Guild challenges (Brotherhood)

Guild Challenges were tasks that were made available in Rome to the Assassin Ezio Auditore, on the renovation of a major faction building.

As challenges are completed, they give various benefits to Ezio; completing two challenges results in the cost of hiring followers being reduced by half, completing five challenges grants followers new skills (with the exception of mercenaries) and a guild crest, and on finishing all ten challenges, it grants the Assassin a new weapon that is accessible at the Tiber Island headquarters. The only exception in the guild challenges are the Assassin's Guild, which only grants a guild crest and a weapon with full completion.

Assassin's Guild

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• Signal 25 Assassin recruits during a fight.
• 15 Arrow Storms.
• Signal 20 Assassin recruits to kill a target.
• Signal 5 Assassin recruits within a core memory.
• Raise 5 recruits to the rank of Assassino.

Upon completing all five of these challenges, Ezio was awarded the Assassin's Guild crest, as well as Altaïr's sword at the Assassin hideout in Rome.

Mercenaries' Guild

• Send 10 Mercenary groups to attack guards.
• Destroy 5 scaffolds by throwing guards into them.
• Kill 25 Brutes.
• Kill 25 Papal guards.
• Kill 25 guards while on horseback.
• Air assassinate 10 guards while on horseback.
• 10 Double assassinations.
• Disarm and kill 5 guards with their own weapons.
• Kill 5 guards in 10 seconds.
• 10 streaks of at least 5 kills.

Upon completing all ten of these challenges, Ezio was awarded Bartolomeo's Axe at the Assassin hideout.

Note: "On horseback" means that the guards must be on horseback, not Ezio, and that guards who climb up onto a horse do not count.

Courtesans' Guild

• Send 10 Courtesan groups to distract guards.
• Evade 10 enemies using the crowd and other hide spots.
• Kill 20 enemies stationed at Guard Posts using the crossbow, without being detected.
• Commandeer 10 horses belonging to guards without killing the rider.
• Hide 5 dead bodies in wells or haystacks.
• Poison 15 guards.
• Kill 20 guards during a smoke bomb attack.
• Assassinate 10 guards from behind.
• Assassinate 5 guards from blend spots.

Upon completing all nine of these challenges, Ezio was awarded Maria's Dagger at the Assassin hideout.

Note: The challenge where Ezio must kill guards at Guard Posts means that they must be standing and folding their arms, and that Ezio must not be detected a short while after he kills them with the crossbow.

As these types of guards are disabled after the assassination of Octavian de Valois, replaying a memory might be required to complete this challenge.

Thieves' Guild

• Send 10 Thief groups to lure guards.
• Sprint 300 meters without being interrupted.
• Jump 20 times from a horse to a beam.
• Perform 40 Leaps of faith.
• Perform a dive from a height of 25 meters.
• Pickpocket 250 florins.
• Glide a cumulative total of 500 meters with the parachute.
• Kill 25 guards with a ranged weapon.
• Air assassinate 5 guards from a beam.

Upon completing all nine of these challenges, Ezio was awarded La Volpe's Bite at the Assassin hideout.

Rewards

Assassins

• Rank 5: No rewards.
• Rank 1: Guild Crest, Sword of Altaïr.

Mercenaries

• Rank 10: 50% discount on hiring Mercenary groups.
• Rank 5: Guild Crest.
  • Bodyguard - When a minstrel ran towards Ezio and got in his way, the mercenaries would push them out of the way until they would run away.
  • Rider dismount - When Ezio was being charged at by a guard on a horse, the mercenaries would trip up the animal, similar to the maneuver Ezio would perform when he countered them.
• Rank 1: Bartolomeo's Axe

Courtesans

• Rank 10: 50% discount on hiring Courtesan groups.
• Rank 5: Guild Crest.
  • Distract rider - When Ezio targeted a guard on a horse, he could order the courtesans with him to distract the guard, causing them to stop the horse, dismount and then act like a regular distracted guard.
  • Courtesan poison - When Ezio walked past some guards with a group of courtesans, two of them would break off regularly, though they would blow white powder into the guards' faces and walk away. following this, the guards would follow a short while before succumbing to the poison and reacting in a crazed manner.
• Rank 1: Maria's Dagger.

Thieves

• Rank 10: 50% discount on hiring Thief groups.
• Rank 5: Guild Crest.
  • Automatic steal - When Ezio walked through any crowd, the thief group he was with would pickpocket florins for him, in a similar manner to how he would perform the technique while walking fast.
  • Lure horseman - When Ezio targeted a guard who was on a horse and instructed the thief group with him to lure the guard away, the thieves would possibly pull the guard from his horse and then run away, with the guard following. In some instances, a thief may also steal their horse and ride off.
• Rank 1: La Volpe's Bite.

Tips

• Any progress made towards the guild challenges prior to renovating the major faction buildings will not count, so it is best that efforts to complete them are started after Memory sequence 3 for the Courtesan, Thief and Mercenary factions, and half-way through Memory sequence 4 for the Assassin Guild.
• To simplify the hiring challenges, you can keep renovating a faction building to make a corresponding group appear nearby. From there, you can choose a random guard to distract, lure or attack, and then head back, renovate once more and repeat.

Assassins

• A tactic to increase the speed of the recharge meter for the Arrow Storm is to send 6 Assassin recruits out on contract missions with similar time constraints, and then use the technique just before they're due to return.

Mercenaries

• Since assassination from the ground does not count towards progress on the Mercenary challenges specifying "on horseback," a good tactic is to either assassinate your targets from a horse (stealing theirs in the process) or to kill them with a crossbow.
• For the "kill 25 Papal guards" challenge, it would be best to look for the group of Papal guards that spawn at the entrance of the Vaticano district, or within the district itself, as Papal guards are found nowhere else in Rome outside of story missions.
• For the "10 Guards air assassinated while on horseback" challenge, an easy way to complete it is assassinate a guard on a horse while Ezio himself is riding a horse, as this counts as an air assassination.

Courtesans

• For the "kill 20 enemies stationed at Guard Posts" challenge, the memory "French Kiss" is the most useful, as there are multiple guard posts targeted. Additionally, loading the mission but not starting it (by avoiding the exclamation mark) allows you to use the respawn trick.

Thieves

thumb|300px|right|How to easily complete 40 Leaps of faith challenge.

• Using the Antico district area near to the Thieves Guild building is a good strategy for the "Sprint uninterrupted for 300 meters" challenge. To do this, finding an empty field and running around in a circle is an easy way to reach the 300 meters quota. Additionally, once the aqueducts are fully repaired, running along the water on the top of them is also a good way of completing this challenge, as sections of them are long and straight with no obstacles.
• Getting every View Point will take you more than half-way to the goal of "40 Leaps of faith," and using Leaps as an evasive maneuver should also get you the rest of the way.
• The "pickpocket 250 f" challenge can be completed in a single pickpocket, by having Ezio bribe a Herald with 500 f and then immediately stealing his money back.
• A good place to get "20 jumps from a horse to a beam" is near to the Tiber Island headquarters, as there is a bridge next to the hideout that has a beam stretching between two walls. Because of the open space, it iss easier and less stressful to complete the challenge. For attempts to count towards the challenge's quota, Ezio must spin around the beam once completely, before he lands on top of it.
  • It is also recommended to attempt the "20 jumps from a horse to a beam" in an area where there are two or more beams lined up. This way, you can save time after spinning around the beam by jumping forward onto the next one, before immediately leaping back onto your horse.
  • As well as this, it is important to remember to tap the A/Cross button while standing and galloping towards the beam, instead of holding onto it as Ezio first grabs on and begins his flip. If you hold the A/Cross button while Ezio flips around the beam, it will not count towards the guild challenge.
• You can complete "Use 10 thief groups to distract guards" with one thief group, by using them on guards stationed on rooftops.
• A good place for getting the "Glide a cumulative total of 500 meters with the parachute" is on the top of the Castel Sant'Angelo, where you can also get the "Fly Like An Eagle" achievement/trophy.
  • As well as this, you can also get this challenge by climbing to the top of the Tiber Island headquarters and parachuting down to the ground multiple times, which takes less time to climb and also has a Tailor nearby to replenish parachute stocks.
• You can complete the "Perform a dive from a height of 25 meters" from the View Point at the Tiber Island headquarters.

Trivia

• With the completion of 10 Guild challenges, the "Show Off" achievement/trophy is awarded.
• A glitch occurred when Ezio pickpocketed too many people at the same time, in regards to the "pickpocket 250 f" challenge, which caused him to have unknowingly exceeded the amount. This glitch has since been fixed.