Out of the Shadows Achievements Guide (2024)

A guide to all the achievements in Out of the Shadows Living WorldSeason 3 Episode.

Meta/Mastery Achievement

You only need to complete 18 of the 19 listed achievement to get thisOut of the Shadows Mastery achievement, which will reward you with 10 APand a Bloodstone Crown box where you can get an exotic helm for a weightclass of your choosing (you unlock the skin for other weights as well).Since I was having trouble with the Reversal of Fortune achievement, Iwas able to skip it and still complete the Mastery.

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Story Instance Achievements

Most of the story instance achievements are pretty straight forward. Iwill mention the non-straightforward ones below.

Research in Rata Novus

You will need to do the beginning part of this instance twice to get allthe achievements. Luckily it is very quick since the puzzle is at thevery start.

Was it Blue or Red? – 1 AP

To solve the puzzle, press the following buttons on your skillbar (B =Blue, G = Green, P = Purple, R = Red, Y = Yellow)

• Round 1: YPRB
• Round 2: RYPB
• Round 3: YRBP
• Round 4: PBYR
• Round 5: GBRPY

Ain’t Got Time for This – 1 AP

Don’t solve the puzzle and defeat the sentry golem that spawns instead.

A Shadow’s Deeds

The Sky is Falling – 2 AP

You are able to do this the first run, but you won’t get the icon tellyou if you failed the achievement until your second run so if you don’tget it your first run, watch for the new achievement buff icon on yoursecond run.

What you need to avoid are those large ground AoEs indicated by orangecircles. In most cases, you do have time to run/dodge out in time butbeware of mobs that can stun you at an inopportune times and cause youto fail the achievement.

Confessor’s Stronghold

This instance is worth mentioning because it has two hidden achievementsthat do not count towards the meta/mastery achievement but give you 3 APfor those that like to do it.

Bloodstone Magic, Not Even Once – 2 AP

This hidden achievement is earned during the Justicar Adrienne fight. At75%, 50% and 25%, she will become immune and start spinning in a circlearound the bloodstone shard in the middle. You need to attack thatbloodstone shard to gain the Counter Magic button in your hotbar andclick it to activate a red beam between you and the shard. Then you needto run to the back of Adrienne so that the red beam pass through hershield and breaks her immunity. For this achievement, you need to breakher shield before she completes a full circle of spinning around. Prettyeasy achievement once you know what to do.

Take It Down a Notch – 1 AP

In the final fight with the Jade Construct, the Knights standing on topof the stadium will from time to time do a cheering animation. If thishappens, kill them immediately with your ranged weapon for this hiddenachievement. The achievement will pop up as soon as you kill the correctKnight so just prolong the fight and don’t bother killing the JadeConstruct at all.

Bloodstone Fen Achievements

Insights/Dive Master

There are two Mastery Insights and a Dive Master achievement in thiszone. You definitely need Updraft Usage and Bouncing Mushroom Mushroombut having Lean Gliding and Advanced Gliding will make things mucheasier as well.

Bloodstone Fen Insight: Fragmented Wastes – 1 AP, 1 Mastery

Bloodstone Fen Insight: Temple of Renewal – 1 AP, 1 Mastery

Dive Master: Just Dropping By – 1 AP

There is no water at the bottom, you are aiming for a mesmer portal.

Ghost Event Achievements

Ghost event chain occur on the left side of the map in Haunted Canyons.They occur at start of the night, when theVerdant Brink night time events occur, that is when the ghost eventsoccur).

The first event in the chain is an event to kill a bunch of spirits inthe Canyon. After completing this event, you will get the events for theLost Souls achievement.

Lost Souls – 3 AP

You will need to kill Savant Ehrin, Nyle the Compassionate, RitualistJosa and Thief Lloyd. They spawn in sequence after the event to kill thespirits in Haunted Canyons. When one is killed the next one spawn. Theyall spawn in the Haunted Canyon area.

Savant Ehrin

Nyle the Compassionate

Ritualist Josa

Thief Lloyd

Grief Counseling – 1 AP, 1 Mastery

Alari’s event spawn once the Lost Souls event are done. This is a veryshort escort event and Alari runs fairly fast so it will be over in mereminutes. Once the escort finishes and you get the event reward pop up,type /yes in chat while Alari is talking and you will get theachievement.

White Mantle Event Achievements

White Mantle can be found all over the map but the main event involvingthe Ghostly Justiciar occurs above Zealot’s Overlook Waypoint in theColosseum of the Faithful which you can reach using updrafts near thewaypoint.

Mantle Pieces – 5 AP

Kill 200 White Mantles in Bloodstone Fen, can be done anywhere really.You might get most of it done when you do the story instanceachievements.

This Time, Stay Dead – 3AP, 1 Mastery

Kill the Ghostly Justiciar that spawns once you do the preevent to cleanup the spirits around the Colosseum of the Faithful.It is unknown if thepre-event have a fixed spawn timer but seems to occur fairly often(about twice an hour).

Reversal of Fortune – 1 AP

This achievement can be a bit tricky to get. The Justiciar is suppose todo blue teleporting attacks once he reaches below 50% that ports playersto the air. When this happens, you are suppose to use your aerial combatskills to hit the Justiciar for the achievement. However, in numerousJusticiar kills I havn’t seen this teleporting mechanic being used sothis achievement can be annoying to get.

Jade Construct/Unbound Guardian Achievements

Jade Construct and Unbound Guardian events occur on the east side of themap, inside that giant hole in the ground and proceed all the way to thecave inside. It does not appear to have a fixed timer either but seemsto occur at least once per hour.

From Ground Zero waypoint, you can glide down to the various platformswith Bloodstone Stalagmites. The Jade Construct event will occur at thehighest platform first and your goal is to kill the construct before itconsume the bloodstone. If this event is successful, it will occur againon a lower platform, and repeat itself 5 times.

Jade Carving – 3 AP

For this achievement you will need to kill 10 Jade Constructs. While theA Shadow’s Deeds and Confessor’s Stronghold story instances do have aconstruct inside them, it can be tedious to repeat them. Instead, youshould do the Jade Construct event chain as a successful chain can have6 Jade Constructs to kill.

Available Guardian – 5 AP

This Unbound Guardian, which is basically a clone of the Vale Guardianwith very similar abilities, only spawn at end of the cave if all theJade Construct events succeeds. The main difference compared to ValeGuardian is that it won’t have any split phases and anyone standinginside the green circle can use the Counter Magic skill to gain 200%more damage for a few seconds.

Misc Achievements

Conspiracy of Dunces – 5 AP

This is a series of 4 achievements that rewards a bunch of AP and aDragonite Ore and Bloodstone Dust consumer item. Consult the guideherefor all the details.

Magic Unbound: The Gathering – 1 AP, 1 Mastery

An achievement named perhaps after Magic the Gathering cards? Anywaysfor this achievement you just need to consume 10 floating unbound magicin the air under 60 seconds. Not a very difficult task and there is apretty good spot from the Airship waypoint to do this. You will need tohave completed Reaper of Magic story instance to be eligible to interactwith the Unbound Magic.

Don’t Cross the Streams – 1 AP

This is a hidden achievement with a funny name. To get this achievement,you must first purchase Rider the Ley Line ability from the UnboundMagic exchange vendor at the Airship for 1000 Unbound Magic and 500Bloodstone Dust. This will give you a #5 skill when you glide. Now,when you use a Ley Line, use this skill at the same time for a hilariouseffect and 1 AP.