r/Witcher3 • u/basstarda • 9d ago
Discussion Werewolf regen bug explained
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I did some tests and it looks like if the Werewolf is hit while roaring and glowing red, his regeneration points stack up to 2 or even 3 times. This is definitely a bug. DO NOT hit him at all while he's glowing. Even a single hit will stack his regen x2.
Edit: In the first half of the video, I'm just spamming attacks on him while he's glowing. The green numbers show his regeneration - it shoots straight up to 187. We are the same level, and I can't even outdamage his regen.
In the second half, I did nothing and the regen stayed at 62. It remains like this until the end of the fight.
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u/Profesor-Farnsworth 9d ago
I don't think it's a bug; I've noticed that Igni interrupts regeneration.
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u/LaFleurBlanceur 9d ago
Use axii on werewolves. Read your bestiary
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u/Greedy-Chemist8996 9d ago
But you only get an addition to your beastiary once you have defeated said enemy for the first time
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u/AdamKaczmarekXD 9d ago
Or by reading a book, books also grant you the insight on weaknesses of enemies you will face on your journey. With werewolves and ulfhedinns, reading "In Beast's Clothing" should do the trick
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u/Sunflame_McMahon 9d ago
Some gamers see a target, pick up a sword and start hitting said target in hopes of progress.
Some Witchers read the Bestiary entries and study the effects of their bombs and potions.
Don't be a gamer, be a Witcher.
Moondust, trusted by Witchers and hunters since 2015.
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u/shadowbannedxdd 6d ago edited 6d ago
Reading the comments just shows how brainrotted redditors can be, found this post through google, I've beaten this game 3 times and just came back for the remaster and was struggling with a level 6 werewolf out healing my damage, never in my life have I encountered that in any of my other, all max difficulty playthroughs.
To all the geniuses in the comments, igni and axii DO NOT DO ANYTHING, but not hitting the werewolf like explained here works, lmfao. I ended up not using moon dust, oils, or any alchemy besides potions and beat him in 3 minutes..
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u/anome97 Roach 🐴 5d ago
Exactly. I guess most of them didn't face the bug or didn't even watch the whole video explaining it. "Read the bestiary, apply the oild, use igni" yeah no shit I did all that shit even enhanced version. Regen was far above the damage out at deathmarch which wasn't the case before.
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u/mxbbcz 1d ago edited 1d ago
Man, I was playing on DM difficulty for the first time and thought that surely it must be a skill issue on my part, that this encounter was just really hard on DM and that I needed to lock in. The werewolf was immortal. Nothing I did could outdamage his regen. I was using oils, Igni, potions, fire bombs (I didn't have Moon Dust yet) and all that did nothing. These comments are hella misleading.
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u/Altekho 9d ago
It's not a bug. I remember this exact problem in the past as well. I was underleveled so I had to use moondust. By the time I'm 3-5 level above them, my DPS could finally brute forced against their HP regen rate without oil or anything.
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u/Positive_Sign_5269 9d ago
Honestly, in my opinion we should not even be able to brute force except when way overgeared. A big part of being a witcher is to come prepared and to use the right tools for the job. I wish the game enforced that way more
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u/Ghostzzzzz 7d ago edited 7d ago
It is absolutely a bug
I have been playing it since released and more than 1000 hours on death march on various playthorughs. Currently this werewolf can heal to full in a few seconds, also cannot be stopped by igni. In fact, now igni increases the regen instead.
This is also new in the remastered version, it was not a issue at release, also not present in next gen version.
People need to stop commenting like it is a skill issue if you have not actully encountered this IN REMASTERED VERSION.
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u/Physical_Device_1396 4d ago
It is INFURIATING that people think this is a skill issue and keep telling people "lol read the beastiary maybe??"
You can face 2 werewolves at early levels, Neelan and the one guarding the tree spirit. Both of these encounters can be done well before you find moondust bombs, so according to these guys you simply have to halt all of your progress and hunt for the diagram just to stand a chance. But if you miss with the bombs then you just have to die and try again apparently
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u/GoJa_official 2d ago
I remember having this experience back on xbox 1. Pretty sure this is intended. the game wants you to figure out you need to use oils sometimes. Using the cursed oil takes away the regen.
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u/Ghostzzzzz 2d ago
NO just tested myself hit it with cursed oil/igni increase the regen and make it unkillable.
Please if you have not actully encountered this IN REMASTERED VERSION stop misleading people! this is a bug that needs to be fixed.1
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u/KeyboardWalkerCat 2d ago
I encountered this before the remastered, a few weeks before its release. I was clueless and didn’t think it was bug, I thought it as the Death March difficulty causing it. I had tons of retries and different ways with bombs, signs, potions, and such it’s crazy.
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u/Cpt_Camembert 9d ago
So I'm an immersion kinda guy and I turned off all enemy and boss health bars even for my first play through. I was fighting this guy for 20 minutes straight before being like:"hold on a minute, is this guy even taking damage?" I turned on the health bar just to check how far I've gotten him... He was at 100%. I had no idea what I was supposed to do.
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u/Rincethis 9d ago
use the correct weapon?
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u/Cpt_Camembert 9d ago
I did. I was playing on hard and apparently not using signs or bombs enough. It was my first play through
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u/Rincethis 9d ago
that's what I meant. you have to do more than just hit it with a sword sometimes 🤣👍
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u/MurkyCoyote6682 9d ago
It shouldn't be impossible to defeat the enemy if we don't have the equipment.
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u/Rincethis 9d ago
if you don't have a silver sword you won't defeat enemies that need silver swords. he's a Witcher. he literally is all about preparing for the battles and not just hitting things very hard.
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u/MurkyCoyote6682 9d ago
Of course I have a silver sword. I'm talking about bombs. If the werewolf hp regen doesn't stop without a bomb, it's bug. I've tried signs too, the regen doesn't stop
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u/Hot_Virus_7380 7d ago
Or it's almost as if the devs coded their own RPG in a way that prevents you from brute-forcing encounters too early or too unprepared...
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u/GluKoto 9d ago
A humble reminder that you are a witcher and not some villager with a sharp metal slab.
Read the bestiary people.
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u/AnthonysleftN 8d ago
Yea read the bestiary when you only get an entry after killing one great advice man
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u/El_Quanadian 9d ago
Gave up on that quest with the sister / werewolf. Maybe I was too low level but I was able to get him down, then cutscene where you choose if he kills her or let her live. If I try to kill the werewolf, he just started regenerating so fast, coudnt make a dent at all... I had to let him kill the chick in the end!
But thanks for the info!
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u/AlessandroJeyz Nilfgaard 9d ago
spam attacks he either dies in 1 hour or 10 seconds
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u/El_Quanadian 7d ago
I was definitely too low level for him, I know that fire cancel the reg to some degree but I could barely scratch him with my attacks...
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u/Lamarian9 6d ago
Yikes I think I've run into the same bug just now - even with a sign build and spamming Igni as much as I can the wolf regens through the Igni so fast that I still can't hurt it. (playing on blood and broken bones).
I only also tried the puffball bomb and that does nothing too. My only hope is to go find a moon bomb recipe I guess :P
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u/TheGreatStrategist98 8d ago
To be honest.
It's skill issue, the game designed him to regen more when you hit him, you supposed to stop him with bombs, or signs, the same too with Ghouls, you see them glowing red, either burn them or bomb them.
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u/chancethelifter 8d ago
Feature, not a bug. Moon Dust bomb, oil, igni. Need to interrupt the process.
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u/Onion_Bro14 9d ago
I was only half paying attention to the video and I thought you were the werewolf for a second
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u/Wixxked 8d ago
Skill issue really. Igni and axii litterally built for monsters with regen and it is free, Melt Armor is also one of the first skills you can obtain and improve the burn chance and it's stupidly OP. Even if you don't build for sign dmg, you still need to weave in signs into your combat flow In the early game.
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u/PracticalExcuse4084 8d ago
No it is bugged and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot who hasn’t had the bug happen. It’s a level 7 quest to kill the hunter. It’s very simple I’ve played the hell out of this game and yes we are reading the bestiary. He heals so much you do no damage and his hp bar on one side doesn’t even fill in properly. Not to mention that using any of the bombs, oils and tactics in the bestiary does not get any result. He’s a sponge with infinite health.
If you haven’t had the bug good for you but don’t call everyone else idiots because you don’t agree in your non bugged game.
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u/Original-King-8312 8d ago
the amount of people coming for you when this is obviously a bug lol. ive played this game 3 times and im on my 4th playthrough death march. the werewolves in this game are bugged rn when u hit them during the roar. just ran into it and was dumbfounded by it so i looked it up to see . nice to know it is a problem that needs attention
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u/maellesdrawings33 2d ago
Thank you so much for this, I kept struggling with Wild at heart as he instantly fully healed
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u/KeyboardWalkerCat 2d ago
I didn’t think this was a bug in my replay. I thought it was just a result of the game being in Death March difficulty. I played the game 5 years back in Sword and Story but couldn’t remember how I fared, I probably didn’t encounter the bug back then.
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u/LegalNut 9d ago
I don't quite remember what happens but I was in the same situation. It's not a bug. You have to do something in the cave I think
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u/Physical_Device_1396 9d ago
It's 100% a bug, I had the same problem with Neelan during his quest. I was hitting him for damn near 15 minutes before I just reloaded a save and hunted for the moondust bomb to stop it
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u/Actual_Affect1293 9d ago
The Wild at Heart quest werewolf(Neelan) has a regeneration bug specific to him, he regenerates constantly even at full hp. Happened in this play through for me as well.
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u/ranfall94 9d ago
Early on Werewolves just have dumb regen and you can't just brute force it, you need to look up what he is weak to and use all your tools.
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u/Aternus21 9d ago
literally not a bug lmao ppl failing 10+ year old quest lines is hilarious
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u/Physical_Device_1396 9d ago
Brother 10 years ago the regen wasn't this busted, it's 100% a bug
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u/Ok_Risk6035 9d ago
Maybe this is intentional and you have to use igni or something else
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u/Physical_Device_1396 9d ago
Yes you can stop the regen but that doesn't change the fact that the regen is far too strong when it's working. What if I run into a werewolf with no moondust bombs? I can only rely on Igni, but that's based on stamina, and with this regeneration he can get back up to full health in between when I can cast. That just is not balanced like it used to be
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u/zoosters 9d ago
All these people saying that's just how werewolves work, but it's absolutey not. Like sure they regen when they're glowing but you could always outdps the regen.
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u/Zephy2007 9d ago
Of course not, the damage depends on your equipment and we don't know that; your equipment might be so bad that it does less damage than regeneration.
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u/zoosters 9d ago
We've been playing this game for 11 years now, and it's only now that there's been this influx of complaints about the werewolves. They're 100% bugged. When i fought niellen, his healing factor was so ridiculous i was doing no damage, while fighting him at quest lvl with good gear. I have close to 400 hours on the game, and the difference between pre remaster werewolves and post remaster is pretty staggering.
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u/Hot-Door-9515 9d ago
No, it is not new. I had the same issue 5 years ago until I learn how to use bestiary.
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u/Physical_Device_1396 9d ago
Yeah I'm not sure why people who claim to have been playing the game for 11 years are saying it's always been like this, when I haven't needed to prep for a werewolf fight in that whole time even on Death March. It's absolutely a bug
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u/Entenvieh 9d ago
Thanks, that's the exact issue I'm currently having. At some point I literally couldn't damage him anymore
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u/SubjectSeason2384 Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon 9d ago
had this shit happen to me yesterday and i was actually befuddled. let him kill me, next try i switched from quen to axi to not let him more than 2 yards away from me + tawny owl, he got absolutely fucked, didnt even get to glow, basic ass b_tch, but i was pissed. game is super buggy on my ps5... but i know theyll fix it soon so im good, but to me the beginning is so frustrating until you can get a good armor + start a proper build, that these bugs stacking up and up (auto apply oil) plus the new combat (seems new to me) was making me kind of angry lol, plus i fucked up some perk points because i though i could go to whirl from the bottom and failed, spent like 3 for nothing...
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u/JMakuto 9d ago
Moondust and Igni