Talk:Swamp

Respawn Cycle for the Swamp Cave in Act II
The main XP generating creatures (cockatrices, kikimore warriors and workers) in Act III respawn once a day at midnight. So unlike the Graveir Sewer Crypt in Act II onward, which can be used continuously to level a character, you can't simply exit and re-enter the swamp or the swamp cave to continuously farm decent XP. But if you time your entrances and exits correctly, you can get at least a couple good runs in once a day. Cockatrices in particular yield spectacular XP, and just 3 or 4 runs in the cave as an young "Rising Witcher" can move you up a level. Even in the last level of a Rising Witcher I was getting 695 XP per cockatrice. I very easily went up four levels just from a few runs through the swamp cave alone during Act III.

With exception of the respawn cycle issue, the Swamp Cave is also much easier farm than the Graveir Sewer Crypt in Act II. The cockatrices can be easily killed with just two bursts of Igni, whereas Graveirs may take 3 or more, even at the same level. They also don't seem to hit as hard and don't seem to have knockdown. There are six cockatrices in the swamp cave, so as a Rising Witcher you will get approximately 700-800 XP per kill or 4200-4800 XP per 3 min run. That is a lot better than most quests, even if it limited to once a day.

It was quite easy to make it to the level of "Seasoned Witcher" long before the quests for Act III were completed just by knowing when the high value respawns occurred and farming them appropriately. Smaller creaters like drowners, drowned dead, and some bloedzuiger spawn much more frequently, but as a Rising Witcher drowners only yield 1 XP, drowned dead about 10 XP, and bloedzuiger about 15 XP and therefore are a waste of time other than to kill for alchemy ingredients. The midnight spawn also includes many more of the small creatures as well as the high value ones, but there is also a continous spawn of the smaller creatures throughout the day. Plant ingredients also have a much more frequent respawn cycle in the swamp, but of course, are also irrelevant as far as XP is concerned.

I have the enhanced PC version, so I can't verify the spawn cycle for any other platform. --Rpger 21:10, 5 July 2009 (UTC)