Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

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Open Sesame

Open Sesame

Dispelled 50 wards.

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How to unlock the Open Sesame achievement in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - Definitive Guide

Here goes a quick way to lower the TA ratio on this achievement. . .
The quickest and easiest way to dispel 50 wards is to travel to DETYRE, (on the map it is the central red area). Your goal is Adessa which is in the South East corner against the coast, (its a big gnome city). Once you are there you will run across a long bridge and by a gnome named Apotyre. Keep running South and on your map you will see a South Central circular part and the bottom doorway of this ring is the entrance to Laboratories. When you enter the first gnome, (named Daedinnear), will give you a quest to dispel the wards on 3 chests up the stairs to the left. The best part is that you can exit and reenter the laboratories and dispel them over and over and he even pays you for each one!
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10 Feb 2012 12:58

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Just came on to post this and see you beat me to it. To add to your solution though, you do not need to exit and reenter the laboratories, simply choose the dialogue option of "I'm ready for more" and the boxes will have wards on them again.
*note as you dispel more boxes they will increase in difficulty.
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By RyboD96 on 11 Feb 2012 20:41
Whoever downvoted this is a schmuck. Great solution.
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By Frankie DrumsNY on 16 Feb 2012 01:40
Great guide! Don't know how this could be down voted!
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By CNote824 on 22 Feb 2012 01:46
Awesome guide!

Just wanted to add that after going through these chests several times in working towards the achievement, they eventually stop respawning.
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By inspired truth on 22 Feb 2012 15:06
Thanks for the guide. But since the boxes will increase the difficulty, I would like to suggest that make a spare save & go to fateweaver re-spec all skills points to dispelling. Once the achievement pops, simply load your last save to continue your game.
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By Tsukimi on 23 Feb 2012 06:02
Great guide
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By Bears Scare Me on 26 Feb 2012 20:44
I had found this on my own and dropped by to see if everyone knew. Nice job FIASCOcomedy.
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By Recon1O1 on 01 Mar 2012 16:00
I can confirm that auto-attemps work great! Thanks for the guide.
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By LightTheKnight on 31 Mar 2012 14:14
Awesome guide saved me tons of haassle.
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By Gantua on 17 Jul 2012 00:29
I only just came across this method tonight. I dispelled the first 3 chests and the achievement popped. Oh well, could've saved myself a little hassle if I found this earlier but no matter!
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By Marc Pilkington on 18 Aug 2012 23:01
Very good solution.
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By ReAl ImPuLsE on 28 Oct 2012 15:27
I wonder what level of asshole-ness causes negative votes for this solution. This is extremely helpful for unlocking this bullshit achievement for one of the worst mini-games ever. Thanks and +1.
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By neeker75 on 01 Apr 2013 14:16
So glad auto-attempts work, wish I could upvote that comment. I found this solo too but a great guide for anyone desperate!
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By Vr English on 10 Jul 2014 13:24
Darn it, I was going to post this too, lol
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By Warboy925 on 26 May 2015 05:35
Just used this to get my last 4 Wards - still works as of 13.02.2017.
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By DrShoe1976 on 13 Feb 2017 20:17
Just got this when failing an attempt. Was at 35 successful ones, so my guess is that the failed auto-attempts also counted toward this. (at least those that didn't cause any damage)
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By Uggadunk on 10 Mar 2018 15:32
Can confirm as of leaving this comment that this solution still works.
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By Mighty Purdy on 17 Mar 2020 16:51
Great guide. Still works for the remaster
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By liner bronson on 23 Sep 2020 19:41
Thanks a million! Still works on Re-Reckoning!
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By Coreydougherty on 31 Dec 2020 19:11
Thank you very much as I hate the dispelling game. Worked perfectly on the JP version of the game, and saved a ton of time. Pay goes up as the difficulty of the chests goes up, so not bad cash as a freebee while getting an achievement. Pay scale is 90, 150, 210, 270, 330 depending on difficulty.
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By Schnauzer HQ on 24 Mar 2021 14:36
The chests disappeared after a while. What happened?
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By PuppyPizzaParty on 12 Jul 2021 14:32
in addition, these boxes will not damage your health when you fail and auto-attempts count towards the achievement
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By DemonATX1337 on 13 Feb 2012 09:46
Awesome solution here. Sure beats running around looking for them. During the game I only tried to open ones that were Average and under difficulty. Also my skill was low in Dispelling as well. If you raised your skill you could probably do the harder ones. That would probably net you the achievement by the end of the game. I had exactly 35 and done with most of the other achievements when I started this. +1
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By Hexa Fox on 25 Dec 2014 05:24
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Much like the Pick 50 locks trophy, playing through the game normally and wanting to loot everything should net you this trophy naturally. As I put absolutely no points into Dispelling until level 9 or so, I made sure to save before opening any warded chests.

For those looking for an easy way to grind this one out, head to Adessa, the main city in the area of Detyre (Red wasteland look area on the southern part of the world map. Once you arrive in the city, head south and on your map you will see a South Central circular part. The building in this area you are heading for is The Labrotories. When you enter, a gnome named Daedinnear will give you a quest to dispel the wards on 3 chests up the stairs to the left. Once you have dispelled these chests, return to him and select the "I'm Ready for More" dialogue option. From here you can continually remove the wards off these chests until you net the trophy.

Keep in mind you can always use a Fateweaver to reset your skills and stats (for a price), put points into this ability, net the trophy, then restore your abilities at a Fateweaver once more. Making a save before doing so is a helpful option on this trophy hunt.
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Absolutely lovely place to grab the trophy. I was at 20 or so Dispells, left the city with bang on 50, and there were still more chances to do the quest.
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By LianshiSaonji on 21 May 2015 15:00

Wards can be found throughout the world. They are found as glowing purple objects. You will play a mini-game where a cursor will loop around a ring and you must time hitting the button as the cursor goes over the top of the runes in places. As the runes get more difficult you must time your rune activation to be in flow as some runes offer less time until they deactivate. You'll also have to avoid the red runes or it will fail. Invest a few points into the Dispelling skill to make this a bit easier.

Runed objects can explode if you fail.

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***MISSABLE***

If you fail to dispel a ward, you'll still be able to loot it, but it won't count as a dispel. There are many wards, so you can't really miss this trophy, but if you're going to fail every single one of them, you might have a hard time getting 50 dispels, since chests and wards don't reset. (There's however, a really easy trick to obtain many dispels. See the related video.)
 
Instead of normal locked chests, you can also find wards. These are chests locked with a certain magic. These wards need to be dispelled. Each ward has a difficulty, ranging from very easy to very hard. However, compared to lockpicking, this can actually be hard.
 
When you’re about to dispel a ward, circles (wards) will appear and a timer. Before the green timer runs out, you’ll have to activate every ward. However, each individual ward also has a timer. Before one runs out, you’ll have to activate all the other wards. If you fail to do so in time, you’ll have to dispel that ward again. If you miss click, you’ll have to activate all the wards again. If you fail to do so before the green timer runs out, the ward will blow up, damaging and cursing you. It will also blow up if you dispel a red ward. You’ll still be able to loot the ward afterwards though. If you want to get rid of the curse, you’ll have to see a healer or use a potion.
 
You can also Auto-Attempt it, if you fail, it will blow up. If you want, you can upgrade the Dispelling skill, which makes it very easy.
 
You can check how many you’ve unlocked by going to the Status menu > Stats. All 50 dispels have to be done on one save file (character).
 
There’s also a very easy trick to obtain many dispels with wards which won’t blow up or curse you and it will even grant you some money:
 

Find Daedinnear in the Laboratories, Adessa. He will give you a quest to dispel 3 wards. Once you're done, complete the quest. You'll be able to repeat this quest multiple times (it's not infinite though). The wards do become harder to dispel though. It's advised to save before dispelling, so you can benefit fully from this. Also, you might want to see a Fate Weaver and reset you skills. Put 10 points in the Dispelling skill, so that you can auto-attempt each ward 3 times with a 50% success rate each try.
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easy to get in alessa. in the laboratory, find the gnome who gives the quest for despeling 3 chests. The quest repeats
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28 Mar 2012 22:13

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The option with the gnome is not exactly a freebie since the difficulty level of the chests increases each time three times very easy, three times easy and so on
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By turion72 on 03 Aug 2012 20:13
Not a problematic trophy at all. pump a few points into your dispatching skill. Before each dispel, save, in case of failure, load, autodispel and all that.
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