GW2 Daybreak Living World Season 4 Episode 1 Achievements Guide. This is a work in progress.
Story Achievements
Eye of the Brandstorm
Not So Shocking – 3 AP
Repel the Branded from Free City of Amnoon without being struck by lightning. There are two stages to this achievement. First you have to avoid the lighting outside the outskirts of Amnoon, this is fairly easy. For the second part, you need to avoid the lightning inside the city of Amnoon. This second part can get a bit heretic. The lightning are marked with reddish circles and you have a bit of time to dodge out of them. The main issue is getting downed and having a lighting circle spawn on your, which can fail you the achievement.
Amnoon Evacuation – 2 AP
Rescue 40 civilians in the story instance. This achievement has a bit of a DPS check as you need to kill the Branded Crystals before their timer expires and the civilians turn into branded. Other than the crystals, there are also dead civilians that need to be rezzed and alive civilians that you need to press F to direct them to safety. It is not recommend to do this achievement with Electric City since rezzing civilians can take time away from that achievement.
First cluster of three crystals here, each having 3 civilians each. This should bring your count to 31.
Then right after is a civilian you need to rez at the same spot, for a count of 30. Inside the big pyramid are 5 civilians that need to be rezzed to bring your count down to 25. To the left of the pyramid are 5 branded crystals. It is okay if you don’t get one of them, but you need to get at least 4 branded crystals. If you get all 5 crystals this will bring your count down to 7 (or 11 if you only got 4).
Inside the city of Amnoon are more civilians to rez/talk. There is a big batch of civilians at the top left. However keep in mind that if you defeat the Branded Wyvern, all the civilians will disappear.
Electric City – 2 AP
Repeal the Branded storm from the Free City of Amnoon in under 12 minutes. This is a pretty tight DPS check if doing it solo. The timer only starts once you enter the city.
Under the Stars
Ally Assessment– 3 AP
Check in with allies in the Sunspear base. If you need to reenter the Sunspear base, talk to the heart vendor near Astralarium and select the option to enter the base again. Then interact with the Nightfall book (it won’t be visible but there will be an interact button).
There are 10 NPCs you need to talk to in the base and they are marked on the map below.
Champion’s Dawn
Who’s Laughing Now? – 1 AP
Defeat the Awakened Sunspear Champion without allowing him to heal. During the fight with Awakened Koss Dejarin, he will gain a break bar. If you don’t break his break bar quick enough, he will heal up and you will lose the achievement. If you are quick enough on DPS there should be only one instance of breakbar.
The Hero of Istan
Stop Right There – 1 AP
This a hidden achievement to kill the walking Awakened Soldier right outside your jail cell before he reaches the top of the stairs. You have plenty of time so rescue Zaeim, grab your weapons and then kill the guard.
Tipple Toes – 1 AP
Escape the dungeons without being spotted by drunken Awakened. They are pretty easy to avoid and have telegraphs in front of them. As long you avoid these telegraphs you should be undetected.
The First City
Timing is Everything – 1 AP
Make it to the other side of the Vestibule of Faith and pull the levers unscathed. Pretty easy achievement, just time your raptor canyon jump and avoid the bells dropping down. Pull the levers in between each bell. There are 3 bells and 3 levers in between.
Stand Your Ground – 3 AP
Survive the rapid ammunition discharge protocol without being downed or leaving the platform. Last 5% of Scruffy 2.0 he will start spamming attacks all over. Avoid the AoE circles and don’t get too close to the Static Storm orbs floating around as they are magnetic and will pull you with them. You don’t need to damage Scruffy in this phase, just survive long enough for the phase to be over.
Map Achievements
Early Release – 3 AP
Free 10 caged dissidents in Champion’s Dawn. There are cages all over the area. Open 10 cages to free 10 NPCs for this achievement.
Feasts on Beasts – 3 AP
Feed 10 hungry villagers in Champion’s Dawn. There are confiscated food all over the area and hungry villagers. Grab food and feed them to villagers.
Mutiny – 3 AP
Defeat the three hostile captains of corsairs. There is a chain of three events in Corsair Flotilla where you need to kill a bunch of pirates belonging to each captain to draw out the captain.
Alehound Captain Asef is the hardest out of the three. He is the only champion captain and heals himself frequently. To combat this heal there are a couple things you can do
Meta Event Achievements
Sunspear Uprising (Great Hall)
This meta event occurs regularly (except when Palawadan event is on) and have 15 minutes cooldown upon completion. There are two achievements tied to this meta event. You cannnot enter the Mordant Crescent Great Hall without the meta event.
Not Thirsty – 3 AP
Destroy 25 Fountains of Joko while raiding the Mordant Crescent Great Hall. This event occurs pretty quick into the meta. There are 8 fountains to destroy. You will need to do the meta a couple times to complete this achievement.
Portal Dodger – 1 AP
Shortly after destroying the fountains, Warden Amala will spawn. She is similar to the one you face in the story instance. In the first part of the fight she summons a bunch of portals and clones. Just avoid these portals and defeat her to earn the achievement. The timer is pretty tight so everyone need to do max DPS.
Palawadan
This meta event only occurs at night (xx:45 every other hour). It has multiple events and multiple achievements associated with it.
And Stay Down! – 1 AP
Defeat the two Palawadan Gate Guardians without either awakening the other. At the start of the meta event are two guardians right at the gate to Palawadan. You need to kill them around roughly the same time as killing one will cause the remaining one to try and revive the other. If you kill both guardians without them reviving each other, you will get this achievement.
Raze Joko! – 1 AP
Once you defeat the Guardians, there will be a mini event inside the Palawadan to defeat the statue of Joko. This statue doesn’t have much HP and 1-2 players can easily kill it in a few seconds so you need to head straight here after the Guardians if you want the achievement.
Misplaced Loyalty – 3 AP
While the statue event is going on, there will be another event to kill the six loyalist leaders. They all have fairly low HP so you may not be able to tag all six leaders in one go.
Sunk Cost – 2 AP
The penultimate event of this meta is destroying the three Corsair ships. You will need to hop on a cannon and use it to fire cannonballs at the three parked corsair ships. They will also be firing back at you so be sure to use the #2 skill to shield your own cannon. You need to do a fair amount of damage to the ships for it to register for the achievement so simply running to the ships and whacking it with your weapons may not do the trick. Cannon spots are limited so you may only get to tag one ship per meta.
Unfinished Business – 1 AP, 1 Mastery
Final event of the meta requires you to kill the Awakened Archon Iberu. Kill him for this achievement worth 1 AP and 1 Mastery Point. Timer is pretty right as well so be sure to maximize your DPS.
Story Achievements
Eye of the Brandstorm
Not So Shocking – 3 AP
Repel the Branded from Free City of Amnoon without being struck by lightning. There are two stages to this achievement. First you have to avoid the lighting outside the outskirts of Amnoon, this is fairly easy. For the second part, you need to avoid the lightning inside the city of Amnoon. This second part can get a bit heretic. The lightning are marked with reddish circles and you have a bit of time to dodge out of them. The main issue is getting downed and having a lighting circle spawn on your, which can fail you the achievement.
Amnoon Evacuation – 2 AP
Rescue 40 civilians in the story instance. This achievement has a bit of a DPS check as you need to kill the Branded Crystals before their timer expires and the civilians turn into branded. Other than the crystals, there are also dead civilians that need to be rezzed and alive civilians that you need to press F to direct them to safety. It is not recommend to do this achievement with Electric City since rezzing civilians can take time away from that achievement.
First cluster of three crystals here, each having 3 civilians each. This should bring your count to 31.
Then right after is a civilian you need to rez at the same spot, for a count of 30. Inside the big pyramid are 5 civilians that need to be rezzed to bring your count down to 25. To the left of the pyramid are 5 branded crystals. It is okay if you don’t get one of them, but you need to get at least 4 branded crystals. If you get all 5 crystals this will bring your count down to 7 (or 11 if you only got 4).
Inside the city of Amnoon are more civilians to rez/talk. There is a big batch of civilians at the top left. However keep in mind that if you defeat the Branded Wyvern, all the civilians will disappear.
Electric City – 2 AP
Repeal the Branded storm from the Free City of Amnoon in under 12 minutes. This is a pretty tight DPS check if doing it solo. The timer only starts once you enter the city.
Under the Stars
Ally Assessment– 3 AP
Check in with allies in the Sunspear base. If you need to reenter the Sunspear base, talk to the heart vendor near Astralarium and select the option to enter the base again. Then interact with the Nightfall book (it won’t be visible but there will be an interact button).
There are 10 NPCs you need to talk to in the base and they are marked on the map below.
Champion’s Dawn
Who’s Laughing Now? – 1 AP
Defeat the Awakened Sunspear Champion without allowing him to heal. During the fight with Awakened Koss Dejarin, he will gain a break bar. If you don’t break his break bar quick enough, he will heal up and you will lose the achievement. If you are quick enough on DPS there should be only one instance of breakbar.
The Hero of Istan
Stop Right There – 1 AP
This a hidden achievement to kill the walking Awakened Soldier right outside your jail cell before he reaches the top of the stairs. You have plenty of time so rescue Zaeim, grab your weapons and then kill the guard.
Tipple Toes – 1 AP
Escape the dungeons without being spotted by drunken Awakened. They are pretty easy to avoid and have telegraphs in front of them. As long you avoid these telegraphs you should be undetected.
The First City
Timing is Everything – 1 AP
Make it to the other side of the Vestibule of Faith and pull the levers unscathed. Pretty easy achievement, just time your raptor canyon jump and avoid the bells dropping down. Pull the levers in between each bell. There are 3 bells and 3 levers in between.
Stand Your Ground – 3 AP
Survive the rapid ammunition discharge protocol without being downed or leaving the platform. Last 5% of Scruffy 2.0 he will start spamming attacks all over. Avoid the AoE circles and don’t get too close to the Static Storm orbs floating around as they are magnetic and will pull you with them. You don’t need to damage Scruffy in this phase, just survive long enough for the phase to be over.
Map Achievements
Early Release – 3 AP
Free 10 caged dissidents in Champion’s Dawn. There are cages all over the area. Open 10 cages to free 10 NPCs for this achievement.
Feasts on Beasts – 3 AP
Feed 10 hungry villagers in Champion’s Dawn. There are confiscated food all over the area and hungry villagers. Grab food and feed them to villagers.
Mutiny – 3 AP
Defeat the three hostile captains of corsairs. There is a chain of three events in Corsair Flotilla where you need to kill a bunch of pirates belonging to each captain to draw out the captain.
- Powderkeg Captain Barud
- Stonefist Captain Randa
- Alehound Captain Asef
Alehound Captain Asef is the hardest out of the three. He is the only champion captain and heals himself frequently. To combat this heal there are a couple things you can do
- Break his bar ASAP
- Drop the poison circles he places on you on top of him, this will reduce his heal’s effectiveness
Meta Event Achievements
Sunspear Uprising (Great Hall)
This meta event occurs regularly (except when Palawadan event is on) and have 15 minutes cooldown upon completion. There are two achievements tied to this meta event. You cannnot enter the Mordant Crescent Great Hall without the meta event.
Not Thirsty – 3 AP
Destroy 25 Fountains of Joko while raiding the Mordant Crescent Great Hall. This event occurs pretty quick into the meta. There are 8 fountains to destroy. You will need to do the meta a couple times to complete this achievement.
Portal Dodger – 1 AP
Shortly after destroying the fountains, Warden Amala will spawn. She is similar to the one you face in the story instance. In the first part of the fight she summons a bunch of portals and clones. Just avoid these portals and defeat her to earn the achievement. The timer is pretty tight so everyone need to do max DPS.
Palawadan
This meta event only occurs at night (xx:45 every other hour). It has multiple events and multiple achievements associated with it.
And Stay Down! – 1 AP
Defeat the two Palawadan Gate Guardians without either awakening the other. At the start of the meta event are two guardians right at the gate to Palawadan. You need to kill them around roughly the same time as killing one will cause the remaining one to try and revive the other. If you kill both guardians without them reviving each other, you will get this achievement.
Raze Joko! – 1 AP
Once you defeat the Guardians, there will be a mini event inside the Palawadan to defeat the statue of Joko. This statue doesn’t have much HP and 1-2 players can easily kill it in a few seconds so you need to head straight here after the Guardians if you want the achievement.
Misplaced Loyalty – 3 AP
While the statue event is going on, there will be another event to kill the six loyalist leaders. They all have fairly low HP so you may not be able to tag all six leaders in one go.
- Lady Faizah
- Lord Azeem
- Dabir, Herald of Joko
- Nura,, Herald of Joko
- Master Alchemist Wakati
- Master Alchemist Jamala
Sunk Cost – 2 AP
The penultimate event of this meta is destroying the three Corsair ships. You will need to hop on a cannon and use it to fire cannonballs at the three parked corsair ships. They will also be firing back at you so be sure to use the #2 skill to shield your own cannon. You need to do a fair amount of damage to the ships for it to register for the achievement so simply running to the ships and whacking it with your weapons may not do the trick. Cannon spots are limited so you may only get to tag one ship per meta.
- Scoundrel’s Bounty
- The Marauder
- The Red Dagger
Unfinished Business – 1 AP, 1 Mastery
Final event of the meta requires you to kill the Awakened Archon Iberu. Kill him for this achievement worth 1 AP and 1 Mastery Point. Timer is pretty right as well so be sure to maximize your DPS.
