While many think they don't need any help in playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and understanding each of its complex mechanics, talking about the combat system, we might say a lot has changed after CD Projekt RED launched the patch 1.07.
What you think could be a good weapon for your play style could not be any more, since its stats might have been changed with its level requirements as well. So, which are now the best weapons? Let's take a look at some of the potentially most useful among those currently available.
Level 14
Diagrams near Kaer Morhen
Increased sign intensity, more XP and Adrenaline points, bleeding
Level 21
Diagrams at Crow's Perch and Kaer Morhen
Same bonuses as the basic ones but more intensity
Level 29
Diagrams at Ard Skellig
Same bonuses as the basic ones but more intensity
Level 34
Diagrams at Southern Velen
Final evolution of wolven weapons
Level 46
Diagrams at Kaer Morhen, near the fortress
360-440 damage, bleeding, increased Aard intensity
Level 44
Hindarsfjall (Skellige)
351-429 damage, frost damage, armor piercing, increased Aard intensity
Level 42
Novigrad, coming as a reward for a quest
329-403 damage, critical hit damage, poison, bleeding
Level 37
Hindarsfjall (Skellige) – find a key and unlock the room for it
297-363 damage, + 30% Yrden Sign intensity w/some armor piercing.
Level 37
Velen – in a quest or close to Crow's Perch
427-523, bleeding
Level 31
Faroe or Hindarsfjall (Skellige)
369-451 damage, increased critical hit damage, more XP against monsters
Level 1 for the silver and 2 for the steel
White Orchard
Best starting weapons, more XP, poison
Level 11
Velen
Increased XP and Aard sign intensity
Level 18
Southeastern Velen (west of Nilfgaardian camp) for silver; Western Velen (northwest from Condyle fast travel point)
Level 26
Ard Skellig (in a cave east of Elverum Lighthouse) for silver; An Skellig, northwest of Urialla
Harbor
Level 34
Ard Skellig (East of Boxholm ruins) for steel; in a run-down tower across the lake from Fornhala
for silver
Level 17
Novigrad, in abandoned castles and ruins
More XP and damage
Silver – South of Novigrad's Oxenfurt Gate, inside a house; Steel – in a cave between Toderas fast
travel point and Reardon Manor
Level 29
Steel - Northeast of Novigrad, in a small cave; Silver – east from the Ursten fast travel point, in a cave
Level 20
Ard Skellig
Steel – south of Pallisade; silver – north of Rogne
More XP and adrenalin points
Level 25
Steel - Prison Island, in Kaer Almhult; silver – Ard Skellig, in the basement of a castle north-east of
Kaer Gelen
Level 30
Silver – in a cave south-west of the orphanage at Crookback Bog (Velen); steel – Ruined Tower,
north-east of Crookback Bog
Level 34
Steel – in an unmarked cave north-west of Blackbough; silver – on a small island north-west of the
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