How To Make Fast Money In Witcher 3

The Witcher 3: How To Make Money Fast

The Witcher lives a frugal life, but with the right knowledge, you can make your adventure through Wild Hunt a lot more comfortable.

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A witcher's life is far from luxurious, always on the road, fighting hellish monsters, bathing in streams, and perhaps the occasional tankard of mead if they're lucky and have the coin. Frugal lives to be sure, but the highly adaptable mutants have picked up a few tricks in their travels on how to scrape by.

Compiled below is a list of early adventure tips to establish sound habits for keeping a fat coin purse and learning how to make money in The Witcher 3 .

Updated on September 17, 2021, by Kim Dailey: The Witcher 3's popularity isn't fading anytime soon, so we continue to revisit each bit of content to expand upon our wealth of knowledge on the game in order to enrich gameplay for newcomers and returning witchers alike. This time we've added an entirely new section to help you avoid overspending and identifying frivolous purchases. Because part of making money in The Witcher 3 means learning how to be a shrewd spender.

Essential Starting Tips For Finding Lootable Items

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Witchers will want to use their witcher senses to scope out their surroundings habitually. While tracks, clues, and enemies will appear highlighted in red, crates, parcels, and other lootables will be highlighted in yellow.
- Enemies yield valuable bounty, while countless lootables wait in crates and other parcels around every turn. Some takeaways may be utilized to sustain Geralt throughout his travels. However, many items are best sold to vendors. Scanning an area before moving on ensures no rare or essential items get overlooked either.
Geralt's adventures in The Witcher 3 begin in White Orchard. There's a Dwarven Blacksmith here, and common to dwarven lore, the dwarves inhabiting the Continent are infamous for their greed. This one will swindle any overburdened witcher just getting their footing, so avoid making deals with him.
While Witcher Contracts can't solely sustain a witcher's lifestyle, they are a key source of their income along with mini-quests. Both earn experience and a small payout while providing plenty of looting opportunities along the way. These quests also tend to be quick and straightforward.
When sorting through Geralt's inventory, it's best to sell weapons and armor, as they fetch higher prices with vendors. Junk can be dismantled at cheaper rates and provide crafting resources or more valuable components in the process.
- Take seashells, for instance. You could sell them as is to clear inventory and make a few extra coins. But that vendor is getting a better deal than either of you bargained for when they find the valuable pearl inside. To avoid giving away money, be sure to break down seashells so that Geralt can reap the coin from the much more profitable pearl inside.
Witchers pick up many books throughout adventuring, proving useful as the information gained is automatically logged and accessible without the need for further reference to the book itself. This permanent recording means that books have no further use once read and may be sold for some extra coin.

Lucrative Looting Sites In The Witcher 3

In the early game, some looting opportunities are well worth the time.

CD Projekt Red gave players a fighting chance to line their pockets straight out of the gates by stocking the starter region of White Orchard with valuable loot and drops. There is even a well-known hack involving the cows that graze between the Woesong Bridge and the edge of town.
- Firstly, the two cows residing on the outskirts of town drop Raw Meat and Cow's Milk, which the right vendors will buy at a fair price. You can exploit these drops by stepping away to meditate for a few hours. When Geralt returns, the bovine will have respawned fresh for the kill and re-ladden with meat and milk.
- Take heed you don't get too greedy as the developers put an overpowered Chort in place to ward off over poaching. Geralt may kill a total of five cows. If you kill the sixth, causing the cows to respawn for the third time, the Chort will charge in and begin terrorizing the area.
- The guard post stationed across the Woesong Bridge is stocked well with valuable crafting components and other miscellaneous items.
When Geralt leaves Vizima after his audience with the Emporer, he will be dropped by the Hanged Man's Tree, and there's a particularly lucrative looting sight located nearby in this low-level territory.
- The Devil's Pit is a bandit camp outside the town of Mulbrydale. While it may seem a daunting undertaking early in the game, it is entirely manageable if approached methodically with wise usage of alchemy and signs. After successfully raiding the base, Geralt will earn enough plunder between the camp's wealth of supplies and the dozens of slain bandits to fill his bags two times over.
There is also a bee farm outside Novigrad with Honeycomb free for the taking. Honeycomb is a food item that replenishes vitality. However, Herbalists pay top dollar for the sweet nectar due to its alchemy properties.
Cities also provide lucrative looting grounds. Just be sure to rummage around at night when there are fewer guards.
Smuggler caches are golden looting opportunities and an excellent way to upgrade armor for free early on.
- The waters around Novigrad harbor several of these treasure troves. Several Smuggler caches are scattered along the seabed of the canal and around Novigrad's docks for an early boost.
- The Skellige isles have claimed far more of these treasure troves, and with greater reward comes greater risks and deadlier waters.

Not All Vendors Are Made Equally

Vendors offer better prices for items correlating to their specialties, meaning Armorer's pay more for armor, Blacksmiths provide better deals on swords, Bookkeepers value books, and so forth.

Armorers

Most pieces of armor you loot from enemies or old chests won't be of any defensive value, so it's best to relieve Geralt of this cumbersome plunder with a reputable armorer. You'll want to sell most pieces of armor unless Geralt's short on particular crafting components, in which case he can dismantle some for less than it would cost to buy the individual components. Armorers will also pay good money for Roach's old tack.

Blacksmiths

Blacksmiths trade in weapons, though they only truly value metalwork. If Geralt has been coming across a lot of bandits, he'll likely have looted more clubs and axes than blades. Any weapon made of more wood than metal will fetch a greater price among Armorers instead, or may better service Geralt dismantled into scraps.

Herbalists

As mentioned earlier, Herbalists buy Honeycomb at higher rates than other vendors due to the Honeycomb's double use for alchemy. Likewise, any ingredient with alchemical properties will fetch a fair price with Herbalists. However, as an alchemist himself, Geralt should think twice before peddling away his ingredients, as some are rarer than others, and all can prove invaluable in concocting witcher potions.

Innkeepers

Inns are great for unloading excess food and hides. Because hides also provide crafting materials, it's tactical to sell about half and dismantle the rest. Inns are also a wise place to offload silverware, bobbles, jewelry, and other fine trinkets.

Compare the Innkeeper's rates with items like Erveluce, which earn about ten crowns per bottle at a decent rate. The Innkeeper, just off of the main square in Novigrad, offers fair prices, as we'll discuss further in just a minute. The vendors in Skellige strike even better deals; if a witcher's so inclined, an early voyage can prove exceptionally advantageous.

Novigrad's Hierarch Square

One of Novigrad's center hubs is Hierarch Square, and there are many profitable stops to be found while visiting.

The first person you should be visiting is the banker, Vimme Vivaldi, on the corner of Hierarch Square to get a loan and exchange Orens and Florens for more crowns.
Just down from the bank is the Armorer, who, along with the Armorer in Oxenfurt, offers the best prices for outdated armor.
Likewise, the Blacksmiths just South of Hierarch Square and in Oxenfurt offer the best prices on swords.
Following the covered walkway around the corner, there's a bookshop at the end of the line of shops. The Bookkeeper, Marcus, sells and buys books along with bestowing a mini-quest upon you.
- The quest entails looting books from the shop, which can be sold back to the unwitting shopkeep.
There's a Merchant towards the center of the square specializing in the various Cordials, Oils, and Spirits. This is an excellent place to sell unneeded items such as Alchemy Powder and Paste. Roughly seven Alchemy Powders are needed throughout the game. The rest are good for coin. Alchemy Paste is a material used to craft Master Repair Kits. However, Journeyman kits suit early adventures sufficiently, and the Paste holds a decent financial value.

Conservative Spending

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Don't Overstock on Everyday Wares.

A common mistake witchers make is to over-prepare. While it's true that a witcher must always be prepared for any situation; they also have acute witcher senses that help them gather most of what they might require as they travel, without the need to deal with merchants.

Here's a list of some basic supplies Geralt likely won't need to buy except for on rare occasions if he is resourceful enough.

Common Crafting or Junk Items	Items like Torches or Empty Bottles are helpful to have on hand as tools or for crafting purposes, but Geralt will naturally come across more than enough of these in his adventures. If you're worried about not being able to see in caves or other dark spaces and don't want to use the Cat potion, just be sure always to keep 1-2 torches on hand rather than selling or dismantling every one at an Armorer.
Herbs & Alchemy Ingredients	After crafting an alchemy formula once, Geralt can replenish his stock as long as he has some alcohol, at least on the lower difficulty levels. This means he'll only need a handful of each new herb he comes across and won't need to restock his alchemy set manually.
Hard Alcohol	Speaking of alcohol, running out of hard alcohol is a trivial matter to Geralt, as he picks it up regularly. It is rare to run out of distilled spirits as long as Geralt forms a sound and consistent looting habit. He should only have to resort to buying alcohol in a pinch.
Food	Again, depending on what difficulty level you're playing on, Geralt won't have to worry about food much either. Eating food to replenish vitality during battle doesn't work quite as well as other RPGs. Furthermore, Geralt can replenish his health after challenging encounters by meditating for at least 1hr on the lower difficulties. Food is consumed quite minimally for those playthroughs and is often sold to innkeepers for extra coins anyway. Geralt will again gather more than enough food to sate him throughout his travels and need only keep a small stack of the more nutritious items on hand to ensure he can weather any storm.

The life of a witcher may not be exceptionally profitable, but knowing the tricks of the trade will keep the coin purse fat. The key secret lies in finding lucrative treasure troves and dealing with the most advantageous merchants.

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