Town

Towns, unlike outposts or mission locations, are staging areas on the map that usually provide the full set of NPC services:
 * Collectors
 * Crafters and Vendors:
 * Armor Crafter
 * Weaponsmith
 * Rune Trader
 * Material Trader
 * Rare Material Trader
 * Rare Scroll Trader
 * Guild Emblemer
 * Guild Registrar
 * Henchmen
 * Merchant
 * Skill trainer
 * Xunlai Agent (Storage)

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

There is generally one Town per Region, and is often, but not always, the capital or largest city. Note that some regions do not have any town, like The Desolation and Ring of Fire Islands, and one region, the Far Shiverpeaks, has two.

Note that the term town is also used as a term to refer to towns, outposts, and mission locations.

Towns are annotated on the continental map (default key "M") using different icons in different campaigns: