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This is a guide to the quest titled Contract: The Merry Widow 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: The Merry Widow Location and Rewards

Basic Information

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

Rewards

Gold Reward 180
Exp Reward 240
Item Reward None


How to Unlock Contract: The Merry Widow

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

Is Contract: The Merry Widow Missable or Failable?

This quest is not failable.

Contract: The Merry Widow Walkthrough

Objectives
1 Talk to Gravedigger about the contract details.
2 Go to the cemetery and defeat all enemies.
3 Explore the cemetry using your Witcher Senses.
4 Follow the scent of cadaverine using your Witcher Senses.
5 Investigate the lair and take the skulls.
6 Put the skulls in the cemetery and wait for the grave hag to come out.
7 Kill the gravehag.
8 Take the trophy from the corpse.
9 Return to Gravedigger and collect your reward.

Contract: The Merry Widow Tips and Strategies

Questing Tips

Yrden Sign

Try to stay inside the area of effect of the Yrden Sign to slow down their movement and to make them more vulnerable to your attacks.

Black Blood Potions

Make sure you have Black Blood Potion active while fighting the Grave Hag, this will deal damage to the Grave Hag if you get hit by its attacks.

Quest Reward

Aside from the Trophy and Gold reward you will receive, you will also obtain the sword Addan Deith from the Grave Hag's corpse.

Combat Strategies

Mourntart (Grave Hag)

  • Coat your Silver Sword with Necrophage Oil to deal bonus damage to them.
  • Superior Black Blood works well against necrophages. Use this potion and lure Mourntart inside the range of your potion and Yrden Sign.
  • Constantly cast your Quen Sign to protect yourself from her powerful attacks.
  • Cast the Yrden Sign to make her more vunerable to your attacks.

To learn more information onMourntart, you can check out guide on Grave Hag Loots and Weaknesses on the link below.

Grave Hag Loots and Weaknesses

Is Contract: The Merry Widow Worth It?

Contract: The Merry Widow 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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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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