None of them are incredibly powerful (which makes some people grumble due to lore reasons) Well if you actually beat the 1st one you can import your save, which will give you some extra items. But it was like that for the last Witcher game too. I farmed for a week for this build): Madness mutagen (there is no greater madness mutagen, it's just very, very strong)Ĭlick to expand.The hardest part is the earliest part like others have said. knock them out and instakill): Critical effects mutagen I wait until I have the greater rank of mutagen (gained randomly, so you'll need to farm for them at some point if you have a particular build in mind).Ĭritical effects build (i.e. They have to do with abusing the heliotrope sign, and making it recharge quickly.ĭon't slot mutagens in willy nilly, you can't take them out when you do. Of course there are some nice magical builds around, I'd look on gamefaqs for them. My personal build was dabbling in both the magical and alchemy trees (magical to upgrade Quen, alchemy to get as many mutagen slots as possible and impregnation to boost the bonuses from mutagen), and then focusing on the sword tree to the end (triple finishers are nice to have). (I've seen some people go for the parry tree, but that takes a while, and good timing, while Quen you can use while hacking people to death). Click to expand.The Shield sign is Quen, and learn to love it.

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