Guild Wars Glossary of Terms

This is the Guild Wars Dictionary it is designed to help people find out about sayings, words, or phrases used on Guild Wars and what they mean. If you find any more words or phrases i missed please put them on the talk page. It is not done yet but eventually will turn out great, right now it's just starting.

A

 * Ascension: Ascending in the crystal desert to change proffesions or gain access to the Fissure of Woe (FoW) or Underworld (UW).

F

 * FOW: Fissure of Woe, An explorable Area available in ToA, Zin Ku Corridor, and Chantry of Secrets to get armor from the Forge Master or Farm the enemies for money and drops.

G

 * Gold: The money used to trade or buy in Guild Wars.

H

 * HA: Hero's Ascent, a PvP arena where you can battle other players around the world for the Hero Title.
 * Hero:(1) A party member like and unlike a henchmen that a player can controll. (2) A title for mainly PvP players that you can obtain from winning battles in HA.

I
Iway: I Will Avenge You, A Guild Wars Warrior skill mainly used in PvP.

K

 * K: 1,000 GP or Gold Pieces. WTB (A certain Item) for 8k

T

 * Tank: A Warrior, Ritualist, or Elementalist designed to either deal maasive damage close up and sometimes from a range, or take all of the enemies and have them attack you while taking no damge leaving your party to deal all of the damage un-harmed.
 * ToA: An outpost in Kryta, Prophecies where players can recieve quests or finsh quests with eight party members, and it's mainly used for to farm or complete the UW or FoW.
 * Title: A reward or goal obtained from exploring contanents, killing things while under a bounty, ext. See This for a list of Titles.

U

 * UW: Underworld, An explorable area available in ToA, Zin Ku Korridor, and The Chantry of Secrets to farm for money and drops, get spiders (pet), or just complete it.

X

 * WTB: Want to buy, a Guild Wars Player wanting to buy an item. Ex- WTB Totem Axe for (a certain price)
 * WTS: Want to sell, a Guild Wars Player wanting to sell an item. Ex- WTS Shiro's Sword for (a certain price)
 * WTT: (1) Want to trade, a Guild Wars Player wanting to trade an item for another. Ex-WTT Ecto for Onyx Gemstone. (2) Can be used as another way to say WTS. Ex- WTT Ecto for 5k.