Best Witcher 3 Feline Armour Euphoria Build – Critical DPS Build

Today we’ll look at a powerful Witcher 3: Remastered build that uses the Feline Armour and the Euphoria Mutation to deal insane damage to enemies. This build is designed for Death March difficulty and will therefore work fine on lower difficulties, too. 

To fully replicate the build, you’ll need to be fairly late in the game and own the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine DLCs. However, you can work toward completing the build over the course of a playthrough and still get pretty good results along the way. This build is also perfect for New Game Plus, where you can use it to its full potential from the start of a new playthrough. 

Now we’ll look at how this build works and how you can make it for yourself. 

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Table of Contents:

• How to use this Witcher 3 Feline Armour Euphoria Build
• Armour and Weapons
  • Best Upgrades
• Skills and Perks
• Mutation
• Potions
• Gameplay Video

How to use this Witcher 3 Feline Armour Euphoria Build

This Witcher 3 Feline Armour Euphoria Build focuses on high attack power and critical damage, using a mix of red and green skills. 

We’re using the Feline Armour to increase our combat prowess, gaining a damage bonus when attacking from behind and more critical damage. We’ll include some effects to stun enemies, so you can easily circle behind them and do a fully charged  Rend, dealing massive damage.

We’re also using the Euphoria Mutation, which gives Geralt extra damage based on his current Toxicity level. Combined with plenty of Decoctions and Potions, this makes Geralt’s sword attacks extremely strong.

You can see how the build works in action in the Gameplay section.

Armour and Weapons for the Witcher 3 Feline Armour Euphoria Build

For our Witcher 3 Feline Armour Build, we’re using the Feline Armour. This is a light armour set of Witcher gear which you need to find the diagrams for and craft, and it can be upgraded as you level up. To unlock the full benefits of the Feline Armour (where you get additional set bonuses for wearing a certain number of pieces of the set), it needs to be upgraded to at least Mastercrafted tier.

We’re also using the Feline swords because they’re the only way to get the 6-piece set bonus, which grants an extra damage bonus when attacking enemies from behind.

To learn how to obtain Feline Armour and Swords, check out our Feline Armour Guide.

Weapon and Armour Upgrades

Here are the recommended upgrades for your gear:

You can find the Runewright in the far northeast of the Novigrad and Oxenfurt region, near the Upper Mill Signpost, east of Brunwich village. 

Skills and Perks for the Witcher 3 Feline Armour Euphoria Build

The table below shows the ideal order to unlock Skills for this Witcher 3 Feline Armour Euphoria Build, so you can start using the build from the moment you begin your adventure. The number in brackets indicates how many skill points to invest in each skill.

Skill	Explanation
Muscle Memory (x3)	Gives a helpful early-game buff to your fast attack damage, triggered by dodging.
Strength Training (x3)	Fast attacks increase the damage of your next strong attack.
Three Strikes (x3)	Your third fast or strong attack boosts the damage of the next attack of the same type.
Undying (x1)	Consume your adrenaline points to heal instead of dying. Only 1 point to progress down the tree.
Fleet-Footed (x1)	Reduces damage taken while dodging. Only 1 point needed.
Whirl (x3)	Hold the fast attack button to perform a continuous spinning attack that hits all nearby foes.
Rend (x3)	Hold the heavy attack button to perform a mighty attack that converts remaining stamina into extra damage.
Cat School Techniques (x3)	Each piece of Light Armour critical hit damage and fast attack damage.
Battle Frenzy (x3)	Increases critical hit chance per Adrenaline Point.
Efficiency (x3)	Lets you carry 3 more bombs in each slot. Useful for this build because we use bombs to stun enemies.
Hunter Instinct (x3)	At maximum Adrenaline Points, increase critical damage against the enemy type targeted by your active blade oil.
Acquired Tolerance (x3)	Each learned alchemical recipe increases maximum toxicity.
Tissue Transmutation (x3)	Each active mutagen decoction increases your maximum Vitality. Helps to give a bit of extra health, since we aren’t slotting any green mutagens.
Crushing Blow (x3)	A strong attack has a chance to increase the damage of the next two strong attacks.
Sunder Armour (x3)	Strong attacks sunder enemy armour, reducing their damage resistance. Stacks up to 3 times.
Crippling Strike (x3)	Critical Hits from fast attacks cripple enemies, increasing their damage taken.
Griffin School Techniques (x1)	We only need one point to unlock the next skill.
Metabolic Control (x3)	Increases your Maximum Toxicity
Synergy (x3)	Increases the bonus from slotted Mutagens. Slot red & green skills next to a matching Mutagen!

There are two ways to get more skill points: each time you level up, you will receive one, and the first time you interact with a newly discovered Place of Power, you’ll also receive one. 

Mutation for the Witcher 3 Feline Armour Euphoria Build

For this Witcher 3 Feline Euphoria Build, we’re using the Euphoria Mutation. This is probably the most overpowered mutation in the game, giving us a flat percentage damage boost to all of our sword and sign attacks based on our Toxicity level. 

This synergises well with our build since we purchased quite a few green Perks to increase our Toxicity limit. The best way to maintain a high toxicity level for a long time is to consume several Decoctions, since the toxicity from these doesn’t decay until the potion duration expires. 

Euphoria is the second mutation on the Green line, so in total you’ll need 6 spare skill points and 6 spare Greater Green Mutagens to access it. To unlock the Mutation system in The Witcher 3, you need to complete the quest called Turn and Face the Strange, which is part of the Blood and Wine DLC.

Potions for the Witcher 3 Feline Armour Euphoria Build

Here are the most useful alchemy items for this Feline Armour Euphoria Build. Take particular note of the two decoctions, which synergise together perfectly and should be kept active pretty much all the time to ensure you have enough Toxicity to gain a decent benefit from the Euphoria mutation.

Keeping these decoctions active at all times gives us a big damage boost thanks to the Euphoria mutation, plus extra damage bonuses from the potions themselves and passive healing whenever we dish out damage to enemies. 

You can also add other potions, such as Superior Swallow for healing,  Superior Thunderbolt for a bigger temporary damage boost, or  Superior Tawny Owl for increased stamina regeneration. Be careful not to push your Toxicity too high, though, or you will take damage over time until the extra toxicity decays – you lose the 50% damage buff from Water Hag Decoction even if you’re only 1 HP below maximum! Don’t stress too much about upgrading to the Superior potions; while they are worth making when you can, the basic and enhanced versions are still decent.

Feline Armour Euphoria Build: How to Play, with Gameplay Video

Here is a short gameplay video of the Witcher 3 Feline Armour Euphoria Build.

As you can see demonstrated in the video, the ideal combat approach is this process:

1. Stun or freeze an enemy using Triglav Runestones, Samum, Northern Wind, Axii or some other method.
2. Quickly move behind the enemy.
3. Ensure you have full or nearly full stamina.
4. Fully charge your Rend (hold down the strong attack button after slotting the Rend skill) and hit them with it from behind.

Ideally, do this combo while under as many buffs as possible.

Some of the most important buffs to include are:

• Euphoria – The more Toxicity you have, the stronger the buff.
• Attacking from behind – gives a damage bonus, enhanced by the Feline Armour 6-piece set bonus.
• Superior Thunderbolt Potion – gives another flat damage bonus.
• Blade Oils – Equipping the right one gives you another flat damage bonus.
• Water Hag Decoction – Make sure Geralt is at full health, and this decoction adds another 50% damage bonus.
• Red skills – If possible, working a couple of extra fast and strong attacks into the rotation can activate additional damage buffs from skills like Strength Training and Crushing Blow. Rend counts as a strong attack for this purpose.

You won’t be able to get all of these buffs all of the time, and honestly you don’t need to – the build is plenty strong enough even with just a Euphoria and the Feline Armour alone.

You also don’t have to use the rotation we outlined every time – this build packs a huge amount of melee damage potential, and you can quite easily focus on Whirl or just regular fast and strong attacks if you prefer, or a mixture of everything.

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