Side Effects is an ability in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt from the Alchemy tree.
Description[]
Level 1:
- Imbibing a potion gives a 20% chance of activating the effects of another randomly-selected potion, without additional Toxicity cost.
- Potion duration time: +5%
Level 2:
- Imbibing a potion gives a 40% chance of activating the effects of another randomly-selected potion, without additional Toxicity cost.
- Potion duration time: +10%
Level 3:
- Imbibing a potion gives a 60% chance of activating the effects of another randomly-selected potion, without additional Toxicity cost.
- Potion duration time: +15%
Level 4:
- Imbibing a potion gives a 80% chance of activating the effects of another randomly-selected potion, without additional Toxicity cost.
- Potion duration time: +20%
Level 5:
- Imbibing a potion gives a 100% chance of activating the effects of another randomly-selected potion, without additional Toxicity cost.
- Potion duration time: +25%
Tips[]
- The skill will activate a random potion when another potion is consumed. Any potion can be consumed for the effect to trigger, even one that is not a witcher potion, like Pops' mold antidote.
- However, this skill cannot activate more than 1 potion at a time, meaning that the previous potion must wear off first before another can be activated.
- The only exception to this rule is White Honey as it will activate the skill each time, but only because it will remove the effect of the previous potion.
- It is also possible to overwrite the previous potion with the same one in which case another random potion will be activated.
- This skill only seems to activate the "base" versions of potions even if all potions have been upgraded to "superior" levels
- The duration of the selected potion will also be at it's base level, meaning it will ignore the duration boosts provided by all alchemy skills including this one