Foraging for materials is one of the most important things players can do inThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, as these items can be turned into potions, bombs, and oils, and these items give the player a massive advantage in boss battles and monster contracts. For example, Black Blood is excellent for fighting vampires, as it causes that type of monster to bleed when they get near Geralt. However, there’s one material that the best concoctions in the game use, but the catch is that it’s one of the most difficult ones to acquire.
Having the right materials is half the battle when crafting alchemical items inThe Witcher 3. Players will need to acquire formulas to craft potions, bombs, and oils. These can be found through scrolls or even just conversations with NPCs. Players can find scrolls in treasure chests and books for free, but they can also buy them from merchants. One might find that after gathering formulas for powerful concoctions like Superior Full Moon and Superior White Raffard’s Decoction, there’s one item that’s either missing or limited in quantity: the White Gull.
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Why the White Gull is One of the Best Items in The Witcher 3
The White Gull is an alchemy ingredient that’s essential for crafting all superior potions in the game. These potions are great for late-game contracts and boss fights, where the enemies hit harder and have higher HP. Regular potions just won’t do against juggernauts likeThe Witcher 3’s Imlerith and Eredin.
The White Gull is also needed to create other alchemy ingredients like Aether and Albedo. The former is essential for creating superior versions of oils like Ogroid Oil and bombs like Samum and Dragon’s Dream. The latter is used in crafting superior oils against Hybrids, Elementa, and Draconids, whereas Albedo is also essential in creating a superiorUrsine silver sword inThe Witcher 3. As such, the White Gull is one of the essential items players need to learn how to create and acquire.
Acquiring The White Gull in The Witcher 3 isn’t Easy, but It’s Worth It
While it is hard to find the right materials for the White Gull, at least it’s easy to find its manuscript, as players can get it from an NPC named Tomira, who lives near the sawmill. They may have encountered her already if they took on thecontract to kill White Orchard’s Griffin. Still, one can also get the manuscript from other alchemists, like Keira Metz in Velen and Gremist in Skellige.
Once the player acquires and reads the manuscript, they can then focus on finding the items needed tocraft The White Gull. For this, one will need one of each of these items: Empty Bottle, Cherry Cordial, Arenaria, and Redanian Herbal. If the player is lucky, they may have already picked up the items from looting barrels and chests, as well as foraging in the wild. If this isn’t the case, players can try their luck with merchants and herbalists.
Empty bottles can be bought from Bram or Tomira in The White Orchard. As for the drinks like Redanian Herbal, Cherry Cordial, and Mandrake Cordial, the player can acquire them from Elsa at The White Orchard Inn or the other innkeepers across the continent. Fortunately, one doesn’t have to spend money to get the Arenaria, as these can be harvested from the White Orchard’s crop fields.
These tasks may seem easy enough, but the costs and effort add up over time, considering one needs over 43 White Gulls to craft all the superior items in the game. However, all the grinding will be worth it when players are shredding through themost difficult boss fights inThe Witcher 3with their souped-up Geralt.
The Witcher 3: Wild Huntis available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
