Try to get your chest armor upgrade (Warrior’s leather jacket) crafted as soon as you can. You start with a bad armor, bad swords, and a bad crossbow. Why? To unlock the Combat tree’s next tiers.Īrmors, Swords and Crossbow (How Choose and Manage Them)
But it really is a useful skill, so feel free to take it. I just took it in my first game, but never used it. I didn’t take the Alternate Yrden Sign.Use your other skill points in what I spent on the screens (Combat abilities, and upgrade alternate signs). It’s the only thing I take in the alchemy tree in the first game, but it’s worth it. This will allow you to drink a lot of potions without being threatened by Toxicity. Nothing to say here, just upgrade the flamethrower.Īlchemy – Mutation – Acquired Tolerance – 3/3 So it’s time to take a passive to couple with the kind of armor we will use – light armor. It’s time to get some combat skills! Nothing much to say here, just grab this to increase your swords’ fast attack damage.īy now, you should have acquired some decent light armor pieces (Assassin’s gauntlets / boots / trousers, for instance). Sure, it won’t be as effective at first to knock down enemies, but sometimes, you just need peace, not knockdown.Ĭombat – Fast Attack – Muscle Memory – 2/5 It’s not necessary to upgrade it fully right now.Īnother very useful skill in any situation in which you are surrounded. Plus, it’s very useful to apply Burning easily on a lot of enemies, and also, make them drop shield they might hold. Isn’t that cool to have a Geralt with a flamethrower in his arm ? I do believe it is. So, if your stamina just started regenerating, don’t go for an alternate sign with Adrenaline – cast a basic Sign.
One thing that you should know about this skill is that it also allows you to cast Alternate Signs without full stamina, but it will still use it. Casting Signs with adrenaline can save you from death many times. This one is a must have for every build strongly Sign-oriented. This skill need to be fully upgraded to really become interesting, as the Quen Shield won’t drain any stamina anymore. Quen becomes a bubble shield around you and damage taken heals you instead, as long as Quen is holding. This will save you from a lot of trouble. It will unlock the second tier, allowing you to use alternate Signs. Take it as your first skill, and upgrade it completely before thinking of any other skill. I’m going to describe the build, writing skills in the order I think you should take them. I didn’t screen the Alchemy and Passive trees since descriptions will be enough to explain what I took in these. So, make sure you get every place of power in white orchard – in other regions, they won’t be as numerous and easy to get. Hopefully, there are six Places of Power on the map, and each one will grant you one skill point when you draw from them (only the first time you do though, of course). But it still can be useful until you need to remove it, and well, if you have an empty skill slot, there’s no reason to leave it empty.ĭuring the prologue, you won’t gain much XP, even if you do everything you can. It means that when you take a skill, like Exploding Shield, slide it into your active skills slots if you can. You won’t have the possibility to do the exactly same build as I show on the screens. Plus, it doesn’t need a lot of points to be efficient, so you can take some skills in combat / alchemy trees as well. For my first playthrough, I went for the signs-oriented build, which is definitely a solid and reliable build in Death March. You will get skills, of course, but also Witcher gear and formulae for potions, oils and bombs.Īnd of course, it’s a walk in the park in New Game +. That means the game will be most difficult in the beginning, and the further you go in the game, the easier it will be. No coin, no ingredients, no good stuff whatsoever, not even a swallow potion to begin with. If you start a playthrough level one in Death March, you will be challenged because you have nothing.
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