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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT3| Metz Some Ploughing Good Ladies In the Forest
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RandomSeed
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I realized I probably misread the post after I replied, but I liked the gif, so kept it. I thought you meant you were just playing (slowly) without updating the game, not that you took a break.
Taking a break from a massive game isn't shocking.Yeah, I looked at it and thought "wait, he didn't update until NOW?" Which can be believable too if you just put it down for a full year, but if he was on 1.0 with new patches put that'd be insane.I realized I probably misread the post after I replied, but I liked the gif, so kept it. I thought you meant you were just playing (slowly) without updating the game, not that you took a break.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Hearts of stones adds some giant spiders on the map you can fight, meditate for an hour, and fight them again. They give 50ish experience each. Biggest issue is they hit hard and hang out together so be careful.
Someone on the last page posted the spot on the map
Thanx admiral!
OdysseusVA
Banned
So the Levity stuff applies to all equipped armor, right? Not just the chest piece?
Edit: Yes it does
Edit: Yes it does
Coreda
Member
Didn't realize they gave such a lot of XP. Annoying bunch though, so hard to get close to
OdysseusVA
Banned
Didn't realize they gave such a lot of XP. Annoying bunch though, so hard to get close to
Northern Wind and Axii work well
Admiral Woofington
Member
Didn't realize they gave such a lot of XP. Annoying bunch though, so hard to get close to
there's little trick to fight them. All I can suggest is to use something to stun the one you're gonna hit, like Igni, and hit them three times with heavy attack and back off as they can only get hit 3 times at a time before they block off and hit you.
You could also try to counter but as you're rolling around trying to not get ganked on, it's fairly hard lol
endlessflood
Member
I'll second that.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Wow
I just realized my DPS is significantly lower after the Viper armor enchantment? Does the cat school techniques not apply? Something else relating to light armor?
I just realized my DPS is significantly lower after the Viper armor enchantment? Does the cat school techniques not apply? Something else relating to light armor?
OdysseusVA
Banned
Wait, wait; you're using the Enchantment to have it act as light armor, and the ability's effects still aren't being applied?
Or, maybe it is, and your damage output is still lower because the Cat set has its own bonuses that the Viper set lacks.
RandomSeed
Member
Make sure you try taking off your armor, then trying it back on. I didn't get the heavy armor bonus from the Runesmith on a character until I did that. You should get the light armor ability bonus then, just not the Feline armor attack bonus of course.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Forgot the 50% attack bonus from the Feline set Thats where all the damage went ha
Thats where all the damage went haendlessflood
Member
For Blood and Wine you mean? There's a dedicated Blood and Wine OT up now:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1225387
Those who get to preload Blood and Wine (AFAIK):
- US PSN users who bought the full expansion pass
- US PSN users who bought Blood and Wine separately
- EU PSN users who bought Blood and Wine separately
- XBOne users who bought Blood and Wine separately (I think)
Those who don't get to preload Blood and Wine (AFAIK):
- EU PSN users who bought the full expansion pass
- PC users (I think)
- XBOne users who bought the full expansion pass (I think)
The PSN user info above is definitely correct, but I'm not 100% on the other platforms, just going by what I've seen posted in the various threads.
nightmare-slain
Gold Member
that's seriously unfair. how come those who bought the expansion pass in EU or on Xbox don't get a preload? i probably won't get to play until wednesday now. i was hoping to preload today. oh well.
Adry9
Member
Ooops missed it. To be honest this is really unfair, specially after making platforms wait so everyone could get patches at the same time.
Tenacious-D
Member
Something I don't think a lot of people realise in relation to Geralt, Ciri, Yen and Triss:
There's an epilogue in the latest book, Season of Storms,
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All three will outlive Ciri by a significant margin. Although she has incredible powers, she's just a human, and will age similarly to one, unlike Geralt, Yen or Triss. In other words, her parents are going to have to bury their child one day.
There's an epilogue in the latest book, Season of Storms,
set 100 years after the main story, that I think pretty much implies that Geralt is still alive. Considering that Jan Calveit takes the Nilfgaardian throne in 1301 after Moorvan Voorhis, and think it's safe to say that Ciri is dead by then too.
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endlessflood
Member
I have no knowledge of the books... but
isn't Ciri also a Source? Shouldn't that confer long life, as with the other Sorceresses?
nightmare-slain
Gold Member
i thought xbox wasn't to get a preload? are you in the US by any chance?
If you purchased the expansion on its own(without the expansion pass) you got the pre-load a couple of days ago.
Expansion pass owners got the pre-load a couple of minutes ago.
I'm located in germany, but my console is set to US.
Coreda
Member
Had no idea the (HoS spoilers)
was so OP, it's hilarious. Had it in my stash for a while since it wasn't really my style but decided to take it out for a spin.
For the first time ever defeated an entire group of Novigrad guards (level 54) in the same time it would take encountering bandits just by using the
and without resorting to tricks :O Add Quen into the mix and Geralt's an unstoppable force, even before adding any upgrades.
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Also tested all the greater runestones with the Viper Venomous silver sword against a level 40 griffin to see which may be better. The short of it is poison/bleeding effects are comparable, taking a good percentage of HP over a few seconds, but the inherent poison effect of the sword pretty much gets applied no matter which other runes are added so it's the natural choice. Bleeding+Poison and Burning+Poisoning seems to stack but I've also read archgriffins are immune to fire so who knows.
On the other hand taking into consideration the insectoids and environment seen in the Blood & Wine screenshots it seems likely a number of enemies in the expansion will have a level of poison immunity. The bleeding and burning runestones seem like the better choice but seeing as I always carry the Harpy silver sword (20% chance to cause bleeding) I'll either pick burning or perhaps make it the dedicated 'poison' sword.
The freezing and stun runestones had no effect on the griffin, and the armor piercing was of little use seeing as the inherent poison damage had a far greater effect.
Iris steel sword
For the first time ever defeated an entire group of Novigrad guards (level 54) in the same time it would take encountering bandits just by using the
sword's auto power-up charge
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Also tested all the greater runestones with the Viper Venomous silver sword against a level 40 griffin to see which may be better. The short of it is poison/bleeding effects are comparable, taking a good percentage of HP over a few seconds, but the inherent poison effect of the sword pretty much gets applied no matter which other runes are added so it's the natural choice. Bleeding+Poison and Burning+Poisoning seems to stack but I've also read archgriffins are immune to fire so who knows.
On the other hand taking into consideration the insectoids and environment seen in the Blood & Wine screenshots it seems likely a number of enemies in the expansion will have a level of poison immunity. The bleeding and burning runestones seem like the better choice but seeing as I always carry the Harpy silver sword (20% chance to cause bleeding) I'll either pick burning or perhaps make it the dedicated 'poison' sword.
The freezing and stun runestones had no effect on the griffin, and the armor piercing was of little use seeing as the inherent poison damage had a far greater effect.
lordfuzzybutt
Member
No.
Tenacious-D
Member
If I recall correctly, a source and a mage are two different things. I might be remembering this incorrectly though.
Mages are able to use magic by harnessing "The Power". This is a natural force that exists everywhere, and within everything, made up of the four elements, but is stronger in certain places and people. Mages often need to cast more powerful spells in these Places of Power, like Freya's Garden in TW3. Not everyone can learn to be a mage, as it requires certain innate ability.
Sources are descendants of certain elven bloodlines, and have a great natural affinity for magic. This is why they can learn to time travel, but normal mages can't. The descendants of Lara Dorren are considering the most power and unique. Sources can learn to be mages, but mages can't become sources, if that makes sense. Just because someone is a source, doesn't mean that they'll live longer. They still need to learn how to control and master magic.
Some cases:
Pavetta (Ciri's mother) aged normally and 'drowned' at sea. Emhyr totally didn't push her overboard.
Alvin / Jacques de Aldersberg also aged pretty normally, and got his ass slayed by Geralt regardless of his powers.
Alvin / Jacques de Aldersberg also aged pretty normally, and got his ass slayed by Geralt regardless of his powers.
WadiumArcadium
Member
Yep. Far superior. I really like it.
Any ideas as to why Superior Wolven Armor isn't coming up in the crafting menu at the Heirarch square armorsmith?
I have the diagram and I just crafted boots, gauntlets and trousers for him but for some reason the Armor doesn't show up? I can see it in my Crafting menu but not his.
I have the diagram and I just crafted boots, gauntlets and trousers for him but for some reason the Armor doesn't show up? I can see it in my Crafting menu but not his.
Admiral Woofington
Member
just kill something, I grinded to 39 yesterday, had 2000/2000 on 39 right now, killed some low level bandits and I'm now at 40.
So it is actually possible to fail the gwent card collection quest? I thought it wasn't since the quest never failed for me and there always seemed to be an alternative way to get cards when someone with a unique card left, but after installing the patch the Gwent quest is now failed.
Not that it really matters since I didn't plan on finishing the quest anyway.
Not that it really matters since I didn't plan on finishing the quest anyway.
therealminime
Member
Edit: wrong thread
WadiumArcadium
Member
I had a skim read of the patch notes earlier and I believe it fails if you missed one of the cards at the party you attend with Triss.
Admiral Woofington
Member
it does, the B&W thread is posting some comparison shots on how the lighting is better. Maybe even the water.
definitely seems that way to me
getting like 70-80 frames consistently with everything mxed out@1080 and rain pouring, while hunting skellige for treasures on a 980ti
water looks better
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
It's truly mind boggling to me the amount of love CDPR has poured into this game, it's improvement and constant evolution with patches and DLC... to the point were I can't even fathom how amazing Cyberpunk 2077 is going to be.
This game is a love letter to anyone who likes RPGs that even on my 3rd playthrough, continues to show me new things, lore bits and story elements... amazing stuff.
This game is a love letter to anyone who likes RPGs that even on my 3rd playthrough, continues to show me new things, lore bits and story elements... amazing stuff.
D
Deleted member 471617
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Two quick questions since I forgot from a year ago..
1. What's the alternative movement option do?
2. I want to select the choices after the prologue so do I select on or off in regards to the "simulate the witcher 2" save question?
Thanks.
1. What's the alternative movement option do?
2. I want to select the choices after the prologue so do I select on or off in regards to the "simulate the witcher 2" save question?
Thanks.
This is a very subjective question and I don't think there is any "fix" for it, but does anyone else feel like the FPS "feels" lower when playing with KB+M than a controller? Looking at the MSI Afterburner the FPS is exactly the same using both controls, yet it feels smoother with a controller. I've played hundreds of hours on KB+M - which I prefer - so I'm not complaining, it's not even a minor annoyance, but I thought I'd ask.
Having a lot of trouble finding green mold all of a sudden, no herbalists I talk to have it (Gremist, the other druid by Gremist, gnome outside of Novigrad and a few others), been checking some caves and can't seem to locate any there either.
Any tips on where to pick some up?
Any tips on where to pick some up?
Makes moving around a bit more immediate and responsive. I stick with the standard, though.
On.
If I remember correctly, it's found in or around water.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Going through Hearts of Stone before I start Blood and Wine, question related to HoS...
I've bought the diagrams for the Viper Armor, but no armorer I come across appears to 'recognize' me having bought the plans for me to see them in my crafting screen Is there something I'm missing, here?
On the latest patch, in case that matters. I could be missing something obvious, been a while since I've played, lol.
edit: Lmao, forgot that it was the dwarf's wife, had spoken to him.
Oops.
I've bought the diagrams for the Viper Armor, but no armorer I come across appears to 'recognize' me having bought the plans for me to see them in my crafting screen Is there something I'm missing, here?
On the latest patch, in case that matters. I could be missing something obvious, been a while since I've played, lol.
edit: Lmao, forgot that it was the dwarf's wife, had spoken to him.
Oops.