Skill challenge

A skill challenge is a task that, when completed, rewards characters with a skill point.

Completing all of an area's skill challenges is one of the four requirements to earning the corresponding explorer achievement. You will also gain 1 point towards your Skillful achievement track.

Types

There are several types of Skill Challenges:

• Direct combat — defeat a single foe (usually an initially friendly one, who offers the challenge).
• Horde combat — battle a veteran and several weaker enemies; usually summoned by activating an object.
• Item challenges — an interactive object will give an item that can be consumed to receive a skill point; often located in hard to reach areas.
• Communing with a place of power.

Communing

Communing is the act of binding with, or gaining unique and powerful knowledge from, an object or "place of power", which is a place emanating magical power, such as sacred objects or areas of certain tribes, or possessing historical significance in Guild Wars lore. Places of power are frequently guarded by a Veteran enemy, which does not have to be defeated, but which can interfere and interrupt the channeling process, which requires a certain time to complete to gain the skill point.

List of skill challenges

• List of skill challenges in Ascalon
• List of skill challenges in Kryta
• List of skill challenges in the Maguuma Jungle
• List of skill challenges in Ruins of Orr
• List of skill challenges in the Shiverpeak Mountains

Skill challenges in World vs World

Location	Area	Level	Skill challenge
Eboneigh Territory	Green Borderlands	---	Consume Centaur Feed
Hero's Lodge	Green Borderlands	80	Defeat the Spider Queen
Neuskrittia	Green Borderlands	---	Commune with the Skritt Shiny
Blackwicker Territory	Red Borderlands	80	Defeat the Centaur Chief
Chitaritta	Red Borderlands	---	Consume Skritt Stew
Victor's Lodge	Red Borderlands	---	Commune with Mysterious Energy
Brownmane Territory	Blue Borderlands	---	Commune with Centaur Totem
Champion's Demense	Blue Borderlands	---	Consume Spider Egg
Chitterogg	Blue Borderlands	80	Defeat the Skritt King
Darkrait Inlet	Eternal Battlegrounds	---	Commune with Krait Reliquary
Molevek Works	Eternal Battlegrounds	---	Commune with Dredge Furnace
Orgath Uplands	Eternal Battlegrounds	---	Commune with Harpy Nesting Grounds
Stonemist Castle	Eternal Battlegrounds	---	Commune with Heart of Stone

Map icons

Uncompleted.

Completed.

Notes

Anomaly. In the text boxes for the various skill challenges throughout the map, there are differing icons to start the "communing" ones: a green check mark, a green arrow, or sometimes the crossed swords icon indicating the beginning of a fight with that particular NPC.

Trivia

• At one point during development, there were skill challenges in major cities such as Rata Sum.
• There were 183 skill challenges during the first Beta Weekend Event, 176 during the second, 187 during the third, and 199 skill challenges during the August 2nd stress test.
• As of the August 9th Stress Test there were 201 Skill Challenges.
• As of the August 15th Stress Test there were 203 Skill Challenges.
• As of launch day, 28th August 2012, there were 202 Skill Challenges.

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Lists of skill challenges

Ascalon

Blazeridge Steppes • Diessa Plateau • Fields of Ruin • Fireheart Rise • Iron Marches • Plains of Ashford

Kryta

Bloodtide Coast • Gendarran Fields • Harathi Hinterlands • Kessex Hills • Queensdale

Maguuma Jungle

Brisban Wildlands • Caledon Forest • Metrica Province • Mount Maelstrom • Sparkfly Fen

Ruins of Orr

Cursed Shore • Malchor's Leap • Straits of Devastation

Shiverpeak Mountains

Dredgehaunt Cliffs • Frostgorge Sound • Lornar's Pass • Snowden Drifts • Timberline Falls • Wayfarer Foothills