Witcher 3 cat School Gear | Cat, School & Feline Armor (Updated) 2023

The Witcher 3 cat school gear or the feline armor is the lightest assemblage in the game and is suitable for players who wish to dodge the enemies fast and keep their stamina restored at all times.

But to craft this gear, you will have to look for diagrams or blueprints for each part of the armor, scattered in different locations throughout the game for every version of the armor (basic, enhanced, superior, master crafted, and grandmaster). Sounds like a big task, right? But stress no more as this article will be your guide in finding all the diagrams quickly. There’s also a bonus treasure hunt method you can opt for, mentioned at the end of the article.

Locations of Witcher 3 cat school gear Maps

The Witcher 3 cat armor can’t be used unless you reach level 10. And for the higher versions of the gear, you’ll need even higher ranks to be worthy of it. However, you can obtain it before using it and then utilize it once you fulfill the prerequisites. 

If you still can’t reach the high levels where you can claim feline armor, then don’t be disheartened; instead, look for the Griffin armor set, which works with lower ranks too.

One more thing you should keep in mind, solely finding the feline armor location won’t suffice. After seeing the blueprints, you should hurry to the armorer or blacksmith, who would craft the set for you with certain raw materials that must be in your inventory. If you don’t have those items with you then, try dismantling some of your pre-owned elements; you would indeed find the raw materials from it.

Basic feline armor Witcher 3

Travel to the village of Blackbough. There you’ll find two merchants; the one in the northwest will sell you the map for locating the cat set diagrams. After that, you will get a new quest location in Novigrad, where you will have to go on an exploration around the hill to find the cave entrance.

Armor

Start by taking the left-most tunnel in the cave, turn all the statues inward to enter the secret trap door, and then loot the lab key at the bottom while ignoring the drowners. Then, return to the cave’s start and take the main route this time, where you’ll spot Galem. Behind it will be a gate that you could unlock, battle the mini-boss, and loot the blueprints.

Req. Materials:

Chest Armor:

• 1 Shirt
• 2 Hardened Leather
• 2 Dark Steel Plate
• 2 Hardened Timber
• 1 Powdered Monster Tissue

Gauntlets

• 2 Cured Leather
• 1 Dark Iron Ore
• 2 Monster Tooth
• 2 Nails
• 1 Hardened Timber

Trousers

• 4 Leather Scraps
• 1 Cured Leather
• 2 Silk
• 1 Hardened Timber
• 1 Monster Brain

Boots

• 2 Hardened Leather
• 1 Dark Iron Ore
• 2 Monster Eye
• 2 Leather Straps
• 1 Hardened Timber

Crossbow

The diagram is inside the sunken ship, which is situated in the south-west region of Novigrad To craft this, you need:

• 2 Hardened Timber
• 1 Monster Bone
• 1 Monster Hair
• 1 Wax
• 1 Dark Iron Ore

Silversword

The blueprint is behind a destructible wall in the north-east region of Oxenfurt.

Required materials:

• 1 Monster Eye
• 2 Silver Ingot
• 2 Leather Straps
• 1 Ruby Dust

Steel blade

At the low level of the castle tower, to the south of Novigrad, and behind a breakable door is where you’ll spot the blueprints.

Req. Materials:

• 1 Leather Straps
• 4 Iron Ingot
• 1 Monster Saliva
• 1 Ruby Dust

Enhanced feline armor Witcher 3

Armor 

You’ll find the BP on the second floor of a devastated building situated directly east of Oxenfurt in eastern Velen.

Required materials:

• 1 Armor
• 4 Hardened Leather
• 2 Dark Steel plate
• 2 Lunar Shards
• 2 Monster Blood

Boots 

You’ll find the diagram inside the entrance of a cave in eastern Velen, which is also the same cave where you can get the Royal Wyvern (“Phantom of the Trade Route”) contract.

Req. materials:

• 2 Hardened Leather
• 1 Feline Boots
• 1 Dark Iron Ore
• 2 Monster Eye
• 2 Leather Straps
• 1 Hardened Timber

Enhanced feline trousers 

You will find the BP under a house in Oxenfurt, but first, you’ll have to enter the house, go down to the basement, and then take a ladder in the sewer. You will see a mechanism that opens a secret door to reveal the diagram’s chest in the sewer.

Materials required:

• 4 Leather Scraps
• 1 Feline Trousers
• 1 Cured Leather
• 2 Silk
• 1 Hardened Timber
• 1 Monst. Brain

Gauntlets

These are found at an abandoned mine situated to the west of Oxenfurt, in a little cave under the wooden stairs.

Req. materials:

• 2 Cured Leather
• 1 Feline Gauntlets
• 1 Dark Iron Ore
• 2 Monster Tooth
• 2 Nails
• 1 Hardened Timber

Steel blade

The Blueprints for this sword are found inside the same cave where you complete the “Fool’s Gold” DLC quest in eastern Velen. The chest is placed near the cave entrance, where the path turns left.

Required materials:

• 1 Monst. Claw
• 2 Dark Steel Ingot
• 2 Leather Straps
• 1 Feline Steel Sword
• 1x Ruby Dust

Silversword 

Just past the Novigrad’s eastern – Oxenfurt gate. Climb up on the ladder near the quest area, go inside the door, and then climb up another set of stairs, and you’ll find the blueprint in a chest.

Req. Items:

• 1 Monster Hair
• 2 Meteorite Silver Ingot
• 1 Leather Scraps
• 1 Feline Silver Sword
• 1 Ruby Dust

Superior cat armor witcher 3

Armor 

All four blueprints are found at a single area in eastern Velen, which is situated to the northwest of Crookback Bog and guarded by a level 27 earth elemental that you don’t have to fight. The chest can be found nearby ruins.

To construct them, you’ll need:

Chest Armour

• 1 Enhanced Armor
• 2 Cured Draconid Leather
• 2 Dimeritium Plate
• 3 Quicksilver Solution
• 4 Monster Hair

Gauntlets

• 2 Hardened Leather
• 1 Enhanced Feline Gauntlets
• 1 Dark Steel Ingot
• 4 Monster Claw
• 4 Leather Straps

Trousers

• 1 Dark Steel Ingot
• 1 Enhanced Feline Trousers
• 2 Silk
• 2 Hardened Timber
• 1 Monster Heart

Boots

• 2 Hardened Leather
• 1 Enhanced Feline Boots
• 1 Dark Steel Ingot
• 2 Monster Bone
• 2 Leather Straps

Superior steel sword

The far north region of the map, inside a cavern to the north of Novigrad, is where you’ll locate the diagram. Beware, though, as a 19 level Golem guards it.

Items required:

• 1 Monster Tooth
• 3 Dark Steel Ingot
• 2 Leather Scraps
• 1 Enhanced Feline Steel Sword
• 1 Ruby

Silver blade

To the Novigrad’s southern region, there will be a bunch of level 18 Nekkers ready to battle. The chest is laid upon a ledge, behind some rocks. You will need to use the Aard to access it.

Required items:

• 1 Monster Heart
• 1 Dimeritium Ingot
• 1 Leather Scraps
• 1 Enhanced Feline Silver Sword
• 1 Ruby

Master crafted Witcher 3 feline armor

Armor and silver sword 

All master crafted, Feline armor diagrams (boots, gauntlets, chest armor, trousers) are inside a cave on Faroe island in Skellige. The chest is somewhere behind the two statues in the cave.

The silver sword blueprint is found in another cave on this island. You will come across two walls that can be broken into pieces using Aard. The diagram is behind the second wall.

Raw materials:

 For Chest Armor

• 1 Superior Armor
• 2 Cured Draconid Leather
• 2 Dimeritium Plate
• 3 Quicksilver Solution
• 4 Monster Hair

Gauntlets

• 1 Hardened Leather
• 1 Superior Feline Gauntlets
• 1 Dark Steel Ingot
• 4 Monster Claw
• 4 Leather Straps

Trousers

• 1 Dark Steel Ingot
• 1 Superior Feline Trousers
• 2 Silk
• 2 Hardened Timber
• 1 Monster Heart

Boots

• 2 Hardened Leather
• 1 Superior Feline Boots
• 1 Dark Steel Ingot
• 1 Monster Bone
• 2 Leather Straps

Silversword

• 1 Powdered Monster Tissue
• 2 Dimeritium Ingot
• 2 Cured Leather
• 1 Superior Feline Silver Sword
• 1 Flawless Ruby

Master crafted Steel blade

 You will have to enter the ruined fortress of “Kaer Gelen” located in central Ard Skellig, from the side instead of the main gate to find the chest behind a bunch of broken metal bars, halfway up to the stairs to the level second. Level 29 Wraiths guard the place.

Materials Req.:

• 1 Monster Bone
• 2 Demetrium Ingot
• 2 Leather Scraps
• 1 Superior Feline Steel Sword
• 1 Flawless Ruby

Grandmaster Witcher 3 cat armor

Armor

To the east of Arthach Palace Ruins in Toussaint, look for a locked door. Then, turn right and find a ladder to climb up to the courtyard and kill the bandits.

You’ll then locate a white door in the north-eastern area of the yard, go inside, and search the painting for the diagram and the map to the other elements.

To craft this, you’ll need:

• 1 Mastercrafted Armor
• 2 Infused Slyzard Hide
• 2 Enriched Dimeritium Plate
• 2 Monster Liver
• 2 Monst. Heart

Trousers and boots

You’ll see some ruins in the Northeast of the Arthach Palace; that’s your location with a bunch of bandits for you to defeat. Get inside the main building and turn right to find a chest with two BPs.

Materials that you’ll need:

For Trousers

• 1 Mastercrafted Trousers
• 1 Infused Slyzard Hide
• 1 Enriched Dimeritium Plate
• 2 Monster Tongue
• 2 Monst. Blood

Boots

• 1 Mastercrafted Boot
• 1 Infused Slyzard Hide
• 1 Enriched Dimeritium Plate
• 2 Monster Bone
• 4 Monst. Claw

Gauntlets, steel and silver sword

Head towards south from the Arthach Palace Ruins, and you’ll spot a cave. Follow that path and turn left, and you’ll see the remaining diagrams that you need to finish the cat armor.

Raw materials:

Steel Sword

• 1 Mastercrafted Steel Sword
• 2 Leather Scraps
• 2 Enriched Dimeri. Ingot
• 1 Sapphire
• 1 Monster Blood

Silver Sword

• 1 Mastercrafted Steel Sword
• 2 Leather Scraps
• 2 Enriched Dimeri. Ingot
• 1 Sapphire
• 1 Monster Blood

Gauntlets

• 1 Mastercrafted Gauntlet
• 1 Infused Slyzard Hide
• 1 Enriched Dimeritium Plate
• 2 Monst. Bone
• 1 Powdered Monster Tissue

The scavenger hunt: cat school gear (treasure hunt)

Here’s the bonus treasure hunt, as promised! Now, this hunt can be used to find the diagrams for the cat school gear. 

Even though the places mentioned above for the diagrams are the same for this one too so, they won’t be elaborated here again. But what’s additional is that you have to start this quest either by buying one of Adalbert Kermith’s maps or by looking for one of the cat school gear blueprints. You can get the first map from the Blackbough Merchant, the second map from the Blackbough Blacksmith, the third map from Crow’s Perch Quartermaster, and the fourth map from the Lindenvale armorer.

Quest stages: 

Find the blueprints to all the elements of Cat School Witcher gear: 

• Whole Armor – Find and slay Mad Kiyan in the Passages under Temple Isle. 
• Crossbow – The chest is in the “Flying Stag” shipwreck. 
• Silver Sword – A skeleton you’ll find in the Est Tayiar ruins. 
• Steel Sword – The blueprint is in the basement of the Drahim Castle ruins.

1. If the diary is found before the quest:
2. Read Julia Kenyon’s journal.
3. Explore the passages under Temple Isle.
4. Read the laboratory log.
5. Search the wreck of the “Flying Stag.”
6. Read mage’s notes because reading it will learn about the next site, where you can find another diagram.
7. Explore the ruins of Est Tayiar.
8. Read Prof. Gloger’s note.
9. Explore the ruins of Drahim Castle.
10. Read Prince Adrien’s journal.

Do you want to have a strong build for other playstyles too? Then, read our article on the Witcher 3 builds and you might find the best one for every playstyle.

Quest is completed!

Conclusion

These are the only locations where you can find the Witcher 3 cat school gear. We hope this article helps you find the best light assemblage present in the game, and remember, if you are facing issues while finding the blueprint chests, then look for a wolf head symbol on the map as it will give you a fair idea of which area to search. Happy hunting!