Assassin’s Creed Mirage Trophy Guide

Master of His Fate
Earn Every Trophy.

Baghdad Badman!

The Master Thief of Anbar
Complete the Prologue.

Story related: Unlocks after completing the mission “The Master Thief of Anbar”

La shay’a waqi’un mutlaq
Become an Initiate of the Hidden Ones.

Story Related: Unlocks after completing the mission “Taking Flight”.

The Blood of a Ghoul
Eliminate Al-Ghul.

Story related: Unlocks after completing the mission “First Order”.

The Blood of a Demon
Eliminate Al-Rabisu.

Story related: Unlocks after completing the mission “The Great Symposium”.

The Blood of an Enchantress
Eliminate Al-Pairika.

Story related: Unlocks after completing the mission “Gilded Butterflies”.

The Blood of a Spymaster
Eliminate Al-Mardikhwar.

Story related: Unlocks after completing the mission “Den of the Beast”

The Head of the Snake
Eliminate the Head of the Order.

Story Related: Unlocks after completing the mission “The Serpent’s Nest”.

Bal kullun mumkin
Discover Basim’s past.

Story related: Unlocks after completing the mission “In Pursuit of Truth”.

Serving the Light
Reach the maximum Hidden One Rank.

Story Related: As you progress through the game assassinating members of the order you will rank as the following.
Initiate – Earned after the mission “Taking Flight”
Apprentice – Earned for assassinating Al-Ghul
Novice – Earned for assassinating Al-Rabisu
Disciple – Earned for assassinating Al-Pairika
Assassin – Earned for assassinating Al-Mardikhwar
Master – Unlocks when speaking with Roshin and asking for the permmission to kill the Head of the Order.

Self-Improvement
Unlock all skills.

To unlock skill points play through the story, complete contract and Tales of Baghdad side quests and will be rewarded for some of the Lost books. In total you will need 62 skill points to unlock all 23 skills. You can reset your skills if there is a particular skill needed but do not have enough points yet. If you run out of quests that award skill points complete a few that don’t reward skill points and new contracts will be available.

Phantom

1 Kick Back – Skill Points: 1
2 Breakfall – Skill Points: 2
3 Assassin’s Focus Capacity 1 – Skill Points: 2
4 Chain Assassination – Skill Points: 3
5 Assassin’s Focus Capacity 2- Skill Points: 3
6 Air Strike – Skill Points: 3
7 Counter Roll – Skill Points: 4
8 Focus Boost – Skill Points: 4

Trickster

1 Auto-Collect – Skill Points: 1
2 Extra Tool Capacity 1 – Skill Points: 2
3 Extra Tool Capacity 2 – Skill Points: 2
4 Extra Tool Capacity 3 – Skill Points: 2
5 Elixir Pocket – Skill Points: 3
6 Knife Recovery – Skill Points: 3
7 Pickpocket Master – Skill Points: 4
8 Enginer – Skill Points: 4

Predator

1 Pathfinder – Skill Points: 1
2 Enkidu Acuity 1 – Skill Points: 2
3 Enkidu Acuity 2 – Skill Points: 2
4 Eagle Sense – Skill Points: 3
5 Emergency Aim – Skill Points: 3
6 Vision Boost- Skill Points: 3
7 Stealth Recon – Skill Points: 5

Cutting Edge
Fully upgrade a weapon.

To upgrade weapons you will need to head to a Blacksmith and purchase the upgrades. This requires Leather, Steel Ingots as well as the upgrade schematics themselves. Schematics are collected from looting gear chests and for completing some missions. You will easily have enough materials and the schematics for your default weapons for just playing through the game.

Thick Skin
Fully upgrade an outfit

To upgrade weapons you will need to head to a Tailor and purchase the upgrades. This requires Leather and steel Ingots as well as the upgrade schematics themselves. Schematics are collected from looting gear chests and for completing some missions. You will easily have enough materials and the schematics for your default outfit for just playing through the game.

Fashion Statement
Apply dye to an outfit

Dye’s are rewarded for progressing through the story, solving enigmas, and can be purchased from traders. To apply the dye, go to Inventory and select any of the dyes unlocked and apply it to the relevant outfit.

Masquerader
Obtain both disguises.

The two disguises are the White Patient Robe and Eunuch Tunic. They will allow you to pass through secure areas undetected.

The White Patient Robe can be found during the mission “The Great Symposium”, loot it from a corpse found in a cell in the basement of the House of Wisdom.

Eunuch Tunic can be found during the mission “The Servant and the Imposter”, loot it from the rooftops near the Haram, from some tailors.

Treasure Seeker
Open a token chest.

A token chest is a chest that requires a merchant token to open. To obtain merchant tokens, complete quests or pickpocket civilians. There are several in the world.

Potion Collector
Obtain a total of 10 elixirs.

Elixirs are the game’s health items. You can only carry max three at a time. They can be bought from traders or they are looted from enemies and chests.

Fearless
Synchronize all viewpoints.

AC Mirage has 21 viewpoints, which are represented on the map as an eagle icon, like in the trophy icon. Viewpoints, as any AC veteran knows, are the game’s quick travel points, which are unlocked by climbing a tower and synchronizing. Super useful later in the game when doing cleanup so worth doing whenever near one.

Bird of Prey
Tag 100 guards using Enkidu.

Ekidu is Basim’s eagle who will help show us an eagle eye view of the map to help find objectives, chests, keys and can tag enemies. To use Ekidu press up on the d-pad. Unlock the skills 2 Enkidu Acuity 1 and 2, will make tagging quicker and speed the process up. Sometimes marksmen enemies will prevent you from using Enkidu as they will fire at the bird, Basim will need to first take them out before you can start tagging guards.

Explorer
Fully explore all territories.

To explore all territories, Basim must collect all Gear Chests, Lost Books, Enigmas (do not need to be solved), Dervis Artifacts, Historical Sights, Mysterious Shards and complete Tales of Baghadad quests.

Abbasiyah – Total – 33
Gear Chests – 6
Lost Books – 1
Enigmas – 3
Dervis Artifacts – 4
Historical Sights – 15
Mysterious Shards – 2
Tales of Baghadad – 2

Harbiya Total 31
Gear Chests – 6
Lost Books – 2
Enigmas – 3
Dervis Artifacts – 4
Historical Sights – 13
Mysterious Shards – 2
Tales of Baghadad – 1

Karkh Total 26
Gear Chests – 6
Lost Books – 1
Enigmas – 1
Dervis Artifacts – 4
Historical Sights – 11
Mysterious Shards – 2
Tales of Baghadad – 1

Round City Total 25
Gear Chests – 3
Lost Books – 1
Enigmas – 2
Dervis Artifacts – 3
Historical Sights – 14
Mysterious Shards – 2
Tales of Baghadad – 0

Wilderness Total 34
Gear Chests – 9
Lost Books – 2 (Game only tracks one book)
Enigmas – 3
Dervis Artifacts – 3
Historical Sights – 13
Mysterious Shards – 2
Tales of Baghadad – 2

Defender of the People
Complete 10 faction contracts.

After completing the mission “Zeroing In” Basim will be able to complete faction contracts. They are found on a notice board inside the Bureaus. 6 can be assigned in one go. There are more than 10 in game and they are needed to unlock skill points and materials for upgrades.

Crossing Paths
Complete a Tale from Baghdad.

There are 6 Tales from Baghdad story missions, they are short missions found across the map. They do not give a quest tracker so Basim will need to pay attention to what the NPC’s are saying.

Scholar
Bring all 7 lost books to Al-Jahiz.

Al-Jahiz is found in the House of Wisdom library. Basim will need to search across the maps for all of them.
1 Haribiyah – West of Nestorian Monastry
2 Haribiyah – West of the Great Mosque
3 Abbasiyah – North of the House of Widom
4 Karkh – North-West of the Harbor Camp
5 Round City – Palaca of the Green Dome
6 Wilderness – Tuesday Market
7 Wilderness – Seleucia-on-the-Tigris

Riddle Me This
Obtain a treasure by solving an enigma.

There are a total of ten enigmas to collect, however you will only need to pick them up for the Trophy “Explorer” and solve one of them for this trophy.

Tools of the Trade
Fully upgrade all tools

As you progress through the game, use skill points to unlock Extra Tool Capacity 1,2 and 3.

Then speak with Banu Musa at any of the Bureaus – upgrade the following tools Blowdart, Noisemaker, Smoke Bomb, Throwing Knife and Trap. Materials needed are Steel Ingot, Leather and Components. These are found b completing quests, in chests and can be bought from Merchants (keep in mind using Merchant tokens will reduce the cost.)

Blowdart
Tier 1 – 60 Components – 30 Steel Ingots – 20 Leather
Tier 2 – 90 Components – 45 Steel Ingots – 35 Leather
Tier 3 – 150 Components – 80 Steel Ingots – 60 Leather

Noisemaker
Tier 1 – 60 Components – 20 Steel Ingots – 30 Leather
Tier 2 – 90 Components – 35 Steel Ingots – 45 Leather
Tier 3 – 150 Components – 60 Steel Ingots – 80 Leather

Smoke Bomb
Tier 1 – 60 Components – 15 Steel Ingots – 35 Leather
Tier 2 – 90 Components – 25 Steel Ingots – 55 Leather
Tier 3 – 150 Components – 40 Steel Ingots – 100 Leather

Throwing Knife
Tier 1 – 20 Components – 35 Steel Ingots – 15 Leather
Tier 2 – 90 Components – 55 Steel Ingots – 25 Leather
Tier 3 – 150 Components – 100 Steel Ingots – 40 Leather

Trap
Tier 1 – 60 Components – 25 Steel Ingots – 25 Leather
Tier 2 – 90 Components – 40 Steel Ingots – 40 Leather
Tier 3 – 150 Components – 70 Steel Ingots – 70 Leather

Eagle’s Eye
Kill 75 guards with throwing knives.

Throwing knives are one of the game’s tools, simply aim for the head of a normal enemy and it will take them down in one hit. The 75 kills don’t all have to be headshots, but this speeds up the process. It’s worth unlocking the skill ‘Knife Recovery’ as this will retrieve the throwing knives, which comes in handy as only 6 can be carried at a time.

Headhunter
Headshot 20 guards with throwing knives.

Throwing knives are one of the game’s tools, simply aim for the head of a normal enemy and it will take them down in one hit. Do this 20 times to unlock. Don’t stop there though as “Eagle’s Eye” you will need to kill 75 enemies with throwing knives.

Sleep Tight
Put 10 guards to sleep with blowdarts.

Blowdarts are one of the games tools, Basim can choose to unlock them after unlocking the Extra Tool Capacity 1,2 and 3 skills. Use a dart on ten enemies to unlock.

Ambush
Have 10 guards trigger traps.

Traps are one of the games tools, Basim can choose to unlock them after unlocking the Extra Tool Capacity 1,2 and 3 skills. Use traps on ten enemies to unlock.

Up in Smoke
Affect 20 guards with smoke bombs.

Smoke bombs are one of the games tools, Basim can choose to unlock them after unlocking the Extra Tool Capacity 1,2 and 3 skills. Use a smoke bombs on twenty enemies to unlock.

Attention Seeker
Distract 10 guards with noisemakers.

Noisemakers are one of the games tools, Basim can choose to unlock them after unlocking the Extra Tool Capacity 1,2 and 3 skills. Use a noisemaker on ten enemies to unlock.

The Hands of a Thief
Pickpocket 50 people.

Some NPCs will be carrying pouches, you can use the eagle vision to help highlight them. Then head behind them and press triangle to initiate a Quick-time Event press the prompt button when the diamond is within the blue area. The better the rewards the smaller the blue area is. The Pickpocket Master skill makes this easier. Pickpocketing is a good way to make cash but also tokens. A good area to farm this is the Main Bazaar.

You Snooze, You Lose
Pickpocket a guard affected by a blowdart.

First Basim needs to unlock the Blowdart tool. There aren’t a lot of opportunities to do this so it is recommended to do this ruring the missions ‘The Toll of Greed’ or ‘The Hunter’. Find the enemy with the key and blowdart them. Then whilst they are sleeping pickpocket them, to unlock.

Curio Collector
Pickpocket all 18 artifacts and bring them to Dervis.

The artifacts are marked on the map as golden hand pickpocketing. There are 18 in total.

Abbasiyah
1 Dome of the Ass
2 Four Markets
3 Hammam
4 Monastery of the Virgins
5 Scholar’s Estate

Harbiyah
1 Dyeing Factory
2 Damascus Gate Prison
3 Upper Harbor
4 Zubaydiyah

Karkh
1 Bazaar
2 Harbor Camp
3 Cookman’s Quarter

Round City
1 Harem
2 Shurta Headquarters
3 Postal Bureau

Wilderness
1 Anbar
2 Excavation site
3 Jarjaraya

Hoarder
Save up 2007 dirhams.

Basim needs 2007 dirhams the games currency on him at once, not cumulative. Best to do this before purchasing items in stores. To earn money complete contracts, pickpocket and sell any trinkets you pickpocket/pick up.

Dawn and Dusk
Use benches to pass time 5 times.

Sit on any bench by pressing triangle and then pass time by holding down triangle. Will change the game from day time to night time and is required to do so for some missions.

Patron of the Arts
Pay musicians 5 times.

Musicians can be used to attract guards and are represented on the map as musical notes. Using them costs 1 Scholar Token each time. Tokens are earned by completing missions or pickpocketing.

Patron of Sell-Swords
Pay mercenaries 5 times.

Mercenaries can be used to attack guards and are represented on the map as sword icon. Using them costs 1 Power Token each time. Tokens are earned by completing missions or pickpocketing.

Patron of Industry
Pay merchant groups 5 times.

Merchants can be used to sneak past guards and are represented on the map as two people icon. Using them costs 1 Merchant Token each time. Tokens are earned by completing missions or pickpocketing.

Blade in the Crowd
Assassinate 10 guards while blending with the crowd.

Can be done while using Merchant groups or any static group with 3 or more people and whistling to get a guards attention. A white outline will let you know that you are blending in with the crowd, but killing a guard this way will give away your cover and Basim will need to run or hide straight away after.

Surprise!
Assassinate 10 guards from hiding spots.

Hiding spots are hay carts, gazebos or long grass. Gain the attention while in one of them by whistling and when the guard gets near press R1. Will come naturally as you play the game.

The Shadow and the Flame
Defeat a Shakiriyya in combat.

Shakiriyya enemies will hunt you down once you notoriety bar reaches full, these are tough enemies and will take a few hits to kill, dodge their attacks and try to attack from behind. Killing one will reset you notoriety.

Silencer
Destroy a Horn Bearer’s horn with a throwing knife.

Horn Bearer enemies will use their horns when detecting you to bring more enemies to your location. Their horn is on their back and you can use a throwing knife to destroy it while on his back or while he is blowing the horn in his hand.

Notorious
Stay at maximum notoriety for 10 minutes

To get maximum notoriety kill guards, attack civilians soon you will have three bars. Then run around for ten minutes. Make sure not to kill any Shakiriyya that will spawn as this will reset the notoriety meter. If your notoriety starts to drop attack a few civilians to keep it high. After the trophy unlocks you can reset your notoriety by pulling 3 posters for the trophy “Poster Boy” or kill a Shakiriyya for the trophy “The Shadow and the Flame”.

Poster Boy
At maximum notoriety, become anonymous by tearing down wanted posters

To get maximum notoriety kill guards, attack civilians soon you will have three bars and maxed out notoriety. Now search for posters to bring you bar down. In order to become fully anonymous Basim will need to pull three posters down.

Spread the News
Use the services of a Munadi 3 times.

Munadi are like the town criers from earlier AC games. They will reduce you notoriety to anonymous. You can use one with a Power token, do this three times to unlock.

Unstoppable
Kill 5 guards with one use of Assassin’s Focus.

To unlock this trophy you will first need to unlock the skills Assassin’s Focus Capacity 1 and 2 in the skill tree. Then fill up 5 focus bars by killing guards. Now head to any area where there are five guards stood close together. Hold R3 and select your targets with R1 and press X. Basim will auto kill those enemies selected.

Eagle’s Will
Survive 10 minutes in open conflict.

Can be easily done when fighting one enemy, just make sure to dodge and deflect their attacks without actually attacking them back.

Gifted Escapist
Collapse 20 scaffolding structures.

Basim can pull down wooden scaffolding in order to escape when running away. Scaffolding respawns when fast travelling so if you find one near a fast travel spot you can farm this in a few mins. For a good place to farm, watch the video below.

A True Hidden One
Assassinate 10 guards in a row without triggering open conflict.

Kill 10 enemies stealthily without other guards going red on their detection meter. Take your time and use the hiding spots and throwing knives to avoid detection. Smoke bombs should be used as a last resort if about to be detected.

Street Cleaner
Hide 5 bodies in bales of hay.

After killing a guard, pick up their body with triangle and carry it to a hay bale. Then press triangle again to hide it. Repeat this process five times. Does not have to be the same hay bale.