

Just the story missions alone isn't enough to advance. If you don't farm crowns in the world, either through quests or looting, you're going to have a hard time. These can be sold for a high price if you don't need them and if you do need them, well, you just saved yourself some coin. Your inventory will fill up fast of various valuables and crafting materials. When you walk into them, turn on Witcher sense and then loot, loot, loot. There are abandoned houses all throughout the land. Now, I haven't found a good grind spot as nothing really respawns fast enough to keep replenishing, but here are some major tips. Once you have about 1,000 crowns in your pocket, you're be considered well enough off for most of the story (as the rewards keep coming). If you don't have a use for it, get rid of it. Wandering merchants can often buy EVERYTHING off of you and you're going to want to sell, sell, sell. Remember coin goes to the bank in Novigrad to turn into crowns. For instance, only sell herbs to a herbalist, as they're going to give you the best value. The merchant, the merchant's location, and the item's location are play into how much it sells for. Where the item is made is important, along with the merchant you're selling it to, along with their location.


Sell everything, but understand the living economy. This saves you a ton of money, which makes the quest worthwhile for the coin. The plant is outside, in abundance, while the drowner brain is near the river where the game mentions. Now, you can farm each of the ingredients. Most of the ingredients can be bought, for several hundred crowns (you'll most likely have to buy the dwarven ale at around 48 crowns). The first side-quest you get in earnest is to make a swallow potion. As the game progresses, so do the rewards, but nevertheless, you're going to have to be thrifty.ĭon't buy anything you don't have to from a merchant. Now, this may not seem like a lot, but the average quest reward is 30 crowns and if you go the nefarious way (extortion, etc.) you'll receive maybe 50. Armor early on is around 50 to 100 crowns each. We'll start with some tips and then some money making activities.įirst, most goods are around 50 crowns, each. There are a lot of sources of coin, some easy, some hard, but we'll go over the various ways to fill your pockets full of crowns (Witcher's version of gold, coinage, money, moolah). Getting crowns, orens, or what we all call gold can be hard and at a specific point in the game you'll need 1,000 to continue (a stopgap to urge you to do side quests).
