GW2 - The Serpent's Head: Achievement Guide

GW2 - The Serpent's Head: Achievement Guide

Today February 7 released the new Living World Season 3 episode of Guild Wars 2 (which you can read the preview here). This guide will cover the various achievements related to this episode and help you complete them all. Completing 28 achievements will grant you the appearance of "Elite White Mantle Guard Mask" (there are 32 that can be completed).


Some successes are not over. The guide will be updated as soon as possible.


GW2 - The Serpent's Head: Achievement Guide

Episode mastery

As always, a large majority of the successes are linked to the story and to the card itself. The achievements are divided into three parts:

  • History: successes linked to history and instances.
  • Exploration: successes linked to exploration (mastery points, hidden objects, etc.).
  • Events: The rest of the achievements often relate to particular objectives of the events on the map.
  • History
  • Exploration
  • Activities

The successes automatically validated following the validation of the different episodes are not entered here.

  • Instance : A ministerial meeting
    Head of security for the upper town : after the revolt, you will have to revive 5 guards of the divine promontory (possibility of doing it in several times)
    Sacrificial lambs : after the revolt, you will have to free all the hostages of the revolt (beware the hostages taken by the jade sentries can be bugged).
    A shadow in the shadow : Before completing the instance, you will need to find Shadow, the queen's cat. It sits in the center of the divine promontory (Image link).
  • Instance : Join the queen
    Courtesan Discourteousness : you must complete 3 tasks to validate this success:
    - Talk to all the ladies to the left of the throne
    - Speak and greet the child believing to be of the shining blade
    - Use your hang glider near the throne while falling into the water
  • Instance : Beetlestone Manor
    The sigh / watchman method
    : avoid or kill the two sentries at the start of the instance.
    Illumination : during the first fight against Caudecus, drop the candlestick on the minister's head.
    The word of the enigma : do not make mistakes during the two riddles in the riddle room (Answer 1: Corn / Answer 2: Charr).
  • Discover the 4 mastery points of the map : Lake Bazaar, Druid's Cave, Melandru's Refuge and Watcher's Valley (4 distinct achievements).
  • Cin Affairs : find the different articles that Cin wants (the list is below).
  • Letters of E : find the letters E (the dots are below).

The various achievements listed below are linked to events on the Lac de Doric map. Be aware that some events have a shorter or longer period of time before reappearing.



  • Fire brigade : extinguish 15 fires. There are a lot of them in the forest to the north. Buckets are available towards the renowned heart of Noran.
  • Contain the tide : you must pass the 3 defense events of the 3 strategic points of the map (Saidra, Sylveglèbe, Cascades).
  • Bait launcher : East of Sylveglèbe a bait seal is available. Throw the item 15 times on the White Mantle to validate the achievement.
  • Friend of the forest : Help 15 spirits reach the mists in the Cascade Forest. Many spirits are available during the associated event. Otherwise, you will only find 3 or 4.
  • The gems of the city by the sea : bring 10 pearls to the merchant of the Lake Bazaar
  • Honorary crew member : prevent the two factions (Skritts and Blanc-Manteau) from pilfering supplies at Vairon (north of Saidra refuge).
  • Feeding the tree lover : must feed the villager attached to the tree on 4 different days (he is to the south-west of the village of Sylveglèbe-la-Neuve).
  • Securing under the full moon : During the Doric Sawmill event, you must prevent a spirit from escaping with wood (it takes more than one to succeed).
  • A hair in the soup : sabotage 10 times the equipment of the white coat at Fort Evennie without being detected and without leaving it.
  • A real sabotage : sabotage 25 equipments of the white-mantle in Fort Evennie.
  • These giant hands : defeat the Great sage harathi in the northeast of the map (count about twenty players to succeed).
  • It is a phiège : Complete the secret labyrinth in front of Noran (famous heart to the north). Be careful, Noran's chest is not the end of the labyrinth.

Cin Affairs

Each of the objects, if necessary, is attached with the photo of its location to be easier to find. The images can be clicked directly on the name of the object:



  • Shipping voucher: is located in the Lacustre bazaar near a remarkable point.
  • White Mantle Ration: Retrieved from an enemy of the White Mantle.
  • Warm Animal Skin: Can be found in Noran's Plate (to the right of the entrance).
  • Tower Shard: Can be found a little before the entrance of the Grand Sage boss.
  • Rope of Stolen Wood: During the Sawmill Defense event, will be automatically looted if you kill a spirit carrying stolen wood.
  • Quaggan Food: above Quaggan village north of Saidra Refuge.
  • Elegant swordfish: close to the Seraph training site in Doric's refuge.
  • Fish reserve: a little to the east, in the village of Sylveglèbe-la-Neuve.
  • Lost medallion: below the panorama to the north of the map.
  • Enchanted fishing center: always next to the panorama to the north of the map. Collect a peach from the spirit and consume it.
  • Pearl Shell: Talk to the child in the Eastern Reservoir.
  • Bloodstone Infused Poisonous Mushroom: Gather near the Melandru Refuge mastery point.
  • Vairon Sextant: in the forgotten chest on the Vairon (North of Saidra Refuge).
  • Mystical Cloth: Kill vigilante Agatha during the Saidra Refuge defense event.
  • Kingslayer's Jade Shard: Kill Cairn during the Sylveglèbe-La-Neuve defense event.
  • Veiled Bib: Kill ImmelSabot during the Watchtower Defense event (is Nurturing Waterfalls).
  • Bottle of Blanc-Manteau red wine: in one of the last houses in Fort Evennie.
  • Doric Dam Demolitionist: is located a little further north of the TP at Doric Landing.

Letters of E

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