Gear: Griffin/Wolven armor and weapons
Min. level requirement:
Recommended:
- Glyphs: Igni, Yrden, Quen
- Runestones: Veles, Stribog
- Potions: Thunderbolt, Tawny Owl, Petri’s Philter
- Decoctions: Ancient Leshen, Cockatrice, Ekhidna, Succubus
Summary:
One fortunate day the Witchers from the School of Griffin began to think how they could improve themselves to be more versatile. They had best teachings for Witcher signs, but they always stood behind other Schools when comparing their sword and alchemy skills. Then they found it – after brewing some high quality alchemy they finally could improve their fighting style so that they could rely on their swords much more than in the past!
How it works:
- Igni is your main sign to use and main damage dealer
- Melt Armor helps with your sword damage
- Firestream is great for crowd control and burning your opponent
- Select your secondary signs to compliment your playstyle
- You can get 2 first skills for both and sign intensity skill for other which you prefer
- Offensive route: Aard and Axii
- Use Aard for crowd control and knockdowns
- Use Axii to Puppet and stun opponents
- Defensive route: Yrden and Quen
- Slowdown your opponent and boost your damage output with alternate Yrden
- Quen provides healing and negating damage
- Blade Oils allow greater sword damage and protection
- Poisoning provides added boost to your sword damage output, which is extremely handy
- Protective Coating boosts your resistance
- Fixative makes sure oils won’t wear off before battle ends
- Refreshment allows you to have other potions than Swallow in quick slots
- Recommended potions provides everything you need to make both sword and sign damage powerful
- Acts as a main way of healing
- Defensive route allows to use Active Shield in the side of Refreshment healing, making this build quite tanky
- Synergy buffs sign intensity and vitality to reasonable levels
- Choose between Griffin or Wolven gear
- Griffin provides greater sign intensity
- Wolven gear provides greater sword damage
Pros and Cons:
+ Alchemy provides such boosts that sword damage becomes usable without combat tree investments
+ Defensive capabilities are extremely high for Griffin School
+ Versatily keeps things from not getting repetitive
+ Allows to use Griffin gear while completing game until Wolven gear is available
– Lacks raw power of specialized build
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