The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Can't say I'm a fan of how the endings work, a few very specific conversations with Ciri have the ability to change your entire ending. Seems too arbitrary to me, not a fan at all - a shame because I loved the rest of the game, the endings leave a bitter taste however.
 
PhysicsMan94 said:
Defeated Imerlith recently, it was going too easily for a Witcher boss fight until I got him down to 1/3 health where he drops his shield and goes berserk. Took me by surprise first time and he killed me with a few swings. Managed to beat him on the second try though, glad I upgraded Quen heavily - it proved pretty damn useful!
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keep spamming dodge and he doesn't even touch you. I done it again without using dodge and suddenly it was harder.
 
regulus said:
keep spamming dodge and he doesn't even touch you. I done it again without using dodge and suddenly it was harder.
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Yeah the first time he dropped his shield and went crazy took me by surprise allowing him to chain hit and stun me 3 or 4 times which was basically what killed me. Second time was much easier as I knew what was coming :p

I didn't struggle at all with Eredin however, killed him on my first try - wasn't too difficult at all. Personally I think the Witcher 2 "boss battles" were quite a bit more difficult than the ones in W3.
 
Pighardia said:
Right, so after all that getting to Kaer Morhen and looking forward to getting the Wolf gear, I can't because I can't get the crystal to activate the portal:rolleyes:... What a surprise
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I've just done all them this morning. Just got part 5 left to do in Velen. I just hit it with Ard.
I actually find now, if you hit a glitch, best thing to do, is save and exit. When you come back in, everything is normal again.
 
Idleman said:
I've just done all them this morning. Just got part 5 left to do in Velen. I just hit it with Ard.
I actually find now, if you hit a glitch, best thing to do, is save and exit. When you come back in, everything is normal again.
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Yeah that is what I had to do. Quit the game, then it worked when I loaded it the next time. Really annoying though.
 
Like you, I'm on my second playthrough, on the second hardest difficulty. Actually finding it easier second time round.
So far have finished everything in White Orchard. Got 6 ? left to do in Velen and a few contracts. Also have a few ? to do on Skellige, not including all the one's at sea.
Going to finish off the Wolf gear, then go back to the main mission in Novigrad, where everyone is.
The trouble with this game is, by trying to do everything, you eventually become over leveled in most quests and this then reduces the challenge. I'm currently at level 30.
 
The levelling is by far the biggest problem with the game.

Question for anyone- what would you rather have, 25% stagger chance, or 45% bleeding chance on a steel sword?
 
Pighardia said:
The levelling is by far the biggest problem with the game.

Question for anyone- what would you rather have, 25% stagger chance, or 45% bleeding chance on a steel sword?
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I'd take the stagger, especially when fighting lots of enemies at once. As soon as they stagger, just move in for the kill. I keep a spare silver and steel sword in the inventory, then just swap them out, depending on who or what I'm fighting. Tbh, I have not come across any sword that is really outstanding. I change these more than I do with the armour. Armour wise I tend to go with the stats(same as the swords) and the ability to add a few glyphs for better sign intensity. as my build is centered around sign and alchemy. I had level 5 boots right up until level 28.
 
GBRusty said:
I've never upgraded based on price :)
I tend to look at the DPS first (is it green on the new sword? Means more dps) then weigh it up with some nice stats on lower dps swords. I love extra sign intensity over dps, as long as it's not a massive DPS increase.
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Crit chance/damage and armor penetration can be well worth it over a few flat DPS, armor pen is pretty amazing on steel swords because most humans are armored.
 
Neil79 said:
Level 20, I didn't do any of the Gwent quests as it bores me. There's still a number of question marks I need to do but I need to move on now with the story
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20 isn't bad for Skellige. Not too over-levelled at all.

Honestly though, I think the game flows much better if you don't do all the quests in an area... You do return to each area at least once as part of the story, but all of the side quests are loaded in to act 1. I think it would be much improved if quite a few of the side quests were gated off in some way until later in the game.

In my second playthrough, I have tried to leave as much as I can until later. For example I haven't done any of the so called 'loyalty' quests in Novigrad or Skellige yet, as I think it just makes more sense to do them in act 2 otherwise it just becomes a bit of a tedious can of fast travelling for half an hour. I only spent about 2 hours in Skellige on my first visit there.
 
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Pighardia said:
20 isn't bad for Skellige. Not too over-levelled at all.

Honestly though, I think the game flows much better if you don't do all the quests in an area... You do return to each area at least once as part of the story, but all of the side quests are loaded in to act 1. I think it would be much improved if quite a few of the side quests were gated off in some way until later in the game.
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True enough :)

By the way if anyone wants a good witcher video with a bit more about all of the games and it's history, watch Replaying The Witchers, on Youtube ( Contains one swear word )
 
I think the game would just be helped a lot by some sort of level scaling - not scaling everything to your current level, just anything you've out-levelled already. It still keeps the gating of harder questlines / contracts, but it would prevent most of the plethora of content you will inevitably skip at some point from becoming irrelevant.
 
Scaling everything is a tricky one. I agree that it shouldn't be totally scaled, but I think that it might work well if all main quests were scaled to your level, and it was just contracts and side quests that were unlocked.

It can get a bit annoying when you stumble across a really cool side quest, and the cutscene makes it seem really interesting, then when the game starts again you find out it is 10 levels below you!... It will be too easy to and the reward will be worthless. Also there have been any fights, especially against big monsters where it has been quite easy, and I ended up thinking "well, I bet that would have been epic if I wasn't massively over-levelled for it"
 
In my first playthrough, I only found 6 Places of Power in Velen, just found another one.

Place of Power Locations in Velen

Road to Bald Mountain
Crookbag Bog
Dragonslayers Grotto
Electors Square
Lornruk
Frischlow
Alness
 
How in blue blazes do you kill Jenny O' the Woods! I am level 11 but finding it very hard.

Moved on to a different Witcher contract (also level 10) and killed a grave hag in about 10 seconds! Aard blast knocked her down and finished her with one move!

There seems to be quite a disparity between the difficulty levels of monsters but maybe my character is just more geared up for certain monsters over others.
 
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