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Contract: An Elusive Thief Walkthrough and Best Choice

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This is a guide to the quest titled Contract: An Elusive Thief 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: An Elusive Thief Location and Rewards

Basic Information

Quest Number -
Region Novigrad
Quest Location The Bits Farcorners
Previous Quest -
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Rewards

Gold Reward 131 or 243
Exp Reward 245
Item Reward None


How to Unlock Contract: An Elusive Thief

You can unlock this quest by picking up the notice Contract: Imp on the notice board at Hierarch Square in Novigrad.

Is Contract: An Elusive Thief Missable or Failable?

You cannot miss or fail this quest.

Contract: An Elusive Thief Walkthrough

Objectives
1 Go to the marketplace and talk to Sylvester Amello about the contract.
2 Follow the footprints and read the letter on the table.
3 Investigate the clothes on the upper floor and follow the scent.
4 Talk to the temple guard then chase the doppler.
5 Defeat the Doppler and choose how to deal with him.
6 Report back to Sylvester Amello about the contract.

Contract: An Elusive Thief Choices and Best Choice

Spare the Doppler

If you spare the doppler, he will give you 215 crows and a diagram for the Gnomish Gwyhyr steel sword but, Sylvester Amello will only pay you half the agreed amount.

Kill the Doppler

If you kill the doppler Sylvester Amello will pay you with the full agreed amount on the contract.

Best Choice

The best choice in this quest is to Kill the Doppler. Even if you will receive more crowns when you spare the doppler, this is the only way to get the doppler mutagen and the doppler trophy.

Contract: An Elusive Thief Tips and Strategies

Combat Strategies

Doppler

  • Coat your silver sword with Relict Oil to deal bonus damage to them.
  • You can fight them like any other human enemy that wields a one-handed weapon. They best way to defeat them is through counterattacking.
Doppler Weaknesses and Loot

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- 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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2 Anonymousalmost 2 years

Am able to haggle for 290 actually - correction

1 Anonymousalmost 2 years

Am able to haggle for 390

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