Dynasty Warriors 9 Trophy Guide and Platinum Walkthrough

Treat Shared and Character Progress Separately

Weapons, items, currencies, unlocked officers, map knowledge, and cumulative K.O.s carry across the wider profile. Officer levels do not, and bond progress is safest when completed with one playable officer. Free Mode unlocks after finishing a character story and is useful for replaying completed chapters.

I recommend choosing one main officer early and giving that character your best weapon, Attack investment, and final level grind. Keep one horse equipped across every route instead of rotating mounts.

Combine Counters During Every Battle

Use mounted attacks while traveling through enemy groups, fire the bow during archery missions, perform assault attacks whenever the prompt appears, and destroy small towers at occupied bases. Eat before missions, craft inexpensive bait or traps in single quantities, and leave box traps near a frequently visited hideaway.

The platinum is won through overlap. Farming each counter separately can add many unnecessary hours.

Use Easy Difficulty for Efficiency

No trophy requires a particular difficulty, so Easy is valid for the entire platinum. Side missions also lower the level of their linked key mission, which makes thorough chapter clears both safer and more efficient.

Extensive Knowledge is the main planning trophy. It requires every battle entry in the Encyclopedia, including entries tied to optional missions and officers whose stories overlap only briefly.

Recommended Officer Route

This is a safety-first route rather than the only valid route. Other officers can cover many of the same battles, but random selections tend to create more cleanup.

Commonly Missed Battle Entries

Check the Encyclopedia immediately after each risky entry. If it remains blank, replay the chapter with one of the listed officers and complete every linked side mission before the key mission.

Reaching 75 Percent Map Discovery

You do not need to uncover every location. Activate waymarks first because they expose nearby points, then use watchtowers to reveal a wider area. Cities, villages, castles, camps, scenic areas, hideaways, and other named locations all contribute to exploration progress.

The cleanup is broader than the one in the Ghost of Tsushima trophy guide, but the efficient principle is similar. Reveal clusters from towers and waymarks before riding to individual icons.

Map knowledge is shared, so every character route contributes. Traveler unlocks at 35 percent and Wanderlust unlocks at 75 percent.

Buying Ten Hideaways

Each standard hideaway costs 30,000 gold, so ten purchases require 300,000 gold in total. Golden Palace only asks you to earn 90,000 gold cumulatively, not hold it all at once, and should unlock well before the tenth purchase.

If Thronged with Visitors does not unlock at exactly ten, leave the area, save, and buy another hideaway. Historical reports describe the purchase counter registering late rather than becoming permanently blocked.

Maxing 20 Officer Bonds

Use the same playable officer for the entire bond grind. Visit major cities and speak to officers wearing informal clothes. Once an officer is registered for letters, invite that officer from a hideaway, speak to the visitor, then travel to another location or advance time.

A successful conversation normally raises the bond by roughly one-third, so three visits are usually enough. If the wrong visitor appears, travel to a camp, advance time, return to the hideaway, and resend the invitation.

K.O.s, Officer Level, Attack, and Horse Level

The Pinnacle of Might counts 100,000 K.O.s across your profile, so do not begin a dedicated farm until every required story route is finished. Dense side missions and Castle Siege are better final farms than riding between scattered open-world groups.

Raise one officer to level 100 for Veteran Master. Spend level-up points and Books of Musou on Attack, then equip a strong weapon and useful gems until the displayed value reaches 900 for Unrivaled Warrior.

Use one horse from the opening route onward. Mounted travel and mounted kills both build horse experience, and changing horses divides progress. The repeated cleanup is more comparable to the long-form grind in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon trophy guide than to a difficult combat challenge.

Bow Kills and Hunting Points

Sure Shot unlocks at 100 bow kills and Sun Piercer requires 1,000. Archery side missions are efficient because they place weak enemies in clear groups and can supply explosive arrows. Outside those missions, lower enemy health with normal attacks and make sure the bow lands the killing hit.

For Master of the Hunt, target stronger animals rather than low-value deer. High-level wolves, tigers, bears, and powerful variants provide better Hunting Points. Track the total in the in-game Records menu.

Crafting, Meals, Fishing, and Box Traps

Crafting at a Blacksmith or Shopkeeper counts as synthesis. Make 100 inexpensive items one at a time for Nimble Fingers. Normal bait and basic box traps are cheap choices that also support other trophies.

Eat whenever you pass a teahouse until Epicure unlocks at 100 meals. For Fisher, use bait at any fishing point until 30 items have been caught. For Steady Worker, place several box traps near a hideaway, complete missions or advance time, then collect the contents once the trap icons show they are ready.

Buy or craft 30 weapons for Master of the Martial Arts, obtain 20 gems for Collector, and acquire an Epic weapon for A Brush with Expertise. These requirements use the shared inventory, so progress made by different officers still helps.

Difficulty does not affect trophies. You can play every story, side mission, hunt, and cleanup task on Easy.

There is no required New Game+ cycle. Character stories begin in different chapters, while shared items and map progress remain available across the profile. Free Mode lets you revisit chapters that have already been completed.

The Three Kingdoms setting overlaps with the Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty trophy guide, but Dynasty Warriors 9 is an endurance platinum rather than a skill-heavy combat platinum.

Dynasty Warriors 9 supports two-player online co-op and local split-screen co-op after its free updates. A PlayStation Plus membership is required for online play on PS4.

No trophy requires co-op, matchmaking, or an active server. The full platinum remains available offline, so multiplayer should be treated only as an optional way to divide mission work.

Dynasty Warriors 9 has additional weapons, costumes, officers, scenarios, and hideaway content, but it has no separate DLC trophy pack. Paid content is not required for the platinum.

The Complete Edition and other bundles use the same 44-trophy base list. DLC officers do not count toward Flowers Amidst the Chaos, which is based on the 90 officers in the original roster.

No trophy is widely considered permanently unobtainable on the final PS4 updates. Older tracking reports mainly affect Extensive Knowledge, Thronged with Visitors, and hideaway invitation behavior.

Check the Encyclopedia after every planned battle instead of waiting until the end. If the hideaway trophy is late, buy another property. If an invited officer does not appear, advance time at a camp and resend the letter.

The game relies heavily on one rolling profile, so keep a backup before the final Encyclopedia and bond cleanup. A backup does not replace good tracking, but it protects the long shared-progress file from corruption or an accidental overwrite.

There are no permanently missable trophies. Completed chapters can be replayed, Free Mode provides additional cleanup access, and shared progression carries across character stories.

A key mission can close unfinished side missions in the current chapter, which may delay a Battle Encyclopedia entry. That is an efficiency problem rather than a true missable because you can replay the chapter with the correct officer.