The Witcher 3 thread - now with more goat

Playing through Hearts of Stone for the first time really makes me wish Shani had been a part of the cast during the main story and a full romance option alongside Yen and Triss. Not really sure how and where you'd fit her into the grand scheme of things with the story though since she's so normal

Igni

Cool I was waiting for someone to start a witcher 3 thread. I really wish they would add something new though (anything at all) because I would really like another excuse to play through this game again. I just can't let go.



I feel your pain, I never had so much trouble with any boss in this game until the frog prince and he was the only one where I looked up videos to beat him. I rated him as the hardest one for me until I came across a certain someone in blood and wine.

How often to you use the Quen sign? Its basically tech armour. I find it rather OP. 

Well, the game is designed so that you should not engage anything that is about 10 levels higher than you. Equipment is not that important but enemies get huge damage resistance if you are underleveled. Otherwise, I find it generally too easy. However, to be confortable on Death March, you have to collect at least some loot, do most of side quests, and craft some armor. And you have to have a reasonable weapon. Focused builds essentially trivialize combat. You can focus on heavy armor and power attack, signs and fast attack, and alchemy and signs or alchemy and fast attack. As I cannot parry normally in this game and cannot counter due to clumsy interface, I played first time alchemy build and NG+ as signs build. Both were easy enough. If I can do it, monkey can do it. For major boss encounters, it pays to do side quests, contracts and treasure hunts to level up a bit. And yes, you must dodge/roll. And it is a good idea to visit most of question marks. Don't bother with the ones in Skellige in the sea, it is mostly pointless loot just to generate some gold for lazy people who want to craft all 6 witcher sets at grandmaster level and legendary grandmaster level.

Also, I presume, it is easier to parry/counter on consoles. Anyhow, if you don't like your build, you can always drink a respec potion.

Also, a weapon that you can acquire in Blood and Wine will greatly speed up your NG+. Just don't forget to make some rune slots before starting NG+. Still need to dodge and roll though. Can be a bit intense sometimes.

Superior Golden oriole and Ekhidna decoction will heal you.

Geralt: Yeah, it's right there. Run, Roach!

Roach: What the fuck do you think i'm doing?!

GOAT tier quest.

Wait, where's this? Sounds awesome.

Nice. I'm starting B&W soon-ish. Need to finish it before Mankind Divided is released so I can uninstall TW3 to clear some much needed hard drive space.

Yaaay
So, my previous pc died on me so I lost all my save files AND ng+ files too. So I replayed TW3 (death march) finished and I'm currently on Hearts of Stone and after that I will start Blood & Wine, the only one I haven't played yet, actually I only played the first hour. It looks like a game within the game. So awesome.

Right now my game is on hold because I'm replaying the ME trilogy

Yeah, if its a case of being under-leveled there is a option in the settings with patch 1.2 to turn on level scaling. If that would be more your style. 

I keep wanting to start Blood and Wine but find myself unable to. I know when I finish it then this amazing game will be complete. I am not ready for it to end yet.