Town

Cities, Outposts and Mission Locations In GuildWars Cities, Outposts and Mission Locations&mdash;as opposed to explorable areas&mdash;are enclosed locations that serve as a starting point for quests, missions or for exploring open areas. They also offer services for players that allow them to purchase/enhance equipment and meet and interact with other players.

Inside these enclosed locations you can meet other human players to team up as a party. Whenever you leave these enclosed locations, the GW server starts a new instance of the zone outside. This means only you and your party will be there, along with computer-controlled foes and NPCs. Any other human party entering the same zone will be playing in a separate copy of that zone.

You can quickly return to a City, Outpost or Mission Location by using map travel. All cities, outposts and mission locations offer the services of henchmen to help bolster your party.

For a complete list of all Cities, Outposts and Mission Locations see the location list (which also include all arenas and explorable areas).

Cities
<-- You can tell if a location is a City by the city icon on your World Map (key "M").

Cities, unlike Outposts or Mission Locations usually provide the full set of infrastructure:
 * Henchmen
 * Xunlai Agent (Storage)
 * Merchant
 * an Arena
 * various Traders and Crafters:
 * Armor Crafter
 * Weapon Crafter
 * Rune Trader
 * Material Trader
 * Rare Material Trader
 * Scroll trader
 * Guild Registrar
 * Skill trainer
 * Collector(s)

Some cities have road signs marking sections of the city where NPCs offering similar services gather together.

For a list of cities, see City Locations

Outposts
<-- You can tell if a location is an outpost by the outpost icon on your World Map (key "M").

An Outpost is smaller than a city, and does not offer the full set of infrastructure. Usually you'll only find a merchant, a Xunlai Agent, often a skill trainer and sometimes a Trader or Collector. Unlike mission locations (below), outposts will always offer something extra beyond the basic merchant and agent. It could be a trainer or a quest giving NPC or something else.

For a list of outposts, see Outpost Locations

Mission Location
<-- You can tell if a location is an Mission Location by the Mission icon on your World Map (key "M"). ''

(Note that depending on whether you have completed the mission and/or mission bonus the shield will show up with 2, 1 or no swords.'')

A Mission Location does not offer any services beyond the basic services of a merchant, a Xunlai Agent and an NPC who provides the mission details. Only in mission locations will the Party List have the button Enter Mission.

For a full list of mission locations in the game, see Mission Locations.