Missed Mutagens? Ancient Leshen, Doppler, Succubus (Spoilers)
So I am a completionist - loving the exploration in this game - but that also means I need to get every recipe/diagram possible as well. I'm a good way into the story, and now it seems that choices made in side quests I've done have now locked items from me: the Ancient Leshen, Succubus, and Doppler decoctions, which require the respective mutagen in order to craft. As far as I can tell based on searching the maps and trying to find other threads about it, one can only get these mutagens by killing the respective monster as part of a side quest. So far I've had the opportunity to kill one Ancient Leshen, two Succubi, and one Doppler in side quests, but chose the merciful route.
Can anyone who has gone further in the game confirm that there is no way later to get these mutagens? If these decoctions are lost to me forever, this is disappointing. I can understand from a story standpoint that there are consequences of both decisions of a quest, but as a completionist the item lockout gets under my skin! I'd like to see at least one side quest for each of these where killing the monster and obtaining the mutagen is not a choice to be made, so that lockout doesn't happen.
So I am a completionist - loving the exploration in this game - but that also means I need to get every recipe/diagram possible as well. I'm a good way into the story, and now it seems that choices made in side quests I've done have now locked items from me: the Ancient Leshen, Succubus, and Doppler decoctions, which require the respective mutagen in order to craft. As far as I can tell based on searching the maps and trying to find other threads about it, one can only get these mutagens by killing the respective monster as part of a side quest. So far I've had the opportunity to kill one Ancient Leshen, two Succubi, and one Doppler in side quests, but chose the merciful route.
Can anyone who has gone further in the game confirm that there is no way later to get these mutagens? If these decoctions are lost to me forever, this is disappointing. I can understand from a story standpoint that there are consequences of both decisions of a quest, but as a completionist the item lockout gets under my skin! I'd like to see at least one side quest for each of these where killing the monster and obtaining the mutagen is not a choice to be made, so that lockout doesn't happen.