Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Trophy Guide & Roadmap

November 9, 2020 by PowerPyx 339 Comments

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Trophy Roadmap

Estimated trophy difficulty: 3.5/10
Approximate amount of time to platinum: 120 Hours+
Offline Trophies: 51 (1, 1, 14, 35)
Online Trophies: 0
Number of missable trophies: 0 (as of Patch 2.00 on PS4 / Patch 1.1.0 on PS5)
Glitched trophies: Nothing Yet, but there are many game-breaking progression bugs in general (see warning below Roadmap). Also see List of known Bugs and Issues
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, can do everything on easy difficulty
Minimum Playthroughs: 1
Free-Roam after Story?: Yes, you can revisit all regions at any time in Free Roam. But Quests are not replayable.
Release Date: November 10, 2020 (PS4) / November 12, 2020 (PS5)

Introduction

Welcome to the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Trophy Guide! This is the biggest Assassin’s Creed game to date, by far (map size, story length, total content). 100% Game Completion is required for the trophy “Completionist All the Way!”. Around 70% of trophies will come automatically by going for 100% completion in each area. The best strategy is to work on 100% Completion as you go through the story. Then finish off your remaining trophies after the story in Free Roam.

Step 1: Story + 100% Completion

Your first task is to focus on the main story while completing all regions as you go through the game. You need 100% game completion for the trophy “Completionist All the Way!”.

Collectibles & Completion:

100% completion includes: Wealth, Mysteries, Artifacts. Some of them can be quite tricky because the World Events don’t have any objectives and Wealth/Artifacts are well hidden. Use the guides below, they list everything region by region:

On the world map it shows you in the bottom right corner how many you found of each type and how many are left. The way the story works is that there’s a Prologue in Norway and then you go to England. In England you will have to pledge to 16 regions to make them your friends. After playing through the story of a region, it’s best that you immediately clean up all the Wealth, Mysteries, Artifacts there before moving to the next region. This will help you level up. If you can’t reach a Collectible yet, it means you need more story progress. Some buildings (especially Castles) are only unlocked after story-related raids. While doing raids, also pick up the smaller golden wealth chests, they don’t count towards 100% completion but contain supplies for upgrading your camp. You can still return to all regions after the story, but there are some missable Completion Items that can only be found during a specific quest. We’ll go through the Missables in a moment.

Feel free to work on any other trophies and tasks you see fit. One thing to look out for are the “Zealots”, there are 15 of them and they are a type of Order of the Ancients Member. You can see a white helmet icon on the map when they are within a few hundred meters of you: . If you see this icon, always scan them with from up close so they get marked in the Order Menu. If you’re underleveled you can track them from that menu later to find them again. The reason you’re supposed to look out for them is that they ride all over the map and move around. This can make it annoying to find them as they have no fixed spawn. So by looking out for them from the start you can save time later. See the below paragraph for a story choice to help with this.

Important Story Choice:

To save time it’s recommended that you have the Zealots hunt you. There’s a dialogue choice early in the story that determines whether Zealots will hunt you throughout the game or whether they will leave you alone. The advantage of having them hunt you is that they will come to you instead of you having to search for them.

Pick this story choice to be hunted by Zealot Order Members (recommended to save time):

During “Ledecestrescire” Story Arc (first region you pledge to in England) – Main Quest “Heavy is the Head”: After the Leofrith boss battle, you can choose whether to spare Leofrith’s Life “(Spare) Burgred abandoned you” or to kill him “(Kill) Pray to your god now”. Choose to kill Leofrith to make Order of the Ancients Members (Zealots) hunt you. If you pick the other choice they won’t hunt you and you must search for them yourself.

Don’t worry if you picked the other option, you can still find all Zealots regardless. It’s just a time-saver. None of the Story Choices impact any trophies whatsoever. Just in case you’re wondering how your Choices impact the story and “what’s best to pick”, you can look at the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Story Choices Guide (optional, not relevant for trophies).

Missables:

As of Patch 2.00 on PS4 / Patch 1.1.0 on PS5 there are no longer any missables (prior to this Patch Version there used to be 2 missables Wealth #12 & Wealth #13 in Jotunheim). This has been fixed since the game’s release.
Given how buggy the game is, it’s super highly recommended to complete each region as you go through them and keep plenty of Manual Saves. If just 1 of the 782 Collectibles bugs out on you, you’d miss the 100% Completion trophy. If you encounter a bug (not uncommon in this game), you can usually fix it by reloading a previous save, fast traveling to another map, or changing gender. But you don’t want to get into a situation where you find out 100 hours later that a World Event you started in the early game bugged out. Always complete World Events right away when you accept them! This way you will notice if something is wrong and can revert to a previous save. Because they don’t have any objectives or waypoint markers, if you stop a World Event halfway through you might never remember where a quest NPC wandered off to. Again, the Mysteries Guide is your friend here and contains Walkthroughs for each World Event.

General Tips:

Here are some tips to help you get around the game more easily.

During objectives that have the “Locate Area” with a bird icon in the top left of the screen, use your Raven and zoom in . It will show a green indicator pointing you in the objective’s direction. There will be a green outline around the objective area, press to mark it with your Raven.
Your Raven isn’t as powerful as in AC Odyssey. It can’t mark enemies or Order Members. Instead, you use to mark objects and enemies in a radius around you. This is helpful for finding Wealth / Mysteries / Artifacts because it shows their colored outline through walls.
AC Valhalla puts more emphasis on parries. Learn How to Parry, you must tap the block button just before an enemy attack lands. This doesn’t require a shield (works with any weapon). Red Rune attacks are unblockable and must be dodged.
Health doesn’t recharge automatically. Instead, you must collect berries from bushes, or fish, food from settlements, rations from enemies/wildlife, or sleep in your bed to restore health.
As for weapons, Dual-Wielding Daggers will make quick work of enemies. The dagger attack stunlocks most human enemies, leaving them unable to move. When combined with Abilities (such as Poison) the daggers can be really overpowered.
As soon as you can build the stables (at your settlement), buy the horse training that lets your horse swim and increases its stamina. These are big time savers.
Some Collectibles require more story progress to become accessible.
Some Collectibles require you to destroy breakable walls. If no explosive oil jar is available nearby, you must use the Incendiary Powder Trap Ranged Ability. Get this as early as possible, it’s found at Walden Monastery in Grantebridgescire – see Wealth #9 in Grantebridgescire.

» Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – Wealth Guide
» Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – Mysteries Guide
» Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – Artifacts Guide

Step 2: Order of the Ancients

There are 45 Members of the Order of the Ancients. You need to find and kill them all. Refer to this guide for their locations:

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – All Order of the Ancients Locations

Step 3: Miscellaneous Trophies & Reaching Level 6 Settlement

After you’re done with the story (and you should also have 100% completion by now), check what Miscellaneous Trophies you still have left. Do those now. This will include things like finding Excalibur and Thor’s Hammer ‘Mjolnir’ or reaching Level 6 with your Settlement. If you end up a few thousand supplies short of upgrading all buildings, you need to find more of the small wealth chests (the ones that don’t count towards completion). Going back to Monasteries where you did raids and opening the smaller chests almost always guarantees supplies.

Step 4: Orlog

One of the last few things on your list will be beating all Orlog Players (a dice minigame).

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – All Orlog Player Locations

Step 5: Fishing

The trophy “Good Catch!” requires you to catch every type of fish using the Fishing Line (killing the Fish with Melee or Explosives doesn’t count). After this the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla platinum will be yours.

Useful Tips, Tricks and Guides:

Bug Warning:
It’s very common being unable to advance Mysteries because the quest givers can’t be talked to, or they glitch through the map and disappear. If just a single Collectible / Mystery of the 782 total is bugged for you, it would cause you to miss the 100% completion trophy “Completionist All the Way!”. For this reason, it is highly recommended to keep a Manual Save from the start of each region (after you pledge to a region at England’s Alliance Map). Also manual save between Quests and between Mysteries so that you can quickly go back if a bug occurs. The good news is most bugs are quickly fixed by fast travel to another map, changing gender, or loading a manual save before starting the quest.