I'm a good way through chapter 2, and after the part of the quest to cross the fog, I appear to have stopped gaining XP. I tried reloading an earlier save, but the same thing happened again.

Anyone else have this issue?

Hi,

I had the same issue. Lucky me, I noticed it by chance early in chapter 2 while doing the side quest with Dandelion and the succubus (I've chosen Ioverth's path).

I was combatting a few wraiths and right after advanced to level 17 and went on. After finishing the quest (and more wraiths to get rid of) I checked my character stats and noticed I didn't gain a single one since becoming level 17.

Reloading various earlier saves didn't help at all, each time I got the same results: No xp gain as soon as I advanced to level 17. Annoying...

Finally I decided to try another quest. And everything is going fine so far. Maybe later today I'll try to start over the succubus quest to see whether this bug will occur again or not.

As you wrote, you're a good way through chapter 2. Did you find any workaround so far?

Sounds like a bug. :( It would be great if you drop a mail to CDP about this. They are working hard to remove bugs and a patch is planned like in a week or so.

Yeah, seems to be a bug. After all, the only one I've encountered so far!

I hope the succubus quest isn' t completely broken. So I'm going to give it another try today, but I informed CDP anyway...

And there I thought it was the developer's way of preventing folks from XP farming.

Interesting idea. But for doing a quest the first time?
I battled the wraiths hard, so I became more experienced for sure! ;-)

Going to areas again and again for the sole purpose of farming XP and not getting any? That would be fine by me...

He, he I did that a lot in The Witcher. Fighting tough monsters to gain extra XP. LOL :)

@MihailHornet: Yeah, I do remember, I did the same... ;-)

Liitle update:

I think geniusprime might be right. I tried again and didn't get any XP like last time. But outside the caves in this quest everything works flawlessly. Except for gaining any XP for fighting wraiths.

So, either I won't get any XP for battling wraiths no more and this is how it should work (for whatever reason) or it simply is a bug.

Depending on your level, you stop gaining XP for certain monsters. The Witcher 1 was like that too. In The Witcher 1, every level gained reduced the XP gained by killing a given monster by 5. I don't know how it works for The Witcher 2, but it seems to have a similar mechanic. For example, once you reach level 11, you stop getting any XP for Endregas. You still receive some for Nekkers and Drowners but only until you reach their limit.

After a while of XP farming, you stop getting anything from all of the common monsters and can only gain by progressing in the quests.

So the way to maximise your XP would be to kill monsters until you can't get any more, and only then do the quests. But that can get a bit boring. Generally, I stop monster grinding when I can only get XP from Nekker Warriors and Drowned Dead. They're so few that racking up 1000 points from just those two types of monsters will drive you nuts. But if you can do it, go for it. But it also means that many of the monsters in chapter 2 might not give you much XP either right from the start.

Caution: once when I tried to farm beyond the Nekker Warriors and Drowned Dead, I stopped being able to save games. The game would crash every time I tried. I don't know if it's a bug that corrupted that particular savegame or if it's something put into the game to prevent excessive farming, but be warned. I think there was something like that in The Witcher 1. My favourite XP grinding place in Chapter 2 in TW1 was the catacombs in the Vizima sewers where you could kill Graviers every time you stepped out and stepped back in. The moment you reached a certain level (forget which) the ragdoll animation of the dying Graviers would slow your game to maybe 4 or 5 frames per second, totally discouraging you of continuing to farm in there.

Could you be more specific? Have you stopped gaining experience from everything, including quests? Or are you just not gaining experience from killing monsters? If you are just not gaining anymore experience from killing monsters, that is not a glitch. It is a feature implemented by the developers. If you are not gaining experience from quests, then that is a very serious bug.

I think it unlikely he stopped gaining XP altogether, I think it even more unlikely he will reply almost a year after this thread was made ;)

I didn't notice. I was really tired when I read it and I just noticed that it had a recent response.