Does installing the free official DLCs provide you with inproportionately powerful equipment early on?
So I have just bought The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on Steam and noticed there are a couple of free DLCs available. Some of these are armor or weapon sets. However, I am worried that installing those will give me access to powerful equipment/spells/whatever too early on in the game, lowering the difficulty in the progress. Is this the case?
My question(s) in detail:
- After installing the respective DLCs, when can you get the additional weapons/equipment? Right from the start of the game, only at a certain player level, after a certain story event?
- How do you get the equipment? Through special quests, ingame crafting (not sure if it exists in this game), or does it just appear in your inventory after installing the DLC?
- Are the DLC items inproportionately powerful (at whatever point you get them in the game) compared to the equipment vanilla/base game?
- Are there any other inproportionately powerfuls items/spells/other stuff avialable through the DLC that I should be aware of (such as quest rewards for the quest DLCs or stuff like that)?
Thank you!
Best Answer
As far as I remember you have to buy all the DLC armor at various NPCs. And for most of the game the Witcher sets that are part of the base game are usually the most powerful armor you can get.
The Wolf school witcher armor is one of the DLC items, but you get it rather late compared to the other Witcher armor sets, which makes it comparatively weak.
I played the game while the DLC were still being released, and I don't remember any instance where the released items were particularly powerful. The items were mostly cosmetic, you don't start out overpowered like in some other games with DLC.
I wouldn't worry about the DLC in terms of game balance, it doesn't have any major effect on it.
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