Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me?

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• illi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The sidequests are fucking great though. Didn’t play all, but those I did could be main quests in a different game. I had to skip some because there is just stupid amount of them and I was overleveling fast.

  Don’t do map completition though - trying to do all is truly insanity

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  • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As a general rule of thumb, if it has dialogue, it’s going to be pretty good, and surprisingly so a lot of the time. The Witcher 3 is still unmatched for quality and quantity of side quests.

    This wasn’t a particularly good open world game even for its time, so I’d say ignoring the map markers completely is often smart.

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• ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is very true, especially around mid game.

  There are significantly more quests than you need to advance levels and eventually you get level 30+ having done all the side quests and there will be several unfinished missions for recommend level 7-20 that become worthless unless the story/character behind it interests you.

  Definitely grind early missions as they are basically tutorials and also give you lore on all the factions, don’t worry too much about gold as you will rarely be able to buy weapons better than what you find.

  Bymid game you’ll have tons of access to loot for selling and will probably be more interested in spending money on refining/upgrading items than buying mediocre armor and weapons.

  The bombs and oils are great if you keep them upgraded

  Never sell ingredients you don’t have a billion of, you can buy a potion to redistribute your levels and switching from magic/physical build to late game Alchemist is really strong and fun and changes up play style.

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• CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I would say do every actual sidequest but don’t bother clearing the map of all question marks. Hunting for Witcher school gear is also just mostly cosmeticand optional, but they’re the coolest armors and swords.

  Also, if you’re not playing on the lowest difficulty, read the infos in your journal regarding the creatures and prepare accordingly.

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  • NJSpradlin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You don’t lie, trying to clear every question mark is what killed it for me back when. I think I stopped on the islands somewhere. And every time I pick it back up, the question marks kill it for me again. 😂

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    • USSEthernet@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Same, the map is just overwhelming.

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• TPTheWiper@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I spent like 4 years playing with my best friend. We were having a beer in the evening he watched me play Witcher on death March, i tried to do everything. It was the best way to play the game i think. Took us 4 years though.

  Red Baron is the best questline imo

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