As a heavy user of the Aard sign, I quickly invested in the Signs branch to give my knockdowns that much more punch. With the runewright’s craft broken up into the familiar tiers of Combat, Signs and Alchemy, Geralt can further tweak his approach to combat to suit your preference.
These combinations of standard runes or glyphs have more complex effects than the ones you can equip individually, but allow you tinvest more deeply into your particular play style. Working away in the new town of Brunwich is a ‘runewright’, a unique crafter who can inscribe your equipment with Runewords and Glyphwords. These more challenging encounters make it all the more interesting to have a new customisation system available for your weapons and armour. Even random encounters will cause you to stop and think once more, as a lone boar or arachnomorph can wipe you out if you’re not paying attention. Though, walking around the DLC’s new region, I once again had to actually THINK about combat it came back to me just how complex and fun the game’s system is. It was something of a relief as a post-game player to have enemies that truly posed a challenge once more – having finished the game around level 35, no enemy really did anything more than momentarily get in the way of my swords before turning into a pale red mist. Luckily, all main and side missions related to the DLC are helpfully coloured a distinct blue in the quest log and branded with the “Hearts of Stone” DLC logo, allowing lower-levelled players to avoid them at a glance if need be. The missions and enemies are definitely rated for higher-level witchers – with a base level of 30, many players will find themselves underpowered if they’re still early on in the main story, despite the DLC being available any time after the Prologue. It’s an impressive feat for a DLC of this scale to work so well, despite its need to operate both as a mid-game storyline or a post-game storyline, dependent on where the player is up to. Along the way he will encounter a selection of all-new characters in No Man’s Land in a self-contained story that still slots well into the overarching tale of Wild Hunt.
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Our hero soon finds and defeats the beast, but not all is as it seems.Īs a result of this contract, Geralt finds himself indebted to the mysterious Master Mirror, forced to carry out three tasks for him to fulfil his debt and walk free once more. Tracking this creature, Geralt runs into old friend Shani, a medic last seen in the original Witcher. Kicking off within the scope of the main game’s story, “Hearts of Stone” sees Geralt accepting a contract for a mysterious monster lurking in the sewers beneath the city of Novigrad, after the disappearance of many women from the town. After 16 free DLC instalments of varying flavours, this is its first large-scope piece of content, adding new areas, enemy types and an entire quest chain to explore in the newly-expanded No Man’s Land region near Novigrad. Having been away from Geralt’s world for a while now, it was surprisingly easy to slip back into his shoes for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s first true expansion, “Hearts of Stone”.
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