Witcher 3 All MUTATIONS Ranked! - Which Mutation Is Best? + How to Unlock Mutations

[@norzza]

What Mutation are you running? 😏

[@santanudatta2171]

I toggle between Euphoria and Second life.... depending on the fights I am having.....great video... 👍👍

[@KAKTAHK]

Metamorphosis rn

[@gurujii3795]

Metamorphosis

[@petmic10]

Piercing Cold

[@fiberwireandsilverballer]

I am not finished main story yet. I have not any problem killing enemies. So do u recommend to unlock mutasions before finishing game ?

[@danieltallon4316]

Conductors of Magic is actually really freaking strong. Anything that increases sigh intensity, adrenaline, AND weapon damage, all feed into sign damage.

[@ChristmasLore]

Yup. I had such a hard time binding my time and my points to get to 5, to unlock it! But I really wanted it, as I use ard and yrden quite a lot. ...but I loved Piercing Cold sooo much, why can't we run at least 2 or 3 mutation concurrently... Anyways, don't regret it, plus, once you go up in the tree, what are the chances you go back down to get it? I'm a baby gamer, level 5o, 165% signs, 115ooo as money goes, with a mix of Manticore & classic Wolf gear. Today I also unlocked Aerondigh (I had all but one virtue already unlocked by the time I got to "the ermit", just had to get my painting done for generosity- I listened to a video and didn't tip the pageboy, well, would have bought the painting anyways, choose the reclining position for my room). As for swords: I've got grandmaster for both Manticore & Wolf set, but honestly, before I got Aerondigh, I used 2 local swords I love really much and with overall better stats than the grandmaster ones: Ami and Fanette. (The french lore and reference, but also prejudices and clichés are strong in Toussaint)🎋

[@ChristmasLore]

Bu any chance, does any enchantement or other RuneWright stuff fortify this mutation? I've only unlocked the first level for the RuneWright, I don't care too much for his highest level stuff, from what I've seen in videos on this topic - people do definitely not agree, some love it, some think it's waisted money. But then, it's the same about our Casa, and I happen to love everything about it, so...

[@dreadpiratemo]

Have not experimented with CoM just yet. Currently running Meta after a fun run through PC w/forgotten.

[@SexLuthor]

@@ChristmasLoreno, runes and mutations are both different. There’s no way to upgrade a mutation iirc

[@ChristmasLore]

@@SexLuthor , I've now finished the game and replayed it on game+ (with the 2 DLC's), so...I know. I was a full blown mutant by the end ;)

[@jimmystrudel]

Of course Euphoria is #1. Was much more interested in what you had to say about the other mutations. Been using adrenaline rush in a Wolven set sign/sword build. Absolute blast.

[@norzza]

I really like Adrenaline Rush, one of my favorites!

[@rei8968]

It can be strongly debated. Metamorphosis is more useful now. With Metamorphosis set up correctly, you can use 5 decoctions and 8 potions running all the time. You lose a large chunk of attack and sign intensity that Euphoria gives, but you can use unlimited stamina if it's done right.

[@brahmantyoihsan5938]

​@@rei8968Can you explain more on how to activate 8 potions all the time? I know the five decoctions came from Metamorphosis, but how do you get the potion buffs permanent?

[@dreadpiratemo]

​@@brahmantyoihsan5938 delayed recovery

[@blank4142]

Downside with Euphoria is Geralt loses his toxicity face when you attack in-combat.

[@Vyrall-nk2xd]

You can counter attack many monsters. Wolves, Drowners, nekkers, ghouls, etc. So that mutation is useful for humans and the monsters that you fight 90% of the time

[@TheLateral18]

counter drowners is really hard though , a least for me

[@Vyrall-nk2xd]

@@TheLateral18 you can only counter their swipes, not their jump attacks

[@TEFFTPATTERN]

I played through this game 4ish times since 2015 and only learned you can do that on my 5th time playing this past month

[@gjdalupang4219]

Metamorphosis is quite OP on a sign build, easily grants you all decoction buffs in a few seconds, continual regen depending on your crafted decoctions, plus you rarely have to use potions anymore. damage wise, if you're going signs on metamorph, you don't have to bother with further increasing sign intensity since you're doing percent damage from aard, yrden and igni burns which finishes foes easily, disables foe movement, and you can just use quen to return high damage back at foes or another way to regain health. Euphoria just goes all damage, too reliant on decoctions and potions, it's quite bad for a sign build, but a must try on a melee severance build. piercing cold needs adrenaline now on its build now, and magic sensibilities' weakness is survivability if you don't have quen up at all times, and the magic crits on sign use feels weak since the main damage source from igni comes from the burning critical effect and not the wave of fire nor the flamethrower alt sign cast, the zap from yrden's alt casting, and adjusted damage on aard's percent based damage.

[@shanedsouza189]

Keep in mind that the damage of aard and yrden is increased by sign intensity

[@gjdalupang4219]

@@shanedsouza189 if you're spamming aard through the griffin armor you'll notice that each aard deals damage based on an enemy's current hp, sign intensity increases that maximum percentage but only by a little bit which will be shown at your stats screen from inventory, buffing up with the yrden sign bonus on griffin set will likely bump up sign intensity to around 300% if you also have sign intensity runes on your swords, which is quite enough to help you finish deathmarch difficulty. Having sign spam/faster stamina recovery is way better than increasing sign intensity.

[@Saberg]

I was using euphoria but switched to a metamorphosis build. I'm using the Ursine set with it and picked 7 decoctions to keep. I use 2 and activate the other 5. I'm pretty much unkillable and can easily whirl my way through crowds and rend bosses down. I use levity and cat school perk to help with stamina regeneration. I would rank it higher than euphoria even. It may seem cumbersome to activate the 5 decoctions... but you can axii Roach repeatedly before combat to get them all. Use the light school final skill to add effects to enemies or swords with poison/burn/bleed on them (e.g., viper silver) to add them simply by swinging light attacks. Very fun build and more than an Aard spam or drug addiction rage (euphoria).

[@OneLastScholar]

Cat School skill doesn't impact stamina regen, only Griffin School.

[@shanedsouza189]

​@@OneLastScholar Light armour has better stamina regeneration by default compared to other armour.

[@sreeravi25]

@@shanedsouza189 If you really want stamina, the griffin school adds 20% stamina if you wear all medium armor. Whereas the Light armor bonus is barely 2-3%

[@Trzebiat]

I really like Piercing Cold. Just Aard everything - Shockwave takes huge chunks of enemy health when they're at max since it's percentage based while Piercing Cold can instakill mobs, Yrden with Entanglement for finishing enemies. I don't even bother equipping swords at this point. Just pure signs. Did the whole NG+ DM playthrough like that.

[@WaterMelon-Cat]

Piercing cold got nerfed though, you have a 0% chance to freeze with no adrenaline points now

[@Trzebiat]

@@WaterMelon-Cat not a problem, there's general skill that makes signs generate adrenaline, combat skill that gives 1 adrenaline point at the start of combat plus superior maribor forest potion.

[@ChristmasLore]

Piercing Cold+ the potion that slows time down...even the biggest bandits lairs in Toussaint become a breeze 🎋

[@ChristmasLore]

​@@WaterMelon-Cat , it's freezing alright for me!

[@kamahhl]

Conductors of Magic should probably be #3 or even #2

[@FauxReal.]

It’s so op

[@DaiLLSpoken]

Tbh I dig the second chance mutation lol I love the animation it does, also I don’t know how some of y’all like to spam attacks or abilities or potion/decotions, takes the fun out of the game imo but to each their own. First death March new game plus play through and I love my balance out skill set/tree. Also just play with the regular Kaer Morhen armor with aerondight

[@afz902k]

I guess it's a playstyle thing, but I really hate drinking potions. I do it as a last resort, so any toxicity builds are instantly uninteresting to me. Signs and swords I love, so I'm definitely a spammer in that sense, just love to dish out damage as fast as possible while dodging. It is very fun to me

[@DaiLLSpoken]

@@afz902k not gonna lie my first 5-7 playthroughs I never looked at alchemy tree cause I didn’t understand it but now that I seen this one vid on KZbin called ‘alchemy almanc’ JEsus Christ I kinda missed out, BUT BUT I think alchemy is a late game or new game plus tree imo. I love using signs, but to add to your comment, I do too kinda don’t like using potions cause I kinda don’t like Geralt looking all toxic during cutscenes. Even on death March only potions I use is Rafford, swallow, tawny, sometimes/rarely thunderbolt, white honey to clear toxicity for cutscenes and bruh BLIZZaRD is for sure is OP. Not only blizzard slows the game but if you have three adrenaline points you can cast infinite signs or use moves that use stamina.

[@OneLastScholar]

Why use regular Kaer Mohren armor when you can use Viper Armor, which looks the same while being among the best?

[@TheLateral18]

11:28 that neker went flying jajajajajajaja

[@WaterMelon-Cat]

Idk about piercing cold. It was reworked and for example if you don’t have at least 1 full adrenaline point you have a 0% chance of freezing an opponent

[@norzza]

Fair, in the right build it's very rare to have 0 AP.

[@afz902k]

I usually have APs but even the increased damage is godly

[@nikolaynikolov9450]

Hi, Norzza. I'm new here! Spending around 2000+hours and multiple playtroughts on my favourite game EVER , Regardless off the nerf, Euphoria all the time for me! Great video and new subscriber!!!

[@nickdesanto6119]

Euphoria with Aerondight and ekimara potion. Mow down enemies with decent health boost. Just don't get one shot and you can outlast anyone.

[@tomashlavacek9463]

I went with cat eyes. The game is easy even on death march without NG+ that I purposely make it harder by not playing OP builds. Crossbow hybrid ftw.

[@chrisnewbury3793]

Agree. I just did a MQ run on Death March with low level gear, in first person, no fast travel, no lock-on, and with no HUD(mostly). I did check the HUD a few times during boss fights that lasted a long time, to make sure I was doing damage to them.

[@Fishens]

Thank you for a new video. You are one of the best the witcher youtubers!

[@norzza]

You are too kind!

[@dylantorres-brown5976]

I run Metamorphosis Hybrid Build with Cat and Griffin gear Cat Gear -Chest, Trousers, Gloves Griffin Gear-Swords, Boots So I get the 1st bonus from Cat and Griffin armor which are imo the best perks for a combat/sign combo build Then I have 7 Decotions in my inventory. I delete the rest since they're useless for my build Ancient Leshan Ekhidna Troll Forktail Succubus Water Hag Wraith I activate Leshen and Ekhidna before combat and let Euphoria active the rest You could swap out Troll and Wraith Decotions for 2 different ones but I'm on NG+ death March so I die really easily so that's why I have those

[@TheDrexxus]

Metamorphosis is my favorite. Euphoria is just too annoying. I don't want to have to pop multiple potions for every single fight just to make use of it. I feel like if you have to stop and meditate every couple of fights, it's basically like playing a bad class in a MMO that has to constantly stop and recover before it can keep going. My number 1 is hands down metamorphosis. I hand picked my 5 decoctions that I want active with it and don't have the rest to control what procs. I get healing from stamina usage, healing from sword attacks, faster stamina regeneration with sign use, etc. It's stupidly powerful because if you avoid most attacks against you, you just automatically heal yourself to full constantly. And if you end a fight when you aren't at full health, you can just spam a sign a couple of times to top yourself off. You can just axii roach to even proc the decoctions before a fight if you feel like it, but it's not even required because they stack up stupid fast anyway. The rest of my build is on pure sword damage and ursine armor. I kill anything in a couple swings of the sword and am nearly impossible to kill, it's so satisfying. And if you ever get in trouble in a fight, you can use something like axii as soon as possible to heal yourself back up at range. You kill fast and can't die, what more could you ask for? And the night vision is also very nice. Because of that, I no longer have any need to use cats eye potions in dark places since it provides the same night vision, which just further adds to the GO GO GO non-stop death machine playstyle that never needs to rest of recover.

[@bennykvindt7694]

I can use 3 decoctions by myself already and another 5 decoctions make me a unkillable god xD its so op. Especially with the bear armor you alre almost unkillable even in deathmarch. I mean i use 8 decoctions at the same time

[@benmoore8809]

I'm confused as to how Toxic Blood is worse than Retribution. The latter offers only a 30% chance to return a portion of damage. Toxic Blood always returns damage and the amount can get pretty high if you're running high toxicity, well over 100%.

[@mrmanners6260]

Euphoria is still broken, i agree with this. On my 2nd playthrough now. I didn’t know that I need to farm another witcher gear and they have title legendary on it until I found the feline silversword diagram when i was doing Philipa mission. I’ve been fighthing monster or human 20 levels above me and I thought it was because I’m playing death march difficulty. It’s getting boring when you are to overpower, just drink 2 - 3 decoctions to increase your euphoria stats ( --> stack the Aerondight damage -> Freeze the enemy with northern wind -> do the maximum rend. No matter how high the enemy levels are. You can probably one hit him with a single rend. Now I’m playing with Bloodbath instead. It’s more fun and challenging as you need to keep avoiding enemies from damaging you.

[@stefansibbes2440]

Also Cat Eyes is now actually viable since next gen patch. Id say if you go school of the cat you might want to take this mutation. Flood of Anger fixes all of your sign intensity problems and your attack power is already insanely high from synergy and all those combat skills.

[@harrierr628]

Good timing. I was going to do the Turn and Fave the strange quest.

[@norzza]

I knew it!

[@DavidSantos-ix1hu]

Build towards all the sword and adrenaline then grab the runeword for adrenaline on kill,that way your constantly amping your damage with adrenaline and magic and as your attack raises it dumps into your magic

[@ra3975]

I'm sure you weren't playing conductor of magic right because I'm absolutely imba, casting 360 Ard and 360 igni. Throw In a Yrden and quen for Insurance. Griffin gear ofc,

[@garrytalaroc]

Mutated skin is my favorite. It makes me tanky and not worry about dying. so i have to increase my damage to compliment it. For me it mutated skin plus bear set is the best build.

[@jimmystrudel]

Used that same set up for a while, fantastic build.

[@norzza]

Great setup, I did a similar thing for my Bear build :)

[@afz902k]

I've used that together with undying and fleet footed, very survivable build

[@alexjr28]

Favorite right now is a full Griffin set magic sensibilities sign build with entanglement. Yrden magic trap is really fun to use. Quick sign casting too.

[@brycecurtis9321]

Played the game for year and never knew that was mutations. I feel like an idiot.

[@Saint_Richey]

Didn't know I'd get blessed with a Starfox reference in a Witcher 3 video. I've probably heard "do a barrel roll" hundreds of times in game.

[@wladewig]

Metamorphosis is my favorite with the Manticor witcher set - then euphoria. I am interested to see if piercing cold has been patched, because it didn't seem to deliver on damage in the end game.

[@nickboy7919]

Smh at ranking Conductors of magic lower than magic sensibilities. Sign intensity starts to scale poorly in new game plus, whereas a flat damage buff to your signs is invaluable.

[@zach3332]

I was thinking the same thing. Been using it with my wolf armor on ng+ and you can really feel the damage boost. Makes a world of difference imo.

[@danieltallon4316]

Yes! Conductors of Magic puts all of my spell damage in the thousands. Nothing, not even Euphoria comes close!!!

[@OneLastScholar]

Conductors of Magic has the Sign damage of Euphoria without the bothersome management of Toxicity, crafting and potion drinking.

[@DavidSantos-ix1hu]

Btw if you can build heavy into crit (like using cat school) that crit magic mutation is disgusting,the damage to your swords and magic can go sky high.

[@MrSoda007]

I don’t know where to put my skill points in the combat line to do the last few mutations any idea guys

[@zoom-zip3473]

metamorphosis build is the strongest build bar none if you know how to use it it next gen its actually #1 without any competition

[@cgusiec7039]

0:47 listen closely to the music. doesnt that sound similar? xd

[@headshrunken]

Is that quest name a random ch-ch-ch-ch-changes reference?

[@juandiego8946]

How do I open those mutations? I just did the mutations and they are locked.

[@MrDigitop]

Personally, I'd have ranked Mutated Skin much more higher, yes it's kinda pointless if you are using Ursine, but it's a very valuable mutation for everyone else, not only it gives you more freedom with placing red and green mutations in the extra slots but when paired with Protective Coating and Razor Focus, it's a guaranteed 30% damage reduction on any fight, which is godly when wearing any armor other than Ursine. At the very least I would have been ranked it 6 or even in the top 5.

[@sfn3]

Very good thanks a lot 👍

[@lionelfloriani5634]

is there a cooldown for switching mutation? or maybe it's locked when you fight? By those questions I would like to know that if I'm fighting and close to dying, knowing that my current active mutation is X (anything except Second life), can I quickly switch to Second life and use its effect?

[@stefansibbes2440]

Mutated Skin+ Ursine+ Protective Coating+ Arachas and Ekkimara Decoction = Good luck trying to kill Geralt. Add Resolve and Undying Skills and you are invincible. Synergy, Killing Spree and Hunter Instinct will make up for not having Euphoria. Elation and Retribution for Enchantments. I would say its the best mutation since next Gen Patch, since you are 100% guaranteed to win every battle, and there's plenty of skills that can Boost damage high enough that you dont need Euphoria. That said, its a boring build whereas Euphoria make all your signs work well.

[@danieltallon4316]

My friend, please give Conductors of Magic another look. Because other than a perfect Piercing Cold build, it does the highest damage. I mean it. Put it together, oil and wield your sword, and have full adrenaline. I promise you, when you click on sign intensity, and look at your damage numbers, you’re going to see each sign listed for thousands of damage.

[@chuckparker3664]

Reading those numbers doesn’t take any consideration into the fact the sensibilities makes your signs crit for up to 600% crit damage. So that sign damage number you see is higher sure. But take the number times 6, and that’s what the signs will now be criting for. It’s not even close to as strong as sensibilities if your using igni. And for aard piercing cold the extra 7k plus damage it does scales based on enemy now and wrecks enemies completely

[@Qrexx1]

Wait... Sword damage bonuses like oils and adrenaline points count for CoM?

[@HumanAfterAIl]

​@chuckparker3664 conductors of magic can increase sign damage 10x+ WAY more damage than crits, which only happen 2/3rds of the time, further lowering magic sensibilities dps. Test it out for yourself conductors of magic is the best mutation for a pure sign build hands down

[@apostolosbrooklyn]

How to open all slots #12 after completing the mutant tress

[@Mohammed-AlShammari-1]

adrenaline rush mutation is not working with me why?

[@GentleSpyTF2]

Tbh sign builds have always been my go to because Alchemy builds just seemed way too niece, and pure Combat builds just seem too boring since oh look, I can insta-kill this enemy with a few swings or you just keep swingin' and swingin' and swingin' until everything's dead. Meanwhile Sign builds are just way more fun.

[@kida4313]

How do I best increase my crit chance?

[@ivanvoloder8114]

I realy like bloodbath. It works great in combination with whirl.

[@norzza]

Feline set + Whirl + bloodbath = Spin to win!

[@ivanvoloder8114]

@@norzza Well to tell you the truth I was actually useing Skellige armor.😁

[@TheLateral18]

something that took me a while to figure out was that you can only put specific ability on the 4 extra slots. if you keep unlocking mutation , would you be able to put any type of abilities on those slots. or the slots are lock to only what the mutation allows ? how do you make enemies explote ?

[@OneLastScholar]

Each mutation allows different types of slots, the video shows. Enemies can explode with skills, a mutation, and a Runewright enchantment.

[@time2time668]

Could it theoretically be possible to pair ursine armor with euphoria and make it effective? Just finished the main game on death march and moved on to hearts of stone and boy oh boy are the bosses tough lmao

[@rei8968]

Yes, you can do a build like that. Personally, I would use Ursine/Manticore chest Nilfguardian guardsmen gauntlets Manticore boots and trousers. with levity enchantment on chest.

[@aritrabandyopadhyay246]

Hi, can you make a video on monster trophies??..which is the best or which to use?.…...

[@norzza]

Depends where you at in the game. While leveling I'd run one that gives XP. Then switch to bonus gold.

[@aritrabandyopadhyay246]

@@norzza Can I sell those trophies, right?

[@OneLastScholar]

Yup. King of the Swine's Herd is the best because of the 15% gold but the EXP ones are valid.

[@AHONTAYO16]

Just saw your recommendations about stream elements mercury sponsorships,, just want to know, ist legitimate sponsorships or scam? Thanks waiting for your reply thanks

[@norzza]

Howdy, it's legitimate. I've worked with Stream elements in the past 👍

[@osamabinjovi1213]

Piercing cold.

[@Sebastian-gw3sk]

Theres no way you put Metamorphosis on number 5

[@shayasd9657]

fr

[@gurujii3795]

Because he don't know how to use metamorphosis

[@rifqihanief2909]

I wish more people try using metamorphosis. When combined with delayed recovery, it's amazing.

[@karlosgarcia3301]

No se te entiende nada. Copón!

[@dovahkiinslayer752]

Magic sensibilities P.S Will you make a guide on the Enchantments of the Hearts of Stone expansion?

[@norzza]

Not a bad idea, I'll see if I can come up with an interesting idea for the Runewright vendor :)