Things I Wish I Knew Earlier In The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt (Tips & Tricks) 

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The thing I wish knew was that you could use Axii on that stupid goat and I spent 20 mins using the bell

A few extra tips and tricks: - Constantly pressing your jump button while falling will allow Geralt to perform a roll as soon as he hits the ground. This will allow you to fall from bigger heights without dying, so if you ever accidentally fall, mash your jump button as it can save you from dying. - You can insta-kill any cyclops in the game by shooting them in the eye with a crossbow. Cyclops are generally some-what tough to fight, but shooting them in the eye with a crossbow insta-kills them. To make this easier, use northern wind to freeze the cyclops, then just line up the shot with their eye and they'll die instantly. - Foglets are also annoying enemies as they constantly go in and out of invisibility.. While you can use the Yrden sign to counter this, if you simply cast Aard in the general direction of a foglet as soon as it turns invisible, the foglets get knocked down to the ground and you can insta-kill it. -Crossbow works great in water so keep that in mind! Enjoy the game! EDIT: It seems the cyclops tip only works for cyclops bosses.

Dodge, don’t roll. You are virtually invincible when dodging, and it doesn’t cost stamina.

NEVER sell your Witcher equipment, you'll need it to craft the next level. Learned that the hard way

heres a quick bit of information for anyone new to the game, when it comes to the potion, oils and bomb system once you craft them you have them forever, its not like skyrim where its kind of a waste of time and effort because you have to be constantly brewing new potions, all you have to do is make sure you have alcohol in your inventory and meditate once you run out of charges to re-charge them, before i knew this i wasnt bothering with them, after i found this out i was using them all the damn time, a potion system done right if you ask me

The fact that there are still Witcher 3 tips videos coming out shows how perfect this game is.

The first tip cannot be stressed enough. You will need food and drinks to replenish your health, loot every box, cupboard, etc. Also dead enemies drop their weapons, loot it and sell it. Weapon smiths pay more for weapons and armor smiths pay more for armor. I have heard many people complain that they never seem to have enough money to buy that weapon or armor they want. This is usually because they are not selling defeat foes weapons/armor and relying only on payment for contracts.

Obviously the Netflix series , has reawakened this AWESOME game once again. By far the best RPG I've ever played. ( beat it 3 times to make sure I got the best ending)

Biggest tip you can have is to learn about alchemy and invest in alchemy skills like heightened tolerance, acquired tolerance and protective coating. Also invest 3 points into axii to get the extra dialogue options which helps you avoid a bunch of conflict situations and gives extra xp. You can swap this in and out for a combat ability as required.

Worth a mention; if you're diving for any treasure (like the moon blade) don't be put off by drowners, equip the crossbow you get at the Griffin fight and use it underwater, regardless of damage drowners only take one shot while swimming and geralt will auto aim if you don't hold the fire button

For me No1: Should not have banged both Triss and Yennifer

In both Skyrim and Witcher 3 I can't resist the urge to pick herbs even though I never use potions

you can basically one shot drowners underwater with the crossbow.

1. Always double tap for automatic cantering to follow the roads. 2. Use Witcher sense when running overland or riding Roach. You find a ton of random encounters and loot. 3. Make sure to read your quest journal after you complete one - esp. sidequests. There are some...uhhh...unintended consequences to many of your actions. Wish I knew those my first playthrough

There’s too much to do in this game. I’m overwhelmed. Help Edit: all good. Platinumed the game

A million new Witcher 3:Wild Hunt videos appear on youtube again. me: MUST. WATCH. THEM. ALL.

Just recently learned that Geralt aims the crossbow by himself if you just click it once instead of holding it. Underwater siren fights in Skellige got a lot easier.

When you go into a cave and see highlighted stalagmites or tall pointy rocks USE THE AARD SPELL to break them to see what's inside I just found that out yesterday and there's no telling how much loot I missed out on

i'm 20 hours in and have never meditated. THANK YOU

I wish I’d known that components break down into other components.. spent ages looking for a certain ingredient just to find out I had essentially hundreds of it in another ingredient 🙄 also for newer players when you get to roam free in white orchard, go round and discover everything! Its a lot of stuff that you won’t regret going and finding early on.

There's a autosave option in the settings which will autosave every 3 minutes instead of the usual 15 minutes... which can be useful if you often forget to save yourselves.

When you know the game like the back of your hand but gotta watch anyway cos its witcher❤️👌

Loot everything and play gwent are my recommendations , coming from a hardcore Witcher fan

Only thing i didn't know is the edge of the world fast travel tip. I have 100% of the Witcher 3 trophies, but i didn't know this lol

Good combat tip is when dodging (not rolling) dodge towards your enemy as they are attacking and you should end up behind them which gives you more time to attack and a bigger damage bonus when attacking from behind

1 tip: explore Skellige as soon as you get there. The game does such an injustice to Skellige. There's so much to explore but you barely have time to do it if you do the main quest. You literally do 2 missions for the main quest and you're out of there, and everytime you get back to Skellige for the main quest there's a sense of urgency to it. So my tip is as soon as you get to Skellige and meet up with Yennefer, do the one mission where you have to go the Castle and meet Crach, then just explore the living shit out of Skellige. Skellige is a gorgeous place teeming with undiscovered locations and is a pleasure to explore, which is why it baffles me even more how Skellige is basically a footnote in the main story when you spend so much time in Velen and Novigrad doing glorified fetch quests, and Skellige compared to those two places is MASSIVE, yet the main quest lets you stay only for a few hours and that's it.

rolling relic gear - save before the loot, save manually when you get better option and reload quick save as many times as you want to roll good weapon or gear. Especially in early game difference on silver sword damage could be over 30% (e.g. the same moonblade you can get with 122dmg or 160dmg - this makes massive difference).

I had to Google your pronunciation of Bestiary. I had always, mistakenly, called it the Beastiary. Thank you.

If you are planning on gathering all gwent cards, play with all npc's on a new area before completing quests. Some NPC's with unique cards can die and so you wont be able to complete your collection.

You can cast Igni on beehives to get honeycomb. You'll get atleast 2 and atmost 4. I had more than 60 before leaving white ochard. It's rare in Velen but you'll mostly find them in villages or swamps.

Can’t understand how he’s so powerful yet a 5 ft fall does him in”😖

If you use a sign while on horseback it will cast axii on roach and decrease his fear level.

I’m so glad you covered the moon blade. Because I did have it early on top around level 5 or so and I kept using it till about 14 and constantly switching out my steel sword with other loots throughout the game... except for the moonblade. Now I’m glad you said it’s such a great weapon because no matter what weapon I got that was orange quality, I just couldn’t give up this level 3 sword. Now I don’t feel like such a noob.. thanks yo

Some good Gwent tips; -Spy cards are your best friend -If you're playing against Nilfgaard, bring all your Decoys since Nilfgaard is the most Spy heavy deck -Monster deck is easily defeated by the Biting Frost + any type of Scorch card, preferrably Villentretenmerth -Try to bring a mix bag in your deck, don't load too many cards on a single row -If you happen to draw 2 of the same type of Muster cards, throw one away at start to free up a card slot for something else. -Never throw away Medic cards because they can turn the table in a single move, and if you have more than one Medic card, feel free to keep slapping cards down to bait your opponent into draining their card pool. You can always revive used cards in the last round with Medic cards. -Try not to bring more than 2 weather cards -Don't bring out your big cards immediately, especially late game when the AI typically has at least 1 Scorch card, sometimes 2. -Get Mysterious Elf ASAP. It's the best card in the game. It's a Spy card and it's also a Hero card which means it can't be Decoyed or Scorched, plus it's worth 0 points so you don't add anything to your opponent's score. -Finally, if you want to practice Gwent without losing money - consider enabling the dev console and type in "secretGwint" to immediately initiate a Gwent match against AI whenever and wherever you are, free of charge. This only works for PC though

Just got this game after watching the show, and I love it holy balls. It’s just so overwhelming

Spam the dodge button(idk the actual name but it's the one where do you a short hop in a direction), do not spam roll or parry. The dodge move will give you invulnerability for around .5 seconds. I died to every mob until i learn that while parry is fun, dodging is just way better as even if the attack hits you but you dodge, it will not deal damage any to you. Rolling away will make you lose tempo and reset your lock on which is annoying. So dodging is more optimal than parrying or rolling.

Things I wish I knew earlier: The Alchemy skill tree is amazing. Specifically the Refreshment, Acquired Tolerance, and Heightened Tolerance skills. Maxing out Refreshment makes any potion you drink also instantly heal you for 25% of your total HP, and maxing the two Tolerance skills will allow you to have at least 3 decoctions active at once with enough of your toxicity bar left over to chug a potion or two. If you have Blood & Wine, Alchemy gets even more ridiculous with the Mutation system that expansion added. There is one Mutation that increases your sword damage and sign intensity by %0.75 for every 1 point of toxicity you have. And with some skill investments you can get quite a high maximum toxicity. When I was running my version of this build, I was getting somewhere around a %170 damage increase, and my build wasn't even that optimal for it. That was the build I beat Death March with.

Currently on my first playthrough and I would have guessed some of these anyways but I find it really good that you put the links in the description, really helpful, especially as I am struggling with item weight and don't really feel like dropping "quality" swords.

Thanks for not spoiling anything, and giving advice that, after the white orchard business and opening up the larger world, is very relevant to an untrained eye on the game, first play through on hard for me... And I'm already willing to devote a good portion of my life to this game.

I thought loot everything was a rule of thumb for any game

Loved your Jedi Fallen Order vids and now this video just got recommended to me right as I started my first Witcher 3 playthrough. Thx bro🔥

I remember when I played skyrim and I was so overwhelmed by all the quests, spells, builds, different weapons and shit. I just started playing the witcher 3 and Jesus Christ it's like that all over again but X10

I’ve played maybe 4 hours of this game when it came out and hated it. Last week I found out they did an update on it to run 60fps on series x. After 2-3 hours I actually feel in love with this game. Can’t believe the difference 60fps makes in input lag. It felt great. I’m level 47 and on my ng+ now being a dick in the dialogue lol

I just redownloaded this game after I beat it years ago. Can’t wait to play it again!

Having the strong back skill is a good thing specially grinding quest in velen and novigrad where tons of sword, armor and sellable stuff are lootable, having strong back makes you horde more sellable items specially when armorers and smiths are out of gold, you can hold on stuff longer while waiting for them to stocking up some crowns so you can sell to them again Edit: also it only cost 1 point getting this skill for lvl 6 or 7 would defenetly help, btw i recently played Witcher 3 again and gained 18k crown while still level 14 grinding stuff at velen and novigrad ALSO check the vendors coz not all of them pays the same amount, some pays more some pay less, swords usually valued more if you sell them to blacksmiths and armor to armorers

I see this helping someone that has just started and has never played it before. Nice job.

The best tip I know is the invincible decoction mix: Ekimmara,Ekhidna,Archgriffin combo will make u invincible with strong attacks and you just need 10 levels to open all of the abilities for increasing toxicity.

Things I wish I knew earlier: start a new game plus at least at level 50 because I reached level 100 which is the level cap on new game plus but I started at about 48 or so, therefore my grandmaster armour and weapons can only reach level 98 or so..

5:00 or just get the Viper swords from White Orchard, both come with pretty good stats and both have an inherent 15% chance to poison which is extremely strong early game.

Cheers, thanks for the advice. Gonna try for Moonblade soon & those power stones ! 😃

After nearly 1000 hours in this game I just today accidentally found out that if you don Geralt's Nilfgaardian armor set (purchased from the Quartermaster in upper Crow's Perch (the merchant right by Joanna the Blacksmith, and Fergus,))you can gain entry into the House of Respite that sits just northwest of the Nilfgaardian war camp (which, itself, sits in the far southeast corner of Velen.) Turn to the right after you enter the building and you'll find a unique winged Nilfgaardian helm, like the ones the soldiers wear! Super cool. You equip it like a mask. It looks weird on Geralt, but almost nobody has it.

I've played the witcher a number of times since release so I was expecting to know all of these. I cant believe I didnt figure out the map edge fast travel thing...

Super great tips !! This is my favorite game and you drop some tips that I didn’t know about !! Especially the meditation thing

Really good tips, some of the Witcher 3 guides are really dated and basic and this covered a few things I didn't know, just come back to the Witcher 3 after watching the Netflix series and proper falling in love again!

Haven't been gaming for 10 years and decided to pick up a game. I've never seen such beautiful graphics lol. Pretty amazing, and I've only just started playing witcher 3

One thing I wish I knew was that I could dismantle monster items to get specific items for crafting Witcher equipment.

Ain’t gone lie I’m always down for a round of gwent 😂

Thanks for that!

Actually good tips lol, I played a long time ago but am looking forward to jumping back into things. Thanks for the vid!

The dismemberment effects in this game had me addicted. Often i put it on the easiest setting cuz it makes the effects far more realistic. I mean most if not all people would be done after a full force strike from a 4ft razor blade. Cut in half by 2 strikes or dismembered by 1 has really made it even more addicting to play. lol, riding by on a horse having a single swipe take a head off is just f****** awesome..

Just started my 7th playthrough of the game, and there are only a few tad bits I could suggest. If you have all the free dlc, you can buy a lvl 4 temerian light armour from the guy Geralt and Vesemir save from the Griffin. After meeting Emhyr the first time, I was lvl 2 at the time and used the potion you start the game with to equip the set. I didn't find any armour better till the Griffin witcher gear. Another point, lay out your character build before spending skill points, sure you can respec, but I found it very helpful planning out which skills I need first in the playthrough. (Alchemy tree under rated). I never bothered with alchemy skill tree and I feel dumb af now. 3 Skills I use in every character build because they just make your time much easier. Refreshment heals you 25% health upon any potion use, also increases potion duration by 25%. Undying, uses your adrenaline points when you die to revive you. And feet footed, you don't take damage when you dodge. Igni and quen are cool and all, but aard, axii and yrden are also very cool and valuable signs especially when you combo them with different witcher gear. Current playthrough I have aard sweep and piercing cold with aard sign intensity 90%. I freeze big groups of enemies and throw a bunch of bombs down such as grapeshot and dancing dragon. You can recreate the same thing with the northern wind bomb.

I had to get to skellige three separate times before I finally got into this game. It happened the same each time, I'd play through Velen and Novigrad, be slightly intrigued, get on the boat, get overwhelmed and put it down for just long enough to only kind of remember how to play. It didn't help that my primary experience with open worlds was Skyrim and Fallout. But by the fourth time things started to feel more natural and when I got to the boat I just kept going and didn't notice. I'm now close to finishing the main story and kind of excited for the DLCs. If for no other reason than that sweet red armor.

Oh wow - so many play-throughs and had no idea about that fast travel trick! Thanks.

I just got this game it's amazing

If you want to farm red mutagen early , head to Toderas and kill the alghoul. You can respawn the enemies by fast travel to White Orchid or other region and back.

Personally, you told me nothing I didn't already know. But this is a good video for newbies to the game. Great video.

I got the second (lower level) aerondight from the chest (found behind an illusion) after wandering in the dark with Keira Metz! I don’t know if it’s a rare drop or guaranteed to the chest, but it’s better than the moon blade I had at the time! So probably the best early game sword that nobody seems to reference

You forgot to mention that rolling prevents you from breaking your neck - unless the drop is too big. Also Axii unlocks new dialogue options in some conversations - these are not the droids you are looking for :)

Hate to even call this a game, seems to do the experience injustice, more like a timeless journey. Definitely good argument for RPG of the decade. Glad to see it making a strong comeback, of course the hardcores never stopped playing it ; )

For me the best discovery was Temerian Armor on New Game + ( all your old gear from previous game will be obsolete at lvl 55 give or take.) Buy it at White Orchard Merchant that you rescued from the Griffin in cut scene. 2) Buy the Nilfgaardian Armor at Crow's Perch if you want Medium Armor build (optional) 3) Definitely buy the Skellige Armor set when you get there. (Heavy) These Armor sets will give you a cushion to upgrade your Witcher Gear for later boss fights. Another tip is to jamb as much crap into one of the storage chests before NG+. It becomes a nice reference for what NG+ gear does. & you can sell it after Blood & Wine. (Witcher IRA) I wore Temerian Armor w/Assassins Gloves & old GM Manticore boots (for the toxicity) For a huge part of the new game+. Shame Ves didn't notice.

i knew some of this stuff but this is the place to go if you play for the first time for sure good vid

Always go for Witcher weapons and lighter/medium amour, and always make sure to use you higher mutagens that have the same colour as your attack ( *mutagens* blue=sign boost, red=attack boost, green=potion/poison/vitality boost, yellow= yellow perks boost!). Witcher weapons and certain trophies help you level up faster throughout the game. Lighter/medium amour help you dodge/roll without spending too much of your stamina/adrenaline which in turn makes you use your signs a lot faster, if you have heavier armour that will drain you stamina/adrenaline a lot faster and it will slow down the process of rebuilding it faster, but the defence is impeccable.

Great video man, this really helps out:)

One tip from me is don’t feel obligated to use oils, potions, and decoctions. I played all the way through new game+ on death march without touching any of them. A good build (use quen), grandmaster armor and enchanted weapons are all you really need.

I use northen wind a lot. Like every time I hit a bandit camp. Comes very handy

Learned some things I didnt know before. Well done.

Meditate infront of loot from nests to respawn it

This was really helpful man, thank you.

Thanks for the Witcher 3 content,I'm just starting this amazing game.The Netflix series inspired me,I am in love with all things Witcher currently.

Ģwint trick 17 : Spys win the game

So many new players. Great time to upload this. 👌 🐺 ⚔️

You can loot chests more than once! When you've looted a chest and when you return later after you saved and loaded a game, you'll notice that when you use your "senses" that the chest lights up. When you walk (or swim) to the "empty" chest with the senses on then the lighting disappears. You probably didn't noticed that the "open chest" icon appears for just a spilt second. Whenever you've looted a chest and it appears highlighted in your senses you need to run towards the chest with you senses on and hit the button like a madman. Most of the time it will have some new loot. (i even had 3 of the special Undvik tools needed for the Armorer in Velen)

Before taking the Moonblade you should save, but mostly to ensure that you get a good blade for your level. Otherwise you might get lower level Moonblade, that's already weaker than your regular silver sword

Something I did for infinite money is meditate where mordvarg spawns and keep killing him. You can collect the stuff infinitely and sell it for infinite money. It’s a long process, but I used it whenever I needed coin. (This is during the “In wolf’s clothing” side quest.)

If you upgrade all of Axii it is the most over powers thing in the game, you can turn enemies into allies and they can kill with one hit and be killed with one hit

Ive done countless playthroughs but recently ive set out to 100% some games, i had never even touched gwent besides a couple time where i failed (if it was an option to progress with a quest). Gwent is actually pretty good, plus the quests involving them give some pretty decent rewards

Just started the game on the Switch. I've played Skyrim on the Switch but this is way more involved. Never played any Witcher games before. Is there a good website that breaks down how to create potions, dismantle stuff (or which stuff to dismantle) how to and when to upgrade items. Lesser runestone use, etc. Just lots of Noob questions. What things i should focus on upgrading first, etc. I'd rather not get too far into the game (just got to White Orchard) and realize i wasted upgrades, etc. on the wrong things. Any guidance is appreciated and your video and the other tips posted are really helpful.

Here's some more important tips: Repairing items is actually not as big a deal as many people might think. Items on 0 durability don't actually break, and, while they do receive a small malus to damage/armor value, on weapons it's hardly noticeable unless it makes you kill certain enemies in 1 hit more, and on armor, the %protection values are much more important, as armor substracts from damage first, not after the percentages, so say enemy does 1000 dmg and you had either 200 or 100 armor, and your total resistance to his type of damage was 50%, in case your armor was 200, you would be dealt (1000-800)*50/100 = 400 dmg, and in the other case, (1000-100)*50/100=450 dmg. The damage reduced by percentage protection is far greater, and the more percentage protection you have, the less value you gain from actual armor rating. Repairing items should NEVER be done at smiths, instead, if you loot around, you're bound to find a crapton of repair kits, for both armor and weapons. HOARD those, store any excess in stash and keep 2 aprentice and 2 journeyman kits of each on you just in case. The money you will save from using those instead of paying smiths for repair is no joke, especially on items past level 10, where 15% durability will cost more than 15 crowns to repair, whereas if you just sold your apprentice kits, you'd get 4 crowns at most. Silver weapons and heavier armor cost even more to repair too. Dismantling should ONLY be done at Master level smiths/armorers, as they give 100% of the materials back. This is something very few people know about, but it's actually doable even at level 4 when you first get out of Vizima and into Novigrad. Just bolt straight into novigrad, no need for a pass, swim across the pontar like the true witcher pro you are, and start Hattori's "Of Swords and Dumplings" quest. Don't be intimidated by the level required, all the combat in this quest will resolve itself without you even having to swing your sword. There will be a fist fight with Sukrus at most, but as long as you know the basics of countering when he punches, you'll get it done, the other sections of combat there will ALWAYS be at least 1 immortal character to butcher your enemies if you simply dodge around and quen for the entirety of the fights. You will need to get axii lvl 2 though. lvl 3 will allow you not to pay 200 crowns though. Another tip for early game, take note of what merchants buy what items at what prices. Only good merchants for food items are white orchard and velen inkeeps. Other inkeeps have crappy prices for food, but really good "clutter/junk" buying prices. Do NOT sell stuff to normal "misc" merchants that can buy everything, they'll essentially scam you. Weapons and armor you would ideally store in your storage vault, whatever contains dimeritium/shiny ingots you should keep for dismantling, the rest you will sell in bulk to armorers/weaponsmiths in big cities only, like oxenfurt/novigrad. Peasant smiths give shit prices. Armorers pay more for armor, Blacksmiths more for weapons. Both pay well for horse accessories(saddles,blinders,bags). Alchemists in or near big cities will pay the best coin for your alchemy monster parts, like drowner brains, bloods, etc. and also all the excess alcoholic beverages you'll never use, alchemy paste and powder you'll loot along the way. Also notable is that not all items in a category have the same price modifier everywhere. Certain alchemists in white orchard and velen for instance will pay a premium for honey, at 7 crowns per piece, that's the most money you can get per piece of honey sold, however their food buying prices are subpar.

Just bought it rn, watching videos since this is my first ever Witcher game going to be playing this tomorrow mornin!

I learned something new! I had no idea that you could fast travel with the map from the edges of the world. Thanks!

This is literally one of the best games I’ve ever played. Had it for ps4 years ago. Just recently bought it for pc with all dlc which I haven’t played yet. Frame rate is soooo buttery.

Quen I've abused this. Heck I made a nice build out of it since I used this to heal myself on Death March. Yeah signs OPed in The Witcher 3. As a fun fact if memory serves me right I might be wrong Shani is the default romance in The Witcher 1 and if ported to the second game Geralt and her broke it off. Glad She was back for the DLC. Seriously excellent The Witcher 3 tips, tricks and things to abuse in the game video..

lmao i just found the quen sign’s usefulness today. been spamming that bad boy ever since

Nice video! Thanks for sharing your tips and teicks

I'm fairly new to the game( currently lvl 21). Haven't progressed to Skellige yet. Learned pretty much everything in this video( except gwent) by exploring. This game's fun.

The fast travel at border of map is really helpful

I highly recommend going into settings and changing movement control to "alternative" it feels much better to me than the other movement option. Playing with a controller.

love your video bro, downloaded 2 days ago and am intensely immersed in this fantastic game.

Thanks for the video it was really useful!