Devil by the well. How do I defeat the witch?

[Zeno]

Devil by the well. How do I defeat the witch?

Whatever I do, I don't seem to be able to destroy it.

[John W. Thackery]

Yrden

[Blackwolfpt]

Are you using Yrden?

[Exarch_Alpha]

Silver sword? Yrden? Rolling instead of parry?

Each enemy needs use of certain signs and moves.

[Amix]

Read the bestiary. If you do not like to read then at least take a look at it. It shows weakness of monsters to certain Witcher items. Use dodge & roll frequently. Use potions & oils.

[Punished Sigma]

What difficulty are you playing on?

You must look at the visiblity of the enemy. Specters when they go colourless and blury take almost no damage and are not stunned/ inturupted by attacks. Yrden will force them out of this state, although they will sometimes do this regardless.

[bgray9054]

Yrden will slow down the ghost and allow you to hit her and do more damage - also use specter oil if you have it, use a thunderbolt potion (or other potions that increase your damage)

[CrackeR]

Old man Vesemir wouldve slapped you silly for not reading your Beastiary!!! LOL

[Punished Sigma]

Hmm you wont have thunderbolt unless you go back after killing the first boss in the actual storyline ;)

[Zeno]

Originally posted by S!gma:

Hmm you wont have thunderbolt unless you go back after killing the first boss in the actual storyline ;)

I did the tutorial and all the other tasks I had to do, no idea about most of what you guys have said.

I will look further in to it.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Uh... so you still didn´t kill it...?

[max.strauss]

Originally posted by WellquistUK:

I did the tutorial and all the other tasks I had to do, no idea about most of what you guys have said.

Did you follow the other advices mentioned above?

Preparation: Specter oil for the silver sword.

Yrden is very important in this early stage of the game. Not to catch the specter, but to materialize it. It's pointless to attack it in the ghost-form.

So cast Yrden and trap it - then attack it.

At certain points of the fight her three little sisters will appear. Kill them as fast as possible. They are weak, but they transfer lifepoints from Geralt to the specter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDMA_yHTMng

This is not the same fight, but the techniques are exactly the same.

[Zeno]

Hi everyone.

By now I have finished the quest.

Thanks for your help.