Ni No Kuni 2 Revenant Kingdom Trophy Guide & Roadmap

Only the normal Guilders that you use to buy items from vendors count for this! After beating the story, all side quests, and 50 tainted monsters you will end up with just around 500,000.

DO NOT spend big sums of money on anything. You really don’t have to anyway. The game is really easy and enemies drop more than enough weapons, armor and health items than you’ll ever need. Plus you level up so quickly that one thing you buy will be obsolete 1 hour later. Just keep your money. You can make some minor purchases such as improving a certain spell or cooking up a higgledy. At the very end after defeating the 10 bonus Tainted Monsters and 10th Dreamer’s Maze I ended up with a little over 600,000 (at 100% game completion).

There are a few things you can do to speed this up, do these as early as possible:

• Tactics Tweaker: Spoils Settings = Cash vs. Kit (choose more Cash). I recommend leaving the others geared on Experience, that will save you much more time for the platinum than the money.
• Evermore Barracks: Research “More Spoils of War”
• Evermore Explorer’s Guild: Research “Improved Smash and Grab”
• Evermore Explorer’s Guild: “Improved Foraging Techniques”
• Evermore Hubble-Bubblery: “Money Magnetism”
• Evermore Hubble-Bubblery: “Quality Control”
• Evermore Elite Barracks: “Even More Spoils of War”
• Evermore Hyper Hubble-Bubblery: “Advanced Money Magnetism”
• Evermore Hyper Hubble-Bubblery “Advanced Quality Control”

Even if you spent a ton of money and end with less than 500k, you can easily farm it in the endgame. Then monsters drop a lot more money and with all the skills and research unlocked it won’t take too long to farm money. Still, to save time, best not spend any. When you’re at 425,000 or so you can make a manual save and try to sell off all your items. After the story this should be enough to push you over 500,000 total. Then you can finally spend money as you see fit!

Alternative Endgame Method: Fully upgrade the storage of your kingdom Evermore to hold 999 items and put all citizens to work in production facilities (mines/lumber yards/hunting lodges/farms/gardens/bazaars/fish markets). Wait for storage to be full and sell all the items. This way you just need to wait it out and don’t have to actively play.

If you want to farm it though, Dreamer’s Mazes are the way to go. You can quit out of the maze before the final floor and replay it to gather chests infinitely.

For a full list of all Trip Doors, see: Ni No Kuni 2 Trip Door Locations.

If any location is unclear, check out the Ni No Kuni 2 Map with all Locations.

There are 30 Higgledy Stones in the game. For their locations see: Ni No Kuni 2 All Higgledy Stone Locations.

There are 175 side quests in the game. For this trophy you only need 150. However, to unlock all 103 citizens (to upgrade castle to level 4) you’ll need to do pretty much all of them anyway. I highly recommend that you do all side quests as soon as they pop up. Each story chapter introduces new side quests (starting at chapter 4). Always fast travel to all major settlements at the start of every chapter and check for quest markers.

Luckily, the quests are super easy to find. The quest markers show up on the map. They are short 1-step fetch-quests. A few are delivery quests but all materials can be farmed from Evermore’s Fish Markets/Bazaars/Mines/Hunting Lodges/Farms. Always keep those facilities fully upgraded and assign one person to each facility. This way you will get a broad range of items for later quests.

For all side quests, their starting locations and walkthroughs, please refer to the complete Ni No Kuni 2 Side Quest Guide.

You can find this vendor in (marked on map):

• Goldpaw
• Hydropolis
• Ding Dong Dell
• Broadleaf

They all have the same errands, doesn’t matter which one you visit.

Most errands are very simple delivery quests (deliver 3-5 items of a sort to the errand giver). A few are for slaying certain types of monsters or crafting a specific piece of gear.

All materials can be farmed from Evermore’s Fish Markets/Bazaars/Mines/Hunting Lodges/Farms. Always keep those facilities fully upgraded and assign one person to each facility. This way you will get a broad range of items. The Swift Solutions Vendor always has up to 12 errands available. When he runs out, check back later (after an hour of gameplay or so). New errands will pop up over time. Start working on this from chapter 5 onwards and you’ll be done in no time.

Completing errands gives you tokens of gratitude. You can trade those in for items and to scout for new citizens. Thereby, the errands are absolutely necessary to recruit the 100 new subjects (citizens).

You can keep track of this by pressing Touchpad > Library > Statistics > Number of Swift Solutions Errands Completed.

You can keep track of this by pressing Touchpad > Library > Vital Statistics > Total Number of Enemies Defeated.

I got to just about 2100 when I reached 100% completion, all by natural progression and without farming. Just go for the other trophies and this should come naturally during the endgame. If you want to farm it, the best places are low-level areas. After the story you can one-hit the enemies and get kills super quickly.

Forest of Niall – Greenling Grove is a great farming spot. After killing all enemies you can use the fast travel point to make all enemies respawn (only a 2 second loading screen). Roland’s Circular Sword skill will wipe an entire group of enemies in one hit.

There are 60 Tainted Monsters in the game. They are stronger versions of normal monsters. The last 10 only spawn after defeating the first 50.

You can keep track of them by pressing Touchpad > Library > Tainted Monsters.

For their locations and advanced strategies, please refer to: Ni No Kuni 2 All Tainted Monsters Locations.

If any location is unclear you can check the full Ni No Kuni 2 World Map with all Locations.

Below is a video of the 50th Tainted Monster, including the list of monsters at the end of the video:

They are randomly dropped during combat and as rewards for defeating enemies. You’ll get some for every combat encounter. Getting 2,000 sounds like a lot, but I got this all through natural gameplay on my way to the platinum trophy. I didn’t have to farm for any of these and often avoided combat altogether.

Balls can still be farmed infinitely after the story in free-roam. Just keep killing groups of enemies.

It is highly recommended that you research the following topics in Evermore as soon as possible (requires Castle Level 2):

• Kingmaker’s Cathedral – Kingmaker’s Blessing
• Kingmaker’s Cathedral – Kingmaker’s Better Blessing
• Kingmaker’s Cathedral – Boon
• Kingmaker’s Cathedral – Better Boon
• Kingmaker’s Cathedral – Bounty
• Kingmaker’s Cathedral – Better Bounty

These upgrades greatly increase the number of balls dropped by your Kingmaker Lofty.

You can keep track of this by pressing Touchpad > Library > Vital Statistics > Total Number of Green Balls Gathered / Total Number of Blue Balls Gathered / Total Number of Gold Balls Gathered / Total Number of Higgledy Balls Gathered.

Add up those 4 types of ball to see your progress towards this trophy.

Note: the purple orbs from Dreamer’s Door Mazes do NOT count for this.

You can increase the odds by building the “Kingmaker’s Cathedral” in Evermore and researching its special skills “Kingmaker’s Bounty” & “Kingmaker’s Better Bounty”. These upgrades will make more golden balls appear.

There is a very fast and reliable way to farm this though: After finishing the story you can replay the final boss as often as you want. During this fight you can charge up your awakening gauge by holding on Lofty. You can easily do this 4+ times per replay. You will have to grind the endboss 50 times or so anyway to get to level 95 for the 10th Dreamer’s Door. So you can easily combine the boss grind with the awakenings.

To actually unlock the trophy you need to get 1 more golden ball outside of the final boss fight. To clarify: yes it does count your awakenings from the endboss but the trophy only pops when collecting one more golden ball from normal enemies.

Awarded for getting a set of matching higgledies!
For this you must equip 4 higgledies with the same type of head accessory. You’ll notice some higgledies have horns on their head, others have bones, sunglasses, hats, leafs etc.
Simply cook up all higgledies at the Evermore Higglery and go find all Higgledy Stones (trophy “No Stone Unturned”). Then you’ll have plenty of choices.When equipping 4 higgledies with the same head accessory you’ll see a yellow text “Higgledy Gaggle!” on the screen. It makes the attacks of your 4 selected higgledies stronger.Examples of 4 matching higgledies (research new higgledy cookbooks at Evermore Higglery & go find the Higgledy Stones):

• [Easiest Option – All Cookable] Pib the Peregrinator, Gyre the Flyer, Abradab the Aviator, Cummerbund the Clement
• [Easiest Option – All Cookable] Tulgey the Dingy, Crooky the Spooky, Coronach the Cranky, Gibbet the Jaundiced
• [Alternatve 1] Twinkle the Twee, Wiff-Waff the Wafty, Brocken the Briny, Wroth the Wrong’un
• [Alternative 2] Knoll the Coal-Fired, Borogove the Burning, Bandersnatch the Blazer, Teakettle the Toasty

For this trophy you must get ALL 103 citizens in the citizen almanac. Even though this trophy says 100, you need all 103. This is because yourself (Evan), Roland, and the Kingmaker don’t count as “recruits”.

To get all subjects you must do almost all side quests.

» Ni No Kuni 2 Side Quests Guide

None of these quests or citizens are missable! You can still get all of them after the story in free-roam. Simple follow the Side Quest Guide linked above and you’ll get all of them (it’s color-coded to highlight the quests that matter for citizens).

You unlock new dishes automatically over time, by doing side quests, and by upgrading the cookshop.

While in Evermore, walk over to the cookshop to cook a recipe. The required ingredients are gathered in the wilds and by defeating enemies, but can also be obtained by letting your citizens farm them in Evermore. The most effective method is to upgrade your farms, ranches and gardens in Evermore. Then assign a few citizens to them and check back regularly to collect the items. Also upgrade your farms etc. to get rarer ingredients.

To farm the rarest ingredients you will have to upgrade the castle to level 4 (recruit all 100 citizens, see trophy “King of the Castle”).

In the cookshop you can see a checkmark behind the dishes you have already cooked. Once cooked they will become available for purchase permanently.

This can be done at the Evermore Weapon Workshop (your castle). You must upgrade this facility and research better weapons. With each upgrade and research, more weapons become available for crafting. The ingredients can be farmed by your citizens in Evermore (mines, hunting lodges, fish markets etc.).

You can see a red checkmark behind the weapons you have already crafted. Once you have 50 of those checkmarks the trophy will pop.

You can also make a manual save before this trophy and reload it afterwards to get the money & materials back.

This can be done at the Evermore Outfitters (your castle). You must upgrade this facility and research better armor. With each upgrade and research, more armor items become available for crafting. The ingredients can be farmed by your citizens in Evermore (mines, hunting lodges etc.).

You can see a red checkmark behind the armor you have already crafted. Once you have 50 of those checkmarks the trophy will pop. Do note that rings and pendants also count as “armor”.

You can also make a manual save before this trophy and reload it afterwards to get the money & materials back.

Spell Upgrades can be done at the Evermore Spellworks (your castle). You must upgrade this facility and research better spells. With each upgrade and research more spell upgrades become available. The ingredients can be farmed by your citizens in Evermore (mining camps etc.).

Over the course of the story you unlock new team members. They come with new spells for upgrading, thus you have more choices. After the story you will have more than enough materials for 50 upgrades.

You can also make a manual save before this trophy and reload it afterwards to get the money & materials back.

Higgledies can be cooked up at the Evermore Higglery (your castle). You must upgrade this facility and research better higgledy cookbooks. With each upgrade and research more higgledy recipes become available. The ingredients can be farmed by your citizens in Evermore (mining camps, hunting lodges etc.).

You can also make a manual save before this trophy and reload it afterwards to get the money & materials back.

Luckily, nothing is missable and everything is still possible after the story in free-roam.

For more info on the citizens check trophy “Recruiting Consultant”.

Go around the map and finish all the skirmishes that you see. When you’ve already finished a skirmish you’ll notice it gives you the option to upgrade to a hard version for 1000 Kingsguilders. This is how you know you’ve already done this skirmish. Don’t repeat those on hard, it won’t count.

Also note that there are many “Invaders in Evermore” skirmishes. New ones spawn frequently outside Evermore. These are needed to get the trophy. They will increase in level and unlike other skirmishes cannot be replayed. I had to beat all available skirmishes on the map, all skirmishes from side quests, and Invaders in Evermore VII (#7) to pop this trophy. The Invaders in Evermore events don’t always show up. If they don’t, repeat another skirmish outside Evermore and fast travel back and forth between a few places. After a while a new flag will spawn just outside Evermore, which is a new skirmish. Getting all of those to spawn took me many hours, it’s very tedious and random.

Some skirmishes are even tied to side quests so you’ll have to complete all side quests in the game, too!

» Ni No Kuni 2 Side Quests Guide

Over the course of the game (and side quests) you will recruit new troops for battle. You can always select 4 troops. I pretty much stuck to the starting units and just leveled those up.

Recommended Troops (3 x Melee, 1 x Ranged): The Scurvy Sky-Vipers, The Silver Foxes, Gamma Squadron, The Salty Sky-Serpents.

Before every skirmish you can also buy boosters. Always do this. Your troops’ level will increase with each skirmish. I had no trouble beating level 50 skirmishes with level 25 troops with all boosters equipped. Also do the research projects in the Evermore Barracks. Those increase your military might etc.

I want to point out specifically that the stats for “Number of Skirmishes Won” are not reliable for this as you may have beaten the same skirmish twice. If you want to track this properly, refrain from replaying any skirmishes and just do the unique ones.

Note: even if you fully researched “Safer Dimensional Delving Vol. IV” at the Multi-Dimensional Lab, you can still get this. It greatly slows down the rate at which the threat level rises but the trophy is still obtainable after all research projects were completed.

» Ni No Kuni 2 All Dreamer’s Door Locations

You get the key for the Dreamer’s Doors automatically in Chapter 4. When you have to get the Scrubber for Auntie Martha from the Grotty Grotto, a guy called Mileniyah will stop you on the way out. He’ll give you the key. After that you can open the 10 Dreamer’s Doors. They are all shown on the map by quest markers. When you finish one Door the next marker will show up. After completing the first 9 Dreamer’s Gates you must go talk to Mileniyah in Goldpaw. He will give you the key to the 10th door which is found on the Faraway Isle (small island to the east of Broadleaf). Enter the Faraway Woods on the island to find the door.

The problem is that 10th door has a level 95 boss. After completing all other trophies you will be level 75 or so, which is still far away from the 95 mark. You can try your luck by dodging the boss very carefully but it’s hard and will take a long time. Also, if you die you will have to go through all 30 floors again just to get back to the boss.

What I recommend is that you grind to level 90-95 to make this much easier. The fastest way to level up after the story is by repeating the final boss. Lock on to him with and then just keep smashing , skip the ending cutscene and repeat. You can watch some TV or anything else while you do this. The final boss doesn’t require any skill, it’s just pressing one button for a few minutes. I had completed the game 100% and then replayed the final boss 55 times to get to level 97. At level 97 I killed the maze boss in a few seconds. On level 75 he was almost impossible.

It took me around 6 hours of grinding the final boss to get to a high-enough level but wasn’t actively playing for it (just pressing one button).

Here is a video of this XP Grinding Method:

Also get some good equipment. I recommend you slay the Tainted Monsters #51-60. The Dreamer’s Maze boss is actually a replica of the 60th tainted monster. If you can beat Tainted Monster #60 you can easily defeat the Maze boss, too.

Boss Strategy:

• If you have trouble, grind to level 95 by replaying the last story boss.
• Team: Leander (main character), Roland, Bracken
• Skills: Leanders’ Gorgon Eye, Bracken’s Pyre Pillar (level 15).
• Before going into the fight make sure Leander’s Weapon Gauges are all at 100%. Refill the mana of all 3 characters to the maximum.
• Bring 3 x Rosehip Tart (can be cooked in Evermore’s Cookshop). It will make the weapon charge build up more quickly to 100%. Eat it as soon as the fight starts (or shortly before the fight).
• Use weapons that have an A-Rating for charge speed.
• Use Quickfire Ring (5 stars) to build up charged attacks more quickly and Wizard’s Little Helper Pendant to make spells cost less MP.
• Now use Leander’s Gorgon Eye to stun-lock the boss. When the boss is down, attack him to build up a new weapon charge to 100% and get back MP. When he stands up immediately hit him with another 100% charged weapon’s Gorgon Eye Spell. The boss will now go down again and you can repeat indefinitely. The key here is to build for charge speed to stun-lock the enemy. Bracken’s Pyre Pillar (level 15) can also stun him in one hit (only at 100% charge).
• Leander also has the best evasion. And because the boss is so huge he’s easy to hit with Leander’s attacks.