proper alchemy

Tweaking Alchemy's method doesn't completely break the original design, but makes it less unbalanced and too simplistic.

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Just like The Witcher 2, The Witcher 3 has a lot of alchemy-related issues - some things are unbalanced, and some don't even work at all. The final idea of ​​this mod is to solve this problem and rebalance alchemy without breaking the original design, the main directions are: 1) change the replenishment system to make it more complex while keeping the potion/bomb/oil charge; 2) adjust different aspects of alchemy (bombs/skills/etc.) to be less actionable or less useless.

change

Reraise

There are now only Alcost replenishing potions and bombs, and its recipe has been changed so that you pay most of its production cost by gathering herbs (although you'll need more of them) rather than buying the expensive base alcohol. Alcost is no longer used as the base alcohol for any potions or decoctions. The base alcohol used to make T2 and T3 potions is now much more expensive than vanilla (might require more balancing in the future). See below for details.

Potions and bombs can now only be refilled with alcohol.

Alcohol bases are as follows:

T1 Potion - Thamel Rye (is the dwarf spirit)

T2 Potion-Dwarf Spirit (used to be the best)

T3 Potion-White Gull (no change)

Concoction - White Gull (ever the concave)

Substance - White Gull (no change)

Alcoest's recipe: 1 Empty Bottle, 1 Thamel Rye, 1 Red Bean Herb, 5 Barberry Fruit, 4 Cortinarius, 4 Crow's Eye

Recipe for Dwarf Spirit: 1 Empty Bottle, 1 Great God Spirit, 5 Pringles, 5 Langolin

White Gull Recipe: 1 empty bottle, 1 mandrake cheese, 1 cherry cheese, 1 Neil Fargard lemon, 5 nostrils, 5 green mold

Shops and Loot

Alcost and Dwarven Spirits no longer appear in drops or containers, and they have also been removed from some shops (Innkeepers, Common Traders, etc.).

Mahayana Spirit adds more stores

Alchemical pastes and powders (as loot) from most common containers (crates, sacks, etc.).

Different regions and taverns now sell different liquors (vodka, beer, wine, etc.): in Velen and the White Orchard tavern you'll find more Taymel; the Ossenfurt and Rednia areas around Novigard will mostly have Rednia, while Novigard itself will have all the liquor, but this will be heavily dependent on the taverns; Skellig I'll drink a lot of beer and Mahagan, but not too much wine, and definitely don't drink your Rivian Creek fruit. Some important liquors (such as red herbals) will be sold in most stores, but depending on the region, there may be much smaller quantities.

price

Redanian Herbs: 13 (previously 36)

Farthest: 65 (10)

Tamerion Rye: 25 (32)

Mahayana Spirit: 45(8)

Dwarven Spirit: 100 (20)

Mandela 65 (previously 45)

Neil Fargard Lemon: 32 (40)

Cherry Red: 28 (25)

Oil

All grades of oil now have a cost of 30 (previously 20/40/60)

Extra damage: 15%/25%/35% (10/25/50)

new icon

bomb

All bomb levels now have 3 bombs (was 2/3/4)

Icon changes

Samum. Duration: 8/10/12 seconds (from 4/6/8).

Dragon's dream. Damage: 400/600/600+200 (from 300/400/400+20). Duration: 25/25/25 seconds (15/30/30). Chance of using burning effect: 100%/100%/100% (0/50/50).

Moon dust. Impact silver damage: 100/200/300 (none). Duration: 25/45/∞ seconds (is 20/40/∞).

Dimethyl bomb. Duration: 20/35/40 (15/30/30).

Dancing star. Impact fire damage: 100/250/400 (was 100/100/100). Fire duration: 6+2/6+2/6+2 seconds (4+0.3/7+0.3/10+3). +x means everyone who walks into the fire will be burned for x seconds. DOT (ground fire): 10/20/30 (20/30/40).

Grapeshot. Damage: 350/600/700 (was 350/600/600).

North wind. Duration: 5/6/7 seconds (from 4/5/6). Added a slowdown effect that will last for 10 seconds (all tiers) after the effect, regardless of ongoing freeze. Basically, all tiers will now have a 10 second slowdown, but the higher the tier, the more time the target will spend completely frozen.

Devil's bubble. Impact Poison: None (100). Duration: 13/13/13 (10/30/30). Points (Poiso …