So where do you get money for everything?

[-cpc-mad]

About the Monster Lore (the one adding knowledge about monsters you didn't met yet) on't know for you, but for me, seems to be effective in Act I -> give barghests, ghouls .. drowners. This is all. Never seen a message about adding Bestiary entries past this, after some meditation (until endgame).Also same thing for NPC telling you about : past Act I, there is so few ... or none. The Brickmaker talking so strange(Ba ba ba ... tis . baba ba .. or some ) in Brickmaker's village maybe ?But ingredients, some of them, are very valuable to alchemistsSell to :Act I : AbigailAct II and III : KalksteinAct IV : The Blacksmith in Village (maybe the Elven one accepts this too) : he buys a lot of things, really, including Fisstech (Coleman does also, in Act II, for 20 orens each, wich can give you a lot if you met enough Salamander's Assassins and other Thugs)Act V : dunno .. Had enough money, readed all books I needed to complete farming quests (contracts) .. But I guess Kalkstein still buys a lot, the Blacksmith may too (wich one depends on your choices to side with)And Finally, Epilogue .. well, dig it yourself

 

[starwolf]

Be careful too, who you sell ingredients to. Some of them pay better than others. Particularly when you hit the Trade Quarter. Kalkstein is good for paying well. But only because he is still hoping that you will consent to the autopsy.

 

[planewalker]

Gambling is the best way to earn money fast, especially in Chapter III. Fistfighting is long, boring and yields very little cash. Gathering ingredients is equally tedious because merchants pay very little for them. Contract quests aren't very profitable either, considering you have to educate yourself about monsters first. I'll do a little research and try to increase the rewards from the contracts so that regular monster hunting finally becomes worthwhile.

 

[coelocanth]

Gambling is the best way to earn money fast, especially in Chapter III. Fistfighting is long, boring and yields very little cash. Gathering ingredients is equally tedious because merchants pay very little for them. Contract quests aren't very profitable either, considering you have to educate yourself about monsters first.

While this is true when you look at them individually, if you do all of these things, the money flows in quite readily.

 

[planewalker]

I do all that and I have barely enough money to buy all the books and spend a few hundred orens on jewelery and alcohol (because I don't feel like scouring the city for booze inside barrels to make myself a few potions ). Buying the better armor in Chapter II, now that requires quite a bit of grinding and doing the things I mentioned. I don't like grinding; it makes a game boring. :-\

 

[coelocanth]

I didn't feel like I was 'grinding'. While going from one place to another in the city, I'd just stop and gamble one game with the various NPCs that played dice. Took only a few minutes. Got to my destination and gwent through the dialogue, then off to do a quest. Once back in the city, I'd gamble again. When i entered the inn, I'd try a fistfight with a couple of the fighters. I never felt like it was a grind. It built up a lot of cash.

 

[username_2073100]

Money maker number 1 is poker.I ignored it in Chapter 1 stupidly, but in Chapter 2 Geralt became the dice monster. Once you get to Professional level (play Vaska, Gambler in the tavern, Zoltan and the whore) Thaler essentially becomes your ATM - he never runs out of money and you win at least 110 Orens per game from him. It's a bit tedious, but it's what got me enough scratch to buy the armour and forge my 3R steel sword.

 

[starwolf]

Geralt is such a role model. Always scraping for money. Makes his money by gambling. Fighting in bars. Selling "herbs and potions" (Getting awfully close to "drug dealing" here). Does a few odd jobs killing monsters, but with the expenses that go with the jobs, doesn't make much at doing THAT. In between, he's busy having drinking contests. Wandering down the street, hammered. Hanging out with whores. Ok, so he at least likes to read, and spends a fortune on books....what he doesn't spend on jewelry for the ladies, and on alcohol for himself....

 

[-cpc-mad]

While working on some mod, I changed some values for any vendors.My point was to make them accept more items than they usually did. So, in some line like 'AlcooholProf" or other, I switched to 5.Perfect was it for Abigail (only example, works for others too) with the "5" value (on every kind of items, except armor and dice ...) to most vendors ingame, they buy from you at the "public" regular price : buy the .. Plants book from Abigail in Act I for 200 orens, read it, sell it back to her, for 200 orens as well. The more valuable would be Kalkstein : in Act 2 and 3 (in Act 5 you don't need so much money, right ? What for ?), I can sell him almost everything, flowers, plants, ingredients from monster, weapons, torches, weapon upgrade that I don't need, and so on ...Ok, this is creepy, too much money is not good, specially with my modified dice poker template ;D

 

[gao]

In act3, if you work for knight, you will kill some Squirrels. Their swords are valuable，and you can sell them at 300. So, you can throw your own swords on the ground,and pick up two Squirrels' swords, then sell them and come back. Once and once, pick up your own swords at last. Now, you are rich.......

 

[username_2074185]

I was never having financial issues in The Witcher. I have got over 20 000 in Act V

 

[motemeal]

I was always kind of scraping by, but I seemed to manage. I never got the intermediate set of armor because I couldn't afford it. I hoarded my meteorite bits until I could make good Steel swords and used profits (usually from a combination of contracts, hunting big game for the Royal Huntsman (or mayor) and scraping up various crap to sell. Often you can get weapons as rewards for helping people/doing quests, etc. I can think of at least one instance where a meteorite sword is offered as a reward and one where you get an exemplary silver sword. Same for armor. Even if you cant afford the intermediate set for 5,000 you can get the high quality one toward the end by completing a quest.A good way to learn when you are starting out and can't always afford the books is to offer some food or money or other gifts to the people who need them. In the outskirts particularly old ladies know a lot of lore and old stories that can add to your bestiary/alchemy, etc. throughout the game there seems to almost always be some way of learning vital info without having to purchase the book that contains it, usually from simply talking to locals.I also noticed that if I had a Witcher poition that was unknown to me and I drank it, I'd get the info for it and the formula.

 

[cblodgett]

when it comes to making and saving money there are a few very important tips I would liek to suggest!1. Get the moster lore bronze tallent. It will give you all the required journal entries in the first chapter (And some for the second chapter) to complete all of the contracts without having to spend a dime on books. This one will be a huge money saver in the first part of the game.2. Hoard every single weapon drop you can after a fight and make loot runs to either a fence like thaler and the guy from act 1 who lives up the river whoes name I cant remember. Or to the blacksmiths and sell it all off.3. Learn wich alchemy ingreedients are essential and which can be sold. Sell everything you dont absolutely need. This one is entirely dependant on your play-style4. When fist-fighting any of the standard NPCs (the non quest related ones) you can double the offered bet (any more than double and they will refuse)......always do so!5. Gamble with everyone you can find and ALWAYS max your bet.....when the NPC your gambling with runs out of money, rest/meditate, and then come back for more. The gambling quest NPCs will typicaly offer much higher betting stakes than standard NPCs.6. Dont waist your time upgrading the steel sword in act 2, there is a much beter sword on a corpse in the swamp. And your money is beter served by buying the 5,000g armor upgrade in act 3.7. In act 1, ghost dog heads sell for 5g each (can sell stacks of 10) at the witches hut. These can be farmed endlessly. (Can anyone say infinate money soarce). 8. And lastly, try to talk to everyone at least once.....even some of the blue named NPCs will offer up some valueble information if propositioned in the right manner.The only really costly investments are the 5,000g armor upgrade in act 3 or later and weapons upgrades from the blacksmiths. Everything else in the game you can either find or make yourself without having to spend much money. even most books wich offer monster or plant entries in your journal can be found in the game without having to buy them if you look hard enough. So try looking everywhere you can before you spend money on a book.

 

[starwolf]

I find the game consistently becomes, early in the game, I'm scraping for every oren, scrounging and selling stuff.... and dicing. But later in the game, I'm rolling in orens, and nothing worthwhile to spend them on.

 

[indigorage]

Wow - I'd have never thought it possible to have money problems in this game...I make a fortune in the Outskirts selling baghurst skulls to the witch (5 orens each) x 10 in a stack = 50 orens per stack.Then there's dice - once you get a box, money becomes easier to make, but not nearly as easy as simply selling "junk".Junk = Most alchemy ingredients, tertiary weapons, jewelery, and all that other "stuff" you acquire.Let's face it - that big axe looks pretty cool, but really, do you ever use it? Does it compare to a good witcher's sword or silver sword? Heck no. Sell it for 300 orens and be done with it. The same is true for all those other "extra" weapons - they can't compete with your regular ones, so they're just money to be made.I've never walked into Vizima with less than 8000 orens in my pocket, and rarely have less than 10,000 at any given time - except when I run into new books - but I try to avoid buying them before I've searched every cupboard, trunk, barrel, box, and bin within the limits of the map for them. Most can be found for free, read and then sold. But there are some that are either too hard, too uncommon, or too late - then I'll buy them, read them and sell them - only then does my coin pouch take a hit, and it's sort of a one-time deal. Now, if I could only find a buyer for Shadow People....

 

[Seeker.217]

For me it was not easy to make oren as well and to tell you the truth I kind of enjoyed it it made me think what things I really needed to took me forever to save up for a new armor lol but I found it fun in a sick sort of way.Unlike most game you start out with just a few things and by the time our done with the first part your rich this game kind of had me thinking what I really needed rather what looked good

 

[nimue]

Now, if I could only find a buyer for Shadow People....

You can't sell that one, you have to give it away for free.

Spoiler

Try giving it to the bootblack in th Temple Quarter.

The first time I played the game, I had slight financial issues, simply because I kept almost everything I found. During subsequent games I knew what I could safely sell, and money was no longer a problem. Since I tend to have terribly bad luck when it comes to games of chance, i mostly stayed away from dice, except to progress the quest, but as someone mentioned above the barghest skulls are an excellent source of money in Act I. After I managed to scrape together the 5000 orens for the armour in Act II, I regularly had more money than I knew what to do with. Wish I could say that in real life

 

[mpetros]

I've always supplemented my income through the sale of flowers I pick on my way to and from fighting monsters.Some favorites are:Feainnewedd at 10 oren eachBerbercain at 4 oren eachMistletoe at 4 oren eachBeggertick at 3 oren each

 

[srid]

I only had financial troubles in Act I and II.Later on i was ok

 

[username_2075709]

The Order Forgeman will buy a Excellent Leather Jacket in Act 5 for 1000 orens. ;D