Guild Wars 2 Daily Achievements Guide

Guild Wars 2 Daily Achievements Guide by Charlatan

if you’ve logged onto GW2 and only have a little time to play, I think one of your best uses of time is to work through your daily achievements.

Why do you want to do this?

1. It’s easy
2. It’s pretty fast
3. You get a nice reward, a chunk of xp, and a little coin
4. Achievements! You get achievement points, which you can use for…. uh…. you can…. uh… they’re pretty!

You can (and probably will) complete your daily achievement automatically just by playing, that’s how easy it is! But it’s worth it to ensure you complete your achievement. So before you log off, check your achievement and see if you can easily complete it – the rewards are worth it!

How do you do this?

1. Open your hero panel by hitting H. Then click on the achievement icon on the left. You should see your current Daily Achievement status:

There’s 4 components to the daily achievement: number of kills, kill variety, raw material gathering, and events. As you see, in the area labeled 1, you need 10 kills, which will award you with 1 achievement point (the little 1 with the achievement point symbol to the right of the 0/10 kills bar). The part labeled 2 indicates you need to kill 5 different types of enemies – so for instance a boar, a grub, a mosquito, and so forth. Each different type of creature you kill counts just once for the kill variety. Section 3 says you must gather 3 items, and section 4 says you need to participate in one event.

As you go through playing the game, your bars will start to fill up. See the little gray 1’s at the end of each category? That’s the rank of the achievement you’re working toward. As you fill up a category (say you kill 10 mobs) you will get 1 achievement point and will complete rank 1 of the kill quantity achievement. Completing rank 1 will open up rank 2. Completing 2 opens up rank 3 and completing 3 (when applicable) opens up rank 4. Each further rank simply requires you to perform more of that activity.

Here’s a picture of the daily achievement underway. Note that the kill quantity is still on rank 1: I’ve only killed 7 of the required 10 mobs. However, the kill variety section (number 2) is on rank 2: I killed 5 different types of mobs for rank 1 (see the previous pic) and the display has moved on to the next rank: kill 8 different types of mobs.

As you continue killing mobs, gathering materials, and participating in events, eventually you will complete a category. Here’s a picture of the achievement panel after I’ve gathered all required items for the gathering portion. See how it says “Completed” off to the right? That’s how you know that portion is done.

The final numbers you need are:

60 mobs
15 different types of mobs
20 gathers
5 events

Once you complete all the sections, you’ll get an achievement and a chest will pop up on the right side your screen just above the minimap: you don’t need to grab anything, it just shows up and it’s yours! Click the chest icon on the right side of the screen and it’ll open and give you some fabulous rewards!

In this case I got some silver, some xp, and a Mystic Coin (which is used in the Mystic Forge – these are valuable, so hang on to them). Other rewards you may get will include transmutation stones, remote bank access NPCs, repair golems, vendors, or remote Trading Post pick up merchants.

So here’s some tips for completing your daily:

1. You know those little white non-combat mobs you see around: frogs, sparkflies, whatever: these DO count for both variety and for the kill count. So don’t be afraid to kill those harmless creatures as you run by them!

2. Chopping down trees and Mining ore both contribute more than gathering plants, since you receive 3 gathers of wood/ore for those nodes. So chopping or mining are more “efficient” than just grabbing a plant.

3. The only types of events that count for the event portion are dynamic events: hearts don’t count, nor do skill challenges. There is no memory of the events you’ve done so if you complete the same event more than once, you receive credit for it each time you complete it. Events have to complete for you to receive credit for them. If you hit a few mobs for an event and run off, and the event completes later, you receive credit. However, if you help with an escort quest, and later on the escort NPC gets conked out and needs to be revived, you will not receive any credit. I believe events have to succeed for you to get credit.

4. Daily achievement tallying resets at 8 PM Eastern (5 PM Pacific) which can be in the middle of when you’re playing, so plan accordingly!

5. Note that this achievement is account-wide: which means each day you can only do this for one character each day. No more of this having to log on your Ranger, do the daily, log on your Warrior, do the daily, log on your Necro, do the daily… and so forth. Just do it once!

Daily Achievements Guide by Dulfy

A updated guide to the new GW2 daily achievements revamped with the February Flame and Frost The Gathering Storm patch . Included below are some tips on quickly finishing each portion of the daily.

Daily Rotation

Monday

Daily Ambient Killer – 30 Critter kills

• A good spot for lots of critters/ambient creatures is the Godlost Swap in Queensdale. Lots of Sparkfly and Frogs to kill for your enjoyment.

Daily Event Mentor – 5 sidekicked events completed

• Sidekicked just means completing event in zones under your character level (i.e. scaled down). Due to the other achievement in this category (Daily Shiverpeak Killer), the Frozen Maw event chain that starts in Krennak’s Homstead Waypoint (Wayfarer Foothills) every 25 minutes is great for this.

Daily Fractal Runner – 1 Fractals Completed

• Just do a fractal

Daily Gatherer – Gather 20 items

• Self explanatory, go to Cursed Shores/Malchor’s Leap to do your daily Orichalcum run for the best bang for the buck! Use Orrmaps.com if you are unsure where the orichalcum ores are located.

Daily Healer – Revive 10 allies (players or NPCs)

• The field north of Nebo Terrace in Gendarran Fields is a good spot to rez NPCs as there are a lot of dead NPCs in the field and most of die quickly to the skelks after being rezzed

• An old favorite is the Thaumanova Reactor in NW corner of Metrica Province. There are a lot of dead asura NPCs to revive and lots of different mobs to kill for daily kill variety.

Daily Karma Spender – Spend 750 Karma

• Your best returns for this is probably to buy the Lost Orrian Jewelery box off the Orr Karma vendors if you have over 4500 karma. These boxes give you some karma back and chance to lodestones.

Daily Mists Invasion Defender –10 kills

• Kill 10 players in WvW

Daily Shiverpeak Killer – 40 kills

• By doing the Frozen maw event chain, you should get this one done pretty quickly.

Daily Veteran Killer – 5 Veterans defeated.

• Veterans in Frozen Maw, Kessex Hills event chain, Veteran Mosshearts south of Twilight Arbor entrance in Caledon Forest. Lots of options here.

Tuesday

Daily Aquatic Slayer – 25 Underwater kills

• Kill stuff in water, got my done in Cursed Shores but anywhere with water and mobs works.

Daily Ascalonian Event Completer – 4 events

• For this, I really like the NW corner of Diessa Plateau. It has two event chains nearby (Meatoberfest and Dredge Assault), and events from the Living Story also occurs here. In addition, there is a group event with a Champions Plains Wurm just west of Village of Butcherblock as well.

Daily Gatherer – Gather 20 items

• Self explanatory, go to Cursed Shores/Malchor’s Leap to do your daily Orichalcum run for the best bang for the buck! Use Orrmaps.com if you are unsure where the orichalcum ores are located.

Daily Group Events completer – 2 Group events completed.

• For this you can try and see if the Champion Pains Wurm is up in NW Diessa or do the event chain in Kessex Hills.

Daily Laurel Vendor

• There is a laurel vendor right outside the WvW portals in Lion’s Arch. This one is pretty much a freebie.

Daily Maguuman Slayer – Kill 40 things in Maguuma Jungle

• Metrica Province, Caledon Forest, Sparkfly Fens, Mount Maelstrom, Brisband Wildlands.

Daily Mystic Forgesmith – 5 uses

• Throw in some random items into the forge or buy green runes/sigils off the TP (they are like 20 cooper each) and combine them in the mystic forge.

Daily Mists Invasion Defender –10 kills

• Kill 10 players in WvW

Daily Skill Point Accumulator –  3 skill points earned

• If you have a character they have not completed world completion, have them do the skill challenges all over the map. Do 3 of them for the daily.

Wednesday

Daily Aquatic Slayer – 25 Underwater kills

• Kill stuff in water, got my done in Cursed Shores but anywhere with water and mobs works.

Daily Gatherer – Gather 20 items

• Self explanatory, go to Cursed Shores/Malchor’s Leap to do your daily Orichalcum run for the best bang for the buck! Use Orrmaps.com if you are unsure where the orichalcum ores are located.

Daily Group Events – 2 group events

• 2a and 3 of the 3-4 events in Kessex Hills event chain are group events so this one should be fairly easy to complete.

Daily Healer – Revive 10 allies (players or NPCs)

• The field north of Nebo Terrace in Gendarran Fields is a good spot to rez NPCs as there are a lot of dead NPCs in the field and most of die quickly to the skelks after being rezzed

• An old favorite is the Thaumanova Reactor in NW corner of Metrica Province. There are a lot of dead asura NPCs to revive and lots of different mobs to kill for daily kill variety.

Daily Keg Brawl Stealer – 5 steals

• Keg Brawl is located on the west end of Hoelbrak, there is an NPC there you can talk to participate.
• For the steal to count, the keg must not land on the ground during the transfer from the enemy player to you. The best way to do this is stand inside the enemy player with the keg and press 2. This will transfer the keg directly to you unless they are in the middle of throwing it (in which case it is a fumble). If you are too far from the enemy keg carrier when this happens he will throw the keg in the air when you disarm them and this won’t count.

Daily Kill Variety – 13 different types of enemies killed

• In NE corner of Gendarran Fields there is an arena type of event to kill a variety of animals which is more than enough to finish off the daily kill variety

• Thaumanova Reactor in NW corner of Metrica Province works well for this, see Daily Healer for map of the location.

Daily Mists Invasion Defender –10 kills

• Kill 10 players in WvW

Daily Mystic Forgesmith – 5 uses

• Throw in some random items into the forge or buy green runes/sigils off the TP (they are like 20 cooper each) and combine them in the mystic forge.

Daily Personal Story Completer – 1 personal story completed.

• Make a level 1 character and do the starter tutorial. It is quick and easy. Delete the character afterwards so you can do this daily next time or the Daily Leveler.

Thursday

Daily Ambient Killer – 30 Critter kills

• A good spot for lots of critters/ambient creatures is the Godlost Swap in Queensdale. Lots of Sparkfly and Frogs to kill for your enjoyment.

Daily Champion Slayer – 1 Champion killed

• Lots of places to do this one but if you are doing the Kessex Hill event chain (see under Daily Events) then there is a guaranteed champion at the 3rd even down south (Kill the Harathi Overlord). Sometimes if there are enough people at the bridge event and the event scales up, there will be champion at that event as well.
• Additionally, if you are doing the Frozen Maw chain for Shiverpeak events, the Champion Shaman at the end also works for this achievement.

Daily Events – Complete 5 events

• Lots of options here but my favorite is probably west side of Kessex Hills. There are 3-4 events part of the Battle of Fort Salma event chain, They are fast events with a quick respawn timer. Events that are part of the chain occur at locations 1-3 in a sequential manner so just WP over there and see which events are going on.

• You other options are events north of Nebo Terrace (where you knock out the daily healer achievement), do events with the zerg in Cursed Shores (Plinx event is terrific for that if it is up), capping stuff in WvW, or go to NW corner of Metrica Province and do the Thaumanova Reactor events.
• Reader Jin points out that the Frozen Maw event chain in Wayfarer Foothills is also good for event completion – 6 events can be done in under 13 minutes.Event chain repeat every 25 minutes.  Head to Krennak’s Homestead Waypoint.

Daily Gatherer – Gather 20 items

• Self explanatory, go to Cursed Shores/Malchor’s Leap to do your daily Orichalcum run for the best bang for the buck! Use Orrmaps.com if you are unsure where the orichalcum ores are located.

Daily Karma Spender – Spend 750 Karma

• Your best returns for this is probably to buy the Lost Orrian Jewelery box off the Orr Karma vendors if you have over 4500 karma. These boxes give you some karma back and chance to lodestones.

Daily Kills – Kill 50 stuff

• Kill 50 mobs/players

Daily Leveler – Gain 1 level

• Fastest way is probably to make a new level 1 character. You will be level 2 when you finish the personal story.

Daily Mists Caravan Disruptor –5 kills

• Best bet is to gather near an enemy’s supply camp and kill all the dolyak caravans that comes out.

Daily Veteran Slayer – kill 5 veteran mobs

• Very easy achievement to do, just go to the event area in Kessex Hills (see Daily events) and almost all of the events in that chain have veterans. You can get this done before you even finish up an event.
• The area to the right of Solitude Waypoint (NE corner of Wayfarer Foothills) also have 3 veteran spiders with a quick respawn. Can also kill oakhearts in the area.
• Area of south of Twilight Arbor in Caledon Forest – kill mosshearts.

Friday

Daily Ascalonian Killer – 40 Ascalonians killed

• Both storymode and explorable Ascalonian Catacombs have Ascalonians you can kill. You can do storymode Ascalonian Catacombs and knock out the Story Dungeon Completer in one go.
• Additionally, areas such as the Ascalon City Ruins in Plains of Ashford or the Monument Grounds/Shattered Paradise in Blazeridge Steppes have lots of soloable Ascalonian mobs for the achievement.

Daily Dodger – Dodge 15 attacks

• Skills with evade counts for this achievement as well.
• Flame Legion Igniter mobs outside Citadel of Flame in Fireheart Rise (you can find some on the bridge) – if you dodge their flamethrower attack, it counts for something like 6-7 dodges. Run around in a circle around them a few laps and you should get your daily dodger done fast.

• Ice wurms in Frostgorge sound south of Honor of the Waves dungeon entrance – they have a rock attack that can be dodged very easily. Dodge as soon as you see the rock is in the air if you stand close to them.

• Young Karka in Southsun Cove – wait for first attack and then dodge towards them for 3-4 dodges in one go.

Daily Gatherer – Gather 20 items

• Self explanatory, go to Cursed Shores/Malchor’s Leap to do your daily Orichalcum run for the best bang for the buck! Use Orrmaps.com if you are unsure where the orichalcum ores are located.

Daily Kill Variety – 13 different types of enemies killed

• In NE corner of Gendarran Fields there is an arena type of event to kill a variety of animals which is more than enough to finish off the daily kill variety

• Thaumanova Reactor in NW corner of Metrica Province works well for this, see Daily Healer for map of the location.

Daily Mists Invasion Defender –10 kills

• Kill 10 players in WvW

Daily Puzzle Jumper – 1 Puzzle completed

• Quickest and probably the safest jumping puzzle is probably the one in NE corner of Lion’s Arch – Urmaug’s Secret.

Daily Recycler – 10 items salvaged

• Buy cheapies off the trading post to salvage if you need.

Daily Shiverpeak Events  – 4 events completed

• If you do the Frozen Maw chain, you can get this daily done fairly quick and get a chest with a rare in the end as well.The chain starts in Krennak’s Homstead Waypoint and starts every 25 minutes.

Daily Story Dungeon Completer – 1 story dungeon completed

• May want to do Ascalonian Catacombs for this since this daily is on the same day as Daily Ascalonian killer. Hard achievement to get since most people don’t run storymodes.

Saturday

Daily Costume Brawl Champion – Champion once

• This one can be pretty easy to complete, especially if you have boxing gloves or Scepter of Thorn from the Halloween event.
• You need to land 25 hits on other players to become a champion. The white cross track your hits on other players and the little icon with the crown tells you how many times you became a champion.

• One interesting trick a guildie uses is to purchase the Pirate Captain’s Outfit (700 gems)which give you a cannon as one of the sword skills. Next, you purchase the Boxing Gloves (300 gems) and place the cannon down as a bait. A lot of players will see the cannon and activate it. This will flag them for costume brawl and you can quickly switch to your boxing gloves and knock them senseless.

Daily Crafter – make 10 items

• Easy achievement, just refine 10 items.

Dungeon Completer – Complete 1 dungeon

• A quick Citadel of Flame Path 1 run will do or any dungeons really. Path 1 is fast.

Daily Gatherer – Gather 20 items

• Self explanatory, go to Cursed Shores/Malchor’s Leap to do your daily Orichalcum run for the best bang for the buck! Use Orrmaps.com if you are unsure where the orichalcum ores are located.

Daily Kills – Kill 50 stuff

• Kill 50 mobs/players

Krytan Event Completer – Complete 4 events

• That Kessex Hills event chain with the centaurs is perfect for this! The chain usually contain 3 events but the cooldown timer between repeats is fairly short (<5 minutes).

Daily Leveler – Gain 1 level

• Fastest way is probably to make a new level 1 character. You will be level 2 when you finish the personal story.

Daily Maguuman Veteran Killer – kill 4 veterans

• Just south of the Twilight Arbor entrance in NW corner of Caledon Forest are a bunch of Veteran Mosshearts with fast respawn (<1 min once killed). You can get this daily done over there relatively quick and painless.

Daily Mists Caravan Disruptor –5 kills

• Best bet is to gather near an enemy’s supply camp and kill all the dolyak caravans that comes out.

Sunday

Daily Aquatic Slayer – 25 Underwater kills

• Kill stuff in water, got my done in Cursed Shores but anywhere with water and mobs works.

Daily Condition Applier – 50 conditions applied

• This one should be easy – stack Bleeds, weakness, confusion etc on the mobs. It is like the achievement to kill x number of mobs.

Daily Events – Complete 5 events

• Lots of options here but my favorite is probably west side of Kessex Hills. There are 3-4 events part of the Battle of Fort Salma event chain, They are fast events with a quick respawn timer. Events that are part of the chain occur at locations 1-3 in a sequential manner so just WP over there and see which events are going on.

• You other options are events north of Nebo Terrace (where you knock out the daily healer achievement), do events with the zerg in Cursed Shores (Plinx event is terrific for that if it is up), capping stuff in WvW, or go to NW corner of Metrica Province and do the Thaumanova Reactor events.
• Reader Jin points out that the Frozen Maw event chain in Wayfarer Foothills is also good for event completion – 6 events can be done in under 13 minutes.Event chain repeat every 25 minutes.  Head to Krennak’s Homestead Waypoint.

Daily Gatherer – Gather 20 items

• Self explanatory, go to Cursed Shores/Malchor’s Leap to do your daily Orichalcum run for the best bang for the buck! Use Orrmaps.com if you are unsure where the orichalcum ores are located.

Daily Group Events – 2 group events

• 2a and 3 of the 3-4 events in Kessex Hills event chain are group events so this one should be fairly easy to complete. (look under Daily Events for the map)

Daily Keg Brawl Scorer  – 3 scores

• Keg Brawl is located on the west end of Hoelbrak. There is a NPC there that you can talk to get started.
• You must score 3 times for this achievement to count. To score, you must bring  a keg to the NPC on your side. Do this 3 times to complete the achievement.

Daily Krytan Killer – 40 kills

• Since today’s daily have Krytan Killer, Group events, and events, the Kessex Hill event chain works perfect for this and allow you to hit three birds with one stone.

Daily Mists Invasion Defender –10 kills

• Kill 10 players in WvW

Daily Mystic Forgesmith – 5 uses

• Throw in some random items into the forge or buy green runes/sigils off the TP (they are like 20 cooper each) and combine them in the mystic forge.