Dragon’s Dogma 2 Achievement Guide: 100% Roadmap (54 Total)

Dragon’s Dogma 2 features 54 achievements across its open-world action RPG adventure. With a 2.9% overall completion rate, earning 100% requires mastering all vocations, completing every ending route, collecting hidden items, building NPC relationships, and conquering challenging optional content. Most achievements are progression-based rather than missable, but several require specific actions before key story moments. This guide organizes all 54 achievements by category with unlock instructions and tips for each.

Estimated completion time: 60-80 hours (including NG+ for endings)

Difficulty: 6/10 (skill-based but forgiving with proper preparation)

Missable achievements: 5-8 (NPC affinity, certain endings)

Quick Stats

Category	Count	Difficulty
Story Progression	12	Easy
Vocation Mastery	6	Medium
Combat Challenges	8	Medium-Hard
Collections	4	Medium
Social/Affinity	4	Medium
Exploration	5	Easy-Medium
Endings	4	Medium
Misc Activities	11	Easy-Medium

Story Progression Achievements (12 Total)

These unlock naturally through main story progression. None are missable.

First Taste of Freedom

Unlock Rate: 94.4%

How to Unlock: Escape the bonds of slavery during the prologue.

Tips:

Tutorial achievement—unlocks automatically in first 30 minutes
Cannot be missed

Arisen

Unlock Rate: 83.9%

How to Unlock: Regain your memories of receiving the Arisen’s charge.

Tips:

Early story progression
Triggers after dragon encounter

Seat of the Proxy

Unlock Rate: 76.4%

How to Unlock: Arrive in Vernworth, the capital city.

Tips:

Main story destination after opening areas
Hub city for many quests and vendors

Myrmecoleon Delights

Unlock Rate: 55.3%

How to Unlock: Enter the rose chateau.

Tips:

Story-required location in mid-game
Part of main questline

Across the Border

Unlock Rate: 45.6%

How to Unlock: Pass through the gate at the border to Battahl.

Tips:

Mid-game story checkpoint
Opens second major region

Back Where It All Began

Unlock Rate: 38.0%

How to Unlock: Return to Agamen Volcanic Island.

Tips:

Late-game story return to starting area
Required for main quest progression

Hope You Brought a Lantern

Unlock Rate: 31.8%

How to Unlock: Reach Drabnir’s Grotto.

Tips:

Dark dungeon area—bring lantern or torches
Stock up on oil for extended exploration

Roost of the Dragon

Unlock Rate: 28.0%

How to Unlock: Reach Dragonsbreath Tower.

Tips:

Late-game story location
Prepare for difficult encounters

Dragon’s Dogma 2

Unlock Rate: 21.6%

How to Unlock: Complete the main story campaign.

Tips:

Beat the final boss
Multiple endings available—this unlocks for any ending

Closure

Unlock Rate: 17.6%

How to Unlock: Experience the end of the cycle. (Not available in Casual Mode)

Tips: Missable—must play on Normal or Hard difficulty

Specific ending route
Requires certain story choices

Dragon’s Dogma

Unlock Rate: 9.7%

How to Unlock: Obtain Dragon’s Dogma.

Tips:

Special ending-related achievement
Requires specific endgame actions

Are We There Yet?

Unlock Rate: 17.1%

How to Unlock: Complete specific story milestone.

Tips:

Story progression achievement
Description hidden to avoid spoilers

Vocation Mastery Achievements (6 Total)

Versatile

Unlock Rate: 63.4%

How to Unlock: Change your vocation for the first time.

Tips:

Visit vocation guild in Vernworth
Can change to any base vocation

The Specialist

Unlock Rate: 44.9%

How to Unlock: Reach maximum rank in any vocation.

Tips:

Requires consistent use of one vocation
Rank 9 is maximum
Takes 15-20 hours of focused play with one class

Duo Destinies

Unlock Rate: 40.4%

How to Unlock: Change your vocation to Mystic Spearhand.

Tips:

Hybrid vocation unlocked mid-game
Complete specific questline to unlock
Requires visiting Maister trainer

Arrows and Incantations

Unlock Rate: 27.3%

How to Unlock: Change your vocation to Magick Archer.

Tips:

Hybrid vocation—combines archery with magic
Unlock through Maister quest
Available in Battahl region

Trickster of the Trade

Unlock Rate: 23.9%

How to Unlock: Change your vocation to Trickster.

Tips:

Support-focused advanced vocation
Unlock through specific Maister
Late-game availability

Jack of All Trades, Master of…All Trades

Unlock Rate: 22.2%

How to Unlock: Change your vocation to Warfarer.

Tips:

Ultimate hybrid vocation
Can use skills from all vocations
Hardest vocation to unlock—requires completing all Maister quests

Combat Challenge Achievements (8 Total)

Quit Playing Dead

Unlock Rate: 59.5%

How to Unlock: Revive two pawns simultaneously.

Tips:

Happens naturally in tough fights
Both pawns must be downed at same time
Use Wakestone Shard to revive both

Before Dawn Breaks

Unlock Rate: 22.5%

How to Unlock: Defeat the Headless Horseman.

Tips:

Rare nighttime enemy
Spawns on specific roads after dark
Very challenging—come prepared with high-level gear

Dragon Forged

Unlock Rate: 20.6%

How to Unlock: Strengthen a weapon in wyrmfire.

Tips:

Dragon breath can upgrade equipment
Dragonforged weapons glow red
Not guaranteed—RNG element based on weapon enhancement level

Off with Its Head!

Unlock Rate: 13.0%

How to Unlock: Decapitate a Medusa.

Tips:

Use bladed weapons (swords, daggers)
Target the head specifically
Easier with Warrior or Fighter vocations

Gigantus, I Hardly Knew Ye

Unlock Rate: 9.4%

How to Unlock: Defeat the Gigantus in a short span of time.

Tips:

Timed boss challenge
Requires high DPS build
Time limit is approximately 5 minutes

Harpy Joyride

Unlock Rate: 9.1%

How to Unlock: Summon a harpy, grab hold, and take flight.

Tips:

Use Trickster vocation’s summon ability
Grab the summoned harpy mid-air
Tricky timing—may take several attempts

Getting a Head

Unlock Rate: 7.3%

How to Unlock: Acquire a preserved Medusa head.

Tips: Missable—specific quest item

Decapitate Medusa and preserve the head
Requires completion of related quest
Limited opportunities per playthrough

An Eye for an Eye

Unlock Rate: 3.8%

How to Unlock: Petrify a Medusa.

Tips: Very Rare—difficult to execute

Reflect Medusa’s petrification gaze back at her
Use mirrors or specific skills
Requires precise timing

Collection Achievements (4 Total)

The Tourist

Unlock Rate: 8.2%

How to Unlock: Discover 50 dungeons.

Tips:

Dungeons = caves, ruins, grottos, towers
Check map for undiscovered locations
Explore both Vermund and Battahl thoroughly

The Collector

Unlock Rate: 8.0%

How to Unlock: Collect 80 Seeker’s Tokens.

Tips:

240 total tokens hidden across the world
Often in hard-to-reach places
Use online maps for remaining tokens

Master of the Maisters

Unlock Rate: 5.9%

How to Unlock: Acquire every Maister’s teaching.

Tips: Partially Missable—some Maisters are quest-locked

10 Maisters total (one per vocation + Warfarer)
Complete each Maister’s questline
Some require high NPC affinity

Full Marks

Unlock Rate: 12.7%

How to Unlock: Solve every riddle posed by the Sphinx.

Tips: Missable—Sphinx has limited riddles

Sphinx appears in two locations
First location: 5 riddles
Second location: 5 additional riddles
Wrong answers consume riddles permanently

Social & Affinity Achievements (4 Total)

Affinity and Beyond

Unlock Rate: 44.6%

How to Unlock: Raise one person’s affinity to maximum.

Tips:

Gift items NPCs like
Complete their personal quests
Talk to them frequently

The Philanthropist

Unlock Rate: 6.1%

How to Unlock: Earn the affections of 50 people.

Tips:

Requires raising affinity with 50 NPCs
Gift giving is most efficient method
Track progress through NPC dialogue changes

Nobles’ Night Out

Unlock Rate: 46.9%

How to Unlock: Attend the palace masquerade in formal raiment.

Tips:

Purchase formal outfit from tailor
Story quest requirement
Easy to miss if you don’t buy clothes first

A Pawn of Many Talents

Unlock Rate: 45.0%

How to Unlock: Teach your main pawn a specialization.

Tips:

Unlock specializations through guild
Assign to main pawn in status menu
Multiple specializations available

Exploration Achievements (5 Total)

An In-Tents Adventure

Unlock Rate: 74.8%

How to Unlock: Go camping.

Tips:

Use Camping Kit from inventory
Can camp almost anywhere outdoors
Restores health and advances time

One Speed Only

Unlock Rate: 65.3%

How to Unlock: Board an oxcart.

Tips:

Oxcarts available in major towns
Fast travel alternative
Can be attacked by enemies during transit

Just a Stone’s Throw Away

Unlock Rate: 59.2%

How to Unlock: Use a Ferrystone.

Tips:

Ferrystones teleport to Portcrystals
Place Portcrystals at key locations
Ferrystones can be purchased or found

This’ll Cure What Ails Ye

Unlock Rate: 28.5%

How to Unlock: Soak in the hot spring.

Tips:

Hot spring location in volcanic area
Cures debilitations and restores stamina
Hidden location—explore thoroughly

The Regriffining

Unlock Rate: 22.5%

How to Unlock: Take flight on griffin wing a second time.

Tips:

Grab onto griffin during combat
First flight is story-scripted
Second requires finding wild griffin

Ending Achievements (4 Total)

All ending achievements may be missable—save before final decision.

The Hero

Unlock Rate: 13.5%

How to Unlock: Achieve the “Hero” ending.

Tips: Missable—specific ending route

Make heroic choices throughout story
Refuse certain offers
Save before final boss

The Guardian

Unlock Rate: 14.5%

How to Unlock: Achieve the “Guardian” ending.

Tips: Missable—alternate ending

Different story choices from “Hero”
Prioritize protecting over conquering

Peace

Unlock Rate: 12.4%

How to Unlock: Become Sovran of Vernworth.

Tips: Missable—political ending route

Complete specific questlines
Build relationships with nobles
Make political alliance choices

I’m In

Unlock Rate: 14.7%

How to Unlock: Achieve specific ending outcome.

Tips: Missable—hidden ending

Requires exploration of all options
Description intentionally vague

Miscellaneous Achievements (11 Total)

A House? In This Economy?

Unlock Rate: 54.5%

How to Unlock: Purchase your own dwelling.

Tips:

Houses available in multiple towns
Costs 20,000-200,000 gold depending on location
Provides storage and rest benefits

The Savior

Unlock Rate: 45.3%

How to Unlock: Use a Wakestone to restore the dead to life.

Tips:

Wakestones revive important dead NPCs
Combine 3 Wakestone Shards = 1 Wakestone
Use on dead quest NPCs

Wish upon the Rift

Unlock Rate: 47.3%

How to Unlock: Set a pawn quest.

Tips:

Access Rift menu
Set quest objectives for other players’ pawns
Rewards you when pawns complete tasks

To the Victor Go the Spoils

Unlock Rate: 18.9%

How to Unlock: Reclaim your items from the scavenger who stole them.

Tips:

Scavengers steal items when you die
Track down the scavenger NPC
Defeat them to reclaim lost items

A Badge of Honor

Unlock Rate: 17.6%

How to Unlock: Acquire a pawn badge.

Tips:

Pawn badges earned through pawn quests
Other players’ use of your pawn generates badges
Requires online connectivity

Thought I’d Lost You

Unlock Rate: 15.9%

How to Unlock: Restore the dead to life at a morgue or charnel house.

Tips:

Morgues located in major cities
Revive dead NPCs you care about
Costs gold—varies by NPC importance

Cyclops Abridged

Unlock Rate: 11.0%

How to Unlock: Cross a cyclopean bridge.

Tips:

Specific bridge created by defeating cyclops
Cyclops falls and becomes bridge
Location in northern regions

I, Talos

Unlock Rate: 12.0%

How to Unlock: Complete specific challenge.

Tips:

Description hidden—likely related to golem
Requires defeating or interacting with golem

Reaper’s Scorn

Unlock Rate: 4.3%

How to Unlock: Accomplish a miracle for several people at once.

Tips: Ultra Rare—revive multiple NPCs simultaneously

Use multiple Wakestones in sequence
Requires several important NPCs to be dead

The Barbecue-Maister

Unlock Rate: 4.2%

How to Unlock: Grill every type of meat during night and day.

Tips: Ultra Rare—cooking challenge

20+ meat types in game
Must cook each during day AND night (40 total cooks)
Track cooking with checklist

Plenty Arisen to Go Round

Unlock Rate: 2.9%

How to Unlock: Complete ultimate challenge.

Tips: Rarest achievement in the game

Description hidden
Likely requires NG+ or special conditions
Community still discovering unlock method

100% Completion Roadmap

Playthrough 1 (Main Story + Collections):

Complete main story—focus on one ending
Max at least one vocation to rank 9
Unlock all advanced vocations (Mystic Spearhand, Magick Archer, Trickster, Warfarer)
Collect Seeker’s Tokens (aim for 80+)
Discover 50 dungeons
Solve all Sphinx riddles (don’t waste any)
Build affinity with key NPCs

Playthrough 2 (NG+ for Endings): 8. Complete alternate ending routes (The Hero, The Guardian, Peace) 9. Finish remaining Maister quests 10. Max affinity with 50 NPCs 11. Complete cooking challenge (The Barbecue-Maister)

Cleanup Phase: 12. Ultra-rare combat challenges (An Eye for an Eye, Harpy Joyride) 13. Getting a Head (Medusa preservation) 14. Plenty Arisen to Go Round (final challenge)

Missable Achievement Checklist

Before Final Boss:

[ ] All 10 Maister teachings unlocked
[ ] All Sphinx riddles solved correctly
[ ] Preserved Medusa head obtained
[ ] Key NPC affinity maximized
[ ] Manual save created for ending branches

Save Before Final Decision: Create separate saves to unlock all 4 ending achievements without full replays.

Conclusion

Dragon’s Dogma 2’s 54 achievements require 60-80 hours across 1-2 playthroughs due to multiple ending routes and collection requirements. The most challenging are An Eye for an Eye (petrify Medusa), The Barbecue-Maister (cook 40 items), and Plenty Arisen to Go Round (rarest at 2.9%). Most achievements unlock through natural progression, but several require specific actions before story milestones. Use the checklist above to avoid missing critical collectibles and Maister quests.