Talk:Mercedes Marten/@comment-75.82.130.59-20131227154735/@comment-5166842-20131227160227

Her escort quest doesn't matter, the Cloudwines don't even matter too much (though they didn't hurt), the most important thing in getting Mercedes is doing her quest perfectly where she duels Julien, and NOT doing Quina's or Aelinore's final quests.

If Quina and Aelinore are still in the game you have the opportunity to lower their affinity, so that's good. Valmiro... that's tough. Not much you can do about it now.

If you don't get Mercedes, just do a run-through on NG+. You can get to The Dragon in an hour or so and of the few 'necessary' NPCs the game favors her.