Make your Platinum Journey fast and easy with these tips!

[ain_sr]

I was quite nervous to go for the platinum in this game, seeing the time it would take and the many missable trophies. But having got the platinum now I can say it's quite easy if you keep the following few things in mind.

 

1. Death March: Start your first playthorugh on it right-away. It's difficult only for the first 4 hours or so, or until you reach level 10. It'll save you a second playthrough.

2. White Orchard: Complete everything here(side-quests,question marks) before proceeding further as they are few in number but give a lot of experience for quick leveling which is a great time-saver on Death March

3.Looting: Loot whenever and whatever you can. Sell swords and non-usables for gold and keep stocking food and alcohol.

4. Gourment ability: It's literary a life saver as it generates health for 20 mins on consuming food. Thus no worries for health on Death March if you are looting food items(including water)

5. Meditation: Shockingly many don't know that it automatically restores all bombs, potions/decoctions if you have alcohol in your inventory. Even I found out by the middle of the game when struggling with potions.

6.Gwent: The seemingly most annoying of all. But's its very easy you just have to play it whenever you get it's dialogue option. Whatever the mission or other option maybe choose to play Gwent first. And follow the guide to know the few characters with whom you have to interact outside the quest for playing gwent. And you can change gwent difficulty to easy form the gameplay options! Great way to finish with this fast if you don't like it(which would be shocking as it's an awesome mini-game).

7. Quests: Always complete every side-quest,contracts treasure hunts etc which is below or at max one level above your  character level then proceed with the main quest.

8. Missable trophies: 'Isle of mists' main quest is the point of no return for many trophies(except assassin of king one). Just refer the missable trophy list guide for certain contracts and side-quest outcomes to be sure.

9. Manual Saves: Always try to make a new manual save before going into a new main quest.

10. Boat fast travel and crossbow: Shocking! I know! The game hardly gives this tip during load-screens. You can access worldmap and fast travel to any port when you are on the boat. And while you are on it ruddering it if there are some enemies just tap R1 and it will auto hit the enemy.

 

A glitch warning: There's a gwent tournament mission, which should be completed fully so that you can access certain side quests(deadly plot) else it won't be accessible until you finish the tournament.

 

Good luck to those who are going to take the journey. I hope this will make the journey comfortable

 

[Atoya]

Nice tips mate but following @Bushido_Cypher Guide will be much easier

 

It has been confirmed that following this short guide will earn you the platinum!

 

[Phoenixgaming1]

 

 

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3 hours ago, Atoya said:

It has been confirmed that following this short guide will earn you the platinum!

 

"Short Guide" I thought it was gonna be like 6 minutes long not 6 hours, haha. I'll definitely be using this.

[Atoya]

2 hours ago, Phoenixgaming1 said:

5 hours ago, Atoya said:

 

"Short Guide" I thought it was gonna be like 6 minutes long not 6 hours, haha. I'll definitely be using th

Lol well the game is really long so 6 hours in a guide is short imo 

[DF007gamer]

3 hours ago, Phoenixgaming1 said:

"Short Guide" I thought it was gonna be like 6 minutes long not 6 hours, haha. I'll definitely be using this.

 

 @Phoenixgaming1It's going to take you about 40 to 50 hours to platinum. The Video guide is 6 hours plus but there is alot of quests thats fast forward for the convenience of the time. I've got the platinum awhile back on the EU version GOTY but I'm going to stack it with the Base version. I'm about an 1 1/2 hours into it @Bushido_Cypher explains everything well enough. If you a new comer to the game then it might take a little longer because the guide is not about been OP in the beginning because you'll be doing level 6 quest when you at level 4 for example. But that been said DM mode is not that difficult once you get the hang of it.

Edited July 1, 2020 by DF007gamer

[BushidoCypher]

If you guys ever have any questions too feel free to ask! 
Only big mess up is premiere took my build from the end game (50 headshots w/ bow trophy) and put that as the build at the start too, so just be wary that the build you want to use is in the Description/Pinned comment of the video.

I've had a few give me feedback and say they got the platinum with it so I think nothing was missed! Either way if you use it I hope it proves useful for you!

Thanks Atoya for the shoutout legend! 

[The PREDATOR]

My suggestion is to take your time completing this game, explore everything the world has to offer, it’s incredible.

[Leejjon]

I remembered that I really struggled with the first few levels when I started on death march (my first and only playthrough ever). I remember reading a tip online to craft the viper silver and steel swords. Once I had these I did a lot more damage and it got way simpler.