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Introduction to the Dragon’s Dogma 2 Trophy Journey
Welcome, Arisen, to the definitive Dragon’s Dogma 2 Trophy Guide, meticulously crafted to navigate you through every challenge and achievement this vast world has to offer. At CONDUCT.EDU.VN, we understand the thrill of the hunt, the satisfaction of conquering every obstacle, and the pride of unlocking that coveted platinum trophy. Whether you’re a seasoned completionist or a newcomer to the series, this guide will equip you with the knowledge and strategies needed to conquer every trophy in Dragon’s Dogma 2.
Key Features of This Guide
- Comprehensive Roadmap: A step-by-step plan to efficiently unlock all trophies.
- Detailed Trophy Descriptions: Clear explanations of each trophy’s requirements.
- Missable Trophy Warnings: Alerts for trophies that require specific actions or can be easily missed.
- Expert Tips and Tricks: Strategies to overcome challenging encounters and optimize your gameplay.
- Spoiler-Free Guidance: Minimizing story spoilers to preserve your immersive experience.
Guide Overview
This guide is structured to provide a clear and concise path to achieving platinum. It’s designed to be flexible, allowing you to adapt the strategies to your preferred playstyle. Remember, the journey is just as important as the destination. Embrace the challenges, explore the world, and let this guide be your trusted companion on your quest for glory.
Trophy Summary
- Estimated Trophy Difficulty: 5/10
- Approximate Time to Platinum: 70-100 Hours
- Offline Trophies: 55 (1 Platinum, 2 Gold, 6 Silver, 46 Bronze)
- Online Trophies: 0
- Missable Trophies: Most trophies are technically missable, but the unmoored world makes it possible to get them still. Always make a PS+ Cloud save and keep up to date with saves.
- Glitched Trophies: None reported
- Difficulty Affects Trophies?: No, there are no difficulty settings.
- Minimum Playthroughs: 1, with significant cleanup. An additional NG+ playthrough is not required, but can be done for faster progression.
- PS4/PS5 Crossbuy, Autopop & Save Transfer: No, the game does not have a PS4 version.
- Free-Roam / Level Select After Story: There is no conventional Free-Roam or level select.
- Point of No Return: Main Quest 14: A New Godsway, before giving the 15 Wyrmslife Crystals to the Magick Lab.
- Supports Manual Saves: No, only 2 Autosaves (1 regular Autosave + 1 separate “Inn-Save” made every time you rest at an Inn).
- Release Date: March 22, 2024
Step-by-Step Roadmap
Step 1: Initial Playthrough (Focus on Main Story)
- Objective: Complete the main story up to Main Quest 14: A New Godsway.
- Details: During your initial playthrough, prioritize the main story quests. This will unlock key areas, vocations, and game mechanics necessary for later trophy cleanup. Ignore side quests initially, as many remain available until the point of no return. This approach allows you to gain familiarity with the game’s world and combat system without getting bogged down in optional content.
- Key Actions:
- Progress through the main story quests.
- Experiment with different vocations to find your preferred playstyle.
- Gather resources and equipment as needed for survival.
- Make regular PS+ Cloud Saves.
- Trophies to Obtain:
- First Taste of Freedom
- Arisen
- Seat of the Proxy
- Across the Border
Step 2: Trophy Cleanup (Before Endings)
- Objective: Complete all remaining trophies before triggering the game’s endings.
- Details: This is the most extensive step. After Main Quest 14: A New Godsway, focus on completing all side quests, exploration, and combat-related trophies. This involves tackling specific challenges, defeating unique enemies, and collecting all of the possible achievements. Use the guide to identify any missable trophies and ensure you fulfill their requirements before advancing.
- Key Actions:
- Complete all side quests required for trophies.
- Explore the world to discover all locations and secrets.
- Defeat specific enemies and bosses.
- Collect all Seeker Tokens.
- Max out affinity with multiple characters.
- Trophies to Obtain:
- Versatile
- Duo Destinies
- Trickster of the Trade
- Arrows and Incantations
- Jack of All Trades, Master of…All Trades
- An In-Tents Adventure
- A House? In This Economy?
- One Speed Only
- The Savior
- Just a Stone’s Throw Away
- A Badge of Honor
- Full Marks
- Off with Its Head
- Master of the Maisters
- The Specialist
- A Pawn of Many Talents
- Wish upon the Rift
- Myrmecoleon Delights
- The Collector
- The Philanthropist
- Affinity and Beyond
- Dragon Forged
- This’ll Cure What Ails Ye
- Cyclops Abridged
- Harpy Joyride
- Quit Playing Dead
- An Eye for an Eye
- Getting a Head
- The Barbecue-Maister
- Nobles’ Night Out
- Thought I’d Lost You
- Before Dawn Breaks
- The Tourist
- Are We There Yet?
- The Regriffining
- Plenty Arisen to Go Round
- Roost of the Dragon
- Hope You Brought a Lantern
- To the Victor Go the Spoils
- I’m In
Step 3: Complete the Game’s Endings
- Objective: Obtain the final set of trophies by experiencing all the game’s endings.
- Details: Once you’ve completed all other trophies, it’s time to experience the game’s multiple endings. Follow the guide’s instructions to ensure you unlock the required ending trophies. This step may require multiple playthroughs or save manipulation to achieve all outcomes.
- Key Actions:
- Advance Main Quest 14: A New Godsway.
- Obtain the required Wyrmslife Crystals.
- Defeat the required Gigantus
- Follow the specific steps for the Peace Ending, and the Unmoored World Ending.
- Complete the series of tasks during the Unmoored World section for the true ending.
- Trophies to Obtain:
- Gigantus, I Hardly Knew Ye
- Dragon’s Dogma
- Dragon’s Dogma 2
- The Guardian
- The Hero
- I, Talos
- Closure
- Reaper’s Scorn
- Back Where It All Began
Step 4: New Game+ Cleanup (If Needed)
- Objective: If any trophies remain, use New Game+ to quickly obtain them.
- Details: If you missed any trophies during your initial playthrough or cleanup phase, New Game+ provides an opportunity to quickly rectify your mistakes. With your character’s progress and equipment carrying over, you can efficiently rush through the story and focus on obtaining any remaining achievements.
- Key Actions:
- Start a New Game+ playthrough.
- Focus on obtaining any remaining trophies.
- Utilize your character’s boosted stats and equipment to expedite the process.
Detailed Trophy Guide
This section provides detailed descriptions of each trophy, including requirements, tips, and strategies for obtaining them.
Platinum Trophy
The True Arisen
- Description: Collected all other Dragon’s Dogma 2 trophies.
- How to Obtain: Unlock all other trophies to earn the platinum.
Gold Trophies
Full Marks
- Description: Found a solution to every conundrum posed by the goddess of riddles.
- How to Obtain: Complete all of the Sphinx’s riddles.
- Tips:
- The Sphinx appears in multiple locations throughout the game.
- Each riddle requires a specific solution, often involving exploration or combat.
- Consult the “Dragon’s Dogma 2 All Sphinx Riddle Solutions” guide for detailed walkthroughs of each riddle.
Master of the Maisters
- Description: Acquired every maister’s teaching.
- How to Obtain: Obtain every Maister’s Teaching by completing their respective quests.
- Tips:
- Maister’s Teachings are unique skills or abilities taught by expert instructors.
- Each vocation has its own set of Maister’s Teachings.
- Consult the “Dragon’s Dogma 2 All Maister’s Teachings Locations” guide for detailed information on each teaching and how to acquire it.
Silver Trophies
Closure
- Description: Experienced the end of the cycle.
- How to Obtain: Reach the ending of the Unmoored World by interacting with the red beacon at the Seafloor Shrine.
The Guardian
- Description: Led the people to safety in the unmoored world.
- How to Obtain: Successfully evacuate all major settlements in the unmoored world.
- Tips:
- This trophy requires completing a series of quests in the unmoored world.
- Each settlement has its own evacuation questline.
- Prioritize completing these quests before time runs out.
The Hero
- Description: Overcame all the trials of the unmoored world.
- How to Obtain: Complete all the trials of the unmoored world.
- Tips:
- This trophy requires completing all the trials of the unmoored world within 4 days to prevent lands from being destroyed.
- If you die in the Unmoored World, the progress is reset, and these have to be done in one life.
Getting a Head
- Description: Acquired a preserved medusa head.
- How to Obtain: Get a preserved medusa head while near full health.
Reaper’s Scorn
- Description: Accomplished a miracle for several people all at once.
- How to Obtain: Complete a miracle for all at once by obtaining the Eternal Wakestone.
An Eye for an Eye
- Description: Petrified a medusa.
- How to Obtain: Obtain a preserved medusa head, then use the preserved head to petrify Medusa herself.
- Tips:
- Medusa is located in Calignious Depths south of Bakbattahl.
- After obtaining the head, immediately travel to Bakbattahl to put the preserved medusa head into storage.
- Make sure Medusa’s head is used on her BEFORE it decays.
Bronze Trophies
First Taste of Freedom
- Description: Escaped the bonds of slavery.
- How to Obtain: Complete the Prologue.
Arisen
- Description: Regained your memories of receiving the Arisen’s charge.
- How to Obtain: Complete Main Quest 3: In Dragon’s Wake.
Seat of the Proxy
- Description: Arrived in Vernworth.
- How to Obtain: Arrive in the capital city of Vernworth during Main Quest 3: In Dragon’s Wake.
Across the Border
- Description: Passed through the gate at the border.
- How to Obtain: Go through the gate at Checkpoint Rest Town during Main Quest 11: Nation of the Lambent Flame.
Dragon’s Dogma 2
- Description: Witnessed the unmoored world.
- How to Obtain: When riding the dragon at the end of the game, climb to its heart and use the “Empowered Godsbane Blade” to sacrifice yourself with the sword.
Peace
- Description: Became Sovran of Vernworth.
- How to Obtain: Ride the dragon to the end of Main Quest 16: Legacy, then defeat it, then sit on the throne until the credits finish rolling.
I, Talos
- Description: Helped the gigantus walk again.
- How to Obtain: Automatically earned while doing the Gigantus trial in the Unmoored World for The Hero trophy.
Versatile
- Description: Changed your vocation.
- How to Obtain: Change your vocation at an inn or guild hall.
Duo Destinies
- Description: Changed your vocation to mystic spearhand.
- How to Obtain: Unlock the Mystic Spearhand vocation during Main Quest 14: A New Godsway, then change to it.
Trickster of the Trade
- Description: Changed your vocation to trickster.
- How to Obtain: Unlock the Trickster vocation during Main Quest 12: Flickering Shadows, then change to it.
Arrows and Incantations
- Description: Changed your vocation to magick archer.
- How to Obtain: Unlock the Magick Archer vocation as a quest reward from Side Quest: Put a Spring in Thy Step, then change to it.
Jack of All Trades, Master of…All Trades
- Description: Changed your vocation to warfare.
- How to Obtain: Unlock the Warfarer vocation as a quest reward from Side Quest: The Sotted Sage, then change to it.
An In-Tents Adventure
- Description: Went camping.
- How to Obtain: Find a campsite and use a camping kit.
A House? In This Economy?
- Description: Purchased a dwelling of your own.
- How to Obtain: Complete Side Quest: A Place to Call Home.
One Speed Only
- Description: Boarded an oxcart.
- How to Obtain: Board an oxcart at an Oxcart Station.
The Savior
- Description: Used a Wakestone to restore the dead to life.
- How to Obtain: Use a Wakestone to revive a dead NPC.
Just a Stone’s Throw Away
- Description: Used a Ferrystone.
- How to Obtain: Use a Ferrystone to fast travel to a Portcrystal.
A Badge of Honor
- Description: Acquired a pawn badge.
- How to Obtain: Kill a large number of creatures to get a pawn badge.
Gigantus, I Hardly Knew Ye
- Description: Defeated the gigantus in a short span of time.
- How to Obtain: Shoot the Gigantus with an Unmaking Arrow during Main Quest 15: The Guardian Gigantus.
- Tips:
- This trophy is highly missable.
Off with Its Head!
- Description: Decapitated a medusa.
- How to Obtain: Decapitate a medusa.
The Specialist
- Description: Reached the maximum rank in a vocation.
- How to Obtain: Reach Rank 9 in any vocation.
A Pawn of Many Talents
- Description: Taught your pawn a specialization.
- How to Obtain: Use a Specialization Tome on your pawn.
Wish upon the Rift
- Description: Set a pawn quest.
- How to Obtain: Set a pawn quest at the Grand Riftstone.
Myrmecoleon Delights
- Description: Entered the rose chateau.
- How to Obtain: Enter the Rose Chateau Bordelrie in Vernworth.
The Collector
- Description: Collected 80 Seeker’s Tokens.
- How to Obtain: Collect 80 Seeker’s Tokens throughout the world.
The Philanthropist
- Description: Earned the affections of 50 people.
- How to Obtain: Maximize the affinity of 50 NPCs.
- Tips:
- Giving 2 Wyrmslife Crystals to NPCs is guaranteed to maximize their affinity.
Affinity and Beyond
- Description: Raised a person’s affinity to the maximum.
- How to Obtain: Maximize the affinity of any NPC.
Dragon Forged
- Description: Strengthened a weapon in wyrmfire.
- How to Obtain: Upgrade a weapon using Wyrmlife Crystals at the Dragonforged.
Cyclops Abridged
- Description: Crossed a cyclopean bridge.
- How to Obtain: Provoke a Cyclops to fall off the edge of a cliff and hold on to the other side, then cross over him.
Harpy Joyride
- Description: Summoned a harpy, grabbed hold, and took flight.
- How to Obtain: Use a Harpysnare Smoke Beacon to summon a Harpy, then grab onto it.
Quit Playing Dead
- Description: Revived two pawns simultaneously.
- How to Obtain: Revive two downed pawns at the same time.
Dragon’s Dogma
- Description: Obtained Dragon’s Dogma.
- How to Obtain: Purchase the “Dragon’s Dogma” sword from the Dragonforged for 110 Wyrmslife Crystals.
The Barbecue-Maister
- Description: Grilled every type of meat during the night and day.
- How to Obtain: Grill all 6 types of meat during the night and day (12 total).
Nobles’ Night Out
- Description: Attended a palace masquerade in formal raiment.
- How to Obtain: Attend the masquerade at Vernworth Castle wearing the Courtly Tunic, Courtly Breaches, and Eventide Mask.
Thought I’d Lost You
- Description: Restored the dead to life at a morgue or charnel house.
- How to Obtain: Revive a dead NPC with a Wakestone at the Vermund Charnel House or Bakbattahl Morgue.
Before Dawn Breaks
- Description: Defeated the headless horseman.
- How to Obtain: Defeat the Headless Horseman, who appears randomly at night.
The Tourist
- Description: Discovered 50 locations.
- How to Obtain: Discover 50 different caves which then get marked on the map as named locations.
Are We There Yet?
- Description: Boarded the phantom oxcart.
- How to Obtain: Board the Phantom Oxcart.
The Regriffining
- Description: Took flight on griffin wing a second time.
- How to Obtain: Cling onto a Griffin when it tries to flee.
Back Where It All Began
- Description: Returned to Agamen Volcanic Island.
- How to Obtain: Progress through Main Quest 15: The Guardian Gigantus.
Plenty Arisen to Go Round
- Description: Witnessed a brawl break out in your dwelling among your admirers.
- How to Obtain: Raise the affinity of 2 people and have them follow you back to your house.
Roost of the Dragon
- Description: Reached Dragonsbreath Tower.
- How to Obtain: Reach Dragonsbreath Tower during Main Quest 14: A New Godsway.
Hope You Brought a Lantern
- Description: Reached Drabnir’s Grotto.
- How to Obtain: Reach Drabnir’s Grotto southwest of Bakbattahl.
To the Victor Go the Spoils
- Description: Reclaimed your items from the scavenger who stole them from you.
- How to Obtain: Reclaim stolen items from a Scavenger.
I’m In
- Description: Used illicit means to pass through the gate at the border.
- How to Obtain: Cross the border gate in Checkpoint Rest Town while sitting in the back of a carriage and without possessing the “Beastren Border Entry Permit” or “Battahl Residence Permit”.
Tips and Tricks for Trophy Hunting
- Utilize Cloud Saves: Regularly back up your save data to the cloud. This allows you to revert to an earlier point in the game if you make a mistake or miss a trophy opportunity.
- Plan Ahead: Before starting your playthrough, familiarize yourself with the trophy list and roadmap. This will help you prioritize tasks and avoid missable trophies.
- Explore Thoroughly: Dragon’s Dogma 2 rewards exploration. Take the time to explore every nook and cranny of the world to discover hidden locations, resources, and secrets.
- Experiment with Vocations: Don’t be afraid to experiment with different vocations. Each vocation offers unique skills and abilities that can be useful for different challenges.
- Manage Your Pawns: Your pawns are valuable allies. Recruit pawns with complementary skills and gear to create a well-rounded party.
Troubleshooting and FAQ
This section addresses common issues and questions related to trophy hunting in Dragon’s Dogma 2.
Q: I missed a trophy opportunity. Do I need to start a new playthrough?
A: Not necessarily. The Unmoored World section allows you to have the opportunity to get the trophies. However, certain missable trophies may require a New Game+ playthrough to obtain. Utilize cloud saves to revert to an earlier point in the game if possible.
Q: How do I maximize affinity with NPCs?
A: The easiest way to maximize affinity is to give 2 Wyrmslife Crystals to an NPC (remember the person’s name and what they look like), rest for 24 hours, then give another Wyrmslife Crystal to that same person.
Q: What are Seeker Tokens, and why are they important?
A: Seeker Tokens are collectibles scattered throughout the world. Collecting them contributes to the “The Collector” trophy.
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