Cat School: Swordmaster

    

Gear: Feline armor and Ursine weapons
Min. level requirement: Level 31 + 25 Places of Power = 56 skill points
Recommended:

• Glyphs: Quen
• Runestones: Devana, Perun, Stribog
• Potions: Thunderbolt, Maribor Forest, Blizzard, Swallow
• Decoctions: Katakan, Archgriffin, Succubus

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Summary:

Build making Geralt true swordmaster! Really straightforward build enabling to use both fast and strong attacks with great results while using a bit of alchemy to heal from your little mistakes!

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How it works:

• Combine fast and strong attacks according to enemy type
  • Fast attacks against agile enemies and groups
  • Strong attacks against slower and single opponents
• Use your massive adrenaline gain to use Whirl or boost Rend damage
  • Whirl destroys nearby enemies if you are surrounded
  • Rend deals massive damage with single blow
• Feline armor provides naturally fast stamina regeneration
  • Notable with Rend which is usually used in tandem with Ursine gear and slow stamina regeneration
  • Allows to use Quen-Slash-Retreat -tactic (Investment to Rage Management is optional)
• Boosting critical hit damage is essential for smoother battles
  • Katakan decoction and Thunderbolt to boost critical hit occurence
  • Archgriffin decoction to boost Rend damage
  • Ursine swords and Cat School Techniques gives massive boost to critical hit damage
• Deadly Precision gives helpful chance of instantly killing an opponent
• Alchemy investments provides this build greater efficiency
  • Refreshment is the main way of healing and allows you to have other potions than Swallow in quick selection slots
  • Allows you to have at least one decoction active for battles without hindering potion usage

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Pros and Cons:

+ More versatile than a build focusing on just fast or strong attacks
+ Simple but efficient
+ Rend and Whirl in the same build is awesome!

– Hack and Slash gameplay can get boring
– Signs are nearly unusable

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Bear School: Rend Destruction

    

Gear: Ursine armor and weapons
Min. level requirement: Level 27 + 25 Places of Power = 52 skill points
Recommended:

• Glyphs: Quen
• Runestones: Stribog, Chernobog, Svarog
• Potions: Thunderbolt, Maribor Forest, Swallow, Tawny Owl
• Decoctions: Archgriffin, Cockatrice, Ekimmara, Katakan, Succubus

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Summary:

Decimate everything with one swing of a sword! Rend makes even the most sturdiest opponents to split instantly. If you think power is the answer for everything, this is a build for you!

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How it works:

• Rend is your main damage dealer and you aim to maximize the damage
  • Gear + Skills + Maribor Forest to gain adrenaline faster
  • Decoctions and Thunderbolt makes the damage output disgustingly high (especially Archgriffin)
  • Tawny Owl is used for recovering stamina to use Rend again
• Rend is slow, so don’t avoid using fast attacks when against large mobs of agile enemies!
• With luck, Deadly Precision is always helpful when in a pinch
• Main way of healing: Refreshment and Swallow
• Rage Management allows you to cast Quen anytime you want!
  • You gain so much adrenaline so you have nearly no reason to not cast Quen after it breaks
  • If you cast Quen with adrenaline, you spare stamina required for usage of Rend!

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Pros and Cons:

+ Even the toughest enemies will fall after couple successful Rend hits
+ Damage output is insane!
+ Bear gear has the best looks! 😛

– Struggles with agile and large groups of enemies
– Becomes repetitive quite quickly

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Cat School: Whirl + Crossbow

    

Gear: Feline armor and weapons
Min. level requirement: Level 27 + 25 Places of Power = 52 skill points
Recommended:

• Glyphs: Quen
• Runestones: Devana, Perun, Stribog
• Potions: Maribor Forest, Tawny Owl, Thunderbolt
• Decoctions: Katakan, Succubus

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Summary:

Build taking full advantage of Cat Schools buffs. Fast attack and crossbow damage with critical hits and added chance to instantly kill opponent will make quick work of most opponents you will come across!

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How it works:

• Standard “Quen-Attack-Retreat”
• Healing: Refreshment and Swallow
• Whirl is the main damage dealer
  • Gain more adrenaline with sword blows and shooting crossbow
  • Critical hits boost damage output
• Use recommended potions to accelerate adrenaline and stamina gain
  • Allows to cast Quen and use whirl in faster succession
• Deadly Precision gives up to 6% chance to instantly kill opponent with every successful hit
  • Whirl and Crossbow become extremely potent with luck
• Cat School Techniques
  • Boosts your Fast Attack and Whirl damage by 20%
  • Boosts your critical hit damage by 100%
    • Affects both sword and crossbow critical hits!
• Rage Management
  • Allows to cast Quen in dangerous situations with the cost of adrenaline

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Pros and Cons:

+ Whirl is extremely powerful and you can use it nearly all the time
+ Refreshment provides healing while using offensive potions
+ Build makes crossbow damage passable and usable

– Signs are extremely weak and nearly unusable except from Quen
– Becomes repetitive over time

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