Where is all the xp?

[felixpoop]

I'm doing quests 2 levels above mine and I'm only getting 50xp. Was it always like this and I forgot, or had this been changed? The quests were Wild at Heart and Lynch Mob, plus I did that pig one.

I know you get much more points from main quest, but I didn't remember it being this bad with side quests.

[Grimminski]

Always been screwed up. Here's a mod that "fixes" it.

https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/7162

[ᴛᴀʟᴜ 🐦]

Yeah side quests don't give much, main quests on the other hand offers a ton of xp. Upscaled enemy levels helps a bit too.

[felixpoop]

Alright. Thanks.

[ImHelping]

Rush the main plot in the first main area. early side quests (and even later teens side quests) are jokes in Exp compared to main quest and "This sidequest was given by someone unlocked by the main quest"

For example, one particular quest given by someone unlocked by early main quest starts handing out 50 experience several times just for shining a lantern on fantasy doomed audiologs. Then later a sidequest from that gives 500 exp. just visiting people for exposition on the main quest spoon feeds you hundred to hundreds of exp.

By comparison, a withcher contract twice the suggested level to kill a level 16 wraith of some kind is only worth like, 200?

Bumrush main quest as much as you can handle. This also improves loot quality because loot runs off MMO logic. It will still be 90% ♥♥♥♥♥♥ blackjacks and mugs, but the more your levels go up the more it goes "And then you found a dwarven sword worth hundreds that is somehow weaker than your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ steel sword worth fifty gold"

[ᴛᴀʟᴜ 🐦]

The reason you get so little xp is because you will outlevel weapons/armor and enemies.

There is recommended levels for the game, any higher and there won't be any upgrades.

1 - 35 Base game
35 - 40 Heart of Stone
40 - 50 Blood and Wine

Witcher Gear sets are capped at 30 Mastercrafted and 40 Grandmaster.

With higher xp gain the weapons/armor would be useless. Since you would be like lvl 50 - 70 which does not have any weapons/armor at that level in your first playtrough, only new game+

Increasing XP gain will make the game too easy, it will completely break balance.
If you turn on enemy upscaling to try to fix that, enemies will one shot you and you will deal no damage since you don't have the gear to beat them.

So when you think about it, this is the reason why sidequests give so little XP. They would have to reduce XP from Main quests and increase XP on sidequests to balance it out.

[ImHelping]

People telling you to turn on enemy upscaling when you are already floundering in the early game are basically pranking you.

Because the early game is full of "Now that I have killed these level three caniballs, I have taken ten steps to the side and stumbled across level 20+ Aghouls. IMMERSIVE" and even if you kill those, they won't really be worth all that much.

Because even if you shoulder through monsters ten levels higher than you, the experience is a damn fart and then it slaps you in the face with 10-20 experience for bombing a monster nest that didn't even have a gold ring in it that time.

If you are going to use enemy upscaling "I would like the skyrim bandits please!" button. I like Skyrim, sure. But why would I want most subscription MMO part of skyrim in witcher?). Then wait until start to have at least some semblance of a build at level 10-20. Not the incompetent hobo early game.

[DeFox]

I noticed that on my new play-through too, levels seems to come in slowing in the early game. But don't worry it's OK to do quests that are a few levels above you. Just follow the main story even if it's recommended for higher levels. You will be over leveled in no time, certainly before going to skellige.

[Salty]

i'm in the other side of this issue where i'm always heaps above the main quests

now i just finished the novigrad main quests, and i'm lvl 23...

[ᴛᴀʟᴜ 🐦]

Originally posted by Salty:

i'm in the other side of this issue where i'm always heaps above the main quests

now i just finished the novigrad main quests, and i'm lvl 23...

Yeah thats normal, i was about level 23 - 25 before going to skellige. Had just about all question marks done in Velen and Novigrad.

[Kurai Shidosha]

I'm 20 and just left for Skellige. Did every quest that was below me in level and had to stop doing contracts and treasure hunts that were above me because I was starting to seriously outlevel the Skellige quests I had waiting for me to travel. It sucks in the beginning when you're like 3-6 but then it takes off and you'll quickly start to outpace things.

[ᴛᴀʟᴜ 🐦]

Originally posted by Kurai Shidosha:

I'm 20 and just left for Skellige. Did every quest that was below me in level and had to stop doing contracts and treasure hunts that were above me because I was starting to seriously outlevel the Skellige quests I had waiting for me to travel. It sucks in the beginning when you're like 3-6 but then it takes off and you'll quickly start to outpace things.

That is why enemy upscaling exsist, made skellige fun.