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This page describes the effects and points required to learn Rend, a Combat Skill from the game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Read on to learn more about this ability and find whether it is any good or not worth investing points into.

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Rend General Information

Rend Basic Information

Rend
Rend
Base Effect Deals additional damage in proportion to the Stamina consumed. Ignores enemy Defense and increases critical hit chance by 10%. Adrenaline Points increase total damage by 33%.
Adrenaline Point gain: +1%
Core Skill Strong Attack
Skill Branch Combat
Required Branch Points 20

Leveling Up Rend

Ability Effect
Rend 1/5 Deals additional damage in proportion to the Stamina consumed. Ignores enemy Defense and increases critical hit chance by 10%. Adrenaline Points increase total damage by 33%.
Adrenaline Point gain: +1%
Rend 2/5 Deals additional damage in proportion to the Stamina consumed. Ignores enemy Defense and increases critical hit chance by 20%. Adrenaline Points increase total damage by 33%.
Adrenaline Point gain: +2%
Rend 3/5 Deals additional damage in proportion to the Stamina consumed. Ignores enemy Defense and increases critical hit chance by 30%. Adrenaline Points increase total damage by 33%.
Adrenaline Point gain: +3%
Rend 4/5 Deals additional damage in proportion to the Stamina consumed. Ignores enemy Defense and increases critical hit chance by 40%. Adrenaline Points increase total damage by 33%.
Adrenaline Point gain: +4%
Rend 5/5 Deals additional damage in proportion to the Stamina consumed. Ignores enemy Defense and increases critical hit chance by 50%. Adrenaline Points increase total damage by 33%.
Adrenaline Point gain: +5%

Is Rend Worth It?

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Rend is sometimes worth investing points

We recommend investing into this ability if it works with the build you are running. Although this skill will not be quite as useful as some of the other skills, it certainly has its uses, and it certainly will not hurt to have. While it may seem a bit niche, you can invest into this skill if you have already built your more important skills, and have extra points to spend.

Getting this skill will allow you to deal a significant amount of damage against any enemy if they give a large enough opening to attack. While this skill deals a significant amount of damage the value is lessened since it takes quite a bit of investment to get and is primarily for heavy attack builds.

Conclusion

If your build focuses on using heavy attacks, then you should get this skill. Otherwise, this skill will not help you much since it relies on a heavy attack based build to be at its max potential.

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