How to get all of Geral’ts secret passive abilities

Overview

This guide will show you all missable passive abilities of the game. There’s a lot of these things hidden throught the game, like a ability to improve your weight capacity. You can start getting these right in the prologue. This guide DOES NOT CONTAIN SPOILES. Every spoiler will be inside a spoiler tag like this and be related to the current chapter.

Prologue

In order to unlock some of these abilities, you MUST begin these tasks in prologue, or you will lose the chance to get them forever. A few of them are obtainable in later chapters, but are harder to do, like finding 12 trainning dummies.

Destroy over a dozen training dummies. There are 5 dummies in foltest’s camp right at the prologue. This can help you get the rest of the dummies faster in chapter 1. Dummies location:

• Two dummies in Flotsam’s gate near the Craftsmen District / Non-human Quarter. (Two near the northern exit and another two near the southern exit)
• Two dummies are in Flotsam’s guardhouse (consider saving the game before you draw your sword since the guards can cause you trouble).
• Two posts are in Loredo’s Garden, but you need to side with Roche in Death to the Traitor to use weapons in that area.
• Two dummies are in the Temerian Quarter in Loc-Muinne.
• The Order of the Rose has two dummies in their camp outside Loc-Muinne.

*MS-DOS said that you only need to do this 1 time.
Incur the “Burning” status effect more than a dozen times.
You can do it in every campfire of the game, but there’s one right at Foltest’s camp near a health regen buff.
Use queen to cut the burning status

*MS-DOS said that you only need to do this 1 time.
Interrupt Geralt’s animation multiple times while he is disarming a trap. You just need to use your medallion while desarming a trap.

You start the game with a fire trap, just put on the floor and keep desarming and using medallion before Geralt disarm it

During the assault on La Valette Castle, after the ballista cutscene, you can find a dead white-robed assassin (Easter egg from Assassin’s Creed” in the courtyard near a messy pile of hay in the yard’s corner. Inspecting the corpse will earn this ability.

Spare Aryan La Valette and help him escape the La Valette’s dungeon.
Some people say you can get this ability by losing a fistfight

Kill a dozen (or more) archers by redirecting their arrows back to them. Simply hold block and wait for them to shoot. This ability requires the expenditure of two talent points in the “redirect arrows” Witcher Training skill tree. (i personally don’t like it)

WARNING: SPOILERS Condemn to death or personally kill three major or side characters (Aryan La Valette may be your first victim) . For Roche’s side on Chapter 2: add Adam Pangratt and King Henselt to Aryan’s corpse . For Iorveth’s side: add Adam Pangratt and Prince Stennis.
OBS: I don’t recommend trying to unlock this ability, you have to do a lot of choices that are not worth it. Just play your game, do it on NG+

Earned by landing a successful riposte a few dozen times. Requires expending at least one Talent point in the Riposte ability on the Swordsmanship skill tree in order to use Riposte.

Get poisoned more than a dozen times. You can achieve this by using Devil’s Puffball bomb. Use quen to stop poisoning

Chapter 1

Remain under Triss’ protective forcefield all the time during Rough Landing in Chapter 1.

Defeat Ves in a knife throwing contest during the party at the Blue Stripes hangout in Chapter I. It’s the building next to the inn/brothel; the task is available after the event where Geralt meets Sile the sorceress on the docks.

Convince the merchant to double the fee by using the Axii sign during The Kayran: A Matter of Price quest in Chapter I. You get the ability after defeating the kayran and picking up payment from the merchant

I don’t recommend doing this, you’ll lose one of the best part of the game, i’ll write here but just don’t read, the bonus isn’t enough. During The Rose of Remembrance, refrain from seducing Triss in the Elven Baths and use the Aard Sign on the weakened wall to free yourselves.

Create the Mongoose potion and drink it so it takes effect during the battle with the kayran (i heard that if you drink anytime before the battle, you’ll get the bonus too)

Awarded when visiting a shrine in Chapter 1 in the swamp outside Lobinden.

Use the shrine (there is a corpse with a book nearby, the book contains an easter egg about this ability)

Chapter 2 (iorveth path)

Examine the body in the catacombs during “With Flickering Heart” quest in Chapter II.
Remember to buy surgical tools from Felicia Cori in Rhundurin

Complete The Harpy Contract quest during Chapter II (Iorveth’s path).

Sneak through the camp undetected during the “Where is Triss Merigold? quest, near the end of Chapter II. Read the name of the quest only if you are near the end of chapter 2 but don’t worry, you’ll probably know which camp is it.

Chapter 2 (Roche’s path)

Slay two golems. Keep in mind that there are more than 2 golems hidden through chapter 2.

Golem location are probably spoilers, I’d recommend reading It only after beating the game to preserve your experience. In any case:

• in the sea cave under the Kaedweni Camp;
• in the Kingslayer’s cave;
• and during the Siege of Vergen.

Chapter 3

Awarded when visiting a shrine in Chapter 3 outside of Loc Muinne.

you need to go to the tunnel near 2 guards

Thanks to Sgt. Killdrax for the screenshots

Earned by completing The Gargoyle Contract in Chapter III.

Credits

Most of the content is found in [link] and in [link]. This guide was made to simplify it and cleary show how to get all of the abilities. Also, these sites are intended for people who already have beaten the game, because it does not hide spoilers. Some of the spoilers, i have hiden in a way that it’ll not ruin your “choices experience”, so you can play the way you want without having the experience ruined.