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Map navigation refers to moving around Guild Wars 2's zones.
There are a number of different transportation and travel methods that can be used to get across Tyria in Guild Wars 2.
Map travel nodes[edit]
Guild Wars 2 features multiple ways to quickly or instantaneously travel to areas; the primary methods include traveling via waypoints and using asura gates. There are also other secondary methods such as using the Guild menu to travel to your guild hall and traveling through lounges, as they often provide portals to certain zones and cities. Many zones and regions include travel methods exclusive to them.
| Location | Icon | Description |
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| Player can be anywhere | 
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Waypoints |
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Jade Bot: Personal Waypoint | |
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Captured points in Drizzlewood Coast[1] |
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Uncaptured points in Drizzlewood Coast[1] [2] | |
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Unlocked Shrines in Siren's Landing and Dragonfall | |
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Asura gates |
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Nuhoch Wallows in the Heart of Maguuma zones and Jahai Bluffs | |
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Skritt Tunnels in The Silverwastes | |
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Thermal Tubes in Bitterfrost Frontier, Draconis Mons, Ember Bay, and Dragonfall | |
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Mursaat Mirrors in Mistburned Barrens and Bava Nisos |
Customizable travel features[edit]
The following features require their respective expansions and can be customized with skins through the Fashion tab:
Teleportation devices[edit]
There are various teleportation devices, usually consumables or gizmos, that teleport the character to a specific location. Teleportation devices are items that lead to major cities or Living World maps. All teleportation devices from a Living World season can be stored in the Tome for that season. Other individual teleporting devices will teleport players back to story-related locations and special instances. The Living World Season 3, Living World Season 4, and Icebrood Saga maps each have portal scrolls available for purchase. The portal scrolls are account-bound, so they can be used by another character to enter that map, without the need to start that story.
Lounge passes are Gem Store items which teleport the character to a hub location containing most of the services found in cities. Other passes obtained from the Gem Store may give quality-of-life benefits. These benefits include entering one's home instance from anywhere in the world, and access to hard-to-reach locations.
Usability while defeated:
- 1
This teleportation item can be used while defeated, if used as an item and not through the Wizard's Portal Tome. - 1
This teleportation item can be used while defeated, but offers limited functionality. - 0
This teleportation item cannot be used while defeated.
Availability in the Wizard's Portal Tome:
- 1 This teleportation item is available through the Wizard's Portal Tome.
- 0
This teleportation item is not available to be added to the Wizard's Portal Tome.
Lounge passes[edit]
None of these can be added to the Wizard's Portal Tome.
| Permanent pass | Destination | Acquisition | Temporary versions | Usable when defeated (permanent/temporary) |
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 Armistice Bastion Pass
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Armistice Bastion | Gem Store |  Two weeks |
0
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 Captain's Airship Pass
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Havoc's Heir | Gem Store |  Two weeks• Single use [1] |
0
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 Champion's Rest Pass
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Champion's Rest | Structured PvP tournaments | Two weeks |
-/-[2] |
 Invitation to "Lily of the Elon"
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Lily of the Elon | Path of Fire Deluxe or Ultimate Edition | – | 1[3]
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 Lava Lounge Pass
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Lava Lounge | Gem Store |  Two weeks |
0
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 Mistlock Sanctuary Passkey
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Mistlock Sanctuary | Gem Store |  Two weeks |
0
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 Noble's Folly Pass
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Noble's Folly | Gem Store |  Two weeks |
0
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 Royal Terrace Pass
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Royal Terrace | Gem Store |  Two weeks |
0
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 Thousand Seas Pavilion Pass
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Thousand Seas Pavilion | Gem Store |  Two weeks |
0
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Other teleportation devices[edit]
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- ^ a b c This item is consumed on use.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o This information is still missing. If you have this item: please try out, whether it can be used while defeated, and fill in the missing information.
- ^ a b c d e f g h The character stays defeated upon spawn.
- ^ a b c Living World portal tomes allow you to store all associated portal scrolls from the corresponding Living World season in a single item. When used, a dialog opens where you can select any location that was stored in the tome to teleport to.
- ^ a b c d e f The character is revived upon spawn and can teleport back to the original location by usage of "leave instance" in the lower right corner.
- ^ This item comes with an Eye of the North portal option by default.
- ^ Using this item on characters below level 80 grants the option to start a trial of max-level play which teleports and confines you to the The Silverwastes; the item can then be used again to decide whether to level up permanently and consume the boost, or to end the trial and keep the boost which will teleport you to your character's racial capital. For characters already at level 80, the item only teleports you to The Silverwastes if you choose to permanently consume the boost.
- ^ This location must be unlocked before it's available.
- ^ This item has 5 charges.
Reducing travel costs[edit]
In addition to using objects and items listed above, there are other methods of reducing or avoiding waypoint fees:
- Guild upgrades
- Guilds can build upgrades to permanently reduce waypoint costs by 5%, 10% and then 15% for representing members. Currently unlocked upgrades can be viewed by guild members in the Main tab of the Guild panel, section "Attributes".
Avoiding waypoint fees[edit]
- To Lion's Arch
You can reduce the fees paid for fast travel primarily by going through The Mists to get to Lion's Arch:
- Open the
PvP panel (no default keybind), click Enter PvP Lobby to travel to the Heart of the Mists.
- Take the
Portal to Lion's Arch near 
Portal to Lion's Arch — waypoint.
- Take the
- Open the
World vs. World panel (default B), enter any of the five Mist War maps or the Edge of the Mists; take the asura gate to Lion's Arch.
- From Lion's Arch
- Asura gates at the
Coriolis Plaza — near Gate Hub Plaza Waypoint — provide free transportation to the following destinations:
- Five major cities (Rata Sum, Black Citadel, Divinity's Reach, Hoelbrak, The Grove)
- Pearl Islet in Southsun Cove
- Arborstone
- The Wizard's Tower
- You can travel back to Lion's Arch using the gate located at your arrival point from Lion's Arch.
Lionguard Aircrew (Transport Facilitator) offers transport to the Free City of Amnoon in Crystal Oasis.
- Requires the Path of Fire expansion and completion of the Sparking the Flame prologue.
- Guilds
- Constructing a guild portal permits free travel to the PvP lobby, Lion's Arch, the Lion's Arch Aerodrome, and the weekly destinations of the Guild Challenge, Race, and Puzzle.
- Other
- Homestead introduced in Janthir Wilds Expansion contain portals to Lion's Arch, The Wizard's Tower (SOTO), and Lowland Shore (Janthir Wilds). See Getting To your Homestead for more information. Note: If one member of your party is in their homestead, you can right click on their portrait and select Join in Homestead from any map in Guild Wars 2 to visit their homestead.
- To travel to Fort Trinity in Orr, you can use the asura gate in your chosen order's headquarters; this is unlocked during your personal story.
- Stronghold of Ebonhawke can be reached by using the Asura gate at Rurikton in Divinity's Reach.
- When defeated you can always travel to the nearest waypoint.
- If you have insufficient coins to pay the normal waypoint fee, then the fee will be reduced to the maximum that you can afford.
- If you have not yet unlocked a waypoint on a map (for example if you used a Teleport to Friend to get to the map), one waypoint will be unlocked when you are downed.
- If the waypoint is contested, you will have to wait to travel (or have someone mail you the cost to travel to the next nearest waypoint).
- You cannot travel to the Mists while defeated.
- Other free waypoints
- Inside each of the major cities.
- Inside dungeons.
- Inside World versus World. (Contains Merchants, Banks, Trading Posts, and once left will return you to your original location in PvE).
- Inside the Mistlock Sanctuary, Armistice Bastion, and Thousand Seas Pavilion.
Gem store items[edit]
These can only be used in Player versus Environment. Waypoint Unlock Box and Central Tyria Waypoint Unlock Package are single-use items, that will unlock waypoints on one character only. There are also various Travel Toys that while do not enhance the player's speed, that, when activated, changes the appearance of the movement animations of a character.
