![]() It is during this preparation that I ran into something unexpected. Thus, I played that chapter keeping that particular quest and mini-boss in mind and preparing for them both. Furthermore, right before the final boss room, there's a Fire Elemental fight that had ended a few of my runs already (it hitting me faster than I could dodge). The Eternal Battle quest made me anxious because it takes away your agility and magic (both of which I'd been relying on throughout the game), plus there's a whole section that can insta-kill you if you make the wrong move, and the fight against the Chapter 2 Mid-Boss has to be done without the help of potions. The rest of Chapter 1 went about mostly uneventful - the exception being taking a direct hit from the Kayran that I only managed to survive thanks to consuming a White Raffard's Decoction potion before the battle.Ĭhapter 2 (Roche) was stressful. Without thinking, I knocked it down with Aard and quickly looted everything in the room before leaving. While walking through the asylum I found a breakable wall that I had skipped on all my previous runs. Nevertheless, it was a risk that I had to take. The quest is risky because, even while wearing a Hunter Armor with 3 Diamond Armor Reinforcements, the wraiths will still hit you like a truck and they will strike quickly a single distraction or miss dodge could lead to a backstab that would've ended the run. The path I had planned had me completing the Chapter 1 sidequest "In the Claws of Madness", where you fight a bunch of wraiths in an abandoned asylum. ![]() I looked up all available items, potions, and paths available, how many side quests could I complete to get as close to max level before the final fight, and which areas I needed to avoid altogether. I tried to do this many times, to the point I became desensitized to dying so close to the end of the game.Īfter tons of heartbreaking endings to my runs, I finally devised a winning strategy: since I struggled greatly against shielded opponents I would play the game as a mage up until the final boss and then use the Operator to re-spec myself into a swordsman. So, of course, I had to beat it, mostly because having achievements close but not quite at 100% gives me great anxiety. It's the hardest non-luck-related achievement in the game. In "Insane" you must beat the game without dying, or else the game corrupts all save files associated with that playthrough and you have to start again from scratch. All I had left was the Madman achievement, where you have to beat the game in the "Insane" difficulty setting. So much so that, over the last month, I've been achievement hunting TW2:AoK. ![]() Despite their many faults, I've really been enjoying the first two games. I purchased The Witcher trilogy for cheap back in November of 2020, but I didn't start playing them until May 2021.
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