Talk:Enchanting/@comment-98.197.201.74-20180116153902

I invested the first 5,000 for one reason: Added Slots. That small investment opens the door to having the maximum number of slots on basic or enhanced gear, until Superior and Grandmaster gear is available  thousands of XP later : 3 slots on swords, 3 slots on armor, 2 slots on trousers, and 1 slot each on  boots and trousers. The slots can be used for ANY weapon runestones and armor glyphs. You can sacrifice them all for enchantments, but you don't have to. Three slots on a sword, with 3 of the same Greater class runestones - 5% each - yields an almost 1 in 6 chance of activating the matching stones. For example, I have one silver sword with 3 5% chance of freezing stones, for a 15% chance of freezing. I have another silver sword with three slots free, and several trios of stones waiting to be tried in combat. I am considering a third silver sword, and possibly even a fourth. My steel sword I enchanted with Preservation so that my grinding wheel and armor table bonuses never expire.

I invested the next 10,000 for Entanglement on my chest armor. Yes, it consumes three slots, but I still have four slots available across the rest of my armor. My current build uses a single 10% Greater Quen glyph for one of those four slots, with three 10% Greater Yrden glyphs taking the remaining slots.

My Geralt travels from Undiscovered Location to Undiscovered Location, usually on foot. I am never sure when I am going to encounter enemies that far exceed my level. I have found myself relying heavily on the Quen Tier 1 Exploding Shield and Yrden Tier 2 Magic Trap. With my Quen shield active, Geralt usually has enough time to kneel and set the Magic Trap before his Quen Shield breaks. Magic Trap makes cleaning out huge groups of hostiles much easier. Adding Entanglement improves that feature.

I may invest the next 15,000 to afford two intriguing possiblities: the Greater Glyph of Reinforcement providing 100% durability and a seond set of matching chest armor with Eruption, which would go really well with Igni Tier 2 Firestream.

Fighting monsters way above my level really chews up my swords, so a lot of my weight is tied up in carrying repair kits. Some quests lock Geralt in to one battle after another when it is not feasible to leave the area to repair weapons and return, so I chew up a lot of weight capacity carrying surplus repair kits. A single boss way above one's level can whittle one's sword to pulp if one survives long enough. Perhaps when I have sufficient mutagen slots open and multiplied effects, I will sacrifice one armor slot for a  Greater Glyph of Reinforcement.

