Tequatl boss achievements guide

GW2 Tequatl boss achievements guide showing you how to get all 10 achievements for Tequatl under Bosses category.

Meta achievement: Tequatl the Sunless – 50 pts

Complete all 10 of the follow achievements
Reward: Title – The Sunbringer

Achievements obtainable without a Tequatl kill

These achievements can be obtained without having to kill Tequatl

Stay Dry, Stay Alive – HIDDEN ACHIEVEMENT

This is a hidden achievement, you cannot see it under your achievement window. You must fail the Battery & Megalaser event to cause a massive Tidal Wave to wash over the entire shore. You must avoid this tidal wave by using the jump pads that are used to get to the batteries etc.(Screenshot courtesy of Ella).

Recommended that you do this in an overflow that is going to fail the Tequatl fight anyways.
This achievement does not count towards the meta.

I Found it! – 5 pts

When you get Tequatl down to 75%, he will start summoning vortexes. If you get sucked into one of them, swim down and pretty soon in the dark water you will spot a Sunken Treasure. Make sure you have a heal or someone to revive you as you will take constant damage while under water.

Above the Waves – 10 pts

Jump over Tequatl’s shock wave 10 times. Shockwaves are created whenever Tequatl stomps his feet on the ground. You will need to time your jump and jump before the shockwave hits you. Sometimes you can get 2 jumps out of a wave. Failure to jump or dodge over a shockwave can down you if your HP is too low.

Have a Seat and Pull the Trigger – 1 pt

All you need to do is to get on a turret, you don’t even need to use it. This also works even if Tequatl event is not active.

Burning Light – 5 pts

Fire the Megalaser at full strength
Once Tequatl is down to 75% and you get to the event where you need to defend the Megalaser and the West, North, and East batteries, you must ensure that no batteries are dead to get this achievement.

Tail Flail – 5 pts

Dodge Tequatl’s tail sweep – stand at Tequatl’s tail and just try to dodge his swipe. May take you a couple of tries (pic provided by Choppos)
Tail sweep seems to occur same time as when Tequatl stomps to create his shockwaves – try time your dodge as the shockwave or shortly afterwards. Can also try swim in the water behind the tail and you may get it.
Another animation you can watch for is when Tequatl’s butt goes forward a bit and then he shakes his butt. You can try dodge right away after that.

Flawless Defense – 10 pts

Defeat Tequatl without allowing any of the hylek turrets to be destroyed (this achievement may trigger even if Tequatl is not killed as long as you make it past the timer with all six turrets intact from the beginning).
There are six turrets overall, make sure all six are alive. You can pick up repair hammers from boxes nearby and repair them before they are destroyed.

Achievements requiring a Tequatl kill

These achievements can be obtained only if Tequatl is successfully killed.

Slaughter in the Swamp – 15 pts

Kill Tequatl

Watch Your Step! – 5 pts

Don’t get caught in any bloated creeper explosions

Quick on Your Feet – 5 pts

Watch the ground carefully past 75% and if you see a water whirlpool forming on your feet, run or dodge out of it. Alternatively, you can probably stay away froim Tequatl (i.e. doing turrets) and be safe from it.

Power Play – 5 pts

Make sure all 3 batteries stay alive during the defend the Megalaser & batteries event and kill Tequatl in the same attempt. Apparently you need to personally visit one battery at the 75% phase, another different battery at 50% and the third battery at the 25% phase. Once Tequatl is killed you will get the achievement.

Archived Disqus comments

CatSlayerCalli

Heads up: I (and the map) got Flawless Defense when we failed at the 3rd megalaser. We had protected all 6 turrets through the battle.\ Probably a bug, but it’s triggering.
- Soup
  
  Blackgate? I was there for that and also received the achievement.
  - CatSlayerCalli
    
    Yep, BG. \^\^
- Dulfy
  
  Okay ty I made a mention of it. 3rd megalaser is past the 25% phase right?
  - CatSlayerCalli
    
    At 25% hp is the 3rd laser, where we failed. (Actually, north battery died with 0 secs left ><.)\ From what I hear, it doesn't matter when you fail though, as long as they all stayed up. (I can't confirm the fail whenever thing though.)
    - Guy
      
      Interesting bug we found on riverside randomly: We managed to run out of time exactly when the timer stopped for the battery. So we could still do the battery event(tequatl was gone)BUT the next time the timer stayed at full till we fired the laser for the first time.
      - Spacy
        
        same thing happened two times on auguryrock , 15m free off dps\ i heard of another one where they gain 7minute before the timer begun
L CH F

minutes ago TKS guild did it on vabbi server
Akari Ryuu

Tail Fail you basically stand behind tequatl and try to dodge. The animation is hard to predict… but keep trying eventually you’ll get it at least I did. http://i.imgur.com/4TUUmMp.png
- Choppos
  
  stand here
  - Dulfy
    
    Cool ty for the pics 🙂
- Nerevan
  
  The flail always appeares, when tequatl stomps to create his shockwaves. Try to dodge the moment he casts the wave or shortly afterwards. You also only need to dodge his tail attack once. The achievement needs a moment to appeare, but you should get it shortly after the dodge. Since he casts both attacks (tail whip and shockwave) at the same time, the achievement loades after the shockwavecast has ended.
Guest

Can you please remove the suggestion to guest to other servers? There are so many AFK guesters on BG that the locals that haven’t completed it yet can’t even get in.
- Damian
  
  Pretty much this.
  
  Most of the people on BG who’ve done it already have taken to jumping around to smaller servers en masse to let the guests try and do it on BG alone. 😉
- Dulfy
  
  I am not seeing the issue here, not everyone is playing on a server with big enough population or skilled enough players to tackle Tequatl. If your server can’t do it, then there are options.
  
  The fact that Blackgate has alot of guests has nothing to do with what I posted. There are other servers who beat it as well. Blackgate beat it first and it was all over the news so it attracts people.
  - Cheatersneverprosper
    
    If that were and continued to be the case Dulfy, my suggestion would be to reach out to the other servers and request assistance from guilds to work with them and teach them how to be better players while at the same time promoting teamwork and communication. Shocking, I know…
    
    Your suggestion is selfish, demoralizes and destabilizes the players’ home server and the game in general, all while having the potential to grief other servers local player base.
    
    One requires more effort than the other, but which is in the best interest of everyone involved?
    - Dulfy
      
      Fair enough, you do have a point. I will remove that suggestion
      - Vic
        
        thank you, from all of BG, thank you.
- CatSlayerCalli
  
  I must agree as well. BG has almost no chance of doing it now, because at times over half the map is AFK. Us real BG people have abandoned the server for this event.
  
  And while I do agree that because BG was first that will attract a lot of people, your guide isn’t exactly helping.
Guest

Important note for Power Play – you need to PERSONALLY visit all the four batteries AND Megalaser during the fight. Just them staying alive isn’t enough – not sure if bug or feature.
- Dulfy
  
  Cool thanks for this 🙂
catman

I got Tail Flail achievement as I got feared into the water behind Teq. Not sure if that helps but people could try swimming around in the water behind the tail.
wisnu

flawless defense dont have to kill the teq i just got it, u can get it without killing teq
- Dulfy
  
  You got it past 25% right?
  - Yujiko
    
    I got the Flawless Defense on an overflow server that never got Tequatl below 90% HP, although that was on Tuesday, they might have changed that since
    - Animaniak
      
      Can anyone confirm if this is still working.\ If your on an unorganized overflow, the server could still manage to work towards this achievement without caring about Tequatl – if it’s true..
      - Azendas
        
        It still works, we didn’t manage to get Teq at 50% but we were able to defend the 6 turrets and we got the achievement.
  - wisnu
    
    yeah i think i t was really close but failed
  - Arenion
    
    Still works,you can do it above 90% even.
Jakdelery

Quick question: Are these boss changes permanent? or they will change back after 2 weeks
- Dulfy
  
  Permanent
  - Sieghart
    
    Is it also safe to assume that all achievements associated with Tequatl are also permanent? (I’m referring to the Tequatl Achievement, not Boss Week.)
    - Shifted
      
      I sure hope so. After getting kicked every second attempt at the boss I’m fed up with this bullshit. Not gonna touch it for a month now after I’ve got Boss Week finished.
      
      Would be nice to get an “official” confirmation though.
    - Dulfy
      
      Yes I would guess so since they are under Tequatl and not Living World. Only Living World stuff is generally temporary
Pizzadude

Flawless Defense , once a turret died and we fixed it, is that count as fail?
The Spirit Molecule

Flawless Defense was fixed.
Domi Lovez Sverige

Watch Your Step!-Achievment: What does it mean? I tried it a couple of times before. I dodged every red circle on the ground, but didnt get the achievment yet. Any tipps pls. Ty
- Thanathos
  
  You need to avoid any AoE from the creeper explosions, not just one. That means, you can only get the achievement by killing Tequatl.
  - Domi Lovez Sverige
    
    Ty got my Sunbringer title 😉
RyuDragnier

Warning Dulfy, for Quick on Your Feet, you CAN get pulled off a turret into it. It happened to me during one of the overflow Tequatl attempts.
Issac

Flawless Defense, once a turret got destroyed, this achievement is gone right?
Ko

Power Play may be a bit more than simply running around, I made sure to hit up every battery and the laser, not only this but I did that all 3 phases (75%, 50%, and 25%) and when Tequatl went done I still failed to receive the achievement….
- Dulfy
  
  Did you try hitting say only west in 75% phase, north in 50% phase and then east in 25% phase and kill Tequatl in the same attempt?
  - Neyare
    
    I used this strategy on my server’s kill last night and received credit for the achievement. Didn’t do defense on the megalaser, and the achievement does not list megalaser as necessary, so I would say it’s just the three batteries.
- Ko
  
  No, I’ll try this in the next attempt, I just only hope we manage to beat it again 🙁
  - henry
    
    You need to get the event completion medal. Sometimes just staying for 10 seconds isn’t enough
    - Ko
      
      Do you need to get the completion medal for defending the Laser as well as the 3 batteries or just the 3 batteries?
- hjd
  
  i believe you need to get credit for doing each of the 4 events throughout the fight. For instance how I got it:
  
  spend half of time at west and the other half at north and got two gold event credits on the first laser phase
  
  spend half of the time at east and half at laser to get 2 gold event credits on the next phase.
  
  I didn’t do the turrets on the 3rd laser phase since I had a phone call, but when teq died I got the achievement
- DanFariasM
  
  I went on 75% to west and then north, got credit for kills on both…\ then on 50% went east and had credit for a couple kills… finally on\ 25% went to laser… also got kill credit there… and when teq died got\ the achievement =D
Olvendred

I tried dodging for Tail Flail for about 10 mins, with no luck. Then I used Mist Form, while standing in the right place, and got it. Idk if it works for all other invulns, too.
- Ares Zax
  
  I was standing behind Tequatl’s right rear leg, waiting for him to start his tail attack. Then he feared me with his breath, and as I was running away, I somehow got the achievement. Weird, but I’m not complaining. XD
- Kiba Shadowpaw
  
  got mine today, right as soon as the bone wall broke.. dont know if it was just luck or what.. hope it helps.
Yuna

Hi Dulfy, was just wondering what exactly drops the Tequatl only loot? The mini, breathers, ascended etc… Is it the big chest that spawns after you kill him, the dragon chests you get for damaging him to a certain percent or the daily bonus chest? Thanks!
- henry
  
  The mini, aquatic head, ascended chest and superior rune of sunless as far as i know.\ They all drop from the final dragon chest. The daily bonus chest for 25% only has one blue/green/yellow, karma and coin.
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