Posted June 01, 2016
There is a balancing issue on this quest. When the living stone statues come to life there are two mage combatants. As soon as they spawn you will be hit with there quick cast fire spell.(looks like a line that appears behind Geralt). Whats worse is that it's possible to die in three hits to this ability(with around 6000 Vitality @ lvl41). It is difficult to avoid this attack especially close range as the frequency of this attack increases for some reason. The damage, range and attack speed should be tweaked to make it less overpowered.
Side note:
I had a moment of luck and was able to skip having to kill them to advance the quest. I did this by running up the stairs. Quick saving whilst out of combat. i then died to the statues. when continuing from the death screen the game skipped to the dialogue where the statues were defeated. Although they were still in the background of the scene. Once the quest was completed all of the statues were still alive. when the scene was over they resumed attacking me with one of the mages killing me before i could move.
Other than this i am a few hours into the Blood and Wine and enjoying it thoroughly.
Side note:
I had a moment of luck and was able to skip having to kill them to advance the quest. I did this by running up the stairs. Quick saving whilst out of combat. i then died to the statues. when continuing from the death screen the game skipped to the dialogue where the statues were defeated. Although they were still in the background of the scene. Once the quest was completed all of the statues were still alive. when the scene was over they resumed attacking me with one of the mages killing me before i could move.
Other than this i am a few hours into the Blood and Wine and enjoying it thoroughly.