GW2 Helpful Hero Current Events and Riftstalker Weapons Guide

GW2 Helpful Hero Current Events and Riftstalker Weapons crafting guide.

Helpful Hero

When a rift is closing, escape through a portal with a lost keepsake and return it to its owner. There is another achievement for completing 10 Rifts as well called Rift Stalker.

How the event works

Every 10 minutes on the clock (i.e. xx:40, xx:50), all of the maps will have a Rift Barrier spawning at a specific location (see maps below). You need to defeat the Rift Barrier by throwing the crystals it spits out back at it (stand in the white circles to grab the crystal). Once it is defeated, interact with the defeated Rift to enter the Mists Rift instance and battle the Champion Riftstalker inside. To defeat the Riftstalker, it willl become invul every 25% and spits out crystals marked with white circles on the ground. Stand in the white circle to receive the crystal, then walk within range of the Riftstalker (400 range) to throw the crystal at the Riftstalker (need to throw 4 crystals to break the invul shield).

After the Riftstalker is defeated, one of the four corners of the instance will have an event icon with an escape rift. Run to that location while the instance begins to fill up with toxic gas. You need to run to that escape rift within 30 seconds while doing a simple jumping puzzle on the way. Exit through the rift and it will port you to the next map in the sequence. You will receive the credit for the appropriate item in the collection and a Branded Satchel that has a chance to give you a Riftstalker Carapace rarely (you are limited to 3x Satchels per day it seems).

After you get ported to the next map (it will port you directly to the location of the upcoming Rift), talk to the NPC right next to you to finish the collection for that map.

Rift Map Sequence

If you need an item from a particular map, make sure you do the Rift Barrier event in a map before it in the sequence (i.e. if you need item from Snowden Drifts, start the Rift Barrier event in Diessa Plateau)

Kessex Hills –> Lornar’s Pass –> Iron Marches –> Brisban Wildlands –> Dredgehaunt Cliffs –> Diessa Plateau –> Snowden Drifts –> Kessex Hills

Kessex Hills – Lost Statue

Lornar’s Pass – Lost Greatsword

Iron Marches – Lost Rifle

Brisban Wildlands – Lost Golem

Dredgehaunt Cliffs – Lost Cat

Diessa Plateau – Diessa Plateau

Snowden Drifts – Lost Dolyak

Crafting Riftstalker Weapons

There are three Riftstalker weapons available to craft:

[&CsohAAA=] Riftstalker’s Talon – Sword

[&CswhAAA=] Riftstalker’s Core – Scepter

[&Cs8hAAA=] Riftstalker’s Sunderer – Greatsword

The recipe for crafting these weapons in the mystic forge is as follows: (credit to this Reddit thread)