Best The Witcher 3 Weapons: What Weapons Should You Equip Geralt?

The 3 best weapons in The Witcher 3

While this may be a value judgment for some, it turns out that extensive comparisons ultimately resulted in this ranking. Whether it’s power, critical strike chances, unique skills… Everything was analyzed to designate which weapons were interesting enough to help Geralt of Rivia in his peregrination.

So, without detour, we deliver to you the weapons judged to be the best for the witcher of The Witcher 3.

The legendary Aerondight sword

Only available in the Blood and Wine expansion, Aerondight is not a weapon you will be able to obtain easily. You will have to complete all the missions that relate to the 5 chivalrous virtues. But why is it considered overpowering?

Quite simply, because every time you inflict damage on an opponent, Sword damage increased by 10%. However, that’s not all, because when you perform charged attacks, Aerondiht will always critically hit your enemies. As elegant as it is monstrous, this sword is considered to be the best weapon you can hold in The Witcher 3.

Sanguine Sword

Like the swords of the Cat School, this relic excels in physical combat, favoring brute force over magic. In addition to the usual damage bonuses and critical hit chance, it inflicts bleeding with a probability of 9% and can even cause mutilation in 1 to 2% of cases. True to its name, the Blood Sword is a weapon designed for quick, bloody and brutal kills.

Silver Sword of the Bear School

Little gem of crafting in The Witcher 3, the silver sword of the Bear School rivals in power its big sister which is made of steel. Its strengths? A 14% dismemberment chance and a 75% bonus to critical hits, making it a truly devastating weapon. Like its steel version, it grants a 20% adrenaline gain, a considerable advantage for those who favor mutant and Adrenaline skills.

Now that you know the best weapons in The Witcher 3, let’s now focus on how to obtain them. Below, you can find all the necessary explanations that will allow you to get your hands on these fabulous weapons.

Aerondight

• Means of obtaining: Quest “There can only be one left”.

This quest is obtained by going to the lake located north of Beauclair Palace. In the middle of the lake there is an island with a pond in the center where you can walk on the water. A hermit watches over the place and explains that the fantastic sword that sleeps in the depths of the pond can only return to the one who has shown that he possesses the five chivalrous virtues.

The five virtues are: honor, compassion, courage, generosity and wisdom. There are many ways to prove these virtues during the various quests in the expansion. You only need to fulfill one of the conditions presented below for each virtue to prove yourself worthy of the sword.

Honor

• During: “Chirps and Chivalry”: Accept Prince Anseis’ duel after the second trial (only if you participate as Geralt of Rivia).
• During “Chirps and Chivalry”: keep your word to Vivienne and don’t say anything to Guillaume.
• During: “Till death do you part…”: tell Charles that there were no creatures in the cemetery.
• During “Granite balls!” : return the stones to the curator.
• During “My Father Was Wrong”: agree to find the condenser for Hugo.

Compassion

• During “The Beast of Toussaint”: Spare the Shaelmaar.
• During “The Hunger Game”: Let the lady stay in Corvo Bianco.
• During “The Storming of the Castle”: Help Roderick.
• During “Granite Balls!” : let the old man keep the stone.
• During “Big Game Hunting”: Free the panther.
• During “Preserved Fauna of Beauclair”: let the basilica live.
• During “On Mushroom Abuse”: Ask Ablette to forgive the ghosts
• During “Contract: the tufo monster”: give the pendant to Madame de Bourbeau.

Courage

• During “The Night of the Long Fangs”: kill the Katakan who attacks a guard on the stairs leading down from Beauclair Palace.
• During “Tesham Mutna”: Kill Dettlaff.
• During “Chirps and Chivalry”: Complete the tournament.
• During “The Rope Around Your Neck”: Help the knight kill the monster.
• During “Fists on I: Toussaint”: defeat the maestro.
• During “Contract: Gray with a high chance of cattle”: Kill the slyzards.
• During “On Mushroom Abuse”: Choose not to forgive the ghosts.
• During “Beauclair’s Preserved Wildlife”: kill the basilica.
• During “Contract: The Tufo Monster”: Kill the tufo monster.
• During “Knight”: Force Lynx Crag to lift the curse.

Generosity

• During “The Strange Laboratory”: tip the young boy who brings you the letter.
• During “In the Den of the Beast”: give 500 crowns without negotiation to the young shoeshine boy.
• During “Once Upon a Time…” purchase Syanna’s Ribbon for 500 crowns.
• During “Preserved Wildlife of Beauclair”: refuse to receive a bonus if you let the basilica live.
• During “The Witcher Strikes a Pose”: Buy a painting for 1000 crowns.
• During “Mushroom Abuse”: if you initiate negotiations, refuse the bag of potatoes.

Wisdom

• During “The Beast of Toussaint”: Guess the location of the rabbit on the first try.
• During “The Fool’s Cage”: Lift the curse of Spotted Necropage.
• During “knight”: lift the curse using Gareth’s bones.
• During “My Father Was Wrong”: Encourage Hugo to talk with his brother.
• During “Gwynt: The Great Beauclair Tournament”: Win the tournament.

Once the five virtues have been proven, you will have to face the hermit, then you will finally be able to seize d’Aerondight.

Sanguine Sword

• Means of obtaining: Quests “Legacy” or “Treasure dog!”

To be able to activate the quest “Legacy”, you will have to discover a letter and a key placed on a corpse within the ancient fortress of Bolthorn. By consulting the letter, you will quickly understand that your loot is waiting for you in the chest which is located just to the right of the remains. Thus, in two steps, three movements, you will be able to acquire the blood sword.

Otherwise, if you can also get it by doing the quest “Treasure dog!”. The latter, you can activate it by consulting crumpled notes found northwest of Oxenfurt, right next to the treasure marker, on a corpse. By going to the wooden barrels, those located below the ruin, you can obtain your loot from the battlefield using the sign of Aard.

Silver Sword of the Bear School

• Means of obtaining: Crafting Scheme

You can acquire the crafting blueprint for the Bear School silver sword on themain island of the Skellige Archipelagogo to the far north in the center of the island at the end of the dead end east of Kaer Trolde, eliminate the level 13 Gargoyles and collect the diagram on the skeleton in the ruins on the right.