Did you grab all 25 in your last playthrough? It's possible it's capped at 25 and once you have 25 you can't get any more abilities?
Damn it. I didn't count them. Suffice it to say that I cleared out all the locations in my previous playthrough.
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Sadly I'll be playing only later today... it will be nice if someone could tell us what really carried over (money, armors, runes?)... I should sell all my crafting and consumable itens for money?
The only things that didn't carry over are trophies, quest items, crafting diagrams for weapons and armor, gwent cards (sadly) and the Nilfgaardian Roach. All other items are there. money, oils. bombs, alchemy recipes and so on... Even the stash has everything I put in there last time around.
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The wolves have become far more deadly, five hits are enough to put me down, given they like to swarm you and attack simultaneously... Well, you know. Btw, they're level 36 and I'm 37 wearing the mastercrafted wolven set. That might be that I ignored all other schematic and armor I found so far and almost all of them have better stats than my current armor.