- Estimated trophy difficulty: See below for the difficulty breakdowns of the main game and all 4 DLC lists. The followings are based on assuming you are using Lilith and doing the respective DLCs on Playthrough 1:-
- Main Game: 4/10 (Platinum Difficulty Rating)
- The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned DLC: 3/10
- Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot DLC: 9/10 if done legit but 2/10 if you use the Splitscreen/Low Level Character exploit
- The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC: 5/10 if you use the Corner exploit to defeat Crawmerax but 9/10 if done legit
- Claptrap's New Robot Revolution DLC: 3/10
- Approximate time to Platinum/100%?: 36-50+hrs for the Platinum and 120+hrs for the 100% (Estimated Time to Platinum)
- Main Game Trophy Breakdown: 51 (41, 7, 2, 1)
- Offline (PS3): 50 (41, 6, 2, 1)
- Offline (PS4): 51 (41, 7, 2, 1)
- Online (PS3: 1 (1)
- Online (PS4): 0
- Zombie Island of Dr. Ned: 5 (2, 2, 1)
- Offline: 5 (2, 2, 1)
- Online: 0
- Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot: 5 (1, 3, 1)
- Offline: 5 (1, 3, 1)
- Online: 0
- The Secret Armory of General Knoxx: 10 (8, 2)
- Offline: 10 (8, 2)
- Online: 0
- Claptrap's New Robot Revolution: 10 (7, 3)
- Offline: 10 (7, 3)
- Online: 0
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 2 + 3 partial if you don't have all the DLCs but 1 + 3 partial if you do.
- Number of missable trophies: 1, Fully Loaded
- Glitched trophies: Yes, 2 - Big Tournament (Underdome DLC) and Completionist (General Knoxx DLC). Also see here for some additional info on the glitches you might encounter: LINK
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: Not directly but playing on playthrough 2 or 2.5 will make the game a lot harder.
- Do trophies stack?: Yes. The Difficulty and Gear trophies do, plus there are separate lists for the PS4, Global and JP PS3 releases of the game.
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No
- Additional peripherals required?: Having 2 controllers (3 in the PS4 version and 3 PSN Accounts) will make the Co-Op trophies a lot easier to get.
Note: The controls mentioned in this Guide are based on 2 different control schemes so please cross-reference them with the in-game instructions for your setup.
Introduction:
Borderlands is a First-Person Shooter/RPG hybrid that is set on the far-off planet of Pandora, where a mythical treasure is rumoured to be hidden in a secret Vault. A race of beings called the Eridians used to reign supreme over Pandora but something happened Millennia ago that wiped them out, leaving only the "Guardians" to watch over the Vault site and keep out intruders. Over the Centuries many have tried and failed to find the treasure but still they come. Many different companies set up shop on Pandora to equip the Vault Hunters and to mine what resources the planet still has. The good times couldn't last and soon many companies either went out of business or cut their losses and left but not before cutting loose all the convicts they'd brought to use as slave labour.
Borderlands is a relatively easy game but some trophies like the "Ding!" ones will take a while to get. Borderlands isn't a hard game to play, you just need to put some time into it. The co-op trophies are easy to get, though if you have the Stackable release you may have difficulty getting them due to how deserted the servers are. Most of the trophies aren't that missable as you can always get any you do miss on Playthroughs 2 or 2.5. The PS4 version of the game, fixes many of the issues that plagued the PS3 original but adds a couple of new ones that will be detailed under the relevant trophies. Unfortunately, something has changed in recent years and the PS3 version of game has become version locked so see here for more info (credit to CypherNova139): LINK
Walkthrough:
Note: Outside of Completionist and Big Tournament , no other trophies should be glitched but it has been reported that some can be buggy if your console is set to a language other than English so check your system language before starting. Careful, He Bites is one of the trophies that is rumoured to suffer from the problem.
Step 1: Complete Playthrough 1 with Lilith and do every mission, plus select Co-Op trophies
Most of the trophies will come naturally. You can start out with any character to your liking though overall they're the same in strength but we do advise you, if you want to gain the Platinum the fastest, to play as Lilith the Siren. She's pretty strong from the start and her Phasewalk skill will greatly help you out, not only in battle but also because of the extra movement speed and her health-regenerating ability (once unlocked).
Trophies earned during this step:
Paid in Fyrestone
Made in Fyrestone
Paid in New Haven
Made in New Haven
My Brother is an Italian Plumber
You call this archaeology?
Ding! Newbie
Ding! Novice
Ding! Expert
Ding! Hardcore
Discovered Skag Gully
Discovered Sledge's Safe House
Discovered Headstone Mine
Discovered Trash Coast
Discovered The Scrapyard
Discovered Krom's Canyon
Discovered Crimson Lance Enclave
Discovered Eridian Promontory
Get A Little Blood on the Tires
Rootinest, Tootinest, Shootinest
Pandora-dog Millionaire
Fence
Group LF Healer
There's No "I" In "Team"
Weapon Aficionado
Facemelter
1.21 Gigawatts
Pyro
Master Exploder
There are some who call me...Tim
Fully Loaded - MISSABLE
Truly Outrageous
12 Days of Pandora
Wanted: Sledge
Wanted: Krom
Wanted: Flynt
Destroyed the Hive
Destroyed the Destroyer
United We Stand
Step 2: Earn all the DLC trophies, except for the Underdome ones
During this step, you will get all the DLC trophies except for the ones belonging to the Underdome DLC. The DLC trophies are mostly easy, if a little dull at times, though the Armory trophies can be a pain to do solo so you may want to enlist a friend to help out. When playing the Armoury DLC and going for the Completionist trophy, there's a chance it can glitch if attempted in Co-Op so see the Armoury Guide for details.
Guide Links:
- The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
- The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
- Claptrap's New Robot Revolution
Step 3: XP clean-up
There are many different options available for Levelling up, especially if you have the Game of the Year Edition so see Ding! Champion for more details.
Trophies earned during this step:
Ding! Sleepless
Ding! Champion
Ding! Overleveled
Ding! Overleveled to 11
Step 4: Get the remaining Co-Op trophies
There are a few co-op related trophies and all bar one of them can be done offline in Splitscreen or LAN mode. If you go down the Splitscreen route then you will need two joypads as the re-assigning trick won't work for this game. The only online trophy in the PS3 version is "And They'll Tell Two Friends" but you have 3 options for getting it:
1: Online co-op either public or with a friend.
2: LAN.
3: XLink Kai.
See And They'll Tell Two Friends for more details.
For the PS4 version of the And They'll Tell Two Friends trophy, the requirements were changed so you only need to join a 3 or 4 player Co-Op match then the trophy will pop. Please note that the character selection screen is insanely laggy in the PS4 version of the game but Gearbox and Blind Squirrel Games are aware of this issue so fingers crossed it gets fixed soon.
Note: The other player(s) must be within a few levels and missions of you and be on the same Playthrough, else the missions will appear in your list as "ineligible" and won't count towards There's No "I" In "Team" .
Trophies earned during this step:
Can't We Get BEYOND Thunderdome?
Duel-icious
And They'll Tell Two Friends
Duelinator
Step 5: Kills with the remaining characters
For this step you just need to create three more characters (one of each remaining class), get to level 5 and earn the 15 kills you need for the respective trophy. It shouldn't take you more than an hour to get each one. Do note though that entering a Vending machine or pausing the game, will cancel your Action Skill if it's active when playing as Lilith or Brick.
Trophies earned during this step:
Careful, He Bites
Reckless Abandon
Down in Front!
Step 6: The Underdome DLC
To make this step as painless as possible, I recommend using the low level character as the host (see the Underdome Guide for Details) and either doing this DLC online with a friend or in local Co-Op. The Small Tournament trophy is easy enough to solo if you have a Lv69 character available but the Large Arenas are hard to the point of hair pulling frustration so do those with a friend and use the aforementioned exploit. You're looking at approx 10hrs to get all 5 trophies done but due to the tedium factor, you're going to want to split these trophies up over several sessions. Whilst rare, there is a chance that the Big Tournament trophy can glitch and not pop if you change hosts at any point so see the Underdome Guide for more details.
Guide link
- Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot
Trophies earned during this step:
Small Tournament
Hell-Burbia
The Angelic Ruins
The Gully
Big Tournament - GLITCHED
Step 7: Clean-up
Use this step to get any of the misc trophies that you didn't get earlier on, of which My Brother is an Italian Plumber , Speedy McSpeederton , You're on a boat! and Sucker born every minute will be the primary ones you're missing because there is almost no way you will get them by accident. The Claptrap DLC collectibles are other possible candidates for trophies you will be missing, because you will have to be incredibly lucky to get them whilst en-route to the other trophies in that DLC.
Once you have all the main game trophies, of which Ding! Champion will almost certainly be the last one you get, you will have the Platinum: Borderland Defender .
The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned DLC:
Road Map
Overview:
- Estimated 100% difficulty: 3/10 (this greatly depends on which Playthrough you do this DLC on).
- Offline trophies: 5 (2 , 2 , 1)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 4-8 hours (strongly dependent on how long Braaaaaaaaaaaaains! takes you to get).
- Minimum number of Playthroughs: 1
- Number of missable trophies: 0
- Glitched trophies: No but see the Glitch Notes and Additional Info section in the Introduction.
- Do trophies stack: No
- Does difficulty affect any trophies: No but on Playthrough 2 and 2.5, the difficulty will increase.
- Do cheat codes disable trophies: No cheats
- Additional accessories required: No
Introduction:
The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned was the first DLC with trophies to be released for Borderlands (the first actual DLC was the Gearbox Mercenary Pack, which was a pre-order bonus). The basic storyline is the titular Dr. Ned has had a little "accident" in Jakobs Cove, which has caused the whole area to be overrun by Zombies. It's up to you to find out exactly what happened and put a stop to it.
After installing the DLC you will get a message whilst the disk/game is loading which informs you the DLC has been loaded, press to get rid of the message. To start this DLC, just go to any Fast Travel station and travel to "Jakobs Cove" but you need to have finished the main game mission "Fix'er Upper", before it will appear. You must be Lv10 or higher else you will find the missions too hard. We recommend you wait until you have at least finished the main game mission "Return to Zed" before starting this DLC, the reasons being you will then have 3 Weapon slots available instead of two and you'll be of a higher level. To get the absolute best out of this DLC we recommend waiting until Playthrough 2 because then you will have all 4 Weapon slots open, plus you will get a lot more XP and the Loot will be better. If you get desperate for XP on your way to the "Ding!" trophies then this DLC will give you a nice boost (credit to Plas for this info).
There are several side missions in this DLC but they are not required for any trophies, though we advise you do them anyway as they will greatly contribute to speeding up getting the Braaaaaaaaaaaaains! trophy. See here for the mission list: Side Missions
Glitch Notes (PS3 only):
If you have the latest patch installed then technically no trophies are glitched but there have been reports over the years that some of the story trophies won't pop if you're player 2. If any trophies do glitch, then you will have to either start another Playthrough/character or load a save file backup from before you got glitched.
This DLC also has some really bad Frame-Rate issues related to using incendiary attacks but if you remove any incendiary relics and/or skills and keep incendiary weapon-use to a minimum, then the Frame-Rate will be much more manageable. Lilith is the worst character for causing Frame-Rate issues, make sure you Respec and remove any Skill Points you may have in the Phoenix Skill. You can Respec back again when you're done with this DLC. It also helps to pick up as much loot as possible as having too much lying around makes the already shaky Frame-Rate worse. According to GiGGi1975, having an explosive relic equipped will also cause Frame-Rate issues so it's best to unequip any relics until you've finished this DLC to avoid problems.
The worst areas for Frame-Rate issues are: The Jakobs Cove Coastline, all of Generally Hospital, parts of Dead Haven and small sections of the Lumber Yard.
Additional Info:
Borderlands Glitches Thread (Zombie Island specific glitches can be found in post 6).
Additional info on co-op issues can be found in the General Information section of the main guide: General Information.
Side mission Guide: LINK
As a general note, all the controls in this guide assume you are using the "Resistant" control scheme. Also note that all the pictures used in this guide were taken by Terminator.
Walkthrough:
Step 1: Story trophies and start work on Braaaaaaaaaaaaains!
The Story trophies are all pretty self explanatory but the boss-related ones can be a pain to get, though there are some tricks you can use to make things easier. The story trophies will only pop once you've completed the mission with the same name as the trophy e.g. to get the Jakobs Fodder trophy, you have to finish the mission called "Jakobs Fodder". The only other issue you may have are with the Badass Tankensteins because on Playthroughs 2 and 2.5, they can be a nightmare to kill but if you kit and spec out your character right then you shouldn't have too many problems killing them. The Badass Tankensteins have two attacks:
- An extremely powerful Barrel throwing move (where he chucks Barrels at you from the stockpile on his back, that stun on impact).
- A melee charge move that will knock off a lot of health if it connects with you.
Trophies earned during this step:
House of the Ned
Jakob's Fodder
Night of the Living Ned
Ned's Undead, Baby, Ned's Undead
Step 2: Clean up
The only trophy you may not have after killing the final boss is Braaaaaaaaaaaaains! . This can be a real pain to get after killing the final boss, as the number of available brains seems to go down at this point. If you have any side missions left, then do those and/or hang out in a heavily infested area like Dead Haven to grind out any brains you still need. Saving, exiting to the main menu and reloading your save will reset the Zombies so you can farm them faster and more easily.
Trophy earned during this step:
Braaaaaaaaaaaaains!
Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot DLC:
Road Map
Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 9/10 if done legit but 2/10 if you use the Splitscreen/Low Level Character exploit (personal opinion)
- Offline trophies: 5 (1, 3, 1)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 9-10hrs if you use the low level character exploit but many times longer than that if you try to complete this DLC legit.
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 6 - 1 of each arena
- Number of missable trophies: 0
- Glitched trophies: Yes, 1 - Big Tournament
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: Not directly but playing on playthrough 2 or 2.5 will make the game a lot harder.
- Do trophies stack?: Yes. There are separate lists for the PS4, global and JP PS3 releases of the game.
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats available.
- Additional peripherals required?: No but having 2 controllers will make the trophies easier to get.
Introduction:
Welcome to the Underdome! After getting through 3 husbands (and heaven knows how many boyfriends/girlfriends) Mad Moxxi has decided to hold a Tournament to decide who her new significant other will be. Gameplay wise, the Underdome is essentially one big Horde mode that sees you take on wave after wave of enemies over many rounds in 6 Arenas. The Small Arenas feature 25 Waves over 5 Rounds but the Large Arenas features 100 Waves over 20 rounds. There are 3 Small Arenas and 3 Large Arenas so do the maths and that's a lot of Waves. To make this DLC a heck of a lot easier and shorter, it's strongly recommended that you use the exploit explained in the Big Tournament Walkthrough.
Trophy wise, you're looking at 9-10hrs if use the exploit but at least 20-30hrs+ if you try to do it legit. The reason for this, is the fact there is no save system and dying means being thrown back at least 5 rounds so you have to work your way back up through the rounds again. If you have the PS4 version of this DLC, then an added fly in the ointment is that Rounds 17-20 are very crash prone and unstable but playing on a PS5 will mitage most of the stability problems, though not all of them. To prevent the Big Tournament trophy from glitching, use the Splitscreen version of the exploit, do all 6 Arenas in numerical order and never change hosts.
Walkthrough:
Step 1: Small Arenas
The Small Arenas are fairly short and easy so shouldn't take more than an hour or two to finish.
Trophy earned during this step:
Small Tournament
Step 2: Large Arenas
To ensure this step goes as smoothly as possible and prevent any trophy glitches, make sure that your Alt account is the host for each and every session for as long as it takes to get this done. I also recommend backing your saves up for both accounts, whenever you successfully clear each arena so you have a fall back if anything goes wrong.
Trophies earned during this step:
Hell-Burbia
The Angelic Ruins
The Gully
Big Tournament - GLITCHED
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The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC:
Road Map
Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 5/10 if you play as Lilith but 9/10 if any other characters are used. (Personal opinion).
- Offline trophies: 10 (8, 2)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 15-20hrs (Personal opinion)
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
- Number of missable trophies: 0
- Glitched trophies: Yes, 1 - Completionist
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: Not directly but playing on playthrough 2 or 2.5 will make the game a lot harder. Due to Crawmerax having a minimum requirement of Lv61, regardless of which playthrough you're on, you may want to do this DLC on Playthrough 2 so you level up faster.
- Do trophies stack?:
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: Yes, there are separate lists for the PS4, Global and JP PS3 releases of the game.
- Additional peripherals required?: No
Introduction:
The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC, sees the Vault Hunters going after the Crimson Lance to stop them and General Knoxx from capturing a large chunk of the planet. Trophy wise, the only trophies you have to worry about are Vincible and the DLC spanning Completionist . Vincible can be made easier by playing as Lilith and using the ledge exploit mentioned in the Guide but do note that it's not as effective in the PS4 version of this DLC. Completionist involves completing every main and side mission in this DLC but some, most noticeably the ones for killing Crawmerax and completing all of the Circles of Duty, are notoriously difficult without the proper gear and tactics but are doable with practice. Another fly in the ointment, is that it's possible to glitch Completionist and stop it from popping if you play online and somehow end up with 2 or more of the Armory raid missions active in your Mission log.
Walkthrough:
Note: Due to Crawmerax having a minimum requirement of Lv61, regardless of which playthrough you're on, you may want to do this DLC on Playthrough 2 so you level up faster.
Step 1: Finish the story and complete as many Side-Missions as possible
The Story Related trophies are easy enough to get but the side missions can be a pain so feel free to leave some of them until Step 3.
Trophies earned during this step:
Making a Monster
Athena, Out
Depot Demolition
Step 2: Completionist, Vincible and the Ding! trophies
Completionist , spans the entire DLC and requires you to complete every story and side mission in the DLC (including the aforementioned one for killing Crawmerax) so will take a long time to obtain. You will also be using this step to get some of the misc trophies, including the 2 Ding! trophies and Vincible . Vincible involves killing Crawmerax The Invincible, who one of the hardest and most notorious Raid Bosses in Borderlands history but fortunately there are some exploits you can use that will make life a lot easier so see Vincible for more details.
Trophies earned during this step:
Vincible
Ding! Overleveled
Ding! Overleveled to 11
Completionist - GLITCHED
Step 3: Cleanup
By this point, you should only be missing 3 trophies: Sneaky Little Buggers , Speed Kills and Sucker born every minute but none are hard to get and should have killed most of the loot midgets anyway, if you have been opening every chest and container in sight.
Trophies earned during this step:
Sneaky Little Buggers
Speed Kills
Sucker born every minute
Roadmap
Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 3/10 (Personal opinion)
- Offline trophies: 10 (7, 3)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to 100%: 2-3hrs for the story but the collectibles can potentially take many, many hours because of the low drop rates for certain items (personal opinion).
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
- Number of missable trophies: 0
- Glitched trophies: None but support for this DLC was added to the JP PS3 stack with the 1.05 patch but there is currently no way to play it.
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: Not directly but playing on playthrough 2 or 2.5 will make the game a lot harder.
- Do trophies stack?: Yes, there are separate lists for the PS4 and global and JP PS3 releases of the game.
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats available.
- Additional peripherals required?: No
Introduction:
The 4th and final DLC of the Borderlands saga revolves around a Claptrap uprising. After the events of the main story, the "Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap" was designed to destroy the Vault Hunters. However, tired of being enslaved and treated like dirt, the Claptrap turned on its masters and recruited an army of other Claptraps to destroy anything standing in their way and gain control of Pandora. Seeing how problematic the situation had become, the Hyperion Company recruits the Vault Hunters to sort out the mess and restore order to the planet.
All of these trophies can be earned offline so attempting them in Co-Op is purely optional. The main story itself is actually quite short and assuming you do not take on any of the side missions, can be completed in a few hours. In keeping with the traditional Borderlands style, there are a few side missions as well, however the only ones that you will need to complete for a trophy are the ones given to you by Tannis.
Walkthrough:
Note: Whilst the list for this DLC is a part of the JP version of the game, the DLC itself is currently unavailable and there's no word on when it will come out.
Step 1: Complete the story and begin working on Tannis' missions
This step is fairly straightforward – you should concentrate on completing all of the missions given to you by Blake, and begin collecting items for Tannis. Make sure that you talk to Tannis as soon as you start the DLC to receive your first collection mission. Every time you kill an enemy Claptrap, they will drop various parts which Tannis wants for something that she's building. If you receive this mission as soon as you start, it will greatly reduce the amount of time required in Step 2 - you'll automatically encounter enemy Claptraps during the story so you might as well begin collecting the parts from them now.
Trophies earned during this step:
Knoxx-Trap
Steele-Trap
Ned-Trap
Muerte la robo-lución
Step 2: Finish off all of Tannis' missions
If you received Tannis' mission as soon as you started, then you should have received the vast majority of the Claptrap parts already. Now it's just a case of finishing up and reporting back to Tannis each time you've completed a mission. Please refer to the walkthrough for The Collector for more information.
Trophy earned during this step:
The Collector - in the PS3 version
Step 3: Collect all of the misc items and find all 6 statues
Every time you kill an enemy Claptrap, there's a chance that they may also drop additional items as well as parts. You will need to get the required number of Pink Panties, Clap-Fish, Pizzas, 3D Glasses, Claptrap Bobbleheads, Oil Cans and finally the Statues.
Trophies earned during this step:
Tourist
The Lubricator
Bobble-trap
It's so realistic!
What a party!