Ciri is too..weak?

[Carbohydrated Caretaker]

could this be a balancing issue?
thing is I usually played on the easiest difficulty and I used to cut through people when playing as Ciri in the flashbacks and the last battle. However since this play though is the second lowest difficulty it seems like Ciri just struggles to do much damage to certain NPC and the crones.
I had trouble specifically with a few NPCs that you need to kill when fleeing Novagrad. some of them I did decent damage but there were a few that barely too any damage and they 2 hit me to death. I also did struggle a little bit against the crones.
I wonder how hard the hardest difficulty is lol

[VikingG]

everytime when i playing as ciri games looks so easy dodge skill is too op and she does pretty good dmg

[Cootswig]

I also didn't like to pay her, strange how in the final battle she kills everything in 1 hit but struggles against wolves the first go

[Goldias]

Yes, in NG+ This is even worse.
There are mods that increase her stats to make it less frustrating though.

If I remember correctly, after a few story (not sure which one) she'll gain ability to use charged heavy attack that charge straight into her enemy. It will make any fight much easier.

[LordOfTheBread]

If you think insta-teleporting and huge life regen are weak-points then yea, she is weak.

Looks like a skill issue to me.

[cwowughin]

git gud man I finished on deathmarch twice and loved it.

[Homer Morisson]

Yeah, Ciri can feel quite underpowered when your Geralt is already high level and badass, but that's only true when you make the mistake of trying to play Ciri exactly like you would Geralt.

Ciri isn't a full Witcher, she didn't undergo the mutations, and thus she doesn't have superhuman strength, endurance or reflexes.

What she does have though is the power of the Elder Blood, and that makes her able to teleport, among other things, and so she simply requires a different approach to combat.

Instead of "SWORD IN YO FACE"-Geralt, with Ciri you really want to exploit the bonus damage when attacking from behind, by using your short and long-ish teleport dodges to get behind your enemies as often as possible, land one or two strikes, and then dodge away again, never allowing yourself to be driven into a corner.

Yes, Ciri still has a much longer TTK than a Level 100 Geralt, but that's as it should be, given that, again, aside from her magical abilities, she is still just a human.

[wtiger27]

When you need to play her ( I do not like having to in the game ) just lower the difficulty to Story Only.

[Halser, the]

in my first playthrough years ago she was easy mode, but in my current death march playthrough I struggled a bit in parts. Guess my Geralt build just doesn't transfer well.

[worm_master]

Not very, with Ciri's blink option, which lets u blink though people, you dont really have any excuse for being hit, further more, I'm on NG+ on deathmarch, and I'm breezing though the fight's with Ciri, if anything they are easier then b4 the update

[Burak]

I'm really frustated at killing witches. Spend 1 hour to kill them (changed difficulyt to just story)

[spankautheros]

What? She's op af, even on the highest difficulty. Skill issue I presume.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Ciri has a much smaller repertoire than Geralt's.

Not even having any bombs is a pity, like Dancing Star might have sped things up a bit.

[Carbohydrated Caretaker]

Originally posted by Goldias:

Yes, in NG+ This is even worse.
There are mods that increase her stats to make it less frustrating though.

If I remember correctly, after a few story (not sure which one) she'll gain ability to use charged heavy attack that charge straight into her enemy. It will make any fight much easier.

yeah having this issue in NG+

[worm_master]

Originally posted by Noir:

What? She's op af, even on the highest difficulty. Skill issue I presume.

Not so much lack of skill, more like the reflex's of a snail.. I wonder how many folks bother to actually "LOOK" at what their fighting?

Their moves are repetitive an choreographed, I.E when you see their stamina bar going down, it's 100% GT'd their about to launch a offensive/counterattack..

I.E A ghoul backs up, then it's stamina bar go's down, then it leaps....

[bartholomew]

its not skill issue if u have like 100 level fighting enemies level 105+ sometimes siri's hit do ♥♥♥♥ all againts the enemies i was fighting whoreson's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ minions for a solid 49 mins until i managed to get thru em on my ng+ not dying mind you just mindlessly attack dodge attack dodge ♥♥♥♥ is wack as ♥♥♥♥