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Contract: Mysterious Tracks Walkthrough

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This is a guide to the quest titled Contract: Mysterious Tracks 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: Mysterious Tracks Location and Rewards

Basic Information

Quest Number -
Region Velen
Quest Location Lindenvale
Previous Quest -
Next Quest -

Rewards

Gold Reward 193
Exp Reward 400
Item Reward None


How to Unlock Contract: Mysterious Tracks

You can unlock this contract quest by reading the letter on the Notice Board at Velen near Lindenvale.

Is Contract: Mysterious Tracks Missable or Failable?

This quest is not failable.

Contract: Mysterious Tracks Walkthrough

Objectives
1 Talk to Hunter about the contract details.
2 Search the forest using your Witcher Senses.
3 Follow the tracks using your Witcher Senses.
4 Find out where the scent is coming from using your Witcher Senses.
5 Enter and explore the cave by going through the small hole at top of the hill.
6 Acquire the Ingredients needed and prepare the bait using alchemy.
7 Pour the bait around the hill.
8 Get back inside the cave and wait for the Chort to arrive.
9 Kill the Chort and take the trophy from its corpse.
10 Return to Hunter and collect your reward.

Contract: Mysterious Tracks Tips and Strategies

Questing Tips

Finding Fiend Dung and Crow's Eye

You can find both of these items infront of the cave exit at the bottom of the hill. These items are the ingredients needed to make the quest item that you will need to lure the Howler.

Quest Reward

You will receive a huge amount of XP reward and you will be able to take the Chort Trophy from its corpse. You will also receive the sword Azure Wrath.

Combat Strategies

Howler (Chort)

  • Coat your Silver Sword with Relict Oil to deal additional damage to chorts.
  • Devil's Puffball Bombs can be used to constantly deal damage. You can use Yrden Sign to slow them down and to keep them inside the poison cloud.
  • Cast the Axii Sign to stun them for a short period of time, use this window to safely deal damage.

To learn more information on Howler, you can check out guide on Chort Loots and Weaknesses on the link below.

Chort Loots and Weaknesses

Is Contract: Mysterious Tracks Worth It?

Contract: Mysterious Tracks is totally worth doing

We recommend that you complete this quest. Completing this quest will give you very useful benefits that you can use to make your progression easier or make Geralt significantly stronger.

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