Ori and the Will of the Wisps
37 Achievements
1,000
20-25h
Tools of the Trade
Unlocked all Abilities
20
9.69%
How to unlock the Tools of the Trade achievement in Ori and the Will of the Wisps - Definitive Guide
Spirit Edge, Regenerate, Spirit Arc, Flap, Light Burst, Flash, and Launch are found or given through story progression. Launch is the last of these that you will acquire and Regenerate is the only one of these that you don't actually need to in order to progress (but it's all but impossible to miss).
Sentry, Spirit Star, Blaze, Spirit Smash, and Spike are sold by Opher for 400 Spirit Light (on Normal difficulty- the price is halved on Easy and doubled on Hard).
Achievement didn't pop up (tracker glitched or something), so I saved, exited from the menu, reloaded and it successfully unlocked.
Abilities are classified into active and passive; only the 12 active abilities which Ori must equip through the ability wheel count towards this achievement.
- Spirit Edge (story-related, from an Ancestral Tree in Inkwater Marsh)
- Spirit Arc (story-related, from the Ancestral Tree in Kwolok's Hollow)
- Spike (bought from Opher)
- Spirit Smash (bought from Opher)
- Spirit Star (bought from Opher)
- Light Burst (story-related, from the Ancestral Tree in Baur's Reach)
- Regenerate (story-related, from an Ancestral Tree in Inkwater Marsh)
- Flap (story-related, after leaving Silent Woods and returning to Kwolok's Hollow)
- Blaze (bought from Opher)
- Flash (story-related, from the Ancestral Tree in Mouldwood Depths)
- Sentry (bought from Opher)
- Launch (story-related, from an Ancestral Tree in Silent Woods)
Opher is a monkey martial artist that Ori meets for the first time in Inkwater Marsh, where he offers to sell an ability at a discount. After clearing the water in The Wellspring, he resides in Wellspring Glades. Most of the abilities he sells can be upgraded once by spending Spirit Light, and upgrading all of them will unlock "Mad Skills".
Buying Spirit Smash first is highly recommended as it is required for accessing new areas, and buying and upgrading Spike next is suggested because it deals very good damage to enemies.