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Played a little more yesterday, and came across some beautiful spots. A lone tree way up a mountain-side, so I needed to hug it :D
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Somewhere near Kaer Morhen (found a few more quests there too).
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I don't use Igni against people; it looks far too cruel.
(Chopping people in half is OK, though -- because it looks funny, more than anything else. Over the top fictional violence has always seemed to me to be a type of slapstick comedy; though with burning alive it's somehow different.)
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Always cool to find stuff like this.
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Now finally onwards to the expansions, whatever they hold. Hope they last rather more than just a handful of hours.
A few small exceptions aside, I think it was perfectly fine to play on Sword and Broken Bones on New Game+. For the most part it seemed well-balanced to me. Don't recall now how it was in the first time through the game, if it was mighty easy (sounds like it from a few posts above), but that wasn't really the case here. If I got hit, that could easily be 50%+ of Geralt's life gone, and enemies do not go down to a swing or two. Very easy to die if you get surrounded when up against many foes, even 'easy' ones like nekkers, drowners and the like.
Combat would of course be much easier if I just Igni'ed everything, but I like swordplay more, I want to play as an actual witcher after all, and not a mageling. Quen is indispensable though, especially in harder fights, like in the latter sections of the game.
Skillwise NG+ is problematic, because you only have so many slots for skills, and soon you have them filled, so new levels don't really matter. Think I had 30-40 unspent skill points by the end of the main story, and of course Geralt will level more throughout the expansions (though I don't know how much). I was level 69 by the end, which was only a little overleveled compared with quest expectations.
Fun game, and I envy anybody who haven't played through it yet. You've got one hell of a ride ahead of you :)
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From what I've heard, expansions give an option to add more skill slots somehow (some mutation attribute).
UPDATE: see: https://witcher.gamepedia.com/Mutations
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There is a quest in Blood and Wine to unlock them:
https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Turn_and_Face_the_Strange
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https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Aerondight
https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Runewright
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There is a whole story behind it (split from Wikia and etc.).
As for Aerondight, I've heard it's in the game (didn't get to it yet), but I was surprised it actually wasn't imported from TW2 save. I had it all the way from TW1, since it was given to Geralt by Lady of the Lake.
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