Guardian's Glade

Guardian's Glade

Levels

80

Type

Raid

Difficulty

Zone

Shipwreck Strand
(Castora)

API

1609

Loading screen

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The seers imbued the natural denizens of Castora with great power and set them to guard their sacred island. Confront Kela, Senechal of Waves, and drive her off to help secure the coast.

— Raid selection

Guardian's Glade is the first raid encounter for the Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity expansion. It contains story details from Truths Unearthed story chapter.

Getting there

Players must own the Visions of Eternity expansion, be max level (80), and be in a raid-mode (10 player) squad to join.

• Enter the Raid — Combined portal in Lion's Arch Aerodrome ( Aerodrome Waypoint — ).
• Join via the pop-up box when the raid instance is opened.

Objectives

• Pick up the seer relic to start the encounter.
• Challenge Mode: Inactive/Active
• Defeat Kela, Seneschal of the Tides.
• Time remaining: 10:00
• Storm Progress
• Survive the storm.
• Raid encounter complete!

Rewards

• One chest^{[verification requested]} (once per day)
• Gaeting Crystal (12) (guaranteed) (included in bonus chest on first weekly completion)
• One bouncy chest (once per week)
  • One random FExotic weapon or armor piece
  • Compendium of Knowledge (guaranteed)
  • Kela's Coffer (guaranteed)
  • 4 
  • 10,000 
  • 200,025 
• A chance at the following unique drops:
  • Mini Kela

Challenge Mode

In addition to normal mode rewards:

• One additional Challenge Mode bouncy chest (once per week)
  • One random FExotic weapon or armor piece
  • Kela's Magnificent Coffer (guaranteed)
  • Magnetite Shard (10)
  • 2 
  • 10,000 
  • 133,350 

Walkthrough

• Many important mechanics are hidden unless Character Model Limit is increased.
• A player must interact with the Cursed Artifact to begin the encounter.

Kela, Seneschal of Waves

Health: 42,469,920 (74,322,360 if the Challenge Mode is active)

Enrage Timer: 10 minutes

Enrage Effect: Defeats all players

Fixation Mechanic: Player that holds the Cursed Artifact

Recurring mechanics

This encounter alternates between a calm and storm phase, where players first focus on damaging Kela then avoiding her to survive.

The below table lists mechanics found during both phases:

Mechanic	Notes
Aura (Kela)	Pulsing damage every 3 seconds.
Cursed Artifact	Grants the   Throw Relic special action skill. Kela fixates on this target, indicated by a purple fixate icon. All players are instantly defeated if Kela consumes the artifact.
Crocodiles	Kela summons 2-3 crocodiles that target a random [verification requested] player, indicated by a red fixate icon, red line between them and the target, and the  Hunted effect. Tackle skill inflicts unevadable and unblockable  Knockdown, indicated by stopped movement then a pounce. Can be mitigated with  Stability. Veteran and Elite Crocodilian Razortooths spawn during the calm and storm phases, respectively. Veterans can be interrupted with CC's due to not having a defiance bar.
Executor of Waves (Crabs)	Spawns a sandy, non-damaging AoE that grows and inflicts  Loose Sand (-50% move speed). AoE stops growing and persists when defeating a crab, but can be removed by Kela's wave. Pulses 25 Might (1s),  Protection (1s), and  Resolution (1s) to Kela every 2 seconds if she's within. Calm phase: Spawns 10 seconds into the fight then every 15 seconds. Each crab progresses the event bar by a tick upon spawning, after 4 seconds, then every 2 seconds. Any alive crabs sync together on future calm phases, indicated by larger bar progress every 2 second as each crab contributes independent of each other. Storm phase: AoE pulses 1 Relentless Speed to Kela every 2 seconds if she's within.
Scalding Wave	Large wave through the center or sides every 15 seconds, will not spawn in the zone that Kela is in when triggered, randomly selects one of the other two sections. Unavoidable (cannot be mitigated with evades, invulnerability, or  Distortion). Removes all boons and inflicts 10 Burning and  Knockback.
Tornado	Inflicts  Knockback. Each storm phase spawns a tornado that persists for the entire encounter. Can be mitigated with  Stability, allowing players to safely traverse tornadoes.

Bugs:

• Crabs may sometimes spawn during the storm phase. This will sometimes persist for future fight attempts until a new instance is opened. These crabs sync together during the calm phase, but are not synced with those that previously spawned during the calm phase. This may lead to bar pulses every second instead of larger bar pulses every 2 seconds (when all crabs synced together). This bug does seemingly occure when killing one a crab during phase transitions.^{[verification requested]}
• Crocodiles' fixate mechanic can be a little broken. Players can have red fixate markers without having a crocodile tethered to them, and players may sometimes have a crocodile aggroed without seeing a red tether.

Calm phase

The encounter begins with this phase where players must subdue Kela as much as they can before the impending storm arrives. An event bar gradually fills up. The next phase occurs upon reaching 20 ticks, with each crab contributing ticks (see Crabs mechanic above). Players can thus delay the storm phase by defeating the crabs as soon as possible.

The below table lists the skills during this phase:

Skill	Notes
Biting Swarm (Bees)	Applies  Biting Swarm (30s) to a random player within range of Kela. Indicated by an orange AoE around them and then activates after 1 second. Unavoidable damage starting at 2% max health then increasing by 1.5% max health per second. Can be spread to an unaffected player to reset damage per stack.
Claw Slam	Frontal wide-cone AoE that inflicts  Knockdown.
Rend Asunder	Grabs fixated player and anyone near them (indicated by sound cue), inflicting heavy damage,  Stun (3s) and 1 Shredded Armor (120s), which increases damage taken, then throws them. Unavoidable throw but can avoid the damage and  Shredded Armor by standing far enough away.
Rending Claws	Two frontal melee swipes.
Sidle Step	Evasive move similar to Chak Gerent's that inflicts  Knockdown.
Stomp	Unblockable semi-circular AoE on Kela's left.
Stomp	Unblockable semi-circular AoE on Kela's right.
Burrow	Kela burrows into the ground and starts the next phase of the fight.

Additionally after each storm phase, Kela's defiance bar unlocks and only uses the below skill during it. Crabs and Waves will continue to spawn and are not affected by this skill.

Skill	Notes
Tantrum	Unblockable and unevadable damage every 1.5 seconds until defiance bar is broken. Can be mitigated with invulnerability and  Distortion.

Storm phase

This phase begins once the previous event bar has been completely filled. This is replaced by a new event bar. Players must survive until the bar has been fully depleted (1 minute).

The below table lists new skills during this phase:

Skill	Notes
Ambush	Fancy AoE (larger than telegraphed) that instantly defeats nearby players when boss emerges from the ground.
Lightning Strike	Multiple circular AoEs that inflict  Stun (2s).

Shortly after Kela burrows, a set of 3 Elite Crocodilian Razortooths spawn. They have the following skills:

Skill	Notes
Tackle	Unblockable deadly lunge attack with a wind-up that inflicts  Knockdown and damages enemies in an AoE around the targeted player. This cannot be mitigated through  Stability, invulnerability or blocking. It can however be outranged by waiting for the wind-up and dodging away from the crocodile.
Bite	Crocodile basic attack.

Kela gains the  Relentless Speed effect every 2 seconds and each time a crab's sandy AoE pulses on her. This effect increases her movement speed per stack (max. 20), making it more difficult to avoid her Ambush attack at higher speeds. This attack occurs whenever she emerges from the ground when near a player or dead Elite Crocodilian Razortooth.

Defeating an elite crocodile spawns a downed version (full health) of it at its location. Luring Kela onto a defeated elite crocodile will reset her stacks of  Relentless Speed. This effect also resets prior to each storm phase. If multiple elite crocodiles are downed near to each other, Kela will consume all of them. Furthermore, defeating the downed version crocodile will completely remove it and thus leave no defeated crocodile for Kela to consume.

Challenge mode

Overview

There are several differences between the normal and challenge mode encounters:

Monster buffs

• Increased boss health and defiance bar strength.
• Increased Elite Crocodilian Razortooth health.
• Increased Elite and Veteran Crocodilian Razortooth damage. Tackle skill now bypasses and strips  Stability.

Mechanical changes

Mechanic	Notes
Updated Mechanics
Biting Swarm (Bees)	Damage increases by 2.5% max health per second.
Executor of Waves (Crabs)	Sandy AoE now pulls players in similar to a whirlpool. AoE no longer fully removed by a single wave and now decreases by 1 size unit per wave.
Scalding Wave	Instantly defeats players on-hit. Storm phase waves occur every 10s while calm phase waves remain every 15s.
Updated Effects
Biting Swarm	Effect now permanent and only removed upon phasing.

Anomaly:

Waves also instantly defeat pets and minions.

NPCs

Foes

• Elite Crocodilian Razortooth
• Executor of Waves
• Kela, Seneschal of Waves (boss)
• Veteran Crocodilian Razortooth

Objects

• Challenge Mote
• Cursed Artifact
• Tornado

Stats of encounter relevant enemies

Enemy	Health	Health (CM)	Defiance Bar	Defiance Bar (CM)
Kela, Seneschal of Waves	42,469,920	74,322,360	3600	?
Executor of Waves	471,888	471,888
Elite Crocodilian Razortooth	707,832	1,061,748
Veteran Crocodilian Razortooth	157,296	157,296

Version history

Patch	Changes
February 24, 2026	Update 2: Added a leaderboard for the Guardian's Glade raid encounter in challenge mode. A challenge mode version of the Guardian's Glade raid encounter has been added. This can be activated by using the challenge mote inside the instance before starting the encounter. Late Notes: Fixed an issue that caused some storm effects to persist between attempts in the Guardian's Glade raid encounter. Fixed an issue that could prevent crocodilian razortooths from being summoned in the Guardian's Glade raid encounter. Fixed an issue that could cause the cursed artifact to reappear after the Guardian's Glade raid encounter had already been completed. Fixed an issue that prevented the Biting Swarm ability in the Guardian's Glade raid encounter from displaying the intended number of effect stacks corresponding to its damage level. Kela, Seneschal of Waves, now defeats any players who try to escape her arena during the Guardian's Glade raid encounter. A new subcategory in the Raids achievement category has been added for the Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity Guardian's Glade raid encounter. (Undocumented) Kela, Seneschal of Waves now moves to the center after spawning if no targets are nearby, during the Guardian's Glade raid encounter. (Undocumented) Kela's Ambush skill now has a larger AoE telegraph to better align with its true size. (Undocumented)  Shredded Armor can no longer be removed when downed. (Undocumented) Kela's defiance bar outside of storm phases has been corrected to show   Subdue instead of   Stun.
February 04, 2026	Fixed an issue that prevented Kela's Relentless Speed stacks from being reset upon eating a crocodilian razortooth corpse in the Guardian's Glade raid encounter.
February 03, 2026	Update 2: Fixed an issue that could cause the /gg command to remove the cursed artifact from the Kela, Seneschal of Waves raid encounter and bypass some of the intended fight mechanics. Guardian's Glade has been added to the game.

See also

•  Guardian's Glade

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Raids