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I'm having some trouble beating Leo's ghost when he appears after placing the skull below the village's church. It is NOT a matter of damaging him, I can handle him quite easily actually.. but: when I hit him, I take damage myself.

And quite a lot.. I go in, use my potions, etc. and then whack away with him almost unable to land any hits -- but then I die for some reason as I get damaged when hitting him?!

It's getting pretty frustrating.. anyone else having this problem?

(Also, I should mention that I'm running the Full Combat Rebalance (FCR) mod in its current version.)

Any hints appreciated :/
This question / problem has been solved by bengeddesimage
I doubt you're damaging yourself. Probably what's happening is he's damaging you while you're attacking and he's just not doing an attack animation. This can happen in vanilla TW1 but it's almost never visually obvious. In FCR this mechanic becomes much more obvious and you will often find yourself getting hit, stunned, bleeding, etc., while an enemy isn't even close to you and hasn't performed an attack animation.

It's a known issue listed in the FCR manual and one of the major reasons I don't recommend FCR to people.
So basically if you just stand around and don't do anything you can even take a cup of tea while Leo tries to kill you? If that's the case, then simply take a swallow before the fight, hit him, regenerate, hit him, regenerate, hit him... If it's not the case, then he's simply killing you because of the mentioned bug. Then maybe you should try and use a specter oil.

Didn't the FCR manual say that button-mashing was way less effective in the mod? I remember something like that at least.
Ah ok, then the FCR bug is probably what happened.. in which case this fight seems unusually hard. I was of course using the appropriate spectre oil, together with a swallow, the combat boost (forgot the name) and the one that regenerates the "mana" (not up to my Witcher lingo it seems ;)

I did not mash buttons, but took care to use the fast style in a way where I keep up the combo. This works very well for a while.. and then he simply decides to kill me and I die in a few hits while I'm still doing my combo.. he should not be able to hit me while I slash him up..?

Would be great news if I'm simply lacking the skill, but I'm not sure what other options to exhaust here? Game-wise I am near the end of Act I. Don't think I missed many quests, so I should be able to take this guy..?

In fact I haven't touched the game since, and that's a real shame.. want to finish it and then go directly to the second one o_O
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Pantalaimon: Ah ok, then the FCR bug is probably what happened.. in which case this fight seems unusually hard. I was of course using the appropriate spectre oil, together with a swallow, the combat boost (forgot the name) and the one that regenerates the "mana" (not up to my Witcher lingo it seems ;)

I did not mash buttons, but took care to use the fast style in a way where I keep up the combo. This works very well for a while.. and then he simply decides to kill me and I die in a few hits while I'm still doing my combo.. he should not be able to hit me while I slash him up..?

Would be great news if I'm simply lacking the skill, but I'm not sure what other options to exhaust here? Game-wise I am near the end of Act I. Don't think I missed many quests, so I should be able to take this guy..?

In fact I haven't touched the game since, and that's a real shame.. want to finish it and then go directly to the second one o_O
It's not a bug it's just the way the game is made: Geralt's attacks don't stop the opponent from attacking, they just stop the attack animation. FCR just makes this happen much more often and more noticeable. Quote from the manual:

"Sometimes while attacking an opponent, he can damage us without the attack animation. This is not a bug, only the game mechanics. In fact the opponents are carrying out an attack, but since Geralt’s animations have priority, Geralt’s animations cancel the opponent’s attack animations."

I hope this isn't your first playthrough of TW1 because you may be in for a lot of frustration and tedium. This mod gets presented and recommended by people as a bunch of much-needed fixes when at its core it's really a totally subjective, radical overhaul of all the game mechanics. Definitely a mod for a second playthrough or later.

If vanilla Witcher was too easy I would say use FlashMod (same author) instead - it ramps up the difficulty, fixes some imbalances and adds many of the optional great features of FCR (Infinite stacking, camera mods, visible wounds etc.) without completely tossing everything about the vanilla combat, monsters and equipment out the window.
I know I'm necroing this thread but I just ran across the same issue tonight. I did however find another solution that didn't involve changing out my mods. I also use FCR. To kill Leo's ghost i used a torch. for some reason none of my sword hits were registering but I hit him about 5-6 times with a torch and he went down!

I hope this helps those that are having the same problem.