Griffin Armor
| Griffin Armor | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Chest Armor, Medium |
| Rarity | |
| Level | 11 |
| Armor |
90 |
| Effects |
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| Slots | - |
| School | Griffin |
| Tier | Basic |
| DLC | Base game |
| Crafting |
Journeyman armorer
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Griffin Armor is the Basic tier of the Griffin (Griffin School) chest armor, medium witcher gear from the base game. It gives 90 armor and +5% sign intensity at level 11. Its diagram is next to George's tomb in Dragonslayer's Grotto in Velen. It is an early-game chest.
It also gives +5% piercing, +5% bludgeoning, +10% slashing and +12% monster resistance. Griffin gear leans on sign intensity, and the set bonuses reward casting signs, so it suits a signs build.
As medium armor, it fits between light and heavy: a balance of protection and stamina regeneration.
Set Bonus
The Griffin set is medium armor. It has five tiers: Basic at level 11, Enhanced at 18, Superior at 26, Mastercrafted at 34 and Grandmaster at 40. The 3-piece and 6-piece bonuses come from Grandmaster pieces worn as a school set. 3 pieces: after a sign cast in standard mode with stamina, the next sign cast within 3 seconds costs no stamina. 6 pieces: Yrden traps are 40% larger, and inside the trap stamina regeneration rises by 5 per second, sign intensity rises by 100% and damage taken drops by 20%.
How to Get Griffin Armor
- Start Scavenger Hunt: Griffin School Gear. Edwin Greloff, the armorer in Midcopse, sells the first and second maps. The diagram can also be collected without the quest.
- Go to Dragonslayer's Grotto and take the diagram next to George's tomb, with the gauntlets, trousers and boots diagrams.
- A journeyman armorer crafts it.
Griffin Armor Map Location and Quest Guide
The Griffin Armor diagram sits in a chest at the far end of Dragonslayer's Grotto in Velen, the final resting place of the witcher George. The pin marks the grotto, the armor stop of Scavenger Hunt: Griffin School Gear. The same chest holds the boots, gauntlets and trousers diagrams and Witcher George's journal.
- Buy Edwin Greloff's first or second map from the armorer in Midcopse to start Scavenger Hunt: Griffin School Gear. Finding any of the diagrams also starts it.
- Go to Dragonslayer's Grotto, drop down into the area and enter the cave.
- Kill the wraiths and head down the main hall.
- Blast the weak wall with Aard and kill the wraith behind it.
- Clear the toxic gas clouds in the tunnel with Igni or Aard, and fight any wraiths on the way.
- Prepare for a fight, then blast the rocks at the end of the tunnel. An ekimmara waits behind them.
- Kill the ekimmara and loot the chest with the glowing lights for the Griffin Armor diagram.
Map credit by Map Genie.
Notes
In NG+ the diagram makes Legendary Griffin Armor instead. It needs level 11 plus the NG+ starting level and gives 95 armor at level 12 (+5 per level), with +22% sign intensity and +26% monster resistance.
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