The Witcher 3 School Gear

Every witcher school gear set in The Witcher 3 – Feline, Griffin, Ursine, Wolven, Viper, Manticore and the Netflix armour – with armour weight, playstyle and where to start looking.

Updated 3 November 2026Checked for patch 4.044 sources
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Witcher gear is the iconic armour and swords of the old witcher schools. Each set is tied to a playstyle – fast attacks, signs, tanking or alchemy – and gets better as you find stronger diagrams through Scavenger Hunt quests. Below is every school set, filterable by armour weight.

Remastered (September 2026) reworked parts of the skill system, so exact set bonus numbers are left out here – check the in-game descriptions.

Every set

Base game schools5Added later2

Base game schools

2015 · 5 sets
Feline (Cat School)
Light armour · Fast attacks, dodging and hitting from behind · basic diagrams in Novigrad (Scavenger Hunt: Cat School Gear)
Griffin School
Medium armour · Signs – especially Yrden – and sign intensity · basic diagrams in Velen (Scavenger Hunt: Griffin School Gear)
Ursine (Bear School)
Heavy armour · Tanking, strong attacks and Quen · basic diagrams in Skellige (Scavenger Hunt: Bear School Gear)
Wolven (Wolf School)
Medium armour · An all-rounder for sword and sign hybrids, built around bleeding · basic diagrams at Kaer Morhen
Viper (Serpentine)
Medium armour · Poison-themed swords from the first area, White Orchard · armour added with Hearts of Stone · no set bonus and no Grandmaster tier

Added later

2016–2022 · 2 sets
Manticore School
Medium armour · Alchemy, bombs and potions · Blood and Wine · found around Toussaint and only exists at Grandmaster level
Forgotten Wolf (Netflix armour)
Medium armour · Potions and Yrden/Aard combos, modelled on Geralt's look in the Netflix series · free next-gen update (4.0) · quest starts at the Devil's Pit in Velen
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Section images: official The Witcher 3 trailers (The Witcher / YouTube).

How witcher gear works

Upgrade in tiersMost sets have several tiers up to Mastercrafted, and Blood and Wine added Grandmaster versions of the main schools.
Find a good smithHigher tiers need an armourer or blacksmith of the right skill level to craft them.
Set bonusesWearing several pieces of the same school unlocks bonuses that reward its playstyle.
Read the cluesDiagrams are found through Scavenger Hunt quests that start from notes, maps or books.

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