Desert Borderlands
The Desert Borderlands are a collection of three Desert themed maps that surround the Eternal Battlegrounds in World versus World.
In the current rotation, only the Red Desert Borderlands are accessible (the Blue and Green maps use the Alpine themed borderlands). Players on the red team spawn at the Citadel towards the north of the map; players from the other two worlds spawn in either the south-east or south-west corners of the map.
Locations[edit]
While the three borderlands maps are physically identical, the locations on them have different names. The table below shows the different names for each location.
Currently, one of the four World versus World maps will be a Desert Borderland, and it will always be the home borderland of the red team. The Green and Blue Desert Borderlands are inaccessible to players.
- The Choya/Skritt and Wyvern territory were combined into the northeast and northwest tower areas at some point
Monuments[edit]
- Primary article: World versus World#Monuments
The Desert Borderlands features two kinds of monuments:
Monuments[edit]
Like the ones found in Alpine Borderlands, capturing three of five monuments in the center of the map provides your world with a stack of Borderlands Bloodlust within the four Mist War maps.
Shrines[edit]
The nine shrines are groups of 3 shrines that provide small advantages to players within the area of their respective keeps. When all 3 shrines tied to a keep are captured, players can travel faster between the 3 shrines by interacting with objects that will launch them in the air to the other shrines.
Players will earn a Blessing of Elements when they capture a shrine or interact with a captured shrine. While their world owns the corresponding keep, players gain effects depending on the number of shrines owned by the world.
- Activates jump pads and allow players to quickly climb cliffs
- Gain Windfall and immunity to falling damage while in the region
- Activates the fast travel launching devices.
- Activates lodestones that periodically give protection and stability to allies and cripple foes within their area of effect.
- Activates a sandstorm in the canyons.
- Activates the fast travel launching devices.
- Activates an altar that creates Inferno Eggs that grant the Inferno Hound transformation
- Grants immunity to burning and lava while in the region, allowing access to walk across lava and use Lava Portal, which lead to locations within the keep
- Activates the fast travel launching devices.
Events[edit]
Defeat the veteran warg (80)- Destroy the harpy veteran (80)
- Kill the veteran wurm (80)
Capture the camp (80)- Defend the camp (80)
Secure the keep (80)- Defend the keep (80)
Capture the tower (80)- Defend the tower (80)
Claim this land for your world (80)- Defend this land for your world (80)
Stop the enemy supply caravan (80)- Defend your supply caravan (80)
Capture the ruins for your realm! (80)- Defend the ruins for your realm! (80)
Services[edit]
- Starter area (Enemy Borderlands)
Arcane Eye Agent
Banker
Black Lion Trader
Guild Master
Heroics Notary
Instructor
Laurel Merchant
Legendary Commander War Razor- Outfitter
Siege Master
Skirmish Supervisor
Skritt Trader- TEID-07 Unified Vendor System
- Traps and Tricks
World Ability Master
- Keeps
- Garrison (Keep services plus)
- Towers
- Resource Camps
Ambient dialogue[edit]
- Soldier (1): Did you feel it, too, calling you here?
- Soldier (2): Feel...? No.
- Soldier (1): This frontier, the unknown, the wild–
- Soldier (2): Right now, all I feel is tired. I just got back from the front lines.
- Soldier (1): You have...young ones? Back home?
- Soldier (2): I did.
- Soldier (1): Is that why you’re here?
- Soldier (2): You could say that, yeah.
Crafting resources[edit]
- Resource Nodes
Lumber Synthesizer
Ore Synthesizer
Berry Synthesizer- Cloth Synthesizer
- Herb Synthesizer
- Leather Synthesizer
- Vegetable Synthesizer
Pets[edit]
- Juvenile Cave Spider - in a canyon east of Bauer Farmstead
- Juvenile Boar - east of a tent in Higgins's Ascent
- Juvenile Lynx - on the grassy rocks east of Hamm's Lab
- Juvenile Hyena - on top of Blistering Undercroft, north of the Veteran Wurm
- Juvenile Whiptail Devourer - on top of Blistering Undercroft in the southwest corner
- Juvenile Black Bear - by the waterfall pool west of O'del Academy
- Juvenile Warthog - on the cliff above the waterfall west of O'del Academy
- Juvenile Red Moa - northeast of O'del Academy, toward Citadel
- Juvenile Wolf - in a cave north of Boettiger's Hideaway
Gallery[edit]
- Screenshots
Air Keep
Earth Keep
Fire Keep
Lich Tower
Mage Tower
Farmstead Camp
- Promotional images
Air Shrine 1 Jump Pads
Air Shrine 2 Wind Turrets
Air Keep and Shrines
Earth Shrine 1 Rock Walls
Earth Shrine 2 Earth Turrets
Earth Shrine 3 Sandstorm
Fire Shrine 1 Inferno Hound
Fire Shrine 2 Fire Turrets
Fire Shrine 3 Fire Immunity
Notes[edit]
- There is no jumping puzzle.
- Yellow Catmander is located west of the northwest tower in a cave behind the waterfall.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Announcing the WvW Desert Borderlands Stress Tests
- Announcing the First World vs. World Borderlands Stress Test
- Essential Elements of the New Borderlands
- Preview on YouTube
- Presentation during EGX on YouTube
- Tour during Ready Up on YouTube
