Hi. I'm aware there are mistakes in this video. I'm aware I'm not playing the game particularly well, and I'm aware that I should have used decoctions and such to make some of these encounters easier. I got very attached to my playstyle and stuck with it. I also played the game multiple times for this video and wanted to make the process less arduous. This all seems to have angered and belittled this video's enjoyment for a lot of people. I apologise for this. Since the creation of this video I have played snippets of the game with decoctions. I would not change very many of the ranking positions in this video regardless. I still had a lot of fun making this video, but for now I think I'm done responding to comments. A lot of them aren't very nice due to the mistakes I've made. If you desperately want me to respond to something you can contact me elsewhere. I hope this video was still enjoyable and I hope you're all keeping safe amongst Covid-19.
The toad is one of those bosses that makes me open the inventory and look for useful things, and it has a potion that turns all the poison damage into a cure and made the fight much easier
@@luislocks7078 Yeah, more than plenty of people pointed out the golden oriole. Admittedly, I feel pretty bad that I made this video neglecting so many useful decoctions. I just really enjoyed this game and wanted to make something somewhat unique. I wasn't expecting so many people to actually be that upset about some of this stuff.
Don't worry about it, I'm here to see other people's experiences with the game, not to get mine confirmed. Didn't even watch the vid yet but just wanted to clarify that in advance xD
I cant put into numbers how many times ive said "im going to have a fucking brain aneurysm" because i got dizzy trying to run thru a wooded area on roach.
@@spoons250 I failed the dwarf gangster guy's side questline because like 15 seconds after that first horse race started roach turned 90° to the right faster than I could have even accidentally bumped the stick and next thing I knew the dwarf was yelling at me. Whiplash.
I love that if you play the game properly (more akin to Geralt's morals) you wont encounter like 30% of those characters as bosses but as creatures you help.
True. And does he plays on Easy. He says they make a lot of damage and they do like 1/25. When I say they make a lot of damage they take at least1/3 of my life
@@vincentbokern5658 With right build you can do that even on Death March with upscaling on. Alchemy with some combat skills is beyond strong, add Euphoria to that and here you go ( even pre BaW dlc mutation builds that have Euphoria in mind are silly ).
@@jakubgauszczynski7790 I played the whole game on Death March with a basically random build. Tbh, wouldn't have been able to do that without the Next-Gen update which made Aard pretty OP with 1 single ability. Coupled with grandmaster griffin armor later on and it's ggs for everything. Fought all the Olgierd clones in the nightmare at the same time too. Just kept slowly going away and spamming Aard/Yrden for % damage till they all died. Was pretty cool to finish them all off at the same time with basic attacks near the end. Took a few tries.
It’s a game there’s no way to play properly. You play it how it’s fun. I play the game “as you’re meant to” because it’s fun to me but others like being psychopaths which is also fun
Maaaaaan. I got the game one week ago. I had no resources( food etc) cause I thought it would be a simple mission: find the (most probably) dead wife, maybe fight some wolves, the end. I had to lower the difficulty to get past that werewolve. Shit was frustrating.
bill kevin I just reloaded the save and came back later when I had cursed oil and enchanted swallow but fighting him when your a low level is near enough impossible
Yes! She's such a sweet lady too. I found a letter from her father at the side of her house on a bench, saying that the family moved to another town and that they'll keep sending someone once a year to check on her in the hopes that someone will lift the curse. I was hoping Geralt could tell her that but unfortunately there was no such option. It would be cool if she could be reunited with her family in her final days.
@@balyeet9782 Her parents would be yeah, but if she had any siblings they could still be alive. I doubt the family tree just ended with her generation, so she could meet the younger generations of her family also.
@@DeliberateConfusion she says after you talk to her back at corvo bianco that all her family is long gone the rest of them died decades before geralt fixes the curse
Detlaff: 3 tries, very last boss I fought Olgierd : 3 tries too, cheesed him with the invincible rolls and Quen FROG LORD : at least 20 tries with long breaks and a depression
It's literally a worse version of Red Dead Redemption. No idea why this game gets so much praise. It's a C+ on a good day, at best. D+ if you consider it really doesn't hold up on multiple playthroughs.
I personally found Detlaff the hardest boss fight, I needed many tries. Olgierd comes right behind him. Toad Prince, Iris and Caretaker weren't that hard for me.
@@rangatang5548 if you build Gerald properly (depend on your play style) every fight is easy even on DR and, depend on your LvL, very short or long. With high crit chance and dmg build with short attack i can kill oponents up to 15 lvl above my character with relativ easy. Just dont get hit because armor not gonna help but you can kill oponent with max 10 hits. Sign focus build is also good but not for my taste. Bombs and crosbow build are litte mem but it works espactly rly fun on standard defecaulty. Pure swordsman is not bad and you be more memy fitghing on horse as much as you can.
For some reason I breezed through olgierd on story and sword, tho got my ass handed to me multiple times by road prince, olgierd does a string of attacks and then you can parry is red attack and deal double damage then repeat, probably alot harder on higher difficulties tho
The toad prince was the hardest boss in the game to me by multiple points. I had some other fights that took some time and practice and learning, but that damn Toad handed me my ass relentlessly and I felt like I was getting no where and learning nothing every time
Olgierd was by far the hardest for me because my gameplay style was not suited for parry bosses and for that Olgierd kicked the shit out of me on the last fight. When I fought detlaff I found him the most enthusiasm figth of all bosses but not really hard ( maybe the experience I had at that point made a huge difference since I was already at level 75+)
Nah dude it’s those STUPID statues that come to life in that quest from blood and wine where you recreate some damn ritual. I literally couldn’t kill them I had to lower the difficulty
Haha yeah that was painful, but I found out that you could just go up to where the guy was hiding in the house, they wont follow up there so I picked them of one at the time😅 But damn.. it took me a while before I found that out.. many insta deaths!
Oh shit I forgot about that. I think they killed me 3 or 4 times before I figured out WHO was killing me and managed to take them out first. Not looking forward to that area on my Death March run.
@@Sarokuthix yea they are nearly impossible in death march. They all can one shot you and have to dodge the instant magic attacks with insane attack speed of the 3 mages.
I wonder if that was the Golem in the northeast if Velen? I stumbled on him last night on a random hill, only about 3 levels above me but damn was he hard as nails. Beat him easy but took 10 minutes to wear his health down.
My thoughts exactly. It's a shame a lot of players don't give attention to bombs and decoctions. They make the gameplay so much better imo. There are a ton of other useful bombs. Etc, north wind on those fast hard to hit monsters etc.
@@Pyllymysli It's probably because of how other games present them. I have a natural urge to not use any consumables or items, like potions or bombs, because in other games they're a waste of time. In this game, it basically forces you to do it on some enemies, which can be very difficult to figure out on your own. I like that they replenish once you meditate, however that natural urge just stops me from using them altogether.
Dettlaff was definitely the most difficult for me. Idk if it changed with updates, but in the flying phase the bats oneshot you even with quen active. Second was Iris's greatest fear. Neither regular Olgierd nor the frog were anywhere as difficult.
Active shield with the sign intensity boost that comes from a 3 decotion power euphoria tanks the bat attack, albeit only barely. Standard quen is useless cause its a coded as a multi hit attack
detlaff is one of those bosses that i had to tried many times to beat it. but its bats is pretty easy though, just run the opposite direction and slightly side right and his bats wont bother you
When he does this bats attack you just need to sprint either right or left and that's all. I thought bosses in Witcher 3 were hard untill I played Elden Ring
Honestly, i agree with everything, but you missed the hardest i went up against. The elven statues during the cosplay fight. Those mages rocked my world. I died most against them. Then the ofieri mage, then the toad, and detlaff. I somehow skipped olgierd, or beat him so fast i forgot it.
I Had forgotten about the elven statues, i think those could be #1, the Ofieri mage was extremely hard for me because i didnt use any armor or anything, and i didnt wanted to use potions or bombs because it didnt made sense with the history, Also you dont have to fight olgierd it depends on your choices, so it's more likely that you didnt fight him
jesus, i remember, just some calm ride on roach and then... Hmm, maybe i can help some guy in the need. Booom, 3 hours of desperate fight and some broken mice. Sweet memories.
@@Peto707 yeah that is what happened to me. No stress, let me help this guy. I am on the second difficulty, and smash most opponents. Detlaff took 2 tries. Those statues slaughtered me more then any other fight.
the elven statuesi just use nothern wind and whirl the fuck outta them, i did died once because it caught me off guard, and with death march and ghost mod on i died in 2 hit
4. Overleveled random encounters 3. Soldiers/city guards while provoked, since they're all overleveled and will 1hko you unless you've a god-tier heavy armor build 2. Rats in "A Toweful of Mice" quest WITH ENEMY UPSCALING TURNED ON 1. Falling damage from >2m jump. You literally can't fight this, it just exists.
Tip for anyone having trouble with any of these....use the decoction that gives health when using abilities that use stamina. That way everytime you cast a sign (usually Quen for a lot of bosses) you gain a chunk of health. Another couple decoctions worth using are troll for constant health regeneration (albeit not a ton but in combination with the stamina->health decoction and decoction that returns 10% damage dealt as your health makes a difference) and the decoction that returns damage dealt as health. Using these 3 decoctions still leaves some toxicity for potions and can save you healing options throughout a long fight by avoiding attacks and continually recasting Quen or other signs while you regain your health. Sorry I cant remember all the names off the top of my head. Theres a skill in the alchemy tree first row that adds maximum toxicity for each level 1, 2, and 3 alchemy formula you have. Which means if you make buying "turn out pages" (decoction formula) and finding potion formula's a priority, mid to late game you will have a maximum toxicity around 250. Don't sleep on alchemy...its just as important to being a great witcher (esp on higher difficulty) as weapons and armor are. I appreciate the time and effort that went into recapping so many bosses in such a great game! Thanks Cosmicborne!
the decoction is Ekhidna, you can also use Ekkimara which increases health upon successful hits. For the third decoction I'd suggest Arachas, lose your inventory weight and put on a heavy armour. use euphoria mutation and you're set. you should also use the alchemy skill where the right kind of oil gives you damage reduction against the enemy you're fighting. you don't really have to rely on quen or cheese with ursine armour if you do all these on ng+.
Started playing NG+, found 4 decoction very useful - 1. Which activites quen if single strike take more than a 3rd of you health 2. A portion of Damage is reflected on the attacker. 3. Successful dmg heals you 4. Increase critical hit chance. For poison type enemies, use golder oracle potion for healing, which works with your own poision bombs .. dmg you enemies while heals you. Pretty cool tactics.. 😁
@@yogeshmishra261 relievers decoction if against wraiths and griffin decoction which increases your resistances the longer the fight goes, as well as ancient leshen decoction that increases you stamina generation everytime you cast a sign are all very powerful, especially since fights may take a bit longer on death march with enemy upscaling active
@@jethrobreek8340 he has a lot of health, that's true but it was not a difficult fight at all even on Deathmarch, just took a while. all you need to do is dodge his attacks
@@592Johno Exactly. Water Hags too but igni works well against them. I feel like when it comes to foglets, your quen sign has to be a little beefed up before you can use it to maximum effect against them
@Ifaj Adgs yup. I think they messed up a little with that animation of O'Dimm being thrown away, screaming like he died or whatever. Or maybe they wanted the player to think he's dead. Probably the case. But the brilliant part of this character is, he is stupidly powerful, I mean he can stop time, even if there's something million times more powerful than him, but can't control time, O'Dimm will win every time. He could kill literally everyone, without any effort, Geralt is literally nothing to O'Dimm, he could kill Geralt on a whim, but he doesn't, why? Because what's the point? Imagine playing an RPG game, you kill everyone on your way, it's fun for 5 minutes, but then you realize, there's no NPC's, dialogues, quests etc. It's pretty much the same for an omnipotent being that O'Dimm is. And also, from the game it seems like the only way he can harvest souls is by finishing the "contract", which I guess is his main goal. Maybe souls keep his youth (assuming he is aging at all) or maybe he uses it for something way above our imagination. Who knows. Whatever, it's just a great character, and DLC perfectly portrayed his power, without any crazy, over the top shenanigans.
he was hardest for me on normal, when I reran the game on death march he seemed to be pretty easy. Hardest were the spiders beneath the witch's hill in blood and wine, they were killing me in 3 hits, and there are so many of them
figured that out half way through my first run through and god does that make the fight better. I would end up running off to stand in the poison to heal
Or you did realize how good alchemy is... and are now using this opportunity to tell everyone else about it. I was a bit surprised when he mentioned toad prince that high too, since golden oriole literally made it so he healed you... But yes... My strong attack/alchemy/oils build absolutely trivialized every single fight on death march. I had a bit of an advantage though playing the series since the first game... alchemy has always been incredibly useful.
ikr, i was pulling my hair at him complaining at alot of mechanics that can obviously be countered by consuming/using the right items. How can someone play this game for 100h+ and still don't know about this.
@@ScruffMcGruff86 The Yrden projectile upgrade was my saving grace in death March. I relied on that and Quen almost the entire game. Projectile yrden, regular yrden around that, quen saved my life
I was playing Hearts of Stone and I spent more than 20 minutes whittling down the toads health and then when the ending cinematic played my game crashed and I had to restart the fight.
@@angelcarma5730 only lvl 7 and I've had good luck and prep time. Very witcher style scenarios 30hrs in two days of no sleep. I killed the light house wyvern by panicking and trying to climb down the ladder and tripping off it into the water. It followed me down and I drowned the bitch with crossbow like a cheesy asshole. I was prepped well but so not ready for the duel but didn't fight fair due to dummy luck. I didn't get the loot since underwater but I got the surprise griffin sword. I had two papers for the treasure hunt but not this one, fuck yeah. 5 mins later while sailing off continuing to oxenford, I hear the basilisk. Another first. It was level 14, mind you I'm still 7 but I have 5 grenades, two superior quality and a precision bolt with nice special named swords and the draconian sword. I chain made spam it and it takes an edge off it. It was rolling and writhing like hell, it comes for me. I threw on qwen and the duel insues while I have two deconcontions on for one extra item use and an emergency qwen when I get hit hard. I take it down attempt 6 since I was super tired from 2 hrs sleep in two days with exams and this game taking over
Worst feeling in the world. I remember killing it after around 4 attempts, but the cutscene froze and I had no idea what the fuck happened. This happened with various other fights. So annoying.
Here’s my list: 5. Frog prince - didn’t die a single time, but I exhausted all arsenal on this guys and was close to dying 4. Detlaff - he was alright, predictable enough. 3. Olgierd - real one in front of the burning mansion. Man that one was a couple of loading screens. 2. Olgierd shadow fear - this drove me mad, so many loads. . . . . . . 1. Fistfight with 3 skelligans in Novigrad brothel - that shit was hard, they clock you out in 2 hits. I think I never beat them and just gave up.
I believe Detlaff took me like 19 tries and a nervous breakdown. Those bats used to one shot you through Quen (don't know if it was a bug or they nerfed it)...
They one shot me too in dm with grandmaster ursine, just run away from him when he starts charging them, roll to the side with correct timing and it becomes a piece of cake.
How Olgierd fights is V reminiscent of how Vilgefortz fights Geralt in Time of Contempt. Incredibly quick and agile, teleporting to where Geralt is and decimating him quite quickly.
Stay calm and wait for their life bar to flash red. When their fist comes, press left trigger to parry. It can be tough, especially if the enemy is a little douche and likes to jab a lot. Also you can't spam Quen so that threw me off at first. Also don't just go nuts attacking. The enemy will just turtle up and block most times. VERY importantly, when you are landing shots, only get in 3 punches at a time. The enemy will automatically counter the 4th and do this irritating stun attack on Geralt. It's bullshit. Just try to breathe and if all else fails do like the other guy said and hold left trigger to just block everything until the enemy does something stupid.
fist fight is easy you just counter attack, dodge away, counter attack, dodge away and repeat. this way he will not do a single fast punch. only strong punches which are really easy to block
Just fought her yesterday. She healed to max once because I didn't know what the paintings did, the second time I got between her and the paintings and just kept hitting her with superior specter oil while she tried to get past me.
I liked the Eredin fight. It wasn't the toughest, and I agree with your ranking, but I liked the way he teleports around you and you have to dodge in circles around him. It made me feel like I was really playing someone with superhuman agility and reflexes. I also like that after so much buildup and fear, in the end he's a powerful leader but he's just a guy with a big plan that went wrong.
I totally agree with you!! It felt like an epic battle between two amazing swordsman going at it. Kinda wish he didn't teleport behind me like a little bitch though lol
In the end, Eredin is just another elf with a few magic abilities and enchanted armour. Otherwise (and lorewise!), he's no different to any Scoia'tael you might encounter. Yes, all the Aen Elle look taller, broader, and have more defined cheekbones than the Aen Seidhe. But they are one race, only separated by living in two different worlds for a few centuries.
On ng+ death march he can literally one shot you. Then he actually feels like a final boss which takes multiple tries to beat. I'm not a fan of how the upscaled bosses in ng+ are only made harder by being able to insta kill you, but at least they are more challenging.
Detlaff took me so many tries but I was glad. They made higher vampjres out to be such immense, unkillable creatures. Would have been dissapointing had it been easy.
To anyone that has tried the first Detlaff encounter, but actually winning, you know true pain. You know what if feels like to watch a 6 hour cutscene every time he one shots you for making a minor mistake.
He was literally the only enemy in the entire game that gave me any trouble. All of his attacks completely penetrate my armor. Its the only enemy in the game that does that and i wasnt prepared whatsoever.
@@PaperadiGomma123 the fact that you can prepare for specific fights a d learn how to beat each enemy and there are many enemies like that, makes this game a piece of art. I have over 200 hours in it and after i finished it i started a new game and all i do is contracts
@@cosmin2410 Its not a piece of art at all. Its essentially helping hand if you suck and cannot beat the things with only 6 buttons : 1) W,A,S,D for movement 2) left mouse button (light attack) 3) alt (dodge) - these are all you need, if you want to be REALLY sure about your victory then Quen is there for immortality and enemies dont stand a chance The only thing other than gravity that killed me is Dettlaff's bat attack because I just sucked and couldnt find the correct timing and it always oneshot me. Other than that this game is too easy. Fights are about repetition of OP moves, about patience of performing the same thing for a while regardless of what the monster is and what the monster is doing because dodge + light attack takes care of everything.
@@spiderz5145 for real, my build is kinda aard based, the main, then quen, axii and igni are 3rd and 4th yrden basically no(i'm an anime guy and i like wind like powers, so that's the reason)... and thats it, even some enemies who are supposed to be weaker against igni, i prefer to use aard to stagger and deal a bigger damage with sword then i igni does, if i need fire i can use bombs or use incineration(??) rune... he said aracnomorphs are anoying bcuz they keep moving around, true, but aard solves that problem... with any kind of insectoid
Well if you play in march with upscale leveling activated in your second playtrough and you are near lvl 99 igri's nightmare is a real nightmare to fight since the tiniest error causes you to get one shoted even with quen activated, also they high a ridiculous amount of HP compared to other difficulties, even with oils it took near 10-15 well placed strokes to kill each one of them.
25:10 There is even a common bug in the game where Eredin just stops lossing health because you are damaging him way too fast and the next cutscene doesn´t load. Happens to me in every freaking playthrough.
My hardest fight was the Troll which you had to beat in a fistfight.... I was super underleveled and the fight took 20 minutes of me beating the shit out of him, while one slap of him would oneshot me
>Detlaff First time I played TW3 he seemed hard, but really he is garbage. His only ability which can kill you is easy to evade, you just have to outrun it. (And you have to outrun it only like twice or thrice)
Detlaff WRECKED MY SHIT SO HARD. I played the game and slid straight clean till I blazed the last few missions like fk it imma kill him. All was alright till he said "if you have any gods start praying" and transforms. Holy fuck. On my second play through after years and didn't finish first time because of that bastard
The first time i fought the Ofieri Mage it took me about 3 hours to defeat him because I was on death march and didn't realize I could put my armour on (after the ship crashes you wake up with only your swords equipped, I thought I had to get the rest of my stuff back by defeating him lol)
Veto literally same, after the fight finished, I looked in my inventory and saw that stupid Armor, thinking why would I even have it if I was held hostage
I had similar troubles as well, and for whatever reason, I just beat him with quen, my swords, and no armour on, and just thought "Oh it probably appeared in my inventory after I killed him" kind of thing, and just... What the fuck?
I actually noticed I had my gear while still trying to defeat him. Still didn't equip it before killing him though, it didn't make any sense to have the gear on me so I just pretended that I didn't haha.
Did him today on DM on my first playthrough and I did it withour armour xD died twice, but found out he will use his spells on the warriors so used him to get rid of the warriors, then just dodged and slashed him light attacks.. pretty easy imo
The regular fights in the game are hard because of the horrible Melee combat. The contact frame syncing is all over the place. The only way to get a consistent melee combat experience is to only attack once, backstep away, and repeat. Otherwise you risk Geralt's stupid ballerina shit taking a few frames too long, which lets basic bitch enemies get a swipe in. Which wouldn't be a problem, but the contact frames are not consistent. One combo could take 300ms to complete, and the same input timing, the next combo could take 440ms to complete. (both 3 hits). This game has literally got the worst melee combat of a AAA release I've ever seen. inb4 Git Gud, I've literally got Dark Souls III fight videos, and play Mordhau competitively, lol.
I was playing on death march like the whole game and almost nothing was actually genuinely hard. Kind of a let down. I had played bloodborne soon before so that’s probably why
Well, the funny thing about Yen is, that she is very independent woman and in most cases she's right. She knows and understands more than Geralt, because she is way more powerful being. I think that's what makes many gamers and readers hate her. It's not usual to the love interest be more powerful, knowledgeable and indepedent than the male protagonist. But she is just that - one of the more powerful witches with quite good sense of what's going on when it comes to Continent's politics.
@@Lark1610 but then shes also a twat to him over the most irrelevant stuff. Long story short triss all the way i have more memories with her as I never read the books.
@@eggmeister6641 Hehe, I think there is a mod for that, so you can turn any character hostile. See it then, fact is Yen and Triss are pretty OP when against you.
The hardest boss in the entire game is the feeling you have when you finish the game for the first time, with Regis by the fire. Shit stuck with me for days. Masterpiece of a game.
Friend of mine almost cried to me, that Imlerith is too hard and unfair, I was just smiling and thinking about Detlaff, Olgried and Toad prince in the sewers. I bet he will have a mental breakdown.. :)
Imrelith is hard and unfair if you don't know how to dodge (not roll) and get greedy by trying to sneak in too many attacks which is a recipe for disaster for almost any game. He has one of the most predictable movesets imo
So many of these boss fights never happened for me, because I always tried for non-lethal options. Then there are another few boss fights that didn't happen because of choices (for example King Radovid). Just goes to show how big the world is in The Witcher 3. You definitely need multiple playthroughs to experience this amazing game to the fullest!
@@jeremycelis6898 well in ng+ she is just sooooooo OP she heals max health in like 2 sec I had to upgrade my Aard to destroy the mirrors at the same time it was PAIN
@@Cosmicborne I think the length could've been shortened by combining all the bosses that were reskins of one another into a single entry, except for the ones that did something a bit different (like Iris).
The toughest for me was detlaff stage 2. I usually could just abuse quen, but when he shot bats at you, he’d eat through that and more. I had a really hard time dodging it. Weirdly enough, I beat stage 2 on the first try but died on stage 3 because I used every healing potion I had in stage 2. After reloading my save, it took me about 15 tries to beat stage 2 again. I finally figured out how to fairly consistently dodge the bat attack. That was a really tough fight. I never fought Olgierd though so idk how I would’ve done with that one
You never have to use Yrden against them if you use a moondust bomb. Literally the easiest enemies in the game once you craft it. Wraiths used to be my most hated too until moondust bombs.
I've now played the mainstory and DLC's a few times on death march. The first time Detlaff seemed by far the hardest, one hitting you trough Quen with Grandmaster Ursine and like 5 Quen enchantments, but he isn't hard anymore. You can dodge all his abilities and with skill and training beat him every time. Frog Prince has attacks that are sometimes completely impossible to dodge, he has AOE that is very hard to counter but ultimately can be defeated quite easily with Igni and Bleed. Olgierd was probably the hardest. Just like Dettlaff you can avoid all his abilities, but every attack of his is almost a 1hit and the red saber is always a 1 hit no matter what. It took me by far the longest to do the last time I did it.
@@lehtokurppa7824 Olgierd was a tricky one at first but It's easier than people think. You can actually counter his red saber and if you do he will be stunned for a couple seconds giving you an opening for attacks.
@@lehtokurppa7824 i get that, first time playing Detlaff killed me with those bats like 10 times maybe even more... but on second playthrough i killed him on a second try...but I still consider him the hardest, no other boss gave that many tries on my first playthrough.....
55:00 "This fight feels uncharacteristically difficult." That's because even on multiple playthroughs, you're not exploring everything you can do on the game. Golden Oriole potion makes any poison enemies a joke, and CDPR is assuming you've at least done some work upgrading potions other than Swallow.
Ng+ on legendary i litteraly tried more than 50 time cause of the orb who 2 shot you btw the sucub on legendary is really hard its a one shot if your not fast enougth
When I did my DM playthrough, I had like 4 deaths on him. It's not overly difficult to get to his 3 phase but I get greedy and try to sneak in 2 hits on his back instead of one bcz him health just drops so slowly
I cant understand it. I found him pitifully easy even on death march while under leveled. Eredin was average but he has cool tricks. Imlerith in every fight ive had with him including a common item only run he only teleports outside just heavy attacks
well you can’t actually kill Gaunter O’dimm, he said that himself, he can only be defeated, someone before Geralt has already beaten him in his own game, and he didn’t die, because you can’t kill the devil himself (well he’s kind of a mix between God and satan but i think you get the point)
Detlaff second phase and the Toad Prince were the hardest for me. The first time I stumbled into a Hanse base was also quite challenging, because their level was 10+ higher than mine.
Me too, in march those freekin wolves around him consume half my life, and the fact that niellen heals himslef was pretty annoying too. Almost 20 tries before killing him
i did that just today. here now, take 8 high level enemies that swarm you, block your movements and stagger you to death, ahh btw 2 of them are sorceresses that cast firaball at you and teleport, the rest of them use spear so no use parrying
This list is cleary made without having magic builds in mind, a lot of the "Harder bosses" were so much easier just because I ran an full on igni build and was able to burn most bosses to death. but damn wraiths and golem/elementals though, those things are immune to fire.
Yeah, my magic build made Imelerith / Olegierd fights a joke. Imelerith took forever to kill because I couldn't really deal a ton of damage, but he rarely ever hit me, and the times he did, I could just heal back up real quick.
and without any alchemy builds in mind. i didnt notice a single clip in which he had a decoction active, something like the ekimmara decoction can provide almost as much healing as the gourmet perk.
Try Quen Shield upgraded enough that when the Shield is damaged you get healed. Only a boss (or Death March enemies) can kill you when you're in one after that. I'm not even mentioning how much I abused Axii's temporary friendly fire system and they're scaled so much they kill their own buddies in 3 hits. A common bandit could kill Dettlaff in 5 hits if he's scaled, is Axii'd (and if they ever put Dettlaff in an arena with a normal human being).
Such as Vesemir told to Ciri: "When you fight a beast, your knowledge counts much than your silver sword!" Using oils, potions and tactics help you to fight much easier in higher difficaulty levels too. I loved the variability in skill tree and there are at least 5 significantly different possibilities in fightingstyle with almost the same effectiveness. Please, try them! ;)
I have managed to kill Toad Prince on the first try probably thanks to carefully listening to what Geralt and others are saying - it uses poison and seems like it was cursed. Superior Golden Oriole, proper oil and suddenly it's not as bad.
I am having the same experience, olgierd is not that hard in my opinion I first try him despite stopped playing the game for months, while the caretaker on the other hand...
Been playing this since 2015 and still do a play through every few months. I now enjoy doing boss fights and contracts way above my level. There’s a lot of added challenge in getting one shot and large boss health pools
When it comes to the bosses; I had trouble with Toad Prince the most. When it comes to 'normal' battles, those enemies in the quest 'extreme cosplay' are the most difficult in the game (without glitch/exploits).
Every gank based fight should get a huge up on this list when fighting on Death March. Big enemies are always easy as long as you can dodge. But on Death March, the harder it is to dodge, the harder the fight. That's cause every enemy has insane damage.
I played this game on Death March without a HUD and with the default white orchard armor you get when you start the game. Difficulty in this game has nothing to do with armor, it all has to do with your damage input and the player skill. The reason I love this game so much is because the more you play, the more you actually feel like a Witcher.
You played the entire game without getting hit. Cause at death March and armor that is 1 I'm sure you'll die to like even a wolf at that point. How was it?
That sounds painfully pointless on so many levels. Why handicap yourself for the sake of masochism? I just play the game the way its meant to be played, using alchemy, oils, and Ursine/undvik armor to trivialize every enemy in game.
"If you can keep this sheep alive you're a god among men." Well- I managed that by simply pulling away from the sheep and rushing towards the forktail. After I killed him, the sheep wouldn't stop following me and I didn't want it to die from something else so I legit had to fast travel to get away. The little guy adored me even after I brought it back to the village.
This is how I got "When It's Many Against One..." achievement (Provoke all Iris von Everec's Nightmares into fighting you at the same time and defeat them) on a Death March with Enemy Upscaling: WEAPON The Caretaker's spade (shovel) - 10% lifesteal DECOCTIONS Ekimmara Decoction - 10% lifesteal Chort Decoction - stagger resist for uninterrupted whirl POTIONS Superior Thunderbolt Superior Blizzard - first shadow dies fast; stamina doesn't deplete for sustained whirl; shadows slow down while you remain fast Superior White Raffard's Decoction - 3 seconds of invincibility to tank initial burst and get whirl heals rolling SKILLS (MUST HAVE) Whirl Acquired Tolerance OPTIONAL Anything that improves fast attack damage, crit chance/damage, and survivability. I had grandmaster wolven gear with Euphoria mutagen. Ursine would be better, but didn't have it. MISC The Professor's spectacles P.S. Consider using Yrden and Superior Golden Oriole for frog prince. Also, you can Aard Dettlaff like draconids during leap attack. P.S.S. Try out Invigoration with Active Shield healing. Absorb normal mob's heavy attack, or bosses light attack, and counter with boosted heavy. Thanks for the video.
Honestly? Just use enhanced/superior dancing star, the whirlwind. On deathmarch, I got roughly 95% of their health that way with 2 guys left over the 4 bombs I had, and they were much easier to deal with
Yeah, he was too strong for me to consider for the list. Nah, I just totally overlooked him honestly. It was tough making sure I got everyone since this game is so huge lmao. He'd probably be around 80 ish.
Same, playing with this disgusting Alchemy Ng+ Dm myself, it's legit stupidly op. In my first playthrough without alch etc i had quite the hard time with Detlaff, but the ofiri mage was so fuckn annoying on NG+ Never killed that bochling! #savebochlings
Couldn't agree more I'd rather fight the Toad Prince and Oligerd at the same time Edit: on insane difficulty which I can say cause I got the madman achievement no cheats
My hardest fight was after the ship wreck with the Ofieri. That mage was so hard for me to kill. I fought him like 10 times. I was set on killing them.
@@jorgesigala878 that plus me being really underleveled. In the end I had to call roach and cheese the fight by riding past a full speed so he couldn't hit me
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Hi. I'm aware there are mistakes in this video. I'm aware I'm not playing the game particularly well, and I'm aware that I should have used decoctions and such to make some of these encounters easier. I got very attached to my playstyle and stuck with it. I also played the game multiple times for this video and wanted to make the process less arduous. This all seems to have angered and belittled this video's enjoyment for a lot of people. I apologise for this.
Since the creation of this video I have played snippets of the game with decoctions. I would not change very many of the ranking positions in this video regardless.
I still had a lot of fun making this video, but for now I think I'm done responding to comments. A lot of them aren't very nice due to the mistakes I've made. If you desperately want me to respond to something you can contact me elsewhere.
I hope this video was still enjoyable and I hope you're all keeping safe amongst Covid-19.
The toad is one of those bosses that makes me open the inventory and look for useful things, and it has a potion that turns all the poison damage into a cure and made the fight much easier
@@luislocks7078 Yeah, more than plenty of people pointed out the golden oriole. Admittedly, I feel pretty bad that I made this video neglecting so many useful decoctions.
I just really enjoyed this game and wanted to make something somewhat unique. I wasn't expecting so many people to actually be that upset about some of this stuff.
@@Cosmicborne The video is your experience and opinion, it was very good ^^
Witchers don't apologise to trolls
Don't worry about it, I'm here to see other people's experiences with the game, not to get mine confirmed. Didn't even watch the vid yet but just wanted to clarify that in advance xD
The hardest boss is Geralt moving ridiculously fast when you just want to loot a bag or pick some flowers
God so true
Bro🤣
This is the truest comment on all of youtube.
I never found this to be an issue until on my 3rd playthrough i played on a controller. and OH MY GOD its awful.
I countered this by going overcapped in the inventory lol.
Hardest boss is a fence while riding Roach.
I cant put into numbers how many times ive said "im going to have a fucking brain aneurysm" because i got dizzy trying to run thru a wooded area on roach.
Or those bridges that are too skinny so the fences on each side trigger the AI.
@@spoons250 I failed the dwarf gangster guy's side questline because like 15 seconds after that first horse race started roach turned 90° to the right faster than I could have even accidentally bumped the stick and next thing I knew the dwarf was yelling at me. Whiplash.
This comment is gold
Yeah, Roach is a shit horse haha
1. fall damage
2. the damage you take from falling down
3. the destruction of the human body caused by
the collision with the earth at a high velocity
Me complaining everytime I fell to my death:
@@harudafloof1875 just hit jump before landing to parkour roll
@@user-tc5mu4gi7u they still use the word
That damage
4. Gravity
I love that if you play the game properly (more akin to Geralt's morals) you wont encounter like 30% of those characters as bosses but as creatures you help.
True. And does he plays on Easy. He says they make a lot of damage and they do like 1/25. When I say they make a lot of damage they take at least1/3 of my life
@@vincentbokern5658 With right build you can do that even on Death March with upscaling on. Alchemy with some combat skills is beyond strong, add Euphoria to that and here you go ( even pre BaW dlc mutation builds that have Euphoria in mind are silly ).
Ya but that’s boring plus allot of them deserved to die
@@jakubgauszczynski7790 I played the whole game on Death March with a basically random build. Tbh, wouldn't have been able to do that without the Next-Gen update which made Aard pretty OP with 1 single ability. Coupled with grandmaster griffin armor later on and it's ggs for everything.
Fought all the Olgierd clones in the nightmare at the same time too. Just kept slowly going away and spamming Aard/Yrden for % damage till they all died. Was pretty cool to finish them all off at the same time with basic attacks near the end. Took a few tries.
It’s a game there’s no way to play properly. You play it how it’s fun. I play the game “as you’re meant to” because it’s fun to me but others like being psychopaths which is also fun
Hardest boss is keep igniting and extinguish candle, while you just want to loot some goddamn chest or bag
LOL me
They actually fixed that in a patch in the first few weeks. All though that still happens it was 50 times worse when it first came out.
Omg yeeees hate ir
Gerald even says"dam candles" or sth.similiar when he picks up house of Maximilian Borsody
Or trying to use a boat
1. That werewolf who killed his wife when your level 3 and he’s level 7 😂
Dan Oliver so much anxiety
Maaaaaan. I got the game one week ago. I had no resources( food etc) cause I thought it would be a simple mission: find the (most probably) dead wife, maybe fight some wolves, the end. I had to lower the difficulty to get past that werewolve. Shit was frustrating.
bill kevin I just reloaded the save and came back later when I had cursed oil and enchanted swallow but fighting him when your a low level is near enough impossible
I let him kill the woman
efe şahin only correct option
The spoon ghost that becomes your cook after you heal her is the most heartwarming thing in the game for me.
Yeah, Master Mirror cursed her.
Yes! She's such a sweet lady too. I found a letter from her father at the side of her house on a bench, saying that the family moved to another town and that they'll keep sending someone once a year to check on her in the hopes that someone will lift the curse. I was hoping Geralt could tell her that but unfortunately there was no such option. It would be cool if she could be reunited with her family in her final days.
@@DeliberateConfusion Bro her family is already dead.
@@balyeet9782 Her parents would be yeah, but if she had any siblings they could still be alive. I doubt the family tree just ended with her generation, so she could meet the younger generations of her family also.
@@DeliberateConfusion she says after you talk to her back at corvo bianco that all her family is long gone the rest of them died decades before geralt fixes the curse
Accidentally fighting a werewolf while underlevelled and got no items was hardest for me. He literally regenerated health faster than I could deal it.
u need werewolf poison on silver sword to deal damage to them, also i think a high level of Aard
@@Anime_Moments_99-p7uCursed Oil and Igni
That quest in Velen with the hunters shack. I'll never forget how hard that was at level 4 on my first playthrough.
Igni helped me the most with that
Also Moon dust bomb iirc, I really underutilized bombs on my first playthrough, but you might as well use them
Detlaff: 3 tries, very last boss I fought
Olgierd : 3 tries too, cheesed him with the invincible rolls and Quen
FROG LORD : at least 20 tries with long breaks and a depression
Lol, i never died to frog, but died to Detlaff 3 times
Also Detlaff was the only boss that made me ragequit
@@justhair17 Yeah me too. I didn't die to Frog Lord nor to Olgierd, But Detlaff, Damn it took me a couple of hours to beat him.
@@ManoAamer tbh l didnt even know you could fight Olgierd untill a couple hours ago
Krisztián Tóth lol I didn't fight him the first time too. I played the game twice and I fought him in the second time. I loved this guy.
Best game ever made
Shoutout to all that are playing the witcher in 2022
Leon Galetović definitely
@@gotworc The comments section of this video is a PRIME example of that lmao
@@Cosmicborne Well just so you know. The Spoon Collector is a she. If you lift the curse she will be working at your estate's kitchen.
It's literally a worse version of Red Dead Redemption. No idea why this game gets so much praise. It's a C+ on a good day, at best. D+ if you consider it really doesn't hold up on multiple playthroughs.
@@TheTH3KILL3Rz Hahaha! How about a Poor Fucking Infantry card!
Hardest fight is when you are level 3, you don't know how to use signs and you have to fight wraiths
or a fck lvl 7 wearwolf
This shit happened to me in Family Matters trying to protect the Botchling.
@@Xfier246 dude so fucking true this mf heals faster then the speed of light
@@zarrafrahman1129 happened to me in white orchard fighting the level 7 wraith guarding the place of power lmao
@@zarrafrahman1129 me too i was fighting these shits for two hours then said fuck it and came back later only to completely destroy them
I personally found Detlaff the hardest boss fight, I needed many tries. Olgierd comes right behind him. Toad Prince, Iris and Caretaker weren't that hard for me.
i did detlaff like 3rd try didnt seem to hard for some reasom, i played on blood and broken bones and i think death march would of been a lot better
@@rangatang5548 if you build Gerald properly (depend on your play style) every fight is easy even on DR and, depend on your LvL, very short or long. With high crit chance and dmg build with short attack i can kill oponents up to 15 lvl above my character with relativ easy. Just dont get hit because armor not gonna help but you can kill oponent with max 10 hits. Sign focus build is also good but not for my taste. Bombs and crosbow build are litte mem but it works espactly rly fun on standard defecaulty. Pure swordsman is not bad and you be more memy fitghing on horse as much as you can.
For some reason I breezed through olgierd on story and sword, tho got my ass handed to me multiple times by road prince, olgierd does a string of attacks and then you can parry is red attack and deal double damage then repeat, probably alot harder on higher difficulties tho
The toad prince was the hardest boss in the game to me by multiple points. I had some other fights that took some time and practice and learning, but that damn Toad handed me my ass relentlessly and I felt like I was getting no where and learning nothing every time
Olgierd was by far the hardest for me because my gameplay style was not suited for parry bosses and for that Olgierd kicked the shit out of me on the last fight. When I fought detlaff I found him the most enthusiasm figth of all bosses but not really hard ( maybe the experience I had at that point made a huge difference since I was already at level 75+)
Nah dude it’s those STUPID statues that come to life in that quest from blood and wine where you recreate some damn ritual. I literally couldn’t kill them I had to lower the difficulty
Haha yeah that was painful, but I found out that you could just go up to where the guy was hiding in the house, they wont follow up there so I picked them of one at the time😅
But damn.. it took me a while before I found that out.. many insta deaths!
Oh shit I forgot about that. I think they killed me 3 or 4 times before I figured out WHO was killing me and managed to take them out first.
Not looking forward to that area on my Death March run.
@@Sarokuthix yea they are nearly impossible in death march. They all can one shot you and have to dodge the instant magic attacks with insane attack speed of the 3 mages.
TRUEE
I walked up the stairs and they stopped moving and attacking. A bit cheaty but hey, it worked with some nice igni and booms
Hardest fight I had in the entire game was with a random Golem guarding a hidden treasure in the second DLC.
I know exactly the one you're talking about. I just allowed my zappy Yrden trap to take him down after like 5 minutes.
Generally I find any situation in a cramped space tricky.
@ grandmaster Griffin gear makes everything so easy and how OP yrden is. Plus the 2 signs for 1 stamina bar.
T4gProd that was literally my final boss
I wonder if that was the Golem in the northeast if Velen? I stumbled on him last night on a random hill, only about 3 levels above me but damn was he hard as nails. Beat him easy but took 10 minutes to wear his health down.
*doesnt use moon dust on bruxa*
*complains about not being able to hit her while invisible*
some of the combat was hard to watch ngl
Doesn't use Igni on Imlerith's frost armor either, thus making almost no damage...
My thoughts exactly. It's a shame a lot of players don't give attention to bombs and decoctions. They make the gameplay so much better imo. There are a ton of other useful bombs. Etc, north wind on those fast hard to hit monsters etc.
@@Pyllymysli It's probably because of how other games present them. I have a natural urge to not use any consumables or items, like potions or bombs, because in other games they're a waste of time. In this game, it basically forces you to do it on some enemies, which can be very difficult to figure out on your own. I like that they replenish once you meditate, however that natural urge just stops me from using them altogether.
@@Pyllymysli The Toad Prince is easy and would never get such a high spot on the list with Superior Golden Oriole. Annoying poison effect? Gone.
Dettlaff was definitely the most difficult for me. Idk if it changed with updates, but in the flying phase the bats oneshot you even with quen active. Second was Iris's greatest fear. Neither regular Olgierd nor the frog were anywhere as difficult.
Active shield with the sign intensity boost that comes from a 3 decotion power euphoria tanks the bat attack, albeit only barely. Standard quen is useless cause its a coded as a multi hit attack
detlaff is one of those bosses that i had to tried many times to beat it. but its bats is pretty easy though, just run the opposite direction and slightly side right and his bats wont bother you
Using northern winds knocks the toad back like 15 rankings
When he does this bats attack you just need to sprint either right or left and that's all. I thought bosses in Witcher 3 were hard untill I played Elden Ring
@@milleniumpalk1that is true until Geralt fucks up and doesnt do what you say
Honestly, i agree with everything, but you missed the hardest i went up against. The elven statues during the cosplay fight. Those mages rocked my world. I died most against them. Then the ofieri mage, then the toad, and detlaff. I somehow skipped olgierd, or beat him so fast i forgot it.
I Had forgotten about the elven statues, i think those could be #1, the Ofieri mage was extremely hard for me because i didnt use any armor or anything, and i didnt wanted to use potions or bombs because it didnt made sense with the history, Also you dont have to fight olgierd it depends on your choices, so it's more likely that you didnt fight him
Yep, those suckers killed me literally 10+ times until I looked up on Reddit that using Northern Wind bombs makes that battle WAY easier.
Yeah now thats what you call a tough fight
jesus, i remember, just some calm ride on roach and then... Hmm, maybe i can help some guy in the need. Booom, 3 hours of desperate fight and some broken mice. Sweet memories.
@@Peto707 yeah that is what happened to me. No stress, let me help this guy. I am on the second difficulty, and smash most opponents. Detlaff took 2 tries. Those statues slaughtered me more then any other fight.
Hardest fights in the game
1- That elven statues mages side mission
2- Ofiri mage (aka darude sandstorm)
3- The dopplegangers
Oh my gosh that fucking Ofieri Mageis the absolute worst
Lol mage and doppelgangers are easy just by figuring out attack patterns and what signs/bombs work against them(which was very quick/easy to do).
Hayden R you can say that about any boss in any game ever you dummy it’s about how long it takes us to learn their patterns and weaknesses 🙄
the elven statuesi just use nothern wind and whirl the fuck outta them, i did died once because it caught me off guard, and with death march and ghost mod on i died in 2 hit
I feel it.
4. Overleveled random encounters
3. Soldiers/city guards while provoked, since they're all overleveled and will 1hko you unless you've a god-tier heavy armor build
2. Rats in "A Toweful of Mice" quest WITH ENEMY UPSCALING TURNED ON
1. Falling damage from >2m jump. You literally can't fight this, it just exists.
The rats though... the goddamn rats
Not those rats, the rats you find in the sewers when you have to get triss out of novigrad
@@danila4322 They're the same if you turned Upscaling on. Thats why it would be wise to turn it off while doing such quests :)
tose rats are impossible with enemy upscaling, intead od level 1 thye will spawn a a huge horde of actual enemies
Dude THE RATS. I even had the luck to get a bugged rat that couldn't take dmg. I was so pissed that I was dying to freaking rats...
Tip for anyone having trouble with any of these....use the decoction that gives health when using abilities that use stamina. That way everytime you cast a sign (usually Quen for a lot of bosses) you gain a chunk of health. Another couple decoctions worth using are troll for constant health regeneration (albeit not a ton but in combination with the stamina->health decoction and decoction that returns 10% damage dealt as your health makes a difference) and the decoction that returns damage dealt as health. Using these 3 decoctions still leaves some toxicity for potions and can save you healing options throughout a long fight by avoiding attacks and continually recasting Quen or other signs while you regain your health. Sorry I cant remember all the names off the top of my head. Theres a skill in the alchemy tree first row that adds maximum toxicity for each level 1, 2, and 3 alchemy formula you have. Which means if you make buying "turn out pages" (decoction formula) and finding potion formula's a priority, mid to late game you will have a maximum toxicity around 250. Don't sleep on alchemy...its just as important to being a great witcher (esp on higher difficulty) as weapons and armor are. I appreciate the time and effort that went into recapping so many bosses in such a great game! Thanks Cosmicborne!
the decoction is Ekhidna, you can also use Ekkimara which increases health upon successful hits. For the third decoction I'd suggest Arachas, lose your inventory weight and put on a heavy armour. use euphoria mutation and you're set. you should also use the alchemy skill where the right kind of oil gives you damage reduction against the enemy you're fighting. you don't really have to rely on quen or cheese with ursine armour if you do all these on ng+.
Started playing NG+, found 4 decoction very useful -
1. Which activites quen if single strike take more than a 3rd of you health
2. A portion of Damage is reflected on the attacker.
3. Successful dmg heals you
4. Increase critical hit chance.
For poison type enemies, use golder oracle potion for healing, which works with your own poision bombs .. dmg you enemies while heals you. Pretty cool tactics.. 😁
@@yogeshmishra261 the 2nd potion is only for tank build ig
@@yogeshmishra261 relievers decoction if against wraiths and griffin decoction which increases your resistances the longer the fight goes, as well as ancient leshen decoction that increases you stamina generation everytime you cast a sign are all very powerful, especially since fights may take a bit longer on death march with enemy upscaling active
@@posmotri7722 i will try out Griffin & Ancient Lashen ... Relievers potion is standard potion in wither for wraiths
nb3 : a higher vampire that is literally immortal
nb2 : a toad
god I love this game
seriously though golden oriole makes the toad prince easy- that fight has no business being that high on the list
@@contra1124 agreed. Golden Oriole + Dancing Star bombs makes it an easy fight.
@@contra1124 even without the poison he still hits a ton of damage, and he also has way too much hp
@@jethrobreek8340 he has a lot of health, that's true but it was not a difficult fight at all even on Deathmarch, just took a while. all you need to do is dodge his attacks
@@contra1124 lol what a concept. Just dodge his attacks and you wont take damage. You are an absolute revolutionary
Cosmic: "This boss is easy."
*Video shows him getting his ass whooped*
Lmao fr
Rats in nivigrad sewers when you have enemy upscaling on
Died like 7 times to that before I Google that
Yes bro that took me soooo long
These are the hardest enemies no joke
Every single time I get there I die at least once before remembering wtf is wrong.
Should've made sure that stuff didn't happen because it is so painful haha
the hardest boss is Kaer Morhen's staircase ledges when you're trying to save 5 seconds and jump to your death 45 inches down.
Okay but who else got fucked up in their first play through by that level 12 Foglet in Crookback Bog
yup.
I ain't gonna lie it didn't get me but the weaker ones did. I barely made it to the dang cave on my 3rd try
Yeah that thing fucking sucks. Foglets in general are real assholes lmfao.
@@clintonr.6581 yeah I find that foglets do alot of fucking damage compared to other enemies at the same level.
@@592Johno Exactly. Water Hags too but igni works well against them. I feel like when it comes to foglets, your quen sign has to be a little beefed up before you can use it to maximum effect against them
you don't kill Gaunter O'Dimm, you banish him from this realm.
@Ifaj Adgs yup. I think they messed up a little with that animation of O'Dimm being thrown away, screaming like he died or whatever. Or maybe they wanted the player to think he's dead. Probably the case. But the brilliant part of this character is, he is stupidly powerful, I mean he can stop time, even if there's something million times more powerful than him, but can't control time, O'Dimm will win every time. He could kill literally everyone, without any effort, Geralt is literally nothing to O'Dimm, he could kill Geralt on a whim, but he doesn't, why? Because what's the point? Imagine playing an RPG game, you kill everyone on your way, it's fun for 5 minutes, but then you realize, there's no NPC's, dialogues, quests etc. It's pretty much the same for an omnipotent being that O'Dimm is. And also, from the game it seems like the only way he can harvest souls is by finishing the "contract", which I guess is his main goal. Maybe souls keep his youth (assuming he is aging at all) or maybe he uses it for something way above our imagination. Who knows. Whatever, it's just a great character, and DLC perfectly portrayed his power, without any crazy, over the top shenanigans.
@@intheshadowofathousandbean563 I watched a video recently that translated what Gaunter O’dimm said and he actually says he is not dead
So he's basically Pennywise.
@@intheshadowofathousandbean563 odimm is a crossroad demon. he cant break deals. like olgierd pact
He is the powerfull villan in witcher sega.i thought gounder of dimm mention in books also
Detlaff was the hardest for me on Deathmarch.
those fucking bats man, before i knew how to counter em i was having a fit
he was hardest for me on normal, when I reran the game on death march he seemed to be pretty easy. Hardest were the spiders beneath the witch's hill in blood and wine, they were killing me in 3 hits, and there are so many of them
the first time you fight him its even harder-- or rather impossible too win^^
My build was probably shit but I got 1 hit by everything even with Quen so I had to beat him without taking damage. Took me a while.
Try to dodge bats not by running on left or right but... inside them. Well timed roll can do it. For me prince frog was hardest one.
1:13:28 Or you could just drink Superior Golden Oriole and instead of damaging you the poison will heal you instead.
figured that out half way through my first run through and god does that make the fight better. I would end up running off to stand in the poison to heal
Yeah, Im surprised how many people dont know about this. The toad boss is so much easier on NG+ if you use this potion.
Same thing for any archespore fight
@@reallionsden And endrega/arachas too :)
@@xxsaruman82xx87 and Kikimores :)
Like, half this list I'm sitting here saying "so just use golden oriole" or "throw a moon dust" lmao, guess I never realized how good alchemy is
I've never said "just use Yrden Magic Trap" so many times during a listicle.. (also.. the golden oriole and moon dust... hell yes)
Or you did realize how good alchemy is... and are now using this opportunity to tell everyone else about it. I was a bit surprised when he mentioned toad prince that high too, since golden oriole literally made it so he healed you... But yes... My strong attack/alchemy/oils build absolutely trivialized every single fight on death march. I had a bit of an advantage though playing the series since the first game... alchemy has always been incredibly useful.
Very true. Especially when he’s talking about the Bruxa turning invisible. Easily sorted with Moon Dust
Toad prince is nare a joke with superier golden oriole
JayRicktor lol I never really use alchemy although I probably should
Pretty sure you don't actually kill O'Dimm but just temporarily stop him.
Nope hes immortal and he cannot die he said it in a foreign language. He basically the Devil in this game or something worse and more powerful.
Funny how the strongest antagonist in the whole game is the easiest "boss fight"
You cant kill G.O.D
that you are correct. You can't kill him as he is immortal. He will return later.
He could also just say that for geralt to make a threat before dying or something , we can only assumne things
is anyone gonna tell him that bombs, oils, decotions, and upgraded potions exist?
ikr, i was pulling my hair at him complaining at alot of mechanics that can obviously be countered by consuming/using the right items. How can someone play this game for 100h+ and still don't know about this.
Yeah I was like of course it's hard you are not fighting smartly.
He's Low IQ
Also Igni, the stun animation when an enemy is lit on fire has saved my ass so many times.
@@ScruffMcGruff86 The Yrden projectile upgrade was my saving grace in death March. I relied on that and Quen almost the entire game. Projectile yrden, regular yrden around that, quen saved my life
I was playing Hearts of Stone and I spent more than 20 minutes whittling down the toads health and then when the ending cinematic played my game crashed and I had to restart the fight.
Thats tufff broo
@@angelcarma5730 only lvl 7 and I've had good luck and prep time. Very witcher style scenarios 30hrs in two days of no sleep. I killed the light house wyvern by panicking and trying to climb down the ladder and tripping off it into the water. It followed me down and I drowned the bitch with crossbow like a cheesy asshole. I was prepped well but so not ready for the duel but didn't fight fair due to dummy luck. I didn't get the loot since underwater but I got the surprise griffin sword. I had two papers for the treasure hunt but not this one, fuck yeah.
5 mins later while sailing off continuing to oxenford, I hear the basilisk. Another first. It was level 14, mind you I'm still 7 but I have 5 grenades, two superior quality and a precision bolt with nice special named swords and the draconian sword. I chain made spam it and it takes an edge off it. It was rolling and writhing like hell, it comes for me. I threw on qwen and the duel insues while I have two deconcontions on for one extra item use and an emergency qwen when I get hit hard. I take it down attempt 6 since I was super tired from 2 hrs sleep in two days with exams and this game taking over
That fight was quite easy tho
I had more trouble with the Sand Mage
Worst feeling in the world. I remember killing it after around 4 attempts, but the cutscene froze and I had no idea what the fuck happened. This happened with various other fights. So annoying.
Here’s my list:
5. Frog prince - didn’t die a single time, but I exhausted all arsenal on this guys and was close to dying
4. Detlaff - he was alright, predictable enough.
3. Olgierd - real one in front of the burning mansion. Man that one was a couple of loading screens.
2. Olgierd shadow fear - this drove me mad, so many loads.
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1. Fistfight with 3 skelligans in Novigrad brothel - that shit was hard, they clock you out in 2 hits. I think I never beat them and just gave up.
Just use Axii on them man
fistfights against multiple enemies are the most annoying thing in the game. (on deathmarch at least)
Any fistfight indoors is a pain, i always loose to the two thugs in that gwent dealers house in Novigrad
No mention of the rats on “now or never”?
Or you could have helped hjalmar kill the giant so your name will be known and respected and the skelligers will acknowledge you....
I believe Detlaff took me like 19 tries and a nervous breakdown. Those bats used to one shot you through Quen (don't know if it was a bug or they nerfed it)...
Still do on DM idk if upscaling effects it
Really? I just had ursine armor and he does no damage.
The bats one-shot you if you have enemy up-scaling turned on. I learned this the hard way.
it took me around a week till i defeated him (death march of course), tho i wasn´t trying every single day...i guess around 30 tries
They one shot me too in dm with grandmaster ursine, just run away from him when he starts charging them, roll to the side with correct timing and it becomes a piece of cake.
How Olgierd fights is V reminiscent of how Vilgefortz fights Geralt in Time of Contempt. Incredibly quick and agile, teleporting to where Geralt is and decimating him quite quickly.
Except olgierd gets his ass kicked
Except olgierd loses so clearly he mistook the stars reflected in a pond for those in the night sky
I've killed every villain, easy peasy. I've lost almost all fist fights
I know right? You cant roll around
Just hug Left trigger and do a Light Light Strong combo constantly after till they block again
Stay calm and wait for their life bar to flash red. When their fist comes, press left trigger to parry. It can be tough, especially if the enemy is a little douche and likes to jab a lot. Also you can't spam Quen so that threw me off at first.
Also don't just go nuts attacking. The enemy will just turtle up and block most times. VERY importantly, when you are landing shots, only get in 3 punches at a time. The enemy will automatically counter the 4th and do this irritating stun attack on Geralt. It's bullshit.
Just try to breathe and if all else fails do like the other guy said and hold left trigger to just block everything until the enemy does something stupid.
fist fight is easy you just counter attack, dodge away, counter attack, dodge away and repeat. this way he will not do a single fast punch. only strong punches which are really easy to block
Just parry and then go fast, fast, heavy
*THE SPIRIT OF IRIS VON EVEREC* ...Stop healing, damn ghost!
Destroy the painting
Yes! Tha Ghost was more difficult to kill than that boss
Fought her yesterday and that was one of the easiest fights, even though I play on death March, just slash at paintings.
Just fought her yesterday. She healed to max once because I didn't know what the paintings did, the second time I got between her and the paintings and just kept hitting her with superior specter oil while she tried to get past me.
I believe the Caretaker was harder
I died more times to gravity than any other boss
Isaac Newton, the worst boss ever 😂
Yep
tru
true, there is no hard boss in witcher 3, dodge is op
1:03:29 you can actually kill her broomstick while she is on land so the witch stays on land for the rest of the fight
Yeah, sadly I wasn't aware of that when I made this video a few years ago
Stealing this
I liked the Eredin fight. It wasn't the toughest, and I agree with your ranking, but I liked the way he teleports around you and you have to dodge in circles around him. It made me feel like I was really playing someone with superhuman agility and reflexes. I also like that after so much buildup and fear, in the end he's a powerful leader but he's just a guy with a big plan that went wrong.
I totally agree with you!! It felt like an epic battle between two amazing swordsman going at it. Kinda wish he didn't teleport behind me like a little bitch though lol
In the end, Eredin is just another elf with a few magic abilities and enchanted armour. Otherwise (and lorewise!), he's no different to any Scoia'tael you might encounter. Yes, all the Aen Elle look taller, broader, and have more defined cheekbones than the Aen Seidhe. But they are one race, only separated by living in two different worlds for a few centuries.
@@twinmama42 Actually I believe that Eredin is just no match for Geralt, as Geralt is faster, quicker, better with a sword.
On ng+ death march he can literally one shot you. Then he actually feels like a final boss which takes multiple tries to beat. I'm not a fan of how the upscaled bosses in ng+ are only made harder by being able to insta kill you, but at least they are more challenging.
Detlaff took me so many tries but I was glad. They made higher vampjres out to be such immense, unkillable creatures. Would have been dissapointing had it been easy.
To anyone that has tried the first Detlaff encounter, but actually winning, you know true pain. You know what if feels like to watch a 6 hour cutscene every time he one shots you for making a minor mistake.
You can save game right after cutscene, before the disturb theirs duel. So u dont have to watch entire cutscene again lol unluko
@@-2N4.he has a cutscenes everytime he transforms. Itd annoying
@@DarkOminigiri That cutscene is the entire reason I gave up on playing Detlaff normally and just slammed the difficulty down to easy for a minute
Golden oriole potion makes the toad a cakewalk. Definitely struggled a ton before I figured that out. Love the list!
He was literally the only enemy in the entire game that gave me any trouble. All of his attacks completely penetrate my armor. Its the only enemy in the game that does that and i wasnt prepared whatsoever.
really??? golden oriole wasn't there for me when the toad one shot me with its tongue (through quen)....
@hulladaemon Exactly. I owned him in no time by just using these bombs.
Igni sign on Sign build also performes overwhelmingly well
I swear, most of the things he said made fights dificult could be solved with one of the many witcher tools at your disposal
Yeah, it sucks how much you can power yourself up combining Decoctions, Potions, Oils, Food, Signs and Bombs...
@@PaperadiGomma123 the fact that you can prepare for specific fights a d learn how to beat each enemy and there are many enemies like that, makes this game a piece of art. I have over 200 hours in it and after i finished it i started a new game and all i do is contracts
Aard and Quen was all I needed besides enhanced swallow and white rafford’s doctotion.
@@cosmin2410 Its not a piece of art at all. Its essentially helping hand if you suck and cannot beat the things with only 6 buttons :
1) W,A,S,D for movement
2) left mouse button (light attack)
3) alt (dodge)
- these are all you need, if you want to be REALLY sure about your victory then Quen is there for immortality and enemies dont stand a chance
The only thing other than gravity that killed me is Dettlaff's bat attack because I just sucked and couldnt find the correct timing and it always oneshot me. Other than that this game is too easy. Fights are about repetition of OP moves, about patience of performing the same thing for a while regardless of what the monster is and what the monster is doing because dodge + light attack takes care of everything.
@@spiderz5145 for real, my build is kinda aard based, the main, then quen, axii and igni are 3rd and 4th yrden basically no(i'm an anime guy and i like wind like powers, so that's the reason)... and thats it, even some enemies who are supposed to be weaker against igni, i prefer to use aard to stagger and deal a bigger damage with sword then i igni does, if i need fire i can use bombs or use incineration(??) rune...
he said aracnomorphs are anoying bcuz they keep moving around, true, but aard solves that problem... with any kind of insectoid
For me
1. Iris' nightmare olgried
2. Detlaff
3. Frog prince
All wraiths are pretty easy with Yrden and specter oil, I used superior spector oil and it was comparatively easy
Well if you play in march with upscale leveling activated in your second playtrough and you are near lvl 99 igri's nightmare is a real nightmare to fight since the tiniest error causes you to get one shoted even with quen activated, also they high a ridiculous amount of HP compared to other difficulties, even with oils it took near 10-15 well placed strokes to kill each one of them.
First time against the frog i thought it was the toughest boss in the game, but if you use the potion that cancels poisoning it gets really easier
Andrés V it took me 2 hours. Then I used the crossbow strat n man it’s so worth it. Took me 20 minutes with it
The caretaker was a pain in the ass too
25:10 There is even a common bug in the game where Eredin just stops lossing health because you are damaging him way too fast and the next cutscene doesn´t load. Happens to me in every freaking playthrough.
Suffering from success
My hardest fight was the Troll which you had to beat in a fistfight.... I was super underleveled and the fight took 20 minutes of me beating the shit out of him, while one slap of him would oneshot me
The troll?
@@midas2252 of course, stupid me
It will be easy if you keep hitting his back while avoiding his attack.
eddie zhang i tot hit from back the dmg will like -50%>?
@@baizhouzhang5229 actually you cant hit his back because they dont take any damage there.
Actually I found the First werewolf one of the hardest battles I ever foght in this game. For bosses I would say the frog and dettlaf the hardests
Yeah. Played him hugely underpowered and nearly bit off the tip of my to tongue out of sheer frustration. 😂
If you mean the one at the swamp... i just ran past him
>Detlaff
First time I played TW3 he seemed hard, but really he is garbage. His only ability which can kill you is easy to evade, you just have to outrun it. (And you have to outrun it only like twice or thrice)
Detlaff WRECKED MY SHIT SO HARD. I played the game and slid straight clean till I blazed the last few missions like fk it imma kill him. All was alright till he said "if you have any gods start praying" and transforms. Holy fuck. On my second play through after years and didn't finish first time because of that bastard
The first time i fought the Ofieri Mage it took me about 3 hours to defeat him because I was on death march and didn't realize I could put my armour on (after the ship crashes you wake up with only your swords equipped, I thought I had to get the rest of my stuff back by defeating him lol)
Veto literally same, after the fight finished, I looked in my inventory and saw that stupid Armor, thinking why would I even have it if I was held hostage
I had similar troubles as well, and for whatever reason, I just beat him with quen, my swords, and no armour on, and just thought "Oh it probably appeared in my inventory after I killed him" kind of thing, and just... What the fuck?
I actually noticed I had my gear while still trying to defeat him. Still didn't equip it before killing him though, it didn't make any sense to have the gear on me so I just pretended that I didn't haha.
@@nintendofire622 haha I noticed it on my second playthrough, the first one I was just so frustrated by his attacks that I didn't check my inventory
Did him today on DM on my first playthrough and I did it withour armour xD died twice, but found out he will use his spells on the warriors so used him to get rid of the warriors, then just dodged and slashed him light attacks.. pretty easy imo
"Makes this fight pretty easy"
*Footage of Salma clearly kicking his arse*
besides actual bosses, i believe fist fights were pretty hard for me on deathmarch
the last one in novigrad is so hard. He's attacking so fast i couldn't parry. It took me 6 try to beat him and lot of money ;(
@@gueguenpierre5788 if you mean the one outside the city then yeah, it took me even more tries i think
The regular fights in the game are hard because of the horrible Melee combat. The contact frame syncing is all over the place. The only way to get a consistent melee combat experience is to only attack once, backstep away, and repeat. Otherwise you risk Geralt's stupid ballerina shit taking a few frames too long, which lets basic bitch enemies get a swipe in. Which wouldn't be a problem, but the contact frames are not consistent. One combo could take 300ms to complete, and the same input timing, the next combo could take 440ms to complete. (both 3 hits). This game has literally got the worst melee combat of a AAA release I've ever seen.
inb4 Git Gud, I've literally got Dark Souls III fight videos, and play Mordhau competitively, lol.
@@hobomisanthropus2414 yeah took me a bit of practice
I was playing on death march like the whole game and almost nothing was actually genuinely hard. Kind of a let down. I had played bloodborne soon before so that’s probably why
Detlaf was by far the hardest for me.
Hardest fight in the game: "resisting the urge to tell Yen to Calm down"
Uuugh yes! Yen is so f*cking annoying 😭
Well, the funny thing about Yen is, that she is very independent woman and in most cases she's right. She knows and understands more than Geralt, because she is way more powerful being. I think that's what makes many gamers and readers hate her. It's not usual to the love interest be more powerful, knowledgeable and indepedent than the male protagonist. But she is just that - one of the more powerful witches with quite good sense of what's going on when it comes to Continent's politics.
@@Lark1610 if yen picked a fight with me, my alchemy build would two-shot the bitch
@@Lark1610 but then shes also a twat to him over the most irrelevant stuff. Long story short triss all the way i have more memories with her as I never read the books.
@@eggmeister6641 Hehe, I think there is a mod for that, so you can turn any character hostile. See it then, fact is Yen and Triss are pretty OP when against you.
The hardest boss in the entire game is the feeling you have when you finish the game for the first time, with Regis by the fire.
Shit stuck with me for days. Masterpiece of a game.
Hardest fight for me was that werewolf sidequest in velen before I realised you had to actually equip the abilities for them to do anything
Dude, I couldn't kill that guy at level 7 because he just kept healing. Had to come back later with moon dust.
Fr that’s when I had the same realization lol
Same lmfao
literally same, I wanted to punch something out of frustration and stubbornness
I met him at level 2 and he made me go insane. I leveled up to like level 10 and I just became relentless
Friend of mine almost cried to me, that Imlerith is too hard and unfair, I was just smiling and thinking about Detlaff, Olgried and Toad prince in the sewers. I bet he will have a mental breakdown.. :)
Imrelith is hard and unfair if you don't know how to dodge (not roll) and get greedy by trying to sneak in too many attacks which is a recipe for disaster for almost any game. He has one of the most predictable movesets imo
I need to know what difficulty he was on. When he beats DM Crones and Upscaling DM Dettlaff let me know.
@@Deschuttes Hes just a stall, only hard part is trying not to dodge into him on second phase
Poor guy
Why kill detlaff he is cool
"Limited healing"
My Geralt: *laughing with "gourmet" while sipping water*
Just like me lol
That's right, gourmet is unsurprisingly OP lmfao
My geralt running around with the decotion that heals you instantly for a good Portion of you're health when using stamina
LMFAO same here water whit a side of honeycomb or sometimes grill pork 🤣
Laughs in alchemy build with health potions that outlast boss fights
So many of these boss fights never happened for me, because I always tried for non-lethal options. Then there are another few boss fights that didn't happen because of choices (for example King Radovid). Just goes to show how big the world is in The Witcher 3. You definitely need multiple playthroughs to experience this amazing game to the fullest!
King Radovid is a boss fight? Where you can fight him in gameplay? I did the assassin quest, but Phillipa killed him.
I didn't even fight Olgierd when I played HoS
I only fought his nightmare version.
Just keep provoking his goons and you will fight him
I've played HoS 4 times and did not know you can have a sword fight with Olgierd. When is it?
AppfanInCAALand __ when his goons are killing someone after their house burned down. If you tell them to stop and keep going you’ll fight olgierd.
Didn't know I could avoid it!
No fight pissed me off more than *Iris’s Greatest Fear* did.
same dude hahaha
let me guess ng+ death march?
@@bartzabel9157 nope. t'was my first playthrough
@@jeremycelis6898 well in ng+ she is just sooooooo OP she heals max health in like 2 sec I had to upgrade my Aard to destroy the mirrors at the same time it was PAIN
@@bartzabel9157 wrong boss pal
"I've gotta try and keep this video as short as I can"
Video: 1 hour and 19 minutes long
Well, there IS 90 bosses to rank :S
@@Cosmicborne I know just taking the piss :P I like long videos
@@Cosmicborne I think the length could've been shortened by combining all the bosses that were reskins of one another into a single entry, except for the ones that did something a bit different (like Iris).
@@Cosmicborne 30 second for each
I've honestly spent longer than that trying to kill some of the bosses lol
The toughest for me was detlaff stage 2. I usually could just abuse quen, but when he shot bats at you, he’d eat through that and more. I had a really hard time dodging it. Weirdly enough, I beat stage 2 on the first try but died on stage 3 because I used every healing potion I had in stage 2. After reloading my save, it took me about 15 tries to beat stage 2 again. I finally figured out how to fairly consistently dodge the bat attack. That was a really tough fight. I never fought Olgierd though so idk how I would’ve done with that one
Wraiths in the Witcher are like dragon priests in Skyrim
Lmao
That spinning attack is so damn annoying
Yrden Always comes to your rescue that and specter oil
You never have to use Yrden against them if you use a moondust bomb. Literally the easiest enemies in the game once you craft it. Wraiths used to be my most hated too until moondust bombs.
Dragon priest > wraiths in Skyrim I don't think there's a boring boss
I feel like youve never heard of the Potion called "Golden Oriole" poison literally heals you instead of killing you.
this, if youre playing on death march you should know how to appreciate alchemy
or that skill where food last longer
@@blihkeempat740 That's Gourmet; and it's completely OP.
I actually refuse to use it now because it just breaks the game.
I used gourmet. I didnt use many potions.
@@jamesfletcher1319 why should i use that when i can use troll decoction and not waste a skill slot.
for me the final 3 is little different:
1. Detlaff (by far :D)
2. Frog prince
3. Olgierd
I've now played the mainstory and DLC's a few times on death march. The first time Detlaff seemed by far the hardest, one hitting you trough Quen with Grandmaster Ursine and like 5 Quen enchantments, but he isn't hard anymore. You can dodge all his abilities and with skill and training beat him every time.
Frog Prince has attacks that are sometimes completely impossible to dodge, he has AOE that is very hard to counter but ultimately can be defeated quite easily with Igni and Bleed.
Olgierd was probably the hardest. Just like Dettlaff you can avoid all his abilities, but every attack of his is almost a 1hit and the red saber is always a 1 hit no matter what. It took me by far the longest to do the last time I did it.
@@lehtokurppa7824 Olgierd was a tricky one at first but It's easier than people think. You can actually counter his red saber and if you do he will be stunned for a couple seconds giving you an opening for attacks.
detlaff and frog were easily the hardest for me too
@@lehtokurppa7824 i get that, first time playing Detlaff killed me with those bats like 10 times maybe even more... but on second playthrough i killed him on a second try...but I still consider him the hardest, no other boss gave that many tries on my first playthrough.....
Using potion that prevents poisoning make the frog a lot easier
55:00 "This fight feels uncharacteristically difficult." That's because even on multiple playthroughs, you're not exploring everything you can do on the game. Golden Oriole potion makes any poison enemies a joke, and CDPR is assuming you've at least done some work upgrading potions other than Swallow.
fun fact, the fire stream upgrade for igni causes enemies with shields to drop their shields after being hit with the flame
Really? I have to test that, I used Aard with piercing cold to freeze them and hit them while frozen.
Yep. Works pretty well lol
Wow, I'm gonna try and upgrade that then... I never use igni, so I mean may as well make it worth.
I found Imlerith more difficult than Eredin.
Way more
literally me
Ng+ on legendary i litteraly tried more than 50 time cause of the orb who 2 shot you btw the sucub on legendary is really hard its a one shot if your not fast enougth
When I did my DM playthrough, I had like 4 deaths on him. It's not overly difficult to get to his 3 phase but I get greedy and try to sneak in 2 hits on his back instead of one bcz him health just drops so slowly
I cant understand it. I found him pitifully easy even on death march while under leveled. Eredin was average but he has cool tricks. Imlerith in every fight ive had with him including a common item only run he only teleports outside just heavy attacks
well you can’t actually kill Gaunter O’dimm, he said that himself, he can only be defeated, someone before Geralt has already beaten him in his own game, and he didn’t die, because you can’t kill the devil himself (well he’s kind of a mix between God and satan but i think you get the point)
yes and no doubt we will see him again in future witcher or maybe even cyberpunk for some spookyness
@@RAiNfORAiNbOW a cyberpunk cameo would be epic
cyber o’dimm
Detlaff second phase and the Toad Prince were the hardest for me.
The first time I stumbled into a Hanse base was also quite challenging, because their level was 10+ higher than mine.
Detlaff: 2 Tries
Olgierd: 1 Try
Prince Frog: 1 Try
Werewolf Niellen: 7 Tries
Lol im bad
Me too, in march those freekin wolves around him consume half my life, and the fact that niellen heals himslef was pretty annoying too. Almost 20 tries before killing him
Werewolf Niellen is deadly
I was so mad after fighting him, I quit the game hit side quest, and came back just setting dude on fire.
Death March? That's very very very VERY impressive, I believe they all can one shot through quen on DM.
That regenerating health at the end of the fight is complete BS
I've finished this game 1 year ago and I didn't remember a lot of this boss.. thank you for revealing a lot of good memories
The optional Gargoyle fight during 'Wandering in the dark' is just brutal to most new players. Had to lower the difficulty for that one.
I just stood there watching while Kiera was fighting the gargoyle :)
I got gargoyle after one or two tries and I'm a new player... I'm one of the ones that didn't find him too difficult !!
Wicked witch, you knock her down and kill the broom, so she doesn’t go invulnerable ever again
Have to use aard , i didn't even see the broom and kept using aard to knock her down
As soon as I knocked her off the broom, I just used whirl and annihilated her in like 8 seconds, no joke lmao
I locked both her and her broom into burn damage
holycowrap same, the fight took me less then a minute lmao
The sorceresses in the extreme cosplay quest. That took me more tries than Detlaff, frog prince, Olgierd, or any other boss fight
It almost made me quit from playing this wonderful game
Is this the one where they are statues at first?
i did that just today. here now, take 8 high level enemies that swarm you, block your movements and stagger you to death, ahh btw 2 of them are sorceresses that cast firaball at you and teleport, the rest of them use spear so no use parrying
This list is cleary made without having magic builds in mind, a lot of the "Harder bosses" were so much easier just because I ran an full on igni build and was able to burn most bosses to death. but damn wraiths and golem/elementals though, those things are immune to fire.
Yeah, my magic build made Imelerith / Olegierd fights a joke. Imelerith took forever to kill because I couldn't really deal a ton of damage, but he rarely ever hit me, and the times he did, I could just heal back up real quick.
I made a lot of the bosses a joke with an aard build. Especially the gank bosses
and without any alchemy builds in mind. i didnt notice a single clip in which he had a decoction active, something like the ekimmara decoction can provide almost as much healing as the gourmet perk.
80% of bosses were either “annoying, impossible, boring reskins or long-ass fights” if you’re so bothered by so many of them then just don’t play ffs
Try Quen Shield upgraded enough that when the Shield is damaged you get healed. Only a boss (or Death March enemies) can kill you when you're in one after that. I'm not even mentioning how much I abused Axii's temporary friendly fire system and they're scaled so much they kill their own buddies in 3 hits. A common bandit could kill Dettlaff in 5 hits if he's scaled, is Axii'd (and if they ever put Dettlaff in an arena with a normal human being).
Such as Vesemir told to Ciri: "When you fight a beast, your knowledge counts much than your silver sword!"
Using oils, potions and tactics help you to fight much easier in higher difficaulty levels too. I loved the variability in skill tree and there are at least 5 significantly different possibilities in fightingstyle with almost the same effectiveness. Please, try them! ;)
I have managed to kill Toad Prince on the first try probably thanks to carefully listening to what Geralt and others are saying - it uses poison and seems like it was cursed. Superior Golden Oriole, proper oil and suddenly it's not as bad.
Detlaff: 2 tries
Frog Prince: 1 try
Olgierd/Nightmares: 1 try
Iris' wraith: 5 tries
The Caretaker: 47 tries
What, how? Caretaker was a piece of cake really, so slow it could not hurt me.
@@G1lgamesj he heals back almost his entire healthbar if he hits you once on deathmarch.
@@maxburrill6192 yeah but you can kill the shadows so he doesn't heal
@@soawii9624 I mean when he hits YOU.
I am having the same experience, olgierd is not that hard in my opinion I first try him despite stopped playing the game for months, while the caretaker on the other hand...
Been playing this since 2015 and still do a play through every few months. I now enjoy doing boss fights and contracts way above my level. There’s a lot of added challenge in getting one shot and large boss health pools
When it comes to the bosses; I had trouble with Toad Prince the most. When it comes to 'normal' battles, those enemies in the quest 'extreme cosplay' are the most difficult in the game (without glitch/exploits).
Here I am, 10 years after release and multiple playthroughs beating all of these enemies, and I still need to consume more Witcher content lmao.
Froggo has a weakness to Yrden, for any havin' trouble with it.
Yes, this is the only way to beat him! Yrden for the win!
Every gank based fight should get a huge up on this list when fighting on Death March. Big enemies are always easy as long as you can dodge. But on Death March, the harder it is to dodge, the harder the fight. That's cause every enemy has insane damage.
I played this game on Death March without a HUD and with the default white orchard armor you get when you start the game. Difficulty in this game has nothing to do with armor, it all has to do with your damage input and the player skill. The reason I love this game so much is because the more you play, the more you actually feel like a Witcher.
You played the entire game without getting hit. Cause at death March and armor that is 1 I'm sure you'll die to like even a wolf at that point. How was it?
playing on death march with starting armor? smells like bullshit to me but ok.
@@butler3251 i played on death march with starting armor until level 17. Its not that hard.
That sounds painfully pointless on so many levels. Why handicap yourself for the sake of masochism? I just play the game the way its meant to be played, using alchemy, oils, and Ursine/undvik armor to trivialize every enemy in game.
@@ChefofWar33 some people just wanna watch the world burn
Great video! My only critcism would be that you forgot to include the Elven statues in Beauclair. That fight should arguably be in the top 3.
"If you can keep this sheep alive you're a god among men." Well- I managed that by simply pulling away from the sheep and rushing towards the forktail. After I killed him, the sheep wouldn't stop following me and I didn't want it to die from something else so I legit had to fast travel to get away. The little guy adored me even after I brought it back to the village.
Fun fact: The sheep is named Mia
What sheep?
The dragon (forktail) quest.
Surprised Mad Kiyan didn't get a placement. No good, no eeeeeevil, only pain! Great vid.
This is how I got "When It's Many Against One..." achievement (Provoke all Iris von Everec's Nightmares into fighting you at the same time and defeat them) on a Death March with Enemy Upscaling:
WEAPON
The Caretaker's spade (shovel) - 10% lifesteal
DECOCTIONS
Ekimmara Decoction - 10% lifesteal
Chort Decoction - stagger resist for uninterrupted whirl
POTIONS
Superior Thunderbolt
Superior Blizzard - first shadow dies fast; stamina doesn't deplete for sustained whirl; shadows slow down while you remain fast
Superior White Raffard's Decoction - 3 seconds of invincibility to tank initial burst and get whirl heals rolling
SKILLS (MUST HAVE)
Whirl
Acquired Tolerance
OPTIONAL
Anything that improves fast attack damage, crit chance/damage, and survivability.
I had grandmaster wolven gear with Euphoria mutagen. Ursine would be better, but didn't have it.
MISC
The Professor's spectacles
P.S. Consider using Yrden and Superior Golden Oriole for frog prince. Also, you can Aard Dettlaff like draconids during leap attack.
P.S.S. Try out Invigoration with Active Shield healing. Absorb normal mob's heavy attack, or bosses light attack, and counter with boosted heavy.
Thanks for the video.
I got that the Achievement on accident cause I just triggered them all while dodging xd
Whirl is the shit
Honestly? Just use enhanced/superior dancing star, the whirlwind. On deathmarch, I got roughly 95% of their health that way with 2 guys left over the 4 bombs I had, and they were much easier to deal with
Before I knew what levels meant, I took on the Bloody Baron's botchling in my level 1 Kaer Morhen gear. I must have died at least 10 times.
You missed Ronvid of the small marsh^^ unless you don´t consider him a boss fight :D
I think this video is meant to be just the bosses you can kill. Master Ronvid of the Small Marsh is too powerful for any mere mortal to defeat.
Yeah, he was too strong for me to consider for the list.
Nah, I just totally overlooked him honestly. It was tough making sure I got everyone since this game is so huge lmao. He'd probably be around 80 ish.
Lmao you made my day man =D He is sneaky as f that guy lol, hits you before you load in ^^
no joke Ronvid beat my ass over 20 times.
None of these were hard for my alchemy lvl100 NG+ DM build, but that TOAD was wicked.
And how dare you even try killing that bochling?
Always turn it into a luberkin.
Same, playing with this disgusting Alchemy Ng+ Dm myself, it's legit stupidly op. In my first playthrough without alch etc i had quite the hard time with Detlaff, but the ofiri mage was so fuckn annoying on NG+
Never killed that bochling! #savebochlings
Meta yeah, at one point it gets so OP so I had to make the build worse lol
@@quercingtime finished it today actually. missing one damn gwent card which i botched, fuckn Nekker card of all things -_-
Meta xD. I have all achievements. Starting a new game would be nice, but then my Skellige deck’ll be removed :/
That last DLC ending cutscene was the cherry on the cake, brilliant after 90 ranking bosses.
I agree with the botchling... I ultimately took the higher road and turned it into the ghost and just followed it. Still killed alot of wraiths.
I chose to talk to the Unseen Vampire Elder, so I missed all 5 of the fairy tale bosses 😭
im redoing the whole game just for that mistake
Just redo the game, it has so many choices you can't finish everything in even 4 games
Longlock: Too late, too late!
Geralt: ah, I wish I was on time, this bed just looks fine to us
Hardest for me was the horseback battle in the Toussaint tournament
shaalmar
Couldn't agree more I'd rather fight the Toad Prince and Oligerd at the same time
Edit: on insane difficulty which I can say cause I got the madman achievement no cheats
Everybody gangsta until a pack of 10 wolves oneshots you in death march.
"I try to keep this video as short as I can"
ONE HOUR AND 19 MINUTES!
The game is hundreds of hours of content dude.
@@gabyn5091 I know. I love it. But still.
My hardest fight was after the ship wreck with the Ofieri. That mage was so hard for me to kill. I fought him like 10 times. I was set on killing them.
Let me guess: you forgot you could put on armor. I died so many times before I realized you could epuip your armor
Yeah on death March he's hard as fuck, after failing miserabley I just ran away leave him at his ship wreck.
@@jorgesigala878 that plus me being really underleveled. In the end I had to call roach and cheese the fight by riding past a full speed so he couldn't hit me