we all are different!' voice from the off '. Might give the player the notion of playing in her/his own special way ('. Maybe you just feel somewhat safer when you have these options: while they might not do anything in a physical way, they could bolster up Geralt/you as a gamer in a mental way by just feeling more protected.

What of the arsenal to use, when to use is a constant kind of calculation, but I like this.īleeding and poison - well if you kill your opponent with two strikes/hits, there really is no chance that the effects will show in any significant way. Just for the fun of it, all the time, changed for the monster that will be encountered. Increases stamina Not only the wild hunt wears armor (plate), there are bandits, pirates and other types that are wearing a mix of armor.Īnd, if you ever decided to quarrel with a witch hunter > the things that they are wearing - first class, hart to beat. Also, what does armor piercing mean when applied to a monster since only wild hunt warriors wear armor. JoeAboveAverage: I too wonder how armor piercing works. The 'extras' that I believe add to the sword's deadliness (not necessarily in order of preference): Stagger, stun, freeze, burn might be good for crowd control but isn't that what aard and igni are for? It seems dismember only works on normal size opponents like bandits and downers. I kill downers and the like in 1-2 hits they do not have time to bleed to death and tougher monsters have so many hit points that bleeding and poison are like pin pricks and bee stings.ĭismember provides a nice graphic, but despite having at least a 10% chance, I have never dismembered a large monster (fiend, dragon, elemental, golem, etc) and I have killed more than 30 which means I had more than a 95% chance to dismember at least 1 of them.

'Percent Improved critical hit chance', what good is it when Superior Thunderbolt potion gives you 100% chance of a critical hit.īleeding and poison (admittedly I do not play with cat gear), I do not think they do enough damage to make a difference.

I am of the opinion that some of the 'extras' included on swords sound good but do not mean much: I wonder if it's in the in-game glossary or something. The manual is 9 pages with no information. For example, if my sword says '50 armor piercing,' does that mean 50 points of its damage will bypass armor? Does that mean 50% of its damage will bypass armor? Does that mean it does an additional 50 points of bonus damage, on top of its regular damage, that bypass armor? Fjdgshdkeavd: EDIT: sorry, I meant to ask what the effect of a given damage type is.

Witcher 3 stun vs stagger