Wait I'm a bit confused now - a lot of you are saying you ended the game at about level 34:ish?
I'm level 23 and just
helped Cerys to become queen of Skellige. From what I understand I'm still in the first third of the game? Does this mean I'm gonna go through a lot of the game not being able to level up more because I feel I'm gonna reach lvl 34 in an instant - I'm constantly leveling up fast I feel.
Blood of Elves in not the first book, no matter how some translations may try to spin it. Even if the other 2 books are "short stories", they happen before those events in chronological order and also were released before Blood of Elves. You even wouldnt know where th fuck Yeneffer appears for the first time if you dont read the second book, it would come out of nowhere.
I said it's the first book of the "saga" which is technically correct as the first two books are not a part of it. Granted this is being needlesly confusing but it's not like the poster I responded to asked for a proper book reading order.
Okay, so I'm a bit late to the party. Just got a PS4 the other day and picked this up - my first Witcher experience and I'm loving it. But am a bit overwhelmed. There's just so much to do everywhere. I'm in Velen at the moment, helping out the Bloody Baron with a series of quests which have gone on way longer than I expected!
Just went to Oxenfurt to confirm his daughter was alive and was even more overwhelmed with the size of that town. First real city I've seen so far.
I do have a few concerns - I'm not sure if I'm playing right since I never have money to buy. well.. anything. New armour and weapons is out of the question since I just cannot afford them. I'm using the first DLC armour at the moment which I ended up blowing all my money on and couldn't even afford the gloves and the boots for (Still can't). Is there a way to make money more efficiently? None of my stuff sells for anything, even the items I have that say they can be sold for a significant amount only sell for like 10 or 15 at most.
This is a concern because I can't even afford to buy food items for healing, kind of annoying since I've been finding them less and less from looting recently. Levelling also seems to go much slower than I'm used to in RPGs, is this normal? Seems like combat gives next to no EXP so quests are the way to go.
I'm level 5 at the moment, does that sound right for this point? Sorry for the overload of questions, but like I said this is a bit overwhelming for a first time player!
Wait I'm a bit confused now - a lot of you are saying you ended the game at about level 34:ish?
I'm level 23 and just
helped Cerys to become queen of Skellige. From what I understand I'm still in the first third of the game? Does this mean I'm gonna go through a lot of the game not being able to level up more because I feel I'm gonna reach lvl 34 in an instant - I'm constantly leveling up fast I feel.
I basically went from level 26-31 in a gauntlet of story missions that give you crazy amounts of XP, while the side stuff wasn't gaining me much at all. I don't believe there's a cap at all, but in theory you will basically hit a wall due to overleveling quests not giving you much at all.
Okay, so I'm a bit late to the party. Just got a PS4 the other day and picked this up - my first Witcher experience and I'm loving it. But am a bit overwhelmed. There's just so much to do everywhere. I'm in Velen at the moment, helping out the Bloody Baron with a series of quests which have gone on way longer than I expected!
Just went to Oxenfurt to confirm his daughter was alive and was even more overwhelmed with the size of that town. First real city I've seen so far.
I do have a few concerns - I'm not sure if I'm playing right since I never have money to buy. well.. anything. New armour and weapons is out of the question since I just cannot afford them. I'm using the first DLC armour at the moment which I ended up blowing all my money on and couldn't even afford the gloves and the boots for (Still can't). Is there a way to make money more efficiently? None of my stuff sells for anything, even the items I have that say they can be sold for a significant amount only sell for like 10 or 15 at most.
This is a concern because I can't even afford to buy food items for healing, kind of annoying since I've been finding them less and less from looting recently. Levelling also seems to go much slower than I'm used to in RPGs, is this normal? Seems like combat gives next to no EXP so quests are the way to go.
I'm level 5 at the moment, does that sound right for this point? Sorry for the overload of questions, but like I said this is a bit overwhelming for a first time player!
I wouldn't worry about the money, after a while you'll keep drowning in it. Just try to sell swords to the blacksmiths, armors to the armourers as they'll give better prices for it. There is also an alchemist near the most north-eastern gate of Novigrad. (near cemetery outside the city) who will give you good prices for your goods.
I wouldn't worry about the money, after a while you'll keep drowning in it. Just try to sell swords to the blacksmiths, armors to the armourers as they'll give better prices for it. There is also an alchemist near the most north-eastern gate of Novigrad. (near cemetery outside the city) who will give you good prices for your goods.
Okay, yeah I didn't realise selling items to the proper vendors would get better prices! I don't think I've even come across a blacksmith that does weapons yet, only armourers. I haven't really done a whole lot of crafting or alchemy yet either, beyond the tutorial ones, since it's just so overwhelming to take in all the stuff I pick up off the ground haha. I suppose I should probably read up a bit on the systems.
the Witcher ending means that she's free to do what ever she wants and she chooses to be a Witcher. She isn't a Witcher and never will be. It'll be a brief episode in her life if anything, she'll grow older and move on. I doubt she'll still be at it when she's pushing 30.
The circumstances that lead to that ending should make it clear that Geralt isn't forcing her to do anything. Hell, the difference between that ending and the empress one is that you take her aside when she has the burning desire to avenge someone important to the both of you and saying, "Oh yeah, I was supposed to take you to the emperor. Let's put the Vesemir thing on the backburner for a while, k?" That decision was poorly done tbh. I was under the impression that the Sabbath was soon and we had to go immediately. I've done both paths and the emperor visit adds like a week of travelling and the Sabbath thing plays out in the exact same way. Really the entire ending decision arc felt really rushed.
I wouldn't worry about the money, after a while you'll keep drowning in it. Just try to sell swords to the blacksmiths, armors to the armourers as they'll give better prices for it. There is also an alchemist near the most north-eastern gate of Novigrad. (near cemetery outside the city) who will give you good prices for your goods.
I basically went from level 26-31 in a gauntlet of story missions that give you crazy amounts of XP, while the side stuff wasn't gaining me much at all. I don't believe there's a cap at all, but in theory you will basically hit a wall due to overleveling quests not giving you much at all.
the Witcher ending means that she's free to do what ever she wants and she chooses to be a Witcher. She isn't a Witcher and never will be. It'll be a brief episode in her life if anything, she'll grow older and move on. I doubt she'll still be at it when she's pushing 30.
The circumstances that lead to that ending should make it clear that Geralt isn't forcing her to do anything. Hell, the difference between that ending and the empress one is that you take her aside when she has the burning desire to avenge someone important to the both of you and saying, "Oh yeah, I was supposed to take you to the emperor. Let's put the Vesemir thing on the backburner for a while, k?" That decision was poorly done tbh. I was under the impression that the Sabbath was soon and we had to go immediately. I've done both paths and the emperor visit adds like a week of travelling and the Sabbath thing plays out in the exact same way. Really the entire ending decision arc felt really rushed.
I was admittedly talking bit out of my ass as I got the empress ending and only read about the Witcher one. It does sound better when you put it like that.
Okay, so I'm a bit late to the party. Just got a PS4 the other day and picked this up - my first Witcher experience and I'm loving it. But am a bit overwhelmed. There's just so much to do everywhere. I'm in Velen at the moment, helping out the Bloody Baron with a series of quests which have gone on way longer than I expected!
Just went to Oxenfurt to confirm his daughter was alive and was even more overwhelmed with the size of that town. First real city I've seen so far.
I do have a few concerns - I'm not sure if I'm playing right since I never have money to buy. well.. anything. New armour and weapons is out of the question since I just cannot afford them. I'm using the first DLC armour at the moment which I ended up blowing all my money on and couldn't even afford the gloves and the boots for (Still can't). Is there a way to make money more efficiently? None of my stuff sells for anything, even the items I have that say they can be sold for a significant amount only sell for like 10 or 15 at most.
This is a concern because I can't even afford to buy food items for healing, kind of annoying since I've been finding them less and less from looting recently. Levelling also seems to go much slower than I'm used to in RPGs, is this normal? Seems like combat gives next to no EXP so quests are the way to go.
I'm level 5 at the moment, does that sound right for this point? Sorry for the overload of questions, but like I said this is a bit overwhelming for a first time player!
For healing, I've found the skill/perk that gives you health regeneration during daytime to be quite useful at the lower levels if you're on one of the difficulties that don't give you health for meditating.
Yeah that's good news, because I find myself in the exact same situation, having done The Nobleman one but not the Soldier one.
The earliest save I have is just after buying a fox mask on A Matter Of Life And Death, but ridiculously there's no way to talk to Tris between then and the finale of Now or Never - she's already in her gown and even if I say I'm not ready to go I still can't talk to her (the only prompts are to go to the ball), and immediately after that quest any further meeting with Tris just starts Now or Never.
I went with Yen because she's fierce and, at least in this game, a richer and more interesting character. Triss is kind of a one-dimensional puppet with red hair and big boobs. Plus Yen's actress is way better.
Depends on the area, though. Sacks and crates actually do have worthwhile loot in battleground areas, they can even have recipes and diagrams there. Also sacks in random areas like a lone sack leaning against a ruined wall, and so on. It's sacks and crates in villages or houses that generally just have dwarven spirit and alchemy powder in them.
Yeah, it didn't end up being a big deal though since I still ended up with all the potions, oils, bombs, ect... as far as I can tell anyway. I bought a bunch of them off herbalist, so the games seems to have a back up plan in case you dont find them out in the world.
Got the Empress ending. Bit confused as to what happened though before that. She went off to face the White Frost, remembered times her and Geralt had and then ran towards the Frost. Then bam 7 months later White Orchard. Sort of happened suddenly lol
Got the Empress ending. Bit confused as to what happened though before that. She went off to face the White Frost, remembered times her and Geralt had and than ran towards the Frost. Then bam 7 months later White Orchard. Sort of happened suddenly lol
I kind of went with her for both reasons. I thought the rich backstory of Yen in the books (her "canon" persona), plus her character within the games painted a rich picture that I really liked. So Yen it was.
I know you're a Junior, and you don't know how much of the game you have left, but that is a big spoiler. I'm sure some gamers would have forgotten about that character you mentioned, and now you've also stated a poignant place on the map. You should spoiler tag your query as I have done above.
After 180 hours, I arrived at Kaer Morhen, finally!
However, the game begins to lose its knock-on effect, unfortunately. I do not know why. Maybe all those side quest destroyed it for me. I am not saying that I have no fun with it, but it simply is not as fascinating anymore. Even the main story is not as interesting anymore. I really, really loved this chase after Ciri and now as the hunt begins to tighten, I lose interest, I guess.
I will continue with my playstyle (eg. doing all side quest available and do everything possible) to gather knowledge for my second playthrough, which will probably start after the both of the expansions are out or better, an enhanced edition releases (which is really necessary for all those little flaws).
However, the game begins to lose its knock-on effect, unfortunately. I do not know why. Maybe all those side quest destroyed it for me. I am not saying that I have no fun with it, but it simply is not as fascinating anymore. Even the main story is not as interesting anymore. I really, really loved this chase after Ciri and now as the hunt begins to tighten, I lose interest, I guess.
I will continue with my playstyle (eg. doing all side quest available and do everything possible) to gather knowledge for my second playthrough, which will probably start after the both of the expansions are out or better, an enhanced edition releases (which is really necessary for all those little flaws).
Just finished! I really liked my ending, but I didn't like my epilogue. I got
Ciri becomes a witcher, which made me so happy and made me go "fuck yeah, father and daughter witcher team!", but then the concept art epilogue popped up and was like "but then they split up five minutes later lol." Aww!
I guess they had to make it so that Geralt can interact with it. Otherwise he'd just be standing there doing nothing really (in the book all he can do is
cuss it out and piss it off
) which wouldn't do any good in this particular quest. Well, now that I think about it, they could've done something with that without repeating the story in the book but what they did was still alright.
Why you ask? Just keep playing instead of spoling yourself when to expect the end and the last twist and risking actually heavy spoilers. I'll never understand this.
Okay, so I'm a bit late to the party. Just got a PS4 the other day and picked this up - my first Witcher experience and I'm loving it. But am a bit overwhelmed. There's just so much to do everywhere. I'm in Velen at the moment, helping out the Bloody Baron with a series of quests which have gone on way longer than I expected!
Just went to Oxenfurt to confirm his daughter was alive and was even more overwhelmed with the size of that town. First real city I've seen so far.
I do have a few concerns - I'm not sure if I'm playing right since I never have money to buy. well.. anything. New armour and weapons is out of the question since I just cannot afford them. I'm using the first DLC armour at the moment which I ended up blowing all my money on and couldn't even afford the gloves and the boots for (Still can't). Is there a way to make money more efficiently? None of my stuff sells for anything, even the items I have that say they can be sold for a significant amount only sell for like 10 or 15 at most.
This is a concern because I can't even afford to buy food items for healing, kind of annoying since I've been finding them less and less from looting recently. Levelling also seems to go much slower than I'm used to in RPGs, is this normal? Seems like combat gives next to no EXP so quests are the way to go.
I'm level 5 at the moment, does that sound right for this point? Sorry for the overload of questions, but like I said this is a bit overwhelming for a first time player!
The beginning of the game can be tough when it comes to resource management, but eventually there will come to a point where things click and you will have a ton of gear and cash.
Early on, don't worry about buying armor. You will find some eventually. When you get to about level 8, you will be able to equip the first set of witcher gear, which is probably the best armor in the game. I have been upgrading and alternating my witcher armor and swords for the vast majority of the game.
The merchants are generally pretty overpriced and are really only there for convenience (like you want to craft something but you're missing one piece of leather). Sell items to the matching person. Swords and armor to blacksmiths, and junk to merchants. At the beginning a good way to make money is to sell any hides you come across. Horse hide nets a lot of cash. If you are desperate, you can sell your monster parts you use for alchemy. You don't need 50 drowner brains, so feel free to sell some.
Leveling is very slow. You cannot grind in this game. Killing monsters only gives you a little bit of XP. The principal way to get a lot of XP is to do quests. Main quests can get you a ton, as can Witcher contracts (which is also a good source of money). Side quests rewards vary. I say when you get to about level 6, you can start exploring Velen freely. There will be a lot to do at that level, but there are still areas and enemies you will come across that will be too much so just run away if you come across them. Use the suggested levels under each quest to help decide on what to do when (though sometimes those are bunk. Just because they're green doesn't mean you can do them easily). Level 5 at the Baron quest is pretty typical, but I was about level 9 or 10 because I wanted to focus on sidequests.
My main tips are:
+Explore
+Keep exploring
+Don't stop exploring
Does anyone else have this problem with crafting Glyphs? I went and bought all the crafting diagrams for all the various lesser, normal and greater glyphs for all the signs, but when I go to craft them at a blacksmith the game doesn't recognise any of the Lesser Glyphs that I loot out in the world.
For example, you need two Lesser Glyphs of Aard to make one normal Glyph of Aard. If I actually craft those Lesser Glyphs myself, it'll go ahead as normal. However, if I already have two Lesser Glyphs of Aard in my inventory that I've found out in the wild, the game doesn't recognise them. They're sitting right there in my inventory, but they don't show up in the Crafting menu. I end up just having to sell them, or use them as they are. I'm all patched up to 1.06, so I don't know if this is a glitch or... I don't know, maybe an unfathomable intentional decision by CDPR?
EDIT - Also, if anyone's thinking about getting into glyph/rune crafting, I'd advise against it. Huge money sink (I've probably spent about 10,000 crowns at this point), and you really have to commit to a certain set of armour and swords. You destroy a glyph/rune when you Remove it, so the only way to get it back intact is to Dismantle the equipment.
Okay, so I'm a bit late to the party. Just got a PS4 the other day and picked this up - my first Witcher experience and I'm loving it. But am a bit overwhelmed. There's just so much to do everywhere. I'm in Velen at the moment, helping out the Bloody Baron with a series of quests which have gone on way longer than I expected!
Just went to Oxenfurt to confirm his daughter was alive and was even more overwhelmed with the size of that town. First real city I've seen so far.
I do have a few concerns - I'm not sure if I'm playing right since I never have money to buy. well.. anything. New armour and weapons is out of the question since I just cannot afford them. I'm using the first DLC armour at the moment which I ended up blowing all my money on and couldn't even afford the gloves and the boots for (Still can't). Is there a way to make money more efficiently? None of my stuff sells for anything, even the items I have that say they can be sold for a significant amount only sell for like 10 or 15 at most.
This is a concern because I can't even afford to buy food items for healing, kind of annoying since I've been finding them less and less from looting recently. Levelling also seems to go much slower than I'm used to in RPGs, is this normal? Seems like combat gives next to no EXP so quests are the way to go.
I'm level 5 at the moment, does that sound right for this point? Sorry for the overload of questions, but like I said this is a bit overwhelming for a first time player!
I can agree with Forkball's entire story and this segment. Exploring is key. Also do those Treasure Hunt quests as soon as you can. The armor and weapons you gather from each of these is magnificent, especially when you can upgrade them.
About that upgrading.. Make sure you talk with every single merchant, blacksmith and armorer in every small town to buy Gwent cards, diagrams and map pieces for the armor upgrades.
Whether to do this or not boils down to whether or not the player wants some visual variety or not, though. IMO, there's no reason to rush down the witcher gear at all because you'll be spending a ton of time wearing those in the end anyway. Might as well get some variety in during the first 50 hours, because after that it's all witcher gear all day.
Thanks for the tips all - am definitely keen to get back into this game tomorrow. I'll have to revisit most of the towns to catch up on buying diagrams etc as I haven't really done any of that yet. Are there any examples of a Treasure Hunt type quest? I don't think I've done any of those yet - unless you mean stuff like the one where you find the diagrams for the Viper swords? I did that one.
I will probably have to try and get good at Gwent... is it important to be playing that a lot? Because I'm pretty terrible at it.
Whether to do this or not boils down to whether or not the player wants some visual variety or not, though. IMO, there's no reason to rush down the witcher gear at all because you'll be spending a ton of time wearing those in the end anyway. Might as well get some variety in during the first 50 hours, because after that it's all witcher gear all day.
Guys can you help me ,my marker for the Defeat the Werewolf in Velen just disappeared.I have been there but it was too strong to kill, now I want to go back but cant find the cave.Stupid bug.
Can anyone make a screenshot of the location? Much appreciated.
This is a concern because I can't even afford to buy food items for healing, kind of annoying since I've been finding them less and less from looting recently. Levelling also seems to go much slower than I'm used to in RPGs, is this normal? Seems like combat gives next to no EXP so quests are the way to go.
i am playing on Death March and i deal with healing via food by killing every hare/deer around. They are all over the place. i usually run with my Witcher sense going and the names for hares/rabbits will pop up.. 5-10? more yards out making them easier to track. Deer dont try to run up on and swing. Instead use your crossbow. Before i left White Orchard i had like 60 Raw Meat.
With all of my hunting a good source of my income has come from selling hides to innkeepers. Keep in mind that different vendor types offer different price so selling swords to armorsmith instead of the blacksmith will not get you as much coin.
I'm level 5 at the moment, does that sound right for this point? Sorry for the overload of questions, but like I said this is a bit overwhelming for a first time player!
That sounds about normal. i was like 7 or so when i got there but ive been doing everything, taking my time. Im 66 hours in on Deathmarch and only just hit 11 without even touching Novigrad/Oxenfurt (Oxen with only one story quest so far).
Anyways, game is beyond great. Its a crowning achievement. Easily GOTY for me. i like it so much i was seriously considering dropping like $600 just to upgrade to play it well. On my turtle of a computer on the lowest graphics settings White Orchard was fine but after that i was like 10-20 fps. i saved myself a huge chunk of money when turning down the resolution to 1280x720 got me back to 30+. It looks like the love child of Witcher 2 and Two Worlds 1 but its so brilliant and fun i dont give a fuck.
Thanks for the tips all - am definitely keen to get back into this game tomorrow. I'll have to revisit most of the towns to catch up on buying diagrams etc as I haven't really done any of that yet. Are there any examples of a Treasure Hunt type quest? I don't think I've done any of those yet - unless you mean stuff like the one where you find the diagrams for the Viper swords? I did that one.
I will probably have to try and get good at Gwent... is it important to be playing that a lot? Because I'm pretty terrible at it.
In my admittedly minuscule experience (only did one) that's pretty much what they boil down to. Looking for diagrams through a set of caves, dungeons and other locations + some written backstory.
There is a very fun Gwent tournament sidequest later on. Also, while doing a favour to a certain friend of yours you will be unable to (minor spoilers)
save a very, very unimportant character without a decent deck.
It's a really irrelevant thing but playing as a "goodie" Geralt it made me go back and start playing Gwent after ignoring it for 50 hours. (And I've grown to really like it.)
Whether to do this or not boils down to whether or not the player wants some visual variety or not, though. IMO, there's no reason to rush down the witcher gear at all because you'll be spending a ton of time wearing those in the end anyway. Might as well get some variety in during the first 50 hours, because after that it's all witcher gear all day.
Yeah, on my second playthrough I'm planning to avoid the Witcher armour sets. I went and hunted it down as early as I could, and I love the way it looks (I carry full sets of Cat, Griffin and Bear that I upgrade and switch between as I level up), but it's the best gear in the game so I never really find any loot out in the world that compares to it. I haven't found any named weapons or crazy armour that was worth switching to since about hour five
Are there any examples of a Treasure Hunt type quest? I don't think I've done any of those yet - unless you mean stuff like the one where you find the diagrams for the Viper swords? I did that one.
Basically after every 5-6 levels you can decide to switch to another armor variant, which you can then upgrade after another 2-3 levels so your armor and weapons are never too weak.
You need to find map pieces that starts these type of quests. You either purchase them from merchants scattered across the world and by reading them the quest starts, or perhaps you can even stumble upon one or two diagrams by just exploring.
Started getting back into this last night. Before I stopped after a couple missions and got busy (Damn Splatoon!).
So last night I beat the griffin. I'm getting used to the combat and making oils/potions. I thought your bag was limited at first so I was skipping over letting materials and stuff. Whoops
Tawny owl to aid stamina regen.
Keep Quen up.
Yrden to slow him down.
Wait for him to punch, dodge (not roll), strike once or twice.
Hit with Igni when you can.
Use bombs.
Tawny owl to aid stamina regen.
Keep Quen up.
Yrden to slow him down.
Wait for him to punch, dodge (not roll), strike once or twice.
Hit with Igni when you can.
Use bombs.
One thing I never could figure out in the game, Lord of Undvik quest:
can you actually find the crazy old man in the ship again? He told me to collect silk and nails for him, but it didn't trigger a quest for me, and while nails found in the village beyond were highlighted as quest items, dude wasn't there when I went back with them. I'm still carrying around 70 nails for no reason.
