Anezka


Anezka sells a lot of extremely useful alchemy formulas, as well as a few very rare alchemy items. In particular, she sells the endrega teeth that you need to amass 15 of in order to craft the jagged blade. While it’s possible to grind endregas until you get 15 teeth, this demands a lot of patience. If you get tired of grinding, you can just buy endrega teeth from Anezka every time she restocks.

Poker Face: Flotsam

Once you’ve gotten a feel for Flotsam, looted to your heart’s content, and maybe done some shopping, you can get back to questing. You can do many of the side quests for this chapter in any order, so if you want to skip around, feel free. The main thing is that you have to do these side quests while you’re in Flotsam. At the end of the chapter, events cause you to leave the city, and you will never return. Likewise, certain story decisions in main quests may cause quest-necessary NPCs to becomeunavailable. The walkthrough will try to point this out whenever possible.

For our purposes, we’ll begin the side quests by doing the mini-game related ones. This should let Geralt begin building up a store of cash he can spend on the diagram for the jagged blade and any other formulas and diagrams that seem useful to you. The easiest of the mini-game side quests is the one for dice poker, so we’ll do this one first.

To initiate this quest, head to the bottom floor of the Flotsam inn. Look for a trio of men named Casimir, Bendeck, and Zindrab. You must first defeat Casimir and Bendeck, which gains you the right to play Zindrab. After you defeat Zindrab, head to Einar Gausel’s shop in the Nonhuman District. Einar will agree to play you there only after you’ve defeated Zindrab. Once you’ve defeated Einar, go to Sendler’s shop in Lobinden and challenge him.

Once you’ve defeated Sendler, you’ve cleared the quest (and probably earned a couple hundred orens). You automatically get the orens you won in your last bet. After that, a dialogue begins where you can take either an extra 150 orens from Sendler or ask him for a diagram for one of three types of traps. You can ask him for the diagram for making conflagration (“an explosive trap”), clawer (“steel jaws”), or Talgar winter (“freezing trap”). Take the Talgar winter.

Because you are fundamentally playing a dice game, there is a strong element of luck to how this quest resolves. You can play any dice poker opponent as many times as you like, but you have to wager orens each time. A losing streak in dice poker can end up costing you quite a bit of money. You may want to save before challenging each of the quest’s opponents, so you can simply reload if you happen to lose.