CD Projekt Red has made sure to pack The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with a dense main story and hefty amounts of character development, so much so that some of the smaller details and side-quests might be easy to miss. The Witcher’s world contains a plethora of colorful characters and interesting missions that can get lost in the epic proportions of the central story, and might require players to purposefully seek them out.
Besides not being essential to the primary plot, some of the side-quests in The Witcher 3 can be genuinely difficult to find without the right guide. Although some can be stumbled upon by accident, most require a series of completed events and conversations to be activated and become active in Geralt’s journal. Some even have trick endings that may try to lure players into completing a quest prematurely, thus sealing off the second half and true ending of a mission.
A rather amusing and light-hearted side-quest in The Witcher’s dark timeline, The Portrait of The Witcher as an Old Man, can only be activated by downloading the Blood and Wine DLC. It may be difficult for players to spot purely because the quest-giver lies tucked away in a corner of the bustling Gran’Place, the main square of Toussaint’s capital city, Beauclair. South of the Gran’Place signpost and notice board is a painter, who divulges that he thinks that Geralt would be a fabulous subject for one of his paintings. With things rarely being as simple as they seem, Geralt then needs to find the artist’s missing paints, kill a griffin during the painting process, and use The Witcher 3's meditate mechanic for a day until the portraiture is finished. Upon seeing the masterpiece (and potentially purchasing it for one thousand Crowns) the quest can be completed.
To activate the easily-missed Witcher 3 side quest Without A Trace, players will first need to download the Hearts of Stone expansion DLC. Once this has been done, players can then head to the town of Brunwich in Redania. Go to the notice board, pick up the notice, and head to the herbalist’s house, where Geralt will be asked to help locate a missing apprentice. With a hefty amount of Crowns as promised reward for The Witcher, players will track the apprentice to a cabin, and interrogate a couple living there. It is possible to prematurely end the quest there, hence why the remainder of Without A Trace is often missed, but if players sense something amiss with the couple’s story, they may continue investigating to properly finish the quest.
There are two possible ways to activate the Lord of the Wood contract - one is to talk to the halfing Brean Hotsch, and the other is to go wandering to an unmarked logging camp in the woods just south of Novigrad. Neither the camp nor Hotsch are easy to find and are hidden off The Witcher 3’s beaten path. Whichever way the quest is acquired, once arriving at the logging camp, players will discover the scene of a massacre with a bloody trail leading deeper into the woods. After defeating the various monsters inhabiting the woods, Geralt can potentially obtain the Black Unicorn sword as a reward.
It is important to remember that the decisions players make in The Witcher 3 heavily impact gameplay, and some playstyles might not be compatible with the choices necessary to finish some of these quests. There are no expressly right or wrong choices to be made, but players should be aware that diplomacy usually gets Geralt farther than his gruff temperament.
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