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- Get Used To Blocking
- Don't Bother With Basic Bombs
- Do Your Dailies
- Add Some Friends
- Use Your Map To Find Monsters
- Don't Waste Oil, Potions, And Bombs On Easy Enemies
- Keep An Eye Out For Bushes
- Craft Oils
CD Projekt Red is trying its hand at the Pokemon Go scene with The Witcher: Monster Slayer, a mobile game that will have you racking up those daily 10k steps as you meander about your town, village, or city slaying iconic monsters from the series.
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However, it is chock full of RPG elements so not every monster will be so easy to slay. In fact, to begin with, you'll likely die a whole lot barring the odd ghoul or drowner. There are bosses, quests, and tougher foes that require a bit of ingenuity to take down. With that in mind – to help you get started on your journey as a witcher in contemporary Earth – here are a bunch of helpful tips that'll get you ready to take down Noonwraiths and Griffins in no time.
Get Used To Blocking
It's easy to get into the habit of mindlessly swiping away at the enemies until they die, but this doesn't work when you're stumbling onto those of the tougher variety.
You need to block or the damage they dole out will steamroll you. Two hits and you can be K.O'd without blocking.
To block, hold down on the screen but don't continuously do it. Rather, wait for the enemy animation to begin and start blocking as they're about to hit. Otherwise, you won't protect yourself from much damage. You have to time it right.
Don't Bother With Basic Bombs
Click the arrow on the bottom of the screen to find the other menus. One of them is "Inventory" with a little alchemy symbol. Open it.
Inside of your inventory, you'll have crafting stations. There are ones with limited uses that speed the process up and there's your infinite, slower variant. It's a bit like Pokemon Go's incubation for eggs.
Click on an alchemy station and you'll be brought to a selection of crafting options. Here, you can categorize by bombs, potions, and oils.
You might be tempted to go for the cheaper "Basic bomb" option but this is a waste of resources. What you want to do is save up for the other bombs which cost a little more to make. Given that you don't want to be throwing bombs around willy nilly, you can save them for tougher foes and work around their weaknesses. For instance, the Moon Dust bomb does silver damage, the Grapeshot does steel damage, the Dancing Star does fire damage, and the Dimeritium Bomb does dimeritium damage.
Do Your Dailies
The Witcher: Monster Slayer has daily quests called "contracts." Each daily will give you a sum of gold, but if you complete seven contracts, you'll get a bonus reward.
Suffice to say, you'll wanna save up gold and this is the best way to do it. Gold lets you buy new weapons, new armor, scrolls, potions, oils, bombs, ingredients, crafting stations, and pouches for more inventory space.
Add Some Friends
Above the witcher wolf medallion at the bottom of the screen is another icon with three people on it. This is your character and friends menu.
Open it. Inside, you'll see two tabs – the aforementioned characters and friends. Click friends.
Here, click "add friends" which will show you your Witcher ID. You can also enter other players'. Doing so lets you send packages to one another which are like Pokemon Go's gifts.
These can contain things like monster remains, herbs, roots, and more. In essence, having friends means that you can trade free materials back and forth. Even if you don't like 'em or know them, it's worth it just for that.
As with Pokemon Go, you might be best off heading to some internet forums or Reddit to find friends.
Use Your Map To Find Monsters
The whole point of The Witcher: Monster Slayer is slaying monsters – it's in the name. You get XP to level up which nets you rewards while you pad out the bestiary which – you guessed it – leads to more rewards.
However, monsters might not be in your vicinity and you don't want to aimlessly walk about, hoping to bump into one.
Rather, click the witcher wolf school medallion icon located at the bottom of your screen and take a look at your map. You can filter by common, rare, legendary, and all types.
The red circles represent hot spots for monsters. You want to head to these red circles in particular as that's where you'll find the action.
Don't Waste Oil, Potions, And Bombs On Easy Enemies
As stated earlier, you don't want to waste resources on Basic bombs because you don't want to waste bombs period. Not only do they cost resources, crafting them takes a while in real life and the other alternative is instantly getting them with gold.
If you don't have any on hand, when you run into tougher monsters, the fights will only be more difficult because you'll be underprepared. Every good witcher worth their salt needs an arsenal.
Try fighting an enemy first before you attempt it with bombs, oils, and potions. You might find that a sword is enough. If it isn't, then bring those into the fold. Monsters don't disappear if you die to them so don't be scared to experiment.
Easy enemies might take a couple of tries, but you likely won't need anything other than the sword for them. Skulls mark the harder enemies and you'll face bosses in quests so be sure to save your resources for them.
Keep An Eye Out For Bushes
While you're wandering around doing quests and finding monsters to skewer, don't forget to keep an eye out for bushes.
As seen pictured above, these don't exactly pop out on the screen. However, if you click them, you'll get some crafting materials. Sometimes, it's worth taking a detour just for them if they're close enough.
Craft Oils
Bombs are fine and dandy and will help in a pinch, but oils are important too. Crafting takes time in real life as stated earlier so you need to make oils in advance.
Oils are made with monster parts and other crafting materials and they up your damage against certain monsters. For instance, the Necrophage oil will ensure you dole out 100% more melee damage to Necrophages. You won't know what you're going to run into in the future so it's best to stock up before you head out.
Otherwise, you could be waiting as long as 30 minutes and the monster might disappear by the time your crafting's up, so ensure you're always stockpiling oils for the tougher enemies.
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