The Battle Isles

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The Battle Isles
Campaign	Core
Continent	The Battle Isles
Town	Great Temple of Balthazar
Neighbor(s)	None
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The Battle Isles revealed

The Battle Isles is the home of the Zaishen Order, and a sacred place for those who practice the art of war.

All "high level" PvP arenas for the Prophecies Campaign (Chapter One), Factions Campaign (Chapter Two), and Nightfall Campaign (Chapter three) are concentrated on the Battle Isles. This is the place where players from all three chapters can meet, team up and compete against each other.

[edit] Getting there

PvP characters are created directly in the Great Temple of Balthazar, the only town on these islands, and they cannot leave the Battle Isles.

Role-playing characters must reach a port (and sometimes solve a quest) in their campaign to have the ability to travel from one continent to another (like the Battle Isles).

Ports are located at the following locations:

Prophecies Campaign (Tyria) near Lion's Arch

Factions Campaign (Cantha) near Kaineng Center

Nightfall Campaign (Elona) near Kamadan, Jewel of Istan

To map travel to the Battle Isles a player must click on the ship symbol on the World Map near the harbor on his/her map.

If the player is a member of a Guild, The Battle Isles will share the same main map as the players Guild Hall. However, The Battle Isles will will not be displayed on the map untill "uncovered" by doing the above mentioned quests; and so is NOT a shortcut to getting here.""

[edit] Locations

→Guild Hall (only available if the player is member of a guild)

→Great Temple of Balthazar

Isle of the Nameless (explorable area)

→Training Arena (talk to the Master of Paths near the exit to the Great Temple of Balthazar to be transported there)

→Zaishen Challenge (unlocked after completing all training sessions in the Training Arena)

→Zaishen Elite (unlocked after winning vs. 5 (out of 6) different computer AI teams in the Zaishen Challenge)

→Random Arenas (unlocked after talking to the Canthan Ferry Captain)

→Team Arenas (unlocked after winning 5-in-a-row matched in Random Arenas)

→Heroes' Ascent (unlocked after winning a total of 5 matches in the Team Arenas)

→ Hall of Heroes

→Hero Battle (Unlocked after unlocking at least 3 Heroes onto your account, which requires the Nightfall Campaign or the Eye of the North Expansion)

[edit] Trivia

For Guild Wars Prophecies players the "low level" Ascalon Arena and Shiverpeak Arena remained open when the Battle Isles became accessible, but the Competition Arena (at Lion's Arch), the Team Arena (at Droknar's Forge) and the Tomb of the Primeval Kings were closed down.

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Core regions
The Battle Isles | The Mists
Prophecies • Factions • Nightfall • Eye of the North