While you were taken in as a child and prepared your entire life to fight various types of monsters, that doesn’t mean your raw strength and elevated senses will always be enough.
A large part of being a Witcher is your superior knowledge of the enemy, and most of the time, preparation is key.
Having the right oils, weapons, and even armor play a huge role in how each battle turns out.
With that said, I’m here to help you prepare a bit better. And that’s by taking things beyond vanilla!
Here are some of the best armor mods you can add onto Witcher 3.
Before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s take a look at the first armor sets you’re going to come across in your new Witcher 3 playthrough – The Griffin School Witcher Gear.
As a set that you’ll likely complete during the early stages of the game, it doesn’t really do a good job in terms of getting you excited about other armor sets out there.
The armor looks pretty plain. And many have complained that it makes Geralt look quite bloated due to its shape.
Well modder Rustine Holgar96 took it upon himself to fix that, giving the Griffin set a fresh new look.
The set now looks much slimmer on Geralt, instead of making him look like “a giant lightbulb” (as the modder himself put it).
In a brand new save of Witcher 3, you usually start off with the Kaer Morhen armor set.
While the Kaer Morhen set is pretty basic compared to mostly everything else you’ll find throughout your game, many people prefer to keep in due to its iconic look.
This becomes more and more difficult as you progress through the game, as the most you can get out of the Kaer Morhen armor is to use it to craft the Warrior’s Leather Jacket set.
While the Warrior’s Leather Jacket set does have improved stats, it’s still hardly a good option towards the end game.
This mod fixes all of that. It allows you to take it all the way to the end – by replacing the Warrior’s Leather Jacket stats with those of the Mastercrafted Wolf Gear.
17. Leveling Kaer Morhen Armor and Warriors Leather Jacket
If you’re looking for a more natural way to make the Kaer Morhen set a viable end game option, you might want to consider this mod by Mikenekro.
This updates the game so that both the Kaer Morhen and Warrior’s Leather Jacket sets act like other armor sets, wherein they level up as Geralt’s skills progress.
This basically means the armor sets will improve along with Geralt as you get stronger, making them much more useful long-term.
As with any game, much of the initial concept art for Witcher 3 have seen changes upon release.
This always disappoints some fans, as the hype surrounding the initial announcements of any game is always what they expect to see in the final result.
The same was the case for modder Rustine, as he preferred the 2014 concept art versions of some of the armor sets in the game.
He brings them back with this mod, specifically changing the appearance of the Bear armor to match the original concept art version.
Changes from initial concepts to final launch versions has come to be expected in video games.
But making visual changes through post-launch patches just doesn’t always work out.
While patch 1.2 did include a lot of great updates and new content for the game accompanying the Blood and Wine DLC, many fans weren’t pleased by how the patch made the armor sets look shiny and new.
Most preferred the worn dirty look of the armor sets pre-patch… and who else but modder Rustine is back to save the day.
The mod brings back the grittier appearance of all armor sets from before patch 1.2, so Geralt can always wear the scars he’s earned from each battle.
This particular mod is actually more of a bonus, as it makes changes to two armor sets instead of just one.
To start off, the mod makes some minor visual changes to the Grandmaster Manticore armor, as modder monochrony didn’t like the chain mail chest piece that came with the upgrade.
The leveled armor now features the same chest piece as the standard version.
But the second armor set included with this mod is the Grandmaster Feline armor.
Many fans disliked how the Grandmaster Feline armor featured Geralt’s face covered in a hood, so monochrony changed that by adding the option to wear the hood permanently down. Simple, but captivating.
I’ll go ahead and consider this next mod a bonus as well.
While it does only affect one specific armor set, it gives you a total of 9 different variations for the Royal Undvik armor set.
The options include color variants that better reflect each of the different clans of Skellige, with green highlights for the Tordarroch, blue for Tuirseach, purple for Drummond, and so on.
The mod even includes additional features that allow you to change the appearance of the steel pieces, as well as to completely remove the fur from the armor.
While most modders tend to alter armor sets to make them more visually appealing, other are more creative.
They provide completely new armor options that aren’t included in the game, nor any of the DLC’s. That’s what we’re going for here.
The Viking and Knight mod comes complete with helmets, bears, swords, shields, and even face paint to dress Geralt either as a Viking or a knight with.
Just take a look at the previews to see how cool they look. I’m sure you’re going to end up wanting them for yourself.
Another unique option is this Vagabond Armor by CraniumJ.
The armor takes Dettlaff’s coat as a base and adds relevant Witcher items to make it much more useful in your journeys.
It has Geralt looking more badass than ever in a trench coat, which was originally worn by a vampire I might add.
The armor, being a completely unique medium item, has 15% sign intensity and adrenaline point gain bonuses, 25% bludgeoning resistance, and 30% slashing resistance among others.
As 4Strings’ Roaming Witcher’s Armor set grew in popularity, he just had to come back to give us more.
Three whole years after the initial mod, he now gives us The Butcher of Blaviken armor set.
This mod is considered to be a sequel to the Roaming Witcher’s Armor mod, improving on almost every aspect to make it run smoother with the rest of the game.
The new mod only comes with one set.
But it’s a complete one that includes armor, trousers, boots, gloves, and both a steel and a silver sword.
Stats of the set have been improved as well, and they can be found somewhere between their superior and mastercrafted counterparts.
These next few are just fun armor mods that will probably make for a good laugh!
I just had to include these next two because come on, who doesn’t love Metal Gear Solid?
Well fine, you might not LOVE it, but I’m sure you’re at least familiar with it.
This mod simply allows Geralt to wear Snake’s eyepatch as seen in the Metal Gear games. Just give it a try and you may be surprised at how much Geralt can actually look like Snake.
Now here we have another fun armor set from who else but NevilleZhu (this guy’s prolific).
The mod simply allows you to play the game as Deadpool – appearing exactly as he does with the film.
You might notice that he still wears the Witcher medallion even while dressed as Deadpool, so changing your attire apparently doesn’t make you any less legit.
