Desert Borderlands

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An example Desert Borderlands map

The Desert Borderlands are a collection of three Desert themed maps that surround the Eternal Battlegrounds in World versus World.

In the current rotation, only the Red Desert Borderlands are accessible (the Blue and Green maps use the Alpine themed borderlands). Players on the red team 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

While the three borderlands maps are physically identical, the locations on them have different names. The table below shows the different names for each location.

Currently, one of the four World versus World maps will be a Desert Borderland, and it will always be the home borderland of the red team. The Green and Blue Desert Borderlands are inaccessible to players.

Location	Red	Green (inactive)	Blue (inactive)
North resource camp	Hamm's Lab	Lesh's Lab	Zakk's Lab
Skritt/Choya territory	Tikitecki Scratch	Gattchaki Scratch	Rektakki Scratch
Wyvern territory	Emberfang Crag	Blazeclaw Crag	Pyrescale Crag
Home world spawn	Red World Citadel	Green World Citadel	Blue World Citadel
Lich Tower (Northeast)	Eternal Necropolis	Deathless Necropolis	Undying Necropolis
Northeast resource camp	Roy's Refuge	Norfolk's Refuge	Olivier's Refuge
Mage College Tower (Northwest)	O'del Academy	Y'lan Academy	Kay'li Academy
Northwest resource camp	Boettiger's Hideaway	Hughe's Hideaway	Berdrow's Hideaway
Earth Keep (Central)	Stoic Rampart	Impressive Rampart	Hardened Rampart
Fire Keep (Western)	Blistering Undercroft	Scorching Undercroft	Torrid Undercroft
Air Keep (Eastern)	Osprey's Palace	Harrier's Palace	Shrike's Palace
Central oasis	Bearce's Dwelling Darra's Maze Higgins's Ascent Tilly's Encampment Zak's Overlook	Tranquilvale Oasis	Verdantdale Oasis
Charr Tower (Southeast)	Crankshaft Depot	Sparkplug Depot	Flywheel Depot
Southeast resource camp	Bauer Farmstead	Barrett Farmstead	Gee Farmstead
Ogre Tower (Southwest)	Parched Outpost	Withered Outpost	Barren Outpost
Southwest resource camp	McLain's Encampment	Patrick's Encampment	Habib's Encampment
South resource camp	Dustwhisper Well	Smashedhope Well	Lastgasp Well
Southwest spawn	Green World Border	Blue World Border	Red World Border
Southeast spawn	Blue World Border	Red World Border	Green World Border

The Choya/Skritt and Wyvern territory were combined into the northeast and northwest tower areas with the August 8th, 2017 update.

Monuments

The Desert Borderlands features two kinds of monuments:

Ruins of Power

Primary article: Ruins of Power

Like the ones found in Alpine Borderlands, capturing three of five ruins in the center of the map provides your world with a stack of Borderlands Bloodlust within the four Mist War maps.

Shrines

The nine shrines are groups of 3 shrines that provide small advantages to players within the area of their respective keeps. When all 3 shrines tied to a keep are captured, players can travel faster between the 3 shrines by interacting with objects that will launch them in the air to the other shrines.

Players will earn a  Blessing of Elements when they capture a shrine or interact with a captured shrine. While their world owns the corresponding keep, players gain effects depending on the number of shrines owned by the world.

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Shrine of Air

1. Activates Jump Pads and allow players to quickly climb cliffs
2. Activates  Windfall effect—Immunity to falling damage while in the region.
3. Activates the fast travel launching devices—Eagle Cloud.

Shrine of Earth

1. Activates lodestones that periodically give protection and stability to allies and cripple foes within their area of effect.
2. Activates a sandstorm in the canyons, applies revealed to enemy players within it. Its graphical effects also make players traversing within it harder to see.
3. Activates the fast travel launching devices—Launch Pad.

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Shrine of Fire

1. Activates an altar that creates Inferno Eggs that grant the Inferno Hound transformation
2. Activates  Flame's Embrace effect—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.
3. Activates the fast travel launching devices—Fire Tornado.

Events

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Veteran Warg location in Desert Borderlands.

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Veteran Wurm location in Desert Borderlands.

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Veteran Harpy location in Desert Borderlands.

• Defeat the veteran warg (80)
• Destroy the harpy veteran (80)
• Kill the veteran wurm (80)
• Capture the camp (80)
• Defend the camp (80)
  • Repel the enemy attackers (80)
• Secure the keep (80)
• Defend the keep (80)
  • Repel the enemy attackers (80)
• Capture the tower (80)
• Defend the tower (80)
  • Repel the enemy attackers (80)
• Claim this land for your world (80)
• Defend this land for your world (80)
• Stop the enemy supply caravan (80)
• Defend your supply caravan (80)
• Capture the ruins for your realm! (80)
• Defend the ruins for your realm! (80)

Services

Starter area (Enemy Borderlands)

• Arcane Eye Agent
• Banker
• Black Lion Trader
• Guild Master
• Heroics Notary
• Instructor
• Laurel Merchant
• Legendary Commander War Razor
• Outfitter
• Siege Master
• Skirmish Supervisor
• Skritt Trader
• TEID-07 Unified Vendor System
• Traps and Tricks
• World Ability Master

Keeps

• Quartermaster
• Arcane Eye Agent
• Armor Master
• Golem Banker
• Outfitter
• Siege Master
• Weapon Trader

Garrison (Keep services plus)

• Mystic Forge Attendant

Towers

• Quartermaster
• Outfitter
• Siege Master

Resource Camps

• Quartermaster

Ambient dialogue

Soldier (1): Did you feel it, too, calling you here?

Soldier (2): Feel...? No.

Soldier (1): This frontier, the unknown, the wild–

Soldier (2): Right now, all I feel is tired. I just got back from the front lines.

Soldier (1): You have...young ones? Back home?

Soldier (2): I did.

Soldier (1): Is that why you’re here?

Soldier (2): You could say that, yeah.

Crafting resources

Resource Nodes

Lumber Synthesizer

Ore Synthesizer

Berry Synthesizer

Cloth Synthesizer

Herb Synthesizer

Leather Synthesizer

Vegetable Synthesizer

Pets

Juvenile Cave Spider

• Bauer Farmstead (In a canyon east of the camp)

Juvenile Boar

• Higgins's Ascent (East of a tent in the ruin)

Juvenile Lynx

• Hamm's Lab (On the grassy rocks east of the camp)

Juvenile Hyena

• Blistering Undercroft (In the desert area on top of the keep, north of the Veteran Wurm)

Juvenile Whiptail Devourer

• Blistering Undercroft (In the desert area on top of the keep, in the southwest corner)

Juvenile Black Bear

• O'del Academy (By the waterfall pool west of the tower)

Juvenile Warthog

• O'del Academy (On the cliff above the waterfall, west of the tower)

Juvenile Red Moa

• O'del Academy (northeast of the tower, toward the keep)

Juvenile Wolf

• Boettiger's Hideaway (In a cave to the north)

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Air Keep

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  Earth Keep

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  Fire Keep

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  Lich Tower

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  Mage Tower

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  Farmstead Camp

Promotional images

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  Air Shrine 1 Jump Pads

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  Air Shrine 2 Wind Turrets

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  Air Keep and Shrines

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  Earth Shrine 1 Rock Walls

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  Earth Shrine 2 Earth Turrets

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  Earth Shrine 3 Sandstorm

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  Fire Shrine 1 Inferno Hound

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  Fire Shrine 2 Fire Turrets

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  Fire Shrine 3 Fire Immunity

Notes

• There is no jumping puzzle.
• Yellow Catmander is located west of the northwest tower in a cave behind the waterfall.

See also

• Alpine Borderlands
• Essential Elements of the New Borderlands

External links

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

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