Throw down a Yrden circle, its awesome for packs of enemies. Every wolf, nekker, drowner, and anything entering it will slow to a crawl. Plus if you have it leveled up enough, everything affected by Yrden will take 50% more damage. One more thing that helps "not necessary" is if your Yrden is leveled enough you can use the secondary effect. So after you have a Yrden circle on the ground, stand near the center of it and press your Yrden key but hold it down for a few seconds. It will place a floating Yrden sign that will zap and damage, stagger anything in range. They will be very slow and be getting shocked while you slice and dice. Yrden is awesome for packs of enemies.
It's been said before, but isn't the point of NG+ to actually play as a witcher and not have to worry about unlocking crap that you should already know? I'm going to wait for the expansions (both, as once November hits, I'll be all up in Fallout 
to start it...and it will be glorious.
to start it...and it will be glorious. I assumed diagrams would carry over, like alchemy formulas. That's annoying if true. I wasn't planning on changing my build, but, I've spent the last 3 hours getting diagrams for other Witcher gear. That won't carry over now?
Really? That's a bit disappointing. I, too, was looking forward to NG+ so I could try out those weapons that previously required Geralt to be something around level 43 to use equip them.
Thats what many ppl said about it before and didnt understant for what is ng+ good for in this game. I still consider ng+ unnecessary but here u got it, enjoy replaying the game without half of the fun. I´m just disappointed that there could be some nice final DLC instead of this, whatever, lets wait for expansions.
same here. CDPR should've focused on things that actually matter in an RPG game like the expansions and the REDkit 2.
new game + is for games like the arkham series and so on, NOT for an RPG.
It has been said, yes, but it never made any sense as an excuse.
I'm shocked by the difficulty. I hoped CDP would use that chance to make Death 'March finally difficult considering only a very tiny percentage of players will even play a 100+ hours ago two times and even less will play it on the highest difficulty. But no, the game is now significantly easier than before.
With 60+ skill points and the mastercrafted armour White Orchard felt like i was playing on easy.
In vanilla Death March at least the prologue and the first 5-10 hours of Velen were challenging and only after that the game became a cake walk.
Now I don't even want to know how ridiculously easy the game will become once I get the legendary witcher gear.
I knew all the whining about the difficulty of Witcher 2 would have an effect on Witcher 3. Thanks for that....
With 60+ skill points and the mastercrafted armour White Orchard felt like i was playing on easy.
In vanilla Death March at least the prologue and the first 5-10 hours of Velen were challenging and only after that the game became a cake walk.
Now I don't even want to know how ridiculously easy the game will become once I get the legendary witcher gear.
I knew all the whining about the difficulty of Witcher 2 would have an effect on Witcher 3. Thanks for that....
I for one got demolished by a pack wolves in White Orchard yesterday... while I was using ekhidna+archgriffin decoctions and wearing the mastercrafted wolven set.
Granted, I wasn't very cautious
It heavily depends on your build. Try a swords/alchemy build with focus on fast attacks and you will kill a wolf with two hits. I needed maybe 20 seconds to kill the griffin. (not counting the time to reach the mill)I for one got demolished by a pack wolves in White Orchard yesterday... while I was using ekhidna+archgriffin decoctions and wearing the mastercrafted wolven set.
Granted, I wasn't very cautious
I have to say that signs are a lot less useful. Enemies seem to have a built in resistance to them now... even enemies the same level as you!
Did you activate your skills? The slots are empty when you start the new game.
On my first play through, about half way through the main story, I jacked the difficulty up to death march and the rest of the game was still a breeze. Now that I'm a 39, the enemies are all about 3 or 4 level's below me, and I personally feel that there AI has been tweaked to be a lot more vicious then they were in non new game + death march. In white orchard when you go back to the inn to meet up with vesemir, after you kill the griffin, you get into a slaughter fest with those handful of thugs/nilfgardian soldiers. Those guys were a major pain too. So all in all I do feel like the combination of the difficulty and AI tweaks has finally made the game ridiculously hard and a good challenge. Now for these wolf packs.... I think I might have to take a little hiatus and get my yrden sign up to par, as most of my skill tree has been based around physical attack power and potion/decoction stats.
One other thing to note, I've already come across a few of the new map's for the feline school scavenger hunts. Later on today when I'm off work I think I'm going to go and scout these out, as each of my witcher gear set's is fully master crafted. Curious to see how these legendary gear set's are going to look and feel.
Witcher gear does not scale, as far as I know. Instead, you get to collect a new set of Legendary equivalents.
It's free DLC that you don't need to utilize. If they released an alternative look for Lambert instead would that be okay?
If it's release didn't delay the expansions then there's no harm done. Those of us who enjoy the game but despise the tedium of collecting diagrams, this is a welcome addition.