>Playing the witcher 3.
>Get to a story mission where you have to play some guy at Gwent, back out of it so I can brush up on the game since I've been ignoring it the whole time.
>Fix up a deck, start winning some cards.
>After the beginning 2-3 towns I really have to concentrate to win.
>After that, monster decks everywhere that summon 6 cards a turn, throwing weather out like nobody's business.
>Can't seem to get any cards to fill anything but the first deck I get.
>Search around for cards to buy.
>Can't buy anymore, haven't even gotten to Skellige yet.
>Keep trying to win.
>Every merchant flawlessly ends my existence every round no matter what strategy I employ.
>Check the difficulty.
>It's on easy.
Fucking kill me. There has got to be a way to get better cards or at least some basic shit to fill anything but Northern.
I'm going down a dark road...
>>341021772
Try NilfgaardSpam spies
>>341021940
I don't have enough cards to make a nilfguard deck.
I don't have enough cards for anything but Northern because those are the only cards I'm getting.
>>341021772
Yeah, monsters raped me a lot in the beginning. But as soon as you get the Emhyr card that blocks other leader cards, you start to get an edge. And late game, monsters are shit anyways, though not as shitty as scoiatel.
I still can't decide on the Skellige deck, however.
It seems like an amalgamation of all other decks, but you seem to put lots of cards in it and then be lucky - in which case you steamroll your opponent - or be unlucky, in which case you stay monster tier.
You go to the beginning towns and challenge every npc to gwent ever, and enjoy that you only have 20 crowns at stake, vs 100 in Toussaint.
>Everyone. Gwent.
That should be your top priority at random vendors--buying cards. And completely quests where you win them.
>>341024028
>completing quests
>>341021772
Find every tavern owner and buy their cards, then beat them for another card. Challenge every smith and merchant too. Do the gwent specific quests for OP cards.
Try and get as many spies and target dummies as you can. If an enemy uses a spy card, dummy it and use it on them.
Also play smarter, there is a maximum of three rounds. Against monster decks specifically try and get them to blow all their cards in a single round while using as few good cards yourself so you can crush them in the next two rounds. Again spies and dummies are good for this as they let you bolster your deck while forcing your opponent to spend cards.
it's a fun little card game but i never found the motivation to keep playing it since money is all but useless. they only just now put a real money sink in with b&w to fix up the vineyard and by the time i got to that part i had like 40k crowns to blow on it.
cheat
>>341024854
>never found the motivation to keep playing it since money is all but useless
who the fuck does anything in this game for the money?
Gwent is fun, that's all you need
>>341025171
Not him, but I have fucking shit all for money.
Pretty much all I have needs to be spend on repairing stuff. Can't barely even afford to buy gwent cards since you get fuck all money from doing quests.
>>341021772
there is a glitch rn where when you pres 'o' in a game you get a scarcrow, so first go just keepputting out your weakest card and taking it back with infinite scarcrows and make them use all of their cards,
if you can beat their score that sthe first round ez win, if you cant, let them win keeping all of your cards, then smash them because they have no cards
>>341025289
Check out more of those question marks on the map.
>>341026151
I do. I check out pretty much all of them. Probably why I have to constantly repair my stuff.
>>341025289
loot everything. you will find enough shit to make your own repair kits for free. when you find some sword you don't need repair it and sell it to a smithy. those 3 socket relic silver swords you don't need sell for 800-1000 or more. also sell your extra monster guts, anything that's yellow or orange. sell your extra gem dusts.
>>341022209
Get every card you can. Check the gwent guide book that got added with the latest update, just google where to find it. Then get all the cards in Velen and Novigrad
>>341026286
I pretty much do. Well, apart from silver swords haven't found many of them yet.
But even though I spend hours picking up every 2 oren swords I come across, I still have to spend 200 orens repairing my shit after barely any time of playing.
I would consider modding it out but for some reason modding would just break my game no matter how much I tried.
>>341021772
I used northern realms from start to finish and rarely lost on hard. Use the commander that clears weather, only use 22 unit cards and every time you get a new better card replace the lowest attack card with the better card, use all spies you have, 2-3 horns 1 each weather, no clear weather, 2-3 dummies.
First round: play spies and dummy spies if enemy played them and pass unless enemy passes first and take the round if you can do it with 1-2 cards
2nd round: Start with the throwaway small sons, if it looks like winning the round would take alot of cards just pass and cut your losses while you are ahead. If you have card advantage try to milk enemy cards by playing useless weather effects and the commander ability even if you dont need it.
3rd round: Remember to use dummy on medic if you have it available and you have units in the graveyard, start by playing smaller cards first and save the wombocombo cards for last in case of scorch. later in the game you can use weather to protect your big guys from scorch and then use the commander ability to clear the weather when you are safe to unveil the big guys. Card advantage is the biggest thing about gwent, if the enemy runs out of cards to play you can just lay your stuff out on the table without fear of weather effects and scorch.
>>341026482
also don't forget to exchange your money at bank in novigrad. this is a thing many people overlook. they think they're broke then they hit the bank and exchange all the foreign currency and bam a few thousand crowns richer.
>mfw 3 decoys, 4 spies and yenn in my starting had.
LOOKS LIKE YOURE GOING TO THE FUCKING SHADOW REALM JIMBO
>>341027752
wut this guy says, get some decoys, they are cheap and can mix up your game
I hate Gwent and I dislike the fact the dlc still tries to shove that shit in your face
Don't worry friend your Gwent game reaches godly levels before long
>>341030764
>optional sidequest
>couple of optional tournaments
How terrible it must be to avoid
Northern Realms, emphasis on siege is the easiest deck to play.
>>341030764
>sidequest you get from a noticeboard
>couple of npcs ask you if you want to play it throughout the game
>>341032248
hax
>>341032248
>Mfw using scorch on a stack like that
>>341032616
goodluck, I can bring them all back a few times over
>>341032248
SOMEBODY STOP THE DAMN MATCH THIS MAN HAS A FAMILY DAMMIT
>>341032616
That's probably what the dun banner medics were for. Ai blew his hot load early thinking he was hitting the entire stack before he revived them and pulled more out of his ass.
>>341032606
NG+ resets the card vendors
>>341021772
Here's some strategy that helps me win about 95% of my matches:
First round, throw out two weak as shit cards at max. Bait the computer into using three cards, hopefully they'll even use up their scorch card.
Second round, the computer almost always throws out one card then passes. Easy win.
Focus on stomping in the third round, throw weak cards/heroes first and mill their deck, most likely the computer has already used its good cards and you can win.
Anything else and it is just deck building. I have an unbeatable Northern Realms deck I use just about all of the timeunless I'm forced to use Skellige deck
>>341026934
I've used pretty much this exact strategy and Gwent's been a breeze the whole game. Wish there were more challenging opponents.
>>341030764
I hate you and dislike the fact that you draw breath
>>341030764
Gwent is so much better than what we had before: dwarven dice.
Fucking RNG five card draw poker game.
When going into ng+ do you lose your cards?
>>341033568
I don't think I did
I got to keep my armour
I didnt get to keep two of my swords, kept the rest, didnt keep a few quest items, did keep a bunch of masks and other crap that does work with quests later on
tl;dr: who knows what continues over, seems to be very selective and not consistent
>>341033037
Winning that tournament with Skellige was horrible, took me 7 or 8 tries and I had to spam spies and usually sac the first round
>>341033720
>I didnt get to keep two of my swords
What. The quest-related stuff I can understand, but weapons? The fuck?
I didnt play gwent much at all on my first playthrough. On NG+ I decided to use some mods to get rid of some BS like weight limit, fast travel only available at sign posts etc and ended up also getting one that spawns a merchant at the red baron's place that sells every gwent card in the game.
>>341033802
Honestly, I did pretty well in that tournament once I followed my tried and true strategy stated in
>>341033037
>>341033568
Yes you lose you cards
>>341033904
Really takes all the fun in it once you start getting hero cards.
>>341034045
Northren realms should only use the 4 best hero cards: Mysterious Elf, Yennefer, Ciri and Geralt. That's it, you do not need any more.
>>341032879
Uh, don't you lose all your gwent cards in NG+?
I'm about to play Witcher 3 for the first time, are the harder difficulty settings actually fun to play or just a chore?
Additionally are there any essential mods to add? Things like UI fixes or whatever?
>>341034228
No reason not to use all of them, honestly. Nobody in the game can beat you if you have at least three heroes per hand, regardless of what hero they may be.
>>341034386
No need for any mods, and you should play on Deathmarch if you want the full experience, where using potions and oils are a must and you need to time your parries, rolls, and attacks just right.
>>341034386
They are harder, but as long as you do all side quests you'll outlevel story and most zones so far that nothing will pose challenge in the end.
>>341034285
I did in NG++ but months ago with NG+ I didn't.
nilfgaard best deck
>>341026226
you're pretty shit at this game dude
nearly every question mark on the map is a location that is filled with treasure
>>341034386
>>341034734
You can set enemies to match your current level in the options which makes even normal reasonably engaging. I don't like deathmarch only because the playstyle becomes very cheap, one or two hits at a time then dodging out the way. You spend a lot of time weaving back and forth, waiting for opportunities doing little bits of damage which isnt as fun, but then I specced into combat only besides alchemy for better crits and poison damage. With signs and a pure min/max crit build it'd probably all equal out.
I'll also say the beasts, camera and the collision detection in the W3 can make Deathmarch extremely frustrating especially when fighting some of the huge hordes in the Blood and Wine DLC and some of the boss monsters like the Frog prince who will instantly kill you.
>playing against monster deck
>they have hundreds of points on first row
>use frost card
>follow it up with Three Jackdaws
>>341035113
>>341034734
>>341034704
Alright thanks guys, sounds like I'll be going for the higher difficulty setting. Cheers!
>>341034757
1. there is no ng++, only ng+
2. you lose cards on ng+
3. you're a lying cunt using console to get more cards
>>341036985
Nah they didnt think everything through when they initially implemented ng+, so people who immediately tried it got different results to hose who tried it fter patches
>>341032616
>played Witcher 3 three times
>over 200 hours between
>have not touched Gwent once
Feels good
>>341039775
IKTFB
>>341021772
Use northern realms or alternatively Nilfgaard, the other decks are pointless unless you want to intentionally gimp yourself or something. Spam spies, decoy spies and revive spies. Fill out the rest of the deck hero cards, few scorches, the TOOOT guy, one of every weather card, one clear weather card and then just the best normal units you have.
There, you will never ever lose at gwent again.
