Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores DLC Trophy Guide & Roadmap

April 19, 2023 by FranciRoosters 34 Comments

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores Trophy Roadmap

Estimated trophy difficulty: 2/10 (everything can be done on Story difficulty)
Approximate amount of time to 100%: 10 hours
Offline Trophies: 18 (0, 1, 3, 14)
Online Trophies: 0
Number of missable trophies: 0
Glitched trophies: 1 – Recovered All Aerial Captures can bug out for some players but is obtainable. It’s recommended collecting them in the same order outlined in the guide and to make a manual save before collecting any.
Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, everything can be done on Story difficulty
Minimum Playthroughs: 1
PS4/PS5 Autopop & Save Transfer: No, the DLC is only available on PS5
PS4/PS5 Crossbuy: No, the DLC is only available on PS5
Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Yes, you can still do everything after the story.
Supports Manual Saves?: Yes, 5 Manual Saves, 1 Quick Save, 10 Autosave Slots of the last few checkpoints that automatically overwrite
Release Date: April 19, 2023

Introduction

Welcome to the Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores Trophy Guide! Aloy is back, heading to the southern Burning Shores region after learning of a looming Far Zenith threat. To start the DLC you must have finished the story in the main game. If you started a New Game+ playthrough you must finish the story again. You must also have purchased the DLC and downloaded the most recent patch that makes it playable. Then, the title screen will show the Burning Shores logo. Upon loading your finished story save, you will get a message that the Burning Shores DLC has been installed and you get a new main quest called “To the Burning Shores”. To achieve 100%, you’ll have to do everything the DLC has to offer. This means every main story and side quest as well as scanning the 4 new machines, finding all collectibles and unlocking all 18 new Skills.

Step 1: Complete the Main Story, Scan all 4 New Machines

For your first Step, play through the 5 main story quests. These are relatively quick to complete and will earn you the Specter Gauntlet necessary for Specter Gauntlet Upgraded & Killed Machines While Gliding. As you play through each main story quest, you can check All New Machines Scanned for the main story quests they appear in. You will meet all new machines during story quests.

Step 2: Side Quests, Cauldron THETA and Reaching Level 60

Now focus on completing the side quests. You can refer to All Quests Completed for a list of all side quests and their starting location. During this Step, complete the Cauldron THETA, where you will most likely get closer to killing 50 Stingspawns and reaching level 60.

Step 3: Collectibles, Miscellaneous Trophies, All Skills

As for your final step, focus on grabbing all collectibles and unlocking the miscellaneous trophies. Check the relevant trophy descriptions for all collectible locations and how to unlock all miscellaneous trophies. Once you’ve unlocked every other trophy, you should have enough Skill Points to unlock all 18 new Skills.

Useful Guides, Tips and Tricks

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores Trophy Guide

Main Game & other DLC Trophy Guides:

	All Quests Completed Completed all main and side quests in the Burning Shores.
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores features 5 new main quests and 3 side quests. Below you can find the starting location to all quests. Main Quests 1. To the Burning Shores 2. Heaven and Earth – Door Code: 3285 3. The Stars In Their Eyes –> Discovered the Ascension 4. For His Amusement –> Confronted Londra 5. His Final Act –> Defeated Londra and His Horus Side Quests 1. The Splinter Within 2. In His Wake 3. A Friend in the Dark (unlocks immediately after completing the Murmuring Hollow Relic Ruins puzzle). Door Code for Murmuring Hollow Relic Puzzle Ruins puzzle: 1315 Door Codes for A Friend in the Dark: 117, 1247
	Discovered the Ascension Located the missing Quen and discovered Londra’s plan to leave Earth.
Unmissable, story-related unlock. This trophy unlocks upon completing Main Quest #3: The Stars In Their Eyes.
	Confronted Londra Uncovered the truth of Londra’s plans for the Quen and rescued Seyka’s sister.
Unmissable, story-related unlock. This trophy unlocks upon completing Main Quest #4: For His Amusement.
	Aided the Quen Helped the Quen of Fleet’s End recover priceless knowledge and rescue those held captive.
You will unlock this trophy on your way to All Quests Completed, specifically for completing the side quests “The Splinter Within” and “In His Wake”. Both of these quests can be started at Fleet’s End. Once you’ve completed both of them, you will unlock this trophy.
	Defeated Londra and His Horus Defeated the awakened Horus and put a stop to Londra’s plans.
Unmissable, story-related unlock. This trophy unlocks upon completing Main Quest #5: His Final Act.
	All New Skills Learned Learned all new skills in the Burning Shores.
Horizon Forbidden West: The Burning Shores DLC features 18 new Skills (12 Skills and 6 Valor Surges), all listed at the bottom of each respective tree. To unlock this trophy, you must buy them all for a total of 72 Skill Points. Here’s a list of all new Skills, how many Skill Points they cost and what they do. Focus on completing all of the DLC’s side content and you will obtain the required amount of Skill Points to buy all Skills. If for whatever reason, you’re still missing some Skill Points to buy the remaining skills, make a manual back-up save and then reset all skill trees. Now use some of the points you received from the reset to acquire the DLC skills and then reload the manual save to get all skills back. Warrior Tree Warrior’s Vigor (Valor Surge): bolster your resolve and deal more damage with your spear and Warrior Bows. Gain health from damage dealt with either tarpon type: Level 1 (no skill points needed): Spear and Warrior Bow Damage: +30% Health Gained per Spear and Warrior Bow Hit: 3% Level 2 (3 skill points): Spear and Warrior Bow Damage: +60% Health Gained per Spear and Warrior Bow Hit: 6% Level 3 (5 skill points) Spear and Warrior Bow Damage: +100% Health Gained per Spear and Warrior Bow Hit: 10% Heal 50% of maximum Health when triggering a Resonator Blast with a Warrior Bow Warrior’s Instinct (2 skill points): increase your awareness of weekend enemies and the duration they are knocked down. Knock down weakened enemies with Power attack (hold then release ) or a Nora Warrior combo ( – – – ) Elemental Spear: (2 skill points): deal elemental damage with your spear by attaching elemental capsules from your Hunter’s Kit. Maximize the damage, severity, and duration of your capsules by equipping outfit weaves, increasing the skill by up to two levels. Trapper Tree Trap Mines (Valor Surge): powered by a special mode in your Focus, equip a throwable mine that splits into multiple explosive traps on impact with the environment. Level 1 (no skill points needed): Number of Traps Deployed: 4 Explosive Damage per Trap: 350 Level 2 (3 skill points needed): Number of Traps Deployed: 4 Explosive Damage per Trap: 400 Level 3 (5 skill points needed): Number of Traps Deployed: 10 Explosive Damage per Trap: 450 Smoke Bomb Heal (2 skill points): gradually regain health while inside a Healing Smoke Bomb’s cloud. Ropecaster Expert (2 skill points): when a machine recovers from the Tied Down state, shoot another rope to instantly tie it down again for a short duration. Can be performed once per target. Hunter Tree Hunter’s Mark (Valor Surge): powered by a special mode in your Focus, your next several shots with any Hunger Bow will mark your targets. Marked targets have an increased chance of receiving Critical Hit damage. Destroy a target’s components to cause an explosion that deals extra damage. Level 1 (no skill points needed): Critical Hit Chance: +10% Component Destruction Damage: +100 Level 2 (3 skill points needed) Critical Hit Chance: +20% Component Destruction Damage: +200 Level 3 (5 skill points needed): Critical Hit Chance: +30% Component Destruction Damage: +400 Killing a marked target deals 600 Shock damage to all other marked targets. Glide Targeting (2 skill points): slow down time and quick draw your weapon when aiming during a glide. Gain the ability to fire the Specter Gauntlet while gliding. Machine Grapple Strike (2 skill points): gain the ability to Grapple Strike machines. Tap while jumping within range of a knocked down machine to perform a Grapple Strike. Then, tap when prompted to energize the target for a Resonator Blast. Survivor Tree Defy Death (Valor Surge): consume a special potion to deal more damage and gain a Second Chance while reducing your maximum Health to critical health levels. When the Valor Surge ends, regain health up to the critical health threshold. Level 1 (no skill points needed): Damage Increase: 15% Level 2 (3 skill points needed): Damage Increase: 30% Level 3 (5 skill points needed): Damage Increase: 50% When the Valor Surge ends, status effects are cleansed and you gain 30% damage resistance for 5 seconds. Low Health Stamina (2 skill points): regain Weapon Stamina faster when you are in the critical health state (below 25% Health) Shield Drop (2 skill points): gain the ability to craft and deploy Drop Shields. Maximize shield durability by equipping outfit weaves, increasing the skill by up to two levels. Infiltrator Tree Berserk Blast (Valor Surge): attach a special module to your spear and immediately trigger a powerful blast that causes all nearby enemies to enter the Berserk state. Level 1 (no skill points needed ): Blast Radius: 20m Effect Duration: 30 seconds Level 2 (3 skill points needed): Blast Radius: 30m Effect Duration: 42 seconds Level 3 (5 skill points needed): Blast Radius: 40m Effect Duration: 60 seconds Affected targets receive 10 damage per second and are confused when the effect wears off. Sharpshot Expert (2 skill points): Sharpshot Bows are less inaccurate while you are walking or crouching. Stealth Resonator (2 skill points): Silent Strikes build up Resonator energy faster and deal more damage when your spear is fully charged. Machine Master Tree Override Overdrive (Valor Surge): powered by a special mode in your Focus, all overridden machines emit arcs of electricity to nearby enemies, deal more damage, take damage over time, and explode upon death. Level 1 (no skill points needed): Arc Damage Every 2 Seconds: 50 Damage Increase: 50% Explosion Radius: 8m Level 2 (3 skill points needed): Arc Damage Every 2 Seconds: 50 Damage Increase: 100% Explosion Radius: 8m Level 3 (5 skill points needed): Arc Damage Every 2 Seconds: 50 Damage Increase: 150% Explosion Radius: 16m Flying Grapple Launch (2 skill points): gain the ability to Grapple Launch from flying mounts. Resonator Refill (2 skill points): overriding a machine instantly energizes your spear for a Resonator Blast.
	Reached Level 60 Reached player level 60.
Provided you’ve finished Forbidden West’s main story, you’ll be level 50 when you start the DLC, regardless of whether you completed NG+ or not. In the DLC, you’ll be able to reach level 56 by the end of the main story. The remaining levels can be farmed by completing side content, with a special focus on side missions, all of which are needed anyway for All Quests Completed. No need to grind for this trophy as most side content gives you plenty of XP to reach level 60 before you even reach 100% in the DLC.
	Used Brimshine Used Brimshine to purchase 1 outfit and 1 weapon.
Brimshine is a new and quite rare lootable yellow crystal found all over the Burning Shores, needed to buy legendary weapons and outfits. To be able to purchase one outfit and one weapon with Brimshine, you need a total of 16, 8 for an outfit, 8 for a weapon. Once you have 16 Brimshine, head over to the Hunter and the Stitcher at Fleet’s End to purchase a legendary weapon and outfit that require Brimshine. The fastest and easiest way to gather 16 Brimshine is by finding all 7 Delver Trinkets. Once you’ve found them all, you can dig up the final treasure which earns you 15 Brimshine. At this point, you only need one more, which you might even have already. Check Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores – All Delver Trinket Locations.
	Equipped an Elite Coil or Weave Equipped an elite coil on a weapon or an elite weave on an outfit.
Elite Coils and Weaves are new types of loot that can be respectively equipped on your weapons and outfits to increase Aloy’s stats. You can simply buy these from merchants and sometimes they are dropped by enemies. After buying or finding an Elite Coil press > Inventory and choose any outfit. Now press to edit your Weaves and to edit a slot. Lastly, equip the Elite Weave you’ve just picked up (orange color) to unlock this trophy.
	Specter Gauntlet Upgraded Fully upgraded the Specter Gauntlet.
The Specter Gauntlet is a new weapon automatically obtained during Main Quest #3: The Stars in Their Eyes. To find and craft its one and only upgrade you need to complete side quest “In His Wake”, which you can start by talking to Otosu at Fleet’s End. Towards the end of the side quest, you’ll have to kill an enemy wielding a railgun standing on a ledge. Once you’ve killed him, you’ll have to loot his body to pick up the upgrade as part of the side quest, making it unmissable. Once you’ve looted the railgun upgrade, return to Fleet’s End and interact with the workbench to slot the upgrade and unlock this trophy.
	Cauldron THETA Core Overridden Reached the Core of Cauldron THETA and accessed its information.
Cauldron THETA can be found in the eastern side of the map (see map location screenshot below). This Cauldron’s layout is very similar to the ones in the base game, with the slight difference that from time to time you’ll have to shoot chillwater canisters from overhead drones to drop them into solid lava and create geysers for your Shieldwing. This is the only way to get to otherwise unreachable ledges. At the end of the Cauldron, simply defeat the Apex Bilegut to access the core that gives you the ability to override said machine and unlock this trophy.
	All New Machines Scanned Encountered and Focus scanned every new machine in the Burning Shores.
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores DLC features 4 new machines: the Bilegut, the Stingspawn, the Waterwing and the Horus. Each new machine can be encountered during main story quests and are all unmissable, specifically during: To the Burning Shores (Bilegut and Stingspawn) For His Amusement (Waterwing) His Final Act (Horus) Simply scan them the first time you encounter them and this will immediately add them to the Machine Catalogue, allowing you to learn their elemental weaknesses. If Horus is the last machine you scan, you will unlock this trophy as you fight against it during His Final Act main story quest. If you somehow forgot to scan these machines during the story, below you can find map screenshot locations for all of them. Please note that the Horus cannot be found in the wild after completing the story, but scanning it is required as part of the His Final Act main quest. As such, you won’t miss it. Bilegut and Stingspawn Waterwing
	Completed the Dino Digits Quiz Recovered all Pangea Figurines and completed the Dino Digits quiz.
» Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores – All Pangea Figurine Locations & Dino Digits Quiz Solution
	Recovered the Delvers’ Trove Recovered all Delver Trinkets and unearthed their trove.
» Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores – All Delver Trinket Locations
	Recovered All Aerial Captures Discovered and completed all Aerial Captures.
» Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores – All Aerial Capture Locations
	Used Grapple Strike on Machines Used Grapple Strike on 5 unique machines.
First, you must unlock the Machine Grapple Strike skill from the Hunter tree (costs 2 Skill Points). To make this even easier, we suggest unlocking the Knockdown Shot skill from the Hunter Tree if you haven’t done so yet. Then, in your Weapon Wheel, equip any Hunter’s Bow, choose the Knockdown Shot skill and start a fight with a relatively weak machine such as a Grazer, Charger or Lancehorn. Now hold and press to land a Knockdown Shot that will immediately knock down the machine. When the machine is in a temporary knockdown state, a grapple prompt will appear on their body, allowing you to perform a Grapple Strike. To land the strike, successfully complete the QTE. Just remember that you need your stamina to recharge a little bit before landing another Knockdown Shot. Do this 4 more times on another 4 unique machines to unlock this trophy. This is best done in the areas surrounding Chainscrape (main game’s map) where you can find different kinds of very weak machines.
	Killed Machines While Gliding Killed 5 machines with the Specter Gauntlet while gliding.
To unlock this trophy, you first need to play through and complete Main Quest #3: The Stars In Their Eyes. Once you’ve unlocked the Specter Gauntlet, you must buy the Glide Targeting skill (costs 2 Skill Points) from the Hunter tree to be able to use it while gliding. Then, equip it from your Inventory menu. Then, you need to find a location with weak enough machines to go down relatively quickly. A great spot where you can unlock this trophy is the Charger Mount Site south of Chainscrape (main game’s map), a very small and weak machine that will stand no chance against your Specter Gauntlet. Get to the mount site, select the Specter Gauntlet from your Weapon Wheel and then mount your Waterwing. Get some altitude, then hold and release to jump off the Waterwing. Now activate your Shieldwing with and aim at one of the Chargers below to shoot them down with your Specter Gauntlet. Rinse and repeat until you’ve killed them all. If you need to, there’s even a second Charger Mount Site a bit more to the south. Once you’ve killed 5 machines, you’ll unlock this trophy. Note: for some players the trophy progress counter gets stuck, in this case try killing 5 machines in one single glide, and try reinstalling the game.
	Killed Bileguts and Stingspawn Killed 5 Bileguts and 50 Stingspawn.
Bileguts and Stingspawns are two machine types uniquely found in the Burning Shores regions. You will first encounter these machines halfway through main quest To the Burning Shores. By the end of the story, you will most likely have killed around 3 Bileguts and 30 Stingspawns. You can farm the rest at Bileguts sites, one of which is shown in the map screenshot below. Here, not only will you find Bileguts, but also Stingspawn eggs. Keep heading from one Bilegut site to the next until you’ve got the required amount to unlock the trophy and advance the time at campfires if you need to reload the areas. Alternatively, you will find lots of Stingspawns inside the Cauldron THETA, which is required for Cauldron THETA Core Overridden anyway.