Witcher 3 loot system in a nutshell 

Those witcher sets nearly ruined the loot system because if you have the green quality item you won't find anything better for a very long time and every loot you get from a monster you worked hard to kill will be useless. Worst example is when Crach gives you the "Winter's blade" wich is supposed to be a pretty badass sword, forged in Mahakam, tempered in dragon fire and it still has worse damage than a random witcher sword crafted by a fucking dumpling seller in Novigrad. That's ridiculous.

I liked how he took the sword and shoved it in his back pocket

I made him dismantle it. No, I didn't take it to someone else, no. I made HATTORI crush that shit sowrd into scrap as punishment for making me work my ass off, haggling for a better price from the black market only to get NOTHING.

I fought Howler (Level 20) at level 15 for 30 minutes and got a level 11 sword.

Level 20 quest, needs lv25 weapons and armors to beat the monsters and get the items we need. Reward: a crappy stat lv.15 weapon/armor(one piece).

How did you get your calculator to run this game ?

even more funny if you instant dismantel the thing in 1s by the same dude who take 24hours to make it :

Imagine being a medieval knight and noticing immediately that your new sword does two times less damage than your current one.

I'm unsure what to think. I did the quest at level 19, and my blade of the bits was level 24. Is it randomly generated? Seems pointless to me. Surely the logical step would be to make the item useful to the "suggested level" of the quest. If they want you to do a quest at level 30 for example, make the reward a powerful level 30 item. This seems obvious to me.

I... am confused. So if you're over-levelled you get shit weapons, but if you're not overlevelled all the loot you find will be shit because you'll be getting relic weapons at your current level or so but they'll become obsolete really quickly? How do you avoid being screwed?

I can compare the quality of this video to my original home VHS release of Star Wars A New Hope

The entire games level system is completely broken like this game needed to be structured like Skyrim where you can only find items that are your level and same with monsters. I've noticed there's some limit to how much damage you can deal to monsters, for example if you are level 20 and encounter a level 25 drowner it will have a red skull but you'll still be able to kill it rather quickly if you're swords are above hopefully level 16 or higher that is. That being said if you find a level 35 drowner trying to kill it is absolutely ridiculous! We are talking a monster having 3,500 health at level 25 to over 45,000 at level 35!!! The game automatically adds unrealistic amounts of health just because the game thinks you shouldn't even try to kill it since it's only 15 level's above you which is asinine. At level 35 the best silver swords is only going to deal a maximum of 2,200 damage and suddenly that level 35 drowner which is now your level only has 8,000 health like what the fuck??? I have to go out of my way for a chance at getting loot that's above my level if not all the stuff I should do I get rewarded with some shitty relic sword thats 7 levels beneath me. CD project Red do not fuck this up in cyberpunk.

I didn't know the console version looked this good.

Yeah, well the main point of that quest is getting a master weapon smith, who can later craft your mastercrafted witcher gear. Nothing else. That said, this quest in itself is quite interesting and entertaining. Not sure why they insist on giving you useless crap for free. The same goes for master armour smith - she gives you some whatever armour that looks like crap. Would have been better if you could just craft whatever item for free or without standard resources.

Looks like you did what I did and over leveled yourself. The game is built to mix side quests into the main quests, but I hammered out every single side quest I could do as soon as I could do them, got here, same thing. If you hit this quest a little earlier, you end up getting that sword when it's still level appropriate. Weird that they just couldn't put into the code "Base weapons stats on range = player level on quest completion."

I was more curious on how you got your toaster to run this game, it's quite amazing

I agree. Sadly most of the games higher level weapons can't compete with some of the lower level ones. WTF is that about?

Isn't the recommended level for this quest, like, 23? haha

I did this quest at like, level 11, it wasn't fun. And the sword was still shit compared to what I had.

I kinda like how it works, because I liked the feeling I get when completing a witcher set. And since I have a few levels before the next one, at some point I might change my swords for a relic. Yes, the rewards are mostly worthless then, but the xp and the gold are all I really expect, and if a reward is bad I can sell it or dsmantle it, so I don't really mind

I guess if we want to make the gameplay a little more rewarding, we should just don't craft the witcher gears... Man I love Witcher 3, but seriously, a small world with less but carefully tuned loot is much better than a massive world littered with crap. The former one requires serious design, the latter, just write a piece of code will do the job.

I hope the next gen remaster corrected some of the problems with the loot system

I guess your settings are on low, what fps are you getting with the 5850?

did it at lvl 13, got it to lvl 10. it was worse than the griffin sword i had :/

I lol'd at sad trombone. I did not expect that, to be honest.

lets admit it already people... the game is GGGreat and i totally enjoy the ride but it's kinda broken in that part godamnit!!

Yeah really weird how those rewards worked for both mastercrafted quest chains. My "Sword of the Bits" was lvl 18, but then I completed the quest at lvl 20-21... so yeah, had something better. And then the mastercrafted armorsmith gives you lvl 27 "Witch Hunter Armor" for a lvl 24 quest. Not only did I not like how it looked, I wasn't even able to use it till after I went to find Ciri. Still, can't say I didn't absolutely LOVE my Mastercrafted Griffin Armor, and my Mastercrafted Griffin Swords. So awesome.

I got this weapon rather early in my Witchering career, but I went into a dungeon immediately after and found another weapon that did like 30+ more damage so I was like, "Welp, that's the end of Blade from the Bits. Short lived, but made a little coin for me."

I dont get it. In my game the sword have amazing stats and i upgrade it every level with upgrade kit so it stays at my level.

If only you could kill the npc's.

I apparently over-leveled myself - a terrible side effect of being a sort-of completionist. I have since got to Skellige and seen the folly of my ways - there IS no way to be a completionist in this game......but not before I had leveled through the ceiling ad on past ANYTHING I might encounter in the story. -_-

Once u go green u don't go back

Ehh I did it at lvl 18 and sword was 18. Random loot ahoy.

What steel sword did you have at the time

What the heck do you play this on. I play on PS4 & it runs petty dang good. This must be a stock PC, & the reason I quit PC gaming. Also when I get tired of these cool but odd PC WRPGs, I can just stick in Uncharted 4 too.

Done this quest at like level 25 and thought the sword would be amazing nope all that running around for nothing.

Now sell it back to him

The end though lol

Most of those ? On maps are filled with useless junk.

The reward is that you have a master level craftsman, I think the sword is intended to be a joke

True story

Sadly it is true.

Bro’s graphics card is so bad it made me think he was playing the switch version lmaoo

Hogwarts Legacy suffers from this same issue

Bruh tht texture looks ugly asf

Looks like your playing on Xbox, Everything looks disgusting on xbox because it's such a pathetically terrible console.