4763

Oh nice! There’s set bonuses and skill bonuses? Very cool. I had all the Griffin base set armor on, but I assume I need to find a blacksmith who can make a Griffin sword for me before the set is complete. The only “blacksmith” in Velen I can’t talk to, I think because I accidentally lit a torch in front of him and he was scared of me ever since. I know I could have gone back to White Orchard, but it didn’t feel right to leave Velen until I was done with my tasks there. Now that I’m in Novagrad, I’m assuming I’ll find a Blacksmith soon.

4764

There are no extra set bonuses for wearing all 6 (or 7, if you count crossbow) pieces if that’s what you mean.

4765

So I’m up to “Now or Never.” Main quest in Novigrad is right around the resolution of get junior. I’ve been to skellige but only to do some of the lower level side quests. I’m heavily leaning toward team Triss but what quests should I wrap up before doing now or never so I get the full Yen experience?

Is it safe to go ahead and finish up the main quests in Novigrad and NOT start now or never?
How much of the main quest should I do on skellige?
Can I do too much of the main quest and close off Now or Never and screw up my chances with Triss?

These questions are critical! Ciri can wait!
I’m fine with minor spoilers.

4766

I’m pretty sure you always get the full experience. It just affects your ending.

Yen has a similar “this is important!” quest but her character development continues throughout the endgame. So it’s only a matter of how much you get to know the characters before you videogame commit to them.

Pretty sure it’s very obvious when Now or Never is closed off but I’m not 100% on that.

4767

Thanks. I think I’ll just go ahead and do Now or Never…now I guess.

I made some mad money this weekend using this method to sell your junk:

Here is a nice map/image to sum it all up:

4768

OMG! I can actually climb up a moderately sized hill! After games like Skyrim and FC and others, I had just assumed that, even though I could destroy monsters the size of small moons and had the strength of everyone in the world combined, there was just something about a hero that prevented them from being able to climb up slopes. But in W3, yeah, it slows me down, but I can climb a hill!

and man am I going slow. still just level 8. And yet any fancy Relic sword and most armor is always less powerful than what I have. Walking everywhere, no question markers on. Kinda liking that there are things I have to run away from, but also enjoying it when once in a while I run into a single bad guy/monster that is several levels above me and I figure out how to defeat it anyway. Still haven’t messed much with concoctions and rarely oils. And I really struggle with where to put that rare advancement point. But that’s a good thing, I think.

I’ve said this before and I’ll repeat it again: for me, turning off the question marks made it a different game, and in a good way. With them on, I found myself just trecking from ? to ?, and the sense of exploration was absent. With them off, I never know what may be “over there” and I take my time exploring. The density of stuff to find is a lot less dense than Skyrim, so I need to pay more attention while exploring. May be one reason I’m taking so long. ;)

4769

Same here. Mini map off too. I was just north of Novigrad when I remembered I’d left something I meant to investigate down on the south coast. What a journey :)

4770

I will say that after finishing the game, there was no real point vacuuming up all the question marks. They got kind of boring after a while. I could’ve turned them off and let myself be surprised and probably enjoyed the pace a little more. This is irrespective of exploration style.

4771

I love and hate the Witcher right now. It’s not that I’ve gotten tired of it but it’s starting to create a backlog for me now. I thought I was getting close to the end having search each of the three areas but apparently I have quite a ways left for me. Maybe I’m only halfway? I don’t know cause I don’t want to ask too much so I won’t get spoilered. And this is with me no longer doing every bloody notice board, quests and hitting every ? either. Which I had to turn off as I did end up trying to do everything. Which made the experience so much better, never should’ve been on there to begin with and the completionist in me wanted it to stay on so I would hit them all up but alas that was not to be. And this game will never end. At this rate I will still be playing when Christmas rolls around.

I would like to hear what all those guys who heard the game was only 50 hrs only doing the main quest have to say now. Cause there is clearly a lot of content in this game, possibly too much. As I felt Witcher 2 was fine with where it was at, even with the short third act. Which was a bit of a letdown only because I didn’t want the game to end and to continue finding out more about everything. Now to go back to lurking and posting about W3 in another month or two after another 50 pages of discussion, and hopefully having finished the game by then.

4772

I could have said that after only being a few hours into the game. :)

4773

Yep. After turning them off after White Orchard, it was immediately obvious how much better the experience was. I was surprised, since turning them off (as well as the minimap) in Far Cry 4 didn’t change the game experience for me much, but in this game it was night and day.

4774

Skill points. That’s why you go after question marks.

4775

It took me a hundred hours to finish it yesterday. That was ignoring gwent and then most of the fisticuff and racing quests, but doing everything else I ran into. I too started off hitting every question mark but that didn’t last 30 hours into the game, it was clear that way lay madness.

Amazing game, close to my favorite of all time. I don’t know if anything can knock off Ultima 4, Diablo, and Baldur’s Gate - just because of the novelty aspect, but it came close.

4776

I don’t know why people skip Gwent, it’s a great addition to the progress in the game, and a very fun minigame!

New DLC

4777

Is this the end of the free DLC?

4778

Only 1 dlc this week?

4779

I do, I have no interest in a mini card game in my rpg game at all, here I am on a life or death mission and I need to get to it, but oh no i shall just stop and randomly play a game of cards instead.

It just doesnt work for me in any way, seem sout of step not in keeping with my mission either. That is just my take on it though

4780

I think we still have 3-4 more to go.

4781

Gwent is awesome. That’s all there is to it.

3 DLC to go after the quest this week makes it 13 of 16.

4782

The cat and wolf play could mean a Ciri & Geralt quest. Ciri had a cat witcher medallion (in fact, in her sections the hud uses it, instead of the normal one) and Geralt obviously is the wolf one.