Food is ridiculously expensive in this world.... 20 coppers for a chicken leg? 40 coppers for a whole cooked chicken? How can all those filthy peasants survive in such an inflated economy??!!
It is kinda true though, I mean, just compared to other stuff. I had a weird obsession with collecting food in this game, and would buy out every single innkeeper I could find, so I now have a lifetime supply of everything you can imagine. It was costly, but I'll never be hungry now in New Game Plus.
Jon Watson I expect that they edit it a little bit. Not a 16 minute uncut video where they almost have no idea what they are talking about. This video could've been 1 minute. This shopkeeper, full price, Goodie ;). But no, they have it uncut and long for no reason.
think about the money you'll get from this "3 places", then think how much time you'd spend normally in game to get the difference in coins you get here
these trick suck so bad , you want money ?? go farm sirens in ark skellig and then separate the pearl from the sea shell and bam : infinite money ( and it dosent take 13min 40 of your precious time)
After the initial 10-15 levels or so, its not so much selling for a profit (you already have adequate coin), but more selling to get rid of all the extra weight and actually finding merchants/armorers etc that have enough money to buy the stuff.
For anyone playing the game for the first time here in 2017: You should never be buying weapons and/or armor from vendors, look for the School Diagram treasure hunts. This gear is the best you'll get, seeing as you'll be able to upgrade the sets as you progress through the game. You should never be buying food - use alchemy. Alchemy will cover your vitality regen, no problem. (the Swallow-potion and Troll-decoction, for instance)
Food is good because you can stack it with swallow in those oh shit moments and it doesn't increase your toxicity. The food I use is water since it's very common and cheap.
2:50 "How to Avoid Colossal Vessels" is an easter egg for the irl book "How to Avoid Huge Ships" that won an award for oddest title. It also received a lot of notoriety later on when it was sold on Amazon and received a ton of satire reviews.
I have a good tip, I carry extra horse blinders and check how much each merchant wants for them. They are worth 100 Crowns, to wherever they offer I know the percent of everything they offer. Example 5 Crowns =5% of 100 value horse blinders. Pluss they only weigh .06 lbs or .024kilo approximately.
@@tamoghnamaitra9901 I know, right? Immigrants being incarcerated and tortured, tariffs impeding imports and jacking up prices, the rich become richer the poor become poorer...Oh wait, you were talking about the game.
With regards to the question posed at 11:19, as to why Skellige merchant pays more for weapons, early on in the game after you meet the bloody baron and his dwarven blacksmith (with the smart wife from skellige) they say something to the effect that weapons are sparse on skellige so since there’s a low supply, they’re willing to pay more for weapons. So if you pay attn to the details they hint at the best places to buy and sell stuff.
Looks like the high paying merchants have been patched. Merchants pay very similarly to one another now, you get a bit more from a craftsmen who deals with the type of item you are selling.
Skellige is a gold mine! just sail and loot all the smuggler caches. Then sell the items to the armorer in velen and the blacksmith in novigrad (or whomever is your go to person for weapons and armor before mastercrafted items).
At the risk of repeating a tip that has already been given...The blacksmith and armorer at Kaer Trolde bridge on Ard Skellige are where it's at for swords and armor. Patch 1.12.1 PC Version. Sell what you can and then fast travel somewhere that forces the game to load a new area, such as Novigrad or Kaer Morhen and then fast travel back and they will both have all their money back. I have found that this method makes money damn quick, especially if you loot undiscovered locations until your overburdened. Edit: Instead of fast traveling somewhere random, the blacksmith at Hierarch square in Novigrad offers about the same prices. So sell the loot at Either Kear Trolde or Hierarch Square and then fast travel to the other location, repeat until all is sold!
That first Alchemist, he buys anything and at full or near full price- you fellas just found me my golden goose merchant- ty!!!! lol bought a few op runestones from him and got his purse of up to 4000 and then sold him a ton of useless shit and got the whole purse back.
+Jademoon25 That alchemist was patched very recently. His prices SUCK now, no better than most merchants, and the amount of stuff he'll buy from you is very limited now.
They patched it where all merchants have a super small money cap now. They also made it to where it takes more days of meditation to make the merchant refill the money at way way lower rate than before. Its fucking annoying as shit as this type of stuff is not really an exploit but part of the realism of the world. Its fine if they patch up the cow leather exploit in the beginning of the game but people only did that shit cuz fucking food cost 20 to 40 crowns per health item which is crazy high for fresh game.
I think there's a dude in Oxenfurt who makes armor and pays a lot for it, also in the inn the barman pays a lot for stuff like furs etc It's a good city for selling stuff
Also, with the merchant who only sells bottles and pays full price for amour, swords etc you can keep buying bottles from him for $1 each to give him extra money and then offload them to other merchants to make your money back. He only has 200 or so bottles but if you close it and open it they come back
With the bottles guy you can just buy all of them, basically giving him a bunch of cash, then you sell everything you need to sell, then you sell the bottles back to any other merchant, as bottles buy and sell at 1. Thanks for the tips, even though it's an old video.
I've played this game for 150 hours or more and I didn't even know the librarian even existed. I've just been selling stuff to blacksmiths and armorers.
I don’t suggest selling trophies? Cause they’re kinda cool and you can display them later once finishing up the BaW dlc... gather up gear you ever collect, and sell the ones you don’t need to the smith and armor in Kaer Trolde, they tend to give a pretty price for relic gears, especially heavy armors... keep them in stash early on and you’ll make bank once you sell them later... all those smugglers cache in Skillege means money, for the most part. And of course, most importantly you need patience to go loot them all and make endless trips selling them. But I made about 30k so far easy, by selling out all the duplicate named items from my stash (I did horde a lot early on, but started selling right away later)
Sold my stuff when and where i needed to, did none of this running around after best prices. Ended my game with 47K gold in my wallet. Maybe this could help at lower levels, but in my experience you don't need to use that much money in this game. I mostly bought some alchemical components and not much else... Well, at least this guide was thorough and might help some other people...
unless you are grandmaster armor set collector and runeweight fan. so much to experiment, it's fun (changing from combat build/alchemy build/aard build/igni build/archery in NG+)
Bruh I'm so frustrated with this game right now, I'm nearing the end of my playthrough come to find out I've missed so much shit, accidentally lost disposed of stuff, and encountered plenty of bugs
@@rowe1756 really?? I'm pretty thorough when it comes to games, have been borderline OCD about checking every crack and crevice....just taking my time with all the side stuff and looking up video on different encounters, hope I haven't missed too much. And it hasn't been buggy for me so far🙏🏼 but I'm only level 7 soooo 🤷🏽♂️ Also, I manual save every time I'm about to enter a new story convo so I can go back and replay differently if I think I should, that's one thing I heard from a lot of ppl, save early and often. I'm lovin this shit tbh, can't believe I didn't tune in years ago like everyone else I know
@@rowe1756 Also there's a "pearl" farm that's never been patched, you should look it up, it only lasts until you save your game but with the couple hours I spent it gave me about a $9-10k boost, happy hunting Edit: not $, Crowns lol 🍻
I'm really loving the game in fact I'm wondering why I didn't get into this franchise a while ago. Usually I am thorough but I have to admit I got a bit lazy with everything cuz I wanted to get through main story, but anyway long story short. One of my biggest issues right now is with the Witcher gear sets. I had one diagram from the Wolven set completely missing/not showing at all on the map and now I completely missed the chance to get the Viper set from the Heart of Stone DLC. I mainly wanted this set because it resembled the starting gear wich I accidentally disposed of *sigh* Also finding it tedious to get all the proper crafting ingredients for all of the Witcher gear sets because the ingredients and the formulas to make the ingredients are rare and expensive. Not to mention there are various missions that are bugged. But anyway thanks for the tip I'll be sure to check that out cuz I'm pretty poor lol
Just finished the game on PS4. What an amazing looking game already but I'm also happy for PC users that nothing got held back. I hope everyone enjoy this game.
Easiest way to get full price for most of your items... all in Novagrad 1- go to the west docks, the merchant (odin i think) pays full price, when he runs out of money buy his bottles (keep exiting and re-entering to replenish stock) 2- go to east side to the loan shark, sell all bottles. When he runs out of money buy his coins. If more money is needed leave and re-enter to replenish his coins. 3- go to then bank in the market square and exchange currency for the price you paid for them. Thats how you get 100% value for your goods!
I find it funny that the introduced that cow beast to stop you making lots of money from their hides. Now there is a continuously spawning monster there so you can level up very fast haha
I Can Do That it only spawns once now though. He is just a chort so burn that fucker with fire stream. You don't even need to use your sword if you are level 20+.
I have more than 60k and money has never been an issue besides the first few levels. More than anything its more about managing your inventoryweight. Once you get lots of money I sold the ones that weighed the most but didnt necessarily give that much money, just so that I could sell more heavy stuff before the merchant/blacksmith ran out of money... Not a solid economy system imo.
I'm playing this game in 2018, and man, they don't patch every good thing in the game. The alchemist dude now gives you 39 coins for a trophy that is worth 300, and swords that is a 1000, is now sold for 400. Like wtf, why. I once mistakenly bought a sword for 1k, and when I tried to sell it back to the merchant he paid 300 for it. That shit got me mad
work in progress but so far this is what i have *High Stock Crowns* --- pig hide 9 crowns per - innkeeper Novigrad NE St. Gregory's Bridge *High Stock Crowns* --- pig hide 9 crowns per - innkeeper Novigrad North of Hierach Square pig hide 11 crowns per - innkeeper Toussaint The Cockatrice Inn pig hide 9 crowns per - innkeeper Nivigrad East of Hierach Square pig hide 10 crowns per - innkeeper Urialla Harbor NE Skellige pig hide 9 crowns per - innkeeper Oxwenfurt Harbor North of Barber pig hide 9 crowns per - innkeeper Seven Cats Inn East of Novifrad pig hide 8 crowns per - innkeeper Lindenvale East of Crow's Perch pork 7 crowns per - innkeeper Lindenvale East of Crow's Perch
Seems like the Devs may have just missed these merchants when going through and setting all of the merchant percentages. Especially that bottle vendor.
I was just at the alchemis that you guys said would pay full price for trophies: he would only give me 33 crowns for a 250 crown trophy. He must have been nerfed since you guys did the video
In the first town there is a small house with a few pigs in the yard. Kill them, loot them, meditate for an hour, they respawn, rince and repeat. Nothing spawns to stop you. You can get fat stacks of Ham and Leather.
Herbalist near Hierarch Bridge gives top prices for Herbs. There is an armorer who gives top prices but I forget where he's at. He has a huge showroom unlike that dude in the square. In Skellige there's a blacksmith on the main island to the far left of the castle in a fishing village. He always has 5,000+ coin and buys at top price but he's not always there.
they fixed it, you can't sell your trophies to this guy for full price, I guess it's all about who will give you the most for each thing you want to sell now
finally some logical merchants ! thanks for the vid! i get tired to sell swords and weapons for 4 crowns...that ridiculous! every time im feel like i ve been ripped off!
The hooded alchemist who resides in the cemetery house north of Oxenfurt Gate during the daytime (and only talks to you starting at 11am...) was patched with recent update. He's no better than any other alchemy merchant now... He'll pay garbage prices for trophies now...
Playing this in 2020 . Sell weapons and armour to the armourer in novigrad hierarchy square. Gives good prices. Unlock the elf blacksmith in novigrad later in the game and he gives good prices. So if one runs out of crowns you have the other. Plus the elf is a master craftsmen.
Ok so 2019, Im playing. Is there any place at all to make money without using some cheap glitch/cheat? Or are we supposed to be practically poor the whole game?
They nerfed merchants to the point you basically have to exploit something. Killing the pigs near the docks in the first village is simple, quick and not xp related. Plus, you'll have a couple stacks of pork in about 20 minutes.
Nooooo you boys need to git guud. I refuse to cheat, I'm at lvl 8 just started a few days ago and already have over 3k coins. The best tip I've heard is to loot everything. This bottle merchant here is pretty good to sell stuff to. The book guy in the center square pays well for books and any black Smith will also pay decent for weapons.
I forgot what the quest was called but in Heart of Stone where Geralt let's Vlodimir Von Elric pissed his body and go to a wedding with Sani there's a mini game where you put pigs in a pen and you get a trophy that gives 15% more gold
I've been comparing merchants myself in Velen, Novigrad and Skellige on ps4 1.60. As far as i know: Don't buy or craft anything in Novigrad since it's an expensive rich town.The master armorer in Velen is much cheaper to craft than Hattori in Novigrad. Skellige is poor in general and gives higher prices for hides or any other items. Skellige is also the best place to buy herbs, food or potions. In other words: Sell swords and armor in Novigrad (or Oxenfurt)... Craft with master armorer in Velen... Buy and sell items in Skellige.
This game is a looters heaven. Me, I loot ever container not guarded by a guard of some sort and sell everything. When you do that, these techniques are, sure they are helpful, but when you loot like crazy like I do, it is unnecessary. I have so much money I can on a whim without batting an eye, just buy respec potions in bulk, no big deal and I never once sought out a specific merchant to sell my stuff for maximum profit, not even once, ever. I do want to point out that this video did clue me in on something though, I missed two merchants that I can scam for more gwent cards. I will make sure to go and get MY cards from their pockets as soon as possible. Thanks for that much though. Gwent comes first, Cirilla second.
I’m way behind and I’m sure someone has mentioned this but the bum that pays full price has no inventory so he pays more for good stuff to expand his inventory. In real world terms it makes sense anyways.
I dont think it is currently like that. At least I tried to sell anything to this guy and he is paying some small %. So as far as I see it now there is no full price merchant. I am playing on PS4 if that matters.
About that last merchant, you can keep buying all the bottles which don't need meditation to respawn, sell him your goods at full price and trade the bottles with any other merchant really. For the bottles to respawn in his inventory you have to exit the shop menu and not the conversation, then ask him again to see what he offers. I don't take credit for this method thu.
i think the bottle guy will give you everything for your sword becouse he has only bottles. he cant defend himself. if you were stuck in a war chaos world would you not give everything for a sword to defend yourself with.
OK, I don't think these work anymore. just went to the dirty guy at the dock and he doesn't pay even close to full price. I know it's been some time since this video was posted but I just got the game and I think sense then all this has changed. if anyone knows if there are still places to sell for good price please let me know. thanks.
Why doesn't the loan shark in Novigrad replenish his funds?? He's a loan shark, and I've meditated for a month outside his shop. How is he still broke?
Bottles are worth 1 Crown to every merchant, buy all his bottles exist the conversation talk to him again and he restocks instantly. You will be left wasting a lot on bottles but you can just resell them for the same price.
Just leave one item behind when looting monster nests. That way you can loot everything in it except one item and get a load of expensive items which you can sell for a lot of money. You will be so rich you will not have to worry about money at all
My theory on that Beggar is that he was a prominent merchant back in the day but he would always buy stuff from adventurers for the full price because he thought that it was the only way that it would be fair, so he did that a couple of times and now he's a beggar done
I'm not gonna lie,, nothing gives me MORE agita than trying to figure out where to hock my crap in this game. It's not the intrigue of the plot or preparing for monster fights. It's figuring out where to sell my stuff, because just knowing that there are people who give you different rates and I want to get the best amount of crowns for my stuff, or trying to figure out a guy who has enough crowns on them to sell your stuff to them in the first place
just buy all the empty bottles from the poor guy, he almost have infinite empty bottles, then sell all your heavy stuffs like swords armor etc back to him, the empty bottles are worth 1 gold and every merchant will buy them for 1 gold, so when you are finished with selling stuff to the bottle guy and buying empty bottles from him, then just go to the loan shark east of novigrad and sell all the empty bottles, if the loan shark run out of coin, just buy all his orens or crowns or whatever coin he have, in the end go to the bank in center of novigrad and exchange all the coins you got from the loan shark and boom you are rich as hell, this will take around 30-45 min buy it sure as hel worth it, since you will never have money problem ever till you finish the game
Shahin Sohrabi This is one of my favorite way I used but I think I found an even better way that still works for 1.06. Find a monster nest that have a "ruby gold ring" (they exist often in velen/novigrad). Loot everything except for the one trash item there. Move your camera to the sky. Then loot the nest again, the items will respawn along with the gold ring. Repeat. On my pc it takes 5 minutes for me to loot like 120 ring ruby ring. You dismantle them into Ruby and sell them to the loan shark who pays shit price (100 ish while they are 1k for full price) for it but it doesn't matter it's still 12000 gold in 5 minutes.
Any other merchants that give full price for swords but have more money? I have a sword called "the tamer" that I've been hanging onto for a while. It's worth 818 and my "moonblade" is worth 446
VigilantAssassin if you dropped it off i think it permanently stays there in a little bag, ive dropped shit off at the quartermasters place and its still there almost 10 hours later
Kyle Dolor I've done it countless amounts of time now, and everything is still there in this little sack by a fast travel point. It seems to stay if not permanently than for a hell of a long time.
Here is the secret: Open a Book store called BookSpot, then sell the books at a high profit, but check this. Once you sell that very book, you can have the same clients come back and try and sell them to you, but you get to pay for them at pennies on the dollar, while turning around and selling them again at an even bigger profit. Thus you create a full blown business based on extorting the very customer base you look to serve. BOOM!
Food is ridiculously expensive in this world.... 20 coppers for a chicken leg? 40 coppers for a whole cooked chicken? How can all those filthy peasants survive in such an inflated economy??!!
They cant :( FeelsBadMan
Hey at least the food doesn't turn to ash in their mouths! They should be grateful!
Well there is a famine man :(
It is kinda true though, I mean, just compared to other stuff. I had a weird obsession with collecting food in this game, and would buy out every single innkeeper I could find, so I now have a lifetime supply of everything you can imagine. It was costly, but I'll never be hungry now in New Game Plus.
there is a skill you can learn which makes the effect of each piece of food last for 20 minutes.. You dont need all that food man
"Quick Tip"
9arold9 In the scheme of Witcher 3 a five hour guide could be construed as a quick tip.
Jon Watson I expect that they edit it a little bit. Not a 16 minute uncut video where they almost have no idea what they are talking about.
This video could've been 1 minute.
This shopkeeper,
full price,
Goodie ;).
But no, they have it uncut and long for no reason.
+9arold9 very true
What in their loading screen, groan
@@Jonatron101 no
13.40 minutes for 3 places ??? i want my time back
😂😂😂😂
all that revenue
For real
think about the money you'll get from this "3 places", then think how much time you'd spend normally in game to get the difference in coins you get here
these trick suck so bad , you want money ?? go farm sirens in ark skellig and then separate the pearl from the sea shell and bam : infinite money ( and it dosent take 13min 40 of your precious time)
yea talkin and talkin and talkin,next time invite few more friends to chat with so u can extend the duration of your video
It's weird this video pushed 14 minutes and they only have like 2.5 tips?
Eric Cartman 😭😭😭😭
I want a full length podcast that spans over 14 episodes that's just them talking about what stores to go to in The Witcher 3.
Your comment make me skip this video 😂😂😂 thanks man
I read this in Eric’s mocking voice. LMFAO.
After the initial 10-15 levels or so, its not so much selling for a profit (you already have adequate coin), but more selling to get rid of all the extra weight and actually finding merchants/armorers etc that have enough money to buy the stuff.
For anyone playing the game for the first time here in 2017:
You should never be buying weapons and/or armor from vendors, look for the School Diagram treasure hunts. This gear is the best you'll get, seeing as you'll be able to upgrade the sets as you progress through the game.
You should never be buying food - use alchemy. Alchemy will cover your vitality regen, no problem. (the Swallow-potion and Troll-decoction, for instance)
No food?? I have so much food it's insane.
Yeah majority of non witcher gear is pretty shit. Cat or Griffin armor is best for starters.
Food is good because you can stack it with swallow in those oh shit moments and it doesn't increase your toxicity. The food I use is water since it's very common and cheap.
Alchemy? I just use quen.
With the glutony skill food can be better than potions, It's easy to find and regenerstes a lot of health
The beggar merchant you showed at the end has been patched. Apparently he was a mistake they forgot to fix.
2:50 "How to Avoid Colossal Vessels" is an easter egg for the irl book "How to Avoid Huge Ships" that won an award for oddest title. It also received a lot of notoriety later on when it was sold on Amazon and received a ton of satire reviews.
I have a good tip, I carry extra horse blinders and check how much each merchant wants for them. They are worth 100 Crowns, to wherever they offer I know the percent of everything they offer. Example 5 Crowns =5% of 100 value horse blinders. Pluss they only weigh
.06 lbs or .024kilo approximately.
12:00 'magic merchant' lol, that guy is Kadwanian solider who been drunk since the witcher 2.
None of these merchants buy at full prices anymore. 2019
Economy has taken a toll. Hard times..
goddamit
@@tamoghnamaitra9901 I know, right? Immigrants being incarcerated and tortured, tariffs impeding imports and jacking up prices, the rich become richer the poor become poorer...Oh wait, you were talking about the game.
This Radovids Redania. This is what you voted for
I'm so sad...I finally pulled up on the bum selling waters, extremely overweight, really good stuff...all a fraction of the total ☹ WHY...WHYYYYYYY???
The bottle merchant is a convicted felon, can't buy weapons on his own.
That's why he gets so excited.
With regards to the question posed at 11:19, as to why Skellige merchant pays more for weapons, early on in the game after you meet the bloody baron and his dwarven blacksmith (with the smart wife from skellige) they say something to the effect that weapons are sparse on skellige so since there’s a low supply, they’re willing to pay more for weapons. So if you pay attn to the details they hint at the best places to buy and sell stuff.
They need to sort vendors not showing on the map
ye help ?
Looks like the high paying merchants have been patched. Merchants pay very similarly to one another now, you get a bit more from a craftsmen who deals with the type of item you are selling.
They changed the bottle price to 3. They also made it so he doesn't give you full price. A recent video in line with patches would be helpful.👍
Lol he has like 20 books, i have 4 pages of books
8:58 dude why you didnt show these merchants on the map.. did i miss something?
I've never played the game but feel the need to comment.
***** forget you ! And fuck PC!!
***** Kiss my funky ass!
***** It's good on any platform if that's not an option too.
So far goty, buy it
Garrus Vakarian Go do some calibrations, Garrus. :-P
Skellige is a gold mine! just sail and loot all the smuggler caches. Then sell the items to the armorer in velen and the blacksmith in novigrad (or whomever is your go to person for weapons and armor before mastercrafted items).
At the risk of repeating a tip that has already been given...The blacksmith and armorer at Kaer Trolde bridge on Ard Skellige are where it's at for swords and armor. Patch 1.12.1 PC Version. Sell what you can and then fast travel somewhere that forces the game to load a new area, such as Novigrad or Kaer Morhen and then fast travel back and they will both have all their money back. I have found that this method makes money damn quick, especially if you loot undiscovered locations until your overburdened.
Edit: Instead of fast traveling somewhere random, the blacksmith at Hierarch square in Novigrad offers about the same prices. So sell the loot at Either Kear Trolde or Hierarch Square and then fast travel to the other location, repeat until all is sold!
are u sure that they provide the best prices?
That first Alchemist, he buys anything and at full or near full price- you fellas just found me my golden goose merchant- ty!!!! lol bought a few op runestones from him and got his purse of up to 4000 and then sold him a ton of useless shit and got the whole purse back.
+Jademoon25 That alchemist was patched very recently. His prices SUCK now, no better than most merchants, and the amount of stuff he'll buy from you is very limited now.
+ROYAL D. Near oxenfurt gate
How do I get him to hold more money?
They patched it where all merchants have a super small money cap now. They also made it to where it takes more days of meditation to make the merchant refill the money at way way lower rate than before. Its fucking annoying as shit as this type of stuff is not really an exploit but part of the realism of the world. Its fine if they patch up the cow leather exploit in the beginning of the game but people only did that shit cuz fucking food cost 20 to 40 crowns per health item which is crazy high for fresh game.
Jademoon25
where i sell. Swords ---->Hattori armor ---->feirgus
I forgot where Feirgus is
Oh yeah
I was thinking about the armorer in Novigrad
There is Hattori the swords blacksmith then there is the armorer but I forgot how to get to him
I think there's a dude in Oxenfurt who makes armor and pays a lot for it, also in the inn the barman pays a lot for stuff like furs etc It's a good city for selling stuff
Domo arigato
i use the grandmaster guy in the blood and wine dlc best prices in my opinion
Phase 1:collect underpants.
Phase 2:
Phase 3: profit.
LOL
Underpant Gnomes 😂
I remember the Oxenfurt Harbor's armorer buy for a pretty good price for swords. Even better than the 2 merchants in Novigrad
The Merchant 3: Wild Business
They must have patched this, because I tried this and a Tunic that was original 280 he would only give me 60 for
Kre8or333 that sucks
Book seller has a nice quick quest that has a throwback to witcher 1 as well.
Also, with the merchant who only sells bottles and pays full price for amour, swords etc you can keep buying bottles from him for $1 each to give him extra money and then offload them to other merchants to make your money back. He only has 200 or so bottles but if you close it and open it they come back
With the bottles guy you can just buy all of them, basically giving him a bunch of cash, then you sell everything you need to sell, then you sell the bottles back to any other merchant, as bottles buy and sell at 1. Thanks for the tips, even though it's an old video.
I've played this game for 150 hours or more and I didn't even know the librarian even existed. I've just been selling stuff to blacksmiths and armorers.
I don’t suggest selling trophies? Cause they’re kinda cool and you can display them later once finishing up the BaW dlc... gather up gear you ever collect, and sell the ones you don’t need to the smith and armor in Kaer Trolde, they tend to give a pretty price for relic gears, especially heavy armors... keep them in stash early on and you’ll make bank once you sell them later... all those smugglers cache in Skillege means money, for the most part. And of course, most importantly you need patience to go loot them all and make endless trips selling them. But I made about 30k so far easy, by selling out all the duplicate named items from my stash (I did horde a lot early on, but started selling right away later)
There is a merchant by the docks who sells bottles. It's been a while since I checked but he took almost full price regardless of what it was.
Watch the video🙄
Sold my stuff when and where i needed to, did none of this running around after best prices. Ended my game with 47K gold in my wallet. Maybe this could help at lower levels, but in my experience you don't need to use that much money in this game. I mostly bought some alchemical components and not much else...
Well, at least this guide was thorough and might help some other people...
markotark I believe you haven't met the dude who creates grandmaster armor nor the rune enchanter, have you?
Bruh have u never crafted grandmastrr armour
I think he commented this before the DLC came out
unless you are grandmaster armor set collector and runeweight fan. so much to experiment, it's fun (changing from combat build/alchemy build/aard build/igni build/archery in NG+)
Where's the location of the Skellige merchant that will give you his "kid" for your swords?
The armorer on Heirarch Square sells mainly sells armors but when you talk to him he yells "Top notch swords!"
Vendors don't sell at full price anymore, I just did so much with such high expectations to be utterly devastated 😂
Bruh I'm so frustrated with this game right now, I'm nearing the end of my playthrough come to find out I've missed so much shit, accidentally lost disposed of stuff, and encountered plenty of bugs
@@rowe1756 really?? I'm pretty thorough when it comes to games, have been borderline OCD about checking every crack and crevice....just taking my time with all the side stuff and looking up video on different encounters, hope I haven't missed too much. And it hasn't been buggy for me so far🙏🏼 but I'm only level 7 soooo 🤷🏽♂️ Also, I manual save every time I'm about to enter a new story convo so I can go back and replay differently if I think I should, that's one thing I heard from a lot of ppl, save early and often. I'm lovin this shit tbh, can't believe I didn't tune in years ago like everyone else I know
@@rowe1756 Also there's a "pearl" farm that's never been patched, you should look it up, it only lasts until you save your game but with the couple hours I spent it gave me about a $9-10k boost, happy hunting
Edit: not $, Crowns lol 🍻
I'm really loving the game in fact I'm wondering why I didn't get into this franchise a while ago. Usually I am thorough but I have to admit I got a bit lazy with everything cuz I wanted to get through main story, but anyway long story short. One of my biggest issues right now is with the Witcher gear sets. I had one diagram from the Wolven set completely missing/not showing at all on the map and now I completely missed the chance to get the Viper set from the Heart of Stone DLC. I mainly wanted this set because it resembled the starting gear wich I accidentally disposed of *sigh* Also finding it tedious to get all the proper crafting ingredients for all of the Witcher gear sets because the ingredients and the formulas to make the ingredients are rare and expensive. Not to mention there are various missions that are bugged. But anyway thanks for the tip I'll be sure to check that out cuz I'm pretty poor lol
this doesn't work anymore if you're playing it now by the way
😞 yep.i sold lots of swords to the blacksmith and i only got up 3 or coins for each.after repairing my equipment i had almost nothing left 🤔.
Wow that Hierarch Square looks so empty in console version
Just finished the game on PS4. What an amazing looking game already but I'm also happy for PC users that nothing got held back. I hope everyone enjoy this game.
BUSTERR.TR I love how you don't even know if it is console or PC.
Cole Hartgrove Xbox buttons can be seen when he goes into his inventory.
Jaqen H'ghar You can use an Xbox controller on a PC.
+Tiny Rick hello rick
Easiest way to get full price for most of your items... all in Novagrad 1- go to the west docks, the merchant (odin i think) pays full price, when he runs out of money buy his bottles (keep exiting and re-entering to replenish stock) 2- go to east side to the loan shark, sell all bottles. When he runs out of money buy his coins. If more money is needed leave and re-enter to replenish his coins. 3- go to then bank in the market square and exchange currency for the price you paid for them. Thats how you get 100% value for your goods!
I find it funny that the introduced that cow beast to stop you making lots of money from their hides. Now there is a continuously spawning monster there so you can level up very fast haha
Maty743 Only if you can kill it. At low level it will kick your @ss. But yeah it's funny
Maty743 You can do the exploit on other cows though, just not in White Orchard.
I never did the cow exploit. Just thought I would go back for the challenge of the moster lol
I Can Do That it only spawns once now though. He is just a chort so burn that fucker with fire stream. You don't even need to use your sword if you are level 20+.
I have more than 60k and money has never been an issue besides the first few levels. More than anything its more about managing your inventoryweight. Once you get lots of money I sold the ones that weighed the most but didnt necessarily give that much money, just so that I could sell more heavy stuff before the merchant/blacksmith ran out of money... Not a solid economy system imo.
the bum with the bottles has been fixed. he doesn't do the money and bottle glitch anymore.
Ohh that's why I didn't get any special prices.
everyone in the comments: you don't need to do this
runewright: hold my beer
I'm playing this game in 2018, and man, they don't patch every good thing in the game. The alchemist dude now gives you 39 coins for a trophy that is worth 300, and swords that is a 1000, is now sold for 400. Like wtf, why. I once mistakenly bought a sword for 1k, and when I tried to sell it back to the merchant he paid 300 for it. That shit got me mad
I am 2 years late to the game, but thanks for the tips guys! Helps me out a lot!
work in progress but so far this is what i have
*High Stock Crowns* --- pig hide 9 crowns per - innkeeper Novigrad NE St. Gregory's Bridge
*High Stock Crowns* --- pig hide 9 crowns per - innkeeper Novigrad North of Hierach Square
pig hide 11 crowns per - innkeeper Toussaint The Cockatrice Inn
pig hide 9 crowns per - innkeeper Nivigrad East of Hierach Square
pig hide 10 crowns per - innkeeper Urialla Harbor NE Skellige
pig hide 9 crowns per - innkeeper Oxwenfurt Harbor North of Barber
pig hide 9 crowns per - innkeeper Seven Cats Inn East of Novifrad
pig hide 8 crowns per - innkeeper Lindenvale East of Crow's Perch
pork 7 crowns per - innkeeper Lindenvale East of Crow's Perch
Thank you!
Seems like the Devs may have just missed these merchants when going through and setting all of the merchant percentages. Especially that bottle vendor.
Guys there is a spot that still works on the cow glitch thingy the location is in yantra in novigrad just east of hierach square
I was just at the alchemis that you guys said would pay full price for trophies: he would only give me 33 crowns for a 250 crown trophy. He must have been nerfed since you guys did the video
In the first town there is a small house with a few pigs in the yard. Kill them, loot them, meditate for an hour, they respawn, rince and repeat. Nothing spawns to stop you. You can get fat stacks of Ham and Leather.
Herbalist near Hierarch Bridge gives top prices for Herbs. There is an armorer who gives top prices but I forget where he's at. He has a huge showroom unlike that dude in the square. In Skellige there's a blacksmith on the main island to the far left of the castle in a fishing village. He always has 5,000+ coin and buys at top price but he's not always there.
they fixed it, you can't sell your trophies to this guy for full price, I guess it's all about who will give you the most for each thing you want to sell now
Seems like everything has been patched now. Bottle guy and Alchemist now both buy at standard prices (ie pretty shitty)
1.63 PS4 patched everything guy near water gives you regular prices
mystery merchant buys trophies in regular prices
finally some logical merchants ! thanks for the vid! i get tired to sell swords and weapons for 4 crowns...that ridiculous! every time im feel like i ve been ripped off!
Playing game of the year edition and the magic merchant doesn't give me those prices
The hooded alchemist who resides in the cemetery house north of Oxenfurt Gate during the daytime (and only talks to you starting at 11am...) was patched with recent update. He's no better than any other alchemy merchant now... He'll pay garbage prices for trophies now...
Playing this in 2020 . Sell weapons and armour to the armourer in novigrad hierarchy square. Gives good prices.
Unlock the elf blacksmith in novigrad later in the game and he gives good prices. So if one runs out of crowns you have the other. Plus the elf is a master craftsmen.
Picked up the game again after finishing it years ago and I must admit I had no idea about this on my first run through. Thanks
I usually disassemble relic swords to get rare crafting components instead of selling them
Binuyaka Vanilla i dont. i just say fuck it and get about 700 a peice
Thanks for info. I'm 💯 percent Witcher 2 vet. Looking to get the same for 3.Learned from that game and Skyrim to hoard like MAD.
does meditaion for 10 days affect the story?
Thank you for making this video. My inventory is full with stupid books i had no idea what to do with them and the trophies.
leady at the brothel takes hides for 42 coin each in novigrad
the last one was definitly mega-nerfed
Ok so 2019, Im playing. Is there any place at all to make money without using some cheap glitch/cheat? Or are we supposed to be practically poor the whole game?
They nerfed merchants to the point you basically have to exploit something. Killing the pigs near the docks in the first village is simple, quick and not xp related. Plus, you'll have a couple stacks of pork in about 20 minutes.
Same problem here
Nooooo you boys need to git guud. I refuse to cheat, I'm at lvl 8 just started a few days ago and already have over 3k coins. The best tip I've heard is to loot everything. This bottle merchant here is pretty good to sell stuff to. The book guy in the center square pays well for books and any black Smith will also pay decent for weapons.
im level 24 now and have 25k gold so it turned out fine
What are you talking about? I'm at level 12 and have 8k+ crowns and nothing to buy. Git gud boys
@6:06 i died from the sound the dude made n just the way that happenee lmao
I forgot what the quest was called but in Heart of Stone where Geralt let's Vlodimir Von Elric pissed his body and go to a wedding with Sani there's a mini game where you put pigs in a pen and you get a trophy that gives 15% more gold
I've been comparing merchants myself in Velen, Novigrad and Skellige on ps4 1.60. As far as i know: Don't buy or craft anything in Novigrad since it's an expensive rich town.The master armorer in Velen is much cheaper to craft than Hattori in Novigrad. Skellige is poor in general and gives higher prices for hides or any other items. Skellige is also the best place to buy herbs, food or potions. In other words: Sell swords and armor in Novigrad (or Oxenfurt)... Craft with master armorer in Velen... Buy and sell items in Skellige.
Thanks for summing it it. Even google sites dont say it well.
This game is a looters heaven. Me, I loot ever container not guarded by a guard of some sort and sell everything. When you do that, these techniques are, sure they are helpful, but when you loot like crazy like I do, it is unnecessary. I have so much money I can on a whim without batting an eye, just buy respec potions in bulk, no big deal and I never once sought out a specific merchant to sell my stuff for maximum profit, not even once, ever.
I do want to point out that this video did clue me in on something though, I missed two merchants that I can scam for more gwent cards. I will make sure to go and get MY cards from their pockets as soon as possible. Thanks for that much though. Gwent comes first, Cirilla second.
There's a another magic merchant on the other side of novigrad, it's an elf in a large shack by the water
I was in a cave finding all sorts of new gear and end ended up having to drop like 80,000 crowns...
Pretty sure I'm way ahead of you here because by level 15 I already had over 10,000 crowns (2nd playthrough).
I’m way behind and I’m sure someone has mentioned this but the bum that pays full price has no inventory so he pays more for good stuff to expand his inventory. In real world terms it makes sense anyways.
I dont think it is currently like that. At least I tried to sell anything to this guy and he is paying some small %. So as far as I see it now there is no full price merchant. I am playing on PS4 if that matters.
About that last merchant, you can keep buying all the bottles which don't need meditation to respawn, sell him your goods at full price and trade the bottles with any other merchant really.
For the bottles to respawn in his inventory you have to exit the shop menu and not the conversation, then ask him again to see what he offers.
I don't take credit for this method thu.
If you want to make a guide please make the script FIRST! So people didn't waste 14 min for just 3 place
i think the bottle guy will give you everything for your sword becouse he has only bottles. he cant defend himself. if you were stuck in a war chaos world would you not give everything for a sword to defend yourself with.
OK, I don't think these work anymore. just went to the dirty guy at the dock and he doesn't pay even close to full price. I know it's been some time since this video was posted but I just got the game and I think sense then all this has changed. if anyone knows if there are still places to sell for good price please let me know. thanks.
Why doesn't the loan shark in Novigrad replenish his funds?? He's a loan shark, and I've meditated for a month outside his shop. How is he still broke?
Bottles are worth 1 Crown to every merchant, buy all his bottles exist the conversation talk to him again and he restocks instantly. You will be left wasting a lot on bottles but you can just resell them for the same price.
Just leave one item behind when looting monster nests. That way you can loot everything in it except one item and get a load of expensive items which you can sell for a lot of money. You will be so rich you will not have to worry about money at all
My theory on that Beggar is that he was a prominent merchant back in the day but he would always buy stuff from adventurers for the full price because he thought that it was the only way that it would be fair, so he did that a couple of times and now he's a beggar done
Hello I'm from the future year 2020. There is now a Witcher show in Netflix that made Witcher 3 sales SKYROCKET again, and this video is great still.
Armorer at oxenfurt gives the best price. Make alder folk boots and sell them for 750
2019 PATCHED!! there good thing u checked the comment.
So where does one sell stuff to get the best prices?!?
@@bhaveshdevjani3278 the blacksmith in novigrad to the right of the dwarf crowns exchange man 🤗
Those prices arnt there anymore for those merchants
i tried this with the bum that sells bottles and he doesn't sell for much more than other merchants.
I'm not gonna lie,, nothing gives me MORE agita than trying to figure out where to hock my crap in this game. It's not the intrigue of the plot or preparing for monster fights. It's figuring out where to sell my stuff, because just knowing that there are people who give you different rates and I want to get the best amount of crowns for my stuff, or trying to figure out a guy who has enough crowns on them to sell your stuff to them in the first place
Where in the city is the merchant buy the sea that only has the empty bottles?
Thank you so much for finding this magic merchant can't thank you enough. Where is the librarian located again?
Sad that they changed the amount the alchemist pad for trophys. He only pays like 30 now. Can't have you getting rich easy in a single player game.
"whereee haveee youuu beeeeen"
just buy all the empty bottles from the poor guy, he almost have infinite empty bottles, then sell all your heavy stuffs like swords armor etc back to him, the empty bottles are worth 1 gold and every merchant will buy them for 1 gold, so when you are finished with selling stuff to the bottle guy and buying empty bottles from him, then just go to the loan shark east of novigrad and sell all the empty bottles, if the loan shark run out of coin, just buy all his orens or crowns or whatever coin he have, in the end go to the bank in center of novigrad and exchange all the coins you got from the loan shark and boom you are rich as hell, this will take around 30-45 min buy it sure as hel worth it, since you will never have money problem ever till you finish the game
Shahin Sohrabi This is one of my favorite way I used but I think I found an even better way that still works for 1.06. Find a monster nest that have a "ruby gold ring" (they exist often in velen/novigrad). Loot everything except for the one trash item there. Move your camera to the sky. Then loot the nest again, the items will respawn along with the gold ring. Repeat. On my pc it takes 5 minutes for me to loot like 120 ring ruby ring. You dismantle them into Ruby and sell them to the loan shark who pays shit price (100 ish while they are 1k for full price) for it but it doesn't matter it's still 12000 gold in 5 minutes.
Honestly this video is exactly what I was looking for but my god... 13 minutes.. It could be cut down to 3 - 4 minutes easy
Any other merchants that give full price for swords but have more money? I have a sword called "the tamer" that I've been hanging onto for a while. It's worth 818 and my "moonblade" is worth 446
I didn't hear you say the location of that 'magic merchant bum'; so where is that?
Wish this was made literally a few days ago I just dropped all that shit conveniently I dropped it in the Hierarch Square so it may still be there.
Hahaha hurry
VigilantAssassin if you dropped it off i think it permanently stays there in a little bag, ive dropped shit off at the quartermasters place and its still there almost 10 hours later
VigilantAssassin I droped shit in a cave at skellig, and daaaaaaaaays later, it was still there.
***** What about after you exit the game and continue?
Kyle Dolor I've done it countless amounts of time now, and everything is still there in this little sack by a fast travel point. It seems to stay if not permanently than for a hell of a long time.
Here is the secret: Open a Book store called BookSpot, then sell the books at a high profit, but check this. Once you sell that very book, you can have the same clients come back and try and sell them to you, but you get to pay for them at pennies on the dollar, while turning around and selling them again at an even bigger profit. Thus you create a full blown business based on extorting the very customer base you look to serve. BOOM!
See?! This is a useful video about The Witcher 3 xD, not that 'How to beat the easiest encounter ever' XD. Thank you for this tip, very useful