re: *Official* Witcher 3 Release Thread

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Hey! Where did everyone go after White Orchard? I just got owned in a cave full of little angry gollums. I still haven't removed my normal instinct to RUN into the fray style of RPG gameplay.

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I honestly don't even remember. This game has a rough start. I would advise going back to White Orchard and completing every POI. There's not too many compared to the other zones and you should get at least a couple levels out of the whole ordeal.

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I'm still totally lost on the whole inventory, crafting, alchemy aspect.

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Crafting can be tedious, but it's easy to learn. You can buy/loot the majority of the components from merchants or you can craft the sub-components yourself if you have the recipes.

Still, I wish RPGs would move away from having crafting play such an integral role.

To me, it's more enjoyable looting a nice sword or breastplate out of a cave than a recipe for a nice sword whereby I'll have to spend a half hour tracking down the components I need and the merchant who can craft the item for me.

You get some of that in Witcher 3, but what you wind up with is an odd hodgepodge of different weapons and armor types. Level 10 heavy armor breastplate, level 25 medium armor boots, level 15 light armor gloves, etc.

Best I recall, I like how Diablo 3 handles crafting. I feel like if crafting plays a role in a game like this, it should be simplistic -- used mostly for upgrading existing items or if it is deep, it shouldn't be relied upon as heavily as it is in a game like Inquisition or Witcher 3.

Maybe put the best gear behind a crafting wall, but you really get the sense that at least in Witcher 3, your main source of gear/weapon upgrades should be coming from crafting and not buying gear from a merchant or finding it in the gameworld.

You really don't have to worry about alchemy that much if you play on the default difficulty. You'll want to make swallow potion for the vitality regeneration, but aside from that, you're looking at potions that give you some attack buffs vs certain enemy types and temporary stat increases.

You'll also want to make bombs so you can blow up the monster next. Bombs and potions auto-refill when you meditate as long as you have alcohol in your inventory.