How to earn money fast

[893457237]

Hello, I would like to know how to earn more money. I've been playing on max difficulty and I've always had problems with money, I've never gone over 2k because I often have to buy food, or new equipment to upgrade Geralt. And it's quite frustrating sometimes because I would like to buy a lot of things that I can't afford, like glyphs or runes for example. I'm currently in Skellige, just before I go to get Uma.

I've seen in many gameplays people with a lot of money being in my current progress, how do they do it?

[b r u k i]

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[893457237]

Originally posted by b r u k i:

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I'd appreciate a serius response.

[Anvos]

Fairly sure early on your better off relying on drops than buying/crafting gear, since you'll be replacing it so often.

[TheClosetSkeleton]

If your looking to earn money in large amount, you'll have to rely on two things:

1 - Witcher sets: They are some of the best armor in game, and can be enhanced as you progress. The loot you get in the open world is usually just a little worse than those armours and blades, which will let you sell the weapons and armour pieces you find here and there.

2 - Dismantling item to sell the materials, especially rubys and such proves to be a reliable source of income, as much as doing 3 to 4 witcher contracts. Another thing is trying to gather animal pelts, as they fetch a high price with some merchant.

As a side note, the game makes a constant effort to keep you in a window of "not too much money" depending on you're progression. Even when arriving in the 10 000 crowns, the higher armour will almost deplets all of your savings. Money is a mean, not an end, and you'll rarely be short of it progression-wise. If you do run short of it, chances are it's because the game doesn't want you to have more

[Shizofrend]

Hmm, I always slowly 100% the game and have no issues with money. By end I have tens or hundreds of thousands coins.

How I go about it is I alwqys loot everything except stealing containers and do quests in chronological level suggestion order with main one's having priority.
After I've done all quests in area I go to POIs that I didn't do cuz they weren't on route of any quest or were higher level.
I only ever buy recipes/diagrams for crafting items and making alchemy items.
I only sell junk items, horse items I don't need and weapons and armours I'm not using.
If you go about it like that, 100% everything, doing every quest, going from lowest to highest level suggestions, looting every single box and so on, you shouldn't technically have problems.

You don't really need to craft or buy food even on death march.
Maybe some booze only early on.
You find good gear as you play and you can get butt load of meat from igni'ng heards of deer stuck between trees near devil at well house in white orchad.

You could farm cow hide and sell it but I think devs added invincible chort monster to spawn if you exploit that.

You could use a mod or console command to cheat if you want.

I can't really remember whatčs the best way to go about making money, sorry. I finished it once at launch and am only now replaying it again. I never had shortage of money so never looked it up.

good luck

[Hannah Montana]

Selling loot. You have to loot everything possible.
Witcher Contracts. Always haggle. The handshake symbol.
Wager on Gwent games. Max wager is 10 orens but you're almost certain to win with a good deck. Not a fast option though.
Animal hides are supposed to sell for a lot.
Pick herbs and sell them.
Also don't forget to convert currency at Vivaldi Bank.

Yeah it's hard to make money early in the game. There's no real fast way to make it. Witcher Contracts is probably the most profitable.

[TheClosetSkeleton]

The only fast option was the cow farm in White orchard, but eh, see for yourself

[worm_master]

Dont mean to brag.. had to raise over 100k in gold, just for my super-duper grand master gear. Go for the smuggler cache's, seems every other 1 has a orange weapon/armour. I doubt many have raised 100k. YEAH I own a full NG+ cat school set

[Red Star, Blood Moon]

buy food lolwut
Well there's your problem m8. My advice? Get born into wealth, then carefully manage payoffs to politicians so that even after the class action lawsuits you're still up, and use it in different investment schemes so that basically you can never work a day in your life and make money off other peoples' hard work. Then instead of working and sponging off other people's money through stock dividends and such, make a cringey podcast and smoke weed with Joe Rogan complaining about how welfare queens don't want to work for a living. Bonus points if you can scam people into buying your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ altcoin pump n dump scam and get TIME to call you a genius innovator by using Uyghur slave labour to build laptops designed to break and computer systems made straight for the landfill so you have a reliable income stream, while gimping graphics cards on purpose so as to keep people in the perpetual cycle. Of course what I really mean is, con other people into working for you and taking credit for their ideas, and saying you did it, and then paying someone else a pittance to write a book for you and call it an autobiography calling yourself a genius.
out of all things I despise, probably the Capital owner class I hate the most

Seriously though what are you even doing paying for food
You do realize basically nothing above pepper is worth it right? Even that's a scam. The people making money are the barkeeps, not you, kinda like how the people making money are GPU makers and scalpers, not the hobbyist miners.

Originally posted by Hannah Montana:

Selling loot. You have to loot everything possible.
Witcher Contracts. Always haggle. The handshake symbol.
Wager on Gwent games. Max wager is 10 orens but you're almost certain to win with a good deck. Not a fast option though.
Animal hides are supposed to sell for a lot.
Pick herbs and sell them.
Also don't forget to convert currency at Vivaldi Bank.

Yeah it's hard to make money early in the game. There's no real fast way to make it. Witcher Contracts is probably the most profitable.

Half this. Herbs are freaking worthless in this game dude it's like one coin per each which running around a field isn't worth the bother of getting off Roche except to indulge OCD. Animal hides too rare for how much it's worth. I'd also take issue with Gwent, just because while easy to farm, it is "I'm going to mine with a GTX 970 in 2022" tier. If you buy every card you find not just the ones you need you're going to not come up that much farther than even for the bother, at least if you don't play Gwent for fun like I do. I find it really addictive so it's mainly me getting coin as I indulge, but to me spending an hour to get 100 gold ain't worth it. You can still farm that gold it's just not worth it to me for how long it takes vs how much you actually get per game, which is 10 per game max, unless it's part of a quest or something.

However, basic premise is correct. What you mainly want to do is loot. Don't go into peasant's houses and loot like some kleptomaniac unless your Geralt is a weird thief, but do grab what clearly doesn't belong to anybody or belongs to somebody you hate, like Nilfgaard if you can avoid getting caughtyou can't outfight the guards and they'll shank you if they see you.

By loot mainly what I mean is the corpses, especially of monsters. Something worthless to you and that carries no weight like a drowner brain can sell anywhere from 7-11 gold per each, same goes for Nekker claws, monster blood etc. Try and keep at least 5 or 10 of each, because you're going to find out later how rare and valuable things like rune stones, glyphs, and weird random ♥♥♥♥ like powdered monster tissue are in crafting. DON'T buy craft materials that you don't desperately need; you're getting scammed by merchants here worse even than IRL scalped cards and price gouged poptarts.

Go to the herbalist specifically, because lots of herbalists will buy crafting ingredients way higher prices than anybody else. Not everyone, but most. These you can clean out of all their gold and then get the rarest, most valuable crafting ingredients on very favourable exchange rates. Certain merchants pay you a lot less for like rusty axes and swords from bandits, so pay attention who you're selling it to, but otherwise all that stuff you loot off monster bodies adds up more than anything. I've probably made more money per time just off of looting crowds of nekkers and drowners than I got off my actual contracts.

The Passiflora quest in Novigrad is also the most high paying one by far, but you need your own deck so have to search for good cards before doing it though as those are among the best decks in basegame to fight sequentially. However it does require a 1000 gold entry fee and you get 4500 gold back, so you're more or less going to be loaded for a long time after in early to midgame.

Originally posted by worm_master:

Dont mean to brag.. had to raise over 100k in gold, just for my super-duper grand master gear. Go for the smuggler cache's, seems every other 1 has a orange weapon/armour. I doubt many have raised 100k. YEAH I own a full NG+ cat school set

Did you get that bugged Cat gear boots in the Wyvern cave thing?

Originally posted by Lost Soul in a fish bowl:

Hmm, I always slowly 100% the game and have no issues with money. By end I have tens or hundreds of thousands coins.

How I go about it is I alwqys loot everything except stealing containers and do quests in chronological level suggestion order with main one's having priority.
After I've done all quests in area I go to POIs that I didn't do cuz they weren't on route of any quest or were higher level.
I only ever buy recipes/diagrams for crafting items and making alchemy items.
I only sell junk items, horse items I don't need and weapons and armours I'm not using.
If you go about it like that, 100% everything, doing every quest, going from lowest to highest level suggestions, looting every single box and so on, you shouldn't technically have problems.

You don't really need to craft or buy food even on death march.
Maybe some booze only early on.
You find good gear as you play and you can get butt load of meat from igni'ng heards of deer stuck between trees near devil at well house in white orchad.

You could farm cow hide and sell it but I think devs added invincible chort monster to spawn if you exploit that.

You could use a mod or console command to cheat if you want.

I can't really remember whatčs the best way to go about making money, sorry. I finished it once at launch and am only now replaying it again. I never had shortage of money so never looked it up.

good luck

More or less. The secret to money is simple: don't spend, acquire currency. That's it. Just make sure you don't spend while maximizing your rate of income/time. Like you can get money off quests but you'll notice that didn't occur to me first because 300 gold is not a lot of money to me for how long contracts sometimes take. There are gear items everywhere, but I personally have been collecting those swords in my stash. If I wanted money, that's thousands of coin I have stashed away. Don't buy anything you do not strictly need, and craft everything, and don't buy craft material or food if you can ever help it. Mostly stuff is so plentiful it's pointless, and expensive.

I will lastly, that while gwent is not a good income source in terms of spending money on cards and the huge amount of time it takes both to hunt down cards and length of actual games, unless you only do it on the side and don't spend your whole time trying to play every Gwent match in a row, however it is a good source of random craft materials. Some of it's junk, but things like silver ingots are valuable, and if you just randomly play Gwent throughout the game it'll slowly load up your loot.

The real easy money is in fighting. Fistfights can bring you in something like 80 gold per match, which those fights never last long and pretty easy to beat. So in terms of gold as a value of time invested in it, your highest ROI is probably in fights in terms of coin made per minute.

[Shizofrend]

Originally posted by Red Star, Blood Moon:

buy food lolwut
Well there's your problem m8. My advice? Get born into wealth, then carefully manage payoffs to politicians so that even after the class action lawsuits you're still up, and use it in different investment schemes so that basically you can never work a day in your life and make money off other peoples' hard work. Then instead of working and sponging off other people's money through stock dividends and such, make a cringey podcast and smoke weed with Joe Rogan complaining about how welfare queens don't want to work for a living. Bonus points if you can scam people into buying your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ altcoin pump n dump scam and get TIME to call you a genius innovator by using Uyghur slave labour to build laptops designed to break and computer systems made straight for the landfill so you have a reliable income stream, while gimping graphics cards on purpose so as to keep people in the perpetual cycle. Of course what I really mean is, con other people into working for you and taking credit for their ideas, and saying you did it, and then paying someone else a pittance to write a book for you and call it an autobiography calling yourself a genius.
out of all things I despise, probably the Capital owner class I hate the most

Seriously though what are you even doing paying for food
You do realize basically nothing above pepper is worth it right? Even that's a scam. The people making money are the barkeeps, not you, kinda like how the people making money are GPU makers and scalpers, not the hobbyist miners.

Originally posted by Hannah Montana:

Selling loot. You have to loot everything possible.
Witcher Contracts. Always haggle. The handshake symbol.
Wager on Gwent games. Max wager is 10 orens but you're almost certain to win with a good deck. Not a fast option though.
Animal hides are supposed to sell for a lot.
Pick herbs and sell them.
Also don't forget to convert currency at Vivaldi Bank.

Yeah it's hard to make money early in the game. There's no real fast way to make it. Witcher Contracts is probably the most profitable.

Half this. Herbs are freaking worthless in this game dude it's like one coin per each which running around a field isn't worth the bother of getting off Roche except to indulge OCD. Animal hides too rare for how much it's worth. I'd also take issue with Gwent, just because while easy to farm, it is "I'm going to mine with a GTX 970 in 2022" tier. If you buy every card you find not just the ones you need you're going to not come up that much farther than even for the bother, at least if you don't play Gwent for fun like I do. I find it really addictive so it's mainly me getting coin as I indulge, but to me spending an hour to get 100 gold ain't worth it. You can still farm that gold it's just not worth it to me for how long it takes vs how much you actually get per game, which is 10 per game max, unless it's part of a quest or something.

However, basic premise is correct. What you mainly want to do is loot. Don't go into peasant's houses and loot like some kleptomaniac unless your Geralt is a weird thief, but do grab what clearly doesn't belong to anybody or belongs to somebody you hate, like Nilfgaard if you can avoid getting caughtyou can't outfight the guards and they'll shank you if they see you.

By loot mainly what I mean is the corpses, especially of monsters. Something worthless to you and that carries no weight like a drowner brain can sell anywhere from 7-11 gold per each, same goes for Nekker claws, monster blood etc. Try and keep at least 5 or 10 of each, because you're going to find out later how rare and valuable things like rune stones, glyphs, and weird random ♥♥♥♥ like powdered monster tissue are in crafting. DON'T buy craft materials that you don't desperately need; you're getting scammed by merchants here worse even than IRL scalped cards and price gouged poptarts.

Go to the herbalist specifically, because lots of herbalists will buy crafting ingredients way higher prices than anybody else. Not everyone, but most. These you can clean out of all their gold and then get the rarest, most valuable crafting ingredients on very favourable exchange rates. Certain merchants pay you a lot less for like rusty axes and swords from bandits, so pay attention who you're selling it to, but otherwise all that stuff you loot off monster bodies adds up more than anything. I've probably made more money per time just off of looting crowds of nekkers and drowners than I got off my actual contracts.

The Passiflora quest in Novigrad is also the most high paying one by far, but you need your own deck so have to search for good cards before doing it though as those are among the best decks in basegame to fight sequentially. However it does require a 1000 gold entry fee and you get 4500 gold back, so you're more or less going to be loaded for a long time after in early to midgame.

Originally posted by worm_master:

Dont mean to brag.. had to raise over 100k in gold, just for my super-duper grand master gear. Go for the smuggler cache's, seems every other 1 has a orange weapon/armour. I doubt many have raised 100k. YEAH I own a full NG+ cat school set

Did you get that bugged Cat gear boots in the Wyvern cave thing?

Originally posted by Lost Soul in a fish bowl:

Hmm, I always slowly 100% the game and have no issues with money. By end I have tens or hundreds of thousands coins.

How I go about it is I alwqys loot everything except stealing containers and do quests in chronological level suggestion order with main one's having priority.
After I've done all quests in area I go to POIs that I didn't do cuz they weren't on route of any quest or were higher level.
I only ever buy recipes/diagrams for crafting items and making alchemy items.
I only sell junk items, horse items I don't need and weapons and armours I'm not using.
If you go about it like that, 100% everything, doing every quest, going from lowest to highest level suggestions, looting every single box and so on, you shouldn't technically have problems.

You don't really need to craft or buy food even on death march.
Maybe some booze only early on.
You find good gear as you play and you can get butt load of meat from igni'ng heards of deer stuck between trees near devil at well house in white orchad.

You could farm cow hide and sell it but I think devs added invincible chort monster to spawn if you exploit that.

You could use a mod or console command to cheat if you want.

I can't really remember whatčs the best way to go about making money, sorry. I finished it once at launch and am only now replaying it again. I never had shortage of money so never looked it up.

good luck

More or less. The secret to money is simple: don't spend, acquire currency. That's it. Just make sure you don't spend while maximizing your rate of income/time. Like you can get money off quests but you'll notice that didn't occur to me first because 300 gold is not a lot of money to me for how long contracts sometimes take. There are gear items everywhere, but I personally have been collecting those swords in my stash. If I wanted money, that's thousands of coin I have stashed away. Don't buy anything you do not strictly need, and craft everything, and don't buy craft material or food if you can ever help it. Mostly stuff is so plentiful it's pointless, and expensive.

I will lastly, that while gwent is not a good income source in terms of spending money on cards and the huge amount of time it takes both to hunt down cards and length of actual games, unless you only do it on the side and don't spend your whole time trying to play every Gwent match in a row, however it is a good source of random craft materials. Some of it's junk, but things like silver ingots are valuable, and if you just randomly play Gwent throughout the game it'll slowly load up your loot.

The real easy money is in fighting. Fistfights can bring you in something like 80 gold per match, which those fights never last long and pretty easy to beat. So in terms of gold as a value of time invested in it, your highest ROI is probably in fights in terms of coin made per minute.

yeah i never buy ♥♥♥♥ except crafting diagrams and alchemy recipes.

gwent can rewards such high tier crafting items? damn. didn't know that. good to know. thx!

yeah didnt know aobut fist fights either. i skipped over the minigames like races, fist fights and gwent my first time around. but can you replay fist fights like gwent? if so then that's seriously a nice farm. 80 coins for a moment or two of punching faces

[Errach]

Use the healing potions instead of food.
I bought food on my first playthrough too but it was a mistake.

[Shizofrend]

Originally posted by Errach:

Use the healing potions instead of food.
I bought food on my first playthrough too but it was a mistake.

well, if he does that he will be using booze to replenish them which ends up being more expensive than food. since u can't regen hp during meditation on b&bb and dm.
raw meat is pretty easy to farm in white orhcad once u kill enough wolfs to make butt load of deer spawn. they can get stuck between trees easily and you just sprint up to them and cast igni

[893457237]

Originally posted by Errach:

Use the healing potions instead of food.
I bought food on my first playthrough too but it was a mistake.

But I can only use the potions 3 times, at least the Swallow potion. After that, what do I use? The only thing I have left is food, so I need to buy it from time to time. I also think food is better, because I use potions in emergency situations, like when I'm about to die in a fight, I combine the potion with food and my health goes up faster.

[Shizofrend]

Originally posted by Player:

Originally posted by Errach:

Use the healing potions instead of food.
I bought food on my first playthrough too but it was a mistake.

But I can only use the potions 3 times, at least the Swallow potion. After that, what do I use? The only thing I have left is food, so I need to buy it from time to time. I also think food is better, because I use potions in emergency situations, like when I'm about to die in a fight, I combine the potion with food and my health goes up faster.

Alchemy items replenish stock when meditating but it uses one if harder booze drinks to do it.

Make sure to find white raffard potion early on. It's one of best heal items.

I forgot if vanilla has hydratation effect on some food and if this is possible but with ghost mode mod I can eat a normal food and one that has hydratation effect to gain double hp regen which is cool.

One of quen upgrades can be Excellent heal alternative.

[Red Star, Blood Moon]

Originally posted by Lost Soul in a fish bowl:

Originally posted by Errach:

Use the healing potions instead of food.
I bought food on my first playthrough too but it was a mistake.

well, if he does that he will be using booze to replenish them which ends up being more expensive than food. since u can't regen hp during meditation on b&bb and dm.
raw meat is pretty easy to farm in white orhcad once u kill enough wolfs to make butt load of deer spawn. they can get stuck between trees easily and you just sprint up to them and cast igni

Raw meat is way too low at 50hp/s for 5 sec iirc, unless it's different on deathmarch. That's ok for slowly doing it in peace but you want to save some of the 80hp for 10s as adjuncts for healing potion during battle. Hey...can you craft raw meat into cooked meats? I never even tried crafting with food.

Originally posted by Lost Soul in a fish bowl:

yeah i never buy ♥♥♥♥ except crafting diagrams and alchemy recipes.

gwent can rewards such high tier crafting items? damn. didn't know that. good to know. thx!

yeah didnt know aobut fist fights either. i skipped over the minigames like races, fist fights and gwent my first time around. but can you replay fist fights like gwent? if so then that's seriously a nice farm. 80 coins for a moment or two of punching faces

Oh no unfortunately you cannot just keep betting on it since it's a you won so you won tournie type deal, but still, that's a lot of gold for quickly punching some people. It's easy af to cheese too, you basically just step back using the dodge key and then hit him repeatedly with fast attack after he's swung. Still fun tbh.

Also yes although it's quite crap a lot of the time like fiber, wire etc. I do sometimes get amber, silver ore, silver ingot, gold nugget etc. Can't remember how much I got meteorite or dark iron ore but iirc that occasionally happens. So basically if you're directly selling it then you can get like 10 orens and another 2+ coin for selling your wire x3, leather scraps x3 or whatever else. You only win a powerful Gwent card the first time you beat each NPC though, and can't sell your gwent cards.

It is also useful in crafting to figure out what build you're eventually getting by lvling up or just what looks good and start crafting that witcher school gear, because you basically keep upgrading it. Like my Griffin chest armour level 11 got crafted into enhanced Griffin armour lvl 18 and right now am looking for superior and mastercrafted Griffin chest gear, which btw it definitely does keep any runes or glyphs you put into it so don't put +2% lesser stuff into them. The gear can be carried over to endgame.

The only other time it's worth it to buy stuff is the occasional Arenaria or rare ingredient that costs like 5 orens but is necessary to craft something that'd cost you thousands to buy outright. Glyphs, runes, swords, and armor should never be bought.