The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Memento Mori** » Tue May 31, 2016 1:13 pm

My first action in Touissant after the opening quest was to beat the local innkeeper at Gwent. Northern Realms deck with a load of spy cards is clearly the best.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **KomandaHeck** » Tue May 31, 2016 1:23 pm

Memento Mori wrote:My first action in Touissant after the opening quest was to beat the local innkeeper at Gwent. Northern Realms deck with a load of spy cards is clearly the best.

I do the same thing, loaded up with spies and siege cards. I put about 5-6 hours into this last night and I know I've barely scratched the surface, just did the introductory main quests, upgraded the vineyard and completed one small side-quest. The rest of my time was spent just walking around and playing gwent, easily the most beautiful location in the game.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Mafro** » Tue May 31, 2016 1:42 pm

Still waiting on mine downloading.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **NBK** » Tue May 31, 2016 8:17 pm

Ah crap, the upgrade has done something to my total played time and it's now only showing as 5 hours. I'd clocked up almost 80 and wanted to see if I could break the hundred mark.

Also no to Gwent. I tried it a couple of times and both ended with me going "how did they win that?", couldn't be arsed after that.

I'm really enjoying this so far (level 4, about 10 hours in), but am finding it really hard to settle on a difficulty level between Sword and Story (all a touch easy, not enough motivation to really prep for battles) and Blood and Broken Bones (ok until inadvertently stumbling on anything higher level at which point I'm mauled to death almost instantly). Anyone else find this? If so is it just an early stages issue?

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Crimson** » Tue May 31, 2016 10:46 pm

Played a few hours of B&W. Absolutely glorious. So much new stuff to discover and the characters, quests, and locations I've come across so far have been excellent. Toussaint feels like nowhere else in the base game, it's got a completely different flavour and atmosphere, one that's a welcome change up. The new music is great too.

So good to be back. :wub:

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Mafro** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 2:04 am

The bank quest :lol:

So Blood & Wine is pretty damn great.

Er, What does everything do again?

Returning to W3 after all this time away is much like returning to WoW after a extended break. So before starting on the expansion missions, I've decided to ease myself back in with the controls, abilities, etc by wandering the land and gathering the remaining parts of the various unfinished / of no use to me now Witcher gear sets.

Is there a easier way to restore substantial amounts of health, other consuming Superior (etc) Swallow potions? Gathering/buying materials for that gooseberry fool is gonna be tedious.

edit: many, many :fp:

's. I swear, the very moment I crafted a fresh bottle of Superior Swallow it just came to me that its charges refilled when I meditated. :oops:

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **jiggles** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:09 am

Meditation also fully restores your health, so you only really need potions during combat. Save your alcohol by meditating for an hour instead of popping a bunch of potions

Yeah, that all came back to me the instant I recalled benefits of meditation.

Had a quick bash on it this morning for a couple of hours or so, only two things I managed to get accomplished was locating final Witcher gear plan, and figuring out how not to replenish potions. :slol:

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **KomandaHeck** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:48 am

Saint of Killers wrote:Is there a easier way to restore substantial amounts of health, other consuming Superior (etc) Swallow potions? Gathering/buying materials for that gooseberry fool is gonna be tedious.

edit: many, many 's. I swear, the very moment I crafted a fresh bottle of Superior Swallow it just came to me that its charges refilled when I meditated.

White Raffard's Decoction will instantly restore you to full health. Always used it over Swallow.

I think that's precisely what's filled my final consumable slot. What ever it nay actually be, I know it's a instant full health regen type pot.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Jenuall** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:05 pm

SugarDave wrote:
Saint of Killers wrote:Is there a easier way to restore substantial amounts of health, other consuming Superior (etc) Swallow potions? Gathering/buying materials for that gooseberry fool is gonna be tedious.

edit: many, many 's. I swear, the very moment I crafted a fresh bottle of Superior Swallow it just came to me that its charges refilled when I meditated.

White Raffard's Decoction will instantly restore you to full health. Always used it over Swallow.

Surely you mean Superior White Rafford's Decoction, or is this a difficulty level thing? The base Rafford's potion only restored about 50% of health if I remember correctly?

Also glad I played on a higher difficulty as the whole meditate to restore all health thing sounds like it would make the game way too easy. One of the things I liked about TW3 was the level of challenge offered.

Still only a few hours into Hearts of Stone, so will need to crack on with that if I'm going to catch up with Blood and Wine!

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **KomandaHeck** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:33 pm

Yeah, my mistake. I've just had the Superior version of all the gear for so long that I forgot about the previous ones.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Jenuall** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:55 pm

SugarDave wrote:Yeah, my mistake. I've just had the Superior version of all the gear for so long that I forgot about the previous ones.

True, some of the Superior stuff feels possibly a bit overpowered though. I believe the Superior White Rafford's actually makes you invincible for a period of time? Also I tend to abuse the Superior Golden Oriole which makes poisons actually heal you - this makes fights against poisonous creatures such as the frog prince in Hearts of Stone pretty straightforward.

On the other hand it does add some weight to the role-playing aspect - Geralt is a Witcher who knows his stuff, he's not an overpowered superhero but he can achieve impressive feats because he comes prepared with the right oils/potions/gear etc.

Such a shame they couldn't sort out the delay in menus appearing, items generating in inventory. (PS4 version) Though that last one is probably down to me and the hoard of gooseberry fool I'm running around with.

Will my materials still be available to me at herbalist, armourer, etc if I place them in stash?

I'm absolutely loving this game now. Have played about 22 hours over the last 8 days. Im at level 6 ... just....It's a rather large game isn't it?
My initial concerns over the difficult on blood and bones setting seems to have come to nothing, and I'm now hacking and slashing my way in an acceptable manner. That's not to say that odd pack doesnt get the better of me sometimes (which keeps every encounter intense).
I have also gone from "think I will just skip gwent" to "who wants to play some cards then, like NOW". Amazing depth.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Bertie** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:06 pm

Incredible game, I managed to not get sucked into Gwent but still smashed 100+ hours doing loads of stuff. Amazing.

I need to go back at some point for the dlc. Hoping for a Xmas sale on it!

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