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Witcher 3 Quest Contract Strange Beast

This is a guide to the quest titled Contract: Strange Beast 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: Strange Beast Location and Rewards

Basic Information

Quest Number -
Region Skellige
Quest Location Larvik
Previous Quest -
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Rewards

Gold Reward 520
Exp Reward 80
Item Reward None


Contract: Strange Beast Walkthrough

How to Get

Pick up and read the Notice Contract: Monster on the High Road on the Notice Board at Larvik in the east part of the Skellige Isles. You can also get this quest if you go directly to the ambush site and examine the clues.

Main Objectives

Objectives
1 Go and speak with Thorleif about the details of the contract.
2 Go and speak with Sverre and Kaspar, then ask about the monster.
3 Go to the ambush site and investigate the area using your Witcher Senses.
4 Follow the footprints using your Witcher Senses and enter the cave.
5 Defeat Hagubman and the other Nekkers.
6 Go back and speak to Thorleif and receive your reward.

Contract: Strange Beast Tips and Strategies

Combat Strategies

Nekkers

  • Coat your Silver Sword with Ogroid Oil to deal bonus damage to them.
  • Cast the Aard Sign or throw a Northern Wind Bomb to disable multiple enemies and give yourself an opening to attack.

Nekker Weaknesses and Loot

Hagubman (Nekker Warrior)

Witcher 3 Combat Hagubman

  • Coat your Silver Sword with Ogroid Oil to deal bonus damage to them.
  • Cast the Aard Sign or throw a Northern Wind Bomb to disable multiple enemies and give yourself an opening to attack.
  • Cast the Axii Sign on it to stun it a give yourself a large opening to attack.
  • When you deal a certain amount of damage to it, it will summon more Nekkers to fight you. You will have to defeat these Nekkers in order for him to appear again.

Nekker Warrior Weaknesses and Loot

Is Contract: Strange Beast Worth It?

Contract: Strange Beast is somewhat worth doing

This quest gives you somewhat useful benefits when you complete it. It is up to you to decide whether the things you gain from this quest will benefit you greatly.

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All Contracts Quests

No. Quest Title Location Sugg. Level
- Contract: The Oxenfurt Drunk Oxenfurt 26
- Contract: The White Lady Farcorners Drahim Castle 16
- Contract: Dragon Fyresdal 28
- Contract: Here Comes the Groom Cave south of Old Watchtower 19
- Contract: Missing Miners Blandare 27
- Contract: Missing Son Rannvaig Kaer Nyssen 29
- Contract: Muire D'yaeblen Kaer Trolde 18
- Contract: Skellige's Most Wanted Fyresdal 29
- Contract: Strange Beast Larvik 16
- Contract: The Phantom of Eldberg Eldberg Lighthouse 17
- In the Heart of the Woods Fayrlund 22
- Contract: Devil by the Well South of the Border Post 2
- Contract: Jenny o' the Woods Inn at the Crossroads Blackbough Crow's Perch Lindenvale 10
- Contract: Missing Brother Inn at the Crossroads 33
- Contract: Mysterious Tracks Lindenvale 20
- Contract: Patrol Gone Missing West of Mulbrydale 7
- Contract: Phantom of the Trade Route Benek 23
- Contract: Shrieker Crow's Perch 8
- Contract: Swamp Thing Between Crow's Perch and Boatmakers' Hut 12
- Contract: The Beast of Honorton Abandoned site north of Condyle 25
- Contract: The Griffin from the Highlands Hangman's Alley 24
- Contract: The Merry Widow Lindenvale 10
- Contract: The Mystery of the Byways Murders Byways 22
- Contract: Woodland Beast Bandit camp northwest of Inn at the Crossroads 6
- Contract: An Elusive Thief The Bits Farcorners 13
- Contract: Deadly Delights Harborside Crippled Kate's 15
- Contract: Doors Slamming Shut Moldavie Residence 24
- Contract: Lord of the Wood Loggers' Hut Hotsch Woods 25
- Contract: The Apiarian Phantom Honeyfill Meadworks 14
- Contract: The Creature from Oxenfurt Forest Camp east-southeast of the Herbalist's Hut 35

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