So I'm sure this has been asked but is this only open for new game+?
Or are most people starting a new game for this expansion?
Is this after the main story?
I played the Witcher 3 some time ago and would like to go back now that there is a sale on the PSN
Any info on possible combat/difficulty rebalance? I've read some rumors a while ago (I think it was posted on wcc) that listed them, along with many other rumored features that ended up being true once the B&W trailer was released.
Any info on possible combat/difficulty rebalance? I've read some rumors a while ago (I think it was posted on wcc) that listed them, along with many other rumored features that ended up being true once the B&W trailer was released.
Side-story, unrelated to main story and you can play it at any time though you should be about lvl 35.
You can start new character for the DLC only with appropriate level and gear (as you can with HoS).
This thread almost makes me want to continue Witcher 3... I had just reached the Baron but lost interest then. Has collected dust for 5 months now.
This thread almost makes me want to continue Witcher 3... I had just reached the Baron but lost interest then. Has collected dust for 5 months now.
This thread almost makes me want to continue Witcher 3... I had just reached the Baron but lost interest then. Has collected dust for 5 months now.
You should keep going but if you lost interest that early in then game may not be for you.
The story only gets better from there. Bloody Baron is one of the best questlines in any RPG I've ever played. I think you should give the game another shot.
I eventually stopped playing after ~30 hours as I inadvertently broke Dirty Funds and none of the fixes CDPR implemented were of any help. In my case, I looted the chest and found the letter afterwards, but because I'd already "completed" the quest, the letter didn't add itself to my inventory, which resulted in the quest becoming stuck on "Read the letter". The quest log being in a buggered state eventually grew too annoying to ignore and so I figured I'd just start anew come the final DLC release.
This thread almost makes me want to continue Witcher 3... I had just reached the Baron but lost interest then. Has collected dust for 5 months now.
I played the game for about 20 hours without actually going to see the Baron. The game is excellent with its atmosphere and side-quests, but the combat and the card-game which makes no sense to me were propably too much.
Perhaps I should try to mitigate that by playing with easy-difficulty to trivialize the combat and skip Gwent alltogether.
No. It sounded like the BaW monsters might be difficult, and I'm sure the devs will balance difficulty accordingly after HoS since a lot of users complained the bosses were too difficult in that.
Perhaps I should try to mitigate that by playing with easy-difficulty to trivialize the combat and skip Gwent alltogether.
Lol, poor CDPR.
In the base game, everyone complained that the game was too easy. Which was true. I switched to the highest difficulty around level 20, but still managed to become to OP for everything. So with HoS they listened and made the game harder. And then people complained because now it was too hard for them. Honestly I hope CDPR continue with the difficulty that HoS had. If you find it too difficult, just lower the difficulty. I lowered my difficulty to the second highest because HoS was indeed somewhat tough. Even set it to normal for one of the bosses. If they make BaW as easy as the base game it will be a snoozefest. At level 30 and onwards with mastercrafted gear and good mutagen use, Geralt is really powerful.
I did exactly this. Played on the easiest difficulty and basically was able to ignore most of the combat systems and barely touched Gwent.
I thought HoS was still pretty easy on Death March. I only tied twice, against theCaretaker and Olgierd's ghosts because I didn't realise you could kill them one by one.
Ain't I hardcore.
From what I've heard, the same combat philosophies from HoS will apply in B&W, so expect it to be just as difficult, if not more. They've also said taht there will be more combat in Toussaint than in HoS, as they wanted to shake it up a bit, as well as showing off all of the new monsters they've added.
Gwent is the star of the game for me but you could skip it and not miss anything. If you like the atmosphere and side stuff keep going, it only gets better.
I did exactly this. Played on the easiest difficulty and basically was able to ignore most of the combat systems and barely touched Gwent.
I gave the PS4 game away after the godawful swamp section. I rebought the game on Steam yesterday, and 60fps and the colorblind witcher senses have made it feel like a completely different game. It was headache-inducing when I first played it, and you don't know hell until you've tried following a red cloud of smoke over a lush green background when you can barely differentiate the two colors.
I gave the PS4 game away after the godawful swamp section. I rebought the game on Steam yesterday, and 60fps and the colorblind witcher senses have made it feel like a completely different game. It was headache-inducing when I first played it, and you don't know hell until you've tried following a red cloud of smoke over a lush green background when you can barely differentiate the two colors.
I played the game for about 20 hours without actually going to see the Baron. The game is excellent with its atmosphere and side-quests, but the combat and the card-game which makes no sense to me were propably too much.
Perhaps I should try to mitigate that by playing with easy-difficulty to trivialize the combat and skip Gwent alltogether.
Screw it! I'm going in.
Gwent is completely optional, all you miss are a few Gwent-specific quests, the tournament in Novigrad and some optional ways to resolve quests. It's great fun though.
That's nice to hear
And yeah that's impressive. I didn't think they first boss you mentioned was particularly difficult, but I definitely had problems with the second one you mentioned. The final phase of that boss would instant-kill me every time, hehe. Probably got me a good ten-or-so times before I bested it.
The main thing that go me was that I kept on casting Aard Sweep, which made all the other ghosts aggro. Turns out just whacking them one-by-one with a sword worked best.
Lol, poor CDPR.
In the base game, everyone complained that the game was too easy. Which was true. I switched to the highest difficulty around level 20, but still managed to become to OP for everything. So with HoS they listened and made the game harder. And then people complained because now it was too hard for them. Honestly I hope CDPR continue with the difficulty that HoS had. If you find it too difficult, just lower the difficulty. I lowered my difficulty to the second highest because HoS was indeed somewhat tough. Even set it to normal for one of the bosses. If they make BaW as easy as the base game it will be a snoozefest. At level 30 and onwards with mastercrafted gear and good mutagen use, Geralt is really powerful.
I thought the HoS bosses were a lot of fun.
Sure I died a lot,but it only made the victory sweeter.
HoS was fine except for the last boss, that was bullshit.
The Toad, Spider etc wasn't particularly easy but not too hard either, I feel like they had a good difficulty balance.
Love that artwork, the wait for this is killing me.
Omg no! What have they done to my beloved cat gear?
It's a trivial thing but so far this is my only disappointment so far. Mastercrafted cat gear looks fantastic, but this is one hell of a downgrade. All others (except for Griffin, of course) look better. I hate it when I want to use some gear for stat reasons and different gear for aesthetic reasons. This bear armor looks really badass but putting heavy armor on Geralt is like putting mayonnaise on chocolate.
if you want to do a newgame+ at some point, you may want to consider waiting until after B&W since you've already waited this game.I'm torn right now between completing every side quest I have left before Blood and Wine and starting a new game plus...but it's such a huge game.
Part of the reason I did the recent money glitch is that the main game and expansion exhausted all of my money supply.Only thing I'm concerned with, I burned virtually all of my money on top tier runes for my swords by the end of Hearts of Stone. I'll probably be okay on that same save come Blood and Wine though right?
All I want to know is if my man Master Mirror is going to be in this expansion.
Part of the reason I did the recent money glitch is that the main game and expansion exhausted all of my money supply.
Now I'm sitting at like 700k gold. Gonna pimp my Vineyard for the white wolf aaaaaaao aaaaaaoooooooo
What's the money glitch? I wasted all my money in runes too, and for nothing, I don't like most of them.
All I want to know is if my man Master Mirror is going to be in this expansion.