Akiyama_AE
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT| Gwent Player, Monster Slayer, EVEN RACISM
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toastyToast
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That makes sense. Where can I get some cards good at? Still using the starter deck so far and buying any if I see them for sale. I remember getting one from the Baron too.
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
It will pop up but depends on the time of day. If it was closed it wont show on the map.
These things were vomits inducing...
matrix-cat
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Has anyone else met an enemy that just has '??' instead of a level number? I assume it means they're so far above your level that they're basically certain death. The beastie I came across didn't seem even the slightest bit phased by my heavy attacks (in a couple of minutes of hacking away I don't think I moved its health bar one pixel), and when my concentration finally lapsed it took me out in one hit.
It was an Earth Elemental guarding a treasure chest in No Man's Land, a little way north-west of the huge Nilfgaardian camp at the south-east. Luckily, it succumbed to the same little manoeuvre I pulled on an unsuspecting Cyclops on a mountaintop, the ol' 'lure it away then circle around a thing and come sprinting back for the chest' gambit. Found an awesome new Silver Sword in there that neatly outclasses my Viper School one by miles.
Akiyama_AE
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Found him now I'm rich!! finally
I've been looking stuff up about it, and I don't think so unforunately. The common ones I can get elsewhere, but I'm out of luck for the Foltest Card.
That's gonna annoy the hell out of me, but I'll just have to get used to it. There will forever be an unfinished quest in my log
Generally all merchants, blacksmiths and inn keeps play the game. So when coming to a new location go to them first and battle them to the ground. Merchants and Blacksmith play for money, they give you a random card when you win the first time and other stuff after that.
Inn keepa don't use money they play for rare carda. You get a unique rare when you finish on them. There are other unique players in every region like the Baron. Find on them, beat them and ask them who else to play.You get a qurst that shows you who else got unique cards.
Think I'm going to take a day off, been playing this a bit too much and started getting stressed at the combat again. 2 100 vitality mutagens, the 500 vitality skill and a drowner that sneaks up behind me takes 1/3 of my HP in a single hit..Playing on the 2nd hardest and I feel like a lot of fights I'm leashing the monsters..pulling them as far as they can go then ducking in and killing 1, then running like a little girl while my slow as fuck regen restores any HP lost.
Not a fan of enemies simply ignoring attacks either..I really like the Ignis flamethrower..but they just run through the first 2 seconds of it like a boss and interupt, drowner leaps directly at you mid-swing? Of course his unarmed attacks take precedence.
Not a fan of enemies simply ignoring attacks either..I really like the Ignis flamethrower..but they just run through the first 2 seconds of it like a boss and interupt, drowner leaps directly at you mid-swing? Of course his unarmed attacks take precedence.
Summer Haze
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I think it's from an earlier build as they seem to have removed exp from killing and you only get it from quests.
Nope, you still get small amounts of xp from killing monsters.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Character arcs and quests just keep going. Relentlessly.
Cpt.Underpants
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Character faces are just simply amazing
700 vitality really isn't as much as it sounds, considering you start out around 3500 if I'm not mistaken. That basically means you take an couple hits best case scenario. Igni dosen't always burn and stun them, that's based on a percentage chance so you have to be careful.
My advice is to time dodges and rolls every attack since blocking isn't as good against drowners. Pop Qwen before the battle starts. Use bombs and igni when they clump together. If Igni isn't up enough, pop a Tawny Owl potion before fighting them.
Cpt.Underpants
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Finally done with Fyke Isle Quest
Woah
Woah
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
This is my one and only complaint about this game. I end of doing some sort of shimmy zig zag, backflip, dolphin ritual when the box I'm trying to loot is only like 2 feet below where I'm fucking floating.
Yup. I am.
If it had that gif of Seal turning around on Australia Voice with fire - woulda been perfection of how im feeling.
Vincent Grayson
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I've been playing on easy, and one of the first fights against a bunch of humans was about 5 seconds long as Geralt cut every single one of them in half in a single blow.
It was glorious.
I do kinda wish I could set the difficulty to "easy" for humans, and then something higher for monsters.
Yeah they are laughably bad. Biggest problem for me next to text size.
Onikaan
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This whole encounter made me uncomfy.
Fairly obvious there's a dead kid in that bag the first witch wears like a pouch. Really hope I get to smackdown these ancient tarts.
Minor nitpick, but anyone else getting annoyed by the screen going dark whenever you press those enchant weapon / armor wheel / tables? I mean, it seem so pointless. Why not add some other kind of effect (or even nothing) rather than blacking out the screen for a second. Always takes me out of the "immersion" of it for some reason.
Yea that questline was utterly incredible.
I have to say, I cannot fucking wait to see where CDPR go with their future games like Cyberpunk2077. They fucking know how to create a solid as shit open world, and on their very first try to boot.
As an example: I finally reached Skellige, went off exploring, saw some random island off in the distance with a lighthouse. Arrived and embarked on what I thought was just a really simple contract quest, I won't include anything super detailed detailed in the spoiler, but fucking hell next thing I know I'm
thrown in jail and blackmailed by the isle's Jarl into some fully fledged side-quest.
A follow up to this post:
If I unsheath the silver sword first and then go into the menu, then it says +20% xp from monsters in player stats. So all is good
Fuck this game is good. I spent ages tweaking the hell out of it, and now I've actually played it I'm loving it. Managed to kill a huge bear at level 1, it took me ages though. Scared the hell out of me and now I'm scared to wander through the the forests. My only complaint thus far is the lack of dynamic HUD, which hopefully will be modded in. I'm playing without a HUD at the moment which is a bit painful.
Graphics are really good imo, the scope and scale of the world is amazing. It's a really organic feeling open world. Loving the music as well.
Graphics are really good imo, the scope and scale of the world is amazing. It's a really organic feeling open world. Loving the music as well.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Still no bomb recipes... does anyone know where to get one?
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
I started dealing honeycombs, shit's lucrative.
It's little annoying that game suggests you to hold on to the Witcher gear, but doesn't give you storage like Witcher 2. I'm already hauling several parts of gear and bloating my unit carried number too much. I won't use any mods to break the system and I manage, but lack of permanent storage is baffling.
P.S. If I remember right I have now something insane like 7+ crowns on Death March, at level 11
P.S. If I remember right I have now something insane like 7+ crowns on Death March, at level 11
Cpt.Underpants
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The music, the atmosphere the voice acting especially near the end.
It's pretty conflicting, I just marched someone to his own death and wasn't expecting it at all. What was going through my head was just someone who will just say their goodbye's and all but its not that at all. I her offer to let Graham bury her at the village, that was suspicious as hell. Was it really Anabelle as the Wraith?
ColonialRaptor
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There are heaps of big monsters around. I love finding them and going Oooohhhh shit. I'm outta here.
But I can't wait to face down with them later when I'm stronger.
ColonialRaptor
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Can you get that from the bee hives you can knock down with aard?
I absolutely LOVE casting Aard over water.
MatrixMan.EXE
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The side quests are incredible, I agree. I also love how the
Ladies of the Wood
Vincent Grayson
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I think you have to burn them with Igni in order to loot them (and stop bees from stinging you).
Akiyama_AE
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Any way to replay the gwent tutorial? I kinda mashed through it when I got the game because I was too excited..
It was. When she gets her human form back for a moment we can see her and she looks like a girl in a drawing that was on altar, in Graham's hut. Her eagerness to leave the island, to have Geralt take her bones, was shady as fuck and then couldn't keep her stories straight... I bet she would just have killed him and haunted village.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
I get them from beehives, yeah. I use igni and burn them all. I'm like Winnie the Pooh's wet dream right now.
Dragon1893
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I need to get into Gwent, played one match and lost all the cards lol.
This so much. The first thing I do when I enter a new village or area is look for Gwent players. Fuck quests and monster hunting, I NEED MORE CARDS!
Ignite them with igni. Herbalists pay very good money for the honeycombs you get.
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