Balisse fruit

The Witcher

Balisse fruit
Information
Type	Alchemical ingredient
Ingredients
Source	Grows wild
Value
Buy	12
Buy	12
Sell	2
Sell	2

Balisse fruit is an edible berry characterized by subtle magic resonance. The fruit is apparently poisonous unless soaked in alcohol first, after which it can be used for medicines.

Source

• Field Plants
• This is one of the possible entries acquired from the Old Women in the Outskirts in exchange for food during Chapter I.
• Pick as many as you need in Chapter I, as this fruit becomes rather scarce in Chapters II and III.

The Price of Neutrality premium module

• In the module, this is known (and labelled) as Balissa.

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

Balisse
Alchemy ingredient. Contains vitriol
Information
Category	Common
Type	Alchemical ingredient
Ingredients
Source	Grows wild Purchase
Weight	0
Regular Value
Base	11
Base	11
Haggle	9
Haggle	9
Sell	1
Sell	1

Balisse grows wild all over. Merchants who sell balisse include:

• Anezka in Lobinden
• Vilmos Bartok in Flotsam
• Mottle outside Vergen
• Sambor in the camp followers' encampment
• Myron in the Kaedweni camp
• Relic peddler in the Kaedweni camp
• Felicia Cori in Vergen or Loc Muinne
• The Incredible Lockhart in Loc Muinne
• Marcus in Loc Muinne

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Balisse fruit
Used in alchemy.
Information
Tier	Common
Type	Alchemy ingredient
Source	Loot Plant Purchase
Weight	0
Value
Base	2
Base	2
Buy	5
Buy	5
Sell	1
Sell	1
Item ID
Balisse fruit
Balisse fruit

Balisse fruit is an alchemy ingredient that is needed to craft the following items:

• Alcohest
• Enhanced cursed oil
• Earth elemental decoction
• Killer Whale
• Nigredo
• Superior White Honey

It can be found as random loot, gathered from plants, or purchased from the following merchants:

• Tomira in White Orchard
• Herbalist at the abandoned roadside shrine in White Orchard
• Keira Metz in Kaer Morhen, if she is recruited for the battle
• Merchant at the sawmill in White Orchard
• Wandering merchant during the epilogue in White Orchard
• All herbalists in Toussaint

Balisse fruit should actually be offered by way more merchants, including but not limited to every single herbalist, but is artificially restricted from doing so on the Novigrad/Velen and Skellige maps. The limitation applies whenever more than 3 of it are supposed to be present, and the likely intended logic is that any larger stack would just be reduced to that, but instead gets outright removed. This is also the reason why Keira only sells balisse fruit in Kaer Morhen and not while she's in Velen.

More merchants can also theoretically offer it by virtue of "randomly" selecting amounts lower than 3, but due to a separate randomization bug, that never seems to happen either:

• Herbalist in Glory Lane
• Gremist at Gedyneith, after Practicum in Advanced Alchemy
• Herbalist in Kaer Trolde Harbor
• Herbalist in Kvalheim Isle on Ard Skellig
• Merchant in Novigrad's Fish Market
• Otto Bamber at the Herbalist's Hut northeast of Oxenfurt
• The Pellar near Blackbough
• Wandering merchants around Velen and Novigrad, plus many generic merchants who use the same store
• Master Topical

Notes

• The described limitation is part of a wider concept to induce scarcity of some goods in the game, which was never fully developed, and unfortunately wasn't cleaned-up either. The mechanic actually applies to everything that can be considered a stack of a single item, not just merchant stores. It is sheer luck that balisse fruit almost never appears in quantities larger than 3 elsewhere, and the only other "item" affected are orens in than 100.