The Witcher 3 Best Skills To Get Early - The Witcher 3 Next Gen Update (Tips and Tricks)

Do you use Signs or Alchemy (Bombs, Oils, Potions) more often?

jesus you talk too fast, easy

Oil skills are the worst alchemy skills becaseu they are so limited and arrow deflection is a waste of skill points and skill slot not only in the begining but even in end game. The best early game combat skills are a complete light attack tree and in alchmey it's heightened tolerance and acquired tolerance, which allows to use 2 decoctions and 2 potions and the same time. And in Sign, the skills related to aard + piercing cold mutation destroy everything the whole game.

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.

Do you have Reshade on? Mind sharing what did you use sir?

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

I love going all in on alchemy

New player here, just level 17. In the general skill tree, i dont see the third or fourth row. I wanted to get gourmet😢

Next gen camera angle makes me feel like I'm playing dark souls

hope, next updated add save profil character build

I stopped watching when he chose arrow deflection as one of the skills

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.

I had poisoned the leshen . My regular DMG was like 500 while poison DMG was 1.1k 😂 . Still a beginner

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.!

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

Gourmet is like cheating.

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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.

I just finished the MQ on Death March and Undying was the key skill to that run.

How i can Do fighting like u in the first 10 sec of the Video??? Never See this in witcher 3😢

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

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great vid

Why i get skill upgradable only to level 3??

How you unlock the extra tree areas to put more skills there?is that a new game pluss thing?

Just started my first playthrough

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?

So, your idea of early game skills are those you'd only get by level 50 in Blood and Wine? 🙄
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So let go is so annoying

I can’t remember, when does it slow this when you start the dlc?

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.

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.

Helpful af, thanks

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!

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!!

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.

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

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.

Hi, is your skill tree modded or mine will be like this at some point? Thanks.

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Very helpful video manny thanks

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?

I'm playing the game for almost a week now so still getting used to the mechanics. And I've been playing a bit of the first game.

feel and look like a clown in this game with armor and combat is a joke

how do i unlock other general skills? i only have 2 lines showing for me and its not saying anything required for skill points

i wished you talked a little slower....i had to back up a bunch of times to make sure of what i thought i heard. great video otherwise, thanks

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'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.

How did you get the big mutagen in the middle ??

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