Can’t you just Fast Travel back there?
Ohh, the tavern… yeah, you’re not welcome back there, not after what you did. So much bloodshed. Some wounds never heal.
JMR
6285
I fast traveled back and found the merchant but he had no cards for sale. Going to have to dig around on the forums for a solution.
rowe33
6286
I’m completely overwhelmed by all the stuff I keep finding…tons of crafting reagents, new recipes in every chest, new stuff for alchemy all the time - is it simpler than it seems? I figure at some point it’ll all make more sense but just feels like a ton of stuff in my inventory.
It gets simpler!
One key game mechanic with potions, oils and decoctions: once you have the ingredients to make them once, you don’t need those ingredients to replenish them. You just need the bases (alcohols for potions/decocts, oils/fats/tallows for oils).
So let’s say you make every potion in the book that requires white myrtle petals. Guess what? For crafting, you don’t need to ever collect another white myrtle petal again, ever. You can collect them to sell if you like, but you’ll never need them to replenish a potion you’ve brewed for the first time already.
Tonight I lifted the curse of Fyke Island, tracked down a package for Kiera, repaired three vandalized shrines, parleyed with the grotesque Allgod, and rescued the pellar’s goat.
Of all the challenges I’ve faced, this was easily the hardest.
I feel I just played 2 hours of the game without doing main or side quests. Just crafting, I needed to complete three oil superior recipes I was missing, 1 red mutagen that I need to open an extra skill slot, and my first two grandmaster witcher armor items (harder to get all the components than the recipes, as always). By pure random luck the only monster hunt I did gave slizard hides, which was needed for it. I had to dismantle some monster components for acid blood, buy other base ones, but in the end I could do it without wasting a ton of money. Green gold into orichalcum ore, into enriched dimmerite ore, into enriched dimmerite plates. In addition I bought a respec potion to take in account the new mutagen system.
I also decided to totally cheat, giving myself extra 20000 gold, which imo was fair. Why? Because the damn con that was the runecrafter in HoS, fucking thirty thousand gold (30K!) wasted on unlocking all his capabilities to in the end being underwhelming and not using any of it.
Speaking of gold and crafting components, I’m noticing how in Blood and Wine there are much, much more buildings with closed doors than in the base game, and less loot left around.
Does choosing the first option have any repercussions? I would hope that Triss and Yen would understand. You know, it’s a game, T and Y, and the RL repercussions would be devastating – so many branching paths.
No, I’ve chosen first option multiple times without Y or T even mentioning it. Keira is sexually aggressive in the books.
rowe33
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Thanks, trigger - that definitely helps ease the overload a bit! Still seems like a ton of stuff is out there to be picked up though.
the only romance choices that matter long term
The only romance/sex choice that has super long term repercussions is Triss and Yen. They’re friends and you’ve gotta choose one. Playing them off one another is poor form.
I also pretty much stopped picking up non-interesting sounding armor/weapon materials by level 10. Unless it’s meteor ore, glowing ore, dimeritium, draconid leather, etc…well, ain’t nobody got time for that, as they say.
I will say this though: monster goopy bits are usually worth taking. Those eyes, claws, feathers, eggs, etc. pop up in armor/weapon recipes. Sometimes as whole body parts, sometimes as powdered monster essence or whatever that requires you to break down those body bits.
Heh, different play throughs of the game.
You mean I took the high road for NO REASON?! Ugh, sorry Geralt!
Think of how pure and noble you’ll feel when you give your Witchery Heart to the right person though! Whomever that is!
There’s somebody else to have sex with much later on, equally inconsequential to the Triss/Yen love triangle.
jsnell
6301
The UI improvements are really great. Being able to immediately read the thing you picked up? OMFG. I’ve hit a couple of bugs so far, e.g. after one conversation ended both me and the NPC had been moved outside the level geometry and couldn’t get back.
So… I entered the tourney in Blood & Wine. All three minigames were really annoying, and much harder in reality than in the practice rounds. And if you fail a minigame, it’s usually like a minute of skipping cutscenes before you can get to the “load” menu and try again, and then another bunch of pre-minigame cutscenes to skip through. I probably wasted 2 hours on that rubbish due to the sunk cost fallacy, never actually bailing out even as it got more frustrating. And as is the norm for Witcher 3, the reward for actually winning was pretty irrelevant. So you might want to just accept the result from the first attempt, rather than brute force wins. I’m pretty sure you’ll get the story beats anyway.
But then I tried another of the initial set of side quests, and it was that old Witcher 3 magic again, building up a huge stack of things to do as every step you take seems to open up two new side quests with hilarious writing.
Oh, there’s more than one, even outside the brothel.
That’s a very abstract version of feeling good, in comparison to the most concrete one known to man.
