Desert Borderlands

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Desert Borderlands map

The Desert Borderlands are three identical borderlands maps in World versus World, with each map belonging to one of the participating worlds. Players on their own borderland 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

Keeps

• Air Keep — large canyons guarded by a tengu
• Earth Keep — asuran ruins guarded by an earth-infused golem
• Fire Keep — underground, surrounded by lava, and guarded by Fire Elementals

Towers

• Mage College — guarded by a powerful elementalist
• Ogre Tower — guarded by an ogre thief
• Charr Tower — guarded by a charr engineer
• Lich Tower — guarded by undead minions and a lich

Mechanics

Основная статья: World versus World#Mechanics

Shrines

Controlling each of the regional shrines gives a unique effect. While the world owns the region's keep, players gain effects depending on the number of shrines owned by the world.

Air Keep

1. Activates Jump Pads and allow players to quickly climb cliffs
2. Activates Wind Turrets that knockback foes
3. Grants immunity to falling damage while in the region

Earth Keep

1. Activates Rock Walls that appear when foes are nearby and players cannot cross
2. Activates Earth Turrets that cripple foes in the area
3. Activates Sandstorm in the canyons and grant stealth while out of combat

Fire Keep

1. Activates an altar that creates Inferno Eggs that grant the Inferno Hound transformation
2. Activates Fire Turrets that damage foes
3. 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

The Oasis

• Requires players to gather power cores from nearby creatures and return each to camps to activate the cannon
• Once activated, the cannon deals damage to all enemy's structures outer walls
• The event occurs every 3 hours

Gallery

• Desert Borderlands Air Keep 1.jpg

  Air Keep

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  Earth Keep

• Desert Borderlands Earth Keep 1.jpg

  Earth Keep Closeup

• Desert Borderlands Lich Tower 1.jpg

  Lich Tower

• Desert borderlands tower 1.jpg

  Mage Tower

• Desert Borderlands Mage Tower 2.jpg

  Mage Tower Closeup

• Air Keep Shrine 1 Jump Pads.jpg

  Air Shrine 1 Jump Pads

• Air Keep Shrine 2 Wind Turrets.jpg

  Air Shrine 2 Wind Turrets

• Air Keep and Shrines.jpg

  Air Keep and Shrines

• Earth Keep Shrine 1 Rock Walls.jpg

  Earth Shrine 1 Rock Walls

• Earth Keep Shrine 2 Earth Turrets.jpg

  Earth Shrine 2 Earth Turrets

• Earth Keep Shrine 3 Sandstorm.jpg

  Earth Shrine 3 Sandstorm

• Fire Keep Shrine 1 Inferno Hound.jpg

  Fire Shrine 1 Inferno Hound

• Fire Keep Shrine 2 Fire Turrets.jpg

  Fire Shrine 2 Fire Turrets

• Fire Keep Shrine 3 Fire Immunity.jpg

  Fire Shrine 3 Fire Immunity

Notes

• The Desert Borderlands are planned to be on a rotation with the Alpine Borderlands.
• There are no jumping puzzles in the maps.

External links

• Announcing the WvW Desert Borderlands Stress Tests
• Essential Elements of the New Borderlands
• Preview on YouTube
• Presentation during EGX on YouTube
• Tour during Ready Up on YouTube

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