If you love the card game Gwent in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as much as we do, you will definitely register for the big Gwent tournament in Novigrad sooner or later. We will guide you step by step through the associated quest “High Stakes” and give you tips and strategies for the individual opponents.
High Stakes Solution
If you want to play Gwent successfully in the long term, you have to use every opportunity for a gamethat is offered to you. After all, practice makes perfect and every defeated opponent gives you one of their cards for victory.
This is how you improve your deck and can finally register for the big Gwent tournament in Novigrad, which you can do via the “High stakes” quest at the Billboard in the center of the city starts. We give you a detailed walkthrough through the tough games.
Preparations for the Gwent tournament
Before you can even consider registering for the Gwent tournament, you have to have a good enough deck. Otherwise you won’t be admitted at all and the clerk for the tournament, who is in the Passiflora brothel, will quickly send you away again. For optimal preparation, you should cross the following points off your checklist:
- Collect cards from merchants and tavern keepers: Play a game of Gwent against each merchant, tavern keeper and blacksmith. If you win, you get another card for your deck and can also buy additional cards from tavern keepers. This way you will have a large pool to draw from.
- Complete as many Gwent quests as possible: You get the really good cards through the Gwent quests, which send you to special characters all over Velen, Novigrad and Skellige. These are particularly good players or important supporting characters such as Zoltan Chivay, Vernon Roche or Delphinium. For a win against them you often even get a hero card. If you want to register for the tournament, there should be at least five heroes in your deck.
- Internalize strategies and advantages and disadvantages of the factions: Each faction in Gwent plays a little differently. The Northern Kingdoms and the Nilfgaard Empire are quite balanced, use spies and feints and are present on every battle line. Monsters, on the other hand, are strongly focused on close combat and pose a danger, especially with muster cards. The Scoia’tael, on the other hand, are very flexible and can adapt well to any combat situation. In our Gwent tips we give you all the information with card explanations and advanced strategies that you should master before the tournament starts.
High stakes: The Gwent tournament begins
If the tournament writer thinks your deck is good enough, all you have to do is 1000 crowns in starting capital muster up and the tournament can finally start. If you have money problems, we’ll show you how you can make money quickly. After the tournament has started, you are not allowed to leave the Passiflora, otherwise the quest will be considered failed. In a cutscene, the participants of the tournament are introduced and the first pairings are announced. During the tournament you will face the following opponents:
- Bernard Tulle: Northern Kingdoms
- Sasha aka Cantarella: Empire of Nilfgaard
- Finneas: Scoia’tael
- Count Tybalt: Monster
Gwent game against Bernard Tulle
The supposedly friendly one Halfling Bernard Tulle just play for the fun of it and kick yourself with the Northern Kingdoms Faction in contrast to. In addition to a hero card from Geralt of Rivia +15 to Strength score he still has a few spies up his sleeve. It’s best to also bring spy and feint cards into play and grab his spies so that you can use them directly against him again. Otherwise, this first opponent shouldn’t be too big of a hurdle. Below you can see a video on how to proceed in the game.
» Watch video: The Witcher 3: Gwent game against Bernard Tulle
Gwent game against Sasha aka Cantarella
Sashawhich will appear to you later than Nilfgaardian spy Cantarella As can be seen, she is probably the toughest opponent in the tournament, who will make your life difficult with the Nilfgaard Empire. Her pool of spy and feint cards seems to be inexhaustible and she will always try to keep the upper hand of cards in the game against you.
Therefore, you should also play with Nilfgaard or the Northern Kingdoms and at least two spies and feints each put in your deck of cards. It’s best to throw out the other special cards so that you increase your chances of drawing the cards you want. The map Commander’s horn is also very useful in this fight and therefore has a close match in the last round of the match shown below 206 to 203 decided in our favor.
» Watch video: The Witcher 3: Gwent game against Sasha
By the way, if you accept their offer to share the winnings in the event of a victory on your part before the game, you can do so on End of quest unlock a sex scene with her.
Gwent game against Finneas
After the game against Sasha, this match is against Finneas a lot easier. The arrogant elf only makes big noises and wants you with him Scoia’tael faction turn off. In case of problems, keep the weather card Bitter Cold on hand, as Finneas has some muster cards in his deck.
Otherwise, he plays so aggressively that in our recorded game he didn’t have any more cards to play in the last round, which resulted in an easy win for us. After the game, Finneas shows himself to be a bad loser and challenges you to a fight. So get ready for a fist fight.
» Watch video: The Witcher 3: Gwent game against Finneas
Tournament final against Count Tybalt
In the grand finale he will face you Tournament organizer Count Tybalt personally. This one leads the Monster faction on the battlefield, so keep the weather card Chilling Cold in hand so that you can take out his strong melee line at any time. He also has several hero cards. In the video below you can see how we were finally able to defeat him with the Nilfgaard Empire.
» Watch video: The Witcher 3: Gwent game against Count Tybalt
Quest completion and reward
Unfortunately, after the last game you can’t be happy about your win because it was stolen and of course you have to get to the bottom of the matter. Together with Cantarella you set off Search for clues with your witcher senseswhich will ultimately lead you to a remote warehouse. Bernard Tulle awaits you here, who turns out to be the mastermind behind the robbery.
Together with Cantarella you fight against Tulle and his people and after the victory you finally divide the loot of 9000 crowns between the two of them 4500 crowns to Geralt’s account. If you agree to Cantarella’s suggestion at the final candlelight dinner, you can also look forward to another bed adventure.
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