How to Add Slots to Aerondight
To add slots to Aerondight, visit the Runewright NPC at the Upper Mill in northeastern Velen, where you can add up to three sockets to the sword at an increasing cost for each socket. This process allows you to enhance Aerondight with runes, significantly improving its performance and making it an even more formidable weapon in your arsenal.
Understanding Aerondight and Runes
Adding slots to Aerondight is a crucial step in maximizing its potential, as it enables the application of various runes that can boost its damage output, critical hit chance, and other attributes.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Can You Put Runewright on Aerondight?
Aerondight can indeed have sockets added to it by the Runewright in the Hearts of Stone expansion, contrary to some beliefs that it cannot be upgraded.
2. How Do You Permanently Increase Aerondight Damage?
To permanently increase Aerondight‘s damage, you need to build charges by hitting enemies without taking damage, and then kill an enemy with a full charge; this process can be facilitated by using Quen to block attacks and save charges.
3. What Makes Aerondight So OP?
Aerondight is considered overpowered because its damage increases by 10% with every successful hit, and once fully charged, it always critically hits enemies, leading to significantly higher damage output.
4. What Is the Max Level for Aerondight Sword?
The maximum potential level of Aerondight keeps increasing as you level up, capping out at your level 100, allowing the sword to remain viable throughout the game.
5. Can You Get Aerondight Without DLC?
Aerondight can only be obtained through the Blood and Wine DLC expansion, requiring players to complete a specific quest to acquire it.
6. Does Aerondight Have Rune Slots?
Initially, Aerondight comes with no slots, but up to three slots can be added by the Runewright, enabling the use of runes.
7. Should I Give the Runewright 10000?
Donating 10,000 Crowns to the Runewright allows him to craft better enchantments, which can be beneficial for upgrading your gear, including Aerondight.
8. Why Is Aerondight the Best Sword?
Aerondight is considered the best sword due to its ability to increase damage by 10% with each hit and critical hit when fully charged, along with the permanent damage increase after killing enemies with a full charge.
9. How Do You Upgrade Aerondight Sword?
Upgrading Aerondight involves using Whirl and Quen to build charges without taking damage, with Tawny Owl providing additional support, and killing enemies at full charge to increase its damage permanently.
10. What Kind of Sword Is Aerondight?
Aerondight is a unique silver sword introduced in The Witcher 3, particularly through the Blood and Wine expansion, making it one of the most useful and powerful weapons in the game.
11. What Is the Max Charge for Aerondight?
The maximum charge for Aerondight is 10 charges, at which point it deals double damage and always critical hits, significantly amplifying its damage output.
12. Where Is the Best Place to Farm Aerondight?
The best place to farm Aerondight is during the fight against the Wild Hunt on the ice fields, especially if you started with the Toussaint area first or are in New Game Plus, providing ample opportunity to level up the sword.
13. Is Aerondight Missable in Witcher 3?
Aerondight is indeed missable if you do not meet the specific requirements related to demonstrating certain virtues through your choices in quests within the Blood and Wine DLC.
14. What Is the Most OP Weapon in The Witcher 3?
Aerondight is widely regarded as the most overpowered weapon in The Witcher 3, given its unique ability to increase in power as you use it and its high critical hit rates when fully charged.
15. Does Aerondight Level Up in New Game Plus?
Aerondight levels up with you and maxes out at level 100, regardless of when you acquired it, making it a valuable asset in New Game Plus, as long as you continue to level it up by killing enemies with a full charge.