Premise:

If you've been looking around for post-B&W character builds, you will have noticed their common denominator: the Euphoria mutation—and with good reason: Euphoria is clearly the best for pretty much any build.

After a while I've grown tired of Euphoria builds, though; not because they aren't good, but because it felt like Euphoria was absolutely mandatory or your build would suck. I felt the need for variety without sacrificing too much in the way of power, so I picked my second-favorite mutation—Bloodbath—and decided to make it more competitive.


What it does:

I went about this by making a comparison table between Euphoria and Bloodbath that would help me identify the weak spots in the latter relative to the former, and this is what I came up with—

I had prepared a fancy table but for some reason my BBCODE won't display, so here's the next best thing:

• Euphoria: Grants a bonus equal to 0.75% of your current Toxicity to both Sign Intensity and Attack Power [4 decoction + 1 potion = 230%]
• Bloodbath: Grants a bonus that only applies to Attack Power, up to a maximum of 250%
• Solution: Increase the maximum bonus provided by Bloodbath from 250% to 300% to make up for the lack of sign intensity boost
• Euphoria: Provides an immediate bonus upon increasing your Toxicity score
• Bloodbath: Requires you to build up your bonus by landing hits (5% per hit up to 250% after 50 hits)
• Solution: Make Bloodbath's bonus build up quicker (10% per hit up to 300% after 30 hits)
  

• Euphoria: Bonus lasts for as long as Toxicity lasts, regardless of whether you're hit in combat
• Bloodbath: Bonus is lost when hit in combat, forcing you to build it up from scratch again
• Solution: Prevent Bloodbath's bonus from being lost upon taking damage
  

Installation:

Simply download the archive and unzip it in your Witcher 3/Mods folder.

If you don't have one, create it.

Compatibility:

This mod was built using 1.22 files and was tested extensively with 1.24.
To prevent Bloodbath from losing its bonus upon taking damage I had to comment out a few lines from playerwitcher.ws, a file touched upon by several other mods. It should be possible/fairly easy to merge them using AnotherSymbiote's excellent Script Merger.

Known issues:

Bloodbath's description still incorrectly states that your bonus is lost if you take damage, even though it is no longer true once the mod is installed.

Note:

The screenshot I'm using as a cover picture for this mod/page was taken from a game modded with KNG's More Blood and ramccoid's Blood, both excellent mods I recommend.

Bloodbath Rebalance does not alter the amount of blood spilled by your enemies or the quality thereof.