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This guide wiill show you the recommended path of quests to take to thoroughly experience the story. Read on to find out what quests to play through.
List of Contents
Quest | Suggested Level | Quest Type | Location |
---|---|---|---|
Kaer Morhen | - | Main | Kaer Morhen |
Lilac and Gooseberries | - | Main | White Orchard |
The Beast of White Orchard | 3 | Main | White Orchard |
Incident at White Orchard | 2 | Main | White Orchard |
Imperial Audience | 2 | Main | Vizima |
The quests in each region are independent of each other and can be done in any order. You can for example start in Novigrad then skip to Skellige halfway, and finish in Velen. The order listed down below is the optimal way to experience the story.
Quest | Suggested Level | Quest Type | Location |
---|---|---|---|
The Nilfgaardian Connection | 5 | Main | Velen |
Bloody Baron | 6 | Main | Crow's Perch |
Ciri's Story: The King of the Wolves | 5 | Main | Lindenvale |
Ciri's Room | 5 | Secondary | Crow's Perch |
Family Matters | 6 | Main | Crow's Perch |
A Princess in Distress | 5 | Main | Blackbough |
Ciri's Story: The Race | 5 | Main | Velen |
Ciri's Story: Out of the Shadows | 5 | Main | Abandoned Tower |
Hunting a Witch | 5 | Main | Midsopse |
Wandering in the Dark | 6 | Main | Byways |
An Invitation from Keira Metz | 6 | Secondary | Kiera Met'z hut |
A Towerful of Mice | 6 | Secondary | Fyke Isle, Oreton |
A Favor for a Friend | 6 | Secondary | Kiera Metz's hut |
For the Advancement of Learning | 8 | Secondary | Fyle Isle |
Ladies of the Wood | 6 | Main | Crookbag Bog |
The Whispering Hillock | 5 | Main | Ancient Oak |
Ciri's Story: Fleeing the Bog | 5 | Main | Crookbag Bog |
Return to Crookback Bog | 9 | Secondary | Crookbag Bog |
Quest | Suggested Level | Quest Type | Location |
---|---|---|---|
Pyres of Novigrad | 10 | Main | Novigrad |
Novigrad Dreaming | 7 | Main | Novigrad |
Broken Flowers | 11 | Main | Novigrad |
Get Junior | 12 | Main | Novigrad |
An Eye for an Eye | 12 | Secondary | Hanged Man's Tree Temerian Partisan hideout |
Ciri's Story: Visiting Junior | 9 | Main | Novigrad |
Count Reuven's Treasure | 12 | Main | Novigrad |
A Favor for Radovid | 9 | Main | Oxenfurt Harbor |
Redania's Most Wanted | 12 | Secondary | Est Tayiar |
A Matter of Life and Death | 12 | Secondary | The Bits, Triss' hideout, Eilihal's workshop, Vegelbud Residence |
Now or Never | 14 | Secondary | Novigrad |
A Deadly Plot | 14 | Secondary | Near Border Post North of Hanged Man's Tree |
The Play's the Thing | 11 | Main | Novigrad |
A Poet Under Pressure | 13 | Main | Novigrad |
Ciri's Story: Breakneck Speed | 11 | Main | Novigrad |
A Dangerous Game | 12 | Secondary | Rosemary and Thyme |
Cabaret | 12 | Secondary | Rosemary and Thyme |
Carnal Sins | 16 | Secondary | Vilmerius Hospital, Crippled Kate's, Vegelbud Residence, Novigrad Docks |
Quest | Suggested Level | Quest Type | Location |
---|---|---|---|
Destination: Skellige | 16 | Main | Novigrad |
The King is Dead – Long Live the King | 16 | Main | Kaer Trolde |
The Lord of Undvik | 17 | Secondary | Kaer Trolde, Undvik |
Possession | 17 | Secondary | Svorlag, Ulula's Needle, Udalryk's old family home, Spikeroog |
King's Gambit | 18 | Secondary | Kaer Trolde |
Coronation | 18 | Secondary | Kaer Trolde, Gedyneith |
Echoes of the Past | 17 | Main | Ard Skellig |
Missing Persons | 15 | Main | Lofoten |
Nameless | 14 | Main | Freya's Garden |
Ciri's Story: The Calm Before the Storm | 14 | Main | Lofoten |
The Last Wish | 15 | Secondary | Larvik on Hindarsfjall, Freya's Garden, Ingdalen Isle |
Quest | Suggested Level | Quest Type | Location |
---|---|---|---|
Ugly Baby | 19 | Main | Crow's Perch, Royal Palace, Kaer Morhen |
Disturbance | - | Main | Kaer Morhen |
To Bait a Forktail... | 19 | Main | Kaer Morhen |
The Final Trial | 19 | Main | Kaer Morhen |
No Place Like Home | 19 | Main | Kaer Morhen |
Va Fail, Elaine | 19 | Main | Kaer Morhen |
The Isle of Mists | 22 | Main | Skellige |
The Battle of Kaer Morhen | 22 | Main | Kaer Morhen |
Blood on the Battlefield | 20 | Main | Kaer Morhen |
Quest | Suggested Level | Quest Type | Location |
---|---|---|---|
Bald Mountain | 26 | Main | Bald Mountain |
Final Preparations | - | Main | Novigrad |
Blindingly Obvious | 28 | Main | Novigrad |
Reason of State | 30 | Secondary | Novigrad Docks, St. Gregory's Bridge, The Butcher's Yard theater |
The Great Escape | 28 | Main | Novigrad |
Payback | 28 | Main | Novigrad |
Through Time and Space | 26 | Main | Novigrad |
Battle Preparations | 28 | Main | Novigrad |
The Sunstone | 28 | Main | Skellige |
Veni Vidi Vigo | 28 | Main | Skellige |
Child of the Elder Blood | 31 | Main | Skellige |
Skjall's Grave | 28 | Main | Hindarsfjall |
On Thin Ice | 30 | Main | Undvik |
Tedd Deireadh, The Final Age | 30 | Main | Undvik |
Something Ends, Something Begins | 30 | Main | White Orchard or Velen |
Witcher 3 Quests | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Prologue | |||||
Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | |||
Secondary Quests | Treasure Hunts | Contracts | |||
DLC Quests | |||||
Hearts of Stone | Blood and Wine |
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