
The easiest would be to at least craft the Viper school silver sword diagram found in the tutorial starting area. If you need to know how to start those outside of stumbling onto them by just exploring buy the map quest items from blacksmiths/weaponsmiths. And in Novigrad of course.Īt level 8 the most surefire and biggest upgrade would be to get the Griffin school basic silver sword crafted (lvl7 sword), diagrams can be found as part of one of the witcher school treasure hunt quests. Lindenvale and Blackbough, they are literally the settlements next to Crow's Perch. There is a weapon smith in two of the little towns around Velen, only a short bit away from the Baron's place. The most reliable way to keep your silver swords up to date however is definitely diagrams and crafting them yourself (breaking down your old ones for silver). Some can be found in treasure spots like loot and gear left behind by other witchers or sometimes rarely as a quest reward.


But there are definitely still a lot around to be found. They are much rarer then steel swords in circulation, which makes sense only witchers use them. Even got some diagrams for level 20-24 stuff that looks super cool, albeit a bit teasing as well.


I went from level 6 to 10, halfway to 11 after that run, came away with a 163 damage silver sword with 75% crit boost.Īlso got two really cool steel swords, one that's a little weaker but has a 9% chance to light people on goddamn fire (and it seems to hit way more than 1 out of every 10 swings, especially on bandits) and a 97 damage with +39 armor piercing and 50% crit bonus.īeing Destiny is really the only loot-based game I can think of playing since older JRPGs up through Final Fantasy XII and a rental of Fallout 3, I'm not sure if the loot is at all randomized in this game so I'm not naming names in case you don't get exactly what I got, but there's a lot of good treasure out there. I was even well-equipped and versed in the game at one point the other night to take down a level 15 Water Hag when I was only level 8. I can tell you that if you do all the events on the coast and in the plains to the west of Crow's Perch in Velen you'll come away pretty pleased with yourself. I was really struggling with this game until I hit about level 6, at which point I felt more confident wandering around the world discovering the hidden locations.
