It has the the third highest base damage bonus of all steel swords, and will serve even as a decent enough end-game weapon if one misses the other ones. One piece will be given by Vesemir if you choose to battle the frightener, and then in Chapter I another can be looted from the remains of Leo's ghost during the "Dead Hand of the Past" quest, and a third can be found in Ozzrel's crypt. On the other hand, you can get one of the best steel swords, the red meteorite one, ridiculously early in the game if you play your cards right. Runes will be more plentiful in Ch.4 and other, more potent combinations become available, but yeah, upgrading then will warm the heart barely five minutes, since Aerondight is right behind the corner and impossible to miss. Out of all the chest armor in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one from the witcher School of the Manticore is arguably the best in the game.Along with the matching boots, gauntlets, trousers, and swords.
You get one Earth rune from Zoltan in Ch.2 as you progress through "The Memory of a Blade" quest, another can be picked as a reward from the Ch.3 fistfighting champion, and Thaler's shop inventory contains one sun rune.Īnd despite being the only rune combination you can etch into the sword before Chapter IV, it's actually worth doing it. It's actually possible to upgrade the silver sword relatively early in Chapter III.