How to Respec with a Potion of Clearance in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Buy a Potion of Clearance from a merchant who stocks it, then consume it to return spent Ability Points to your pool. Open Character, buy your new abilities, and place the ones you want to use into active slots. The merchant near St. Gregory’s Bridge in Novigrad is one option. The potion costs 1,000 crowns at the standard price.

1. Plan what you want to change

Decide why you want to rebuild Geralt before drinking the potion. A new setup can shift investment from sword attacks to Signs or Alchemy, for example. If you only want to use a different ability that you already bought, check whether it is in an active slot. You may be able to swap it into the build without spending a potion.

Write down your current setup if you want to compare it later. Include the abilities you have equipped as well as the points you spent. A respec lets you rebuild the purchases, but recreating the old layout is easier when you know which abilities and mutagens you were using together. Make a manual save if you want a separate point to return to before the reset.

2. Buy a Potion of Clearance

1. Go to Novigrad and use St. Gregory’s Bridge as the landmark for the merchant in Gildorf.
2. Open the merchant's stock and look for Potion of Clearance.
3. Check the name and price before buying. The standard price is 1,000 crowns.
4. Confirm that it appears in your inventory before leaving.

Keira Metz is another seller when her shop is available to you. If the Novigrad merchant does not fit your current route, check a seller you can already reach. Do not confuse Potion of Clearance with a different reset potion. Read the description and look for the one that returns points spent on abilities.

3. Consume the potion and rebuild the character

Open your inventory, select the Potion of Clearance, and use it. It is a single-use item. Open Character afterward and check the available Ability Points. Buy the abilities you want and watch for any prerequisites on deeper parts of a tree. If an ability you wanted is still locked, inspect its requirements before spending points elsewhere.

Prioritize the actions you use most. If you want to change to a Sign build, for instance, start with the Sign and supporting abilities you plan to use in your first fights. You can leave some points unspent until you know whether you need more damage, protection, or stamina support.

4. Put the purchased abilities in active slots

Check the slot layout after buying the skills. Purchased abilities generally need to be equipped in an active slot for their effects to apply. Drag or select them into the slots you want and check which ones are actually active. Review nearby mutagens as well if your new abilities change the bonuses you were getting from the old layout.

Test the result against a familiar opponent or in a situation where you can repeat the action you changed. If an effect seems absent, check the active slots before assuming the respec did not work. A skill can appear as purchased in the tree and still be missing from your active setup.

5. Fix a missing potion or a build that seems unchanged

If you cannot find the potion in the store, check the seller and their current inventory. Confirm that you are looking for the exact item name. If you bought it but see no difference, check whether you consumed it and then open the Character screen to see the point balance. Once you spend points again, verify the slots separately.

If you decide you preferred the old build, you can rebuild it with another Potion of Clearance or return to the manual save you made beforehand. Reloading also rolls back the progress after that save. If you only need to adjust a few choices, first check whether unused points or a change in active slots can cover them.

When comparing two builds, write down the few abilities that make each one work. You can spend the refunded points on those first, then decide where the remaining points are most useful after testing.