Combat

Combat in Guild Wars affects many things.

"In Combat"
The game tracks whether or not you are "in combat". You are considered entering combat when you attack an enemy. You stop being in combat about 15 seconds after your last attck. There is no consistent visual indicator within the game showing whether or not you are in combat, although your avatar does assume a hunched up alert pose with more labored breathing as the default pose. Any other animation will override this pose, however. For example, you can be dancing while under attack and the game will still consider you "in combat" if your last attack was less than 15 seconds ago.

In particular, you cannot do the following things while in combat:
 * Identify items.
 * Salvage items.

Natural health regeneration is not directly related to being in or out of combat. See health regeneration for more information.

Related Concepts

 * Attack
 * Experience
 * Target