Grim Dawn Achievement Guide [WIP]

I've yet to complete the game and I've searched for some guide to help me out with the achievements, but I couldn't find one. As I did some research and completed the informations, I've created this little guide for myself and hopefully somebody is going to find it useful too.

Guide is W.I.P. for the moment, only achievements from the base game have been covered. DLC achievements are coming.

I'm sorry about any spelling/grammar mistakes, I'm not an English native speaker.

Achievements are grouped the same way as they appear in the Achievement menu ingame.

This section contains spoilers!

Killing Warden Krieg is part of The Warden quest concluding Act One main quest line. Remember that hitting 11 level by killing him prevents you from getting the achievement.
In the guides section[astats.astats.nl] you will find some useful tips that could make things easier. Smuggler's Basin is an unmarked area that can spawn around the Burrwitch Outskirts. The picture below indicates possible locations.
Depraved Sanctuary is a challenging dungeon that can be found east of the Burrwitch Outskirts Riftgate. To enter, you need to aquire the Strange Key. It can be obtain in three ways:

• as a reward if you let Direni live in A Cultist in the Midst quest;
  
• as a random drop from the cultist in the area;
  
• as a drop from Hero cultist which spawns randomly in the Cultist's Lair to the South-West.

The locations of Depraved Sanctuary is indicated in the picture below:

Herald of the Flame is a unique boss in Act Three. Killing him is required to finish the Lost Armaments side quest (this quest is available after reaching Friendly status with the Black Legion faction). Killing the Herald of Destruction is part of the side quest Legion Retribution given in Act Four by Spellbreaker Moira after reaching Honored status with the Black legion faction. Alkamos is the final boss of the last level, Anguish, of the Steps of Torment dungeons. The entrance to the Steps of Torment is located in the southern part of the Broken Hills, an area visited in Act Two. See Hidden Achievements section. Avatar of Mogdrogen is an Ultra Boss found in the Asterkarn Valley (Act Four area). To make him appear you need to complete Rhowari Legacy side quest in Act Two which is given by Amkala after gaining Honored status with the Rovers faction. Shar'Zul is the final boss of the Bastion of Chaos, an area that can be accessed via a Chthonic Rift found in the northern part of the Necropolis Interior, beyond the Necropolis Bridge.

All level related achievement are pretty much self explanatory. Unlike other games, you can't simply play on the hardest difficulty in your first playthrough to get all of these at once. You need to complete the game in each difficulty before the next one is unlocked. To craft an item, you must unlock the blacksmith first (see By the Malleum Menhir). Crafting also require a blueprint/recipe and materials. Relics are specific artifacts and talismans that can be crafted with the help of the blacksmith. Rarity of blueprints and materials required to craft a relic depends from its tier. Empowered Relics are the most common ones while Transcendent Relics are more unique. Mythical Relics' blueprints drops only from boses or Ultimate difficulty shrines and require many rare materials.

Hero Monsters are indicated by orange names and a star above their heads. They spawn randomly among common or uncommon monster packs. Attacking given type of monsters increases the level of hostility between you and them which you can check in the Faction menu. Nemesis is the highest status of hostility and causes the Nemesis Monsters to spawn randomly. Their names apear in red color. You need to kill this many monsters by your single charater.

This section contains spoilers!

Exactly what it says; You need to close the Riftgate in the Burrwitch Village while playing on Veteran Mode. You will gain this achievement while doing The Warden quest concluding Act One main quest line. After slaying Cronley, a secret room can be found in his hideout. There you will find a laboratory and an Aether Cluster which can be interacted with. You will gain this achievement while doing An Old Threat quest in Act Two. Karroz is the final boss of Act Three. You will kill him doing the main quest called Reaping What You Sow. There are 7 friendly factions:

• The Black Legion
  
• Devil's Crossing
  
• Homestead
  
• Kymon's Chosen
  
• Order of Death's Vigil
  
• Rovers
  
• The Outcast

Level of reputation with each of them is indicated in the Faction menu and can be increased by doing various quest and bounties throughout the game. Revered reputation is the highest friendly reputation and you can reach it with 6 factions, as eventually you will have to choose between Kymon's Chosen and the Order of Death's Vigil in Act Three in Allies Among the Ashes quest. Therefore you can't achieve both Servant of Empyrion and Follower of Uroboruuk in a single playthrough. If you sided with the Order of Death's Vigil in Allies Among the Ashes quest in Act Three, you have to kill Archon Barthollem. If you sided with the Kymon's Chosen in Allies Among the Ashes quest in Act Three, you have to kill their leader, Malkadarr.

Rescuing Darlet is part of a side quest The Inventor's Apprentice given by Kasparov in Act One. Aquiring the services of the blacksmith is part of a side quest Tale of Two Blacksmiths given by Duncan in Act One when you find him in the Burrwitch Outskirts. Depending of your choices either Duncan or Angrim will join you as the blacksmith in Devil's Crossing. Ulgrim can be found hiding out in the middle of the Burrwitch Outskirts. You need to tell him about the prison in order to receive the achievement. One-shot chests are scattered around the world of Cairn and spawns only once per game; they contain a guaranteed Epic item. To find the location of each chest, check out this great guide.[www.grimdawn.com] Shrines are scattered around the world of Cairn and are a means of earning Devotion points. They need to be restored, either by putting a certain item in them or by fighting a wave of summoned creatures. To find the location of each shrine, check out this great guide. Notes are scattered around the world. They outline the back-story and mythology of Cairn, also some may give hints at quests. To find the location of each note, check out this great guide. First you need to place 3 dynamites in the detonation site in the Flooded Passage. That will clear a path and unblock an entrance to the secret area: the Sunken Reliquary. First you need to find The Last Will of Marthos Everbrook, which spawns randomly on a corpse inside a house in either the Infested Farms or the Rotting Croplands. This document points out the location of the treasure (one-shot chest). To uncover the chest you will also need 1 dynamite.

These achievements are not shown in the Achievement menu ingame (except for The Fields of Despair). This section contains spoilers.

Paying Tributes is a side quest given by Alicia in New Harbor in Act Two. She asks you to collect scrap on behalf of the villagers. They are being blackmailed by Cronley's gang to keep bringing more and more scrap. You need to resolve this situation peacefuly if you want to gain the achievement. You have two options to do that:

• simply collect scrap and deliver it to Silas;
  
• bribe Silas (2500 Iron); he will leave the villagers alone.

The Chamber of Soul is a room located in Suffering which is fourth level of The Steps of Torment dungeon (Act Two, Broken Hills). Upon entering the chamber you will be sealed in the room and must defeat three waves of monsters before the Bone Reliquary can be opened. Gollus, the Deepdweller is a unique Boss which can be found in the secret area Den of the Lost, accessed through the Skittering Den (Act Three). In The Aetherial Witch quest given by Captain Reave in Act Four you will need to deal with a possessed witch named Anasteria. You have the option to ally with her, but you need to kill her in order to get the achievement. Fields of Despair is the final part of Discord - the second level of the Bastion of Chaos (Act Four, Necropolis Interior). The area contains several rooms that release numerous waves of enemies. Loghorrean, the Voice of Ch'thon is the final boss of Grim Dawn. Killing him is part of The Bane of Cairn quest, which is the last main quest in the game.

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