Rend: Inflicts increased damage in proportion to used Endurance.
Crushing Blows: Increases critical chance of strong attacks by 2% and their damage by 15%.
Strength Training: Strong attack damage increase by 5%.
It allows you to perform strong melee attacks that ignore enemy armor.
Sunder Armor: Reduces enemy damage resistance by 5%.
Affected enemies lose 25 Vitality or Essence points per second.
Crippling Strikes: Fast attacks now also apply a Bleeding effect.
Maintaining the attack consumes Stamina and Adrenaline.
Whirl: A spinning attack that strikes all foes in the surrounding area.
Precise Blows: Increases critical chance of fast attacks by 2% and their damage by 15%.
Muscle Memory : Fast attack damage increase by 5%.
Preform fast melee attacks with either sword. These Skills will appear red when equipped. These abilities increase your offensive, defensive and crossbow Skills. Combat Skills in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt While all of this information can be overwhelming for new players, this guide will show them which skills are the most important for certain builds. Alchemy Skills improve potion-making, oil applications, bombs, and Mutagens. Signs are Geralt's magical skills and leveling these up empowers his abilities and stamina. Combat Skills are fairly self-explanatory, it focuses on Geralt's melee and physical attacks and defense. There is a secondary tree: General Skills. With so many different skills to choose from, players should focus on certain trees. The three main trees are Combat Skills, Signs, and Alchemy Skills that players will level up. Related: How to Beat Pesta in The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt There are tons of skills that players can choose from which branch out even further for another level of customization. At a glance, the skill tree in Witcher 3 can be quite daunting. As with most RPGs, the flexibility and complexity of the leveling and skill systems are key to draw people in. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of the most popular role-playing games (RPG) in recent times, and with the release of the new TV series, there are a lot of players trying it out for the first time.