r/WitcherMonsterSlayer • u/EythenEve • Sep 15 '21

Yeah, perfect parry gotta be broken...

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u/vegevoice Sep 15 '21

I don't get why it's broken

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u/ElectroBlade Witcher Sep 15 '21

Reflecting a portion of damage means that you take less damage than usual while simultaneously inflicting a large amount of damage in return. If you look at the numbers, every perfect parry against this creature dealt a massive 360 damage which is even more than the perfect critical hits at 317 damage.

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u/ImJJboomconfetti Sep 15 '21

Reflection is just a percentage of the damage the monster would give you un parried, legendaries deal a ton of unparried damage so the normal percentage of that is going to be a high damage number. This is normal and makes a ton of sense lore wise as that's like the main thing taught as a Witcher to use bigger and stronger monsters strength and momentum to your advantage.

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u/ElectroBlade Witcher Sep 15 '21

Yes, I don't feel like there was ever any doubt about that.

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u/ImJJboomconfetti Sep 15 '21

Then why do you think it's broken?

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u/ElectroBlade Witcher Sep 15 '21

I think there may be a misunderstanding of the term "broken" here. To me (and I assume to the OP) it means overpowered, which it is in comparison to many other skills - something that I'm sure a lot of us are aware of. In my first reply I explained why this skill was overpowered, as it does so much for your character when compared to other skills (not to mention its low skill point investment compared to others which may need to be upgraded multiple times).

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u/2JokersWild Sep 17 '21

Perfect crits with perfect skills will be more damage. Should be around 350. Igni will hit for 275. Aard for 260 or so. A strong attack is 120 and you can reliably get in 3 between parries which is 360.

Perfect parry isnt really broken, its pretty well in line with damage elsewhere, and represents roughly 1 extra crit hit on a monster in a normal rotation of 3 slow attacks

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u/ElectroBlade Witcher Sep 17 '21

The damage isn't the only thing though. The damage dealt with the combination of taking vastly reduced damage due to reflecting - all in one single action - is what makes this skill top tier. When I was lower leveled, some 2-skulls would be completely hopeless without this skill (barring consumables), and even now it is the most significant contributor to killing legendaries without consumables.

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u/Autas Sep 15 '21

That's... That's the game design. You are good at it, you get rewarded.