Current Events > Just bought The Witcher III. Advice?

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I'm not a big fan of magic, if any, so build ideas around combat. I think there are builds in the game.

I heard that this game can suck you into an endless loop of meaningless quests. How do I tell which quests to focus on? Correct me if I'm wrong, but just focus on Gear quests and story, right?

Are there any mods for the game? "PC Master Race"

Pretty much any advice you can give a new player would be welcome. Thank you
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Dodge -> Slash
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Bad_Mojo posted...

I heard that this game can suck you into an endless loop of meaningless quests.

wtf?
it's one of the few games that has interesting sidequests
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yea, the monster contracts and side-missions are worth checking out, just because Geralt's investigative stuff can be cool, if anything.
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Get off the internet and have fun with the game.
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AlabamaLove posted...

Bad_Mojo posted...

I heard that this game can suck you into an endless loop of meaningless quests.

wtf?
it's one of the few games that has interesting sidequests

This. All quests were gold
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Don't focus too much on the main quest. Explore and do sidequests, visit every message board you can. There is so much to do.
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You'll pretty much have to do sidequests unless you want to be underleveled as hell for everything
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Hmm, okay, thanks

I don't know, I've read a few topics about this game and saw that it was easy to get lost in side quests. Not the story ones, just the fetch quest ones. But if everyone is saying that isn't the case, then I must be mistaken.

Thanks for the correction
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Tag
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Slip-N-Slide posted...

Tag

Slip-N-Slide Tag

Not a bad concept. . .
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Always sell stuff in the city market for best value. Also play Gwent asap and all the time. Other than that, have fun and get the hell off the internet
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Death March is the recommended difficulty IMO. It will be intense for the first area and then suddenly easy. It is normal to feel like you have no money for the whole White Orchard prologue. This immediately stops being a problem when that ends.

The roll button, unlike Witcher 2, is situational. This is because the dodge button, where you just kinda do a little shift, is much better. Dodging has an obscene number of i-frames and does not cost stamina; in fact, I think you can literally just spam dodge and be invincible forever unless you get stuck on something. The skill that says it improves the dodge doesn't seem to do anything, because the dodge is already perfect.

Skills are only active if you actually put them in a slot, so absolutely do NOT spread out your points into many different talents. Pick as few as possible and max them. There are also a lot of trap skills and skill trees; the leftmost two red columns and the alchemy skills that increase how many potions you can use are the most useful overall.

Don't waste points on any brown skills except for the ones related to a specific armor class. They are all traps. Although you can respec out of them eventually, and could waste a point in the skill that makes food last an eternity to make the early game easier.

Quen is super useful for the whole "not dying" thing. Active Shield is nice to take early on Death March for unlimited healing but is eventually useless once you have better potions. Delusion is required for some dialogue options.

The other signs, with some intensity behind them, are either broken as all hell or do literally nothing. There is basically no in-between aside from the alternate Yrden which is just pretty good (very useful for wraiths pre-Moon Dust bombs). Aard sets up instant kills on a ton of stuff. Charmed enemies one-shot each other on Death March (skill is buggy with actually casting, though). Igni does percent max HP as a DoT while preventing the enemy from doing anything if it can be set on fire but does abysmally bad base damage, so basically everything related to improving it is pointless because it's always broken but doesn't scale to be any better.

Speaking of Moon Dust bombs, they are super super useful and you should learn to love them against wraiths.
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the_rowan posted...

*Wonderful Advice*

Thanks!
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I hope that you got the Blood & Wine and Hearts of Stone dlcs, too
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boxington posted...

I hope that you got the Blood & Wine and Hearts of Stone dlcs, too

No, I don't. When I bought the game it was on sale and I didn't know if I would like it or not. But I forgot that I bought it and it's been sitting in my game list for a few months now. When the game goes on sale again, and if I like it enough, then I'll pick up the DLC.

I do see there is a lot of free DLC. Is there a way to download them all at once?
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Still haven't finished that game or likely gotten very far. I enjoyed the stories of the first two a lot more and found them more compelling but you can't say that anywhere on the internet without getting called a contrarian shitposter.

The main quest feels unfocused and I'm doing all this shit with all these different characters to eventually tangentially tie back to the goal of getting info on where daughter-fu is. Also apparently Yennefer is a big deal despite being almost entirely absent from the first two games. And I dunno if they just had something off-screen happen with Triss or if it was because I chose helping the child in Witcher 2 over rescuing her, because they refuse to have a straight fucking conversation in this game. Last I played, I was on the "find Dandelion" load screen that the game had been on for years and I'm trying to do the quest where you track down the crime boss guy but I'm having serious difficulty with the quest tracker for it and the game just doesn't hold my interest.
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If possible, get a refund. It's one of the worst games of all time.
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make sure you have a pillow handy because this game is a snoozefest
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Quen will save your fucking ass early in the game.
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1: change movement mode to a way that feels comfortable. default movement felt quite off for a lot of people and CDR added an alternate mode.

2: depending on how much you want to dive into gear and alchemy, you better start collecting as soon as possible, especially the stuff non-regular monsters drop.

3: increase your weight by investing in one of the brown skills + saddlebags for your horse.. you can usually get the best bags(or horse upgrades in general) up till that point by doing horse races.

4: stick to one tree for the most part since you barely have enough points to get the highest upgrades across 2 trees. use a guide for places of power which give free skill points.

5: for the most part there aren't "bad" quests but if you want to cut out the tedium i suggest avoiding question marks and random treasure hunts that aren't part of witcher sets. also, i suggest just racing from big city to big city in the beginning to unlock the waypoints which again cuts down on tedium.

6: skipping question marks is a gamble since they can either be crap(but still almost always give you some materials/money/random gear) or be part of something bigger like a quest or treasure hunt. it's especially annoying when looking for witcher sets only to realize you have to backtrack since you skipped it the first time around.

7: to get the most out of quest exp, try to finish them all within level range. main quests give the most exp.

8: you definitely should get into gwent since it's fun as hell.

9; definitely get the DLC if you end up liking the game... especially blood and wine is fantastic and serves as a proper finish to geralt's adventure.

probably more but should be a start.
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Okay, thank you, everyone
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