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Griffin Steel Sword - Enhanced


Griffin Steel Sword - Enhanced
Griffin Steel Sword - Enhanced
Type Steel Sword
Rarity

Witcher Gear

Level 18
Damage

169-207

Effects
Slots 2
School Griffin
Tier Enhanced
DLC Base game
Crafting

Journeyman blacksmith

Griffin Steel Sword - Enhanced is the Enhanced tier of the Griffin School steel sword, witcher gear from the base game. It deals 169-207 damage at level 18 and gives +10% sign intensity. Its diagram lies near the bandit camp southwest of the Refugees' Camp in Velen. It is a mid-game steel sword.

The sign intensity suits a signs build. It also gives +5% bonus experience from humans and nonhumans and has 2 rune slots.

As a Griffin piece it belongs to a set whose bonuses reward sign casting and Yrden.

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. 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/s, sign intensity by 100% and damage taken drops by 20%. These bonuses come from Grandmaster pieces worn as a set.

How to Get Griffin Steel Sword - Enhanced


Griffin Steel Sword - Enhanced Map Location and Quest Guide


The pin marks a pirate camp in ruins on a peninsula southwest of the Refugees' Camp in Velen. The Griffin Steel Sword - Enhanced diagram sits in a chest up a small flight of stairs inside the ruins. It turns up during Scavenger Hunt: Griffin School Gear Upgrade Diagrams - Part 1, and a journeyman blacksmith crafts the sword from it.

  1. Start Scavenger Hunt: Griffin School Gear Upgrade Diagrams - Part 1 by finding any of its diagrams, or by buying Edwin Greloff's first map from the armorer in Midcopse.
  2. Go to the pirate camp on the peninsula southwest of the Refugees' Camp.
  3. Kill the pirates that guard the ruins.
  4. Climb the small flight of stairs inside the ruins.
  5. Loot the chest at the top for the steel sword diagram.

Map credit by Map Genie.

Notes


In NG+ the diagram makes Legendary Griffin Steel Sword - Enhanced instead. It needs level 18 plus the NG+ starting level, deals 176.8-215.8 damage at level 19, has 3 rune slots and gives +22% sign intensity, +25% crit damage and +5% crit chance.


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