Good build for Heavy Armor?

[Kyros]

My character is still level 12 but I want to build him properly. I've bought a respec potion because I know I'll need it.
So far I've been playing with fast and heavy attacks enhanced, and boosted Quen sign. It's a nice spell, though I still wear medium/light armor so my stamina regen much faster compared to heavy armor. How does one play with Heavy Armor ? I'd like to keep some magic (don't like alchemy at all) but every build I see for Heavy Armor is centered around adrenaline management.

[Kyros]

No offense but you sound biased as hell mate, I found what I needed on youtube anyway

[Kyros]

No reason to get annoyed really, I was asking for Heavy Armor and spells, not Medium because you like it.
Also, this is a forum, I am free to create a thread to ask for some advices on a specific topic. But you're right, I should have asked on Reddit instead, I'd had more replies I suppose.

Sorry you did not like my answer by the way. Didn't meant to belittle you or anything. No hards feelings.

[CloudSeeker]

The gear is pretty much very simple.

Light attacks and not much else- Cat gear
Magic and not much else - Griffin Gear
A mix between alchemy and combat - Wolf Gear
Lots of protection and heavy attacks - bear
Alchemy - Manticore
Don't know much about Viper sadly.

You will not find anything that doesn't use adrenaline as that is a very imrporant part of fighting with swords. If you don't want to use adrenaline I guess you should just try and be a mage, but even then adrenaline is useful.

[icleus]

Heavy is pretty much gear and level based. Witcher weapons are usually the best but you may run into a few better odd ends with heavy weapons.
Grandmaster/Master bear is friendly to Quen/Heavy playstyles but even then it just makes you soak a few more hits depending on difficultly. It's more of a playstyle than significant difference really.

NG+ it won't really matter. You can't afford to get hit much even as heavy unless you have legend grandmaster gear.

[icleus]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

The gear is pretty much very simple.

Light attacks and not much else- Cat gear
Magic and not much else - Griffin Gear
A mix between alchemy and combat - Wolf Gear
Lots of protection and heavy attacks - bear
Alchemy - Manticore
Don't know much about Viper sadly.

You will not find anything that doesn't use adrenaline as that is a very imrporant part of fighting with swords. If you don't want to use adrenaline I guess you should just try and be a mage, but even then adrenaline is useful.

Viper is pretty much an entire poison set. Not bad when adding poison augs to your weps. I think it gave me around 25-30% poison chance on enemies. Groups go down really fast when everyone takes one hit and slowly keels over.

[jss1138]

Originally posted by The Tℜicksteℜ:

How does one play with Heavy Armor?

Don't get hit. This eliminates much of the need for Quen and hence for high Stamina regen.

[v0]

Originally posted by jss1138:

Originally posted by The Tℜicksteℜ:

How does one play with Heavy Armor?

Don't get hit. This eliminates much of the need for Quen and hence for high Stamina regen.

but then why'd you need any armor :o ... so what's specific about heavy armor here? why not light then?

[Spacey]

For heavy armor, the best one is Ursine, it looks badass. Too bad you can't have grandmaster Undvik armor, cuz it looks badass too. Dunno the good build for heavy armor, but I think that best thing to do is to add Levity enchantment from that runewright in Upper Mill. Than your armor will basically be treated as light armor.

P.S. You need DLC for this, and a lot of money. So basically you can do it later in the game.

[jss1138]

Originally posted by v0:

but then why'd you need any armor

Because you will not always succeed at not getting hit.

Using Quen and avoiding hits are very different play styles. Give the latter a try if you're worried about the slow Stamina regen with heavy armour.

Even with Cat gear, I still avoid getting hit. (Well, try to.) I hardly ever use Quen at all, even against the big guys like elementals and cyclops.

[sidewinder_G]

At the moment, I am using the Ursine Set and LOTS of spells. I do not need stamina because there is a certain ability, a brown one, that lets you use andrenaline points. I alternate between strong and light swipes and signs.

I use sweeping signs, Aard and Quen alternate castings and exploding shield. After a few hits with my sword, I can basically spam these spells and also do other ones, regardless of how much stamina I have. Now because both Aard and Quen are knockdown spells, I use a potion that once I drink it, the special effects of the signs, knockdown in this case, are way more frequent. If the enemy is human sized or a bit bigger, knockdown and instakill. If not, stun and free strikes for me.

So potion, sword, signs, knockdown, dead.

And that's WITHOUT Moreau's mutations. After that, Aard will freeze and Quen will make people explode the more sign intensity I have.

[Thedudehasgotit]

You pretty much need the alchemy because in future you're gonna have to create some of your gear's elements(like Albedo for example) through alchemy...So you better make your way to it.
As of "Heavy Armor" I personally advise you to go for witcher gears(with green item backgrounds) as they are exactly what you need and the bonuses are just great.
My favorite Heavy Witcher Gear is

Ursine(bear School) gear