Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, The

Use the following trick to store items that you do not want to carry in your inventory. Enter the Inn in Skellige and go to a corner in the room. Drop all your items at once and will appear as a bag on the floor. You can return to retrieve them whenever desired. To add something else to the pile, pick up the bag, and then drop it again after it has the additional item.

• Find a group of underwater Nekkers, then use your crossbow to kill them with one hit.
• After leveling high enough to get decent crossbow damage, go to the Devils Pit at Velen. Run around and kite at least five bandits from the camp, then return to the entrance. The enemies will not be able to get past the gate, and line up at that boundary. Take out a crossbow and auto attack them until all the bandits are killed. If something went wrong, fast travel to another location and return to respawn the bandits before trying again.

The environment can be used in several ways to kill enemies.

• Swamp Gas: Ignite using the Igni sign.
• Explosive Barrels: Ignite using the Igni sign or by attacking it. It will explode after a few seconds for a large amount of area of effect damage.
• Stack of Barrels: Topple over onto enemies using the Aard sign.
• Insects (Hornet Nest): Can be destroyed to unleash hornets on nearby enemies.

The first contract available is "The Devil by the Well" in White Orchard, but may be difficult to complete without using oils and signs. Instead, consider doing this on the griffin in White Orchard. It is an easier fight, and will count as a contract even though it is required by the main questline. Another option is the werewolf at Velen during the "Wild At Heart" secondary quest. Although the quest does not appear as a contract in the journal, it also counts.

When you complete the "Ugly Baby" main quest, the side quest "Brothers in Arms" will start. The required people can be found as follows. Note: Letho is optional, because he may have already been killed due to events from The Witcher 2.

Velen

• Letho: Reardon Manor (near Lindenvale). Complete "The Fall of House Reardon" side quest.
• Keira Metz: Complete "For the Advancement of Learning" side quest by telling her to go to Kaer Morhen.

Novigrad

• Vernan Roche and Ves: Temeria Partisan Hideout. Complete the "An Eye for an Eye" side quest.
• Zolton Chivay: Rosemary and Thyme.
• Triss Merigold: Complete the "Now or Never" main quest.

Skellige

• Hjalmar an Craite: Kaer Trolde. Ask the person who is ruler.
• Ermion: Gedyneith.