Nioh 3 Trophy Guide & Roadmap

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Equip such a weapon and kill enemies with it until the trophy unlocks. This won’t take long, just a few minutes of farming kills will suffice. Each Crucible Weapon has a “Crucible Art”, which you unlock permanently by raising weapon familiarity to the maximum. You can view the familiarty progress from the inventory when hovering over the weapon, it’s the blue bar above the attack value. When this reaches the maximum on a Crucible Weapon, the trophy will unlock.

Then you can press + when an enemy is charging up a red glowing attack to interrupt it. This works just like regular Burst Breaks for  Burst Break, but using your Guardian Spirit Skill instead. You will see a circle light up at the bottom of the screen, left of your health when the Skill is charged up. You charge it by landing any attacks on enemies, then after one use must charge it again.

Just like regular Burst Breaks, you’ll want to press + just before a red glowing attack hits you. If you press too early or too late it won’t work.

If it shows a warning that the Soul Core can’t be used, you will first have to defeat  Crucible Wraiths. Keep defeating Crucible Wraiths and collecting Soul Cores from enemies until you get one that you can use for summoning. You will get plenty of these naturally throughout the game.

The collectibles that give the biggest boost to Exploration Level are Enemy Bases, Lesser Crucibles, Myths. Explore a region thoroughly and pick up enough Collectibles to reach Exploration Level 4. At Exploration Level 2 the whole map gets unfogged, and at Level 4 all collectibles get marked automatically which makes it easy to find remaining items.

Before selling gear check the names and equip all with the same green text. You can also “lock” or “favorite” the gear so you don’t accidentally sell it (press in the inventory). Some sets have 5 pieces of armor only, and some sets feature a 6th piece from Weapons or Accessories.

Don’t worry about this, in the late game you will get loads of set pieces, you can carry 2000 items total and will get a bunch of sets naturally. Just remember to go through the items before selling them.

You can return to the Eternal Rift any time by pressing on the map screen.

To make Soul Match available at the blacksmith, you must complete the Myth “A Fierce Flame”. This quest is automatically started during Main Mission: The Hamamatsu Incident, after leaving the Eternal Rift for the first time. You can’t miss it. Track it from the “Progress Menu”. The objectives will be marked on the map.

After finishing the Myth, talk to the blacksmith and pick the “Soul Extraction” option. Select some low level equipment you don’t need, it will be sacrificed to get Soul Ore (material needed for Soul Match). Then use the “Soul Match” option, select any piece of equipment and how many levels you want to raise it, this unlocks the trophy.

This trophy is guaranteed to unlock automatically while going for all collectible trophies, for which you have to use all types of Spirit Veins anyway.

Guardian Spirit Unlocks:

• Nekomata = automatically equipped when you reach the open world map after completing Main Mission 2: Escape from Hitokoto Slope.
• Kongojishi = automatic reward from Main Mission: Tiger’s Cause (finished Main Region 1: Warring States).
• Narikama Tanuki = automatic reward from Main Mission: Tiger’s Cause (finished Main Region 1: Warring States).
• Kurama Tengu = automatic reward from Main Mission: Sacred Mountain Defiled (first mission in Main Region 2: Heian).
• Oh = automatic reward from Main Mission: Frozen City, Blazing Tree, after defeating the main boss “Minamoto no Yoritomo”
• Kusanagi (Ninja) = automatic story reward from Main Mission: The Spirit Tree Village, after defeating the main boss “Kusanagi” (first mission in Main Region 3: Antiquity).
• Shami-Choro = automatic story reward from Main Mission: The Sweet Sound of Strings, after defeating the main boss “Takasugi Shinsaku” (first mission in Main Region 4: Bakumatsu)
• Golden Shachi = automatic story reward from Main Mission: Scion of the Gods, after defeating the main boss “Okita Soji & Tokugawa Yoshinobu” (finished second Crucible in Main Region 4: Bakumatsu)
• Murakumo = automatic story reward from Main Mission: A Sinister End, after defeating the main boss “Hiruko” (the final story mission in the game)

Guardian Spirits from Side Missions are not needed to traverse any Spirit Veins.

If you want to play online you can also go to a shrine and pick “Co-Op” > “Expeditions” > “Mission Mode” to search for other players.

Then you need to collect a bunch of  Scampuss Collectibles, they get marked on the map automatically when you reach Exploration Level 4. They are the little cats that roll around and you have to follow them until you can pet them. These will give “Furball” items.

After grabbing a bunch of these, return to the Eternal Rift (press on Map screen). There should now be a big Scampuss Cat on the side of the Eternal Rift, it will be marked with an icon on the map. Talk to it and give it a furball. This unlocks the trophy.

You can bring it more furballs to get rewards like Handbooks that unlock new skills. Though for trophies you only need to give it one Furball.

Demon of Pride is a hidden optional boss with a golden chest icon on the map. It’s found in Warring States > Iinoya > Shrine: Sengan Waterfall > use the Spirit Vein slightly north from the shrine to reach the golden chest on the map. You need to backtrack later after progressing the story to get the required Guardian Spirit (automatic story unlock). It’s a high level boss, so it’ll be easier to do it after the story.

Demon of Envy is a hidden optional boss with a golden chest icon on the map. It’s found in Heian > Hachijo > Anneibo Temple > when facing the shrine turn left and climb up the scaffolding, then you can drop into a slightly hidden cave with this boss at the end. There’s a Spirit Vein on the path that leads to it. It’s a high level boss, so it’ll be easier to do it after the story.

Demon of Obsession is a hidden optional boss with a golden chest icon on the map. It’s found in Bakumatsu > Nijo Castle > the golden chest in the north-west corner. To reach it you must first go to Mibu region, drop down from Shrine: Mibu Temple – Main Gate (from the hill south of the golden chest icon).

“Black Feather Sanctuary” is a story mission in Main Region 2: Heian. The mission is unmissable, you will automatically play it for main story progress. In Heian when you get 3 yellow mission markers it will be the one furthest west in Sagano sub-region. You can replay this mission at any time afterward from Shrines > Battle Scrolls > Heian > Black Feather Sanctuary.

During this mission you will see 3 crows sitting on Torii Gates that shoot purple projectiles at you. For this trophy, you have to shoot the crows so they disappear before you get close to them. Use any gun or bow and shoot them with + . The crows don’t have to die, they just need to take damage and disappear. There are 3 crows total throughout the mission.

The first is at the start of the mission in front of you, directly after the first shrine. The second is after the second shrine after going through an ice cave. The third is after the third shrine when entering a bigger temple area.

After shooting all crows, simply proceed to the end of the mission normally and defeat the mission boss called “Otoroshi”. As soon as he’s defeated, the trophy will unlock. If it doesn’t unlock you can replay the mission as often as you want.

Throughout the mission, you will get attacked by a bird enemy that casts lightning at you from a distance. After it shoots lighting it will fly away and you meet the bird again at several points throughout the mission. For the trophy, shoot the bird at every opportunity so that it flies away.

The trophy actually seems to unlock automatically for most players even if you don’t shoot the bird and get hit by its lightning. How the trophy is likely meant to work is that you shoot the bird so it flies away before you get close to it, similar to how the crows in “Black Feather Sanctuary”. Being hit by the lightning is fine and doesn’t void the trophy. The final encounter with the bird is during the “Death Veil” fight and the trophy pops immediately when the bird flies away for the last time. If you don’t get the trophy, you can replay the mission afterward from the Battle Scroll at any shrine.

This trophy takes place across two different main missions.

1. Dark Roots is a main story mission in Antiquity era (replayable via Battle Scroll). At the end of the mission, just before the boss, you must sit in the hot spring. After activating the last elevator, it will be at the foot of the stairs on the left, before the room with red water where you pick up an item to open the path to the boss. Just sit in the hot spring and wait for Himiko to finish her dialogue. Finish the mission afterward if you are doing it via the replay function.
    
2. Now go to any Shrine > Battle Scrolls > Warring States > The Apparition of Ryotan Temple. This is an old mission from earlier in the game that you have to replay. Enter the hot spring during this mission, after dropping down a roof, in the backyard pond area, behind a Nurikabe wall. Himiko will then have a unique dialogue and says “why does this feel so familiar?”, after which the trophy unlocks.
    

“Seeking Rare Yokai” is a Myth in the final main region “Bakumatsu”. The trophy unlocks automatically by finishing this Myth. As part of the objectives, you will talk to Himiko and draw a painting of her Spirit Guardian “Kusanagi “, this is unmissable. After completing the Myth you unlock the trophy. As a prerequisite you must have done the Myth “Yokai Horde Picture Scroll” in Heian region.

Quest Walkthroughs:

1. Yokai Horde Picture Scroll
2. Seeking Rare Yokai

Step 1: Finish the Myth “Putrid Paradise” in Heian > Hachijo. It will be marked on the map, in the eastern half of Hachijo by talking to a man who stands on a roof in the swamp area. The objectives will all be marked, you must sit in a hot spring with him and then protect him while he walks home.

Step 2: After the Putrid Paradise Myth, the Dung Lover will spawn in the Eternal Rift (press on world map to go there). Climb down the ladder behind the Blacksmith to reach him in the underground cave. He will be marked on the map.

Step 3: Give him 30 Dung Balls to get the trophy (Noble Dung Balls count as 2 normal Dung Balls). Dung Balls are random drops from enemies and you can also find them on corpses (yellow item pickups) throughout the rest of the game. To make this less grindy, keep this as one of your last trophies.

When you are done with the everything else, come back to the Dung Lover. If you don’t have 30 Dung Balls by that point you can keep farming the rest.

Where to Farm Dung Balls: You can farm Dung Balls from the flying wasp enemies. A good farming spot is in Warring States > Tokaido > Shrine: Cape Cavern (the region in the south-east of Warring States, southernmost shrine). From the shrine turn around and you’ll find 2 wasps on the left and 2 wasps on the right. On average every 30 Wasp Kills they will drop a Dung Ball. It will appear as an item pickup on the right side of the screen in white text. After you kill them, fast travel to the shrine to make them respawn, rinse and repeat. It’s a boring process but they die in one hit (throwing Shuriken or Kunai in Ninja style works great). Other enemies can drop Dung Balls too but this spot is pretty reliable and quick. Roughly every 8 runs you should get a Dung Ball, sometimes it takes more and sometimes less.

You must also beat their “Novice” mission (available during Main Region 1: Warring States, after first Crucible) and “Adept” mission (available when reaching Main Region 2: Heian).

Novice and Adept are short fights against groups of enemies in the dojo, and Veteran is a short miniboss fight against Yagyu and Hattori themselves. Against Yagyu you are forced to play in Samurai style, and easy strategy is to use a Spear and do heavy attacks when he comes running towards you to whittle down his health one attack at a time. Against Hattori you are forced to play in Ninja style, an easy strategy is to use Dual Ninja Swords to land attacks quickly and charge up your Ninjutsu, then throw your Ninjutsu from a safe distance.

Yagyu Munenori Veteran Mission:

Hattori Hanzo Veteran Mission: