Fastest ways to gain XP

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What's the most efficient or easiest way to level?

In the world there are numerous quests that I can do on the side, and as I want to take my time I'm doing the main story quite slowly.

A lot of the quests are super high level – I'm being forced to do quests 2 levels higher then my current character level.

Is this normal? Should I have more XP? If I should, how?

Killing monsters and bandit camps gives me tiny amounts of XP, as I've noticed that even a simple talking quest can grant me upwards of 250XP.

Best Answer

XP for killing enemies has been intentionally minimised in this game.

Quest XP is the best way to level - happily, side quests and Witcher Contracts are also a fairly good source of XP.

One thing to bear in mind is that you will get no XP for any quest more than 6 levels beneath your current level (it will turn grey in the Journal).

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Gwent: What exactly can I gain or lose

There are 2 types of games. Quest games and normal games.

Normal Games usually start out by you betting a certain amount from 1 to 10.

If you bet 5 and lose you lose 5 Crowns. If you win you gain your 5 Crowns back plus 5 from the opponent.

Quest Games usually are opponents whom you play during Gwent quests and they don't bet anything. They just stake an unique card of theirs. And if you win you gain that specific card. If you lose you just lose the game basically, you don't lose card or Orens.

There is one case however that some people make a huge mistake.

The Gwent Tournament in Novigrad seems just like a Quest where you play a tournament of Gwent.

If you actually win every game you will be facing a guy in a fist fight.

Some people make the mistake of going to this quest at low level like 15 and have to fight a lvl 27. It's a huge mistake and I'm gonna give you this heads-up.

So basically summing it all up discounting the Tournament Quest you have no real reason of fearing to lose Gwent games. Only if you are really low on money. When I came into Novigrad I started playing barkeeps and Merchants and I lost like 10 games in 15. Just practice to the Gwent quests and get the Unique Cards and you will be unbeatable in no time.

The Witcher 3 – Good Ways to Earn Money in Toussaint

So what are some efficient ways to earn more money in Toussaint?

Well, in Toussaint there are no specific new ways to make money.

There are the traditional ways:

Doing and cashing in Witcher Contracts
Exploring the "Unexplored Places" (question marks) on the map
Side-Quests
Looting and selling

But in Toussaint there is some really interesting and good loot to sell and get good money from.

Spread throughout Toussaint there are open Houses (normal houses where people live in). These houses are filled with jewellery like necklaces, rings, etc (Some even have diamonds lying about).

So I found myself getting almost 3000 just from loot of 3/4 houses. I consider that to be pretty good. So if you wish to explorer a bit feel free to get the loot off these houses and put it to good use.

P.S: There is also a "naughty" way to make money found after patch 1.2 (Blood & Wine)

You can perform the bee-hive glitch with Willis in White Orchard to get yourself a huge amount of money in a really low amount of time.

I didn't do it myself because I wanted more of a fend for myself experience but you can do whatever you want so I'll put it here for the sake of spreading knowledge. In the future this bug may be patched out

Willis - Beehive Bug

Since the video can be brought down I will explain what it consists of:

First go talk to Willis in White Orchard (You must have done his quest to unlock his shop)
Buy whatever you can from him (the more money Willis has, the better)
After giving him all your money go next to the hut by the river close to Willis and there should be a beehive in the trees. If there isn't one meditate for 1/2 hours.
Knock the beehive down with Aard and continue taking it through to Willis. When you're close to the village make sure you bring the beehive through the back (from Willis back) so that you Aard isn't blocked.
Once close make sure you put the beehive close to Willis so that the bees kill the NPC.
When he dies he falls to the ground and drops everything he owns (his money too).
Meditate for 1 hour and he will respawn and die again (the other body doesn't disappear neither does the loot)
Do this a few times and you can loot all the money from all the multiple Willis NPC's on the floor.

Summing it all up, if Willis has 15000 and you do the procedure 20 times you can make 300 000 in under 5 minutes.