply bleeding, one to reduce the damage taking from a successful dodge or block. One that I believe makes adreneline points generate quicker to get more damage faster. The alchemy tree I prefer 3. One gives you a random second random potion bonus when using a potion without increasing the toxicity. The second increases the bonus for apply the correct colored skill to the mutagen which when maxed gives an extra 50%. The third is one that when consuming a potion your get 30 percent of your vitality instantly. So, when using Swallow, it gives you an additional 30 percent instantly like White Rafford's Concoction does. For Signs I use the one that causes quen to explode when broken, Delusion and Melt for Igni.
It was a shock to me that very few pro players use "fixated" and "hunter instinct" from alchemy skill tree, specially on next gen update. Very odd indeed
I wanted to get into this game so bad I gave it three chances but the controls for the combat was hard to remember the menu is confusing and the loading screen when you die is way to long I guess RPGs isn't for me.
And there is also no loading screens anymore unless you travel between velen, skellige novigrad etc. and they are a few seconds long at most. Fast travel is almost instant. They game has just improved so much and in so many areas with the upgrade.
Hard to remember? Left click to light attack space to roll lmao you can literally choose your own keybinds… and how is the menu confusing? Did you learn to read or not 😂 get a better system to play the game on or stop dying on an easy game 🤦♂️ smh
if you start the game by collecting all the places of power available in white orchard then velen/novigrad and also skellege (farm cows or wait spam a monster nest for gold) you can have 100% igni burn at level 6 which is most certainly the very best skill in the game.
I've played through witcher 3 like 1.5 times and just floated my way through without knowing there were "builds". Can someone help a clueless guy out 😅
Do you use Signs or Alchemy (Bombs, Oils, Potions) more often?
Omw to do a bombs and crossbow build only
Alchemy and combat ursine armor=death to all
I’ve used alchemy in the past but now with the nerf I’ll probably do a sign build
Unfortunately no lol. I’ve only used it for ones the quest gave me. Last time I used was when I met Bart which was this morning! I love him so much!
Combat
Just finished a runthrough on deathmarch with no armour all DLCs gourmet buffed up quen and built up stamina regen was essential.Thoght I did OK for an old bugger (I'm 61 ) till my missus started to rip through it even quicker with her build that she wont share with me !
Good stuff on here so cheers!
@@leonelpeon I was leaving the brothel and forgot to get dressed { as one does from time to time } and thought "stuff it I will see how this goes !" tried just using the basic first up swords but I would need about 200 years.
Im 33 and both me and the mrs still like playing games with eachother! Reading your comment made us both smile and would love to be still playing when we get to your age! Take care buddy and hope you keep enjoying playing!
@@daveymac5383what a nice interaction, wishing well on all of you
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I was hoping for more skill slots, i never liked the idea of having to equip passive skills from the brown tree with only 12 slots to play around with.
i feel the same wish there were more slots!!
Yeah I have 12 points and nowere to put them lol
Go play on pc with mods
@@Tomas-kr5mhI wish I’m on ps5
Agree
Am i the only one who was upgrading skills but not applying them? Doh.
Yep. I caught it early because I couldn't figure out why I had Delusion maxed out but it wouldn't let me use it during NPC dialogue
It my first time playing W3, and I decided to do Death March and go w/Alchemy. I think Alchemy makes the game more interesting because it's made me focus the aspects of the game that really make it unique. Studying/crafting and preparing for each battle has been really fun. I'm still early on but Alchemy seems really strong as well.
its also the most broken if you do it right
@@daquaviousbingleton9763 some guy in another comment above you is saying it got nerfed
@@lmfaoayo I've been using it, euphoria, whirl and alchemy can still clear out a whole bandit camp on death march by just holding down the attack button
Alchemy is the way to go on DM and second with signs, you made right choice, the guy who explains in the video is a little ... just a little bit of a n00b.
Alchemy is still very strong, it just got nerfed a bit, to make you make more generalized builds
05:17 Wow, frenzy looks like the most useful in the entire game. Thanks for the tips.
Frenzy is fantastic, cheap to unlock as well. Hope your enjoying the game!
Kasa hey brother?
Never thought I'd see karl in a witcher 3 video 😂 love it! I love your videos Karl
@@joshthepatriot1869 Same here, lol
Gourmet now has been nerfed pretty heavily after the food changes, from 80hp per second on some foods to now 15hp at the highest
Yeah, you are right, but it's still the best skill to take as your first one in deathmarch+upscale.
Oh yea. That’s the first thing I noticed. I’m playing a lot more carefully now.
Gormand has not been nerfed. They made the changes directly to food and drinks.
@@riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip true, but the point is the skill isnt nearly as broken as it once was
Is that why I wasn’t getting any health lol
My personal favorite build to run is 3 skills in combat tree, 3 in signs, and 6 skills in alchemy. Unfortunately it mean i dont get to utilize the general skills. (they are good but i prefer the bonus percentage from the corresponding mutagen) in my personal opinion alchemy is the strongest and the more skills you take from that tree the stronger the build.
Wish they’d do an update more friendly to builds. A lot of good skills in the game i want to pair with others but only 12 slots. Have to pick and choose.
LOL so confused bt ur comment cuz this is hell let loose but i also just started playing the witcher 3 so i guess it makes sense
@ I mean, can help clarify something? Either way enjoy your play through
Even though I replayed it like 4 times, I never bothered with builds or maxing signs. Now on my 5th playthrough, I have realized I was missing out. Spraying people with fire seems so fun!
So u just button mashed the attack button for 5 play throughs ? Geez
@@playboithecreator No? I definitely used signs, just didn't max out every sign or use the alternate sign cast.
@@playboithecreatorFunnest things the rest is tedious and made complex for no reasons
On my 3rd ever playthrough since launch; I'm playing Deathmarch.
I use an Alchemy build, 3 slots dedicated to heavy attack up, heavy crits up, and fast attack up, top two mutagens are greater reds, combined with the alchemy skill that increases the effectiveness of my mutagens, they're at 75 percent attack up. I use one of my four new slots for axii delusion, for the extra xp in convos as well as the combat usefulness, and the rest are alchemy abilities. I'm geared towards bombs, all the abilities except the time slowed while aiming one. I have three gold abilities, one that makes me immune to bomb and bolt effects, one that makes my bombs do triple damage at half the ammo count, and rage management to keep my signs available as often as possible.
Alchemy skills are poisoned blades (for now) all bombs do +150 damage, all bombs crit (manticore armor), cluster bombs so each bomb is four bombs, and each alchemy skill increases bomb damage by 15 percent. Not joking when I say I generally do not need my swords anymore, nothing (except so far Imlerith) has survived a carpet bombing run, and even he had less than a quarter of his health left after and I only had to hit him once to finish him. Best part of the build is the skill that makes my get a random potion effect for free with any potion drunk, combined with the healing 30 percent on any potion or decoction I drink. Finally, I have the mutation that makes it so that any time I deal a critical effect to an enemy (freezing burning, poisoning, bleeding) I get a random decoction activated that lasts 120 seconds, and I can have up to 5 active from the mutation. So if I drink 2 potions and a decoction, then maximum trigger that ability, I'll be under the effects of Four potions and six decoctions at once, and I'll just barely be toxic. Pop a white honey for a heal, a toxcitiy clear, and a chance to start again.
This build is retardedly overpowered and stupid fun.
P.s, don't sleep on a crossbow build, that cat eyes mutation is so fucking useful--you can stunlock most enemies infinitely for serious damage bonuses.
I'm still in the beginning (Finishing up Baron's story) and igni axii plus the shield gets me through. I really only use the shield on tough boss fights. I didn't know bout the one where Gerald does the cool sword trick. I'm unlocking that next. I normally set the enemies on fire and slash em down. If they're too aggressive I'll use axii to sit em still and get in a finish. This game is truly amazing.
I’ve had multiple play throughs in the past and wanted to revisit one of my favorite games. I looked up this video to get a strong start for my next play through and let me just say, this video is so much better than I expected. I not only have a good plan for early game but now late game as well. Thank you!!
Well, thank you for pointing out those basic buffs and skills. 'Devil at the Well' has always been a bane to me (ha! I know it's an early one, but I had to come back to it so much). So, replaying this video a lot to catch all what was said, I now have a better grasp on the vital skills.
My fave is the second version of Yrden that zaps all the enemies. Once you have full yrden skill points it’s so OP in the best way haha
Where's acquired tolerance in this list? It increases max toxicity to a huge cap. That is a must for taking several potions and decoctions. 🙂
Nice video, i think i will just use all those best skills in my build for this playthrough.
I'm trying to play as much as the Geralt from the books as possible, he was well rounded, using all what he can for his advantage, didn't focus on one aspect only.
So i'm using Signs whenever i can, Oils but mostly for bosses, some potions (but early on you don't have much of them) to buff attack or heal in the middle of the battle.
But i think this will be a good one to try - you probably still can go through the game without any special build.
PS i'm playing on Bonebreaker
Games difficulty isn’t really hard you can crank it to death March probably won’t even notice a difference tbh I would recommend playing it on death March anyway makes it a bit more fun definitely use oils whenever possible
Quen, Igny, Aard and all the "light" fast attackes, plus some "Jedi Mind" tricks delusion for quest related, that does it for me
Same here :)
Ooo will definitely check it out. Just started my first playthrough.
Gourmet, Arrow Deflection, also the skill that applies BLEED, and the Alchemy Skill that applies POISON. You can apply DoTs on things you're fighting constantly, and add a sword that has a chance of applying Fire. Arrow Deflection allows you to take out archers BEFORE the Melee mobs. Just turn of the stupid Game Music so you can hear when the Bow or Crossbow TWANGS and hit BLOCK
AXII (not AARD) is GREAT for taking down Harpies, they will fall to the ground and you can COup de Grace them for a one-shot kill
The deflect skill is a massive waste lol just rush the archers first everytime they’re weak as hell
Did you just call "LeLeLeLe" stupid game music?
Alchemy builds are the strongest. I've beaten the game twice in death march and the sign build was far more difficult where the alchemy build was much easier. The strongest/useful one is 3 blocks of alchemy and 1 block of signs, though you can skip signs all together and just go full alchemy. I personally use the griffin school armor because yrden is really op.
You'll want 4/5 sign skills maxed, Melt Armor/Delusion (swap these two), sustained glyphs (gives two traps), magic trap (empowered yrden spell), and then delusion and puppeteer (if you want it, on death march it's hard to puppet them cause they attack so fast).
Next in the alchemy you'll want: side effects, acquired tolerance, tissue transmutation, hunters instinct, protective coating, fast metabolism, poison blades, killing spree, heightened tolerance, frenzy, and the all powerful refreshment. You probably want to go Euphoria in the mutation tree. This means you get +1800 vitality and if you use oil you do a crapton of damage to the chosen enemy. In addition your decoctions will last literal hours and your potions like swallow will heal instantly and then regen you for 5-10 minutes or so. On top of that you will do somewhere around +300% in additional damage. Melt their armor and watch enemies 10+ levels ahead of you just die.
There are two slots left over where you can use generals or what ever. I would probably go delayed recover and metabolic control. But at this point it's flexible.
Dude. Great freakin break down. U talk fast. And get to point. Good shit.
Is there a tutorial for the alchemy build you’re using.
There are no recent or alchemy build videos since the update and things have been nerfed and buffed apparently so I don’t know how to build a good alchemy build
imo the bomb build seems to be the best option for early stages (specially on deathmarch) since only with two to three skills you can literally wipe all the enemies with one or two bombs, the downside of this is that it makes the gameplay a bit boring since its way more fun to play around with words and signs to destroy the enemies but if you want a fast pace at the early stage the bomb build is definely a good option.
Gourmet is heavily nerfed and no longer that automatic choice for health regen.
I found general:strongback to be a must to delay the time between stash visits or dismantling items.
It's such a pain to be slowed when you exceed the carrying limit!
Maybe I'm missing some trick but I never don't equip this one.!
You can also equip saddle packs to roach
No matter how many times I tell myself I’m going to play it differently, I always end up selecting the same skills each playthrough.
It is wild you did not mention the two skills Heightened and aquired tolerance, both level 1 skills that drastically improve every build out there.
Having a ton of max toxicity and a higher cap before negatives (I think 80%) means you can run multiple potions simultaniously. Turn your alchemy focused geralt into someone who can cast as good as a sign build who does as much melee damage as a sword build. Or be a combat focused geralt with stacked on buffs.
Great video! Thankyou it’s been so long since I played and forgot what’s good and what’s not
So you follow the bias of someone else who equally doesn't know as much? WTF?!
I tend to lean into ard, especially the sweep variant. Super useful for crowd control. Combined with Griffin armour and eventually piercing cold. Part way through a run just now. When I reach kaer morhen, think I'll collect the wolf set and do a iack of all trades for a change. Great video, thanks.
Finally someone who actually explained it right
An actual helpful video for beginners. Thanks bro!
Glad it was helpful!
Nice video. But in my opinion the general skills are only good for the school techniques. Most other perks can be attained through alchemy/signs/decoctions. I'd rather not waste skill points and skill slots on the general tab
Just started, saving this bad boy, thanks for your time and effort mate
I am just using light attack skill, skill to buff igni and the skill to slow time. And literally I am fighting level 10-15 monsters and bosses as level 5 on hard difficulty. Just start with igni, then spam light attacks, dodge -> repeat. Doesn't really even matter how much hp they got as long as they don't hp regen more than you can make damage.
just picked up complete edition. New to Witcher but seen some of the Series on Netflix. still groggy on different signs and meanings and such. ill want to use a protective shield and end up blowing a fart at them..
If you're on pc, assign them on hotkeys 1-5 and memorise it.
reading through your stuff before starting my Deathmarch run man , Very informative , Thank for making such wonderful videos !
Glad you like them!
It’s honestly super easy after coming from playing all the souls games lol
some good general info here cheers, can i add Focus from the general tree which is very good from early game right thru imo, it boosts ur weapon damage and sign intensity from Adrenaline points and if like me u dont use any Adrenaline skills so u have damage buff all the time in combat then u get even more of a buff
Does melt armor perk includes monsters ? I'm in doubt because some people say only humans have armor and so it doesn't do anything to monsters.
How do you get more skills Brodie
I just finished the MQ on Death March and Undying was the key skill to that run.
I feel you chose generally fun perks. But I only play on death March and tbh I just focus 100% on dps and alchemy and ignore sign along with that body tree
Well that doesn't sound fun :P
Combat/alch has always been the way to go imo although they did just buff the signs I heard
Adrenalin whirlwind plus signs by tier3 alchemy intensity boosts.
That mxed by crit chance and hit plus dmg was a kibd of dervish build whirling through enemies while fueling the whirlwind constantly again with adrenalin... but paired with alchemy boost to sign intensity you have a very well rounded hybrid.
Armor set is Wolf or a combination of Cat Wolf and Griffin
Signs I used was actually just Igni (lighting enemies on fire is very powerful) and very rarely Quen.
Axii tier1 was maxed for jedi mindtrick option. Favorite build so far.
After the recent update I was forced using Gourmet, though. They massively nerfed healing speed of regular food.
Once I have the basic build finished I will reskill since Gourmet is just wasting a slot after you unlock potion bonuses
I just started the Witcher 3 game some time back, and I am done with Velen main quests, atm am doing the side quests and exploring Velen before going to Novigrad.....my question as a beginner would be what skills should I invest upon because I have seen a lot of videos and I am confused af rn......I prefer to be on the aggressive with strikes and using signs....i would use oils too for ease of eliminating foes....is there a discord, I can join in to talk witcher 3 game? Thanks
I have a Sony 4 Pro. Will I feel a big difference from the old generation before the update?
Are the number of skill points needed to unlock tier 2,3 and 4 rows in the skill tree less now? Considering that they nerfed from 5 to 3 max level of some skills
How you unlock the extra tree areas to put more skills there?is that a new game pluss thing?
You have to start Blood and wine DLC and do the Turn and face the strange quest.
Late to The Witcher party. Super informative vid. Thank you!
3 minutes into the video and I'm liking and subscribing , I LOVE how to the point you are and how quick you speak, Jesus Christmas what a breath of fresh air
My skill tree doesn't look like this. I'm level 4 and have 5 ability points I haven't used yet. Only have 10 hours or so on the game.
are you talking about the red ball in the middle of the skill tree if so you can only get that during the DLC
@hn9174 Thanks, I have 10 points I haven't used yet. I put 2 in delusion and 1 in sun and stars, leaving me with 10. Where should I put them?
Thanks for the vid! Im going through my first play through right now. Quick question though, in the wolf build could you have whirlwind in there and does it apply the bleed effect? thanks!
For sure can add whirlwind! I personally haven't tested in whirlwind applies bleed though, sorry 😀
Helpful af, thanks
When will i unlock the extra ability slots now i see only 12 of then i have bough the blood and wine dlc but havnt completed the base game yet what to do plz help
Ps5 upgrade is so amazing I'm in love with this game all over again
Me too! I can't stop playing
Even better on PC
Think you could actually do some builds? I think that would be helpful a lot.
I am having a tough day. I am tired but I also want to play Witcher :(
Idk why but my skill tree doesn’t look like that even though it’s the ps5 version, it’s still the original tree. Anyone know why?
At what point do you get additional skill spots? I’ve done a play through before and pretty certain I beat the game but doing another play through for the new graphics update and only have 12 skill spots to use. Also have never seen the Bloodbath button either.
You unlock it in a side quest during the Blood and Wine DLC
Yea if you never played the dlc before that's why you haven't seen it
Thats sucks bro. Means you never got the areondight sword which is the purpose of new game plus anyway to power it up. Plus all the other weapons
Side Mission in Blood & Wine (it triggers automatically when you receive a letter from someone) completing it unlocks mutations (bloodbath is one of these) and the more mutations you unlock the more of those extra 4 skill slots you unlock
Very helpful video manny thanks
Hi, is your skill tree modded or mine will be like this at some point? Thanks.
Last game I started Sign build, but get tired and changed to combat build, then combat and magic, them alchemy and magic...
I can’t remember, when does it slow this when you start the dlc?
I have a piercing cold aard build going on rn, and it literally freezes and exploded everything human sized and knocks over and stuns most other enemoes
Yes my favorite build as well and even stronger than prenerf Euphoria imo. You simply don't get hit and deal up to 6000 or more aoe damage.
Amazing video. Thanks man! Your content is 🔥
Thanks so much! Are you liking the next gen update?
I just don't get why everybody is ignoring Fixative. +50% permanent damage for the steel sword and for the silver +50% for 3 monster types you choose. Sound like a no brainer right?
I don't understand how this video has anything to do with early build. Its a late game/end game build.
No it isnt. This isnt even a build. He showed you 4 types of areas to start and two skills two pick first from each category. Obviously its going to be your choice. So if you want signs start with melt armor. If you want more health, poison and bomb damage do alchemy. Its not that hard.
He also clearly said that the entire thing was not a min maxxed build or endgame and that ideally you wouldnt use one of each color. So its like you didnt even watch.
He talked about how arrow deflection is good for early game
Still watching and he's going through all the good starting upgrades. Did we watch the same video?
You should be using oils if you're getting dry walled so hard ;)
I’m so overwhelmed by this game and I’ve owned it for many years now. I’m a very casual player and old school. Why can’t all these powers level up automatically. I find myself spending so much time learning how to work this thing rather than actually playing. Maybe I’m just too old. I miss playing Zelda in the 90’s.
Why does he have more slots than i do and the 'blood bath' thing?
Is the alchemy build nerfed significantly? I used to love the alchemy build
It's still OP when applied properly. Once you get Euphoria with Aquired tolerance, most enemies are easy except the odd few bosses.
In short, yes! It got nerfed into the fucking ground.
Acquired tolerance got nerfed. Effect is only half now. 0.5 per formula known instead of one.
It got nerfed HARD
Still op
Hey does melt armour work on monsters? Was reading it only works on humans
Hi guys!
What do you think, what is the experience in terms of wanting a wolf school ability with the corresponding set! I'd like to build a sword and signal skill for a kind of hybrid half! Strong or Fast attack is better? Or it just depends on which one is nicer to me? Thank you very much!
Hey where did u get that upgraded armor from Netflix,? Is this a mod or they added it?
Alright I see now, it's just upgraded forgotten wolf armor
Dude basically read the skills out……I think I’d benefit more if you showed a few different builds and explain the reasons why it’s so good
Bro Im gonna ask something if it's possible.
I want the nilfgaard lose the war, and not kill radovid , but I still want ciri became Witcher . Is that ending possible?
Dam, I only have the 4 signs to use...I didn't know he could do more than those. Granted, I'm not that far but still. That's awesome! Lots to look forward to
You start with all the signs
lol
Did they nerf Quen? I'm doing a new playthrough, on the second highest difficulty, now that the update released. The last time I played was my first and only playthrough shortly after the game released, and I faintly remember Quen being able to block at least a few hits by weaker enemies. Now any hit will shatter the shield, making it very tedious to use (at least around level 10 where I'm at now)
from what iv seen they have nerfed almost everything especially food but they did decrease the amount of skill points u need to use to max skills and needed to unlock next tier of skills
I played a sign build my first play through years ago and jumping back in found them to be much weaker. I've switched to a different build for a change, and its more fun. But all of them are good in their own way.
@@Balorian In the last two days since I've made that comment I've leveled up a bit and made some griffin armor. With the increased sign intensity and stamina recharge the sign build feels better already. But quen is still really weird. A wolf from a random pack will one shot my shield, same as pretty much any other enemy in the game so far, but a wolf summoned by a leshen needs 3-4 attacks to break it for some reason.
I had poisoned the leshen . My regular DMG was like 500 while poison DMG was 1.1k 😂 . Still a beginner
My days going good, weekend off been playing alot, just about to follow the trail of treats
Thanks bro you goated 🐐 for this
Fighting in this game is stupidly easy, you can even do it while naked. Look closely to the enemy, if they raised their hand (about to attack) click the dodge button and quickly hit attack even if they still not finishing their attack animation. Attack only 2 or 3 times and dodge again. For the fistfight tournament, the last 2 fight is the easiest (bear and troll) because of how large the fighting arena is. I had to raised the diffulty because of this (not death march). On my first play I always make a mistake by always look to my Geralt and not the enemy, resulted in Geralt died quickly.
great vid
Which mods are you using to make the combat look like that?
It's just the next gen version of the game. It has a new camera option for combat, exploration and horse riding.
how do i unlock other general skills? i only have 2 lines showing for me and its not saying anything required for skill points
Why would you recommend melt armor when it's well known that:
- armor on humans is broken.
- armor on monsters is very very scarse, only a handful of monsters actually have armor values.
Hey. Why do you have more slots then i to put skillls in?i just have 12 slots and You more?
I can't wait to play the remake of the first game and then hopefully the second game cuz I never played those and someday possibly a new Witcher game and cyberpunk 2 but they need to make sure it's ready although I love the first cyberpunk it suffer from the same thing kingdom come deliverance did and was released too early
Can you get the new abilities like enchantments and the new mutagens from Blood and wine, early in a new Regular campaign? Not NG+.
I think you can't start Blood and Wine til about level 20. I could be wrong though
@@nuckchorris3054he’s talking new game plus stuff you get from blood and wine on your previous playthrough
I think so dude but I’m not sure I never played new game plus I always just restart lol
I love going all in on alchemy
I prefer the combat skill that gives you a chance to knock down opponents when you do a successful parry. Great for people holding shields because it opens them up to a finisher or makes them drop the shield. I also use the one that makes quick attacks apply bleeding, one to reduce the damage taking from a successful dodge or block. One that I believe makes adreneline points generate quicker to get more damage faster. The alchemy tree I prefer 3. One gives you a random second random potion bonus when using a potion without increasing the toxicity. The second increases the bonus for apply the correct colored skill to the mutagen which when maxed gives an extra 50%. The third is one that when consuming a potion your get 30 percent of your vitality instantly. So, when using Swallow, it gives you an additional 30 percent instantly like White Rafford's Concoction does. For Signs I use the one that causes quen to explode when broken, Delusion and Melt for Igni.
All very good advice - except what you're showing really isn't an "early" game build.
2:35 How do you get that big sircle in the middle of the slots on the right?
Dlc
@@thebhoy8561 What DLC?
@High Elves Thx
Just started my first playthrough
It was a shock to me that very few pro players use "fixated" and "hunter instinct" from alchemy skill tree, specially on next gen update. Very odd indeed
I always pick gourmet as the first, at low level you can only pick one skill.
Giving up the chance to get light attacks up by 30% hell naw dude lol
@@SavageGameHawk I take that as second, its just one skill point " dude" lol?? Its funny some play different?
"The Witcher 3 Best Skills To Get Early" level 12+ skills isn't early at all since leveling is insanely slow in this game
I wanted to get into this game so bad I gave it three chances but the controls for the combat was hard to remember the menu is confusing and the loading screen when you die is way to long I guess RPGs isn't for me.
Its better now with the upgrade. Quick casting immensely improves the flow if combat.
And there is also no loading screens anymore unless you travel between velen, skellige novigrad etc. and they are a few seconds long at most. Fast travel is almost instant. They game has just improved so much and in so many areas with the upgrade.
Hard to remember? Left click to light attack space to roll lmao you can literally choose your own keybinds… and how is the menu confusing? Did you learn to read or not 😂 get a better system to play the game on or stop dying on an easy game 🤦♂️ smh
How come some player skills are upgradable to 5??
They can't. After the update, the max skill level is 3. All used points were refunded, so you can spend them somewhere else.
if you start the game by collecting all the places of power available in white orchard then velen/novigrad and also skellege (farm cows or wait spam a monster nest for gold) you can have 100% igni burn at level 6 which is most certainly the very best skill in the game.
Can you make a video about meta builds
You can do this on the ps5?
What mod is that big sircle in the middle of the slots on the right?
It’s not a mod this mutagen slot is unlocked in the blood and wine dlc
I've played through witcher 3 like 1.5 times and just floated my way through without knowing there were "builds". Can someone help a clueless guy out 😅