Final Fantasy XV Trophy Guide & Roadmap

For this you must finish the Ifrit Boss Fight on normal difficulty. This is one of the endbosses in the final story mission. If you are playing on easy you will “miss” this. Make sure you change the difficulty to normal in the game options before this fight!

After the credits the game will ask you to save the game. When you load this manual save you will respawn before the Ifrit boss fight and can challenge him again.

It’s okay if you played the rest of the game on easy up to this point. You can change the difficulty at any time before the fight. This is right after the Behemoth King miniboss. Make a manual save after the Behemoth King and change difficulty to normal.
Even if you started the game on easy the trophy will unlock when you change the difficulty for just this one fight. You can change it back to easy afterwards. The main difference from easy to normal is that you must heal yourself when you go down. On easy you cannot die because you are revived automatically. Even if you are totally underleveled this fight isn’t hard at all.

Phase 1: Ifrit will be sitting on his throne. Use warp-strike to attack then jump back immediately. Repeat a few times to deplete his health bar.

Phase 2: Ifrit is now walking around. When he is shielded by fire he doesn’t take much damage. Wait for him to turn into his normal form and attack. Just dodge his attacks and get behind him. Use Blindside team attacks from behind and he will go down very quickly. You could also spam warp-strike attacks just like in the first phase (but they don’t do as much damage). When his health is low you must hold L2/LT to finish the fight.

To unlock Chocobos you must first reach story chapter 3.

Step 1: Talk to Wiz at the Chocobo post (Duscae Map). When arriving in chapter 3 a side quest called “Friends of a Feather” will be marked there automatically. Accept his hunting quest “A Behemoth Undertaking” and kill the Behemoth (marked as mission target).

Step 2: After killing the Behemoth you must return to Wiz and talk to him again.

You can now interact with Rent-a-Bird machines. They are found at most outposts and parking spots. It costs 50 Gil per day to rent a Chocobo. You can press R2/RT to whistle for your chocobo wherever you are. After the rental period has expired the Chocobo will run back to its outpost and you must rent a new one. You can also rent for several days at once.

In order to unlock the Regalia Type-F Modification you must first beat the story (finish all 14 chapters and defeat the endboss). After beating the story you can visit a lodging and call Umbra to visit the open world and mop up everything you haven’t done.

Now do the following:

Step 1: Infiltrate the Formouth Garrison in Leide. When you go near the Garrison you’ll see a new side quest called “Formouth Garrison” popping up. You can do this as early as story chapter 8 but the enemies are level 50+. It would be best to do this after the story when you’ve grown stronger (and you can’t unlock the Regalia Type-F until after the the story anyway, so no point in doing it early).

Step 2: After finishing the Formouth Garrison you’ll receive an item “Strange Engine”. This triggers a new side quest “Into Unknown Frontiers”. All you gotta do is deliver the part to Cindy at the Hammerhead outpost. There are actually 3 of these strange parts, but two are unmissable story unlocks (Warped Wings from the Garrison in Chapter 5, Unstable Stabilizer from the Garrison in Chapter 6, Strange Engine from Formouth Garrison Side Quest).

When you’ve done all of the above Cindy will upgrade your Regalia with the Type-F modifcation. A fancy batmobile-styled car that you can fly like a jet. To unlock the “Regalia Pilot” trophy / achievement you must put it in manual drive, gain some speed and press Circle (PS4) / B (XB1) to take off.
The only disadvantage is that you can only land on streets. Landing on terrain will crash your car and result in a game over screen. It is a lot of fun though and makes navigating the world quicker.

Each Royal Arm has unique attack patterns and stat boosts. They can be used in combat by Noctis. They are more powerful than normal weapons but using them depletes your own health. Even if you don’t want to use these weapons you should equip them for the stat boosts they provide. Furthermore, the Royal Arms bypass all enemy resistances and always deal full damage (no enemies are resistant to them).

The first 7 Royal Arms are automatic / unmissable story unlocks. You get them automatically during main quests. The remaining 6 Royal Arms are from dungeons and Royal Tombs which you must find on your own. None of them are missable! There is free roam after finishing the story and you can go back everywhere. The dungeons are fairly difficult, one of them being for level 55+. If you want you can do them before leaving for chapter 9 but it will be very difficult. I highly recommend you finish the story first to get stronger. Remember you can switch to easy difficulty in the game options at any time (in easy mode you cannot die).

TIMELINE:

#1 – Sword of the Wise – 0:05
#2 – Axe of the Conqueror – 0:58
#3 – Swords of the Wanderer – 2:08
#4 – Blade of the Mystic – 3:26
#5 – Katana of the Warrior – 4:13
#6 – Trident of the Oracle – 5:29
#7 – Sword of the Father – 6:21
#8 – Bow of the Clever – 7:20
#9 – Sword of the Tall – 9:39
#10 – Shield of the Just – 12:09
#11 – Scepter of the Pious – 13:27
#12 – Mace of the Fierce – 14:32
#13 – Star of the Rogue – 16:13

You must purchase 50 abilities in total. Buy everything for 24AP or less (the cheapest ones for 8 / 16 / 20 points first). It takes 600AP in total.

Get the exploration based abilities early in the game. They provide AP bonuses for trivial tasks such as driving in your car or riding chocobos. Those will pay for themselves. You can also save up on AP, making a manual save for this trophy and then reloading it to buy the good abilities you actually want to use.

The best way to farm AP is by killing enemies with Warp-Strike. Whenever you do this it gives you 1AP. When you are at a higher level (e.g. after beating the story) you can keep summoning enemies by pressing R2 and D-Pad Right. You should be able to kill them in one hit with the Warp-Strike. This will give you tons of AP very quickly. Camping and doing side tasks for your friends also yields AP.

To increase your fishing skill you must catch fish. Every fish you catch increases the skill.

The best place to farm this is at Vesperpool Lake, East Bank. This is in the north-western corner of the Cleigne Map. There’s a big lake here with the name Vesperpool on the map. There’s also a fishing store here that sells some of the best fishing gear in the game. Purchase the upgraded Rod & Reel here (costs ~20,000 Gil). This will make it a lot easier to catch larger fish. Now keep fishing at this spot. There are a bunch of pretty rare fish types you can catch. Rare and large fish give a greater skill increase than small fish. Just catch everything you can, as fast as you can. The lure “Stinker: Great Maiboro” works really great here (purchased from the fishing shop at the lake).

The trophy doesn’t unlock instantly, you have to visit a campfire first.

It takes around 4 hours of non-stop fishing to max out this skill to rank 10.

Some more guides that may help you with this:

• All Fishing Hole Locations
• How to get better Fishing Rod & Reel

The survival skill is based on how many steps you have walked (of course running counts too). Every step you take increases this skill just a little bit. The more distance you have traveled on foot the higher this skill will be.

Combat encounters do not increase this skill. Even though it increases passively you should give this trophy your full attention from the beginning! It often seems tempting to use fast travel, a chocobo or your car. But if your target is within half a mile you should always be walking/running to work on this skill. There’s also a trick to run infinitely – see How to Run Infinitely.

This and photography are by far the most time consuming trophies to unlock. It’s almost certainly gonna be one of your last trophies. After I was done with all other trophies I had barely reached level 7/10 in this skill. So what I did was to rubber band the controller sticks and run in circles for many hours. I recommend you do the same if this is the last thing you’re missing. This way you can go away and do other stuff while your character keeps running. Just make sure you are running in a safe and open area such as outposts or camps.

The trophy doesn’t unlock instantly, you have to visit a campfire first.

It takes around 30 hours of walking to max out this skill to rank 10.

The photography skill increases every time Prompto takes a picture.

Prompto will randomly take photos throughout the game. Each photo increases this skill a tiny bit. You can actively do something to speed up the process (and you really should, otherwise you’ll end up having to farm this for many hours).

First buy the ascension “Snapshot” which lets Prompto take a picture in combat for one tech bar. Now use this skill in EVERY combat encounter. Always use it when you have one tech bar. Also buy the technique ascensions “Tech Strike”, “Tech Damage”, “Quick Tech”. They will make your tech bar recharge much faster so you can take more photos. If you fail to do this you’ll probably end up with level 7/10 after all other trophies are done and have to farm enemy groups for 20+ hours. So this can cost you a lot of time if you don’t work on it from the beginning.

While driving around you’ll sometimes see so called Photo Op side quests popping up near the road. These give a larger skill increase than normal pictures so do as many of them as possible.

Alternatively, you can run in circles for 60 hours and this should max out passively. The good thing is that you can combine the circle running with the survival skill. The bad thing is that it takes forever because Prompto won’t take many pictures. Make sure you are running in a safe area, such as an outpost. I did go to a lodging once an hour to scroll through Prompto’s pictures (he can only have 15 at a time… probably not needed to check on them but it’s safer for tracking purposes).

The trophy doesn’t unlock instantly, you have to visit a campfire first.

It takes around 20 hours to max out this skill to rank 10 using Snapshot in combat encounters / 60 hours when running in circles.

The cooking skill increases whenever Ignis cooks a meal at camp. Camps get marked on the map after talking to tipsters. Now you just need to find new ingredients and recipes. A quick way to learn new recipes is by buying all ingredients from general stores. Do this whenever you come across such a store. After finding all ingredients for a meal Ignis learns the recipe. More recipes unlock as you level up this skill.

The fastest and cheapest method is to buy Luncheon Meat from the general store in Lestallum. It costs 100 Gil per piece. This will let you cook the meal “Mystery Meat Sushi” (it needs only this one cheap ingredient). Stock up on 50+ pieces of Luncheon Meat and cook it at a campfire. You can immediately revisit the camp and cook the same meal over and over again.

It takes around 20 minutes to max out this skill to rank 10.

Combat trophies cannot be unlocked in the training.

Combat trophies cannot be unlocked in the training.

Combat trophies cannot be unlocked in the training.

Combat trophies cannot be unlocked in the training.

Combat trophies cannot be unlocked in the training.

Combat trophies cannot be unlocked in the training.

There are certain story sections where you have to hold L2 to advance. These don’t count for the trophy. You have to get lucky during a random battle and use it.

You can find Arcade Pinball machines in Crow’s Nest Diners. These diners are at outposts and parking spots all over the map.
One such Diner can be found at the Outpost called “Longwythe Rest Area” in Leide (where the game starts, you go here during an early main quest). Just interact with the machine and exit it. You don’t actually have to win anything, quitting out will unlock the trophy.

Pictures of Gentiana can only be shot between 6:00AM and Midnight. She only shows up in Lucis (mostly Duscae). She does not show up in Altissia or in the future. Traveling for a very long time without resting increases the odds getting the picture. You won’t actually see Gentiana in the world, she only shows up on Prompto’s photos.

There are other very short quests, such as:

• Photo Ops (when driving in your car Prompto will sometimes see a good photo spot. He will ask you to pull over to take a pic). Always do these when they pop up.
• Dungeons (when visiting a dungeon you’ll receive a sidequest for beating it). Time consuming but you’ll have to go through most of these for the Royal Arms anyway.
• Broken-Down Cars (Sometimes found on the side of the road. When you see a smoking car talk to the person near it. They will ask you for a repair kit which you can buy for 100 gil from most outposts and parking spots such as Hammerheard outpost). Very short quests but require some searching.
• People in Need (When you hear someone crying for help investigate the area. Give a health potion to the person in need). Very short quests but can be tricky to find.
• Other miscallenous stuff (treasure maps, higher level dungeons/raids…).

There are far more than 80 quests. In the beginning the number of available quests will be quite limited. But after finishing the story you will have access to everything and unlock even new quests. You can get everything after the story so don’t worry if you missed some quests on your main playthrough. You can come back for them later, nothing is missable.

To not waste any time you should finish the story first and get the 13 Royal Arms. The reason for this is that you run into lots of quest givers during main missions. Just talk to them to activate the quest and come back for it later when you’ve grown stronger. Some of the Royal Arms require you to play Dungeons which automatically count as side quests.

If this doesn’t unlock at exactly 80 side quests do not worry. Just play a few more and it should unlock. You can count the number of side quests (blue) in your quest list. Press Triangle in your quest list to see already completed quests. Side activities in green color and monster hunts in yellow color do not count for this.

The adamantoise is a huge level 99 Megaboss. It is found in Leide after beating the story. Here’s how you can locate & fight it.

Step 1: After beating the game go talk to Cindy at Hammerhead Outpost. She will give you a quest called “Let Sleeping Mountains Lie”. After beating the main story you can create a save game during the credits. Load that save game, go to a lodging and call Umbra to travel back to the open world.

Step 2: Complete Cindy’s Quest “Let Sleeping Mountains Lie”. This will awaken the Adamantoise. Just follow the quest markers.

Step 3: Go talk to the restaurant owner at Hammerheard outpost. He has a level 99 monster hunt called “Lonely Rumblings in Longwythe”. Accept this quest and you will get to fight the Adamantoise.

Boss Fight Tips:

• Bring lots of Health Potions. Also bring the consumables muscle stimulant (extra damage) and magitek booster (negates MP cost).
• You should be at least level 40. The higher your level the quicker this will go. But your level doesn’t matter so much, the boss has very easy attack patterns. I was level 69.
• Buy Ascensions “Warp Factor I” & “Warp Factor II” for more warp-strike damage. You’ll be using this technique non-stop in this fight.
• Equip the strongest greatsword you can find. But don’t use the Dominator cause the Adamantoise is immune to holy light.
• Cook the meal “Golden Tail Soup” at a campfire and eat it just before heading to the boss. The recipe unlocks when reaching Cooking Level 10. It guarantees critical hits and greatly increases health recovery. This way you won’t even have to touch your health potions and deal super massive damage.
• All you gotta do in the fight is keep attacking the Adamantoise’s right paw with warp-strike. Use Warp suspension to refill your MP immediately. When the Adamantoise gets knocked out consume the Magitek Booster and Muscle Stimulant and keep attacking the eye (should do 9999 damage with each hit). Just repeat these tactics until it’s dead. The adamantoise has 5 million HP.
• When you die you have to start from scratch (even on easy mode! You don’t get autorevived on easy during this fight).