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Rose on a Red Field Walkthrough

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Rose on a Red Field

This is a guide to the quest titled Rose on a Red Field 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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Rose on a Red Field Location and Rewards

Basic Information

Quest Number -
Region Novigrad
Quest Location Garin Estate Bowdon
Previous Quest -
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Rewards

Gold Reward None
Exp Reward None
Item Reward None


How to Unlock Rose on a Red Field

You can unlock this quest after you talk to Olgierd von Everec during the Hearts of Stone Main Quest Evil's Soft First Touches. A woman named Adela will stop you before you leave Olgierd's residence to give you this quest.

Is Rose on a Red Field Missable or Failable?

You cannot miss or fail this quest even if you finish all the Main Quests in the game.

Rose on a Red Field Walkthrough

Objectives
1 Go to Bowdon, kill the ghouls in the area and investigate the clues of Kluivert's murder using your Witcher Senses.
2 Look around for signs of the shooter and follow the tracks.
3 Defeat the knights and read the notes on the knight and on the cart.
4 Go to the knight's lab and deal with the guards outside.
5 Enter the lab and kill all the knights.
6 Go to The Alchemy in Oxenfurt and report back to Adela.

Rose on a Red Field Tips and Strategies

Questing Tips

Dealing with the Guards

Knights choice

When you try to enter the Knights lab, you can pay the guards 1000 Crowns to get 100 XP and kill them to get more XP and your 1000 Crowns back.

Combat Strategies

Ghouls

  • Use your signs and bombs to stop them from moving and use that opening to attack.
  • Coat your Silver Sword with Necrophage Oil to deal bonus damage to them.
Ghouls Weaknesses and Loot

Drowners

  • Drowners can be burned easily. Use the Igni Sign or bombs that ignite the enemy to make them burn then attack them.
  • Coat your Silver Sword with Necrophage Oil to deal bonus damage to them.
Drowners Weaknesses and Loot

Order of the Flaming Rose

  • Humans have a lot of vulnerabilities, the easiest way to deal with them is to kill them in a certain order starting with the ranged enemies.
  • Coat your Steel Sword with Hanged Man's Venom to deal bonus damage to them.
Humans Weaknesses and Loot

Is Rose on a Red Field Worth It?

Rose on a Red Field 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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All Hearts of Stone Secondary Quests

No. Quest Title Location Sugg. Level
- A Midnight Clear Brunwich Miller's Lake 33
- Avid Collector The Borsodi Brothers' Auction House Marcus T.K. Hodgson's bookshop 34
- Enchanting: Quality Has Its Price Upper Mill Bloodrot Pit 32
- Enchanting: Start-up Costs Upper Mill 32
- Races: Swift as the Western Winds Upper Mill 32
- Rose on a Red Field Garin Estate Bowdon 33
- The Taxman Cometh Oxenfurt 32
- Without a Trace Herbalist's Hut Deadwight Wood Erde 32

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