How to win from Nilfgaardian Noble man (GWENT)?

[Locoast]

How to win from this guy? and when can I coming back to this guy? So that he is not dissapears?

[Locoast]

Oprindeligt skrevet af BuzzardBee:

Wait until you have some better cards. Buy from innkeepers and merchants. Play others for their unique cards. Build up your decks and actually learn how to play the game and decide on some strategy.

You can always fast travel back to Vizima and play him. He stays in that garden.

Just don't wait until they very end of the game, like after A Deadly Plot or something like that. I'd say that so long as you still haven't done Ugly Baby, you should be able to still find him there.

I did a first walktrough and skip at the first time, and went back to the place. And suddenly he was gone. So could you tell me when do i get back to him? Or wich quest don't i must do...

[Boink]

Once you've started that quest it automatically fails if you leave the inn / brothel, if you're talking about the High Stakes Gwent tournament.

So you've failed that quest.


You need to do the special gwent quests (the x4 special cards in each area and the "friends of Geralt" that give you the named gold trimmed cards) at the very least to have a chance at this mission.

Even with a top notch deck you'll probably have to replay multiple times as the difficulty is brutal.

[Locoast]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Boink:

Once you've started that quest it automatically fails if you leave the inn / brothel, if you're talking about the High Stakes Gwent tournament.

So you've failed that quest.


You need to do the special gwent quests (the x4 special cards in each area and the "friends of Geralt" that give you the named gold trimmed cards) at the very least to have a chance at this mission.

Even with a top notch deck you'll probably have to replay multiple times as the difficulty is brutal.

Oprindeligt skrevet af BuzzardBee:

Wait until you have some better cards. Buy from innkeepers and merchants. Play others for their unique cards. Build up your decks and actually learn how to play the game and decide on some strategy.

You can always fast travel back to Vizima and play him. He stays in that garden.

Just don't wait until they very end of the game, like after A Deadly Plot or something like that. I'd say that so long as you still haven't done Ugly Baby, you should be able to still find him there.

I mean, the first walktrough I missed him. When i'm going back to him.

So what i did was started a new game (new savegame) and now I don't wanna miss him. So my question is when is the NPC gone? On wich quest? So that I can go back to him before doing that quest.

[Locoast]

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[CH13F]

very easy to win from that npc with your basic NK gwent deck at start of game. keep playing until you get a devilish hand. (considering u gathered all NK cards from white orchard. including ones innkeeper sell)

unfortunately. %50 percent of gwent is luck. When your opponent has crap cards and you get good card draws from deck.

so if you keep playing with same guy. you gonna win eventually after so many loses.(loses due to bad deck)

[Boink]

Oprindeligt skrevet af BuzzardBee:

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding, the Nilfgaardian noble that the OP is talking about is the one at Vizima when you first go there for the audience with the empereor, right at the beginning of the game after you kill the griffin in White Orchard. There is no quest attached to that NPC. And he is there later on.

I only meant if he progressed too far into the storyline as in did certain quests to either help kill Radovid or allow Dijkstra to live, it might reflect on who's still alive back at court in Vizima.

The noble has nothing to do with any tournament or quest. He's just present in the garden.

Ah, yes: ok, I understand now.


As long as you buy all the cards in the starting area and get the +5 by winning that guy shouldn't be an issue.

Make sure you select the "double siege engines" leader - he's easily beatable with even a very weak deck.


Otherwise you can return there much much later in the story.

[Seba]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Boink:

You need to do the special gwent quests (the x4 special cards in each area and the "friends of Geralt" that give you the named gold trimmed cards) at the very least to have a chance at this mission.

A word of advice. Go to Skellige and do the Lambert quest (considering you want to clear Velen/Novigrad before heading to the isles) and get the Gwent pals finished asap to avoid potential troubles with Collect em' all.

[CH13F]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Awka Liwen:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Boink:

You need to do the special gwent quests (the x4 special cards in each area and the "friends of Geralt" that give you the named gold trimmed cards) at the very least to have a chance at this mission.

A word of advice. Go to Skellige and do the Lambert quest (considering you want to clear Velen/Novigrad before heading to the isles) and get the Gwent pals finished asap to avoid potential troubles with Collect em' all.

if you immediately talk with lambert after killing Jad Karadin. you can play gwent. no need to wait until kaer morhen. well at least thats how i do always. or if y ou rescue thaler before getting lambert quest its the best

[Atom.Little]

Oprindeligt skrevet af BuzzardBee:

Wait until you have some better cards.

I was just about to ask the same question as OP because as far as I recall you only get one chance to play against this nobleman. I guess I must remember wrong, I do remember you go back to the castle one time later on in the game, I just thought you wouldn't meet this guy again.

There's absolutely no way you can win over him just after the game has started. He has hero cards and special lvl 10 cards, you can't go up against that kind of deck unless you've traveled wide and far to build a strong deck of your own.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Locoast:

I did a first walktrough and skip at the first time, and went back to the place. And suddenly he was gone.

This is how I remember it as well and that was why I was going to ask the same question as OP. Darnn, I really hope this won't happen again.

The way I remember it is that you get back to the castle later in the game, about 2/3 or 3/4 through and that time plus now are the only two times you get to go to the castle. When I went to the castle the second time - IF I remember correctly - the guy was no longer there and I didn't get any second chance to play him. You also can't choose to fast travel to the castle - again, IF I remember correctly - so that isn't an option either.

I hope I'm wrong, of course. If BuzzardBee is right we'll get to play with that royal gentleman later if we want to.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Boink:

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding, the Nilfgaardian noble that the OP is talking about is the one at Vizima when you first go there for the audience with the empereor, right at the beginning of the game after you kill the griffin in White Orchard. There is no quest attached to that NPC. And he is there later on.

Correct, this is what OP is talking about.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Boink:

I only meant if he progressed too far into the storyline as in did certain quests to either help kill Radovid or allow Dijkstra to live, it might reflect on who's still alive back at court in Vizima.

Oh, I see what you mean, but this nobleman is not important for the storyline, he doesn't appear anywhere else except in Vizima Castle, so that shouldn't be the reason why he isn't there for some of us when we return.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Boink:

The noble has nothing to do with any tournament or quest. He's just present in the garden.

Exactly, that's why I don't see how there would be any connection between happenings outside the castle and him still being available for a game of Gwent.

Oprindeligt skrevet af BuzzardBee:

As long as you buy all the cards in the starting area and get the +5 by winning that guy shouldn't be an issue.

You need a LOT more than a +5 card to win over the nobleman. Tthe guy has +10 cards, Hero cards and Special cards.

Oprindeligt skrevet af BuzzardBee:

Otherwise you can return there much much later in the story.

Yeah, that's what I'm hoping to do without finding the nobleman gone. :)

[Volt]

I know this is an old topic but this guy is ABSOLUTE. BULL. SH*T.

Ive battled him countless times. Sure, with lowtier cards (1st playthrough). but everytime he has some kind of *sspull that makes him win.

I have 8 cards, he has 4? Simple, he just wins by pulling out FOUR +10 cards I cant beat. I have him beat on points and he has one card left? Sure, weather card that beats my row. Or the other way around; his last card clears my weathercard.

I cant count the amount of times where his LAST card "conveniently" works against what I have out. Simply put, this guy is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cheat and he is infuriating me. I tried using his own strategy against him; using decoys on the spies he uses on me (the ones that give him +2 cards and give me strength) and add them to my own deck. Then I purposefully lose one round and give myself additional cards. And EVERY TIME he just has the perfect counter as a last card.


F this guy. F this guy so hard. I wish I could go full Skyrim on this court and lob his f*cking head off. I like the strategy of Gwent but this guy is garbage.