I decided to made my first playthrough with recreated Geralt and Yennefer. Including their characters, thanks to Larian for ton of discussable situations. So, pale dude with light armor and two-handed sword and just a bit of magic and alchemy, and girl with lot of air magic.
This sounds like a really awesome idea!
I have done quite a bit of theorycrafting on potential setups for my characters. The main question is what level of skill one can get to at level 20, which as I understand it is max, depending on you build.
Currently I am choosing between one of the two setups below for my first game:
Two multiclassed characters:Here my thought is to make a Ranger/Water/Earth/Witch and Knight/Fire/Air combo. I have done som calculations and it is possible to get all the skills to level 3 (spending 6 points on each), while also getting some utility in Nasty Deeds and Crafing/Blacksmithing.
However it will be impossible to get any skill to level 5, so high level spells will cost 4 extra action points to use, which is a lot. Also there is very few points to spare for extra weapon damage, armor specialist, bod building, and willpower.
*I did this in my last beta runthrough, and it was difficult at early levels, but really powerful after level 6 as the characters were so versatile.
Two specialized characters:Here I am thinking a pure mage combined with either a Knight or a Ranger. The mage will combo probably 4 of the 5 different spell schools, which means few of the schools will be at skill level 5, but 2 can which should be enough. A pure Knight will be a beast in melee combat, as warriors scale really well.
To be honest my character makeup might just end up depending on what type of companions I can get my hands on. So far we only know of Madora and Jahan, I would really like to get my hands on a Ranger/Rogue like companion and a cleric like companion (and preferably some with better personalities than Madora and Jahan ;-) )
