General Questions
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Q. How can I get Fur Squares?
A. There is a collector that trades 4 Charr Hides for a Fur Square in Ascalon
City. Also, one can salvage Fur Squares from armor pieces and hides using an
Expert Salvage Kit with limited success depending on the value of the armor.
More expensive armors are more likely to give Fur Squares.

Q. What is the 15k Armor?
A. Armor that is bought at Marhan’s Grotto and Granite Citadel costs 15,000
gold per piece, along with a huge amount of crafting materials. Generally,
they have the same armor level as the 1,500 gold armor bought at Draknor’s
Forge, but are cosmetically different in some way.  There is also a forge in
the Fissure of Woe that crafts even MORE expensive armor.

Q. I’m at Level 20. Why do I only have 170 attribute points?
A. The last 30 attribute points are gained from two different quests that give
15 attribute points each: Forgotten Wisdom (in the Crystal Desert after you
complete the Forgotten Ones), and Hero’s Challenge (in the Southern Shiverpeaks
after you complete the Hero’s Journey).

Q. Why am I not getting +60 health from my two Minor Vigor Runes?
A. Runes do not stack with the same type.  You can get multiple bonuses from
runes of different types, but you can’t stack, say, two Minor Vigor Runes or
a Minor Vigor Rune plus a Major Vigor Rune.  A Mesmer typically will have one of
each rune pertaining to his/her class and one Vigor Rune.  With the exception of
Vigor Runes and Absorption Runes, all Major and Superior Runes subtract health.
It’s generally a bad idea to use more than one Major/Superior RUne as it brings
your health down by a significant amount.

Q. What is WPE? What is BWE?
A. They stand for World Premiere Event and Beta Weekend Event respectively.
Guild Wars was extensively tested during its Beta period by casual gamers to
balance and hone the various skills in the game.  Much of the information out
there right now is based on the BWEs, and thus, may be out of date.

Q. What is “infusing”? How do I infuse my armor?
A. After Ascension, you will face a brand new enemy called the Mursaat.  They
and their Jade Armor and Jade Bow warriors have an attack called Spectral Agony
which does an extreme amount of damage to you very quickly.  Infusing your
armor protects you against the Spectral Agony attack.  To infuse your armor,
you need to find a Seer, who will take the Spectral Essence of an Eidolan and
infuse it into your armor.  The first place that most people find the Seer is
the Iron Mines of Moladune mission near the end of the mission.  Note that now
your armor is infused all at once instead of piecemeal as it was in May 2005.
Fully infused armor cuts the damage of Spectral Agony by about 1/10th.  Whenever
you pick up new pieces of armor, those pieces need to be infused again.

Q. What are Faction points?
A. In the June 29th update, a brand new method of unlocking PvP options called
“Faction” was introduced.  It works similar to Frequent Flyer Miles, except
that Faction points are earned through any PvP combat in which the player
participates.  Full details are available at the official Guild Wars website,
but basically the more you play PvP, the more Faction that you earn, with more
points being earned for Guild vs. Guild combat and higher level arenas.  You
can exchange Faction points at Priests of Balthazar scattered in all of the
“main” cities in Tyria.  Faction points are best used to gain a specific
upgrade that is difficult to find randomly in-game (like Fortitude bowgrips or
Superior Vigor Runes, for example).  Items/Skills/Runes unlocked through the
use of Faction are NOT given to your PvE character…instead, they are unlocked
for your PvP-only characters to choose from at the inventory/skill screens
during character creation.

Q. How do I change my Secondary class?
A. In the Crystal Desert, there are a series of quests in the outpost
non-mission towns, one for every class.  To access these quests, you must first
complete The Hero’s Journey quest from Vanyi in Droknar’s Forge.

If you complete the requirements of the quest, then you can freely change to
that secondary class at any time.  You do not lose any skills for changing your
class, you simply switch over to the new secondary class.  Note that if you
want to change back to your original Secondary, you’ll have to complete that
Secondary’s quest as well.  Also, you won’t ever get the quest that corresponds
to your Primary class, obviously.

The quests are:
* The Elementalist’s Path - Cembrien in Heroes’ Audience
* The Mesmer’s Path - Eulenias in Destiny’s Gorge
* The Monk’s Path - Nausuan in Seeker’s Passage
* The Necromancer’s Path - Kratha Kor in Heroes’ Audience
* The Ranger’s Path - Telius in Seeker’s Passage
* The Warrior’s Path - Agastos the Brave in Destiny’s Gorge

Q. Why can’t I enter the Underworld/Fissure of Woe?
A. The Underworld and Fissure of Woe are special locations that until July 13th
could be accessed by anyone who went to the Temple of the Ages while their
country has the favor of the gods.  Now they can only be accessed by ascended
characters (those who have completed the Crystal Desert Ascension missions),
in a party without henchmen.  If you can’t enter, either your country does not
have the favor of the gods, or you aren’t ascended.

Elite Skills and Bosses
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Q. What is an Elite skill?
A. Guild Wars characters can only have ONE Elite skill in their skillbars,
making the selection of such skills a careful decision in most builds.  In
general, Elite skills are Elite because they are either more powerful than
other similar skills or they can be combined with other Elite skills in
devastating ways. You can only capture Elite skills from Boss monsters using
the Signet of Capture.

Q. Where can I find a Signet of Capture?
A. Signets of Capture are first found in Lion’s Arch, as the quest reward for
the second quest given by Magi Malaquire (the first quest is called Orrian
Excavation).  After you complete that quest (which is simply to capture a
skill), he gives you another one (and some XP). After that, you can purchase
Signets of Capture for one skill point and a handful of gold from him.  You can
also purchase a Signet of Capture at any skill trainer AFTER Lion’s Arch. You
can purchase as many Signets as you have skill points to spend, so be sure to
purchase at least 4 or 5 to capture all of the Elites that you want.

Q. Why can’t I get (insert Elite skill here) from (insert Boss)?
A. There are no Elite skills before the Crystal Desert in the game.  All of the
Elites that used to be on earlier creatures were removed.  Most of the fansites
out there have outdated information from the last Beta and the first month of
release, back when pre-Crystal Desert bosses had Elite skills.

Q. Where is (insert Boss here)? I can’t find him!
A. Many of the bosses actually have random spawn locations, and thus do not
consistently spawn in the same area every time, and sometimes do not spawn at
all.  However, there are a few key spots where a Boss of some kind will always
spawn, and you can often find your Boss by visiting all of these spots.  It’s a
bit tedious at times, but you’ll find the Boss eventually.

Mesmer-specific Questions
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Q. What does DOT mean?
A. Damage Over Time.  These are spells/conditions that cause Health degen,
removing 2 Health per second per “pip”.  The maximum Damage over Time through
Health Degen is -10 pips or -20 Health per second, but this is determined after
the sum of all Health Degen and Health Regen.

Q. What is “aftercast”?
A. Aftercast is the period of time after you cast a spell in which you are
finishing off the casting animation.  Thus, if you chain several spells
together, the time it takes to cast all of those spells is longer than the
combined casting time.  The aftercast for most spells is 0.75 seconds, with a
few exceptions (like Aftershock), and it is not modified by Fast Casting or
anything else.

Q. When “borrowing” a skill through Arcane Thievery, Inspired Hex, Inspired
Enchantment, and Arcane Mimicry, what attributes are used?
A. The borrowed skill uses your own attributes.  Thus, borrowed skills often
will have the equivalent attribute rating of 0, unless you happen to have
points in that attribute.

Q. What happens when someone uses a Hex removal skill while under the effect of
a Hex and Wastrel’s Worry?
A. Wastrel’s Worry is removed first, and then the Hex removal skill removes the
other Hex.

Q. What happens when someone uses a Hex removal skill while under the effect of
a Hex and Diversion?
A. Diversion triggers first (increasing the cooldown of the Hex removal skill),
and then the Hex removal skill removes the other Hex.

Q. Does Illusionary Weaponry (Elite) trigger Empathy? How about Price of Failure
or Spirit of Failure?
A. Illusionary Weaponry does trigger Empathy and any other spells that trigger
while attacking, as long as the attack does not have to hit.  Illusionary
Weaponry does not trigger Price of Failure or Spirit of Failure.

Q. Where is Confusion/Unnatural Signet/? They aren’t on your list.
A. There were many skills from the Beta Weekend Events that were tweaked or cut
from the final release of Guild Wars.  Here is a partial list of Mesmer skills
that were removed before the final release:
* Confusion
* Disappear
* Mantra of Distortion - Changed to “Distortion”
* Mantra of Hex Reflection
* Mantra of Hex Shattering - Changed to “Hex Breaker”
* Mirror of Delusions
* Mimic - Changed to “Echo”?
* Signet of Illusions
* Unnatural Signet

Technical Questions
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Q. How do I display the FPS on my screen?
A. You can see the Frames Per Second of your game by adding the parameter -perf
to the end of the command line shortcut.  In other words, right-click your
Guild Wars shortcut icon and choose Properties. Under “Target”, add -perf to
the end of the line, like so:
Target: “C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\gw.exe” -perf

Q. Is there a way to automatically enter my password into the Guild Wars client?
A. Yes, there is.  The parameter -password “YourPasswordHere” at the end of the
command line shortcut will automatically enter your password when you boot up
your Guild Wars client.  In other words, right-click your Guild Wars shortcut
icon and choose Properties.  Under “Target”, add -password “YourPasswordHere” to
the end of the line, like so:
Target: “C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\gw.exe” -password “YourPasswordHere”

Q. I see folks with unusual symbols in their chat text, like stars and hearts.
How can I do this?
A. The characters that you see are found in the Unicode character set, which is
supported internationally by most fonts, including the font used by Guild Wars.
You can put these in your chatbar by copying and pasting them from an outside
source, like the Character Map program available under Start > Programs >
Accessories > System Tools directory on Windows computers. You can also go to
these websites for a whole list of them:
http://unicode.coeurlumiere.com/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm

Simply select the character that you want, CTRL+C to copy them to your clipboard
and go into your Guild Wars game, click on your chatbar, and CTRL+V to paste the
character into your chatbar.