Talk:Where the Cat and Wolf Play.../@comment-30835423-20170111010209

Whether or not you kill or spare Gaetan, you gain 10 exp in NG+.

If you kill/loot the body, you only earn the Teigr [witcher] steel sword tath's worth 1755 gold and is 15% aard, 10% crit chance, 10% bleeding, and 5% bonus exp on humans/non humans, as well as a common Witcher's silver sword (terrible).

If you spare Gaetan, you get a new quest: "Take whatever you want", that is ~200+ footsteps north of Midcorpse. It may be guarded by bandits. Within the cellar/basement, you get 263x crowns, the same Teigr steel sword, a letter to Gaetan (explaining the school of the cat being taken over by soldiers, whereas his fellow witchers are either dead or have been placed a bounty on their head), and 2x dwarven spirits.

Bottomline: best reward (loot) would be listening to Gaetan story and letting him go. The fighting's not that special: he uses Quen a lot. If you give him "No chance", the fight's easy if you use the Northern Wind Bomb. If you give him a chance to take a swallow potion, he'll blind you with a samum bomb (makes everything look dark) and call you a fool. Don't fall for it ;p