Emotes

An emote is a special type of text command entered in chat, that will make your character perform a certain action, most usually an animation that can be seen by all nearby players. These animations are particular to the Profession and gender you have chosen for your character. Therefore, a male Warrior for example will perform a different action after the /dance command than the female Warrior, and the Mesmer will always dance differently from the Elementalist.

Players can synchronise some emotes with other players by adding a space and an asterisk after the command. For example, typing "/dance *" starts players dancing at the next "beat". The beat is set by the game and goes off every 10 seconds. This function is often used with the /dance, /highfive and /goteam emotes.

This list contains emotes only, commands that have pure informational value and will not result in an animation are listed on the commands page.

All currently known emotes in Guild Wars are:


 * /afk (Same as /sit)*
 * /agree
 * /attention*
 * /beckon
 * /beg
 * /boo
 * /bored
 * /bow
 * /bowhead
 * /breath
 * /cheer
 * /catchbreath (Same as /breath)
 * /clap
 * /congrats
 * /cough
 * /dance (Your character starts a specific dance depending on gender and profession.)*
 * /doh
 * /doubletake
 * /drums *
 * /excited *
 * /fame (Your character does its rank based emote; you must have rank 3 or higher to use this command.)
 * /fistshake
 * /flex
 * /flute (Your character pretends to play the flute; for the male Elementalist, the emote is in the one-legged style of Ian Anderson.)*
 * /goteam
 * /guitar *
 * /help
 * /head (Same as /bowhead)*
 * /highfive
 * /jump
 * /kneel (Kneeling before a god's statue will summon an avatar of the god if your territory has Favor. In this way, kneel is unique - it is the only Emote which is known to have a meaningful in-game effect.)
 * /laugh
 * /moan
 * /no
 * /paper (Your character goes through the motion of playing rock-paper-scissor and ends with the paper selection.)
 * /pickme
 * /point
 * /ponder
 * /pout
 * /rank (Your characters does its rank based emote; you must have rank 3 or higher to use this command.)
 * /ready
 * /roar
 * /rock (Your character goes through the motion of playing rock-paper-scissor and ends with the rock selection.)
 * /roll  (rolls an n-sided die, only works outside of towns and outposts)
 * /rude (Same as /taunt)*
 * /salute
 * /scare
 * /scissors (Your character goes through the motion of playing rock-paper-scissor and ends with the scissors selection.)
 * /scratch
 * /shoo
 * /sigh
 * /sit *
 * /sorry
 * /stand (only works when sitting, and alternatively, the Esc key can be used)
 * /taunt
 * /violin *
 * /wave
 * /yawn
 * /yes

* These loop and the character will continue to perform the emote until another one is entered or the character moves.