A new collection has been released in Guild Wars 2, through which you can earn a special item. The reward is called “Pride of the Lion” and is a pass that will port you into ancient Lion’s Arch from anywhere. The item is very popular. We tell you how to get it.
What must be done for success? You need to collect a total of six items:
Five of these items are awarded as a reward for completing the relevant Living World Season 1 episode meta-achievement. The final item – the Trace of Memory – is available in the final story mission, Meeting the Zephyrites. There you have to talk to the fog stranger.
Below we explain how you can complete the individual achievements. More on the Return of Old Lion’s Arch:
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Pyro Gear and Mastery: Flame and Frost
How do I get the Pyro Gear? For this you have to complete the 12 achievements from the category: Mastery: Flame and Frost:
Only the achievements “A Heart for Ore”, “Fiery Monument” and “Research Study 1” are actually complicated. For these three achievements you have to find hidden things. To go with this, we have a map for you of the “Fiery Blast Furnace” instance from the episode.
If you want to look at the exact points, you will find a guide video for these three achievements at the Guildnews colleagues:
Aetherblade Signet Ring and the Sky Pirate Mastery
How do I get the Aetherblade Signet Ring? This item requires you to complete 15 achievements related to Sky Pirates, the second episode of Living World 2:
The achievements “Research Study 2”, “Tassi Master” and “Valuable Valuables” are a bit tricky, for which you have to find hidden things.
For Research Study 2 you need to find a total of 6 notes. Notes 3, 4, and 5 can be found in the Aetherblade Refuge story instance (blue marker on the map). Notes 1 and 2 can be found in the dead end bar in the Hardened instance. Note 6 can be found in the Dead End Bar in the If Completed instance.
For the achievement “Salvage of Valuables” you need to find five chests in the Aetherblade Sanctuary. We have marked them with red markers.
For the achievement “Tassi Master” here is a good video of Ayinmaiden:
Pavilion Champion’s Medal and the Mechanical Chaos Mastery
How do I get the Pavilion Champion Medal? This item requires you to complete 13 achievements related to the Mechanical Chaos episode:
The achievements “Research Study 3″, Research Log 1” and “Prey of Chaos” are particularly difficult, for which you have to find hidden things.
The colleagues from Guildnews.de have created a video for exactly this.
Dried Nightmare Thorn and the Tower of Nightmares mastery
How do I get the Dried Nightmare Thorn? This item requires you to complete 15 achievements in the episode Tower of Living World Nightmares Season 1:
The achievements “Research Study 4”, “Research Recording 2” and “Tower of Treasures” are tricky here, for which you have to find hidden things.
This part of the guide is still work in progress.
Fractured Drive Circuit and the Battle for Lion’s Arch mastery
How do I get the Fractured Drive Circuit? This item requires you to complete 18 achievements related to the Living World Season 1 episode “The Battle of Lion’s Arch”:
The Achievements “Research Study 5”, “Research Recording 3”, “Hunter of the Lost Parts II”, “To the exit please this way” and “No betting here” are particularly complicated here. All of these achievements require you to find hidden items.
This map shows you the NPCs that you have to find in the instance “Escape from Lion’s Arch” for the two achievements “To the exit please this way” (red) and “No bets here” (blue). Important: For the first success, you must also find any moa from the blue markings. However, you can also complete both achievements at the same time.
For the Research Study 5 achievement, there is a good video from ArenaNet partner AyinMaiden:
This part of the guide is still work in progress as the episode only came out on November 8th.
trace of memory
How do I get the Trace of Memory? This item requires you to enter the final instance of the Battle for Lion’s Arch chapter. It is called “Meeting the Zephyrites”. There you have to talk to the fog stranger who awaits you at the end of the instance.
Once you have completed all these tasks, you can visit old Löwenstein again.
What are your thoughts on these new achievements and the return of Living World Season 1 in general? Feel free to write it in the comments.