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Mutagen Properties ♦

Mutagen Usage ♦

The Witcher 3 Mutagens List

Mutagen Properties

Regular Mutagens

Mutagens have different effects depending on their color, with Red ones providing a percentage bonus to Attack Power, Green providing a flat bonus to Vitality and Blue providing a percentage bonus to Sign Intensity. Note that these colors also correspond tothe colors ofGeralt's main Skilltrees, Red being the Combat Skills, Green being Alchemy Skillsand Blue being Signs.Each color of Regular Mutagen comes in three tiers: Lesser, Standard and Greater.

Each tier provides a greater effect than the last. For example, the Lesser Red Mutagenprovides 5% boost in Attack Power, while the Red Mutagenand Greater Red Mutagenprovide 7% and 10% respectively. Only the Lesser version of each Mutagen color can be obtained as Monster drops, while thehigher tiers can be crafted via Alchemyusing 3 Mutagens of the tier below (i.e., 3x Lesser Red to craft a Red, 3x Red to craft a Greater Red). With the Blood and WineDLC, new crafting options become available, allowing you to transmute one color Mutagen for another color of the same tier using various Alchemy Ingredients.

Special Mutagens

Special Mutagens are named after the Monstertype they drop from such as the Alghoul Mutagen, which drops exclusively from Alghouls. Each color has a different appearance from those of Regular Mutagens.

These Mutagens have equivalent effects to the Lesser Regular version of their respective color and can be dismantled into such. However, they can be quite rare and are very valuable until you have crafted all of your Decoctionsso it is best to save dismantling any extras for later.

Mutagen Usage

In order to activate the effects of a Mutagen, Geraltcan slot it into one of 4Diamond-Shaped Slots on the Character Sheet.

Each of these slots is connected to 3 Ability Slots to which Geralt can assign his learned skills. Matching the color of a Mutagen to the color of the skills attached to its slot will increase the Mutagen's effect by 100% for each skill. For example, slotting a Greater Red Mutagenand then attaching 3 Combat Skillsinto its connected slots will provide a total of +40% Attack Power(10% bonus for the activated Greater levle Mutagen and another 10% for each skill of matching color slotted).

Not matching slotted skill colors with your Mutagens does not affect you negatively. It just simply does not provide the bonuses, but the Mutagen's effect by itself will still be active.

Note thatSpecial Mutagens can also be slotted to grant the same bonuses asRegular ones. However, their effects are equivalent to Lesser Mutagens only and are more valuable as crafting materials for Decoctions.

Finally, the Blood and WineDLC introduces the new Mutationsmechanic, which uses Greater Red, Green and Blue Mutagens to unlock mutations for Geralt.

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