Learn the ropes.
Hold the line.
A quick start to Guild Wars Survivors.
Movement and positioning are the heart of the game. Automatic attacks handle the basics while you choose how your hero grows.
Prepare in the Hall
Choose one of the six professions in Heroes, then select a starting discipline. In Spellbook, complete a build of 12 skills. Starting skills come from your discipline; your build provides the pool of skills offered during the expedition.
Choose an unlocked destination and difficulty, then select Begin Expedition. If the build is incomplete, the Hall points you back to Spellbook.
Keep moving. Read the fight.
Basic attacks and skills cast automatically when their conditions are met. Steer around packs, keep a route open, and leave red ground markings before they fill. You can also trigger an equipped skill manually when it is ready.
Collect experience to gain levels. Survive the chapter’s waves and defeat its final boss to complete the expedition. The selected destination shows its boss and timing before you begin.
Build your advantage
Spend level-up choices on skills and rank upgrades. You can equip up to 6 skills during a run. Treasure choices add or upgrade items; your item inventory has six slots, with replacement available when it is full.
Rerolls refresh choices and banishes remove a choice from that expedition. Their available charges depend on your talents. Elites and champions award a treasure choice when defeated.
Controls that fit your screen
Keyboard & mouse
- W A S D / arrows
- Move relative to the camera
- Left-click ground
- Travel to that point; keyboard input takes over immediately
- Right-drag / Q E
- Orbit the camera
- Mouse wheel
- Zoom in or out
- 1–6
- Manually activate equipped skills
- F
- Open a nearby cache when available
- Esc
- Pause the expedition
- ` / Level Up
- Open queued level-up choices
Touch controls
Touch open battlefield space to place a movement stick, drag to steer, and lift to stop. Use two fingers to orbit or twist the camera, and pinch to zoom. Tap a skill to activate it manually, or tap Level Up to choose upgrades.
Invite your party
Open Co-op or Create or join a lobby. Create a room and share its join code, or join an available public lobby. Up to four players can form a party.
Review the host’s destination and settings, prepare your loadout, and ready up. The host starts and runs the simulation. A host leaving or losing connection can end the expedition. Players need compatible game versions; refresh the game if the lobby reports a mismatch.
Bring something back
Spend earned gold on permanent talents, grow your companion bond, and explore equipment and achievement rewards between expeditions.
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