Ultimate BloodBath
Uses blood bath, red skills, quen, and alchemy to prioritize never getting hit and maximizing crits at full adrenaline. Use potions to supplement stamina regen and add whatever else you want. Quen investment with protection makes ursine 6 piece useful. Sword runes are flexible, but I chose stagger for the most openings on the widest array of enemies. Triglav or severance would work as well.
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After a successful dodge or roll, your next 3 Fast Attacks performed in a row deal 30% additional damage.
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
The third Fast or Strong Attack has a 20% chance to make the next attack even more powerful, but only if it is the same attack type as the last.
Adrenaline Point gain: +1%
When Vitality reaches 0, immediately consumes Adrenaline points to restore 10% Vitality per point. Can only be used once every 30 seconds.
Adrenaline Point gain: +1%
Reduces damage received while dodging by 100%.
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
A spinning attack that strikes all enemies in your immediate vicinity. Maintaining the attack consumes Stamina and Adrenaline. Reduces Stamina and Adrenaline cost by 50%
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
Gain 1 Adrenaline point upon entering combat. Increases Adrenaline generation from weapon strikes by 30%.
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
Critical hits from Fast Attacks cripple enemies, increasing their damage taken by 30%.
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
You can parry ranged arrow attacks. A perfectly-timed parry deflects arrows back at the enemy, causing damage. It has a 15% chance to instantly kill the target.
Adrenaline Point gain: +1%
Reduces Adrenaline point loss by 100% when taking damage.
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
Whenever Quen shield breaks, it pushes enemies back. Push-back strength increases with skill level.
Stamina regeneration in combat: +1.5/s
Creates an active shield. Maintaining and blocking with it does not drain Stamina. Damage absorbed by the shield restores Vitality.
Stamina regeneration in combat: +1.5/s
Increases the maximum number of bombs in each slot by 1.
Potion duration time and bomb damage: +2%
When Adrenaline points reach their maximum, increases critical hit damage against the targeted enemy type by 60% if the correct oil is applied.
Potion duration time and bomb damage: +6%
Every learned alchemical recipe increases maximum Toxicity by 3.
Potion duration time and bomb damage: +6%
Decoctions increase maximum Vitality by 300 for the decoction's effective duration.
Potion duration time and bomb damage: +2%
While at 80% Toxicity or higher, take 150% damage from enemies. Increases critical hit damage equal to 100% of current Toxicity.
Potion duration time and bomb damage: +6%
Each piece of Light Armor increases critical hit damage by 8% and Fast Attack damage by 2%.
Vitality gain: +1%
Increases critical hit chance by 9% per Adrenaline point available.
Vitality gain: +3%
Loadout
Gain 1 Adrenaline point upon entering combat. Increases Adrenaline generation from weapon strikes by 30%.
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
A spinning attack that strikes all enemies in your immediate vicinity. Maintaining the attack consumes Stamina and Adrenaline. Reduces Stamina and Adrenaline cost by 50%
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
Reduces Adrenaline point loss by 100% when taking damage.
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
Reduces damage received while dodging by 100%.
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
Critical hits from Fast Attacks cripple enemies, increasing their damage taken by 30%.
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
After a successful dodge or roll, your next 3 Fast Attacks performed in a row deal 30% additional damage.
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
When Adrenaline points reach their maximum, increases critical hit damage against the targeted enemy type by 60% if the correct oil is applied.
Potion duration time and bomb damage: +6%
Every learned alchemical recipe increases maximum Toxicity by 3.
Potion duration time and bomb damage: +6%
While at 80% Toxicity or higher, take 150% damage from enemies. Increases critical hit damage equal to 100% of current Toxicity.
Potion duration time and bomb damage: +6%
Whenever Quen shield breaks, it pushes enemies back. Push-back strength increases with skill level.
Stamina regeneration in combat: +1.5/s
Creates an active shield. Maintaining and blocking with it does not drain Stamina. Damage absorbed by the shield restores Vitality.
Stamina regeneration in combat: +1.5/s
Increases critical hit chance by 9% per Adrenaline point available.
Vitality gain: +3%
Mutations
Each fatal blow dealt by a sword dismembers the enemy or activates a finisher. Each blow dealt by a weapon in melee combat increases Attack Power by 5% until combat ends (to a maximum of 250%). The bonus is lost if you take damage (not including damage from Toxicity).
Gear
When you enter combat, there's a 100 percent chance you will automatically get a Quen shield without using any Stamina.