The Witcher 3 Griffin School Witcher Gear Crafting Diagrams Locations Guide

Welcome to the The Witcher 3 Griffin School Witcher Gear Crafting Diagrams locations guide that helps you find the total of 6 Diagrams locations for the PC, PS4 & Xbox One action-RPG game.

Tip: It’s recommended you go after the Griffin Gear Set, because it’s the first full set of witcher gear you can find in the game! – For example: The Griffin silver sword does a massive 180 points damage to enemies! So look up a high-level blacksmith on your (mini)map to forge this weapon for yourself (level 7 required to equip).
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Here’s where in the Griffin Scavenger Hunt to find the Armor & Weapon Set locations:

The Timeline for all these in-game Griffin School Witcher Gear Diagrams locations is listed below.

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The Witcher 3 Griffin School Witcher Gear Crafting Diagrams

Original Griffin Gear Locations

How to find missing Griffin School Witcher Gear Crafting Diagrams?: To trigger the “Scavenger Hunt: Griffin School Gear” for the 6 Diagrams you need to complete the Griffin Set of Gear for Geralt to wear, you’ll need to go to this location: It starts in Lornruk, where you’ll find a “Hidden Treasure” indicated on the map. Lornruk is north of Blackbough, in Velen – No Man’s Land. Once there, dive off the bridge into the water to find an underwater cave that leads to the island’s castle entrance. Once you’ve climbed up a few ladders, you’ll find lots of chests to loot and in one of them (it sparkles with witcher senses on) you’ll find the Griffin silver sword diagram, which starts the “Scavenger Hunt: Griffin School Gear” Side Quest.

The Scavenger Hunt description reads: “Geralt came across evidence of the legendary witcher George’s equally legendary equipment. Having heard many tales of this gear’s extraordinary traits, Geralt decided to investigate.”

The Witcher 3 Armed and Dangerous
The “Armed and Dangerous” achievement / trophy unlocks after you find, craft and equip this full set of Griffin witcher gear

Finding all 6 pieces of the Griffin gear set and crafting them will help unlock the following Achievement / Trophy: “Armed and Dangerous” (30 Gamerscore / Silver Trophy) — Find and equip all the elements of one set of witcher gear.

Does the game save each Griffin School Witcher Gear Diagrams you collect?: No, you need to manually save after successfully completing each of these six scavenger hunts.

Where to find all Griffin School Witcher Gear Diagrams in The Witcher 3? The in-game gear diagram locations for the Griffin School Witcher Gear Set are described in this detailed video guide.

The Griffin School Witcher Gear Crafting Diagrams are listed in the video in the order that they appear.

Timeline in minutes for the Griffin School Witcher Gear Crafting Diagrams Locations Guide:

• Griffin School Witcher Gear Diagram Location #1: Griffin Silver Sword — [0:05]

• Griffin School note to next location — [4:07]

• Griffin School Witcher Gear Diagram Location #2: Griffin Steel Sword — [5:10]

• Griffin School Witcher Gear Diagram Locations #3-6: Griffin Armor, Trousers, Boots & Gauntlets (all 4 Armor options) — [8:08] (at 10:57 we enter the area the last 4 diagrams are at)

There you go! All Griffin School Witcher Gear Diagrams in The Witcher 3 are yours! 🙂

Griffin Gear Crafting Locations

Following up on the previous video guide, shown next is where to find the Armorers and Blacksmiths in the Oxenfurt area east of Novigrad that are high enough quality to create the Griffin set. After which you’ll see what all the completed pieces look like.

Griffin Gear Blacksmith & Armorer Locations: Oxenfurt’s Armorer is in the central building in town and the Blacksmith is just south of the Novigrad Gate. – If you’re not seeing the Armorer and Blacksmith in the Oxenfurt area of Novigrad to craft the gear for you from the Griffin diagrams, then you should Meditate for a few hours to make them show up. Especially since they are some of the few who can make the complete Griffin gear set. Outside of the Armorer in Crow’s Perch, that is.

Griffin Gear Required Materials Tip: To obtain the materials needed to actually craft all Griffin Gear pieces, you need to loot all monsters you kill during the main story missions and side quests. Certain other materials will need to be crafted from other components or you must dismantle a weapon. For example: To get the 3 Silver Ingots needed to make the Griffin Silver Sword, you might dismantle one of your Silver Swords at the Blacksmith beforehand.

Enhanced Griffin Gear Locations

In the second part of this guide we will look for the diagrams to upgrade your Griffin set to Enhanced! The below video guide shows you the location of all the Griffin Set’s first level of upgrade, Enhanced, which takes your Griffin gear from Level 8 to Level 15.

All Enhanced Griffin Gear can be found throughout Velen, more specific location details are listed under the video.

Note: To build the Enhanced set from these new Crafting Diagrams you can use the same Armorer & Blacksmith you used for the original set.

Timeline in minutes for the Enhanced Griffin Gear Diagrams Locations Guide:

• [0:00] — The “Enhanced Griffin Armor” Diagram (Level 15) can be found at White Eagle Fort, west of Oxenfurt. – It’s in a chest behind the friendly troll.

• [1:00] — The “Enhanced Griffin Boots” Diagram (Level 15) can be found in the ruins, north of Inn at the Crossroads & Crow’s Perch. – It’s in a chest between the knocked down walls, but be careful as a Level 18 red dragon flies around this exact area.

• [3:44] — The “Enhanced Griffin Trousers” Diagram (Level 15) can be found in the Burned Ruins, on the outskirts of Crow’s Perch. – From the fast travel spot walk straight forward into the ruins until you find one with a collapsed wooden roof, where there’s a metal chest among the wood on the ground.

• [4:55] — The “Enhanced Griffin Steel Sword” Diagram (Level 14) can be found at the burned out ruins that are now a Bandit Camp, south-west of the Refugees Camp. – To find the loot chest, from the campfire go to the work-in-progress building and when you get near it take a left up some stairs.

• [6:00] — The “Enhanced Griffin Gauntlets” Diagram (Level 15) can be found at Place of Haunting, south of Frischlow. – It’s past all the dangerous level 16-18 wraiths, use a wind blast to knock down the wall made of stones to enter the cave area with the chest.

• [7:42] — The “Enhanced Griffin Silver Sword” Diagram (Level 14) can be found at Crossroads, south of The orphans of Crookback Bog, which is in the bottom-right section of the map. Keep dropping down into the gorge and head to the cave in the east to find the final chest with the last Enhanced Griffin Gear’s crafting diagram inside!

Superior Griffin Gear Locations

In the third part of this guide we will look for the diagrams to upgrade your Griffin set to Superior and you’ll only need to find 3 chests containing the Superior Griffin Gear this time! The below video guide shows you the location of all the Griffin Set’s second level of upgrade, Superior, which takes your Griffin gear from Level 15 to Level 23.

All Superior Griffin Gear can be found throughout Velen, in Skellige, through the “Scavenger Hunt: Griffin School Gear Upgrade Diagrams – Part 3”. Buy the map to start this Scavenger Hunt from the Armorer in Novigrad at Hierarch Square (the same one you use to build everything for you). More specific location details for each chest with the crafting diagrams inside are listed under the video.

Note: To build the Superior set from these new Crafting Diagrams you can use the same Armorer & Blacksmith you used for the original set.

Timeline in minutes for the Superior Griffin Gear Diagrams Locations Guide:

• [0:00] — The “Superior Griffin Armor, Gauntlets, Trousers & Boots” Diagrams (Level 23) can be found at Giants’ Toes. – It’s in a chest behind a rock, next to a warming fire. This is a bandits camp, so you’ll have to kill them all to get to the chest.

• [2:16] — The “Superior Griffin Steel Sword” Diagram (Level 21) can be found at the Urialla Harbor island, in the top-left of the island. – It’s in a chest behind the candle-lit stone idol (beyond yet another Bandits camp).

• [3:23] — The “Superior Griffin Silver Sword” Diagram (Level 21) can be found at the Elverum Lighthouse on the biggest island. – It’s in a chest in a cave underneath the Elverum Lighthouse (when looking at the map). Stick to the left side in the Wraith-infested cave to get there. The chest is in the back of an idol room at the end of the cave’s corridors.

Mastercrafted Griffin Gear Locations

In the final part of this guide we will look for the diagrams to upgrade your Griffin set to Mastercrafted! and once again you’ll only need to find 3 chests containing the Mastercrafted Griffin Gear. The below video guide shows you the location of all the Griffin Set’s highest level of upgrade, Mastercrafted, which takes your Griffin gear from Level 23 to Level 31.

All Mastercrafted Griffin Gear can be found throughout Velen, in Skellige, through the “Scavenger Hunt: Griffin School Gear Upgrade Diagrams – Part 4”. Buy the map to start this Scavenger Hunt from the Armorer in Novigrad at Hierarch Square (the same one you use to build everything for you). More specific location details are listed under the video.

Timeline in minutes for the Mastercrafted Griffin Gear Diagrams Locations Guide:

• [0:00] — The “Mastercrafted Griffin Steel Sword” Diagram (Level 30) can be found at Boxholm, in the middle of the main island. – In an abandoned town, after walking up some stairs, climb up on a stone building ruin to find the chest.

• [1:05] — The “Mastercrafted Griffin Armor, Gauntlets, Trousers & Boots” Diagrams (Level 31) can be found by traveling up from Redgill, on the main island. – Once you get past the Harpies, you’ll pass through a stone archway only to find a high-level cyclops! Run past it into the stone building on the left, when you’re inside stick to the left side and climb up. Then walk past the Place of Power to find the chest in front of the exit.

• [3:40] — The “Mastercrafted Griffin Silver Sword” Diagram (Level 30) can be found at the lake left of Fyresdal, on the main island. – It’s in a chest in the broken-down stone tower next to the lake.

Mastercrafted Griffin Gear Crafting Locations

In order to build the Mastercrafted set from these new Mastercrafted Crafting Diagrams you can use the same Armorer & Blacksmith you used for the original set. Namely, the Master Armorer in Crow’s Perch (at Velen) and the Master Blacksmith in Novigrad (near the docks).
HOWEVER, they will only be able to build this Mastercrafted set for you after you complete their Side Quests to make them Master Armorers!

This video guide shows you all the steps you need to take to acquire the ability to make Mastercrafted armor in Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Huge thanks to Swaggers & GamerForEternity for the guide videos and tips.

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