The Witcher 3: The Complete Guide To Crafting

Crafting in The Witcher 3 is more complex than you may think. Here’s everything you need to know about the useful feature.

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Witcher’s earn a meager living and buying gear from merchants isn’t in Geralt’s best interest. Luckily by keeping his looting habits sharp, Geralt may obtain everything he needs to brew witcher potions along with materials for smithing gear.

Crafting Requirements

Armorsmiths & Blacksmiths

Though Geralt cannot craft gear on his own, he can save a few crowns by taking the necessary materials to an Armorsmith or Blacksmith.

Smithies have varying degrees of proficiency, allowing them to fashion different gear. The best diagrams can be completed by one of two Master Crafters. One being the Armorsmith, Fergus Graem at Crow’s Perch in Velen. The other is the former master swordsmith, Hattori, who has given up his craft to serve dumplings instead, but more on that later. The other smithies across the Continent are Amateur or Journeyman crafters and will service any earlier crafting needs just fine.

Diagrams

Smithies can only craft a piece of gear if Geralt has provided a diagram for it. Diagrams will note what proficiency crafter is required along with the ingredients necessary to craft the equipment and at what level it can be used.

After acquiring a diagram, players must obtain the listed ingredients which may be crafted by smithies or collected by Geralt, either throughout his travels or by purchasing them.

Gathering & Crafting Materials

There are several options for obtaining materials to craft these components or the ingredients themselves.

Looting is vital in The Witcher 3, and Geralt doesn’t have to go all stealth mode to do it. If he’s not looting right out from under a guard’s nose, he’s probably okay. Crafting materials and components are often found at abandoned locations such as houses, or any forlorn area scattered throughout the land.

Dismantling loot is a great way to obtain materials. For instance, hides can be stripped into leather, or gear broken down for its components. On the “Dismantle” page, the materials to be received from dismantling the selected item will be displayed on the right side of the screen.

Both buying components and dismantling items will cost crowns, but dismantling items and crafting components is typically cheaper. It pays to be selective in what items will go for parts, however, as some items may be more valuable when sold for crowns instead.

Crafting components is a great option to spare the coin purse. When Geralt has acquired a load of base materials, he may seek out a smithy to refine them into crafting components. For example, refining ingots and ores into finer metals or curing leather.

Buying materials and components is an option as well, but remember, Geralt is a witcher, and money isn’t a commodity for him. If Geralt finds he doesn’t have the material to craft a component or a piece of gear, the player may highlight the missing ingredient and, if the vendor has the item in-stock, may purchase the item directly from the crafting screen. This fast-buy option is helpful in a pinch, but will quickly burn a hole in the coin purse if made into a habit.

Crafting Gear & Components

The diagrams and required components for the desired gear are relatively straightforward. But let’s have a look at the sorts of things that can be crafted and where.

Both Armorsmiths and Blacksmiths can craft components. These include the various tiers of ingots and ores, leather, and components such as wooden Hafts and Steel Plates. Smithies can also fashion materials such as linen, silk, string, and thread, and miscellaneous resources like resin or Zerrikanian Powder.

Blacksmiths craft Geralt’s weaponry, including both steel and silver swords, along with bolts for his crossbow. While standard bolts are an infinite source of ammo, The Blacksmith can fashion specialty bolts such as ones with explosive properties and more.

Armorsmiths provide Geralt’s full set of armor from his chest pieces and trousers to his gauntlets and boots. Most outdated gear is good to sell back to the craftsman or dismantle for parts but, with instances like the Kaer Morhen Armor, certain equipment may be used to fashion better Witcher Gear later on.

Master Craftsmen Quests

The Master Crafters mentioned earlier cannot craft their superior gear until after Geralt has completed the quest attached to each smithy, respectively. This hurdle makes master crafting a mechanic to be saved for later in the game as both quests have a suggested level of twenty-four. For players who’ve reached this point, here’re outlines of what each pursuit entails.

“Master Armorers”

Fergus the Armorsmith requires that Geralt bring a particular set of tools in order to craft the armor he’s requested. This quest will take Geralt to Skellige, so it’s not a bad idea to include it with the main quest in his hunt for Ciri. Follow the quest tracker through a cave on the isle of Undvik, where Geralt will have to defeat a rock-troll to obtain the toolset. Upon Geralt’s return to Crow’s Perch, he’ll have to overcome an Archgriffin. Then after some story interlude, Geralt will receive his new armor and access to crafting master armor.

“Of Swords and Dumplings”

Hattori can be found selling dumplings in a shop by the pyre in Novigrad, just North of the Glory Gate signpost. This quest entails helping Hattori with a sticky situation involving Novigrad’s criminal underground. First, Cleaver’s dwarves pick a fight after Geralt helps Hattori negotiate a deal with the King of Beggar’s faction. Due to the outcome of events, Geralt must now find Hattori a bodyguard, namely a mercenary named Sukrus, leading to the second brawl of the questline. After this, Geralt plays errand boy, running back and forth for a bit. Events culminate in one more showdown before Geralt finally claims the master sword Hattori promised at the start of the quest and unlocking master weapon crafting.

It may seem like a lengthy process at first, but crafting gear is cheaper and more proficient than purchasing equipment. A witcher with a tight coin purse will want to master the tricks of this trade.

Source: Ten Ton Hammer

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