Treated Like Cattle is a mission in Divinity: Original Sin 2 where players must help two people who have been turned into cows by an evil witch transform back into their human selves by giving them an elusive potion hidden somewhere in the Witch's house.
Curing both cows from their affliction requires two potions, but unfortunately there seems to be only one of these to go around. This guide covers the exact location of the witch potion, the method of making a second one, as well as all the possible ways that being treated as cattle can be accomplished and the rewards that can be obtained.
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How to start being treated like cattle in Divinity: Original Sin 2
Treated as a cattle site
In The Meadows north of Driftwood there is two cows, Geraldine and Mabel, standing in an open field next to the Witch House (X:340, Y:240). Use a character with the Pet Pal talent to talk to them to discover that they are actually two people who have been turned into cows by the witch Alice Alisceon.
Geraldine and Mabel will ask you to help them turn back to their true selves by giving it to them Witch potionthe only thing that can reverse the curse the witch cast upon them. The two cows will tell you that the witch's potion is in the witch's house.
How to get witch's potion in Divinity: Original Sin 2
Witch's Potion Location
The witch's house is right next to where you find the cows (X:375, Y:224)and will be marked on your map with a yellow flag when you trigger the mission. It's the house with the big frog on the porch.
To enter, download The witch's house key in front of the entrance (use the highlighted item hotkey to find it). Use the key to open the door next to the frog and enter the house.
Find the hatch that leads down to the basement in the room next to the bedroom. Have a character with you 4 Theft use a lockpick to unlock the hatch to enter The basement of the witch house.
If you can't unlock the cellar door, you can find a key to it by killing Alice Alisceon in Cloisterwood and looting her body.
The basement of the witch's house is crawling with exploding rats. These rats spawn from rat holes found on the walls of the basement. To deal with the rats, you have to close the rat holes by destroying them with attacks. There are five rat holes in total, one in the first room and four in the second. Use a character with a varied skill, such as a mage or an archer, to close the rat holes from afar without being overrun by the rats.
When all rats are treated, activate the lever in the second room to open the metal grate leading to the final room.
Pick up Witch's Potion from the shelf in the corner of the roombehind the table and chair. This is the drink the cows are looking for. But since it's only a single dose, it can only cure one of them.
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How to Craft the Witch's Potion in Divinity: Original Sin 2
Witch's potion recipe
Kill the giant blue frog (Zppt) in the electrified cell in the basement (300XP) and loot its body to find a book titled Witch's Potion notes. If you have a character with the Mystic and Scholar tags, they will be able to read this book too decipher the recipe for the witch potion which can be used to cure Geraldine and Mabel.
Only Fane has both Mystic and Scholar tags DOS2. Since you can't change tags using the Magic Mirror respectively, that means there's no way to decipher the book unless you have him in your party (or don't already have a character of your own with those tags).
All ingredients in Witch's Potion
The recipe for the Witch's Potion is:
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1 Witch's Eye + 1 Augmentor + 1 Boletus = Witch's Brewed Potion
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The witch's eye |
The witch's eye is on the table at the ground floor of the Witch Housedirectly in front of the entrance. |
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Augmentor |
An Augmentor can be found in Driftwood, near the west exit (X:262, Y:102). |
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Boletus |
A Boletus can be found southeast of the Witch House, next to a wooden barrel (X:388, Y:204). |
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Combine the Witch's Eye, Augmentor and Boletus in the crafting menu to create a Witch's Brewed Potion.
You don't need to decipher the witch notes to make this potion; simply using the right ingredients is enough.
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How to cure Geraldine and Mabel in Divinity: Original Sin 2
How to turn Geraldine and Mabel into humans in DOS2
The curse on Geraldine and Mabel can be lifted, and they can return to their human forms by drinking the potion. Depending on the state of the game and how many potions you have in your inventory, this interaction can go a few different ways.
- If you have a Witch's Potion in your inventory: Give Geraldine or Mabel the Witch's Potion to lift the curse from one of them (13450XP). The Treated Like Cattle quest will not end until you bring a second potion to heal the second cow. You will earn 13450XP a second time when you use the second potion for a total of 26900XP.
- If you have two Witch's Potions in your inventory: Give both Geraldine and Mabel a Witch's Potions each to lift the curse from both of them (13450XP).
- If you use Persuasion to claim a reward: Mabel will agree to sell books for free, and Geraldine will offer to tell you where a secret treasure is. However, this will reduce the experience reward for healing either cow from 13450XP to 8075XP.
Geraldine's hideout is inside a mound north of Gallows, behind the windmill (X:437, Y:182). You will find this storage space here regardless of whether he tells you about the location or not.
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Use One Witch's Potion to cure both cows in DOS2
There is an exploitation in Divinity: Original Sin 2 where you can use a single Witch's Potion (the one obtained from the basement) to heal both cows. With this method, not only will you need to craft a Witch's Brewed Potion to cure the second cow, you'll earn a whopping 26900XP. Here's how it works:
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Pick up the Witch's Potion from the Witch House basement.
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Talk to Geraldine and Mabel and progress the dialogue until you are at the dialogue screen that says “Feed Geraldine the potion/Feed Mabel the potion.”
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Switch to another party member, open the inventory, find the Witch's Potion, move it to this character's bag and drop it on the ground.
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Switch to the character talking to Geraldine and Mabel and select the dialogue option “Feed Geraldine/Mabel the potion.” This will cure one of the cows and restore them to their human form.
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Pick up the Witch's Potion where you dropped it on the ground, talk to the remaining cow and feed them the potion to heal them as well.
- Released
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September 14, 2017
- ESRB
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M for mature: blood and gore, language, sexual themes, violence
