THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT
78 Achievements
I Wore Ofieri Before It Was Cool
Collect all available Ofieri armor and horse gear, and at least one Ofieri sword.
How to unlock the I Wore Ofieri Before It Was Cool achievement in THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT - Definitive Guide
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You can begin making progress on this achievement by speaking with the Ofieri Merchant located at the Upper Mill fast travel point in eastern Novigrad. Ask to take a peek at the man’s wares, and proceed to purchase the following items:
+ Decorated Saber - ~2500 crowns
+ Ofieri Blinders - 233 crowns
+ Ofieri Saddlebags - 233 crowns
Back out of his inventory menu and comment on his horse. This will spark conversation and lead to the opportunity of racing the Merchant. Do so, and if you win you will receive an Ofieri Saddle. Now speak with the Merchant again and exhaust all of the dialogue options until Geralt mentions that he can recover the Merchant’s lost diagram pages. This will initiate the “From Ofier’s Distant Shores” quest. Tackle this quest however you’d like (take note that three of the four diagrams are located at campsites that you will be looting for the Wild Rose Dethorned achievement) and once you have collected all four diagrams, return to the Merchant, meditate for 24 hours, and then collect your reward: translated diagrams for Ofieri Boots, Gauntles, a Tunic, and Trousers.
Now you will need to collect the necessary crafting materials before heading out to the Armorer in Crow's Perch to craft your four-piece gear set. Once it’s crafted, the achievement should unlock provided you have all 8 pieces of Ofieri Gear in the game.
4- crafted armor
3, horse items. 1 won in the race 2 bought
1 sword bought or crafted.
crossbow and tunic are not needed. Tunic may be a substitute for the crafted one.
So as of today there's another glitch with this achievement in the latest (and most probably last) version released. As you already know if you have read the other guides, at some point you got to find diagrams in order to craft 4 pieces of armor.
However many of us have come across a glitch that made one of the 4 diagrams unobtainable. Most of the time it's the one inside the chest of the bandits hideout which would just not be inside the chest, preventing you from looting it and crafting the corresponding piece of armor.
If you come across this glitch, well you will never be able to get the diagram on your current save. It means you'll have to create a new game in the "Hearts of Stone only" mode and do the quest all over again. Don't worry, it takes like 30 minutes so that's not too bad.
Respect this order to be sure not to glitch the quest one more time:
1) Create new game "Hearts of Stone only" // you can go on easy no problem
2) DON'T TALK TO THE OFIERI MERCHANT, directly go to the Zuetzer Castle and grab the first diagram there
3) Now follow the quest instructions: go and talk to the merchant and grab the remaining diagrams then talk to him to end the corresponding quest
4) After that, win a horse race against the merchant, and then buy everything ofieri-related he sells: the sword, the crossbow, the blinders, the tunic and the saddlebags // I think you don't need the tunic but who cares you have more than enough money for that and the crafting, and that's just a quick run to get this achievement anyway
4) Do the Master Armorers quest in Crow's Perch so that Yoana can craft the pieces of armor from the diagrams
Achievement should pop right after that as expected.
Actually the only very important step you gotta do is to directly and find a diagram BEFORE talking to the merchant. Other than that you just have to follow the normal procedure.
I'm not sure this solution will ever help someone, but after long googling to find a solution for this glitch, I found that many people had and still have this issue so here you go, and good luck on your path as they say
Anyway, I'm glad it could help someone.
Information provided by GamePressure (http://guides.gamepressure.com/thewitcher3/guide.asp?ID=3171...), thanks to Hirogen D for pointing it out.
The information is not 100% but knowing CD Projekt Reds previous issue with the Gwent Achievement, I'm sure we can expect a fix for this Achievement in the next Patch.
Unfortunately that's not a officially statement from CD Projekt Red himself :(
Update: it works
~ Decorated Saber - ~2500 crowns
~ Ofieri Blinders - 233 crowns
~ Ofieri Saddlebags - 233 crowns
Back out of his inventory menu and comment on his horse. This will start a conversation which leads to racing him. If you win the race, you will receive an Ofieri Saddle. Now speak with the Merchant again and exhaust all of the dialogue options until Geralt mentions that he can recover the Merchant’s lost diagram pages. This will start the “From Ofier’s Distant Shores” quest. You may do the quest however you want but three of the four diagrams are located at campsites that you will be looting for the Wild Rose Dethorned achievement. Once you have collected all four diagrams, return to the Merchant, meditate for 24 hours and then collect the diagrams for the other pieces. Once you have crafted the items, your set will be finished and the achievement should pop. Here is a video to aid you:
**Glitched**
If it glitches on you, the best known method is to start the DLC as a standalone and do not talk to the Ofieri merchant. Instead, go and get the diagram from the Zuetzer Castle and then follow the quest until completion.
You can collect the Ofieri armor set during the quest "From Ofieri's Distant Shores", which will have you find the four diagrams that you will need to have translated by an Ofieri merchant in Upper Mill. You can also buy a sword from the same merchant or a diagram for the sword along with the Crossbow. The horse saddle can be won by racing the Ofieri merchant and the horse blinders and saddlebags can be bought from his shop.
You will need to craft the armor, which the female armorer in Crow's Perch is the only one who is able to do so, and the elf blacksmith in Novigrad can forge the sword if needed. Once you have all the physical items, the trophy will unlock.
You can begin making progress on this achievement by speaking with the Ofieri Merchant located at the Upper Hill fast travel point in eastern Novigrad. Ask to take a peek at the man’s wares, and proceed to purchase the following items (the Tunic and Crossbow are not needed):
- Decorated Saber - ~2500 crowns
- Ofieri Blinders - 233 crowns
- Ofieri Saddlebags - 233 crowns
Back out of his inventory menu and comment on his horse. This will spark conversation and lead to the opportunity of racing the Merchant. Do so, and if you win you will receive an Ofieri Saddle. Now speak with the Merchant again and exhaust all of the dialogue options until Geralt mentions that he can recover the Merchant’s lost diagram pages. This will initiate the “From Ofier’s Distant Shores” quest. Tackle this quest however you’d like (take note that three of the four diagrams are located at campsites that you will be looting for the "Wild Rose Dethorned" achievement) and once you have collected all four diagrams, return to the Merchant, meditate for 24 hours, and then collect your reward: translated diagrams for Ofieri Boots, Gauntles, a Tunic, and Trousers.
Now you will need to collect the necessary crafting materials before heading out to the Armorer in Crow's Perch to craft your four-piece gear set. Once it’s crafted, the achievement should unlock provided you have all 8 pieces of Ofieri Gear in the game.
You can cut costs a little by not buying/creating blueprints for the Ophir sword.
According to the plot, after a shipwreck a brawl will begin, after which do not rush to move to the marker on the map, but search the defeated enemies and take the necessary sword.