So I have just bought The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on Steam and noticed there are a couple of free DLCs available. Some of these are armor or weapon sets. However, I am worried that installing those will give me access to powerful equipment/spells/whatever too early on in the game, lowering the difficulty in the progress. Is this the case?
My question(s) in detail:
- After installing the respective DLCs, when can you get the additional weapons/equipment? Right from the start of the game, only at a certain player level, after a certain story event?
- How do you get the equipment? Through special quests, ingame crafting (not sure if it exists in this game), or does it just appear in your inventory after installing the DLC?
- Are the DLC items inproportionately powerful (at whatever point you get them in the game) compared to the equipment vanilla/base game?
- Are there any other inproportionately powerfuls items/spells/other stuff avialable through the DLC that I should be aware of (such as quest rewards for the quest DLCs or stuff like that)?
Thank you!
Best Answer
Short and simple answer, no, the DLCs equipment are obtainable via crafting or shopping and are similar to same level and type items from the vanilla.
As far as I can tell, the free DLCs are all aditional content that do not affects much of the gameplay. Personally I think you should install them. Only the alternate looks are more a personal choice.
Source: played almost 100 hours on Death March (main story finished) with the DLC's installed.
The equipment DLCs are:
Others add new quests or contracts, again, not very different than vanilla ones:
And some pure cosmetic:
And last more Gwent cards (obtaineble via purchase and playing, I believe) and a new and more difficult game mode (after finishing the main story)