r/Witcher3 • u/allthebuttons • 23h ago

Lost money selling upgraded runes/glyphs

What am I doing wrong? I took all my lesser runes and upgraded them to the greater variety. I bought recipes from the peller, had Yoana do the upgrades and was going to sell to Hattie after comparing prices of all the high level merchants he would pay the most.

The cost of upgrading all the glyphs was a little over $96k. I added up how much Hattori would buy them for and it was $69k.

I had read this was how people made lots of money. Am I doing something wrong? Has it been nerfed?

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u/Zyqlone 20h ago

Sell all the runes you find as is, without paying to upgrade them. Clearly that's going to make you money as there's no investment from you.

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u/Mrtom987 Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon 22h ago

You spent money on useless shit. You didn't have to convert all lesser/normal to higher.

Just sell for now. Loot Skellige barrels if you haven't done already to recover.

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u/allthebuttons 22h ago

I obviously saved before doing it in case I needed to revert. I had read on here that was a way to make a lot of coin. So is that wrong? Was it nerfed? That was my question

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u/Mrtom987 Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon 21h ago

Nothing was nerfed. You farm hides and sell in the beginning then in BaW you can farm weapons and armour in Hanse Base and sell and also loot and sell Skellige barrel contents plus loot houses and people you killed to gain money. That's it. Sell stuff either in Novigrad or Toussaint.

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u/iLLa_SkriLLa Team Yennefer "Man of Culture" 9h ago

This is the route. I started pig farming. Hoarded everything else. As i had absurd amounts of crafting and alchemy, i sold some of that. I only sold what i needed until Toussaint. Then sold swords and armor. Hanse base is a great farm but, i can prob gain close to it pig farming. Its just boring.

By the time i got to runewright and corvo bianco. I had enough to fund those and my 3 main master gear sets. After that, i did skillege question marks. I farmed hanse base a few times and had enough for all gm sets.

All in all, i think you prob need about 250-300k to fund everything for 1st play through. At higher levels, money is much easier to come by.

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u/manfreygordon 14h ago

Yeah, not sure if you were misinformed or misunderstood something but you've never been to make money this way. Sometimes even if you want to actually use a rune it's cheaper to buy it rather than craft. 

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u/Islander316 13h ago

You will always sell at a significant loss.

So upgrading actually causes you to lose more.

Just sell as it is.