The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Overdriven]

Can't really complain. I've got golden plate armor atm in the main game. But that's simply because it's the strongest I currently own. Kind used to it now as well.

[Angantyr]

I didn't find him that hard, top tier Golden Oriole just meant I healed everything pretty quick. Took ages though.

Yes, Golden Oriole would have helped a lot, didn't have it at the time on that playthrough. To be fair I also tried to play through the game with the first tier Ursine armor, because it is one of the few non-metallic armors in the game. It may also have been on NG+, not sure, been through it three times.

Just installed the game again to check and really wish they would separate the savegame indexes for each character, it's an awful mess, very hard to see which goes to which.

[IR_Kuoin]

I'm going to buy the dlcs as I have not yet done so, but planning on doing them in ng+. So how do you start the quests, are they introduced after installation like the previous free dlc quests or are there more to it?

[Lt_Anders]

Umm, what? Isn't that how most people do things anyway? I only use my debit card for online purchases, both GOG and Steam...

As an Aside, you should always use CC for online purchases as a Debit card gives you no fraud or dispute protection. Course, that's the US, not sure about EU bylaws on that stuff. Would assume it's similar, as banks are devils regardless of your country.

I need to get to actually complete the game before I try DLCs. I'm...so slow and forgetfull.

[Daunt_Flockula]

And now GOG is mocking me. Immediately after my outcry, the Witcher series goes on sale

I am hoping a sale hits Steam too. I will obviously have to buy it there as well.

[Overdriven]

I'm going to buy the dlcs as I have not yet done so, but planning on doing them in ng+. So how do you start the quests, are they introduced after installation like the previous free dlc quests or are there more to it?

You can actually start playing them at any point. They are essentially just side quests. So when you get to Velen for example the Heart of Stone quest pops up in your quest log and you can start it at any point by going to the location. There's also a little one when you get into Oxenfurt where you get approached by a certain character automatically.

It also added loads to the north east area of the Novigrad side of the map which was previously quite empty so lots of additional stuff to explore there. Worth doing as you can unlock a certain useful craftsman.

I think the suggested level was 35 though for them. I started them at around level 40 or so and they weren't challenging. But really nice story and very well put together.

[IR_Kuoin]

Tried to go for the Collect 'em all achievement and damn is that a pain. Found out only when I had around two cards left that I could only acquire them during a mission that I had already completed, and since new game + removes all cards, oh boy. Luckily I found a mod that gives all unique cards to the merchant at "Inn at the crossroads" so if anyone wanna grab the achievement just dl this mod http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/1054/?

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Weak. Got that achievement the proper way.

[Overdriven]

One thing that's bugging me this play through. All the mastercrafted gear is lower protection/damage than some of the stuff I've stumbled across. I'm not even fully exploring on this playthrough because cba but it's irritating because the mastercrafted witcher gear looks so much nicer than the general stuff. So at the moment I'm just downgrading on damage and protection.

[Angantyr]

Playing NG+?

If so, there's a new tier of Witcher gear.

[Overdriven]

Nope still in NG.

But I didn't have this problem in my first playthrough. Wondering whether it's something to do with the DLC. I did the DLC relatively early on and picked up most of my best equipment then.

[Daunt_Flockula]

One thing that's bugging me this play through. All the mastercrafted gear is lower protection/damage than some of the stuff I've stumbled across. I'm not even fully exploring on this playthrough because cba but it's irritating because the mastercrafted witcher gear looks so much nicer than the general stuff. So at the moment I'm just downgrading on damage and protection.

What's beautiful about the sets is that they support the various available playstyles nicely when worn together. Other than that, yeah, they mostly fall behind other random pieces of gear.

[Xant]

Probably repeating myself from earlier on this thread, but this game continues to amaze me. Not only is the sheer amount of content amazing to the point of feeling overwhelming, it's also all extremely high quality, with unique stuff and Geralt speaking to himself, etc. I don't understand how they could do all this when you compare it to literally any other RPG. I must have like 200 hours over 2-3 playthroughs and I'm pretty sure I've only explored 30% of the map.

Still, though, the armor design tends to be pretty horrible, sadly, for Geralt. I've seen some pictures of Hearts of Stone armors and they looked pretty good, but there's a very limited amount of Witcher-y armors to be found overall. And most armors look pretty silly on Geralt, even if you disregard the "witchery" requirement.

[Xant]

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Would've loved to have the upper left armors in the game. First 3-4 look great.

[Overdriven]

Probably repeating myself from earlier on this thread, but this game continues to amaze me. Not only is the sheer amount of content amazing to the point of feeling overwhelming, it's also all extremely high quality, with unique stuff and Geralt speaking to himself, etc. I don't understand how they could do all this when you compare it to literally any other RPG. I must have like 200 hours over 2-3 playthroughs and I'm pretty sure I've only explored 30% of the map.

There are some downsides to this. On this play through it's almost daunting. I'm thoroughly enjoying a lot of the side quests ect, but I'm finding it hard to put in the time due to the sheer amount of content. I've started skipping quite a few of the witcher contracts just to focus on the main side quests.

Still, though, the armor design tends to be pretty horrible, sadly, for Geralt. I've seen some pictures of Hearts of Stone armors and they looked pretty good, but there's a very limited amount of Witcher-y armors to be found overall. And most armors look pretty silly on Geralt, even if you disregard the "witchery" requirement.

Hearts of Stone armours are really nice looking but stats wise they become useless very quickly. They are very 'eastern' as the higher ones are obtained by finding recipes for the eastern merchant guys. I was almost tempted to just role with the robe type outfit you wear for the wedding. Makes you look like an eastern noble but definitely one of the nicer looking pieces in the game.

One thing I'm looking forward to in the new DLC, dyeing your armour. Some of the armour that is incredibly garish and not at all witcher looking could become quite nice if you can tone down the colours.

Only image I could find of that wedding set:
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