Gwent

[Hatsune Miku]

Where to find/buy powerful cards? Many of the gwent quests are nearly impossible without finding the best cards in the game - The boatwright for instance, throws out hero cards and powerful cards like nobodies business, checking the pubs/inns only yields really basic cards.

There must be a card seller somewhere who sells very good cards

[ViperZeth]

Check every shopkeeper/innkeeper if they have cards to sell, some are quite good.
The cards you get from just playing shopkeepers and such are random. Ive recieved 2 hero cards this way already.
Keep trying, you might lose a few times with starting cards.
I would also recommend the Gwent questline in Velen. Some good cards come from that and relatively easy to beat.

[Hatsune Miku]

Not really that easy, I could never beat the baron, he would constantly throw out power cards so I ignored the quest line and failed after :spoiler: .... hehe So far, the shopkeeps I've found have all sold fairly weak cards, not on the same level as some of the other players who play +10 cards constantly, especially on the final round.

[Hatsune Miku]

Hmm interesting, I just had a game of gwent against a peasant and won, and gave me a really good card. So I guess, this is the way to build up a good deck - play everyone!

[Renegade]

Inkeepers seem to sell pretty good cards as far as I can tell.Got a good Scoia-tael deck going.

[Mermidion]

The People in the quest sometimes give good cards,the first really good card i got was from a little boy named Haddy who i could play against as i followed the Velen Gwent qeustline.

It helps to push the main story a little further.it opens a side quest later where you can meet Thaler and play him. win and you get one of the (if not the) best card in the game.

[Hatsune Miku]

The card I got from Haddy wasn't that good, the best card I got was from the boatright, Letho hero card.

[Mermidion]

hmmm so are some of the card drops random? i got my first Northern realm lvl 10 Hero card from haddy.

[$unwish]

Originally posted by mermidion:

hmmm so are some of the card drops random? i got my first Northern realm lvl 10 Hero card from haddy.

gwent quest cards, for sure, are not random.

[dante3hits]

buy all the cards from vendors you can. The hero cards are obtained from winning gwent games.

[Juan]

buy cards, beat people random and to the gwent missions, i have 3 decks, and i will have my monster decks soon

[Ashley Schaeffer]

Decoy cards are great, cant remember which merchant sells them but they are a must.

[OuchThatHurt]

Healer and spy cards are like so OP ;) i love decoy cards too to steal enemy spies and use them lol

[Waldo [M as in Mancy]]

There are 2 or 3 card quest lines, the one with the baron is the tougher. The innkeeper one is easier, and gave good cards. Made the one with the barons card in it easier, but I'm stuck at soothslayer (or something, the old guy).

Buy every decent card from innkeepers as well, and use the card abilities to help each other. Put an unwinnable 48 to 22 hand to to 18 to 22 in my favor (guessing numbers that were close) because of a crappy last card that put all his close combats to 1, basically wiping out their bonuses.

Sometimes strategy > cards. Plus, make him waste his good cards, decoy yours, forfeit the first match and hope he doesn't have medics to revive them. Win next two. My basic strategy each game.

[Ashley Schaeffer]

Yeah most, not all, gwent battles you need to throw/give up a round.

Put down all your weakest cards, let the CPU put down some mid-high cards and purposely loose the round. Works more often then not, even better when you can mix in some spy cards.

[Waldo [M as in Mancy]]

Ya, if you play spy cards and ditch a round it works well. The PC usually plays a card as well to bolster his hand for some reason with a spy.

I like putting 2 spies in first round occasionally if I get them... Just hope he doesn't have 2 decoys to steal your spies and use them against you. It happened before lol.