The Best Armor in Witcher 3 Including DLC

Apparently, there is a fair amount of complexity to Witcher armor and gear sets. So, here we are going to share information about the best armor in Witcher 3. Make sure that you will read this article until end.

The Best Armor in The Witcher 3

Please take a look at a list for the best Witcher armor and gear sets in the game of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. For each set, we have also revealed the Scavenger Hunt locations and suggested levels, as well as all of the equipment contained within that set.

Cat/Feline Gear Set

• • The types of Equipment:: All Armor, Steel Sword, Silver Sword, and Crossbow
  • Basic Diagram Locations: Velen or Novigrad (Suggested Level: 17)
  • Enhanced Diagram Locations: Velen or Novigrad (Suggested Level: 23)
  • Superior Diagram Locations: Velen or Novigrad (Suggested Level: 29)
  • Mastercrafted Diagram Locations: Skellige (Suggested Level: 34)
  • Grandmaster Diagram Locations: Toussaint (Suggested Level: 40)

Some people suggest that you have to avoid the Feline Gear Set unless you are a seasoned Witcher 3 veteran, but we say the benefits are too good to ignore for any player, even those just starting out.

The only downside to this Cat/Feline gear set is the fact that light armor will not absorb as much damage as medium or heavy armor. Otherwise, this set will give you a delightful boost to attack power and critical hit chance, also an opportunity to cause bleeding with each hit thanks to your two swords.

Wolf/Wolven Gear Set

• • Types of Equipment: All Armor, Steel Sword, and Silver Sword
  • Basic Diagram Locations: Kaer Morhen (Suggested Level: 14)
  • Enhanced Diagram Locations: Velen or Novigrad (Suggested Level: 21)
  • Superior Diagram Locations: Skellige (Suggested Level: 29)
  • Mastercrafted Diagram Locations: Velen or Novigrad (Suggested Level: 34)
  • Grandmaster Diagram Locations: Toussaint (Suggested Level: 40)

The witcher gear set only available after you have already downloaded the associated free DLC, this Wolven Gear Set is a set of medium armor and swords that gives the players a jack-of-all-trades choice regarding their equipment choices.

This wolf/wolven set will increase your attack power, adrenaline point gain, and also sign intensity all at the same time. However, it will not be able to reach the heights in any one category set by the other more focused gear sets. The versatility of the Wolf armor and weaponry means that it is a firm contender for the best gear set in the game of Withcer 3 for first-time players.

Bear/Ursine Gear Set

• • Types of Equipment: All Armor, Steel Sword, Crossbow and Silver Sword
  • The locations of Basic Diagram: Skellige, (Suggested Level: 20)
  • The locations of Enhanced Diagram: Skellige (Suggested Level: 25)
  • The locations of Superior Diagram: Velen or Novigrad (Suggested Level: 30)
  • The locations of Mastercrafted Diagram: Velen or Novigrad (Suggested Level: 34)
  • The locations of Grandmaster Diagram: Toussaint (Suggested Level: 40)

This is the ultimate gear set for tanks and turtlers on the game. Bear/Ursine Heavy Armor set is unmatched in its ability to soak up damage. It not only giving excellent armor stats and resistance bonuses across the board, but also giving you an incredible strong bonus to your Quen sign usage if you upgrade it all the way. Aside from that, it also give some strong Adrenaline Point bonuses with each piece you equip. This gear set will enable you to hit like a truck after you get stuck into the fight.

Manticore Gear Set

• • Types of Equipment Types: All Armor, Steel Sword, and Silver Sword
  • The locations of Grandmaster Diagram: Toussaint (Suggested Level: 40)

Need to know that Manticore gear set is only available in the Blood and Wine paid expansion. It features a set of medium armor and swords which can be discovered in Grandmaster variants. You have to reach Level 40 before you are able to make use of them.

Manticore Armor is about alchemy, improving your maximum toxicity and giving a bonus to alchemy charges and critical hit effects to your bombs if you equip the entire set. The swords are far more valuable, with each one possessing a +250 bonus to your Armor piercing, besides a strong critical hit damage boost and an opportunity to bleed. This is a powerful sword.

Griffin Gear Set

• • Types of equipment: All Armor, Steel Sword, and Silver Sword.
  • The locations of Basic Diagram: Velen or Novigrad (Suggested Level: 11)
  • The locations of Enhanced Diagram: Velen or Novigrad (Suggested Level: 18)
  • The locations of Superior Diagram: Skellige (Suggested Level: 26)
  • The locations of Mastercrafted Diagram: Skellige (Suggested Level: 34)
  • The locations of Grandmaster Diagram: Toussaint (Suggested Level: 40)

Griffin Gear is the first main set of the witcher gear that you can get access once you enter Velen and Novigrad. The main perk of this set is a decent buff to sign intensity with each equipped piece.

Viper/Serpentine Gear Set

• • Types of Equipment: Silver Sword and Steel Sword (+ All Armor with Hearts of Stone DLC)
  • The locations of Basic Sword Diagram: White Orchard (Suggested Level: 6)
  • Venomous Silver Sword Associated Quest: “Whatsoever a Man Soweth” in Velen, (Suggested Level: 36)
  • All Other Gear Associated Quest: “Open Sesame!” in Velen, (Suggested Level: 34)

This Viper Gear Set is an interesting set in the game, as the swords are actually included in the base game. However, you will need the Hearts of Stone paid DLC to get access to the Viper armor set, as well as the late-game Venomous variants of both swords.

Thanks to their poison chance, the swords are very useful in the early game. While the armor’s claim to popular is a best resistance in its class to poisoning. That is on top of several decent elemental and monster resistances too. But, it is rather too niche a gear set to rank really high in our tier list.