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Element of Surprise
The Witcher 3 Remastered General Skill

General tree
Level 1: Hitting enemies with a bomb increases your melee damage by 10% for 10 seconds. Vitality gain: +1%
Level 2: Hitting enemies with a bomb increases your melee damage by 20% for 10 seconds. Vitality gain: +2%
Level 3: Hitting enemies with a bomb increases your melee damage by 30% for 10 seconds. Vitality gain: +3%
General

Element of Surprise is a General skill in The Witcher 3 Remastered with 3 levels at 1 skill point each. It opens once any one of Griffin School Techniques, Manticore School Techniques, Viper School Techniques or Elemental Attunement is learned. Each level also raises vitality, up to +3% at level 3. It works only while equipped in an open skill slot.

General skills have no mutagen colour: it neither multiplies a mutagen nor fits a Strengthened Synapses slot opened by a mutation.

It leads to Elemental Attunement.

Element of Surprise Builds

Open the character build planner with this skill learned at its top level and slotted, then plan the tree, the slots and the mutagens around it.

Create a build with Element of Surprise

Opened by

Griffin School Techniques

Each piece of Medium Armor increases Sign intensity by 2% and Stamina regeneration by 0.2/s.

Vitality gain: +1%

Manticore School Techniques

Each piece of Medium Armor increases sword damage by 2% and bomb damage by 2%.

Vitality gain: +1%

Viper School Techniques

Each piece of Medium Armor increases maximum Vitality by 2% and poison damage by 2%.

Vitality gain: +1%

Elemental Attunement

Increases non-physical damage (fire, frost, force, magic, poison) by 3%.

Vitality gain: +1%

Leads to

Elemental Attunement

Increases non-physical damage (fire, frost, force, magic, poison) by 3%.

Vitality gain: +1%