Bosses & Special Gear

Seven trophies come from the story's big moments: the four boss kills, your first Elixir Well, the Guard of the North armour set in Revelwood and the Ghost Glider in the Kindlewastes. None of them can be missed.

The four trophy bosses

All 5 Guard of the North pieces

For Pieces of the past. The level-13 set is spread across Pikemead's Reach, Revelwood's ruined capital. Each piece sits in a chest with a note that marks the next one on your map.

The trophies

Thundering success

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Defeat the guardian of the first elixir well.

TypeSilver

MissableNo

How to earn it

Kill the Fell Thunderbrute, the mini-boss guarding the Shroud Root at the bottom of your first Elixir Well in the Springlands. The main quests send you there early. It's slow and telegraphs everything, but each hit lands hard: stay at its side or back, dodge sideways when it raises its arms, and punish after each slam. Destroying the root alone doesn't count; the brute itself has to die.

Tip

Silver. If you sneak past it and only destroy the root, come back: the well stays open and you can fight it later.

Well done!

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Cleared the first elixir well.

TypeBronze

MissableNo

How to earn it

Clear your first Elixir Well by destroying the Shroud Root at its bottom; for most players that's the well north of Longkeep that the main quest sends you to. Wells are deep Shroud dungeons marked on the map; each one cleared gives 3 skill points (an ordinary root gives 1). Use your axe on roots, it's much faster than a weapon.

Tip

Pops together with, or just after, Thundering success. Every well root also counts towards its region's weeding trophy.

Pieces of the past

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Find all forgotten "guard of the north" armor pieces.

TypeBronze

MissableNo

How to earn it

Collect all 5 Guard of the North armour pieces in Pikemead's Reach. You don't need to wear them. Gloves: beat the Fell Brute guarding the Shroud Root on the west side of the city; the gold chest is by the portcullis (reach it over the rooftops and through the hole in the wall of the big inn). The note beside it marks the next piece with a "!" on your map, and each piece leads to the next. Boots: top of the tower at the south-east corner of the city wall. Pants: a chest buried in rubble on the east side of the ruined building at the northern tip of Pike's Port. Chestplate: a glowing stone coffin in the Imperial Garden crypt on the east side, which only opens once you've followed the journals. Helmet: after the Wyvern, use the Key to the Pike, go through the Throne Room, up the broken tower and along the ramparts, then grapple to the eastern tower's balcony.

Tip

Double Jump makes the towers much easier. Four of the five pieces don't need the Wyvern; the helmet does.

Dethroned

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Defeat the shroud wyvern.

TypeSilver

MissableNo

How to earn it

Kill the Shroud Wyvern (the Fell Wispwyvern), the boss at the end of the Revelwood questline in Pikemead's Reach, the ruined capital in the north-east of Revelwood. Climb the ruined walls of the Imperial Garden until you see a large walled square below, then drop in to start the fight. It's not a hard boss: stock up on healing, keep moving out of its dives and Shroud breath, and hit it when it lands. It drops the Key to the Pike (which opens the way to the Guard of the North helmet) and the head you need for the next Flame upgrade.

Tip

Silver. Can't be missed: the Flame upgrade won't let you progress without it.

Winged Victory

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Obtain a ghost glider.

TypeBronze

MissableNo

How to earn it

Get the Ghost Glider. It sits in a gold chest at the very top of the South-east Sun Temple in the Kindlewastes, the goal of the Alchemist's quest Among the Bluejays. You're meant to climb up through its puzzles, but it's much quicker to climb the big sand mountain behind it and glide onto one of the upper floors, using Updraft to gain height. Looting it also unlocks the Ghost Glider recipe at the Carpenter (3 Shroud Wood, 2 Fabric, 4 Enshrouded Oil, 1 Sulfur, 1 String), so co-op partners can craft their own.

Tip

Get it as soon as you reach the desert: it's the best glider in the game and makes the last four regions far quicker.

King of the mountain

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Defeat the dragon.

TypeGold

MissableNo

How to earn it

Kill the Dragon (the Fell Dragon Youngling) on Howling Peak, the highest point in Embervale, in the Albaneve Summits. The quest Slaying the Corrupted Beast (recommended level 34) asks you to light 8 Balefires around the region, the last one at Everfrore Keep (they shoot huge red beams into the sky, so they're easy to spot); once all eight are lit, the arena on the summit opens. It throws falling fireballs, sweeps fire breath across the arena and knocks you off the platform with its wings. You can parry the falling fireballs back to stun it, and the dragon was toned down in 1.0. The reliable method is ranged: stun (paralysing) arrows to drop it out of the air, then melee it while it's grounded. Bring plenty of Obsidian arrows, or the mana-powered eternal arrows from the Hunter, and fight from a rocky point at the edge of the arena so its melee can't reach you.

Tip

Gold. Place a Flame Altar on Howling Peak first: it's a spawn point next to the arena and saves you the long climb after every death.

A new North Star

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Defeat Lord Vorgoth.

TypeGold

MissableNo

How to earn it

Defeat Lord Vorgoth, the final boss, at the top of Cinder's Cradle. The main quest has you clear the region's 6 sanctuaries (the Beacon dungeons), which opens the Floating Isles; fight your way up to him from there. He's a level-50 fight in two phases: a humanoid knight (you can backstab him in this form) and then a Shroud monstrosity (you can't). He takes 120% damage from Fire and none from Shroud, so swap any Shroud weapons out. The organs that grow around the arena pass the damage you deal to them on to Vorgoth and share his fire weakness. In co-op each extra player adds 70% to his health.

Tip

Gold. Most players find him easier than the flying boss right before him. Fire weapons (Pyreblade, Arsonist's Bow) make it quick.