Location

A location is a broad and generic term used by this wiki to describe a named place or area within the Guild Wars world.

Types of location

On the whole, the term location is synonymous to the term Zone, although it can be used in a broader sense. For example, a Landmark is not strictly a Zone as they are located within a Zone, but can be considered a location as it is a named place.

Taxonomy

An idented item is an item of the type it is indented under; it follows that everything listed is a location.

The list order is (roughly) small to large.

• Location
  • Landmark — usually located within a zone, usually not named on the map
    • Vortex (?)
  • Zone — displays a loading screen when you enter
    • Staging area — has districts, does not allow combat
      • Outpost
        • Alliance Battle outpost — allows access to an Alliance Battle
        • Mission outpost — allows access to a mission
      • Town
        • Port — has access to intercontinental travel
      • Guild Hall
    • Explorable area — has instances, allows combat
      • Dungeon
        • Elite Dungeon
      • Mini-mission
      • Mission / Mission explorable
        • Challenge Mission
        • Elite Mission
      • Arena
        • Challenge
  • Region — usually encompasses several zones
  • Continent — made of regions, corresponds to one or more campaign
  • World — Tyria

Notes

• Command Post is an explorable area that does not allow combat, because there are no enemies.
• Fortress of Jahai is a landmark named on the World Map.
• Ascalon City and D'Alessio Seaboard have combat, but the player can't participate.
• The staging areas in pre-searing Ascalon have no henchmen and no Xunlai.
• When in town, double-click to eat means you can use that consumable in any staging area.

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Lists of locations

• The following pages list locations according to the campaign they belong to:
  • Core locations common to all campaigns.
  • Prophecies campaign locations.
  • Factions campaign locations.
  • Nightfall campaign locations.
  • Eye of the North expansion locations.

• Locations (by Type)

• sortable location table