Gwynbleidd
| Gwynbleidd | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Melee Weapon |
| Weapon | Sword |
| Tier | Iconic |
Gwynbleidd is a rune-marked Iconic sword that comes to Night City from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It is a reward for players who own both games, and it appears in V's stash for free. The sword is built around critical hits. After several quick kills, every attack becomes a guaranteed crit for a while. At critically low Health, every attack crits no matter what. It also deals extra damage to bosses, so a melee build has a reason to carry it into the biggest fights. Gwynbleidd is available as soon as V can reach the stash in the apartment, once the reward has been claimed.
Combat
Gwynbleidd swings like a long blade, with light attacks for pressure and strong attacks for big hits. Its special effect rewards fast kills. Once two or more enemies go down in quick succession, all of its attacks become guaranteed crits. Each further quick kill refreshes the effect. Against a pack of gang members, V can cut down the first two and then keep critting through the rest of the room.
The low-Health effect is a strong safety net. When V's Health is critically low, every swing crits even without kills. A desperate last stand therefore hits harder than a normal fight. The boss bonus also makes the sword a good boss killer. Against a single tough target, the kill bonus will not start. The boss bonus and a good crit build still provide the damage.
How to Get Gwynbleidd Guide
- Own The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Phantom Liberty.
- Link a GOG account through the My Rewards option in the main menu. On Steam, the GOG account must see The Witcher 3, and on console the CD PROJEKT RED account is linked instead.
- Load the game and open the stash in V's apartment.
- Take Gwynbleidd from the stash.
Gwynbleidd Map Location
Gwynbleidd map location:
Map credit by Map Genie.
Upgrades
The reward arrives in the stash. The first step is to move Gwynbleidd into V's inventory, where the crafting menu can see it. From there, the Upgrades tab raises the sword one tier at a time. Each tier costs crafting components, gathered from loot, from crafting and from breaking down spare gear.
The table shows what each tier step of Gwynbleidd costs.
| Upgrade | Components | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 to Tier 1+ | 75 Tier 1 components | - |
| Tier 1+ to Tier 2 | 40 components | - |
| Tier 2 to Tier 2+ | 75 Tier 2 components | - |
| Tier 2+ to Tier 3 | 40 components | - |
| Tier 3 to Tier 3+ | 75 Tier 3 components | - |
| Tier 3+ to Tier 4 | 40 components | - |
| Tier 4 to Tier 4+ | 75 Tier 4 components | - |
| Tier 4+ to Tier 5 | 40 components | - |
| Tier 5 to Tier 5+ | 75 Tier 5 components | - |
| Tier 5+ to Tier 5++ | 200 Tier 5 components | Phantom Liberty |
Character Builds
Blades use the Reflexes tree. Lead And Steel lowers the Stamina cost of blade attacks and lets V block bullets with the sword. Bullet Deflect then sends blocked bullets back where the crosshair points. Bullet Time makes those deflections free and turns them into crits while time is slowed. Flash And Thunderclap makes strong attacks leap to nearby enemies, which keeps the kills coming. Finisher: Bladerunner unlocks a blade finisher that restores Health. Flash Of Steel adds movement and attack speed after each finisher. Slaughterhouse makes every attack apply Bleeding.
While every attack is a guaranteed crit, extra crit chance adds nothing. Crit damage is the stat to raise. A Sandevistan adds crit damage while it is active and slows time for the next kill. Microrotors raise melee attack speed. Adrenaline Booster returns Stamina whenever a melee weapon finishes an enemy. A Berserk operating system also works well. It limits V to melee weapons and removes the Stamina cost of attacks while active.
Select a Build
Dashes carry the character behind enemy lines to cut groups apart with blades. Killing a weak enemy first turns on the Gwynbleidd's guaranteed crits for a stronger target. Finishers restore Stamina, and Countershell, NeoFiber and Spring Joints cut most incoming damage.
Attributes: Body 18, Reflexes 20, Technical Ability 20, Intelligence 3, Cool 20.
The perks, cyberware and weapon mods for this build are listed below.
| Name | Image | Level | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Painkiller | 
|
Body 4 | Slow Health regeneration in combat |
| Adrenaline Rush | 
|
Body 15 | More Health and the Adrenaline Rush mode |
| Juggernaut | 
|
Body 15 | More speed and damage during Adrenaline Rush |
| Calm Mind | 
|
Body 15 | Adrenaline lasts longer before it decays |
| Slippery | 
|
Reflexes 4 | Harder to hit while moving fast |
| Dash | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Unlocks the Dash and makes it cheaper |
| Mad Dash | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Double Dash range toward enemies |
| Lead And Steel | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Block bullets with Blades |
| Bullet Deflect | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Blocked bullets fly back at the aim point |
| Seeing Double | Reflexes 9 | Counterattacks hit harder and can stun | |
| Flash And Thunderclap | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Strong attacks leap to nearby enemies |
| Air Dash | 
|
Reflexes 15 | Dash in midair |
| Finisher: Bladerunner | 
|
Reflexes 15 | Faster Blade attacks and a Blade Finisher that heals |
| Flash Of Steel | 
|
Reflexes 15 | Faster movement and attacks after a Finisher |
| Opportunist | 
|
Reflexes 15 | Stunned, staggered and bleeding enemies are easier to finish |
| Going The Distance | 
|
Reflexes 15 | Double Finisher range |
| Slaughterhouse | Reflexes 20 | Every Blade hit applies Bleeding | |
| Tailwind | 
|
Reflexes 20 | Stamina back from Air Dashes and double jumps |
| Glutton For War | 
|
Technical Ability 4 | Kills recharge Health items and grenades |
| Health Freak | 
|
Technical Ability 9 | One more Health item charge and faster recharge |
| All Things Cyber | 
|
Technical Ability 9 | Stronger cyberware stats |
| License To Chrome | 
|
Technical Ability 15 | Stronger cyberware, more armor and a Skeleton slot |
| Edgerunner | Technical Ability 20 | Cyberware past the capacity limit for a small Health cost |
| Name | Image | Slot | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biomonitor | 
|
Circulatory System | Uses a Health item when Health runs low |
| ThreatEvac | 
|
Circulatory System | Faster movement at low Health |
| Newton Module | 
|
Frontal Cortex | Kills cut cyberware cooldowns |
| Stabber | 
|
Nervous System | More crit chance with Blades and throwables |
| NeoFiber | 
|
Nervous System | More Mitigation Chance and Strength |
| Militech Apogee Sandevistan | Operating System | Slows time by 85% with crit bonuses | |
| Dense Marrow | 
|
Skeleton | More melee damage |
The build fights up close with blades and Gorilla Arms. Berserk stays off until the character has taken damage and used a few Health items, then it makes the character invulnerable with no Stamina limit. A sprint into a group followed by a jump and Quake blasts every enemy nearby.
Attributes: Body 20, Reflexes 15, Technical Ability 20, Intelligence 3, Cool 15.
The perks, cyberware and weapon mods for this build are listed below.
| Name | Image | Level | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Painkiller |
|
Body 4 | Slow Health regeneration in combat |
| Dorph-Head | 
|
Body 4 | Brief full Mitigation after using a Health item |
| Comeback Kid | 
|
Body 4 | Faster Health regeneration at low Health |
| Wrecking Ball | 
|
Body 9 | Cheaper Blunt attacks and a sprint that knocks enemies down |
| Adrenaline Rush |
|
Body 15 | More Health and the Adrenaline Rush mode |
| Quake | 
|
Body 15 | Faster Blunt attacks and a ground slam that staggers |
| Epicenter | 
|
Body 15 | Quake from midair grows with the fall |
| Pain To Gain | 
|
Body 20 | Kills recharge Health items during Adrenaline Rush |
| Parkour! | 
|
Reflexes 4 | Faster climbing and vaulting |
| Dash |
|
Reflexes 9 | Unlocks the Dash and makes it cheaper |
| Can't Touch This | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Full Mitigation Chance while Dashing |
| Bullet Deflect |
|
Reflexes 9 | Blocked bullets fly back at the aim point |
| Flash And Thunderclap |
|
Reflexes 9 | Strong attacks leap to nearby enemies |
| Air Dash |
|
Reflexes 15 | Dash in midair |
| Finisher: Bladerunner |
|
Reflexes 15 | Faster Blade attacks and a Blade Finisher that heals |
| Opportunist |
|
Reflexes 15 | Stunned, staggered and bleeding enemies are easier to finish |
| Going The Distance |
|
Reflexes 15 | Double Finisher range |
| Vulnerability Analytics | 
|
Relic | Weak spots on enemies that always crit |
| Glutton For War |
|
Technical Ability 4 | Kills recharge Health items and grenades |
| All Things Cyber |
|
Technical Ability 9 | Stronger cyberware stats |
| Borrowed Time | 
|
Technical Ability 9 | A Health item refills after a kill at low Health |
| License To Chrome |
|
Technical Ability 15 | Stronger cyberware, more armor and a Skeleton slot |
| Extended Warranty | 
|
Technical Ability 15 | Cyberware effects last longer |
| Ambidextrous | 
|
Technical Ability 15 | A second Hands cyberware slot |
| Ticking Time Bomb | 
|
Technical Ability 20 | An EMP blast after the Operating System turns on |
| Edgerunner | Technical Ability 20 | Cyberware past the capacity limit for a small Health cost |
| Name | Image | Slot | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gorilla Arms | 
|
Arms | Hard hitting fists |
| Biomonitor |
|
Circulatory System | Uses a Health item when Health runs low |
| Blood Pump | 
|
Circulatory System | A Health item that heals over time |
| Isometric Stabilizer | 
|
Circulatory System | Cheaper attacks |
| Axolotl | 
|
Frontal Cortex | Kills cut all cyberware cooldowns |
| Quantum Tuner | 
|
Frontal Cortex | Resets a used cyberware cooldown |
| Countershell | 
|
Integumentary System | Mitigation after a burst of damage |
| Shock-N-Awe | 
|
Integumentary System | Chance of an electric blast when hit |
| Reinforced Tendons | 
|
Legs | Double jump |
| BioDyne Berserk Mk.4 | Operating System | Less damage taken and Health that stays above a quarter | |
| Epimorphic Skeleton | 
|
Skeleton | More max Health |
Lore
Gwynbleidd means White Wolf in the Elder Speech of the Witcher world. It is the name the elves gave Geralt of Rivia, the hero of The Witcher 3. The sword is a nod to CD PROJEKT RED's other big series. Its rune-covered blade looks like a witcher's weapon rather than a Night City katana. It arrives as one of several Witcher-themed rewards, alongside clothing such as the Wild Hunt jacket.
Notes
- Gwynbleidd is part of a set of Witcher-themed Phantom Liberty rewards.
Weapon Categories
All Melee Weapons
Every melee weapon is listed below. The Iconic weapons come first, then the standard ones.
Iconic Melee Weapons
| Name | Image | Weapon | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agaou | 
|
Axe | +125% | 25% | Dogtown |
| BFC 9000 | 
|
One-Handed Club | Rancho Coronado | ||
| Baby Boomer | 
|
Two-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Baseball Bat x-MOD2 | 
|
Two-Handed Club | Dogtown | ||
| Black Unicorn | 
|
Katana | 25% | ||
| Blue Fang | 
|
Knife | +150% | Badlands South | |
| Butcher's Cleaver | 
|
Knife | 25% | Coastview | |
| Byakko | 
|
Katana | 25% | Little China | |
| Caretaker's Spade | 
|
Hammer | 25% | Corpo Plaza | |
| Claw x-MOD2 | 
|
Axe | |||
| Cocktail Stick | 
|
Katana | 25% | Japantown | |
| Cottonmouth | 
|
One-Handed Club | 25% | Japantown | |
| Crowbar | 
|
One-Handed Club | |||
| Cut-o-Matic x-MOD2 | 
|
Chainsword | Dogtown | ||
| Errata | 
|
Katana | 25% | Arroyo | |
| Fang | 
|
Knife | +50% | ||
| Gold-Plated Baseball Bat | 
|
Two-Handed Club | 25% | North Oak | |
| Gwynbleidd | 
|
Sword | |||
| Headhunter | 
|
Knife | +150% | West Wind Estate | |
| Jinchu-Maru | 
|
Katana | 25% | Japantown | |
| Murphy's Law | 
|
One-handed Club | 50% | Dogtown | |
| Nehan | 
|
Knife | +150% | Arasaka Waterfront | |
| Sasquatch's Hammer | 
|
Hammer | 75% | Coastview | |
| Satori | 
|
Katana | 25% | Arasaka Waterfront | |
| Scalpel | 
|
Katana | 25% | Northside | |
| Sir John Phallustiff | 
|
Blunt | 25% | Kabuki | |
| Stinger | 
|
Knife | +150% | Badlands East | |
| Tinker Bell | 
|
One-Handed Club | 50% | Badlands East | |
| Tsumetogi | 
|
Katana | 25% | Japantown | |
| Volkodav | 
|
Machete | 25% | Dogtown |
Standard Melee Weapons
| Name | Image | Weapon | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseball Bat | 
|
Two-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Chef's Knife | 
|
Knife | +150% | ||
| Claw | 
|
Axe | +125% | 25% | |
| Cut-O-Matic | 
|
Chainsword | 50% | ||
| Electric Baton Alpha | 
|
One-Handed Club | Rancho Coronado | ||
| Electric Baton Beta | 
|
One-Handed Club | 50% | ||
| Electric Baton Gamma | 
|
One-Handed Club | 50% | ||
| Hammer | 
|
Hammer | 25% | ||
| Kaiken | 
|
Knife | +150% | ||
| Kanabo | 
|
Two-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Katana | 
|
Katana | 25% | ||
| Knife | 
|
Knife | +200% | ||
| Kukri | 
|
Machete | 25% | ||
| Machete | 
|
Machete | 25% | ||
| Neurotoxin Knife | 
|
Knife | +150% | ||
| Punknife | 
|
Knife | +150% | ||
| Razor | 
|
Machete | 25% | ||
| Steel Pipe | 
|
One-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Tire Iron | 
|
One-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Tomahawk | 
|
Axe | +125% | 25% |