How dismemberment works

[Valdagno]

i have seen videos on people just tearing humans up and cutting limbs off them and such and they make it look so easy but I'm not able to cut people up for some reason do I need something special to dismember or something? Btw I'm new at game and level 7

[ChairborneRanger]

Yes, certain trophies increase dismemberment chance and the Bloodbath mutation will make every kill a dismembering one.

[ptwhite]

Does anyone know if dismembering is just a special effect to make a kill look better or is it a way of killing a creature/person with one lucky (or highly skilled) sword strike?

[Bobo]

Maybe those people you saw used mods???? I also think the more damage you do in comparison to your opponents health, the easier the enemy gets dismembered. Because I'm lvl 25 and I find that my opponents dismember much more often if they are like 10 lvls or more below me. Though don't hold me to it.

[WizZzard]

Originally posted by ptwhite:

Does anyone know if dismembering is just a special effect to make a kill look better or is it a way of killing a creature/person with one lucky (or highly skilled) sword strike?

Its just a chance thing to make the kill look better, you can make it look better with this mod:http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/1549/?

[s]

get console commands and then type addabl(ForceDismemberment) or addabl(ForceFinisher)
you can also edit blood decals thru values 0-9999 set it at 9999 and watch ♥♥♥♥ loads of blood pour out lmao

[Frag Maniac]

Originally posted by ChairborneRanger:

...certain trophies increase dismemberment chance...

Yes, when I used the Cockatrice trophy, I saw them a lot.

That said, even with a 5% XP bonus on monsters trophy now, I still see dismemberment now and then, and usually what triggers it is getting in a good finishing move where you dodge behind someone and catch them off guard just as they're attacking.

[Omaeka]

Dismemberment is a kill animation that's all, like what you get in Skyrim, though I'm yet to glitch through the map on a hill performing one like I did in Skyrim a ton :D