Missing: Superior Cursed Oil

[Gabriel]

I am posting this here as despite having a login for the Witcher 3 forum proper I am unable to login on either IE, Firefox or Chrome.

In readiness for the upcoming Blood and WIne DLC I have been hunting down the alchemy recipies that I was missing. This is what I know:

1. You have to be a certain level to find superior oils - hence why I missed some on my playthrough. You can revisit containers when at the correct level and collect the recipe.

2. There are documented locations for the superior oil recipes.

3. Of the three oils I was missing, I have been back to said documented locations and found two of them right where others said they would be.

However.... I cannot for the life of me find Superior Cursed Oil. There are some that say they recipe drop is subject to the RNG but where I have found all my superior oils are right where others have documented them. Plus, I am down to my last twenty ? locations (Skellige) having explored and looted 40+ of them in the last couple of days.

The documented locations for Superior Cursed Oil recipe that I have seen others say they found it are:

The sewer entrance under the Kingfisher Inn where you go for the Now or Never quest.
The back garden of the Van Attre House in Novigrad.

Neither location had the recipe. Does anyone know of any other possible locations?

[Blade]

I found it using this tip just yesterday. "Accessible during/after "Now or Never" quest. Found in a barrel right at the beginning of the sewers."

Was not in a Barrel tho.. was like a square bushel. But it was near the room where that quest starts.

[Gabriel]

Originally posted by Blade:

Was not in a Barrel tho.. was like a square bushel. But it was near the room where that quest starts.

That's one of the two locations I mentioned. Thanks anyway. :)

[Gabriel]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

As far as I know, many of the recipe locations are RNG. That they may appear for some in one location or another does not mean it will always do so for everyone who tries. It is random. And I don't believe I've ever heard anyone claim that finding them is linked to being a specific character level. Never heard anything like that at all.

In fact, the way the game is set up, you frequently find higher leveled recipes before you find the base ones. It's meant to encourage you to explore more since many recipes can be found by looting chests, crate and bundles throughout the game.

Gremist sells a good number of Superior oils. It just be missing from your game. It's not like the game is perfect, despite the fanboys cringing every time I point this out.

If you have Debug Console enabled, you could just call up the recipe with the command:

additem('Recipe for Cursed Oil 3')

I can account for at least 6 Superior recipes that I have personally found in a single location documented by others I am less inclined to think it's down to the RNG.

At least 3 of those were in locations I had explored at pre level 30 and found no recipe, but returning post level 35 they were in containers I'd previously looted.

The caveat I will put on that is that there was at least 2 patches in between - which is where I am now at in my thinking unless someone can point out another location. i.e. the reason I don't have the recipe is that it's a bug. Hopefully the patch that comes with B&W may shed some light.

[Blade]

Originally posted by alastairh100:

Originally posted by Blade:

Was not in a Barrel tho.. was like a square bushel. But it was near the room where that quest starts.

That's one of the two locations I mentioned. Thanks anyway. :)

Yea.. I just mentioned it because the tip says it's in a Barrel.. and it was in a different type of container for me.

There were like 3 I was missing and just went and found them. Was a bit of a pain.

[Gabriel]

Originally posted by Blade:

Originally posted by alastairh100:

That's one of the two locations I mentioned. Thanks anyway. :)

Yea.. I just mentioned it because the tip says it's in a Barrel.. and it was in a different type of container for me.

There were like 3 I was missing and just went and found them. Was a bit of a pain.

Yeah I know it's supposed to be in the bale looking thing. Everytime I load the game I have this compulsion to go double check. Still no joy.

I now have zero ? locations left to explore. I have sunk 160+ hours into a single playthrough. I have run all over the map, barely used Roach so I didn't miss anything. Looted anything and everything I could find. Got every Witcher armor set and swords - which is why one missing formula is bugging me so much.

Here's hoping the B&W DLC has some bug fixes with it. At 30+ hours it's a game in itself. Looking at the achievements there is another armor upgrade level. If they have additional postion/oil/bomb upgrades I'm going to be really miffed if I'm still missing the Superior Cursed Oil.

I really don't want to have to download a Mod to fix it, but we'll see.

[Gabriel]

Woo Hoo!!!!!

And the compulsion to check locations each time I load the game has paid off! After checking the two grates in the garden of the Van Attre house for the tenth time, I finally found the Superior Cursed Oil in one of the crates.

The difference this time? I'd scratched out some XP and gone from level 39 to level 40.

Edit: And wouldn't you know it, I need an Ekimmara hide, the rarest crafting component in the game and I'm pretty sure now impossible to find.