The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone |OT| Heroes of Gwent
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Vulcano's assistant
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holy sh*** at wild boars
Bloodworth
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did you actually find wild ones? I came across one in a quest, but it was the only one I saw.
I ran into a Guarded Treasure with 5 of them. I haven't played in months and on Death March, so it ended badly.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
just boars, but damn good thing my parry game was strong enough for having played the game the entire weekend.
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Noooo that's going to strike deep into my Gothic 3 trauma
Sax Russel
Banned
The expanded area in NE Velen where this takes place looks so nice/is so well made. My hype level for the next expansion with a completely new area is through the roof.
Touissant is gonna be so exciting to explore *Blood and Wine anticipation intensifies*
Hope for a Bruxa contract at some point.
LegalEagleMike
Member
fuck that.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Sounds like most nightmares I've had
Fenrisulvur
Neo Member
Playing on Death march, I've found a lot of the difficulty in Hearts of Stone seems to stem from the fact that melee combat isn't a viable solution anymore because everything counters like crazy and instead you just spam signs and jump around while they recharge. Since switching to this style of play, I killed the first boss as well as the mini boss right after with ease. A successful Igni hit on the first bos took off 30% of his health and it obliterated all the mini-boss adds with ease. Once they were down, I just spammed Axii on the mini-boss and it was cake.
Deflection on armor also seems to trivialize a lot of the fights as well.
Deflection on armor also seems to trivialize a lot of the fights as well.
Bl@de
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the_batman
Banned
Igni, igni, igni!
Lanrutcon
Member
This sounds really bad.
Gunslinger
Member
playing on death march the difficulty is about the same IMO. The first boss wasn't that difficult once i took the poison immunity potion after that it's just dodge in get a hit dodge out before he does the jump. Rinse and repeat. second mini boss was harder imo. But yo these spiders are the most annoying enemies in the game. They keep range so good that it's insane to catch up to them as melee build. Gotta use axii to get any hit in. Or some northern wind grenades.
Turin Turambar
Member
To be fair with the game, nekkers are the hardest "little monsters" type in this game. Way harder than your average drowner or wolf. And level 34 is not a joke.
Gunslinger
Member
yeah i died once against him until i remembered about the poison immunity potion. It took me good 15 min to beat the thing, the fight dragged on for sure. Also if you mistime one dodge wrong you will eat that jump move he does. You will not lose a lot of life but it gets you stunned. Which allows him to follow up with a tongue swipe that takes some good life away.
Maybe it was because I was level 34 with mastercrafted Feline gear and the best runes in all of my gear but I really didn't find the first boss that difficult. I beat it my first try, then again I've played quite a bit of the Witcher lately. I just realized that I had to keep my Quen up against him, made good use of my bombs and attacked him in melee as much as I could before I got knocked back.
CybernatonEvolution
Member
Builds make a huge difference in this game because dodging barely works and Geralt is slow as shit. The utility that signs provide is enough to trivialize end-game though; more broken melee/crit and alchemy builds are possible too.
Apart from that absurd first boss fight this DLC seems fantastic as expected. The character interactions are top notch in surprising ways. The Shani relationship rewards Witcher 1 players but not to the extent where you can't infer what the history there is. And they play with her relationship in fun ways that are a lot different from the sorceresses in the main game.
All the characters seem really entertaining so far, and I like the way they made Oxenfurt more relevant. Overall I like it after getting past that damn boss. Almost soured the whole thing for me. I think part of that comes from my Geralt being speced to be melee heavy, which this DLC punishes a little bit because you can't just plow through the higher level enemies and absorb a bunch of hits with Quen.
All the characters seem really entertaining so far, and I like the way they made Oxenfurt more relevant. Overall I like it after getting past that damn boss. Almost soured the whole thing for me. I think part of that comes from my Geralt being speced to be melee heavy, which this DLC punishes a little bit because you can't just plow through the higher level enemies and absorb a bunch of hits with Quen.
Turin Turambar
Member
I thought the same, it's an endgame goldsink, from the very start when you need 5K gold to just be allowed to spend even more effort and resources to runecraft.
Still I needed one, I had too much gold on me.
Dragon1893
Member
Was going to load my save after downloading this but it's telling me I'm missing the Beard and Hairstyle and Missing Miners dlc necessary to load the save.
WTF?
Went to check the dlc (GoG) and the free dlc program box wasn't ticked for some reason. Now it's downloading another 611mb... I had all the dlc installed.
Was there a patch that made it necessary to re-download the free dlc?
WTF?
Went to check the dlc (GoG) and the free dlc program box wasn't ticked for some reason. Now it's downloading another 611mb... I had all the dlc installed.
Was there a patch that made it necessary to re-download the free dlc?
Lanrutcon
Member
Do we have a list of the enchants somewhere? My Witcher is...well...rich. Blowing 30 or 40k wouldn't leave me without money for hookers, is what I mean.
Moff
Member
I had to do the same, apparently they put all the dlc in one package. that's a good thing but you need to redownload it.
Dragon1893
Member
Oh, OK. Thanks bro.
Lanrutcon
Member
To help them awesome developers feed their grubby little dirt children.
lordfuzzybutt
Member
The next one should be around 20. It is twice as long.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Not anymore
edit: well it depends I guess. To me it is about on what is more vulnerable to Axii (Gargoyles being the toughest monsters, cyclops the easiest)
TerryLee81
Member
I'm out!
Been playing with a Feline build. I'm not getting the damage I want in comparison to how much I'm taking and whirl seems to get more useless by the minute, so I'm respeccing in Ursine.
The story is pretty great so far.
I liked fighting the spiders and boars, but the nekkers were really buffed. Enjoying the increased encounter difficulty. Death March.
First boss felt like it could have been designed a bit better, but I feel there's some nuance I never cared to learn because I could power through it. Heavy attack seemed to be more effective in terms of range and timing, but I was a light attack build at the time. CDPR feel like they're on their way to making decent action game mechanics. That could make them unstoppable if they keep getting better.
Edit: Just saw the Gametrailers review. Yrden is more powerful than I could ever imagine.
The story is pretty great so far.
I liked fighting the spiders and boars, but the nekkers were really buffed. Enjoying the increased encounter difficulty. Death March.
First boss felt like it could have been designed a bit better, but I feel there's some nuance I never cared to learn because I could power through it. Heavy attack seemed to be more effective in terms of range and timing, but I was a light attack build at the time. CDPR feel like they're on their way to making decent action game mechanics. That could make them unstoppable if they keep getting better.
Edit: Just saw the Gametrailers review. Yrden is more powerful than I could ever imagine.
PodcastFips
Member
So if I really liked Witcher 3 and played the shit out of it, also collecting all trophies except the Death March one, but I want to avoid buying DLC after the disaster that the Destiny Expansion Pass was.
What should I do?
What should I do?
So if I really liked Witcher 3 and played the shit out of it, also collecting all trophies except the Death March one, but I want to avoid buying DLC after the disaster that the Destiny Expansion Pass was.
What should I do?
What are you talking about? What does Destiny have to do with The Witcher or CD Projekt?
So if I really liked Witcher 3 and played the shit out of it, also collecting all trophies except the Death March one, but I want to avoid buying DLC after the disaster that the Destiny Expansion Pass was.
What should I do?
Not all DLC is created equal. DLC is not inherently a bad thing, in fact it's often good.
PodcastFips
Member
I'm talking about bad experiences with my first ever bought DLC.
Seems ridiculous to swear off DLC after one bad experience. Read reviews, watch some footage. There are enough resources out there to determine if it's worth it.
RipperGrim
Member
How long is the expansion pack roughly? Anyone got an estimate?
thelurkinghorror
Member
15 hours easily
Start a new game, then choose Hearts of Stone and your are set: level 32 and 20k in the treasury, but the equips (swords and armors) are terrible
Dragon1893
Member
Got the first boss on my first try but I'm level 34 and have mastercrafted wolven gear.
Even though it's mentioned that the monster isn't afraid of fire, Dancing Star proved to be very effect, the monster actually remains paralized while the fire damage is in effect, leaving it wide open to attacks.
Even though it's mentioned that the monster isn't afraid of fire, Dancing Star proved to be very effect, the monster actually remains paralized while the fire damage is in effect, leaving it wide open to attacks.
Hostile_18
Banned
Loaded my old saved game ready for this expansion and the full crew trophy popped even though I missed Vernon Roche on my play through. Is this a known glitch? Saves me some time I guess!
RipperGrim
Member
thanks man, exactly what I want to hear.
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