r/thewitcher3 • u/Historical-Pound-256 • 1d ago

Help! Build change

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After the remastered I feel like I am to overpowered, easily killing small and big monsters, especially after applying oils. I would like to deal less damage so the fight would last more, to feel the challenges of Death March again. Should I change Cat School Skill with Wolf School Skill to reduce critical hit damage and remove the red skill that gives me more strong attack power after fast attacks (I forgat it's name).

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u/NathanCiel 1d ago

Cat School Techniques is bugged; it multiplies your crit damage to 0. Switching to WST will only give you more damage.

Speaking of which, Muscle Memory, Strength Training, Crushing Blows, Three Strikes and Counterattack are also bugged. Either install a mod to fix them or wait for an official patch.

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u/Historical-Pound-256 1d ago

mine are working fine. I guess I am just lucky

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u/NathanCiel 1d ago

Glowing swords doesn't mean those skills are working.

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u/Taro_Humble 22h ago

Do you have any good recommendation for ursine bear school build

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u/NathanCiel 19h ago

Depends. Do you prefer sword/signs or sword/alchemy?

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u/Taro_Humble 19h ago

Sword/alchemy, I think sword/signs to boring for me

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u/NathanCiel 17h ago

I don't know your platform, but let's say you have the bug fix to address the broken Combat tree. If all skills are working properly, then this is my recommendation:

ABILITIES

  1. Muscle Memory
  2. Three Strikes
  3. Undying
  4. Fleet Footed
  5. Whirl
  6. Crippling Strike
  7. Hunter Instinct
  8. Tissue Transmutation
  9. High Tolerance
  10. Wolven School Techniques
  11. Manticore School Techniques
  12. Battle Frenzy

Metamorphosis 1. Fast Metabolism 2. Poisoned Blades 3. Toxic Shock 4. Potent Sting

EQUIPMENT

  • Toussaint Knight Steel Sword and Aerondight; both enchanted with Prolongation.

  • Ursine armor (Balance and x6 Greater Mending)

  • Ekimmara, Katakan, Water Hag, Wraith and Wyvern decoctions. Destroy or store the rest.

PLAYSTYLE

  1. Drink your potions without going over 50% threshold (Thunderbolt + Maribor Forest).

  2. Spam Fast Attack or Whirl.

This build isn't as powerful as Sword/Sign or Pure Signs, but it does excel in one thing: survivability. In fact, you could even have God Mode with damage immunity and infinite stamina.

How is this possible? The answer is Prolongation (Each unblocked blow increase potion duration by 1 sec). Unlike Delayed Recovery, this enchantment can extend potions far beyond their original duration.

  • Superior Blizzard (infinite stamina at full Adrenaline)

  • Superior White Raffards Decoction ( 3 sec damage immunity)

So what happens if you keep hitting enemy with Whirl + Prolongation? Well, you should get the idea by now.

P.S:

If you want to build up duration, use the wrong sword (e.g. steel sword vs monsters) to prevent enemy from dying too quickly.

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u/Taro_Humble 15h ago

I am on ps5 pro but I don’t think there been update on fix yet for skills

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u/Taro_Humble 15h ago

I am going try this build but why is pure signs or sword/sign better and which is stronger overall between them two

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u/Taro_Humble 18h ago

Plus I don’t understand sword/signs build they set up is hard on different enemies, need to play more to get used to it