Time-gated achievements

This page is an incomplete list of achievements that at some point can't be progressed to their next step until either a daily server reset or some other delay mechanic. They are categorized by type and divided by map.

Repetition

• Ember Bay
  • Rising Flames: Hungry Hal — Find and feed this poor hungry soul on the island. (8)
    • 4 days minimum, as there only appear to be 14 Ember Apple trees and they respawn daily.
      • This is a character-based time-gate and so can be circumvented by using multiple characters.
  • Rising Flames: The Friendly Ghost — Bring Captain Grumby a few pieces of his ship to remind him of his home. (3)
    • 7 days minimum, as only 1 Ship Debris can be handed in per day.
• Lake Doric
  • The Head of the Snake: Tree-Hugger Hugger — Keep the tree-bound villager fed. (2)
    • 4 days minimum, as you can only feed him once per day.
• Siren's Landing
  • One Path Ends: Roll for Greed — Open 10 chests in Abaddon's reliquary. (3)
    • 5-10 days depending on whether you pay for a second chest each day.
• Desert Highlands
  • Desert Highlands: Bleeding Heart — Help the nomads in Diviner's Reach by completing all their task requests five different times. (5)
• Domain of Istan
  • Daybreak: Not Thirsty — Destroy 25 Fountains of Joko while raiding the Mordant Crescent Great Hall. (3)
    • Minimum 4 repetitions, assuming you get credit for at least 6-7 per event
• Domain of Kourna
  • Long Live the Lich: Debbie's Cakes — Purge infected crops while sparing healthy ones to win a delicious reward. (2)
    • 4 days minimum, as you can only get 3 cakes per day.
      • This is a character-based time-gate and so can be circumvented by using multiple characters.
  • Long Live the Lich: Taking All Their Secrets — Loot the Inquest lab 10 times. (3)
    • 10 repetitions
• Thunderhead Peaks
  • All or Nothing: No One Was Using It Anyway — Use the Light of Deldrimor to locate hidden dwarven treasure. (5)
    • 6 days minimum, as a maximum of 9 chests are obtainable in any given day.
  • All or Nothing: Grand Prize — Uncover hidden treasures in the resplendent dwarven treasure cache. (3)
    • 10 days minimum, as it can only be completed once daily.
• Dragonfall
  • War Eternal: The Battle of Dragonfall — Claim victory in the Battle of Dragonfall. (25)
    • 25 repetitions
• Grothmar Valley
  • Prologue: Bound by Blood: Grothmar Tribune — Complete the Grothmar Legionnaire daily meta-achievement in Grothmar Valley 15 times. (5)
    • 15 repetitions, 57 days minimum starting with a day where the Daily Icebrood Saga is Grothmar Valley. Includes 3 days of forced downtime before each subsequent completion for the daily to cycle back to Grothmar Valley.
• Bjora Marches
  • Whisper in the Dark: Raven's Favor — Claim victory in the Storms of Winter. (25)
    • 15 repetitions
• Drizzlewood Coast
  • Jormag Rising: Citadel Crasher — Siege the Frost Citadel and defeat the Claw of Jormag. (15)
    • 10 repetitions

Collections

• Queensdale
  • Basic Collections: Eldvin Monastery Brew of the Month Club — Each month, Eldvin Monastery sends out a finely crafted beer to members of the Brew of the Month Club. Each beer's availability is limited to that particular month. After a new months[sic] begins, visit a major city to receive your package from Eldvin Monastery. (3)
    • Requires purchase of Eldvin Monastery Brew of the Month Membership and visiting a major city each month for a year.
• Draconis Mons
  • Flashpoint: A Henge Away from Home — Your dedication to nature is proving fruitful, but there is still much to do. Continue to show your respect for Melandru's druids and help bring their magic out into the world again. (3)
    • 16-20 days total, depending on whether you want to buy the extra Druid Runestone Fragment from the Unbound Magic vendor.
      • A chain, beginning with The Druid Stone (5 fragments, 1-2 days) which unlocks Awakening the Druid Stone (15 fragments, another 3-4 days) which unlocks Sprouting the Druid Stone (25 fragments, another 5-7 days) which finally unlocks A Henge Away from Home.
• Domain of Istan
  • Daybreak: Brandstone Research — Istan is being bombarded by Brandstones, which may have unique and useful properties. (3)
    • Requires 7 days, as only 1 research step can be done per day.
• Sandswept Isles
  • A Bug in the System: Rebooting IG-6417 — Download the software needed to repair IG-6417. (3)
    • Requires 7 days, as only 1 module can be handed in per day.
• Drizzlewood Coast
  • No Quarter: Tengu Weapon Etchings (10)
    • Up to 3 Sheet of Handmade Tengu Etching Paper per day, minimum of 5 days.
• Tangled Depths
  • Basic Collections: Zinn's Prize Student — Collect all 13 books to compile Zinn's Study Guide. (3)
    • Requires 12 days, as only 1 item can be purchased per day. Collection is needed for Astralaria I: The Device collection.
• Multiple Maps
  • Rare Collections: Teleportation Gizmos Collector — Collect various teleporation gizmos.  You can update progress for this achievement by traveling to Lion's Arch and meeting one of these conditions: •You have the item in your inventory. •You have put a scroll in a portal tome. •You have completed a related achievement. (25)
    • Completing the Festival Frequenter achievement to obtain the Invitation to the Party spans a full annual cycle, as it requires participating in all six seasonal festivals.
  • Festival Collections: Festival Frequenter — Acquire an invitation to each annual festival to earn a universal invitation. (5)
    • Invitations are delivered via in-game mail to characters logging in during the corresponding festival.

Festivals

The annual meta achievement for each festival can only be completed once a year, for a total of twenty years to get all the associated achievement points.

• Lunar New Year
  • New Year's Customs: Annual Lunar Customs — Complete the annual Lunar New Year Customs achievement. This achievement can be completed once every year. (50)
• Super Adventure Festival
  • Super Adventure Box: Nostalgia: Annual Nostalgia — Complete the annual Super Adventure Box Nostalgia achievement. This achievement can be completed once every year. (50)
• Dragon Bash
  • Dragon Bash Feats: Annual Feats — Complete the (Annual) Dragon Bash Feats achievement. This achievement can only be completed once per year. (50)
• Festival of the Four Winds
  • Four Winds Customs: Annual Customs — Complete the (Annual) Four Winds Customs achievement. This achievement can only be completed once per year. (50)
• Halloween
  • Halloween Rituals: Annual Rituals — Complete the Halloween Rituals (Annual) achievement. This achievement can only be completed once per year. (50)
• Wintersday
  • Wintersday Traditions: Annual Traditions — Complete the annual Wintersday Traditions achievement. This achievement can be completed once every year. (50)

Other

• Multiple Maps
  • Sunken Treasure Hunter: Master Diver — Find and open the sunken chests. (5)
    • Barring some lucky drops, and an account one-off, Ornate Rusted Keys are 1 per day via Blood in the Water and 10 per week purchased from Dive Master Astora for Karma.
• Fields of Ruin
  • Explorer: Speedy Reader — Read the complete history of the founding of Ebonhawke in one day. (10)
    • All books have to be interacted with (in any order) before the daily server reset.
  • Explorer: Cleaning Up the Neighborhood — Tore down all of the separatist propaganda posters in one day. (10)
    • All Separatist Propaganda posters have to be interacted with before the daily server reset.
• Eye of the North
  • Jormag Rising: Confer with Bangar — Speak with Bangar Ruinbringer at the Eye of the North. (2)
    • There was originally a random time-gate, but since at least November 17, 2020, with the release of Icebrood Saga: Champions: Chapter 1: Truce, one can repeatedly instance out and back into EotN to complete the achievement quickly.
• Lion's Arch
  • Community: Friends in High Places — Enter Lion's Arch in the month of February. (1)
    • It can only be completed during the specific one-month window of February annually; missing this window requires waiting until the next year.
• Extra Life
  • Community: Extra Life — Show support for the children. (0)
    • Awarded to players above level 15 who log into the game during the duration of the Extra Life event.

Skyscale

The following collections do not rely on a daily reset, but rather the Waiting for Gorrik debuff to expire before you can begin.

• War Eternal: Saving Skyscales — Hatch a skyscale egg. (5)
• War Eternal: Raising Skyscales — Care for a hungry skyscale (5)
• War Eternal: Troublesome Skyscales — Teach a troublesome skyscale. (5)
• War Eternal: Riding Skyscales — Learn to fly on your skyscale. (25)

Tiered renown hearts

Progress towards these achievements is strictly account-bound and time-gated, meaning that completing a specific Renown Heart on multiple characters within the same day does not grant additional progress. Completion requires repeating the Renown Heart 14 times (limited to once per day per account).

• Janthir Wilds
  • Renown Hearts: Autumn's Vale Renown Mastery — Gain favor with the lowlanders to grow your friendship with them. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Festering Basin Renown Mastery — Help the kodan clean up the Festering Basin to gain their favor. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Forager's Hunt Renown Mastery — Help the kodan around their camp to gain their favor. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Harvest Den Renown Mastery — Gain favor with the lowlanders to grow your friendship. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Journeykin Outpost Renown Mastery — Gain favor with the lowlanders to grow your friendship. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Mistburned Barrens Renown Mastery — Gain favor by aiding the Tyrian Alliance and your allies at the Alliance Staging Ground. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Stricken Plains Renown Mastery — Help the lowlanders secure Stricken Plains to gain their favor. (5)
• Visions of Eternity
  • Renown Hearts: Artificer's Islet Renown Mastery — Assist the Stewards of Galdra in the area around the ancient forge. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Breezy Cay Renown Mastery — Help Paxx and Daxx serve the Pub Canach patrons and keep everyone happy...especially Canach. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Foothold Bivouac Renown Mastery — Gain favor with your allies to grow your friendship. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Glimmering Arches Renown Mastery — Help tired Tyrian Alliance Representative Sharpwhisker keep an eye on the Inquest and earn the favor of the castaways. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Hullgarden Renown Mastery — Assist the castaways around the village of Hullgarden. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Pilgrim's Rest Renown Mastery — Assist the Tyrian Alliance with setting up and maintaining camp. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Priory Expedition Renown Mastery — Gain favor with the Durmand Priory camp to grow your friendship. (5)
  • Renown Hearts: Untamed Crags Renown Mastery — Gain favor with the norn hunters to grow your friendship. (5)

Lifetime Progression

Birthday

These achievements track the age of individual characters in real-time, unlocking sequentially on each annual anniversary of their creation date.

• Hero: Birthday—Year 1 — You have a character that is more than 1 year old. (1)
• Hero: Birthday—Year 2 — You have a character that is more than 2 years old. (1)
• Hero: Birthday—Year 3 — You have a character that is more than 3 years old. (1)
• Hero: Birthday—Year 4 — You have a character that is more than 4 years old. (1)
• Hero: Birthday—Year 5 — You have a character that is more than 5 years old. (1)
• Hero: Birthday—Year 6 — You have a character that is more than 6 years old. (1)
• Hero: Birthday—Year 7 — You have a character that is more than 7 years old. (1)
• Hero: Birthday—Year 8 — You have a character that is more than 8 years old. (1)
• Hero: Birthday—Year 9 — You have a character that is more than 9 years old. (1)
• Hero: Birthday—Year 10 — You have a character that is more than 10 years old. (1)
• Hero: Birthday—Year 11 — You have a character that is more than 11 years old. (0)
• Hero: Birthday—Year 12 — You have a character that is more than 12 years old. (0)
• Hero: Birthday—Year 13 — You have a character that is more than 13 years old. (0)

Daily

• Wizard's Vault Daily Objectives: Wizard's Vault: Daily Completionist — Claim the Wizard's Vault daily meta reward. (10)
  • Yields 10 Achievement Points everyday upon completing 4 Wizard's Vault daily tasks. This is capped at a hard lifetime ceiling of 15,000 AP, meaning it takes a minimum of 1,500 days (roughly 4 years) of logging in to completely max out daily AP pool.

See also

• Time gated recipes
• Daily
• Server reset