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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 -
Next Quest -

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

Is Contract: An Elusive Thief Worth It?

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Contract: Devil by the Well (2) Contract: Woodland Beast (6) Contract: Patrol Gone Missing (7)
Contract: Shrieker (8) Contract: Jenny o' the Woods (10) Contract: The Merry Widow (10)
Contract: Swamp Thing (12) Contract: An Elusive Thief (13) Contract: The Apiarian Phantom (14)
Contract: Deadly Delights (15) Contract: Strange Beast (16) Contract: The White Lady (16)
Contract: The Phantom of Eldberg (17) Contract: Muire D'yaeblen (18) Contract: Here Comes the Groom (19)
Contract: Mysterious Tracks (20) In the Heart of the Woods (22) Contract: The Mystery of the Byways Murders (22)
Contract: Phantom of the Trade Route (23) Contract: Doors Slamming Shut (24) Contract: The Griffin from the Highlands (24)
Contract: Lord of the Wood (25) Contract: The Beast of Honorton (25) Contract: The Oxenfurt Drunk (26)
Contract: Missing Miners (27) Contract: Dragon (28) Contract: Missing Son (29)
Contract: Skellige's Most Wanted (29) Contract: Missing Brother (33) Contract: The Creature from Oxenfurt Forest (35)

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2 Anonymous Anonymous about 3 years

Am able to haggle for 290 actually - correction

1 Anonymous Anonymous about 3 years

Am able to haggle for 390

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