Completing the game achievements
This achievement will more than likely be the first one you obtain in this game as it requires you to complete the tutorial, once you have started a character to play through the story with, so just simply follow the tutorial and you will obtain this.
The above achievements require you to finish the game with Celine, Leinheart, Kendal and Regnier. To gain these achievements you don't have to complete the entire game with all the characters, for these achievements if you have a co-op partner or a friend who has completed the game once who would be willing to invite you to their game, have them invite you and all you have to for each character is defeat the final boss Encablossa with each of the characters and the achievement will unlock.
NOTE: Duane does not have a story completion achievement.
This achievement requires you to finish the game as Curian, the reason I put this achievement below the others is because Curian cannot be selected as a playable character when you start the game, to select him as a playable character you must first finish the campaign as Celine.
However the requirements for unlocking this achievement are the same as the others.
Quest Achievements
When you play through the game you will come across idols where you can choose to sleep, when you select this option you will be taken to what is called the dream world, in this world you will find other characters as you speak to them they will eventually start giving you quests to complete, all the characters except Curian have quests. The quests given to you involve fetching specific items, killing specific creatures and a lot of backtracking throughout your playthrough. Duane's quest however is basically a mini game that involves duelling with Bertrand to win the heart of Marguerite.
In each characters dreams the people giving the quests will be different:
- Celine - Moonlight
- Kendal - Moonlight
- Leinheart - Valdemaar
- Regnier - Old man
- Duane - Marguerite/Bertrand
Quest objectives for the characters usually show up as a gold orb/ball of light in the game so whether you are looking for a glass or a spirit orb these particular items will always show in the game as a gold orb/ball of light.
I will write a complete walkthrough below for every character's quest guiding you through the requirements for each quest, on another note these quests can also be completed in a co-op game, your character will be the only one who can see the orb/ball of light. Also if you are a lower level completing quests and you have a friend who’s a higher level than you, you may consider asking them to help you with the tougher quests which require you to defeat the bosses Keither and Encablossa.
Curian’s Spirit Orb –
The first thing you need to do for Celine's quest is to obtain Curian’s spirit orb, so to start off you need to go to sleep and speak to the moonlight a few times to find out about the spirit orb. The clue to this quest and the orb’s location is “where Celine and Curian last embraced” now the word in that clue that basically tells you the whereabouts of the orb is “embraced” which means there is only one place it could be.. Yes you guessed it; you need to go to the “Forest Of Embracing.” Travel to the Forest of Embracing and you need to wander through the paths searching for a glowing yellow orb, this is the spirit orb that you are searching for. Once you have the orb the game saves and you can now go to sleep again to gain a new quest.
Elixir of Death and Lost Minds –
Once you go to sleep for the second time you need to talk to Curran and moonlight and you will find out that the special spirit orb that you searched for in the previous quest is actually a lemon... Moonlight suggests that you should speak to the Idol of Death. Simply leave the idol’s location and cycle through each idol until you find the right one. Each idol is only several minutes away from each other so you are sure to find the idol you are looking for after walking around following the paths. NOTE: If you are playing in multiplayer, all players must leave the idol’s location/room or the idol will not change.
When you find the idol of death, as normal you need to do a favour for a favour... So the idol of death requests that for him to make the elixir, Celine needs to bring the fear of death to the Blacksand Tribe. All you need to do is travel to the City of Desolation and kill enough Blacksand enemies until the quest says you have 100%.
For Moonlight’s Lost Mind quest you just kill skeleton soldiers and archers until the percentage for the Lost Mind quest has reached 100%. The easiest room for the skeleton enemies is the final room in the Forest. If you need to kill more skeleton’s because you have not gained 100% yet, all you need to do is clear out the room, then save and quit. If you were playing offline all this time then you will start back in that room but all the enemies will be respawned if you continue your solo (offline) game.
Mind Traces and Pure Gold –
After finishing both quests, first take your completed quest to the idol of death for the elixir. Once you have done that you need to go back into the dream world and talk to Moonlight and gain the next quest.
Speak to the three idols again and you will need to do 2 more tasks: you need to get pure gold and cursed honour.
Pure gold is an easy quest if you are playing solo/offline. You need to travel through the Hall of Arrogance until you reach the twilight corridor. For this quest you need to kill Gold lice (louse). In that room it has two levels. In the long corridor version of “The Twilight Corridor” all you need to do is stay in the area with the bookshelves and the gold lice will come out from the shelves occasionally. Once you have killed all the gold lice that you can do not return back to the anti-chamber, instead, save and quit while you are still in the twilight corridor and continue the game so the enemies will respawn again. The gold louse is quite a hard monster to encounter.
For the cursed honour quest it requires you to kill the elemental knights. So you need to kill the fire, lightning, frost, dark and ghost knights. And keep checking the percentage of this quest. The message “you’ve already got some cursed honour, find another cursed honour” will appear numerous times when you kill these enemies the percentage will only increase to a certain point so basically you can only kill so many of the fire knights before the percentage stops increasing which mean you will have to move on and kill a different type of knight for the percentage to increase even more. The flame and lightning knights are easy to find in the valley of solitude, a few ghost and dark knights can be found in the hall of arrogance. Although the dark knights are more common in the road to chaos (level 6).
Restoring Curian’s Spirit –
For this you need to take both completed quests back to the idol of love and get the mind trace. Once you have accomplished this you need to go back into the dream world and talk to moonlight. Visit/talk a few times until Curran swallows the white pill. Moonlight will turn into a bookstand and this will signify that her quests are over.
Walter’s Pendant –
For the first part of Kendal’s quest visit the dream world and talk to moonlight a few times and Walter will appear in the dream world. Talk to them both until a quest appears about a pendant. To find this pendant, all the quest requires you to do is kill the Blacksand warriors in the City of Desolation until the percentage for this quest is 100%. Once it is 100% take the quest back to the dream world for a quest update.
Spirit Shards and Hero’s Heart –
Moonlight will tell you to speak with the idol of love so exit the dream world and do exactly that. This will give you a new quest about something called the spiritual shards. You need to travel to the Hall of Arrogance and play through each of the rooms. You need to be on the lookout for the five shard pieces, these are glowing yellow orbs. Some rare cases a shard is placed past a loading point, just choose “No” when the game asks you if you want to move to a new region. When the message disappears just grab the orb and move on. Now the five orbs are randomly placed so you may need to play through all the rooms except the boss room. If you don’t get them all on your first run simply move on to another stage and then travel back to the Hall of Arrogance and search the rooms again.
Once you have obtained all 5 shards talk to the idol of love again and she will direct you to moonlight. Go to sleep and speak to Walter again and he will give you a key to the End of Desolation. This key is used to unlock the boss in this city. Kendal is the only character who can do this. The boss is mutant Curian, he is at level 38 and he has about 40,000 HP on normal difficulty. Once you defeat him this part of the quest is done.
Purifying the mind –
You need to visit Moonlight a few times and he will eventually update your quest about drinking from a cup. You now need to travel back to the Halls of Arrogance and go through this level. When you return to the antechamber after fighting through the twilight corridor head towards the sunrise atrium from the idol, a message will pop up asking if you want to load a new area, simply click on “no” and just walk into the room. Assuming that your quest has updated, you will find a set of secret stairs that will appear next to the desk in the room. You need to head down the stairs into the basement and grab the cup. To obtain the water just travel back to the Forest of Embracing and travel through the level until you find the waterfall, there will be a glowing yellow orb representing the water. Once you have obtained this, again visit moonlight for a quest update.
Three Books and Completing the Purification –
When you visit Moonlight, there will be another old man; this is Encablossa in human form. He will give Kendal a quest that will lead you to the boss “Keither”. For the three books you need to travel to the Halls of Arrogance. The books are randomly placed so you will have to search each room thoroughly for each one. Again if you don’t obtain all three books on your first run you need to save and quit and repeat the process. Once you have collected all 3 books you need to head back to the dream world and speak to Encablossa for Keither’s key.
When you are half way through the books of knowledge quest, you can complete the purification by going to the cave of rage and heading to the long bridge leading to the lava tower. Once you reach the bridge you need to throw the cup over the bridge to complete the purification ritual Kendal.
Keither, Keither, Keither –
Keither is an extra boss that you can face in stage 6, Road of Chaos. You need to get to the last part of this stage where you will have 2 doors: “Crack in the Consciousness” and “End of Chaos”. From the maps starting location search for a ramp leading up. “The crack in the consciousness” is on the second floor just above the final boss room. Defeat Keither and talk to moonlight once more and he will update your quest. All you have to do as Kendal now is to beat stage 6 and defeat Encablossa.
Mutation -
Enter the dream world and speak with Valdemar until you get a conversation about mutation. Valdemar will advise you to talk to the idol of death about the mutation. You do not need to speak with Morene as she is not relevant for the quest.
The Seed and Eternal Desire -
You will need to speak with all 3 of the idols. Once you have done this you will be given a task to find a seed and eternal desire. To obtain the seed you have to kill plant kings until the quest completion percentage is at 100%. The best place to find the most plant kings is of course level 1, The Forest of Embracing. Once you have gotten the seed return it to the Idol of Love to receive a quest update.
You will find out that the seed must be planted in a warm embrace, which obviously means The Forest of Embracing. So enter the forest and you will find where to plant the seed where you start. Once done go to the Ice Valley level, kill the boss and then warp back to The Forest of Embracing.
Water the Seed -
Speak with the Idol of Love to find out what to do next. You will be told the seed needs water. So, to get the water you need visit the same place you visited with Kendal to get his water in the Forest of Embracing next to the waterfall. Once you have the water head back to the start of the forest and water the seed. Once completed go and speak with the Idol of Greed and then enter the dream world.
Spiral Hourglass -
You will find Encablossa in human form instead of Valdemar. Speak with him and he will tell you to get a spiral hourglass from the City of Desolation. Head there and locate the ramp that goes up or down in a spiral. The item will be out in the open so pick it up and enter the dream world again and speak with the old man.
Key to Keither and Self-Confidence -
The key will spawn at the beginning of level 6, Road to Chaos. Look around and you will find a gold glowing orb on the first map. Fight your way through and locate Keither. You can find Keither in the same spot where he was in Kendal and Regnier's quests. Once you have defeated Keither you will get the potion of self-confidence. Go back to the dream world and update your quest log, then proceed and defeat the final boss.
Absolute Purity -
In Regnier’s dream world talk to the old man a few times until the woman sat in the chair has more dialogue for you and eventually the old man or the woman will give this quest to Regnier which will require Regnier to search for Absolute Purity. Once you have received this quest speak with the idol of death regarding this item.
Splinter of Death -
When you speak with idol of death you will receive this task. Also the two other idols will give you a task to complete in order to receive the above item, Absolute Purity. For this quest you are required to kill the following list of enemies.
- Skeleton soldiers and archers
- Flesh men and spears
- Explosive flesh men and spears
- Frozen flesh men and spears
- Flesh and scorched flesh golems
Splinter of Greed -
You will be required to kill the statues and sculptors in the Hall of Arrogance. The three statues are Cherub, Angel and Archangel and the two sculptors Apprentice and Maestro. Kill theses statues and sculptors to complete this quest.
Splinter of Love -
For this quest you are required enter the Valley of Solitude and defeat two enemies known as Yuki Onna and Yuki Otoko.
Keither, Keither -
Now that you have completed the three tasks and obtained the three splinters enter the dream world and talk to the old man again to obtain the key and the quest to defeat Keither. Go and destroy the boss Keither and be sure to visit the dream world again and speak with the old man as this is required to complete Regnier’s quest and bring an end to ‘The Age of Light.’ After talking to the old man, defeat the final boss on stage 6 and Regnier’s quest is complete
For more information on this achievement please refer to "Marguerite My Love" Achievement.
For this and the above achievement you are required to raise Marguerite's favour to 100%, to do this it involves a mini game where you are duelling someone called Bertrand who is also trying to win Marguerite's heart. For more information on how to do this there is a page called 'Duane's quest' this has all the information you need to obtain this achievement.
As you playthrough the mini game with Duane you will enter the dream world at some point and Marguerite will not be there, if you speak with Bertrand now you will enter a "Heart-To-Heart" with him and this will obtain this achievement for you.
Bosses
I added this achievement under the boss category because it has something to do with bosses, as the achievement says pick up all items dropped by a boss." Once you have defeated a boss he/she will drop quite a lot of loot on the ground, you will need to pick all the items up to unlock this achievement.
Before you go into a fight you will want to purchase as much inventory space as possible from the Idol of Death and also store any unused items at the Idol's box. Make sure you take potions with you to battle so you can heal yourself if you take too much damage.
Once the boss is defeated you have about 30 seconds to pick up all the loot, if you followed the above instructions and cleared your inventory then you should be able to collect everything. If your unused healing potions are preventing you from picking up any item quickly enter your inventory and destroy them as time does not stop ticking while you do this.
The Forest Guardian is the very first boss you will face he is at the end of the first level "Forest of Embracing." To defeat this boss you must first attack any of his four heads and once the heads HP is at 50% simply move on to the next head until you have done all four heads. After you have attacked all four of his heads he will then fly up to the top this is where you will want to equip a ranged weapon and start shooting at him, after a while he will jump back down but avoid the fall otherwise you will get hurt. Continue to attack his heads until they are gone he will eventually rise up to the top again so again shoot at him with ranged weapons.
NOTE: The forest guardian will spurt out acidic breath from all four of his heads which can damage you and also his blood dripping can also hurt you so avoid getting hit by these as much as possible also use potions to heal yourself when necessary.
Loki is the boss that guards the end of arrogance and he should be the second boss that you will face in the game. Before you face him equip an accessory with resistance to lightning as this will give you a better chance to survive his ranged lightning attacks.
In the early stages of the fight Loki will move around the room in his armour, you can avoid his attacks easily by running away. To make sure that you do not get hurt be sure to use ranged attacks on his as much as possible and as his HP decreases he will start losing his armour.
When you get to the end of the fight Loki will become immune to the ranged attacks so you will need to start using melee on him. I would suggest though using the "Magic Shot" spell on him repeatedly to save yourself from getting injured as his lightning
attacks will stop you meleeing him.
Once you have defeated Loki, his head will still be lurking around near his remains, his head is very small and maybe difficult to see but when you find it hit it a couple of times and you will unlock this achievement. If you cannot find the head then you can try using "magic shot" to attack it blindly.
You will find the ice maiden at the end of solitude and she has a few forms of attacks.
- A close ranged attack when you are near
- A ranged attack that sends ice towards you
- A magic attack that summons ice statues around the area
- A magic attack that summons multiple copies of herself
The first 2 attacks you will want to avoid them and then either move in to melee her or simply use
ranged attacks on her.
The third attack you will notice that there are ice statues around the area and also faint copies of
herself flying around as well. You will need to attack the ice statues that should break in one hit whilst avoiding
her flying copies. If you come in to contact with one of them you will lose a lot of health and you will be staring at a screen of trees.
For the final attack just run around and avoid all her attacks and continue to attack her until she is defeated.
The Balrog is the boss that guards the end of rage. This is a volcanic area with
larva all over the floor which doesn't give you much room to move around. When you first
start the fight with the Balrog use ranged attacks on him and he will soon jump towards where
you are standing, avoid this and then start attacking him with close ranged attacks.
You may find that sometimes he will jump up to the top, when he does this he is immune to all attacks
so all you can do is stand around until he comes back down. Once his HP goes down to around 50% he will send a
chain towards your position, this will be anchored to a rock so you must quickly attack the chain. If you hit it
enough times it will remove the arm the chain is attached to so if you can remove both
his arms it will make this fight easier.
For his final attack he flies around the room charging at you, you can try to use ranged attacks on him but you may find
that using the "magic shot" when he charges at you makes you invulnerable. You should only release the charging of your magic
shot when he lands. Apart from that just make sure you heal a lot.
Mutated Curian is located in the City of Desolation and can only be accessed by Kendal as he is the only character that receives the key to fight Mutated Curian. The only way you can fight Mutated Curian as any other character is via online with someone else playing as Kendal.
Mutated Curian is not that difficult to defeat, just attack him with your weapon of choice and have plenty of potions ready to heal yourself during the battle.
Encablossa is the final boss and he is pretty easy to defeat. In the early stages of the battle he fly around as a white shadow
sending attacks (debris, lightning, etc.) towards you. At this point he can only be hurt by magic. Eventually he will turn in to a
black shadow whilst still using the same attacks however this time he is now vulnerable to both melee and ranged attacks. To defeat him
just lock onto him and spam ranged attacks at him until his HP is finally gone.
MISCELLANEOUS
There are three staff rolls in circle of doom.
- The first one can be accessed in the start menu under the “Credits” option
- The second one you will need to beat the game with one character on normal
- For the third and final one you will need to beat the game on extreme mode with one of the characters. Beating the game on extreme mode can be difficult so if you’re having problems with it the only option you have really is to find a co-op partner to help you through.
In Circle of Doom, synthesis plays an important role in this game. To synthesize you just simply visit any idol. Choose the item that you want to synthesize and place it into the top left box. You will be able to view the outcome of the synthesis on the right.
The success rate of a synthesis depends on how much money you have, so the more money you have the better the success rate. To unlock this achievement simply perform one successful synthesis.
For this achievement just simply synthesize the cheapest item you have. Jewellery normally works best. Just synthesize the item ten times and the achievement will unlock.
Do the same mentioned above but this time it requires you to synthesize an item twenty times instead of ten.
The above achievements require you to reach certain levels with any character the max level being 120. Once you reach level 120 you should obtain all three of these achievements. For these achievements it would be a lot faster for you if you have a friend or someone with a powerful character willing to power boost you through which will help you level up faster. If you don't have anyone to help you the achievements are still obtainable by yourself they will just take you a lot longer to obtain.
This achievement is the same as the three mentioned above the only difference is that you have to reach level 80 with ALL characters.
To learn an ability you must enter the dream world and talk to whoever is there depending on the character you are playing as. You may have to talk to them a few times. Once you have selected your chosen ability you will be given a specific task you need to complete so you can learn the ability. This task will most likely be killing a certain amount of enemies. Once you have finished the task enter the dream world again and talk about abilities to unlock the ability and gain this achievement.
This achievement is actually a tricky one as there is no stone golem in the game; you have to make one yourself. To do this you must have the PETRIFY ability then head to the Forest of Embracing find a wood golem, cast the spell petrify on the wood golem, then finally kill the golem and the achievement will unlock.
his is easily obtain when using Leinhart as your character because he obtains Bloodlust weapons early on in the game and he has quick attacks but this achievement can be unlocked with any character. You just need to find a weapon of bloodlust and hit enemies 20 times without being hit, also there is a time element basically you can’t wait five minutes between hits and carry on. You should be able to obtain this achievement on one group of enemies.