Editing Guild Wars (section)

=== Environment ===
The Guild Wars universe consists of persistent staging zones known as ''towns'' and ''outposts''. These areas normally contain [[non-player character]]s that provide services such as merchandising or storage. Other NPC's provide quests and present rewards to adventurers. These areas are also used when forming groups of people to go out into the world and play cooperatively. Players that venture out from the staging area and into an [[Instance dungeon|instanced]] explorable area are then able to use their weapons and skills to defeat monsters and interact with other objects in the game. As players progress through the game, they gain access to additional staging zones. Players can then transport their characters instantly from one staging area to another using a process commonly referred to as 'map traveling'.