#GW2 THE SHINING BLADE GUIDE FREE#

These elementals drop unstable bloodstone fragments which you can use to instantly break the defiance bar of the protectors, stunning and knocking them down. Bloodstones will be hurled at you, exploding and spawning Volatile Bloodstone Elementals. Each shard is guarded by a Bloodstone Protector and cannot be damaged while the Protectors are up. The puzzle cannot be solved until you destroy the two bloodstone shards to her sides. Justiciar Araya is protected by a bloodstone barrier puzzle. Face the exemplar from the entrance and hit the runes as follows:

If they are deactivated, they will activate. If they are active, they will deactivate. Whenever you hit an active rune, it deactivate and split into 2. activating them all will grant you the With Friends Like These achievement.

#GW2 THE SHINING BLADE GUIDE FREE#

To free the Shining Blade Exemplar from the bloodstone trap, you need to activating or deactivating all the runes by hitting them with a bloodstone shard. Kill Justicar Araya and retrieve the aspect of Lazarus.Destroy the last shard and its guardians.Protect the Shining Blade exemplar while she unlocks the door.Destroy the first of the remaining shards.Free the Shining Blade exemplar from the bloodstone trap.Find a way out of the cavern below the hideout.Enter the cave that leads to the White Mantle Hideout.Find the entrance to the White Mantle hideout in Brisban Wildlands.Rendevous with the Shining Blade exemplar.Begin the search for Balthazar in the Divinity's Reach palace temple.

Gw2 the shining blade guide