The Witcher tips and builds for a new players.

[yevhene]



[Peats]

Try to explore and to do as many side quests as you can, so you'll gain lots of exp.
When you lvl up, you're given skill points. Focus on upgrading your steel sword (you won't receive the silver sword until chapter 2) and stats which improve your stamina, damage and dodging.
Also upgrade Aard, it's the spell you get in the Prologue, but it's easy to use and becomes very powerful as you upgrade it. The second spell (the fire spell, I don't remember it's name :/ ) is worth being upgraded too, it is great against certain enemies (giant carnivore plants) but useless against others.
Always collect ingredients from plants, corpses, etc... , as alchemy is very important.
As long as you get familiar with the combat system, the game becomes pure awesomeness.

[DUNCAN DONUTS]

Use potions as much as you can. They are extremely useful and make combat go a lot faster.

[Corax]

go plough every women out there

[Iz good]

Don't play it, the game is dull, combat is ♥♥♥♥, voice acting is ♥♥♥♥, it's pretty damn ugly looking. The only redeeming factor is its a got a decent, though extremely tedious and slow, story

[Agora é a conta do Luke T_T]

I can´t understand this people. If you think the game is ♥♥♥♥, I can think in 2 things: 1 - you didn't play the enhanced edition; 2 - why wast your time with something dull, tedious and slow? IMO it is a good game, far from perfect, but a solid rpg =) (although I´m rushing it 'til witcher 2!)

[AONomad]

Igni builds are very strong late in the game, since few enemies have fire resistance.

[HoffaH]

I've been following this talent tree guide by Harleyquin. It might help someone reading here:

http://store.steampowered.com

I'm only about six hours into the game but I'm enjoying it (a lot). My biggest complaint is odd and abrupt music chnages and cutoffs when entering buildings or when loading a scene starts. Makes the game lack a certain polish.

[Ingvar]

Swallow is your friend, and save your gold!

[Razgriz]

don't take sides if you don't want to

[vellow]

Talk to people too get rewards and side quests, quick save before poker to make sure you dont lose money (kinda cheating but meh, Thaler is great for this because of his110g Poker buyin), buy monster and herb books and most important thing is to have fun.

[Photon]

It's not necessary to have many different kinds of food and beer in the inventory, just keep a couple of them to use in some quests. I say this because if you usually explore the inventory gets full quickly and it can be overwhelming.

[RoC Kloop]

Join the knights, they have cake. no lie

[wretch]

Witchers CAN get stds you will see.

[Buda]

this game crashes on my brand new mac

[Behemoth]

You don't really need flint once you get Igni (fire spell).
Build Aard for first few chapters then start building Igni. With the right potions you can keep blasting Igni and not even bother using your sword.