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The Witcher III: Blood & Wine |OT| One last contract, one last plough

Alucrid said:
you can do orianna's quest and still go to the other place. i found the elder's cave to be pretty boring and short.
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Yes I know but
Meeting the elder and the concept of vampires as 'trapped' was interesting to me, Not to mention i asked the elder two questions and lol. Visually and exploration wise yes fable land is better
 
Well I am am still relatively early on. Hopefully I can start saving up. But I also feel like I need to spend to upgrade my potions, armor, weapons, etc.


Anyone have some coin saving tips for level 20 and onward?
 
BigTnaples said:
Well I am am still relatively early on. Hopefully I can start saving up. But I also feel like I need to spend to upgrade my potions, armor, weapons, etc.


Anyone have some coin saving tips for level 20 and onward?
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Best advice is to pick up all blue and above equipment, ignore all the regular shit, and just sell sell sell. For the base game that should be enough to make one, maybe two, full Mastercraft Witcher gear.

Then when you get to the first expansion you'll reach a mission that basically asks you to invest money on something. Don't bother.

From there if you end that expansion and still don't have enough check your junk, there might be shit you can sell there you never considered.
 
BigTnaples said:
Well I am am still relatively early on. Hopefully I can start saving up. But I also feel like I need to spend to upgrade my potions, armor, weapons, etc.


Anyone have some coin saving tips for level 20 and onward?
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Anytime you kill people, collect their swords and armor to sell. Don't get too attached to them though. If you need room in your inventory drop the least valuable stuff to make room for more valuable ones. A bunch of swords might make you more money for less weight than a heavy piece of armor.
 
SomewhatGroovy said:
CD project Red are destroying much of their goodwill with this game with how hard they make it to acquire all the gold needed for the armors.

I don't get it. This is so fucking disappointing
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What? The company that's just released a super cheap 30+ hour expansion for last years game of the year is losing good will because there's no infinite money cheat?

If you actually play the game, loot items, finish quests etc it's quite easy to get money. Go and explore the world and pick up everything. Sell it. Aside from the fact you don't NEED every set of armour to play this game.
 
SomewhatGroovy said:
CD project Red are destroying much of their goodwill with this game with how hard they make it to acquire all the gold needed for the armors.

I don't get it. This is so fucking disappointing
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Dude just look up the beehive trick and use that for some fast $$$$$$$$$$
 
I never want to go back to Velen now. It's just so pretty here. I wish we could keep getting expansions to this game forever. Like episodic Witcher stories, I would play this forever.

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I'm using Reshade if anyone notices it looks different.
I just realized the patch must've adjusted my settings and I had textures on low, game still looks great lol.
 
SomewhatGroovy said:
CD project Red are destroying much of their goodwill with this game with how hard they make it to acquire all the gold needed for the armors.

I don't get it. This is so fucking disappointing
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I think a 30+ hour content rich expansion pack for chump change offsets the goodwill lost making you cranky.
 
I've bought BaW yesterday and started it with... $600. Yeah it won't be enough I know.

Also, (1st hour spoiler)
will there be another bruxa fight?
first fights were placed so that you cannot prepare and I regret I did that one without prep. It was messy and could have been great. Same thing with
arena, but it wasn't from the trailer so it didn't feel that bad lol.
 
I don't really understand all the rage about the grandmaster armor, it's supposed to be the final armor in an epic and long rpg, those are supposed to be notoriously hard to obtain. The only thing kind of annoying is that the price of craftinf them even if you have all the components is a bit too high. Also the swords aren't even that special you find relatively better ones for free in the expansion.
 
So I'm finding the (late game spoiler)
Detlaff fight pretty infuriating. There is one long distance attack that eats up half your life bar and there doesn't seem to be a reliable way to dodge it. The visual cues seem wholly arbitrary because the fucking birds or whatever fill up the entire screen. Not sure if there is a readability thing I'm missing here?
 
So how do you guys handle the relative weakness of the Witcher Armor?

I'm in the mid 40s on a Grandmaster Witcher set and it seems like I'm already starting to find random loot that's stronger. I imagine this is only gonna get worse over time.

I assume the bonuses are still making up for that but I haven't checked in detail yet.

Have any of you already ditched the Witcher Armor and at what level?
 
SomewhatGroovy said:
CD project Red are destroying much of their goodwill with this game with how hard they make it to acquire all the gold needed for the armors.

I don't get it. This is so fucking disappointing
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I won't go that far, but it is kind of absurd how much gold you need for shit in this game. I just spent 15,000 gold upgrading my rune dude from Heart of Stone. Now I have about 100-200 gold maximum at any one time in this expansion. Its pretty rough going.
 
One of the things I love about the early game in Witcher 3 is how you need to decide on repairing your gear or upgrading stuff, because you're poor

Unlike Diablo 3 where I have trillions of gold
 
nubbe said:
One of the things I love about the early game in Witcher 3 is how you need to decide on repairing your gear or upgrading stuff, because you're poor

Unlike Diablo 3 where I have trillions of gold
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Tbh I've never liked the gear degradation stuff. Comes across as a cheap way of consistently robbing you of gold.
 
SomewhatGroovy said:
CD project Red are destroying much of their goodwill with this game with how hard they make it to acquire all the gold needed for the armors.

I don't get it. This is so fucking disappointing
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I have 2.35 million 🤔

Zojirushi said:
Tbh I've never liked the gear degradation stuff. Comes across as a cheap way of consistently robbing you of gold.
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Yeah it's pretty rubbish.
 
Lock-on stopped working for me too, not sure when it started... Not a huge loss though, as it's really only helpful for one-on-one battles, just gets in the way when you're up against multiple opponents.
 
OléGunner;205373033 said:
Combat lock on still fucked for anyone else?
I'm struggling to continue playing with this bug even though I want to sooo bad :/
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Ha, I noticed something was different. Thought it was the steam controller for the last couple of days with which I had to re-learn to play. I did not remember there was a lock on.

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On another note, if you are waiting for your property to upgrade, don't travel to Velen or other regions in the middle of it, or you'll bug it and it will stay incomplete. that's the one thing kind of bothering me now.
 
The lock on stops working after the tourney sidequest, specifically the racing part and never comes back, so either avoid that sidequest or wait for the patch.

Never really used that much lock on but it still bugs me.
 
Sai said:
Lock-on stopped working for me too, not sure when it started... Not a huge loss though, as it's really only helpful for one-on-one battles, just gets in the way when you're up against multiple opponents.
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You're right yeah.

But I like it for bosses because the camera goes crazy when diving/pirouetting around.
I also use it with multiple foes when I want to hammer away at one in particular and let Quen soak up the damage.

My play style just needs it after over 120 hours of using lock on :p
Praying for a hotfix soon.

Edit: so it's the tourney side quest?
Why the fuck did I ever decide to help that knight early on, my heart is too kind
 
Ghostmaster said:
I don't really understand all the rage about the grandmaster armor, it's supposed to be the final armor in an epic and long rpg, those are supposed to be notoriously hard to obtain. The only thing kind of annoying is that the price of craftinf them even if you have all the components is a bit too high. Also the swords aren't even that special you find relatively better ones for free in the expansion.
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Thing is.... the end game gear should be a thing you get to use. If I finish the game and just manage to wear the Grandmaster gear towards the end of it, what is the point?

I will walk around five minutes in it then game is over. So it is pointless to spend so much time getting gold and mats ready, only to wear your new awesome armor for the last bits of the game.
 
valkyre said:
Thing is.... the end game gear should be a thing you get to use. If I finish the game and just manage to wear the Grandmaster gear towards the end of it, what is the point?

I will walk around five minutes in it then game is over. So it is pointless to spend so much time getting gold and mats ready, only to wear your new awesome armor for the last bits of the game.
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New game + I guess?
 
valkyre said:
Thing is.... the end game gear should be a thing you get to use. If I finish the game and just manage to wear the Grandmaster gear towards the end of it, what is the point?

I will walk around five minutes in it then game is over. So it is pointless to spend so much time getting gold and mats ready, only to wear your new awesome armor for the last bits of the game.
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This is a good point. There was a similar issue in the witcher 2, where I managed to get final gear for the last fight or two
depending on whether I wanted to kill letho
.

I hope I'll get the best armor sooner I b&w.
 
scoobs said:
New game + I guess?
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Thats true, but in NG+ you wear this gear and you feel like a peasant... You then wear the standard armor and feel like something is wrong... "i just threw away a full chainmail armor for this piece of cloth and somehow I am stronger." Only to realize that the end game armor is the exact same one you started with, but now with updated stats.
 
valkyre said:
Thing is.... the end game gear should be a thing you get to use. If I finish the game and just manage to wear the Grandmaster gear towards the end of it, what is the point?

I will walk around five minutes in it then game is over. So it is pointless to spend so much time getting gold and mats ready, only to wear your new awesome armor for the last bits of the game.
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That's an issue I have with a lot of RPGs. I crafted the Ursine set but by that time I had clocked the game already which just defeats the purpose. I just did the beehive glitch and crafted the Manticore set early this time around, I don't care if it's cheating.
 
BigTnaples said:
Anyone have some coin saving tips for level 20 and onward?
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Admiral Woofington said:
Then when you get to the first expansion you'll reach a mission that basically asks you to invest money on something. Don't bother.
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Or if you absolutely have to have just 1 runeword, upgrade the runesmith to level 2 so you can get the Severance rune that extends Whirl and Rend ranges significantly.

It'll still only be 15k vs the full 30k
 
SolidChamp said:
Some of the complaints in this thread have me worried. Is the difficulty spike really that significant?
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I think new enemies do a lot of damage, but they are not that tough themselves, so it is not as abrupt a spike as HoS. Just a matter of avoiding being hit for shorter encounters rather than some of the considerably long encounters of the previous expansion.
 
valkyre said:
Thing is.... the end game gear should be a thing you get to use. If I finish the game and just manage to wear the Grandmaster gear towards the end of it, what is the point?

I will walk around five minutes in it then game is over. So it is pointless to spend so much time getting gold and mats ready, only to wear your new awesome armor for the last bits of the game.
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This is true, but it is a hard thing to balance; give it too early or too easily and it is either not that special or straight out brokenly powerful; make it incredibly hard to get and you only get to use it at the finish line.

I guess it mostly comes down to when you personally feel that the hero should receive that final upgrade/flashiness and to me that always is somewhere near the final encounter/ stretch.

Then again I do think that the witcher in general is kind of low on hard to get/rare/ hidden items, especially compared to souls games or even elder scrolls, so that's probably why I don't mind the price so much
 
Thanks for the coin saving tips y'all! Will certainly help later.



I love the fact that stuff is expensive. Too many games have you swimming in wealth without anything to spend it on, I like the idea of having to choose what I can buy because I can't afford to own everything at once. Also, makes it more satisfying to own something when it took you forever plus an arm and a leg to obtain.
 
valkyre said:
Thing is.... the end game gear should be a thing you get to use. If I finish the game and just manage to wear the Grandmaster gear towards the end of it, what is the point?

I will walk around five minutes in it then game is over. So it is pointless to spend so much time getting gold and mats ready, only to wear your new awesome armor for the last bits of the game.
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Then you blame yourself. They expose its availability quickly, they don't spread out every diagram indivdually, and the only reason it might be an issue is if you didn't hold on to your superior set to continue crafting off of or for some reason just sell off all your exotic mats.
 
Guys this is bugging me for quite a long time.

I want to have my health bar and witcher senses shown in the UI and I know that for most people these things are contextual, meaning they only appear if you are in combat or if you draw your swords and then they disappear from your screen once you are out of combat.

Well in my case this doesnt apply.

There is some sort of bug, i dont know, but my UI is not contextual, the health bar remains there no matter if I am in combat or not.

Can someone tell me what the hell I am doing wrong?
 
What build is best suited for the ursine armour? It's final form probably looks the best out of all. Asking cause I'm playing on DM.
 
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