Team

The Team your character is on determines how other players and NPCs may interact with your player.

PvE Teams

In PvE, there are 3 distinct Teams.

• Ally/Friendly - Denoted by a green health bar and name. (Players and friendly NPCs)
• Neutral - Denoted by a red health bar and yellow name. (NPCs)
• Aggressive/Hostile - Denoted by a red health bar and name. (Enemy NPCs)

NPCs have varying AI when it comes to how they interact with alternate teams. A wolf might focus a neutral deer, for example, or it may ignore it in favor of player characters.

Team Swapping

The player may encounter certain events that cause team swapping to occur. For example, while fighting Slothasor, eating a mushroom will transform the player into a slubling. As a slubling, any prior skills they had used now become hostile towards players and any player used skills may damage the slubling. Slothasor cannot harm the slubling.

Team Swapping is a rare occurrence, and is generally only seen in Raids.

Structured PvP Teams

In Structured PvP, a team refers to all the players allied to a group opposing other teams to achieve victory. While in a PvP match, players can converse with their team alone by using Team chat (/t or /team). Conversing with the enemy team must be done using traditional channels such as map or say chat. There are only 2 distinct teams, though NPCs follow a slight variation.

• Ally/Friendly - Denoted by a green health bar and name. Will only affect players and friendly NPCs (E.g. Stronghold)
• Aggressive/Hostile - Denoted by a red health bar and name. Will only affect players and enemy NPCs.
  • Svanir and Chieftain Utahein belong to a 3rd team where they are aggressive toward both player teams.

WvW Teams

For the primary article on matchmaking in WvW, see World versus World#Match-making and Server Linking.

In WvW, there are 2 types of teams fighting each other. There are 3 player teams determined by your server, and 3 NPC teams. Players can converse with teammates across various Borderlands maps by using Team Chat. They can also converse with teammates on the same map by using Map chat. Conversing with enemy players is disabled unless you use whisper chat or guild chat. Emotes are visible to all parties.

• Ally/Friendly - Denoted by a green health bar and name. (Players of the same team and NPCs)
• Neutral - Denoted by a red health bar and yellow name. (NPCs only)
• Aggressive/Hostile - Denoted by a red health bar and name. (Players on enemy teams and NPCs)
  • Certain side-objectives have mobs that are hostile to all sides, or that will swap teams once certain events are completed.

Team Placement

WvW Stats window displaying the 3 player teams' colors and scores.

Teams in WvW are denoted by 3 different colors, Red, Blue, and Green. The EBG map is designed to give the "underdog" (red team) a few advantages. Depending on how well your server did the previous week, your server will generally be placed following these guidelines:

1st place: Green Team - Green Borderlands becomes your home borderland and side in EBG

• Spawn is farthest from Stonemist Castle. Has a large, sprawling keep with linear pathways to defend.
• Has an Alpine Borderlands map for their homeworld.

2nd place: Blue Team - Blue Borderlands becomes your home borderland and side in EBG

• Spawn is a good distance from Stonemist Castle. Has a medium-sized keep with some natural defenses.
• Has an Alpine Borderlands map for their homeworld.

3rd place: Red Team - Red Borderlands becomes your home borderland and side in EBG

• Spawn is relatively close to Stonemist Castle. Has a small keep with curving pathways.
• Has the Desert Borderlands map for their homeworld.