Cape

Capes are acquired by joining a guild that has one, or buying one from the Guild Emblemer if you are a guild leader, which costs. Capes bear the symbol of your guild, and you are required to have one to buy a guild hall. Only guild leaders can change the cape of a guild, but every member has the ability to preview a cape design on the Guild Emblemer pane.

The guild cape is worn on all of your characters on your account. Much like your character's headgear, you may set it to be visible only in towns, only in combat areas, both,or not at all (via the Inventory screen). However, you are required to wear it in PvP combat to represent your guild. The cape's color scheme alters in PvP depending on the team color - blue, red or yellow - but the emblem remains unchanged. If you join PvP battle without being in a guild, you will temporarily get a blank cape without an emblem for every battle. This kind of cape doesn't appear in your inventory and disappears after the battle ends, or when you leave the battle.

Cape trim
The cape trim is the outer edge of the cape, the shape of trim can be changed but the color can be changed only through special tournaments. There are nine possible trim designs from which to choose.

Gold, Silver and Bronze cape trims are awarded to guilds that place well in worldwide Guild Battle (GvG) tournaments. Five such championships have occurred:
 * Guild Wars World Championship
 * Guild Wars Factions Championship
 * Winterfest Tournament 2006
 * Celestial Tournament
 * Monthly Championship Tournaments

These cape trims used to be awarded to top finishing guilds at the end of each ladder season.

Position color:
 * The winning players of a season ladder will have their trim changed to gold permanently.
 * Players in guilds from 2nd to 16th place will have their trim changed to silver until the end of the next announced season.
 * Players in guilds from 17th to 32nd place will have their trim changed to bronze until the end of the next announced season.

Trivia

 * Excluding color, there are 50,112 different ways to design a cape.
 * On the Eternal Shield are two of the symbols that can be chosen for a guild cape.