Family Matters - Kill botchling or Save botchling(and turn into a Lubberkin) REWARDS question

[󠀡󠀡 ⁧⁧Darius]

This is not about what's right but about the rewards? I wonder if fighting the boss (botchling) with his wraiths is worth it? Maybe it gives tons of exp or something?

What are the rewards for both options can someone tell?

[tigerpoetry]

Don't know.

In the long run though, any small amount of XP you may (or may not) gain here is immaterial.

I always chose the moral way. If you do it another way, you won't gain much by it. Go with your conscience...that's the way Witcher 3 is meant to be played.

[󠀡󠀡 ⁧⁧Darius]

I'm playing on Death March, so...

if I could just kill the thing right away...... I would. Especially if there's no difference in reward

[tigerpoetry]

Darius,

trust me. I've played the game several times, vanilla and new game +. I've always played it by my conscience. Think about it. Would you want the undead child to suffer?.

As far as I'm aware you only have two choices...

1: kill the botchling and use the pellar to find the baron's kin using it's blood or...
2: raise the bothling and turn it into a lubberkin.

If you do the second it will lead you to some peasants in a hut, the undead child is freed and Geralt continues the quest.

I've never done it the other way because I didn't want to.

You say you just want to 'kill the thing'. That seems odd. The botchling has only got that way because the baron beat his wife, tormented his daughter and some wicked crones took advantage of this and screwed up the head of its mother.

Deathmarch or not, this will not aid your progress in the game. Killing the botchling is not good, in my opinion. I can tell you 100% that you can get to level 55 in the vanilla game, reach level 100 in game plus, all without killing the botchling.

Trust me and spare it...you'll feel better about your decision and your game won't suffer...win, win.

[Slimyrock]

I have done both. I got the Baron is "happy" ending and I have also ruined the Baron's life. Both are oddly satisfying. I played it light side my first play and darker on my second. No two play throughs have to be the same ya know,

[Geralt of Rivia]

As far as rewards go, no, it doesn't matter at all.

[Medusa]

Originally posted by tigerpoetry:

Darius,

trust me. I've played the game several times, vanilla and new game +. I've always played it by my conscience. Think about it. Would you want the undead child to suffer?.

As far as I'm aware you only have two choices...

1: kill the botchling and use the pellar to find the baron's kin using it's blood or...
2: raise the bothling and turn it into a lubberkin.

If you do the second it will lead you to some peasants in a hut, the undead child is freed and Geralt continues the quest.

I've never done it the other way because I didn't want to.

You say you just want to 'kill the thing'. That seems odd. The botchling has only got that way because the baron beat his wife, tormented his daughter and some wicked crones took advantage of this and screwed up the head of its mother.

Deathmarch or not, this will not aid your progress in the game. Killing the botchling is not good, in my opinion. I can tell you 100% that you can get to level 55 in the vanilla game, reach level 100 in game plus, all without killing the botchling.

Trust me and spare it...you'll feel better about your decision and your game won't suffer...win, win.

pathetic, you play a game with your conscious, really?
People get more boring and limp-♥♥♥♥♥♥ every day.
BTW, in Witcher 2 Geralt was a cold-hearted monster slayer anyway...
Second remark i have is how changing it into a lubberkin would be morally better anyway.
Killing the beast should relieve it of it's existance entirely which as an unborn one should be horrible anyway.
Thirdly, i am doing a NG+ run on deathmarch and i chose to kill it also because the second wraith part when saving it, is too hard for me (or too frustrating)
Killing the botchling was ezier.
Now i would want to know if this has consequences for the ending of the game.
But boy, if you would feel "morally wrong" because you killed a monster that probably doesn't want to live itself, you are really a horrible person.

[󠀡󠀡aynhse]

Originally posted by Medusa:

Witcher 2 Geralt was a cold-hearted monster slayer anyway...

Maybe in your playthrough they were but for me they weren't.

Also this thread is 2 years old, so nice bump

[a]

Originally posted by znushu:

Originally posted by Medusa:

Witcher 2 Geralt was a cold-hearted monster slayer anyway...

Maybe in your playthrough they were but for me they weren't.

Also this thread is 2 years old, so nice bump

who are ''they''?

[Vyrtualis]

Originally posted by Medusa:

Originally posted by tigerpoetry:

Darius,

trust me. I've played the game several times, vanilla and new game +. I've always played it by my conscience. Think about it. Would you want the undead child to suffer?.

As far as I'm aware you only have two choices...

1: kill the botchling and use the pellar to find the baron's kin using it's blood or...
2: raise the bothling and turn it into a lubberkin.

If you do the second it will lead you to some peasants in a hut, the undead child is freed and Geralt continues the quest.

I've never done it the other way because I didn't want to.

You say you just want to 'kill the thing'. That seems odd. The botchling has only got that way because the baron beat his wife, tormented his daughter and some wicked crones took advantage of this and screwed up the head of its mother.

Deathmarch or not, this will not aid your progress in the game. Killing the botchling is not good, in my opinion. I can tell you 100% that you can get to level 55 in the vanilla game, reach level 100 in game plus, all without killing the botchling.

Trust me and spare it...you'll feel better about your decision and your game won't suffer...win, win.

pathetic, you play a game with your conscious, really?
People get more boring and limp-♥♥♥♥♥♥ every day.
BTW, in Witcher 2 Geralt was a cold-hearted monster slayer anyway...
Second remark i have is how changing it into a lubberkin would be morally better anyway.
Killing the beast should relieve it of it's existance entirely which as an unborn one should be horrible anyway.
Thirdly, i am doing a NG+ run on deathmarch and i chose to kill it also because the second wraith part when saving it, is too hard for me (or too frustrating)
Killing the botchling was ezier.
Now i would want to know if this has consequences for the ending of the game.
But boy, if you would feel "morally wrong" because you killed a monster that probably doesn't want to live itself, you are really a horrible person.

The point of the game is that it exists in a moral grey area. There is never a clear-cut right or wrong answer.