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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Would I need to start a new game for the expansions?(4 posts)solved(4 posts)solved
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Posted February 21, 2017
So I'm about to start playing The Witcher 3, but I only have the vanilla game right now. I considered buying the expansions if I enjoyed the game. However, I read that to start the expansions that I'd need to start the game again from scratch, like New Game+.

Is this true?

I'm just curious as I see little point in buying the expansions until I've completed the main game if this is so, rather than buying them early.
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Posted February 21, 2017
No, you do not need to start a new game. The expansions are treated as quests, which you trigger by reading the notice board at the Seven Cats inn. They are geared towards level 30+ (HoS) and level 35+ (B&W), so you won't want to do them at the start of your game anyway. Tailor your start of the expansions to suit the above levels to get most benefit from quest XP, which is very important in TW -- you get virtually nil XP for killing, and most from quests. If you do quests that are more than 5 levels below your character, you get no XP. If you do quests that are more than 5 levels above your character, they become ever more difficult, up to impossible, the higher the quest level.
Posted February 21, 2017
Thank you for your helpful post! I look forward to playing more of the game, and hopefully the expansions at some point.
Posted February 22, 2017
Thanks for this info, it's exactly what I came here to ask. I did wonder if they were self-contained adventures like the extra quests with The Witcher (EE), but I guess they integrate into the main game.
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Hickory: If you do quests that are more than 5 levels below your character, you get no XP.
Damn. I wish I'd known this. I stopped doing Witcher contracts just to finish the main story. I have about 20 waiting to be done, all below level 25... and I'm now level 34. Oh well. Something to do on a rainy day if I ever fancy trudging through Redanian swamps again.
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