GW2 Living story Refugee Volunteer events guide

• Refugees traveling south from Wayfarer Foothills to Hoelbrak, and from Diessa Plateau to the Black Citadel are in need of assistance. Collect mementos, light campfires, and aid the refugee migration.

How to Start the event

You don’t really start the event, you just go around in specific areas of Wayfarer Foothills and Diessa Plateau to repair roadsign posts, lit campfires, and loot mementos to handle to collectors (stars on your map). Each action give you 1 “act of assistance”. You will need 75 acts of assistance for the title and achievement. If you don’t see golden stars on your zone map, then your server is bugged and you will need to guest to a non-buggy server (i.e. Tarnished Coast) or switch to a different overflow.

Herald

There is a Herald in major cities and Lion’s Arch near the asura gates to the different main cities. She just tell you to head to Diessa Plateau and Wayfarer Foothills and doesn’t provide much background info! (thanks Draczar)

Wayfarer Foothills

Roadsign Posts and Fallen Refuges

Map of all the roadsign posts and some of the Fallen Refuges. You can log into an overflow or a different character and all the roadsigns and fallen refugees will be reset, allowing you to get the achievement fairly easy

• Follow this path, repair sign posts, light campfires, and gather mementos to hand to the NPCs with the star icon on them.
• Hold down the ctrl key to see campfires, sign posts etc that needs to be lit./repaired. Note that Fallen refugees do not lit up when you hold down ctrl key.
• Fallen Refugees give out mementos, these fallen refugees are slightly off the trail so you need to run around abit or use the map above

• You can help limping refugees and revive some of the refugees for credit.

Events

There are two events that give you multiple “act of assistances” but they are on a fairly long timer so you may not encounter it right away (received 5 “acts” for getting  a bronze star).

• Event: Use ice blocks from unstable ice elementals to plug the steaming ruptures contributing to the blizzard.
• There are two locations for the event, one up north, one down south near Breakneck Pass.

Interesing stuff

There is a dead merchant just south of the Solitude Waypoint way up in the north. Not sure what it is suppose to be yet.. Murder mystery?

Diessa Plateau

Roadsign Posts and Fallen Refuges

Map of all the roadsign posts and some of the Fallen Refuges. You can log into an overflow or a different character and all the roadsigns and fallen refugees will be reset, allowing you to get the achievement fairly easy

Events

These events give out multiple “Acts of Assistance” towards the achievement but they are on a fairly long timer so you may not encounter it right away. The event is called Use boulders from earth elementals to plug the ruptures causing dust storms (basically identical to the ones in Wayfarer Foothills but use earth elementals instead).

• There is one near Oldgate Clearing (thanks Draczar)
• There is another one up in the north east of Village of Butcher’s Block (thanks Relyk)

Rewards

Reward

• Refugee Child’s Drawing (eat it for 5k karma), and Volunteer title after you finish all 4 tiers. You get the drawing in the mail.
• Refugee Volunteer achievement
• If you don’t get a reward after doing 75 acts of assistance, relog or remap

Black Citadel and Hoelbrak

Both Black Citadel and Hoelbrak seen changes to the refugee camp behind the Refugee Coordinator in both cities. There are more refugees camped there and some have started putting up tents. There is also a refugee in each camp that will talk to you briefly.