WITCHER 1 THE BEAST

I must have lucked out or something because I pretty much instagibbed this fag only to find people complaining about him nonstop later.

Aard knocked him down, then I did a finisher on him, then the fight was over.

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This, just run around in circles and throw aard at him until hes knockdowned

>signs are useless
You literally stun it with Aard and then oneshot it.

if you really want to fuck this fight up then you can glitch or whatever behind the small building inside the boss area and be able to attack him without getting hurt just google it

Was trying this for an hour and the finishing move never worked no matter how fast I ran up to him

Took me quite some time to beat it as well on my first run.
I spammed potions and tried to keep abigail alive so the dogs focused her.

IIRC you can run into a corner behind a house where they can't reach you, then just pick them off one at a time

aard + insta kill
igni spam
purchase the relevant books and use the correct oil

keep a ton of swallows and kite to allow the regen, then pick em off

Put points into Aard, hit the hellhound with the Aard, then oneshot the hellhound with one of those one-hit executions.

i got stuck at the same point and quit (didnt make enough potions and it autosaved in the cave or whatever). i considered trying it again but i figure some other bullshit will just happen elsewhere.

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THIS. THE AUTOSAVE MECHANIC IS SO CANCEROUS. I'm fighting this thing with 1 swallow and 1 owl pot. The aarg + finishing move doesnt work. The cheese behind house was patched in enhanced edition and now they can sorround you and fuck you up. It also always survives with insanely low HP... Giving it another hour then quit

Yeah I don't remember how I beat it either. I definitely died a bunch of time.

I think it was a very RNG heavy fight. You could get lucky with how the dog minions were spaced.

Do people have trouble with this boss? I killed it on my first try with Aard and driking Blizzard.

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If you can't kill it, then you dont deserve to finish the game...

If you get the witch to help you it is super easy, otherwise it's a damn hard fight.

Are you retarded? Finish some side quests, level up a bit, kill two unique monsters so you can get a special silver sword later.
Or use group combat mode.

MAKE THE DAMN DRINKS it's not hard to grab the herbs to make them.

Can't you like knock it off its feet and then insta-kill it when it's lying on the ground?

Damn I remember that nigga. Forgot how I managed to beat him but he did give me a bit of trouble. At least he helped me get used to the combat

>That feeling when you realize you killed an entire village for some witch pussy

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Essentially, you prepared poorly. Preparing for your fight is what you're supposed to do

No, it' not Witcher 3

nigger just chug some potions

She gets wrecked by the barghests 9 times out of 10 unless you were smart and maxed out aard to keep them knocked down.
For me, I found the solution was to meditate at the cauldron until just before midnight so I could take potions before all the cutscenes and avoid having them wear off or having to chug them at the start of the fight while the barghests are murdering Abigail. You're still pretty screwed though if you leveled the wrong abilities or didn't bring stuff to make potions.

Dark Souls 3

Beast and Kikimore Queen are the only bosses that are poorly designed

/fucking thread

I instakilled it on my 1st try lmao

basically how I beat every fight in this game.

Though I never really had trouble with any boss in W1.

Salt and Sanctuary

>>signs are absolutely useless
are you trying to beat the game as fast as possible? you're never going to get far playing that way. savor the story and game play. you're not paying attention to what everything does, and how to use your shit. unless you misses some item you needed.

Learn to run around and get the potion against apparition types. You'll get it soon enough.

>5 sec chain stun

Drink vodka, idiot.

the operator on W2 dark mode nearly broke me, he was uncheesable. I think the beast is cheesable somehow but I don't remember

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>skipping the best game

fpwp

Play the game like a Witcher, preparation is key in Witcher 1 and one of the best feelings.

Get things it's weak to, and potion up.

I beat it by clicking. That's it, no potions no signs, I just clicked and won. Why do people think this is hard? Cause I didn't see it.

Stop playing on easy

There's an easy mode?

I literally just ran circles for 15 minutes shooting occasionally magic shit at him and smacking him with the sword a couple times. brainless easy boss

*use aard*
*instakill him*

I remember playing Witcher 1 like:
> Aard Aard Aard Aard Aard Aard
This also applies to the Beast.

He tried to warn you but you didn't listen.

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Good luck with them OP, i got lucky and was able to get through the fight 2nd try.
Dropped the game in Chapter 3 and looked up a synopsis though, I got sick of running back and forth all over Vizima on what felt like glorified fetch quests.

Also keep an extra wolf pelt on you when you do the quest about finding the little boy in the swamp.

cont. Started the 2 and I am enjoying it being a bit more polished, I do wish they retained some elements of the rhythm style combat though.

I found it near impossible my first run and only beat it when it happened to get stuck behind a cart so I could just stab it to death. On my second run it was an absolute cakewalk

You don't even need to fight Queen

It was that exact reason I let the villagers kill her, if I have to pick 20 people or 1 autistic woman who has ties with a fucking cult in Vizima sewers, i'll pick the villagers.

There's porn of this thing fucking girls from resident evil loll

Why do Witcher 1 threads always die while threads for other old games are fine? Did nobody play this?
On another topic, you did pick the right side, right user?

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But the object of W1 is collect every card user, everything else is secondary

Use the oil or whatever and just chow through them.
Beat Witcher 1 on Hard, I remember restarting like 50 times but mostly because I kept thinking the witch died when she didn't. It's probably the toughest part of the game, you can sleep through the rest of it.

Went neutral like a faggot.
The knights turning out to be evil comes across as a big last-minute "ahah see you were totally right to be neutral" gearshift, since the rebels spend the entire game being whinging thieving butchering faggots and you really want to side with the dudes kicking their shit in.

If you are a retard and can't beat the beast on hard, here is a tip, to the left there is a shack and a house, if you run between them the dogs can't get you, gives you a place to regenerate and drink your potions or w/e. Kill 1 or 2 dogs but focus on the beast. Best option is to stun it with Aard and 1shot it, if not just fight it head on, it really isn't that hard

This must be a fucking bait.
Even my wife beat the whole game just fine, all by herself. 4 times.

kill yourselves. TW1 is the only GOOD game in the whole Witcher series.

Fuck of joe

This. I don't know what kind of mega-pleb you need to be to "fail" at this boss.

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literally use aard once and one shot him

God why was Igni so fucking busted? I barely used Melee at all after leveling up Igni a bit.

>do my research
>use the AOE style against doggos
>kill the fuck out of it
uh... people had trouble with it? Literally just do your detective work first you stupid fucks, and then learn to style dance

I love how igni and aard where the only good signs. I went into signs in 1 and 2 and ohh boy. By the end 1 I could cast about 6 or so Ignis, and they replenished so fucking fast too. I could quite literally kill the Grand Master with nothing but signs, same with the King of the Wild Hunt

Also post your favorite OST from this game
youtube.com/watch?v=e6uVeCzUhw0&

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I drank that slow-mo potion and killed both with the endgame equipment the game pulls out of its ass to throw at you. Remember stacking some effect or other to kill them in 6 or so regular sword hits on Hard, no signs needed.

Witcher is from that glorious era of game that doesn't give half a shit if you break it. And it's more fun for it, too.

I've been wondering if it'd be possible to do a dagger only playthrough... hmmm. On hard no less

Igni and aart are op in w1 and the rest are useless.
Quen is the op one in the next two. Igni becomes good again in 3 but useless in 2.

Retarded faggot

>skipped the best game
>"enjoys" the worst game
So this is why everything is so shit now.

>Why do Witcher 1 threads always die while threads for other old games are fine? Did nobody play this?
No one of the nu-Yea Forums played it, because they were still underaged back in 2007, and never owned a PC. The game was a huge success, and a GOTY contender around the globe.

>The game was a huge success, and a GOTY contender around the globe.
I fucking loved it but... I find it hard to believe it was a GOTY contender, it was mainly popular here in Poland, or atleast that's what I heard, with only 2 truly popularizing it outside of our borders.

>The game was a huge success,
this isn't true.
it was successfull enough to warrant a sequel.
in 2013 Witcher 1 and 2 put together sold a combined 6 million units, which isn't a bad number but not a huge success either.

Good taste friend

>I find it hard to believe it was a GOTY contender, it was mainly popular here in Poland
Finn-fag here, it was praised in all our gaming mags (still got those stored up somewhere), and both the books and the games are still popular AF to this day. Might help that we actually got the novels localized long before English fags did.

The only reason 2 did so well was because of 1's groundwork. And to be honest, TW2 was just terrible butchering of the whole series.

>combined 6 million units, which isn't a bad number but not a huge success either.
Maybe by late 2010's triple-A standards, but you people seem to forget how big of a deal mere 1 mil sales is for a smaller teams running tighter budget. By late 1990s, mere 0.5 million sales was considered "one of the best scores".

literally instakilled it the very first time i played witcher 1

>not finishing it with 0 cards
Absolute pleb.

Witcher 1 objectively has the worst gameplay of the trilogy
Especially when it comes to combat
However, the reinforcing of "prepare before battle", learning oil recipes, etc, are fairly solid/good.

If it had achievements getting every possible card should give "Chad" while getting zero should give "Virgin"

Yeah but Witcher 1 was released in 2007 and Witcher 2 in 11. That's 6 years for 1 and 2 for 2.
True, they weren't a huge studio and for them those numbers were insane but compared to the rest of the industry shifting 6 million units in that timeframe is pretty mediocre and would even be considered a failure by some.

hol up
>makes potions, bombs, and oils, somehow all functioning like an estus flask
u be sayin
>refills literally everything in the middle of nowhere with a single (1) bottle of some shitty alcohol
so u be sayin
>drinks potions with his mind, effect lasts a couple minutes at best
we wuz
>keeps making bombs but uses them about twice in 100 hours
witchers
>stops time mid-combat to apply any oil instantly
and shieeet?

Based, atleast it actually made sense in TW1

First game had best atmosphere hands down. The next 2 don't feel nearly as spooky.

>shifting 6 million units in that timeframe is pretty mediocre and would even be considered a failure by some.
Yeah, by some that do not belong into this equation at all.
A recent example: Nier Automata was considered a surprising success with mere 1 million sales, in 2017. Now, with nearly 4 Mil sold copies, it is practically considered to be the savior of Square-Enix.

It all depends on development and marketing costs, and the working environment as well. The 2nd hand benefits the two games brought to CDP are also significant.

It is only the likes of EA / Activision / Ubishit, who NEED their overpriced, disposable trash to sell 100s of mills in order to even break even.

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Literally the entire village (including that priest guy) sinned so hard their sins literally materialised in form of giant spooky doggo. You literally purged the reason why that giant doggo appeared.

That "Witch" was just chilling in her house healing people with herbs.

I had the same thing but Abigail heals you and so long as you run around in a circle he can't stun you. Just only do 2 attacks rather than a full combo when you attack him and make sure you take out the other dogs he spawns. If Abigail dies during the fight she gets resurrected after a little while. This boss is a pain in the arse and I wish they'd warn you beforehand so you could prepare.

you can shag her and sell her our afterwards

I can't really tell you, I reloaded it 10 times on Hard and the 10th time I just decided to try to Ard > Groundstab the fucker and it actually worked. Instant death.

I don't think that was supoosed to work on it. But who knows in Janker 1?

I believe it is implied she is partially responsible for the curse, as to why the demon dissapears regardless of wich of the two sides you choose. She was a witch after all and sold shit like poison. I do however choose her whenever I replay the game

its literally the tutorial boss

The tutorial boss in in the tutorial

Has anyone actually, unironically picked the Scoi'tael ending?
What reasons would anyone have for doing that.

I always go Scoia'tael. Being neutral just means you're a pussy, and common humans are absolute garbage in the Witcher universe. Elves are very often assholes too, but it's understandable in their current situation.

Load up with Swallow Blizzard and Spectre Oil.
Spam Ard. Eventually you'll be able to cheese the boss with a knockdown coup de grace.
If you get swarmed by lil doggies group slash your way out. Take your time and pause often so you don't get overwhelmed.
Sometimes you get unlucky and get chain stunned by pain. I got the that part unprepared too and eventually got through it.
If you protected the Witch I think she can heal you if you keep the doggies off her. At the very least she provides a small distraction.

No the problem is he didn't do any prep work or form a strategy like a good witcher would. Do some alchemy, apply your buffs, and go apeshit with gryphon style before switching to wolf when The Beast is all that's left.

I had the same problem.
I leveled up in dumb way so i had a hard time against this boss.
So i just hidden between house and some other decoration.
Only small space was open in front of me so only 1 or 2 dogs could reach me at once.
I killed them all one by one.

>millenials can't into manual saves, let alone rotate them
>in an rpg no less

An entire village of crazy pagan fuckers where they all got skeletons in the closet but blame it on a scapegoat that has nothing to do with any of it.

>siding with knife eared terrorists that kill and murder for no reason and then complain that humans hate them
we dindu nuffin its the humans fault

shit taste

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>Skipping the only Witcher game that is not consolized awesomebutton cancer
Explain yourself?

You mean Zoomers?
TW1 is millennial AF game.

But yeah, zoom zooms don't know shit about maintaining safe and practical save states on their own. One reason even modern "survival horror" has moved to checkpoints and automatic easy-modes.

There is only one good reason to not support the knights and it's that you never hear this
youtube.com/watch?v=IldkMHrz2HU

I accidentally sided with the knights because I didn't take the hint of not doing every single sidequest. Felt like a pretty big dummy afterwards.

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I did it once just to see that ending because I've played the absolute fuck out of TW1. Really solidified that elves in that universe pretty much deserve genocide

I beat it when I was 14 on my first try LMAO

If i remember correctly Abigail was actually doing some shady stuff too. The villagers were defs all dicks though.

>4 guys
>entire village

I dunno I died 2 times and then it just worked. Having the witch alive helped I guess.

YOUR MOTHER SUCKS DWARF COCK

You take issue with fat folk?

i don't remember having issues, but i played this like 10 years ago so idk

>muh no reason
>muh knife years
Shut the fuck up retard and actually play the game

Picked them because "muh underdog" as a kid.

So are we doing some, plowing business?

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>Aard
>stab it while it's on the ground
ez

Dog's balls

/thread
Literally load up previous save and level up the very first sign talents either for knockback or stun. Then you one shot this boss.

Or open up wiki and look up receipt for pain + stun immune potion.

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>>signs are absolutely useless
no lol, just aard the nigger

I remember my first attempt this boss was super hard.
Then I sided with the villagers on a second attempt at a play through and it was a lot easier as they helped to distract the horde.
Third play through I finally got the hang of potions, oils and also did more of the side quests and found the sign stones. Shit was a lot easier when you use all of the tools the game has for you.

It's been years since I played this game. How's it hold up? I'm considering replaying the entire trilogy.

Its still kino. Just use the overhaul mod for 1st game for hd graphics, better weapons looks, better inventory icons and so on. Many little improvements. For example every meteor sword looking different is nice touch.

Not him but can you spoonfeed some mods?
My mate is ranting and raving about how 2 and 3 are amazing and never touched 1 because he's a graphics whore and seriously missing out.

a witcher without potions is a half a witcher

>A recent example: Nier Automata was considered a surprising success with mere 1 million sales, in 2017. Now, with nearly 4 Mil sold copies, it is practically considered to be the savior of Square-Enix.
Well that's 4 million within 2 years which is a decent Amount, though the industry is much bigger now while Square Enix is a much bigger Publisher than Cdpr were.
My point is while Witcher 1 might've been a success for Cdpr at the time, it wasn't at all a hugely popular game that reached a lot of people. It was considered an obscure, hardcore rpg by the media and the community at the time.

Igni is not useless in 2.
You just need to go pure signs.
It makes some encounters difficult early on but from the middle of act 2 to the end it makes the game a cakewalk.
You can literally spam fireballs nonstop, and the dragonfight ended in under a minute for me.

If hes graphic whore then he wont like w1 no matter what mod because its too old game.
nexusmods.com/witcher

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>"You HAVE to pick a side because thinking for yourself is hard!"
>"That's why I picked the side who cry about oppression while deliberately attack unarmed civilan and then bitch about people hating them"
>"Why should I go with the people who fight monsters to keep people safe and have a total bro in their ranks"
I bet you own a Che Guevara shirt

hell no.
I don't want to get involved with their retarded shit.
Just treat the elves decent and stop fighting and leave me the fuck alone, got enough worries on my own.

How casual can you even be?

>kids have problems with games that require a bit more effort than mindlessly spamming the left mouse button

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Here is how I beat it, it's not too hard
The problem is the dogs tend to overwhelm you and paralyze you so do the following
First carry those health regenerating potions you will need them.
Second run around the map in circles so you don't get cornered and overwhelm, be careful with the fire, once you think you are in a good position and many dogs are around you attack them with the group stance and try to kill most or all the green dogs, then attack the red one quickly with the quick attack stance until more green dogs spawn, continue doing this until the red dog dies.
You will get occasionally paralyzed used the health potions to recover health from that

this

I helped the elves.

Based order bro

Low test

FUCK, why was this game so good?
The atmosphere is depressing, everything seems real and shitty, just like life. Everyone and everything is flawed, and everyone has their own justifications.
The game lets you CHOOSE, between Order, Elve Cunts, or being Neutral. With negatives for all three (Negative to choosing Neutral, is that the most chaos, and most amount of people die.)

I guess I just adored the depressing atmosphere, that and I fucking love everything about the Order, who really nail the feeling that Witchers are an old relic who aren't needed anymore. Also helps they look like Templars, kill monsters for free, hate Elf scum, Kill bandits, support the Northern Kingdoms and they have the greatest bro from any game ever, Siegfried the fucking chad. Also i'm fucking proud of Alvin

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The grand master is piss easy if you ignore the fire bugs he spawns and focus on him

They are right though and fighting for their survival.
Fuck the dh'oine

I liked Witcher 1 and thought 2 was alright. Should i play Witcher 3?

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I hate how after 1 they no longer have the Templar aesthetic and Wear generic plate armor

>kill monsters for free
Because they're funded by Salamandra drug money
Let's also not forget that they were the ones who instigated all of the issues with the Scoia'tael, their leader tried to perform a military coup in Temeria meaning they don't support the Northern Kingdoms any more than they can use them to further their own goals of creating mutants in an attempt at beating an ice age
They also start killing civilians in the Epilogue chapter

because the order lost all it had at the end of witcher 1 and was reduced to a bunch of mercenaries

Elves should've fought when they still had a chance, they lost the race war.
Also the non-human ghetto in TW1 is filled with half-elves because of human BVLLS dabbing on elf "" "" men""" ""

>Make healing potions
>Makes potions to help your attacks
>Use spectral oil
>Run around the arena when low in health and let the witch do the rest(she can't die)
>Fight when your health is high
>Do this until you kill it
user, are you a brainlet? This game isn't hard people say.

pleb faggot smoothbrain zoomer

You get a one-hit kill if you upgraded Aard.
By way of stunning it.
If you stun an oppenent you can just kill em in one hit and Aard can do that and/or knockdown opponents.

You know the Order was backed by Redania to destabilize enemy nations, Thalor gives you a book about it if you drink with him, Dijkstra's idea apparently. Apparently, you'll find the Order anywhere except for Redania

Salamandra drug money wen't towards funding the Greater Brother project.
If you know the history of the Scoia'tael, you should know they don't need instigation to go around butchering humans civilian or otherwise.
The Grand-master had ulterior motives and was loyal only to himself and his visions. He was using the Order; he does not care for the Order, only for preparing for the White Frost. Ergo the Order was split and fought each other, some were loyal to the Grand-master, others loyal to the ideals and tenants of the Order. Ergo, the loyal Order members supported the Northern Kingdoms, to the point where they died en masse trying to halt the main offensive of the Nilfgaardian Central Army in the 3rd war.
Only if you pick neutral or scoi'tael paths. The The """Civilians""" in question are wounded Scoi'tael terrorists who are condemned in the entirety of the North, and Nilfgaard.

>he sided with Scoi'tael
If you side with Order, they're even more respected among the population of Temeria and the North.
They actually become even more powerful, moving their armies into Redania, they're even given land to tax and maintain themselves.
They have their own castles and peasants with Redania, which is objectively canon.

Correct, but wrong. They were created by Dijkstra to be a counter to Mages. In essense, it was a counter to the Lodge of Sorceress. Who would in time plan about the death of Northern Monarchs.
Dijkstra just wasn't big on the idea of extremists within Redania's borders, however considering in Witcher 2 onwards, Radovid invites the Order of the Flaming Rose to transfer their main base to the Redanian heartland, which is what they do, they then are actually give their own land to lord over, protecting peasants, collecting taxes and creating their own castles.

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Well the whole trilogy is kino. The potions kindo got neutered in 2nd and 3rd game but few mods can restore them to usable / useful levels. Even normies love witcher 3 (despite missing all the lore background and attachments for old characters). Its good game.

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REMINDER Siegfried and 2 knights is all it took to pimp slap the werewolves Near Tretogor

>The """Civilians""" in question are wounded Scoi'tael terrorists
No, they were ordinary human peasants caught out on the street

Yet Radovid voices his displeasure with the order and the cult of eternal fire in the first game.

I seem to remember the Order going full retard at some point, so I said fuck it and went neutral

What the FUCK was the Lodge's problem?

"YOUR MOTHER SUCKS DWARF COCK"

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I forgot about that, that was Siegfried when he had free time as well.

I'm fairly sure those were the Order soldiers who were blindly following orders and being loyal to the Grand Master, and not to the tenants and ideals of the Order.

Yeah that is actually rather amusing, but considering the Order are respected in Loc Muine, and there's a representative of the Order among King Henselt's army; they seem to still be respected.

They were women who thought they were superior because they have cunts. Like any gaggle of women, the most dominate one controlled the group and got drunk on power> Phillipa and Sile then led the group onto a regressive self-destructive path destroying the accomplishments of others around them.

zoom zoom

>cast aard
>stab it when it's on the ground
Wow, such a difficult fight
Witcher 1 is broken, just max out aard and cast it at every opportunity. Easy game easy life

Get filtered, plebs.

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Yeah, I remember this thing being the first wall people get hit with in the game. Lots of complaints in the official forums then. Easiest is to spec for Aard and hope for a stun then execute it.

Was this thing that much of an issue? I remember killing it was fairly easy, the problem for me in fact was trying to keep the villagers alive; which is possible but takes a few attempts. Maybe it's because I allowed the Witch to die?

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You should try gothic 3 lol

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It's piss-easy as long as you're actually using potions, which even the tutorial tells you to fucking do if you want to win against stronger enemies.

Just use aard lol

Fucking pleb!

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A single man shouldn't be so based. It is a goddamned miracle.

dadaDAAAA dada DADADAAAAA
AGH
UGH
UGH
UGH OOOOH

>3

>Do some alchemy, apply your buffs
There's a timeskip before you face the beast.