Heroes' Ascent

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This is a location entry. For information on the outpost, see Heroes' Ascent (outpost).

Heroes' Ascent
Campaign	Core
Region	The Battle Isles
Type	Cooperative
Party size	8
Duration	Long
Preceded by	Team Arenas
Followed by	n/a

Heroes' Ascent, also known as HA, is a continuous global tournament between teams of 8 players from all over the world. Teams compete in several arenas in sequence before finally meeting in the Hall of Heroes, where they may win valuable loot.

Every victory in the Heroes' Ascent (except the Elite Zaishen Battle) awards Fame to the victorious team, which may be used to compute the Hero title track of the player.

Heroes' Ascent is also sometimes known as"'Tombs" or "tombing". This refers to the original location of the tournament, which was the Tomb of Primeval Kings prior to the update which implemented Heroes' Ascent.

To get to Heroes' Ascent, start in the Random Arenas. Win there 5 times in a row, to unlock Team Arenas. Then win in the Team Arenas 5 times (it doesn't have to be in a row), which will unlock Heroes' Ascent. Once a character has unlocked Heroes' Ascent, it is unlocked for every character on the account.

[edit] Arenas

The Hall of Heroes has 10 Arenas and 1 waiting area:

1. The Elite Zaishen Battle
2. The Underworld
3. Fetid River
4. Burial Mounds
5. Unholy Temples
6. Forgotten Shrines
7. Golden Gates
8. The Courtyard
9. The Antechamber
10. The Vault
11. The Hall of Heroes

Additionally, the following maps are currently out of rotation:

• Broken Tower
• Sacred Temples
• Scarred Earth

[edit] Trivia

• You may bring up to two Heroes/Henchmen into this mission.
• Burial Mounds and Scarred Earth used to host 6 teams of 8 players each, for a total of 48 players, making those areas the most populated non-town instances in Guild Wars history.
• The global tournament used to be located in the Crystal Desert at the Tomb of the Primeval Kings ("tombs"). The Tombs were renamed to Heroes' Ascent and moved to the new Battle Isles during the Factions PvP Preview Event.
• The party size changed several times: In the October 5th 2006 update it was set to 6 players and reverted on Friday, March 29, 2007 game update to 8 players again.

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	Locations in the Battle Isles
Towns and outposts:	Great Temple of Balthazar • Guild hall
Cooperative missions:	Zaishen Challenge (Outpost) • Zaishen Elite
Arenas:	Random Arenas (Outpost) • Team Arenas (Outpost) • Heroes' Ascent (Outpost) • Hero Battles (Outpost)
Festival outposts:	Costume Brawl (Halloween) • Dragon Arena (Shing Jea Boardwalk) • Rollerbeetle Racing (Shing Jea Boardwalk)
Explorable areas:	Isle of the Nameless
Landmarks:	Forbidden Path