Assassin’s Creed Mirage Trophy Guide & Roadmap

October 4, 2023 by PowerPyx 106 Comments

Assassin’s Creed Mirage Trophy Roadmap

Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10
Approximate amount of time to platinum: 20-30 hours
Offline Trophies: 51 (1, 1, 15, 34)
Online Trophies: 0
Number of missable trophies: 1 – You Snooze, You Lose
Glitched trophies: 0
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, can do everything on Easy difficulty
Minimum Playthroughs: 1
PS4/PS5 Autopop & Save Transfer: No Autopop. Save Transfer is supported in both directions (from PS4 to PS5 & PS5 to PS4) through Ubisoft online cloud (not through local save). It automatically downloads the last Ubisoft Cloud Save you made, requires internet connection. However, this doesn’t autopop any trophies. Some combat trophies pop after doing one more of the required task, but no story trophies autopop. You’d have to manually transfer save before every individual trophy and redo the last part that triggers the trophy.
PS4/PS5 Crossbuy: Yes
Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: There is still Free-Roam after the story, can go back everywhere and still get all Collectibles. There is no Mission Replay.
Supports Manual Saves?: Yes, 20 Manual Save Slots & 5 Autosave Slots.
Release Date: October 05, 2023

Introduction

Welcome to the Assassin’s Creed Mirage Trophy Guide! AC Mirage goes back to the roots with gameplay similar to Assassin’s Creed 1. The amount of content and map size is also comparable to AC1 and significantly smaller than the latest main title AC games. It’s a pretty quick and easy platinum. The story lasts around 10+ hours, there are side quests called “Contracts”, and 170 Collectibles total. All collectibles are needed to “fully explore all territories”, except Enigma Solutions of which only one is required for trophy purposes (finding the Enigma Scrolls is enough to complete all territories). There is only one missable trophy for pickpocketing a guard affected by a blowdart, the problem being that it only works on a few specific guards carrying keys or mysterious shards.

Step 1: Play through Story & Sync all Viewpoints [12-15 Hours]

Because some Collectibles are gated behind story progress it’s best to focus on the story first. After finishing the story you will have access to all Collectibles. What difficulty you pick doesn’t matter, everything is obtainable on ‘Easy’ difficulty. During the story watch out for the following:

[MISSABLE] You Snooze, You Lose – this requires you to use a Blowdart on an enemy soldier carrying a key and pickpocket him. It only works on enemies who have an orange key icon over their head . Alternatively, it works on enemies carrying Mysterious Shards (only 10 total in the game). There are very limited opportunities for this, making it highly missable (civilians with keys don’t count). You gain access to the Blowdart automatically from the story, after Main Quest: Branching Out (shortly after assassinating the 1st Order Member called “Al-Ghul”). Then go loot one of the enemies holding a Mysterious Shard Collectible. You can find an enemy with a key on the roof of “The Bazaar” in Karkh district:
[TIME SAVER] Enable Guaranteed Pickpocket in game options – Press Touchpad > Touchpad again to open Menu > Options > Gameplay > Guaranteed Pickpocket = ON. This successfully completes every pickpocketing attempt without needing to input the QTE sequence. You can sell pickpocketed items to Traders for money.
[TIME SAVER] Spend Merchant Favor Tokens at traders to reduce all prices by -30% & Buy 100 Components (Cogs) whenever available – You need a total of 1460 Components (Cogs) to fully upgrade all Tools. They are the rarest resource in the game. The fastest way is to buy them. By default they cost 5 Dirhams per piece but you can reduce the price to 3 Dirhams per piece by spending “Merchant Favor Tokens” to get a discount. These Tokens come from pickpocketing people, and once spent the discount is applied permanently across all traders in the game. When you have enough money, spend it on buying 100 Components for 300 Dirhams. It takes a while for merchant inventories to replenish so check back from time to time. This reduces the grind for all Tool Upgrades later on. Don’t waste money on Steel Ingots & Leather, you get more of those than you need.
[TIME SAVER] Sync All Viewpoints – Viewpoints unfog the map to reveal collectibles and can be used as fast travel points. Unlocking all of these early will save time during quests, allowing you to fast travel everywhere instead of walking. You should start working on these after finishing the Prologue, as soon as you unlock the Camel mount so you can ride everywhere quickly. It takes around 2-3 hours to sync all Viewpoints and unfog the whole map. See Viewpoint Locations.

Step 2: Collectibles [5 Hours]

After the story you will have access to all Collectibles.

See Assassin’s Creed Mirage Collectible Guide.

Step 3: Play Contracts to Unlock All Skills & Fully Upgrade All Tools [2 Hours]

After doing all Main Quests and Collectibles, you will still need 13 skill points. To get these, you will need to finish most of the Contracts (Side Quests). They are started on the quest board in Hidden Ones’ Bureau. These also reward you with more materials for upgrading all Tools. While you do this, remember to keep buying stacks of 100 Components (Cogs) from traders whenever available. To fully upgrade all tools you need: 1460 Components + 675 Steel Ingots + 675 Leather.

Steel Ingots and Leather shouldn’t be a problem if you didn’t overspend them on Weapon/Outfit upgrades. If you run short on these you can buy them from traders too.

Step 4: Miscellaneous Trophies [2 Hours]

All you might have left are some Miscellaneous Trophies. Most of them should have unlocked naturally by now but anything you have left can quickly be farmed in the open world.

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