Even-Odds achievement tip - take off your other sword if oiled
The Even Odds achievement calls for killing 2 contract monsters "without using signs, potions, mutagens, oils, or bombs".
But the wording is either badly written, or the implementation was incorrectly done - either way, this achievement has nothing to do with "using" and all to do with "equipping"
If you fight the Grave Hag contract for example, using silver sword with zero oil - and none of the other stuff - but leave your normal sword equipped with oil on it, you won't get achievement credit.
100% positive for swords - so you need to un-equip any sword with oil on it even if you don't use it in the fight.
Not positive about whether you need to take off bombs but I did so after finding out the above, as it seems the achievement mechanic is checking whether you equipped an of the verbotten items, not whether you used it or not during the fight.
The Even Odds achievement calls for killing 2 contract monsters "without using signs, potions, mutagens, oils, or bombs".
But the wording is either badly written, or the implementation was incorrectly done - either way, this achievement has nothing to do with "using" and all to do with "equipping"
If you fight the Grave Hag contract for example, using silver sword with zero oil - and none of the other stuff - but leave your normal sword equipped with oil on it, you won't get achievement credit.
100% positive for swords - so you need to un-equip any sword with oil on it even if you don't use it in the fight.
Not positive about whether you need to take off bombs but I did so after finding out the above, as it seems the achievement mechanic is checking whether you equipped an of the verbotten items, not whether you used it or not during the fight.