The Witcher 3 isn’t a particularly difficult game, but the Death March difficulty takes things to the next level. If you intend to play this Death March difficultly, we have the best build for you below.
The Witcher 3 Death March Best Build – Abilities
- Acquired Tolerance – Increases maximum toxicity and potion duration.
- Cat School Techniques – Each piece of light armour boosts critical hit and fast attack damage.
- Counterattack – Following a successful counter, the next attack deals more damage and is a critical hit.
- Crippling Strikes – Fast attacks apply a bleed status.
- Crushing Blows – Increases chance of critical hits from strong attacks.
- Delusion – Reduces Axii casting time and failed attempts stagger enemies.
- Euphoria Mutation – Each point of toxicity increases damage dealt by swords.
- Heightened Tolerance – Increases potion overdose threshold and potion duration.
- Muscle Memory – Increases the damage of fast attacks.
- Precise Blows – Increases chance of critical hits from fast attacks.
- Razor Focus – When entering combat, you gain an adrenaline point instantly, and your adrenaline point generation is increased.
- Rend – Increases critical hit chance, ignores enemy defence and deals additional damage in proportion to stamina consumed.
- Strength Training – Increases the damage of strong attacks.
- Sunder Armour – Reduces enemy damage resistance.
- Whirl – Large AoE spinning attack.
The Witcher 3 Death March Best Build – Gear
- Aerondight – Received by completing There Can Be Only One in the Blood and Wine expansion.
- Ekhidna Decoction – Consuming stamina regenerates health. Found in a random chest.
- Ekimmara Decoction – Dealing damage replenishes your health. Obtained by reading My Evening with a Vampire, which can be found at Triss’ house in Hierarch Square or at the Orphans of Crookback Bog’s house.
- Feline Crossbow – Part of the Cat School gear you can craft. Found on an island south-west of the Lighthouse fast travel post north of Novigrad.
- Grandmaster Feline Armour – Part of the Cat School gear you can craft. All Feline armour can be in a cave below Temple Isle in Novigrad, by dropping down to a path and entering a secret cave.
- Grandmaster Feline Boots – Part of the Cat School gear you can craft.
- Grandmaster Feline Gauntlets – Part of the Cat School gear you can craft.
- Grandmaster Feline Trousers – Part of the Cat School gear you can craft.
- Grandmaster Wolven Steel Sword – Part of the Wolf School gear you can craft.
- Superior Grapeshot – Shrapnel damage. Found in a random chest.
- Superior Northern Wind – Freezes enemies. It can be found in a chest in Ard Skellig’s Ancient Crypt, a cave on Undvik, behind a breakable wall in the von Everec family crypt, or in the Arnskrone Castle Ruins.
- Water Hag Decoction – Increases damage when at full health. Purchased from the Herbalist vendor in White Orchard.
All of the gear and abilities highlighted in this build are meant to work together to give you a powerful build for dealing high fast attack damage, high critical damage, and maintaining your health.
While your defense will be a little lower due to the light armour and less focus on defensive abilities, the three potions will work together to ensure you can continue to earn HP while doing tons of damage. It’s also worth noting that you should practice your dodge and parry techniques because you’ll want to avoid being hit even more than usual.
That concludes our best build for The Witcher 3 Death March.
