Probably has all of the stuff I'm missing. Sadly he's like the one significant NPC I actually had bug out in my game heh. I'm guessing he's the stuck druid with a yellow ! mark that is 24/7 sitting down and smoking for a lot of people.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT2| Wanted to find Ciri, but everything Gwent wrong
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Probably has all of the stuff I'm missing. Sadly he's like the one significant NPC I actually had bug out in my game heh. I'm guessing he's the stuck druid with a yellow ! mark that is 24/7 sitting down and smoking for a lot of people.
A few tips:
1. Short dodge should be your primary evasion tactic against monsters. Block/parry for humans/non-humans. Roll is for creating distance and larger area monster attack evasion, but costs a bit of stamina, so don't spam it.
2. Heavy attacks are slower windup but have more range. A lot of bigger, powerful monsters can be chipped with it by keeping distance via short dodge and rolls with a heavy thrown in when they give an opening. Then after you know their patterns/openings you can go heavy, light, light, heavy for good damage.
3. You do WAY more damage from behind an enemy than from head on. If you get behind an enemy you can get a critical hit streak going that will crush their life bar. This is essential on any strong monster in my opinion, otherwise your weapon will start to wear down mid-fight.
4. Use all the tools at your disposal. Oils are very useful against strong monsters and, to me, the entire point of investigating a hunt before doing it is to have an idea what you're likely to fight so you go in with the right oil on your blade. Beyond that every monster has a sign and a bomb they're weak to. These generally make sense in relation to their species, for example fliers tend to be weak to Aard, the telekinetic wave, as it can catch in their wings and drive them to the ground, giving you free hits. Additionally, flying enemies like the griffin, draconids, etc. can be taken out of the sky with a crossbow bolt, leaving them stunned on the ground for a brief time.
5. Quen is your best friend. In an ideal world when fighting a powerful monster you want to bounce back and forth between the sign they're weak against and Quen. Against wraiths for example get a Quen up before engaging, drop down a Yrden field to fight them in, and when you take a hit create distance with roll, use caution to evade until you have Quen back up, and get Yrden down shortly thereafter. This is why Tawny Owl is an underrated potion. It helps stamina regen by a nice amount and you get it very early in the game. Until you have both Swallow and Thunderbolt I'm a fan of TO in my quick select, and even sometimes using it over 'bolt if it's an enemy I'd value signs over straight damage for (like wraiths/specters as they're easy in a Yrden but nearly invulnerable outside of one).
I've found the combat to be very enjoyable, a nice mix of strategy and quick twitch gameplay.
xBladeM6x
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Just curious, but how close to the to the end of the game am I when I'm just starting the "Final Preparations" mission?
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
That really sucks, he has a lot of stuff. But I don't recall a yellow !, just a merchant icon. I haven't been able to find the alchemist yet.
Basically the Brothers in Arms quests show you all of the quests that will fail if you don't complete them before heading to the isle of mists. If you go to each person and do any quests they have for you then you should be good. I failed nothing upon entering the Isle, and thats how I did it.
Moff
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not as terrible as her walking animations. they certainly didn't put much effort into her
I'm still doing the Final Preparations mission myself. Basically every person in the list is going to give you a quest you have to do. So I'm not sure, but I get the feeling that Final Preparations is one of the last quests in the game (not just because of its name)
there should be a filter for "have materials". The ones that i already crafted should be hidden altogether, imho. (for alchemy, that is)
yeah, i think he's the one that sells you the recipes for Aether, Rubido, Negrido and stuff. Those dusts that you need for some enhanced oils.
Cpt.Underpants
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Can't seem to find the Racists of Novigrad quest
The Master Alchemist guy, Grenwhatever, sold those for me. He opened shop for me fine after a quest. But there's another regular Bag shop icon in that area that has no NPC at it ever that is likely the bugged "Druid".
Cyborg
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It's just a game!
duck_sauce
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It depends on your definiton of hair dryer. Does the fan put in extra hours? Yes very muc so, but it is far far fom a hair dryer. I cant hear the ps4 fans while the game is playing and im not playing the game with the volumes turned up to the limit either. Maybe clean your ps4? Depending on how much you play and where you ps4 stands.....maybe it collected some dirt and the fans have to work harder because of that?
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
Yeah since you don't need to craft it ever again you are right, they don't really need to be there. Unless you want to see what base recipes you have for what you can upgrade, but then again you could just look in your inventory for that.
Cyborg
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Nope...I dont have te problem. I played yesterday for 6 hours, sometime the cooling kicked in but it went realy fast quiet.
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
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Currently in the middle of the Crones of Crookbag Bog quest. Now I understand people's complaints about the slowdown in the bog area. It's rough.
Also, I found myself jumping ahead of the quest when I found a monster cave on my way to the beginning of the quest only to find 4/6 of the Griffin armor set after killing my first vampire (who was a bitch to kill). Came out the other end of the cave
(no idea what that's for yet).
Also, I found myself jumping ahead of the quest when I found a monster cave on my way to the beginning of the quest only to find 4/6 of the Griffin armor set after killing my first vampire (who was a bitch to kill). Came out the other end of the cave
only to stumble upon Johnny's voice bottle and a raven's feather
Hey guys need some help.
So I got witcher 3 for free when I bought my GTX 970, and I installed it/have been playing it via GOG galaxy.
Last night, I tried adding the .exe to steam so that I could stream witcher 3 to my surface pro 3 when I'm in another room.
When I try to launch it, I see the .exe in the taskbar, then it disappears immediately. Happens if I try to launch it from the SP3 via streaming or if I do it myself from the desktop. The game launches fine if I do it from galaxy or click the .exe myself. Any ideas how to make this work?
So I got witcher 3 for free when I bought my GTX 970, and I installed it/have been playing it via GOG galaxy.
Last night, I tried adding the .exe to steam so that I could stream witcher 3 to my surface pro 3 when I'm in another room.
When I try to launch it, I see the .exe in the taskbar, then it disappears immediately. Happens if I try to launch it from the SP3 via streaming or if I do it myself from the desktop. The game launches fine if I do it from galaxy or click the .exe myself. Any ideas how to make this work?
Quick question if anyone knows/can be bothered, but I did one of those '!' activities last night where some villagers were moaning about not having good offerings to offer up to the "Allgod", who has cursed their village and I completed it after
My question is
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finding the troll looking thing hiding underground.
is there any follow up on this later at any time? I told the villagers to check under the ruined building before I left and just wondered if there are any horrible consequences caused by doing this 
duck_sauce
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My experience was quite the opposite. Was in the bog, day and night, while it was raining and while the fps did take a hit, it was far from unplayable. Fought a lot of drowners and water hags and the combat was still fluid enough.
Could the fps be better? Yes of course and 60 fps would be very heavenly. Im not arguing that, but seeing some gaf threads explode abbout the "atrocious" ps4 version and it fps hits was weird to me too.
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
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It's nowhere near atrocious and I don't want to imply that it was ever unplayable. I was just taken aback because everything outside of the bog had been pretty much butter for me.
Jag
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Any suggestions for a melee build with fast stamina regeneration for casting repeated Quen?
Edit: Skill calculator here http://www.gosunoob.com/witcher-3/skill-calculator/
Edit: Skill calculator here http://www.gosunoob.com/witcher-3/skill-calculator/
Robdraggoo
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Succesfully banged kiera, yen, and triss, have i beat the game?
duck_sauce
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That was not entirely directed at your post. It was more a summery of my experience with gaf when it comes to the witcher 3.
Don't forget the other 8.
duck_sauce
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How large is this game?
Robdraggoo
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I dont think my geralt has high enough stamina
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
Have you been able to find the master alchemist he tells you about? I see the icon nearby but can't find it.
LonelyGreyWolf
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What if there was a talent tree dedicated to sex with skills such as "increased stamina", "increased skills", "kama sutra techniques", "increased seduction abilities" etc. Suddenly the melee vs signs discussions would be irrelevant.
Wind's Howling
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It is actually pretty quiet if I compare it to The Last of Us or KillZone Shadow Fall. I can still hear it, but not even remotely near the spot where it ruins the silent moments.
Hmm he's right on the quest marker for me, right in front of his lab by the little pondish area.
Out of curiosity, did you get XP for that?
daninthemix
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I just did a very, very long quest with the sorceror woman through a network of dank caverns, and the boss came reasonably close to killing me. And I'm playing on easy. Do I suck? Didn't realise at first you have to kill the creatures spawning from those wormholes quickly or else he regens all his health.
I'm getting, like, 100XP from finishing main story quests which seems pretty low, considering it's 1k to level up.
My only complaint with the game so far is that swimming is atrocious.
I'm getting, like, 100XP from finishing main story quests which seems pretty low, considering it's 1k to level up.
My only complaint with the game so far is that swimming is atrocious.
Hang on a minute 8?
Yen, Triss, Keira plus the High Stakes chick make 4, who are the other 4?
I'd assume the courtesans and the Skellige warrior chick.
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
Thanks, will look again tonight.
There's 6 hookers, the Spy, and the Warrior. That's the 8 I referenced. It's 11 total with the 3 Sorceresses.
I only went for 10/11, didn't want Yen to get mad at me for hanging out with the red head.
Quick question if anyone knows/can be bothered, but I did one of those '!' activities last night where some villagers were moaning about not having good offerings to offer up to the "Allgod", who has cursed their village and I completed it afterMy question isfinding the troll looking thing hiding underground..is there any follow up on this later at any time? I told the villagers to check under the ruined building before I left and just wondered if there are any horrible consequences caused by doing this
Not that I've seen and I'm in post game stuff now. Loved that little section though, a fair bit of effort went into making it for such a short sequence.
Oooo the Spy and the Warrior sound good! Missed those God Dang it. One must be related to the
High Stakes Quest
The little I've heard I thought she was good, Triss on the other hand....
The Jackdog
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wait....wait....so
...is just act one?
looking for ciri in novigrad, skelliege, and velen
Yep, it's related to that. And one is out on a hill a little bit east of one of the eastern island towns in Skellige. Some small quest stuff you can do that.
IdreamofHIME
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Is the actress English? The accent is so weird, sounds more like an American trying generic "British" rather than an actual English dialect.
Especially since you have such distinct accents from the Black Country, Tyneside, Norfolk and other regions.
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