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The Witcher 3 tips and tricks: Essential advice for Wild Hunt beginnersBecome a true Butcher of Blaviken with our top Witcher 3 tips
Become a true Butcher of Blaviken with our top Witcher 3 tips
So we thought we’d help lessen the load for those still at the beginning of their monster-hunting journey with these Witcher 3 tips for beginners! Below we’ll cover everything from fight preparation to fast levelling, from inventory management to mods and cheats. Take a look!
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The Witcher 3 tips: the essential guide for beginners
The below 12 The Witcher 3 tips have been carefully selected out of many as the truly essential game-changing tips and facts that I wish I’d known from the outset. We’ll cover everything from combat and inventory management to trade, travel, and even modding. So let’s get started!
1. Quicksave before every fight
2. Meditate for an hour to fully recover your health
If you’re on the higher difficulty levels, you won’t have access to this particular (overpowered) luxury, so the best way to heal is to brew some Swallow potions, which will greatly increase your vitality regeneration for a short time.
3. Prepare for tough fights with oils and potions
Potions and oils are the answer to the inevitable question: “how am I supposed to beat this enemy?”. I like to illustrate this point using my first ever encounter with a werewolf. After handily wrecking its day during the first half of the fight, the werewolf suddenly howled and started to regenerate its health at such a monstrously fast rate that I simply couldn’t kill it quickly enough.
After several failed attempts, I took a step back and told myself I need to prepare better. I looked up a few things, spent some time collecting ingredients, crafted some Cursed Oil, applied it to my blade, and tried again. Cut down the werewolf in twenty seconds flat, without taking any damage. The point is: give yourself time to prepare, and give yourself the right tools for success. Oils, potions, bombs… they’re all there for a reason.
4. Learn when to dodge, when to roll, and when to parry
So what do you do against these foes? You choose between dodging and rolling. Dodging is good for avoiding smaller attacks while still keeping you up close and personal, ready to counterattack. Rolling is your answer to large lumbering attacks, such as a Golem’s charge, where you just need to get the hell out of the way as quickly as possible. For full details, be sure to check out our in-depthWitcher 3 combat guide!
5. Head to all the notice boards when in a new region
Make these notice boards a priority. Reading the notices attached to each one will give you new quests and witcher contracts to help increase your level and give you some direction in a new place; and they’ll also litter the area around them with new points of interest.
6. Use the roads while on horseback to gallop indefinitely
Your stalwart equine companion, Roach, is not a machine. If you’re a fan of galloping without rest for miles on end to get to your new destination, you’ll find yourself frequently have to take your foot off the gas (so to speak) to give Roach some time to recover.
A handy hack to help you with this is to stick to the roads as much as possible. When on a road, you can start galloping, then take your fingers off WASD. Without you manually supplying the direction, Roach will stick to the road automatically - and what’s more, she’ll continue to gallop but won’t use up any stamina while doing so.
7. Seek out the best weapons and armor
8. Prioritise finding Places of Power for free skill points
The Witcher 3 has one of the slowest rates of levelling up your character of any RPG I’ve ever played. Once you accrue enough experience, you’re able to invest a skill point into one of many different character upgrades, improving everything from Geralt’s combat and sign skills to his potion overdose threshold. So it’s a good idea to do whatever you can to hurry along this cumbersome process of self-improvement.
Side quests and witcher contracts are a good way to go here, but an even better tip is to seek out each of the Place of Power stones scattered across every region. These stone monoliths can be interacted with to boost the intensity of one of Geralt’s five signs for a while - but they also give you a free skill point each the first time you draw from them. There are enough of these stones scattered about the maps that seeking them out will give you a truly colossal advantage throughout the campaign, allowing you to put together the verybest Witcher 3 buildsas early as possible.
9. Keep an eye on encumbrance levels, and sell to the right people
So how do you avoid this unfortunate state of being? Other than upgrading your carrying capacity with saddlebags for Roach and certain skills, you’ll need to make semi-frequent forays into the nearest town to sell your items. The key thing to remember here is that different vendors will value the same things at different prices, so it’s important to sell the right things to the right people. Sell your weapons and armor to the blacksmith, sell your ingredients to herbalists, and so on. That extra moolah will stack up over time, trust me.
10. Repair your gear as often as needed
Going back to equipping your dear old monster-hunter with the best tools for the job: you will find that during your travels and tribulations, your weapons and armor will start to take a beating and become damaged. This affects the overall effectiveness of your equipment: weapons will deal less damage than they should, and armor will absorb ditto.
11. Be wary of fall damage
One of the longest-standing memes about the infamous Geralt of Rivia is his laughable vulnerability to fall damage. Werewolves and wyverns? No problem! But a three-metre drop? Instant death.
12. Use the right mods
Oh wait, thereisan answer to the ridiculous fall damage: Mods!
This is of course not a compulsory step in enjoying your time with The Witcher 3, but the game does have a fantastic and flourishing modding community (even after five years), and if you’ve an issue with the game, no matter how small, chances are there’s a mod that’ll fix that problem for you.
Most mods are incredibly easy to install as well. Simply download and extract them, then navigate to your Witcher 3 folder (which should be under something like C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common), create a new folder called “mods”, and drag and drop your downloaded folder into your new mods folder. Then run the game. Simple as that!
And if you’re looking for even more ways to alter the game beyond what the developers allow, then feel free to peruse our list ofThe Witcher 3 console commands and cheats!
Thus concludes our list of essential Witcher 3 tips for beginners. I could go on and on, because there’s so much to learn and conquer in this colossal RPG masterpiece - not to mention various chances for Geralt to become cosy with certain other characters during his journey. If you want to make sure you don’t put a foot wrong when it comes to wooing your chosen beloved, check out ourWitcher 3 romance guide!
