Dragon Age: Inquisition Platinum Guide (PS3, PS4)

PS3 / PS4

Inquisition planning has two layers: keep Nightmare active from the beginning and protect specific narrative choices. Exploring every corner of the Hinterlands does not replace companion recruitment or a crucial later decision. Alternate new regions, Skyhold conversations and story progress, retaining separate saves before the ball and the Well of Sorrows. This keeps a lengthy character progression from depending on one irreversible choice.

The base campaign has the same route on PS3 and PS4. The platinum does not require multiplayer or the add-on groups, which differ between editions.

Required difficulty: Complete the campaign on Nightmare without lowering difficulty.
Missable trophies: Recruitment, relationships, court approval and the Well of Sorrows choice.
Online: No multiplayer trophy required for the platinum.

Check Nightmare after visiting the options

Start on Nightmare and never lower difficulty until Inquisitor unlocks. Be careful with commands that restore default settings. Before long encounters, organise squad roles, protection and healing; addressing a team weakness is more useful than trying to solve every fight solely by increasing the Inquisitor’s damage.

Recheck difficulty after changing options.

Recruit and converse before advancing

Seek companions when recruitment quests appear and revisit conversations between missions. Approval and relationships require interaction rather than merely having someone in the party. When pursuing a romance, check compatibility and save before decisive dialogue, avoiding responses that permanently end the opportunity.

Check recruitment and available conversations before main quests.

Prepare the ball as its own project

Create a dedicated save before Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts. Court approval can change through dialogue and restricted-area exploration. Leave public areas with a specific objective and check approval before concluding; reaching the quest ending does not prove the full-approval condition has been satisfied.

Retain the pre-ball save and monitor approval during the quest.

Have the Inquisitor drink from the Well of Sorrows

At the end of What Pride Had Wrought, choosing who drinks affects On Burning Wings. The associated route requires the Inquisitor to drink rather than Morrigan. Retain a copy before deciding and then complete the connected quest; choosing the other character advances the story but does not satisfy the same trophy condition.

Save before the Well and choose the Inquisitor for that branch.

Explore with a progression objective

Use rifts, camps and quests to develop the party and gain influence without remaining indefinitely in the first region. When an opponent is too strong, pursue other objectives and return with better equipment. Separate base-game trophies from expansion and Trials groups; their inclusion in a complete edition does not make them platinum requirements.

Check base-game trophies before starting a lengthy additional activity.

Trophies to watch

Inquisitor

Finish the single-player campaign on Nightmare without lowering the difficulty.

Do not lower Nightmare, even temporarily, during the dedicated run.

On Burning Wings

Recruit a powerful ally to even the score.

Have the Inquisitor drink from the Well and follow the associated quest.

Belle of the Ball

Gain the full approval of the Orlesian court.

Use a pre-ball save and monitor court approval.

Frequently asked questions

Can everything be done in one campaign?

It is possible by starting on Nightmare and protecting missables with saves. A lost choice may still require returning to an earlier copy.

Can Morrigan drink for On Burning Wings?

The trophy’s route requires the Inquisitor to drink. Preserve the decision in a separate save if you also want to see the other outcome.

Are expansion Trials required?

No. They belong to additional groups and do not replace or extend the base campaign’s Nightmare requirement.

Sources

Trophy lists

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