Dimitri fight, beyond ridiculous (Ch. 1, Troll quest)

[NewbieOne]

I'm fairly low-level and with only imported equipment — Raven's Armour & Sihill — so I'm not expecting this fight to be easy, but the problem is, I just get slaughtered. What's worse, the designers/coders from CD Projekt in their inexplicable wisdom decided to sheathe my weapons during the dialogue but not my enemies', which means they get a couple of free swipes. Sometimes I'm almost dead before I break the engagement to run and hide. But obviously this game doesn't allow healing because no. So how the heck am I supposed to win the fight?

EDIT: Okay, rolled away, picked them off one by one by spamming attacks. Aard + spamming fast attacks with a 2% instakill sword did the job.

[Enigmatic]

dont forget throwing knives and bombs they can give you openings when your not close enough to exploit those openings.
Getting a skills in Quin and roll distance is a safe bet for survival.

[LuckyHero]

Honestly I just used bomb spam for that fight, some incenerate bombs and grapeshots made short work of the adds and then Dimitri was just a matter of patience.

[NewbieOne]

Eh, I guess it could be said the game wants you to remember you're just another squishy human, albeit better trained, but you shouldn't expect to just roll through groups — hence bombs etc. Perhaps I've grown lazy.

But they really screwed up with automatically sheathing your weapon through dialogue just as they put you right in the middle of enemies without sheathing their own weapons, so they get dumb free passes at you.

And otherwise I get the feeling Witcher 2 just overdoes the numerical sliders disadvantaging you (HP, damage, number of enemies, etc.).

[76561198052815711]

2 words my friend.Dancing Star kite them around bomb em till death.