Why doesn't Triss teleport mages out of Novigrad?

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Or can't the mages just teleport themselves

[Living Broscillograph]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

And yet Yen teleports to Skelllige from Vizima after Geralt's audience with Emhyr.

She's a one-woman-army and probably one of the most powerful mages. She can. Even in books she did scatter Wild Hunt like helpless kittens - that's probably why Eredin travels with Caranthir nowadays.

[[82DK] Iregi]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Originally posted by Living Broscillograph:

She's a one-woman-army and probably one of the most powerful mages. She can. Even in books she did scatter Wild Hunt like helpless kittens - that's probably why Eredin travels with Caranthir nowadays.

And that's another thing. Remember in the Battle of Kaer Morhen, when Lambert was in trouble and Keira saved him by using magic to levitate all the Wild Hunt surrounding him and them slamming them all down to the ground, crushing them. Yet she does that only once. And none of the other mages ever tried that move either.

It's like they're saying we've got this nice little arsenal of tricks but we can only use them once and oh let's pretend all those dimeritium bombs only affect the portals and not our mages, well, because....

It's BS.

Dude everyone knows there was heavy plot armor there. Getting fumed about it is pointless. IMO CDPR ♥♥♥♥♥♥ that entire Kaer Morhen fight 20 ways to sunday and never looked back.

This is where the haters of TW3 dont understand most of the "problems" in the game. They try to piggyback off arguments made by youtubers who have 9k subs and 10k dislikes on a video. They never actually played the game and cant understand the biggest issues in the game that even people who loved it like you and me have to stamp our feet about.

[philhinton71]

Maybe they can't teleport to a place they can't
A See or
B Haven't already visited

[jclosed]

Well - it's rather simple. All sorceresses have a limited amount of energy. Triss simply does not have enough energy to transport all mages over a large distance. The only one that has enough energy to open a massive portal and is even capable to transport a complete army's or even populations is Ciri.

Elven sages are more powerfull than human mages, and are capable to transport larger groups, but even then they often have to combine their energy to transport a considrable amount.

On top of that - most of the mages in Novigrad are not even close to the level of Triss or Yenifer, and only can transport themsleves at best, while most mages do not even are capable of opening portals at all (they have other specialisations, but opening portals is not one of them). Do not forget that Triss and Yennifer are very powerfull sorceresses.

And Keira doing only one time that "slamming" trick. Well - as I said, sorceresses only have a limited amount of energy. Once used, they have to "recharge" and are not capable to do the same thing again. Sure - She can still throw fireballs, lightning and stuff like that, but doing such a massve trick again requires at least a long rest time to "charge" enough. And Keira obviously cannot take a long rest while the battle is going on.

[[82DK] Iregi]

Me and a couple friends at work just discussed this. We've talked about it before but since I just finished a playthrough something stood out even more.

I think TW3 was supposed to end at Kaer Morhen or almost immediately after. The story, while it does have holes, really doesn't unravel until after that point. The really weak "Final preperations" quests, the odd disconnect of certain subplots, and just the weird pacing kinda highlight this.

Before that you are running around enjoying the story doing whatever and then BAM Kaer Morhen fight and a weird pause in the action... homeboy just saw Ciri go ragetastic and knows the feeble force at Kaer Morhen is wiped. Rather than, I dunno, attacking? He lets his LT's go off and fornicate in a forest?

We do know they were rushed for some reason at the end of development becaus they kept delaying release to "polish." I never looked at it like this before but maybe they added more to the story almost at the end of development and screwed up their final act.