THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT

Hello there I figured I'd try to help you folks who are trying to get this achievement.

First off, head to Devil's Pit in Velen. Even though you already cleared the place it still works. All you need to do is fast travel out of Velen; i.e: White orchard, and come back. Why this spot exactly is because you can stuck them by the door and they won't advance towards you which give you all the time in the world to carefuly aim at their head without having to dodge or parry. I used Axii as sign to make sure they wouldn't move also and it made this achievement less painful. Since you're at this spot you might want to clear a few other achievements.


As I mentioned earlier they are stuck by the door so just go and grab all of them come back to the door, use your Fire sign; IGNI once they are on fire throw your Dragon's Dream bomb at them. Rinse and repeat till it's done.


This is the right spot again for this achievement, just go to the right as soon as you get in you'll see a few stairs and use the telekinetic sign; AARD to push them down. Once they're all dead, fast travel to White Orchard and come back.


Same strategy bring them all by the door use mind-control sign; AXII while holding the to control the enemies. You'll need to put a few points in the AXII skill tree if you haven't already.

I hope it helps you guys! Thumbs up or down it's fine as long as you get them!

I just want to make another guide for this achievement as there were a few things that kept me from getting this to pop after 100's of kills.

First thing you want to do is go to The Devils Pit in Velen. This area has about 10-15 Human guards.
When you get to the actual pit, you will see an opened gate. You need to run in and agro as many of the guards as you can then head back just outside the gate and the guards will all pile up at the gate as if they can't get through. This makes it easy to get headshots.

Second thing is that when you are going for the headshots, make sure that the only damage you are doing to them is with the crossbow.(Not 100% confirmed but like I said, I killed hundreds prior to following this technique as before I was damaging them with fire first and got nowhere.)

The last thing which is quite IMPORTANT is to note that when you line all the guards up and you have damaged them enough to go for the headshot kill, make sure you have all the upgrades to slow time and stuff and watch carefully as when you kill them, to clarify whether you get a headshot kill or not depends on whether your screen shakes. If when the target dies, your screen shakes it will mean you have got a headshot. If your screen doesn't shake then it means that no matter how accurate you think you were, the headshot will not count.

(A good way to help this achievement out a bit is that when an enemy is close to death and you are ready to go for the headshot kill, you can use AXII to stun them still as AXII will not cause damage.)

Once you have the rhythm you simply need to kill all the enemies and when they are all dead, you need to fast travel to another city to them come back for them to respawn. (Fast Travel to Vizima and back as Vizima has the fastest loading time.)

I have linked this video below to where I got all this advice from and after following this guide exactly, the achievement popped with no problems.


Please Note - You can also clear up a bunch of other achievements in The Devils Pit as the enemies will continuously respawn after Fast Travelling away and coming back.

Best way is to save the game, buy a potion of clearance and buy some precision bolts. Head to Devil's pit and reallocate your skill points into archery.

See my video below for help with this achievement.

All the other solutions are great, though I was not looking forward to having to reload Devil's Pit/Velen then the other world location over and over, so I left this achievement until later. If you're willing to save this achievement until the Blood and Wine expansion, there is a much more fun way to get this.

Once you reach the new mutagens in this addon, you'll want to develop Cat Eyes in the top-right. Description to this mutagen is as follows:

Crossbow damage is now increased from 127 to 812 (values depend on crossbow used), and crossbow critical chance is increased by 50%. Crossbow bolts pierce and knock down or stun opponents. Opponents struck when they have full Vitality lose 15% of Vitality.

Using this mutagen, as well as the above recommendations (Lightning Reflexes, Anatomical Knowledge, Steady Shot), I was able to kill level 40 bandits in 2 shots, even with just basic (unlimited) bolts. With this setup, I was able to get the 50 headshots from just clearing the Hanse Bases. If you don't kill the leader, the enemies will respawn, but I didn't need to do that, was plenty of bandits to shoot in the face.

Devil's Pit is probably easier, but this was certainly more fun that watching more loading screens.

There's a place in Skellige, on the Faroe island, where a pair of pirates continually spawn just by walking away of that spot. No need to quick travel anywhere, making it a LOT faster to achieve.

Just fast travel to Trottheim, (its on the southeastern part of Skellige), and follow the path to the west of the village that goes straight north following the coast. You should see the pirates on the northernmost part of the isle near a cliff. Kill them, walk away, and they should respawn. Keep at it till it pops.

This is an addition to the Col Coffee's solution. He did a great job discovering that the screen shakes when you get a headshot. However, it is unclear where to hit in order to get the headshot. This solution may not be %100 effective, however it will increase the odds that you get a headshot.

- HIT THE ENEMIES IN THE FACE! Do not hit them in their helmets or hats, hit them in the middle of their faces.
- DO NOT HIT THE ENEMIES IF THEY ARE NOT FACING YOU! If an enemy is looking to left or right, do not hit them because it decreases the chance you get a headshot. Also if they are looking down and their helmets cover most of their face, wait until you see their face clearly.

There are 9 enemies in Devil's Pit, I was able to get 5-6 kills each time by hitting them in the face which will decrease the number of times you need to quick travel quite a bit.

Nobody has mentioned this, but if you go into HUD settings and turn on damage description, that will really help you know when you get a critical shot via a yellow message. I would actually only count those as headshots.

Also, not sure if it is mentioned, but quick travelling to Vinzema is the quickest fast travel, White Orchard takes way too long in comparison.

Finally, I read this tip somewhere and it seemed to work a treat for me. Always aim for the face, but for some reason (maybe hit box related?) Aiming at the right side of the face seemed to account for more success. Agro the first few chimps from Devils Pit, and then I recommend going in and taking on the last few out one by one, one on one. Get your Axxi topped up, but don't puppet, just stun. Once you stun, you can strafe around to the right side of the head and guarantee a critical shot.

Obviously, as previously mentioned, get your arrow shooting skills up so time slows down, this will help you dramatically.

Pop a film on another screen and have patience. This cheevo is in no way glitched, it just requires a quite boring grind.

Hey everyone, just want to say that all these guides are fantastic and well written. Want to add on that I personally had it this achievement glitch and it didn't pop after 50 headshots. I made sure to only count the ones when the screen shook. I did 25 more just to be safe and no achievement popped. The fix if this happens to you is to hard reset your Xbox. Start the game up and get one more headshot and it should pop. I don't know why this happens or why this worked but I figured if anyone else is in this position I would pass on this info. Good luck.

After the next-gen update, the best location to get the achievement for killing 50 human and nonhuman opponents by striking them in the head with a crossbow bolt, appears to be Northwest of Trottheim, in Skellige.

There is a location in which pirates respawn endlessly. Pop off headshots on the pirates, save your game, meditate, and repeat. Very tedious but this seems to be the most reliable method after the update.

The easiest way to locate the pirates is to take the road West, and then North out of Trottheim. Follow the road as far North as you can go; you will find the pirates on the cliff's edge, near the curve in the road.