Auric Basin Mastery Insights and Strongboxes Guide (2024)

GW2 Auric Basin Mastery Insights and Strongboxes Guide.Special thanks toVersepelles for the help in creating the guide.

There are 8 Mastery Insight points granting 8 Mastery Points and 8 AP intotal. Additionally, there are 5 strongboxes granting a total of 5Mastery points and 10 APs for a total of 13 Mastery points and 18 APs.

Mastery Insights

Auric Basin Insight: Mask of the Fallen

From Wanderer’s Waypoint, glide south but don’t decrease your altitudetoo much. Your goal is to be just high enough to glide to the Quetzalcamp north of the Exalted city so you will need to stop at some treebranches in between to recharge your endurance. Once you are there, runto the wall with the mastery point and jump on the ledges.

• Mastery req: Basic Gliding

Auric Basin Insight: Lastgear Standing

Begin at Westwatch waypoint. Run south through a valley of pocketraptors, then jump on a bounce mushroom which will send you directly tothe mastery insight.

• Masteries req: Bouncing Mushrooms

Auric Basin Insight: The Falls

Begin at Southwatch Creep waypoint. Run west past some mushroom chargersand Mordrem, then turn north through a cave with some pocket raptors.Through the cave is an open area with a prominent protruding rock. Glideoff the rock directly into the waterfall.

• Masteries req: Basic Gliding

Auric Basin Insight: Jawatl Grounds

Begin at Chak Hollow waypoint. Run west up the logs surrounding theMordrem camp. Through the large hollow log, jump to the northeast andimmediately glide into the updraft. Turn to the west, and follow theupdrafts to the insight.

• Masteries req: Updraft

Auric Basin Insight: Southwatch Creep

Begin at Southwatch Waypoint. Travel west through some mushroom chargersand Mordrem. Hop up the mushroom, then glide back north then east,following the updrafts.

• Masteries req: Updraft, Bouncing Mushrooms

Auric Basin Insight: Eastwatch Bluff

Start at Eastwatch waypoint. Travel south towards the exalted pylon.Near the pylon are two mushrooms which lead to the insight point, but ifthe pylon is inactive, there may be many Mordrem guarding the area.

• Masteries req: Bouncing Mushrooms

Auric Basin Insight: Burnisher Quarry

Use either Nuhoch Wallows or Leyline gliding to get to the BurnisherQuarry area and then head south via the caverns there to a pit filledwith poison. You will need Itzel Poison Lore to be able to survive longenough for a channel. The poison will interrupt your channel so even ifyou can survive for a few seconds, you won’t be able to channel it.

• Masteries req: Nuhoch Wallows/Leyline Gliding and Itzel Poison Lore

Auric Basin Insight: Luminate’s Throne

From westgate, take a left into the wall with bunch of pillars. You willfind bouncing mushrooms on the north side of the hall you can use to getup to this area. The mastery point is at the end.

• Masteries req: Bouncing Mushrooms

Strongboxes

Straight and Narrow Strongbox

Begin at Wanderer’s waypoint. Travel southeast to a bounce mushroomwhich leads to a number of exalted portals in a tree. Jump off the eastedge and glide to the mastery point.

• Mastery Req: Basic Gliding, Bouncing Mushroms

Endurance Strongbox

Run west from Southwatch waypoint to the “Fungus among us” activity (itis up a tree you have to climb). Travel up the activity path into thecave. The strongbox is at the top of the cave so you will need to dosome jumping to get to it.

• Masteries req: none

Slice of Sky Strongbox

Run south from Westwatch Waypoint and take the bouncing mushroom at thebend near Lastgear standing. This will put you up to a platform and youcan glide to the strongbox.

• Masteries req: Basic Gliding, Bouncing Mushrooms

Vengeance Rising Strongbox

From Eastwarch waypoint, head to the waterfall and drop down to thewater below. You will find path to a cave to your left that leads to astrongbox. A veteran mob spawns when you enter the cave but you canbypass it stealth if you do not wish to fight it.

• Masteries req: none

Obsidian Triumph Strongbox

Run south from Eastwatch waypoint to the exalted Pylon Area. You caneither use the bouncing mushrooms or the pile rocks to get up the ledgeand head to the strongbox.

• Masteries req: none

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Versepelles for the building the guide and providingit with images, writeups and videos.