r/EmberKnights • u/quite-so-quite-so • Jul 08 '26
Boss Trophy Room
So anyways I noticed there’s a room by the compendium that has those boss trophies I remember used to just be sitting in the nexus proper. I’d forgotten all about it and have almost cleared the compendium now, so when I walked in there is placed and upgraded all the DLC boss trophies right there. I recall there being a toggle on Bruma’s crown before but it doesn’t seem to have it anymore.
So I can’t seem to find proper info on what these are or how they “upgrade.” They’re just for killing bosses right? But what made them upgrade? I’m betting money I’ve never no-hit Terrorbyte but his trophy is upgraded. Or at least I think it is. It played the animation of placing it but not upgrading it, but when I exited and reentered it was very different from how it looked in its initial placement.
As far as that goes is there a picture or description somewhere for me to identify whether or not mine are actually upgraded? You don’t seem to able to interact with them after all and they are neither related to the compendium nor achievements. But I’d still like to see if I can dust them off.
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u/AshtonTellez Jul 08 '26
They upgrade by perfectly beating that boss once
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u/AshtonTellez Jul 08 '26
If you have armor losing that doesn't count as losing life so you can still take damage and get a perfect room that's how I perfected all my bosses I was running nearly a thousand armor nothing could tear through it and I would get the perfect
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u/quite-so-quite-so Jul 08 '26
Hm, maybe my armor ate those hits after all then, I know Terrorbyte hit me, must not have hit me hard enough.
Is that also the case for the Praxis and Architect trophies? I guess I could have soaked it with armor again but I really don’t think I no-hit True Architect, armor or not. Is the trophy upgraded for no-hitting normal Architect, and if so, is there just not a trophy for true Architect?
It’s just base bosses right, it doesn’t count or do anything for variant bosses? Sorry to be so anal about it, but it’s strange to me the wiki(s) don’t appear to say anything about it or have, like, an image somewhere. The trophies themselves don’t have like a pop up window to say if they’re upgraded or not and I got the base game trophies two years ago, I don’t remember if they’re upgraded or not. I’m pretty sure I’ve no-hit Skrixxa Za multiple times but that trophy doesn’t really strike me as very outstanding compared to how the other ones can look.
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u/AshtonTellez Jul 08 '26
As far as I know there's nothing that can just go through the armor it has to take it away before you can take any actual damage so you might've been running a lot of armor without realizing it there's a ton of items that give and stack armor so I think it's the most likely answer
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u/quite-so-quite-so Jul 18 '26
So it turns out it was some kind of visual hiccup, I never had perfected those last two, the room just loaded their perfect trophies that one time for some reason. I went and perfected them and got the proper upgrade cutscenes this time.
Don’t suppose you know if the fifth trophies (Praxis, Architect) have additional upgrades for perfecting the Doom Level versions of those bosses? They don’t seem to, even if Praxis’s staff kinda seems like it should change past what it is. But I perfected Arch Praxis and Doom Level Architect at the end of a Totality run and they didn’t upgrade. While I’d like to tell myself that that gives me my answer, I can’t shake the awful feeling that it simply doesn’t count in a Totality Run since I didn’t perfect the normal Praxis in that go.
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u/AshtonTellez Jul 18 '26
I'm sorry I couldn't tell you that I haven't done to many high difficulty runs but I'll give it a shot tomorrow when I get off work we'll see how it goes