Living Story Party Achievements
Yes you can do story achievements with a friend. Also if you’re at the same step as as friend you can do the story together and your progress will be saved.
Thank you so much for the information. I feel much better now.
You do have to do the story once through on each alt before that alt can do the achieves (some odd-man-out things in the Leyline Hub notwithstanding). Whoever triggers the story instance gets control of the dialogue options and item interactions as well. I heard a guildie saying she couldn’t read the flavor books in the Priory Library, for instance.
But as long as you click the “Progress” button at the end, you can get credit for an instance someone else started so long as you are sharing that story step. Make sure to ask your friend not to close the instance before you’ve progressed and gotten your rewards.
I can say all this with confidence as I’ve been taking an alt through Entanglement and the next chapter just today, helping a guildie who hasn’t done any of the LS, and it’s worked as described.
There are some intermediate steps you can’t skip. For example reading the mails you get or talking to specific NPCs in the open world.
You have to do that before you’re up to the next story to be at the same step as the person starting the story.
For example, when my wife got to the Silverwastes, she forgot to talk to the guy in Brisban to advance her story and even though she did the story with me, she didn’t advance…because she wasn’t up to that step. If she had stopped to speak to the guard she would have been.
Also if you don’t get the mail you need to get to progress, try zoning. The person who didn’t start it often doesn’t get the mail until they use a waypoint or switch servers.