The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Maundie said:
If you get the Blood & Wine dlc you can then craft grandmaster gear and you get a huge bonus for having all the armours and both swords, costs a fortune though so make sure you've plenty of money when you go to craft it in Toussant.

Also there is Viper (available in Heart of Stone dlc) and Manticore (available in Blood & Wine dlc) both which require level 40 but I won't spoil it and tell you where to get it from.
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I bought the GOTY so I've got those DLCs to go through :D currently coming towards the end of the main game and level 29. I've found all the diagrams for all the armour/swords so I'll be ready to craft everything up to master crafted level, cash permitting.

So I take it I have to actually craft/own all the grandmaster gears to get this bonus?
 
Clarkson said:
So I take it I have to actually craft/own all the grandmaster gears to get this bonus?
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I take it you've got the master-crafted gear (all 6 items)? If so there is a quest (Scavenger Hunts to be precise) in Blood & Wine to find the GrandMaster-crafted diagrams for an armourer and after those you can then craft the gear, you get a bonus for equipping 3 items but the best bonus is for equipping all 6 (gloves, boots, trousers, chest armour, silver sword and steel sword).

I crafted the GrandMaster Feline (wanted the light armour for the bonus to stamina) set and must admit he looks quite dapper, I've some of the Master-crafted other sets but it's really expensive crafting a GrandMaster-crafted set (think it cost me about 30k as I didn't have every crafting component so had to buy some) so make sure you have plenty of cash (you can actually accumulate quite a bit of money from doing the ? around the Skellig isles as they're all either sunken treasure or smuggler drops).
 
Maundie said:
I take it you've got the master-crafted gear (all 6 items)? If so there is a quest (Scavenger Hunts to be precise) in Blood & Wine to find the GrandMaster-crafted diagrams for an armourer and after those you can then craft the gear, you get a bonus for equipping 3 items but the best bonus is for equipping all 6 (gloves, boots, trousers, chest armour, silver sword and steel sword).

I crafted the GrandMaster Feline (wanted the light armour for the bonus to stamina) set and must admit he looks quite dapper, I've some of the Master-crafted other sets but it's really expensive crafting a GrandMaster-crafted set (think it cost me about 30k as I didn't have every crafting component so had to buy some) so make sure you have plenty of cash (you can actually accumulate quite a bit of money from doing the ? around the Skellig isles as they're all either sunken treasure or smuggler drops).
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Oh I see, you mean all pieces of armour/swords within one 'set' of gear. That's not too bad, I thought you meant I'd need all sets of grandmaster gear for the bonus :D

I'm only level 29 so haven't bothered making master crafted stuff yet as I can't wear it. I do have all diagrams though and nigh on 30k coin.
 
Clarkson said:
Oh I see, you mean all pieces of armour/swords within one 'set' of gear. That's not too bad, I thought you meant I'd need all sets of grandmaster gear for the bonus :D
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Yeah just 1 strain is required, I'm annoyed as you get some pretty special swords later in the game but despite having the Feline crossbow it doesn't count, change a sword and I drop to the 3 items bonus :mad:
 
Are there any mods worth using or just play as is? I never used any before but it was ages since I last played the game.
 
digitalx said:
There's a lot I'd recommend. What would you like? Armour, weapons, graphics etc?
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No idea TBH! Are there any to make gameplay quicker (eg alchemy/potions etc), think graphics look fine but willing to tray a mod as long at doesn't crash the game.
 
zom247 said:
Are there any mods worth using or just play as is? I never used any before but it was ages since I last played the game.
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HD mod for textures
Super turbo lighting

Game still looks great without and I think the base game doesn't need any improvement. Someone might recommend a HUD mod if that's what your interested in.
 
I run a few mods, mainly for efficiency..

Plus 9000 carry weight
Auto loot (only on dead enemies, not from chests/barrels etc.
Auto equip the most suitable potion to a sword if you have it in your inventory
Fast travel from anywhere to any sign post that's already discovered

Saves a lot of faf and not too cheaty
 
Paul_cz said:
It is something else. I wonder if with all the hype behind Horizon if it also has quests that reach similar emotional heights and general quality.
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This is what sets Witcher 3 apart from anything else I have ever played. Each story set piece is like a game within itself. Some of them are master class.
 
Paul_cz said:
It is something else. I wonder if with all the hype behind Horizon if it also has quests that reach similar emotional heights and general quality.
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Whilst Horizon is an absolutely superb game, it cannot be really compared to W3. Horizon's true triumph is its combat, robotic Tomy Zoids and it's new take on an apocalypse. It isn't lore laden like Witcher is. Quests are decent but nothing we've seen before and Horizon's quests are more akin to Fallout 4's more than anything. Imo there isn't a single game today that can match Witcher 3 - it has set the bar massively high, and it's 2x DLC's are works of art.
 
Kainz said:
Whilst Horizon is an absolutely superb game, it cannot be really compared to W3. Horizon's true triumph is its combat, robotic Tomy Zoids and it's new take on an apocalypse. It isn't lore laden like Witcher is. Quests are decent but nothing we've seen before and Horizon's quests are more akin to Fallout 4's more than anything. Imo there isn't a single game today that can match Witcher 3 - it has set the bar massively high, and it's 2x DLC's are works of art.
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Frankly, I don't think Horizon has to be compared to W3 at all. It's not a full-blown RPG and it already has W3 beat on graphics, gameplay/combat, animations and uniqueness of the setting. That alone is enough for me to accept it as a very decent game, especially given the hardware it has to run on. It's a pleasant surprise as I honestly thought the game would fail.

Some sidequests were IMO the best element of W3 and Horizon won't top it on this front. However, that's not the only thing which makes games enjoyable and it's not like Horizon has a bad story.


I spent 130 hours with W3 and while I agree it's all in all a very good game, I still struggle to see how it's supposed to have the best story. It has good dialogues but the story in the base game was bog-standard and overly plodding. I'm aware I'm in the minority but I just feel the game tried to hide the shallowness of the plot with a wall of cool dialogues and distractions. While some hardcore fans here probably replayed it two or three times, I was at my limit at around 90 hours and just wanted it to end. Apart from the sidequests, it wasn't varied enough to sustain a 100+h experience.
I guess the whole brilliance of the game rests mostly on the story and if you don't like that it's nothing overly special since the gameplay mechanics aren't extremely polished or varied and it makes a lot of mistakes an RPG shouldn't make.



I must note, hoverer, that both expansions did a much better job with the story, especially Hears of Stone. That one did in fact reach the level of brilliancy I had expected from the whole game. I loved every character it introduced.
 
I played and completed W3 when it first came out and it really blew my socks off, easily the best game I have ever played. I bought the expansions ages ago but have been putting off playing them, while I went through Fallout 4 and a few other games and over the last few weeks I have got back into it. Rather than start a NG+ I started over from scratch and surprisingly I got sucked right back into it, even though I knew the outcomes of many of the quest lines, it just didn't matter. The characters have so much depth to them that you feel like you really know them and you actually care what happens to them, all thanks to amazing writing and probably the best voice acting I have heard in any game. The attention to detail is ridiculous, some good examples are the very subtle glances between Geralt and Ciri during the main quest, just brilliantly done.
I completed the main quest about a week ago and Hearts of Stone last night and that was just as good as the main game, great story and some amazing characters and now I'm just about to head off to Toussaint and fingers crossed that Blood and Wine keeps up the insanely high standard. :)
 
mattyfez said:
I run a few mods, mainly for efficiency..

Plus 9000 carry weight
Auto loot (only on dead enemies, not from chests/barrels etc.
Auto equip the most suitable potion to a sword if you have it in your inventory
Fast travel from anywhere to any sign post that's already discovered

Saves a lot of faf and not too cheaty
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Thanks, I went onto Nexusmod and found a couple of those so using Fast Travel and Auto loot which does save time.

Is there any way to get rid of the dialogue when you leave a merchant? I get sick of having to press space when he speaks after you select the option to leave.

Also, is it ok to get rid of all the books you have read? Seem to have loads cluttering up my inventory.
 
Kainz said:
Whilst Horizon is an absolutely superb game, it cannot be really compared to W3. Horizon's true triumph is its combat, robotic Tomy Zoids and it's new take on an apocalypse. It isn't lore laden like Witcher is. Quests are decent but nothing we've seen before and Horizon's quests are more akin to Fallout 4's more than anything. Imo there isn't a single game today that can match Witcher 3 - it has set the bar massively high, and it's 2x DLC's are works of art.
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Thanks for impressions. I am still looking forward to Horizon - it and Yakuza 0 are biggest reasons why I plan to buy PS4 Pro - although I wish it had the kind of personal imaginative writing Witcher has.
I was just playing another hyped up game, Dragon's Dogma, and after 5 hours and 12 finished quests later, I decided to shelve it..the quests were just so lazy and simplistic, characters had zero interesting personality, world was incredibly generic and it was mostly just combat combat combat, which, while good, doesn't sustain my interest for long.
I hope Horizon will be more imaginative than this, but a friend of mine who loves Witcher says Horizon is the first game since Witcher that cought his interest to similar degree, so I am hopeful.

shankly1985 said:
Just when you think you have seen it all and you start Blood & Wine for the first time!! WOW!! Does this game ever stop being awesome? :D
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Yes, after Blood and Wine's credits roll, assuming you do not click on new game+ option afterward :)
 
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