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Contract: Patrol Gone Missing Walkthrough

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Witcher 3 Quest Contract Patrol Gone Missing

This is a guide to the quest titled Contract: Patrol Gone Missing from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Read on to learn locations, rewards, best choices, best outcomes, as well as useful tips and strategy for completing this quest.

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Contract: Patrol Gone Missing Location and Rewards

Basic Information

Quest Number -
Region Velen
Quest Location West of Mulbrydale
Previous Quest -
Next Quest -

Rewards

Gold Reward 50
Exp Reward 10 or 30
Item Reward None


How to Unlock Contract: Patrol Gone Missing

Pick up and read the Notice Contract: Devil by the Well on the Notice Board at White Orchard. You can also get this quest by talking to Oodlan directly or going to the location of the contract at noon.

Is Contract: Patrol Gone Missing Missable or Failable?

You cannot miss or fail this quest even if you finish all the main quests of the game.

Contract: Patrol Gone Missing Walkthrough

Objectives
1 Speak with Quartermaster Eggebracht about the details of the contract.
2 Go to the abandoned camp and investigate the area using your Witcher Senses.
3 Examine the clues while following the footprints and the stench using your Witcher Senses.
4 Examine the area and defeat the Wyvern.
5 Return to Quartermaster Eggebracht and speak about the results of the contract.

Choices

Objective 5: Moral Decisions

Witcher 3 Choice Reward

When you go back to Eggebracht to discuss the results of the contract after discovering that the scouts were actually a death squad, you are given an additional choice to deny the payment.

If you deny the payment you will get 30 XP at the end of the quest. If you accepted the payment then you will get 10 XP and 50 Crowns as a reward.

Contract: Patrol Gone Missing Tips and Strategies

Exploration Tips

Witcher Diagram

You can find the Witcher Diagram for the Enhanced Griffin Silver Sword inside the chest at the east end of the cave by following the blood trail after defeating the Wyvern.

Combat Strategies

Wyvern

Witcher 3 Combat Wyvern

  • Coat your Silver Sword with Draconid Oil to deal bonus damage to them.
  • Cast the Aard Sign or throw a Grapeshot Bomb to heavily stagger them and give you a large opening to attack.
  • If the Wyvern starts flying you can cast the Aard Sign when they are near you to make them fall to the ground.

Wyvern Weaknesses and Loot

Is Contract: Patrol Gone Missing Worth It?

Contract: Patrol Gone Missing is not worth doing

We do not recommend doing this quest. The benefits that you gain from this quest are not very useful for your progression in the game. Finishing this quest will be mainly for the sake of the game's completion and to have more knowledge about the Witcher World.

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- Contract: Mysterious Tracks Lindenvale 20
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