What is 3 piece/6 piece bonus for witcher gear swords,grandmaster items?

[High Ping Tank!]

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Refer to the screenshot above, it is clearly mentioned that I will get some bonus once I craft the grand master one.

Now , where would I find the grand master diagram? Do I have to buy it or have to loot following treasure hunt quests?

What pieces it is referring to? Do I have to make duplicates of same sword 3 times or 6 times to get the bonus? or may be some rarest ingredients it is talking about?

Pls help. if it's regarding rare ingredients then from right now, I have to save'em for later use and not sell'em at all !!!

[laveley]

You get the diagrams at toussaint, in B&W expansion. Each different piece of equipment that you use count as one to each bonus.

As for ingredients; i never sell nothing because i never need to. Ingredients dont take inv weight and i'm always swimming in gold without even trying to, so no need to sell them. However if you are somehow short on gold it probably worth to try to keep the rares ingredients and sell the rest.

[dantès]

Only the 'Grand-Master' armor sets give such bonuses. the 3/6 and 6/6 means how many articles of the set your are wearing. there are 4 armors (breastplate, glovers, boots, and pants) and 2 swords (steel, silver).. if you're equip with all 6 (6/6) then it grants the bonus. Each set (wolf, feline, bear, manticore, etc) has its own advantages. The bonuses are written under the description of each set.

you don't have to make duplicates of anything, nor have to loot treasure chests.. Once you get to toussaint, you'll run into a merchant who will direct you to the locations of each set.

as far as ingredients.. the grandmaster sets require unusual metals in the craft process. just hang on to anything you come across during your journey, and you should be fine. another note: Aside from the Manticore and Wolf grandmaster set.. the other 3 need to be built into.. in other words, you have to slowly build the basic armor and sword, then upgrade them to the 'enhanced' version, and then into the 'Superior' version, and then into the 'mastercrafted' ... and only then will you be able to qualify for the 'grandmaster' set.. so you can start crafting these now until you reach toussaint.

[High Ping Tank!]

yes, I can start crafting it, if the ingredients are available to loot or buy, then simply stor them in stash so it will be carried over to the next area without carrying'em

[Homer Morisson]

As an addendum to dantès' answer:
There are actually two sets that have a slightly different item list, and those are the two story dungeon/choices-related armor sets of Tesham Mutna and the other one whose name I can never remember... anyways, the black one and the red one.

For those, there are no Silver Swords in that set; you need to instead equip the corresponding mask for each set, if you want the full 6 piece bonus.

[High Ping Tank!]

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

As an addendum to dantès' answer:
There are actually two sets that have a slightly different item list, and those are the two story dungeon/choices-related armor sets of Tesham Mutna and the other one whose name I can never remember... anyways, the black one and the red one.

For those, there are no Silver Swords in that set; you need to instead equip the corresponding mask for each set, if you want the full 6 piece bonus.

But silver swords from the witcher gear sets are very much stronger than other random high damge sword !!! Isn't it? I might the have to stick to that set where I would get all 6 items of a single witcher gear set. What'd u say?

[dantès]

Originally posted by Feluram Ferebbaz Idle-Empire.com:

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

As an addendum to dantès' answer:
There are actually two sets that have a slightly different item list, and those are the two story dungeon/choices-related armor sets of Tesham Mutna and the other one whose name I can never remember... anyways, the black one and the red one.

For those, there are no Silver Swords in that set; you need to instead equip the corresponding mask for each set, if you want the full 6 piece bonus.

But silver swords from the witcher gear sets are very much stronger than other random high damge sword !!! Isn't it? I might the have to stick to that set where I would get all 6 items of a single witcher gear set. What'd u say?

Yes, the two 'Vampire' Armors: Tesham Mutna (black one) and the 'Hen Gaidth' (Red 1992 Dracula movie looking) armor. These two also have set bonuses.

Actually, you'll come across several non-witcher swords (both silver/steel) with higher damage outputs,, but the set bonuses sometimes, if paired correctly with your build (mutations and skills) will often times give you better results in combat. -- having said that, the Aerondight silver sword is sure hard to put down.

[Homer Morisson]

Originally posted by Feluram Ferebbaz Idle-Empire.com:

Originally posted by Homer Morisson:

As an addendum to dantès' answer:
There are actually two sets that have a slightly different item list, and those are the two story dungeon/choices-related armor sets of Tesham Mutna and the other one whose name I can never remember... anyways, the black one and the red one.

For those, there are no Silver Swords in that set; you need to instead equip the corresponding mask for each set, if you want the full 6 piece bonus.

But silver swords from the witcher gear sets are very much stronger than other random high damge sword !!! Isn't it? I might the have to stick to that set where I would get all 6 items of a single witcher gear set. What'd u say?

Well, incidentally, you can also get the best (in lore-terms) Silver Sword in Beauclair (B&W addon) as well, or rather, you can get it back.

That one pairs well with the pretty cool Bonus from the Hen Gdaith (cheers, dantès) Steel Sword.

While Grandmaster Witcher Silver Swords can have a slightly higher DPS than the mythical Silver Sword from Beauclair, I still prefer the latter for its unique effect, and let's not forget, its gorgeous 3D model, which matters to me a lot in cutscenes actually.

[High Ping Tank!]

you guys are making me more curious than I ever be to find out how that BEAUCLAIR sword looks like !!! Although had to add that, even after 60+ hrs of gaming, I still not able to complete half of the quests in VELEN itself. Don't know when I will complete my first playthrough !!! Looks like it will took me forever

[Valden21]

Originally posted by Feluram Ferebbaz Idle-Empire.com:

you guys are making me more curious than I ever be to find out how that BEAUCLAIR sword looks like !!! Although had to add that, even after 60+ hrs of gaming, I still not able to complete half of the quests in VELEN itself. Don't know when I will complete my first playthrough !!! Looks like it will took me forever

You'll have to wait for it, sadly. It's only available in that DLC, and getting it requires a quest. But once you DO get it, it's worth the wait. In the meantime, Witcher School gear can fill that void. The weakest version of the Griffin School gear opens up at level 8, I believe. The maps that lead you to the diagrams are sold by the armorer in Midcopse, which you visit as part of the main quest.

[High Ping Tank!]

Another thing is also very sad !! the merchants can't refill their amount even after my 23 hr meditation!!! Even tried meditating in front of them, but still nothing happened. Don't know how to force'em to replenish their amount!! Problem is I can't sell my looted armors!!!

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[Valden21]

Originally posted by Feluram Ferebbaz Idle-Empire.com:

Another thing is also very sad !! the merchants can't refill their amount even after my 23 hr meditation!!! Even tried meditating in front of them, but still nothing happened. Don't know how to force'em to replenish their amount!! Problem is I can't sell my looted armors!!!

It takes longer than that. According to the wiki, it takes about 5 days worth of meditation or waiting for merchants to get their gold supply back. Another way to do it, one that's quicker if you're dealing with blacksmiths or armorers, is to buy all the repair kits you can. This usually refills that merchant's cash enough so that you can sell at least some of your armor pieces.

[Homer Morisson]

As Valden already said, it takes a rather long time for merchants to refresh their inv.
I however really like that fact, as anything else wouldn't have fit the world at that time.

After all, the entire North is at war with both Nilgaard as well as with itself, and we've all seen the state of major regions like Velen, the fact that most carts get robbed or attacked by monsters than actually make it safely to their destinations, and so it is only logical for inventories to stay roughly the same for significant amounts of time.

[Marius]

What I do with moneyless blacksmiths is, after selling as much stuff as possible, I take apart some more. This costs money, so the blacksmith can then buy more stuff from you, and you get ingredients.
I have found it more useful to destroy high level loot for rare ingredients, and sell low level loot which only gives iron and leather.

[High Ping Tank!]

Originally posted by Marius:

What I do with moneyless blacksmiths is, after selling as much stuff as possible, I take apart some more. This costs money, so the blacksmith can then buy more stuff from you, and you get ingredients.
I have found it more useful to destroy high level loot for rare ingredients, and sell low level loot which only gives iron and leather.

yes, but novigrad/oxenfurt merchants are too costly to dismantle !!! I had to find village merchants for that