Better Combat Enhanced

The good old Better Combat for Witcher 2 has come to this new chapter. A mod that strives to create a better gameplay experience for what it concerns combat, with changes to rebalance the difficulty curve in the game, improvements on combat dynamics, tailoring of skills so that all of them are useful with no clear overpowered choice that put all the others to shame, and so on and so forth.

The enhanced version introduces new changes in the tree layout, for a substantial revision of the gameplay giving more freedom to players in the creation of their preferred builds and some modification and balancing on skills that was no possible before. Also a slightly slower XP curve is introduced in this version, to counter the problematic in the vanilla game of leveling too fast in the last third of the game.

NOTE: Better Combat Enhanced requires a start of a new game.

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How to play with the mod (important if you are a newcomer):

=============================================================================================================== [*]Use signs actively during a fight, always! Mechanics in Better Combat are changed over the vanilla game. The most important overhaul is the way signs works and their altered function in the gameplay. Learn to use signs intermingled with attacks as the two alone will not be enough in the majority of situations to successfully win a fight. It is very important that you accustom yourself to this very important change as elsewhere you will not appreciate the mod truly. Always use signs as a support during encounters, either to stagger, protect yourself or do some damage along sword attacks; they cost much less to cast now, so don't be afraid to use them as often as you can! This difference is what turns Better Combat much more dynamic in gameplay than vanilla, where you are usually stuck with one strategy for all fights. I cannot stress this enough: tie signs to quickeys (as described in the signs section) and use them often during a fight, depending on the situation at hand (for example Aard to stagger enemies to then attack freely; Yrden to slow them down so you can escape a difficult situation or relocate yourself to do huge backstab damage; Igni to do damage along sword attacks; Axii when you have the opportunity - usually not in group situations - to stun an enemy and do with it whatever you want). Differently from vanilla you don't need to invest a lot of skill points in the signs tree to be able to cast signs intermingled with attacks, you can do it from beginning (as it should be imo), so use this change to its f