STORY 30 - Final Preparations Recommended Level: N/A (not shown) Note: You can trigger the subquests in any order. Once all of them are completed, the story will move on. Objective: Talk to Avallac'h After returning from Bald Mountain, speak to the elven sage at the top floor of Dandelion's establishment. Turns out Avallac'h has thought up a way to remove another one of the wild hunt's leaders from the equation. SUBQUEST: Through Time and Space Recommended Level: 26 Objective: Follow Avallac'h Players with a good memory will recognize the house Avallac'h leads you to as the home of the godling you encountered in story quest 10 - Novigrad Dreaming. Enter the house and descend into the basement through the trapdoor like you did earlier in the game. You may have spotted the weakened wall when you visited here the first time. Either way, blast it down with the aard sign to reveal the swirling portal behind it. Note: As Avallac'h says, there will be no returning until you have finished this subquest. So make sure you are fully stocked up on healing items and potions (as you will likely need them due to unstoppable environmental damage). Geralt: "I hate portals." Believe me, you will too by the end of this. Objective: Find the next passage After passing through the vortex, you'll arrive in spartan desolate world (think Monument Valley in the U.S.A or the starting areas in Final Fantasy XII). Walk down the slope with Avallac'h, asking questions about this new world. It's a fairly long walk (you can't run except to catch up to Avallac'h if you lag behind), but you'll get there. Objective: Wait until the passage opens When you get close to the portal, the ground will begin to shake. Objective: Kill the monsters A few seconds later, the sandcrabs will emerge from the dust nearby and begin attacking. They are fairly easy to deal with but you will need to kill at least nine or ten of them before the portal opens. Objective: Travel to the next world When it does, ignore the remaining crabs and make a run for it. Entering the orange rotating energy. Objective: Find the next passage In this world, you'll be surrounded by stones covered in a red moss, with Avallac'h missing (of course). Work your way down the ledge to trigger a scene showing the next portal. Be forewarned: the dense red grass generates vapours that that force Geralt to hold his breath, so make sure to sprint through it as fast as you can to prevent asphyxiation/ death from lack of breath. Circle around and climb up the other side of the ledge to find your first patch of red grass. Bolt through the grass and climb up the ledge to the open area just beyond. Wait there for a few seconds to refill your lungs before moving on. Repeat the same process on the next patch of red grass. Clambering up the ledge to safety on the other side. Using this method, you can work your way down the cliff face. Just be aware that some areas of the red grass don't produce vapours (like the large open area surrounding the portal below). So don't assume that red grass is always equal to death, or else you'll never reach the portal. Pass through once you get there. In the next world, you'll be deep underwater. Ignore everything else and immediately begin swimming as fast as you can to the next portal ahead of you to avoid drowning. Yeah, this isn't the time for screwing around. Enter the portal to move on. You'll come out this time in a cave encrusted with ice. Work your way along the frozen passage until you reach a wall of ice blocking your path. Note: This is the most dangerous area of this subquest. The air outside acts in a similar fashion to the ice damage caused by the wild hunt's spell (damage over time when exposed to the cold). The damage is rapid and quite severe. So think before moving out into the cold. The idea of this area is to run between safe areas. Safe areas are building interiors and behind walls that block the freezing winds. Make sure you know where you are running to and don't just run out hoping to find cover. Your swallow potions and recovery items will help here, but won't be able to counteract the damage you will take directly. You'll need to use them in a place safe from the wind to gradually regenerate some health. Read more: http://guides.cheatcc.com/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-guide-walkthrough/guide_sections/story-30-final-preparations#ixzz3e5dSSmJo Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

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