how to fight regular monstern in the witcher 3?

I'm playing the game on the difficulty just before the hardest. When I'm fighting humans the battle makes sense, as far as blocking, counter attacks, attacks and dodge.

When it comes to monsters it's just attack and try to roll. If i encounter a group of monsters and i get close, it takes only 2 seconds and I'm dead. Once you get hit once the other 4 or 5 guys jump at you to and it's basically instant death. Blocking doesn't do anything either.

Anyone have any tips?

Also need help with deflecting arrows. They do roughly 70% damage so if there is two of them, it's instant death again before I can even engage I to battle.

If you're having a difficult time against the monsters, I'd advise you check a couple of things:

• Your skills and vitality.
• Your use of your silver sword.

Although it's subjective, I'd say that putting points into your spells would be better than your combat points. Skills offer more defense and, if you're getting downed within a couple of seconds, it's important to keep track of your skills because they mean life-or-death on the highest difficulty. I'd recommend upgrading Quen, as it gives you a pretty beneficial shield during combat. It'll push enemies back and, if your stamina is regenerating fast (with light armor), you'll be able to cast it frequently. I'd also recommend you upgrade Axii, since it not only stuns your opponent for a brief moment, but it can also turn those enemies into allies when you upgrade it enough.

The standard route that I take in fights, especially when approaching many enemies, is that I make sure I have full health and armor. I make sure that any oils I have will go onto my sword and that my silver sword is out, as it deals more damage to monsters. I pop on Quen for the shield, so if they hit me, I take no damage. I slash my way through them, periodically dodging so that my Quen shield doesn't drop. Once my stamina regenerates, I stun one with Axii and either kill it or kill its friends. Keeping my shield up is pretty imperative, as it helps a lot in decreasing damage taken, but also allowing me to whittle down enemy forces to tilt the battle in my favor.

I'd also check out your mutagens and generals tab through the Character menu.

If you're not running any vitality mutagens, now would be the time to do so, especially if you're early into the game. Many other mutagens don't give that many benefits, but the vitality ones really do. You should save all mutagens because you can use alchemy to increase their effectiveness. For instance, if you have three green mutagens (+50 Vitality), you can plug those three together for a Greater Green Mutagen, which'll give you +100 Vitality. Other than that, your general tab on the Character menu has a couple skills you can pick up.

• Survival Instinct is one that gives you an increase to your maximum Vitality by 500.
• Sun and the Stars gives you vitality regeneration during the day, but stamina regeneration by night.

They may not seem like much, but they're some really good grabs, if you're willing to shell out the points for them. If you're looking to deflect arrows, go to your combat branch in the Character menu and look at the middle option. Defense - Arrow Deflection; put a point into that and you'll be able to deflect arrows while parrying. I'd recommend putting a few more points in the defense tree if you're really dying that much to monsters. However, I think you can get past many of your battles if you just take your time, use your spells and oils well, and time your attacks so you don't take damage.

Good advice. I love the combat in W3. The shield sign can indeed be very useful, and the vitality mutagen as well. You may also want to consider using 3 skills from the same color/tree, in addition to the same color mutagen, this gives you a massive bonus. Right now I have 3 blue(sign) skills equipped on the same group, as well as the blue Mutagen , and this is giving me a massive 40% extra sign intensity(synergy bonus). I use mostly the fire sign to take out groups of monsters, and since I put 2 points into that skill, combined with that 40% increase , I am ripping through groups rather easily, but you have to be careful not to get surrounded. The fire sign also briefly stuns the enemies, and does damage over time. As much as possible try dodging(b button) instead of rolling , because rolling uses stamina which you need to cast signs.

Thanks so much for the tips and info. I'll try to slow down my battles and restructure my skill points. Thanks again!

I try to always use the shield spell before entering battle. Stamina bar regenerates almost immediately that way. Otherwise, I roll a a lot to avoid getting surrounded - trying to focus on one opponent at a time. Use dodge when you can to strike back faster.

Also, check out the bestiary for enemy weaknesses - helps a lot.

I don't consider myself very good at video games, and I'm playing on Death March. Having a pretty easy time with it.

I found easy to try and isolate monsters, and keep dodging when attacked, combat rolls are more useful when you have more than one enemy coming at you, Quen is a must, also good use of bombs and oils can make fights go easier.

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