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poptart_fairy posted:So any skills you guys consider to be essential? There's an absolute ton of the drat things but most of them just seem to be small percentage bonuses rather than anything dramatic. I'm wondering too, since choices are permanent and there's so many (and you can only use a few at a time). The vitality one seems like a no brainer, like you said, and I also picked up sun and stars just so I could have automatic health regen without using items, but it's so slow that I'm honestly already regretting that choice. Better to just meditate for an hour or something if you're that worried about it and too broke for food. I'm probably just going to be boring and pick up the damage upgrades in the swordsman tree but I too am curious if there are any "essential" upgrades in the others that I'm just not seeing the significance of.
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Lord Lambeth posted:looking around online, you can respec if you buy something called a potion of clearance, so I'm not too worried about choosing the wrong skills. Oh, I didn't know that; I was going off the OP which said they were permanent. Googling turned up a gamefaqs thread which seemed to indicate that using the potion won't allow you to restore points gained through visiting places of power, so I guess you'd have to go back and visit them again if you don't want to lose those points? That seems...clunky. Then again, it's a gamefaqs forums post so who knows.
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Verranicus posted:I barely even notice it. You're making a big deal out of nothing. I'm only a little bit in, and I'm trying to be an "all about the money" mercenary but it's hard! I feel so bad for these peasants, I just want to let them keep their money. I also have no idea if money will actually be useful in this game. I'm still in white orchard and am broke as hell, but I also don't feel too tempted to buy anything yet, I don't know if either side of that formula will change drastically as the game goes on. Broken Cog posted:Gwent seems a bit weird to me, like a lot of cards seem flat out better than others. Why would you ever use any card with a value of 1 or 2 and no special abilities? Yeah I'm not in love with Gwent. I don't like that it's a deck building game, where your success depends on how good the cards you brought into the game are, I preferred dice poker, which was a level playing field every time. A shame that dice are out and almost definitely not coming back. It's ok though, it's not like there's a lack of other stuff to do in this game.
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May 19, 2015 16:59
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DreamShipWrecked posted:I am sure it will be useful, but if it was anything like Witcher 2 your primary goldsinks will be diagrams and odd crafting components. If you can hold off on that you can just stick to alcohol and food I'm a filthy casual that plans to play on easy (unless it's so mindlessly easy that I get bored, but so far that does not seem to be the case) so I'm probably going to skip out on most of the crafting stuff if I can, since I generally don't enjoy crafting in single player games (feels like busywork). I guess I'll save my money to buy booze and overpriced equipment from merchants and see how far that gets me.
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May 19, 2015 17:12
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sauer kraut posted:After the Ignicalypse of the first game they seem hellbent on ensuring Geralt not becoming a sorcerer. I'm probably still going to keep using it on cooldown though, just because it looks really pretty. Crappy Jack posted:Yeah, the way I understand it is food heals at a set rate, the only difference is how long that rate goes for. I guess you just want to stock up on foods with the highest duration then. Drinks tend to have longer durations but lower heal rates; I haven't sat down with a stopwatch and a calculator to determine if they're more or less efficient than foods but I'm a busy man with places to be so I'm betting on food.
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May 19, 2015 17:37
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No Mods No Masters posted:When you meditate it will consume 1 alcohol, preferring alcohest, and refill everything that isn't full- potions/bombs/oils all. Is there an easy way to figure out what counts as "Alcohol" for this purpose? Anything falling under "alcohol" on the crafting tab, obviously, but I've only got two things unlocked in that tab. Does the beer and vodka you can buy in inns fit the bill, too? By the way, this is a really hard game to play when you're trying to stop drinking
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May 20, 2015 22:52
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Sheep posted:
Haha I noticed that there was an upgrade to the armor in white orchard (after I sold the armor, naturally); is there an upgrade chain that goes even beyond that is now impossible for me to follow? That sucks. Oh well, there's other gear I suppose.
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May 20, 2015 22:59
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The Sharmat posted:You should finish them because of a thing we can't tell you without ruining it. Seconded, it's worth it.
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Crappy Jack posted:Armor upgrade quests come from finding the maps. The maps tend to be sold by armorers and blacksmiths. You'll just have to visit all of them and hope you find the ones with it. Alternatively, you can skip that and just follow a guide, if you were so interested. Yeah, I caved and just followed a guide. You "can" figure it out on your own but if you really want the upgrades (and you do, they're great and will carry you through the game) it's gonna save you a ton of time to just look it up in a guide, unfortunately. But once you have them, you have them, and you don't have to worry about gear anymore and can enjoy the rest of the game blind.
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theblackw0lf posted:Have any of the recent patches tweaked the expansion to make some of the bosses easier? I got stuck on the caretaker and just gave up because I kept losing. Which is really frustrating since I found the storyline fascinating. What level are you, and how good is your gear? I found that once I crafted myself a set of witcher gear, the difficulty pretty much evaporated and I actually had to turn it up. It makes a big difference, if you haven't tried it already.
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Harrow posted:Cool, that's what I was hoping for. Is there actually armor/swords in HoS that's better than witcher gear, or can I beat it easily with my master crafted ursine set and not worry about new loot? I'm wondering the same thing about blood and wine but of course nobody would actually know that yet I suppose
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May 17, 2016 22:12
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extra stout posted:I'm about halfway through the game and this jpg just confirmed I'm doing all of the rest of the griffin set now. How much work is it to upgrade armor sets? It feels like I dove into that cave to get the griffin armor recipes like two weeks ago and I'm just now finding the mats for the second piece, every craftsman I go to is the wrong kind or too low skill, next thing you know it you're always level 18 putting on your 'new' level 12 armor. That's not the griffin set, FYI. I'm not sure what it is actually, but it looks cool. If you want to start planning ahead for the most cool looking armor you can get, this page shows you most of the good endgame stuff and tells you how to get/craft it. I guess it's kind of spoilery if tracking down treasure maps and hunting down rare mats is the kind of thing you enjoy doing for yourself, but if you're like me and find that kind of thing to be tedious busywork, then clicking it will save you some time.
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May 23, 2016 03:40
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Vikar Jerome posted:i hope this heist in Hearts of Stone is as awesome and badass as the setup indicates. Same, I just got to that part too. I only just got to the "we're doing a heist" intro so I dunno what's gonna happen but I like that, at least so far, it appears that I have the choice to let the retired guy just enjoy a quiet life 
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Jun 2, 2016 19:25
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Azazell0 posted:That's the biggest thing in the main game I'm angry about - that I was completely fooled and didn't suspect a thing was wrong. What's cool is that not everyone in the game is trying to deceive you, so sometimes you'll do a quest where you think someone's trying to pull one over you, so you pre-emptively gently caress them over, but then it turns out that they were on the level after all and it is you who should feel bad.
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Orv posted:Gonna go ahead and say it should probably just be called Village of the Cunts for all time from here on out. This works for me, since I don't remember it's real name.
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chaosapiant posted:Holy poo poo I'm embarrassed to say I just noticed something else. Every map marker and town, in the world map had a little blurb about the history or a description of that town. Did you know that Mulbrydale is one of the oldest villages and named due to a dumb rear end botanist and couldn't tell different trees apart, naming them all Mulberry trees? Holy Christ! I could swear that this feature was added in in a subsequent patch at some point, I feel like I don't remember it being in the game at launch. Or maybe I just missed it!
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Oct 14, 2016 01:54
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"....I found your card collection, Geralt"
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MikeJF posted:Goddamnit why couldn't I stop Djikstra from killing Roche without having to hand the north to Nilfgard Yeah, I hate-loved that part. Politically, I 100% agreed with djikstra but...you gotta stand by your bro 
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Nycticeius posted:People seem to love the Witcheress Ending. I don't get it - I wouldn't wish a witcher's life on anyone. being empress of nilfgaard doesn't sound great for longevity either, to be fair
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MikeJF posted:
I killed the spirit on my first run through, however I felt dirty about it afterward because my underlying assumptions proved to be incorrect, so I'm definitely curious to see what happens when I make the opposite choice on my next playthrough. It's one of the things I love about the game; you try to use video game logic to try and suss out what's going to happen as a result of your choices, and then the game surprises you by having actual good writing and doing something genuinely unexpected...you don't get that in a lot of games.
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Helith posted:he gave us talking Roach. Thank you for your service.
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Under no circumstances should you try to play dragon age (any of them) immediately after witcher. Toss in a call of duty game or something as a palate cleanser first.
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In the same vein as that, I love the bit in blood and wine where Regis starts to explain that the redhead at the orphanage is also a vampire, and Geralt cuts him off with "yeah, figured it out already" Kudos to the writers for giving the player a little credit.
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Joda posted:Wait what orphanage? Is this part of the ending path that doesn't involve Rapnunzel hanging herself by her hair and the little match girl selling drugs and poo poo i.e. the worst one? Is it the same lady who hosted the artist party? And I, on the other hand, haven't seen the scene that you are talking about! Something to look forward to on the next playthrough!
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Joda posted:Oh man, sorry. Didn't occur to me that I might be spoiling you Haha it's ok. I took the risk knowing the potential consequences!
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rumble in the bunghole posted:it's a little annoying because as a Witcher Geralt's holding a shiny silver sword on his back. The scene's tense as hell but there was that possible response that didn't come up. Probably just didn't want o'dimm to shatter his sword
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:I spent an embarrassingly long time running after mirrors. I actually ran out of time and died the first time. And came very close on the second
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Before selling things, it's worth it to check and see if it will dismantle into anything useful. Some of the best gear in the game is craftable gear (the witcher sets) and you'll usually find that there are a few bottleneck ingredients you always seem to be short on. Sometimes the relic gear will dismantle into it. I don't remember off the top of my head what those ingredients are, unfortunately.
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Quote-Unquote posted:Move towards the guy, hold down attack for slow-motion and it's super easy to hit. Don't just mash attack because you'll never hit anything without a lot of luck. Yeah, that's the key. Horse combat works a little differently.
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Drifter posted:So, did you guys *really* think it was going to be anything other than what happened? Like, really? Yeah, that one I didn't really feel too conflicted about. Given the players and the circumstances I didn't truly believe that I was going to burn a baby alive. It was still a fun quest, but it didn't pull on the "oh my god what do i do time is running out oh god just do something" chord that other quests in the game did so well. The first quest I did that really made me feel that was the werewolf contract early on. And it was a goddamned sidequest. It really says something about this game that you can see something like a notice board or an exclamation mark over a random peasant's head and think "oh awesome I can't wait to see what this is." In any other game you'll just look at your XP bar and think "hmmm, guess I'd better" but in this one it's almost guaranteed to be a treat.
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fuckpot posted:Thanks guys! The only quests I haven't done are gwent related ones (I'll focus on them on my second playthrough), fist-fighting ones, witcher contracts and treasure hunts. I'll probably do the treasure hunts and contracts before embarking on this run to the end. I got the Full Crew achievement so I guess I must have done everyone as right as possible. Definitely do all the contracts, they're good and well-written. I also highly recommend the fist fighting quest line. It's more satisfying than you expect.
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Dumb question but which one is the "bad" ending again?
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Apparently if you are too overbearing over the course of the game, after the final mission you hunt down the last Crone for Ciri's medallion, Geralt mentions she's dead, and the ending movie says something like Ciri disappeared and was never heard from again. Oh wow. Who would do this?
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Phil Moscowitz posted:It seemed obvious from the beginning that the Emperor and Nilfgaard were dickheads and it felt right to basically tell the emperor to gently caress off every chance I got, starting with not curtsying to him at the very beginning. If you get a chance to fluster a manservant, you take it
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Palpek posted:
What happens again? I either can't remember or I never saw it.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:She throws up while they're having sex. Hahahaha. Yeah I think I'd remember that
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Yeah, I feel like the game would be more witcher-immersive if it were tuned so that you were constantly broke and taking whatever work comes your way just to scrape by. Not that I'm complaining that the game wasn't that way; in fact if it were, I would probably cheat. Just noticing that there's a dissonance between the idea of witchers being literal murder hobos who earn seventy cents on the dollar if they're lucky, and how things play out in the game. I like the game better I guess
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Phil Moscowitz posted:124 crowns is all everyone in this town can scrounge up? Bullshit I got more than that just by stealing everything in your huts right in front of you That actually is kind of lore-appropriate from what I remember of the books (or maybe just earlier games?). People just basically like screwing over witchers as hard as they can.
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Ferrinus posted:Witchman The best part is that that's like 80% true
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