It probably helped with my Death March run – playing NG+. It just gives you a load of items to start out with, and gets you going quicker. Apart from the level cap, there’s nothing bad I can say about NG+. I played NG+ on Death March difficulty to get the Walked the Path achievement and enjoyed every minute of it. It’s debatable whether the new Grandmaster Legendary armours look any different to the previous best armours, but the numbers they show in their statistics are pretty startling. The actual difficulty level chooser decides that.

New Game Plus doesn’t affect the game’s difficulty in any way. There is no NG++… Once you’ve completed NG+ you can either start afresh or replay NG+ with an old saved game. So you’ve basically got fifty levels each to play two games of The Witcher 3 – one set of 50 for a fresh start, and one set of 50 for New Game Plus. You don’t earn experience any more after reaching level 100, and items that did level up with you now stop doing that.

Anything above that just doesn’t get any higher. The downside, though, is that the absolute level cap is 100. New items are scaled to your level, and new Witcher items (like the Grandmaster Legendary items) are introduced to the game as you progress, allowing new weapons and armour to be crafted in line with the higher level numbers. It must be noted, however, that the game does prevent you from getting too ahead of yourself by requiring you be a particular level before you can craft new items. Pretty much all weapons, armour, horse equipment, potions, oils, Runestones, Glyphs, and crafting items are kept and carried over in NG+, making it easier for you to get straight into crafting and combat. So if you were level 50 then you’d start NG+ on level 50.

You also get to start NG+ at the level you ended the last game on. You get to keep pretty much everything that wasn’t a quest item. The New Game Plus ( NG+) option of The Witcher 3 allows you to load a saved game you made at the end of your first playthrough, and carry over all the items that were in your stash, and that you were wearing, into your new game.

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