Jade Bot

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Unlock the Canthan Jade Tech Mastery track to equip and level up your very own jade bot. This helpful (and adorable) friend can help you find hidden treasures, power up new weapons, enhance your travel, and more!

— Official site

Jade Bots are unique companions available exclusively through the Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons expansion. Once unlocked, they can be used for a variety of activities, such as to light up lanterns, open chests or earn buffs. Many of their functions are only available in Cantha maps, with the main exceptions being the attribute bonus and modules.

Unlocking

Jade Bot unlock banner.

End of Dragons

1. Complete the fifth chapter of the End of Dragons story, The Scenic Route.

Mechanics

• Before having access to a jade bot the game will display the message:

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You've encountered jade technology that requires a jade bot to make use of it. Unlock the Jade Bot Mastery line to obtain a jade bot! You can do this as you progress through the End of Dragons story.

— Jade Technology, in-game hint

• All functions are available in the open world. The availability of functions in other places (PvP, WvW, instanced content) is determined on a case-by-case basis.
• The following objects can be interacted with:
  • Jade Bot Terminal: Players can gain a remote control over the jade bot, allowing independent piloting for exploration or puzzles. While being controlled, jade bots can interact with some objects, such as Jade Batteries, Jade Tech Lanterns and levers.
  • Jade Tech Defensive Protocol and Jade Tech Offensive Protocols: Consumes ₁ Jade Power Charge to apply 45 minutes of  Jade Tech Defensive Overcharge or  Jade Tech Offensive Overcharge to the player, respectively. These can stack up to 3 hours and are lost when entering instanced zones.
  • Jade Tech Chests: Consumes ₁ Jade Power Charge to open.
  • Jade Tech Zip Lines: Transports players across a predetermined path. Regenerates ₁ Jade Power Charge when the corresponding mastery is unlocked.
  • Jade Tech Teleporters: Consumes ₁ Jade Power Charge to teleport to predetermined destinations if the teleporter is powered, or to charge the teleporter if it is unpowered.
  • Jade Lanterns: Consumes ₁ Jade Power Charge to light up for various achievements.
• Specific items can be equipped to the jade bot for additional bonuses (see below).

Related masteries

Mastery	XP required	Points	Description
Gliding Booster	381,000	1	Your jade bot can now give you an upward boost while you are gliding. You can now craft tier-1 and tier-2 power cores.
Multicharge	635,000	2	Upgrade your jade bot to carry up to 4 jade energy charges at a time.
Jade Tech Waypoint	1,016,000	3	Upgrade your jade bot to be able to set up a personal waypoint for you.
Energy Efficiency	1,524,000	4	Upgrade your jade bot to gather more energy from jade tech batteries. Additionally, your jade bot can now absorb energy from zip lines.
Rescue Protocol	2,159,000	5	Upgrade your jade bot to assist you in rallying when you are downed. This skill is not available in PvP, WvW, raids, fractals or strikes.
Total	5,715,000	15

List of Jade Bot skills

While using a Jade Bot Terminal

#	Skill			Description
3	Ascend			Fly your bot straight up.
4	Descend			Fly your bot straight down.
5	Deactivate Bot			Deactivate your bot and return focus to yourself.
6	Action Camera Toggle			Toggles the action camera on and off for the player.

During the story instance "Investigate Nahpui Lab." in The Future in Jade

#	Skill			Description
1	Scan		3	Scan the energy signatures of nearby jade tech.
3	Ascend			Fly your bot straight up.
4	Descend			Fly your bot straight down.
5	Deactivate Bot			Deactivate your bot and return focus to yourself.
6	Action Camera Toggle			Toggles the action camera on and off for the player.
	Static Discharge		3	Release a gentle burst of static electricity from your jade bot.

During the story chapter Weight of the World

#	Skill			Description
	Deploy Bot		1	Deploy your remote-controlled bot to scout the area.

During the story chapter Deep Trouble

#	Skill			Description
1	Search for Weak Points		3	Emit a sonar ping to reveal potential weak points in the nearby wall.
2	Analyze		3	Scan a specific location to obtain a material analysis of the rock.
3	Ascend			Fly your bot straight up.
4	Descend			Fly your bot straight down.
5	Deactivate Bot			Deactivate your bot and return focus to yourself.
6	Action Camera Toggle			Toggles the action camera on and off for the player.

Equipment

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Equip and manage your jade bot, customizing your bot's power core, frame, and modules.

— Hero panel

Customize your jade bot at a workbench.

The jade bot can be customized at any Jade Bot Workbench in Cantha with a multitude of modules. Some can be purchased from Xunlai Jade Sales Associates and others can be crafted by jewelers. Any character where the player wishes to use all jade bot functions has to have equipped a Power Core, with tier 6 being required for Module: Service Chips to work. A jade bot has three Slots in its hero panel section:

Power Core

• One Power Core has to be equipped in order to access the jade bot's functionality on each character.
  • Does not require a Jade Bot Workbench to equip.
  • 10 tiers exist, the Jade Bot Core: Tier 6 and above allows using the Service Chip Module.
• Power Cores are equipable by all 80 level characters, even on accounts without End of Dragons.
• One Jade Bot Core: Tier 1 per character is provided as a story reward for completing The Scenic Route.
  • Additional Power Cores can be acquired through:
    • Purchase in the trading post.
    • Crafting with a level 400 jeweler after unlocking the   Gliding Booster mastery and purchasing the corresponding recipes.
• Doesn't provide the attribute boost in PvP and WvW.

Module: Sensory Array

• Different types exist, only one can be equipped at a time.
• They require at least tier 1 Power Core to be used.
  • Scavenger Protocol: Scans corpses for materials or trophies.
  • Recycler: Turns junk items into karma, ascended materials or Jade Slivers.
  • Enhancer/Booster: Increases the damage of your Siege Turtle, or enhances mount's energy recovery.
• Works in the open world, instanced content (raids/fractals/strike missions) and some in WvW too; see the main page for detailed overview.
• Not equipable on accounts without End of Dragons, as players cannot use the Jade Bot Workbench without the Jade Bots mastery track.

Module: Service Chip

• They require at least tier 6 Power Core to be used, though they can be equipped with a lower tier power core (but do not work).
• Enhances the jade bot's abilities:
  • Skiff supercharger: increases Skiff speed.
  • Jade Assistant: Gliding Booster improves Jade Bot Glide Booster height.
  • Rescue Protocol Recharge: shortens Rescue Protocol cooldown.
  • Treasure Hunter Protocol: displays chests on minimap with an icon .
    • Works on every chest in most zones of the open world, even outside of Cantha.
• Not equipable on accounts without End of Dragons, as players cannot use the Jade Bot Workbench without the Jade Bots mastery track.

Lore

Jade bots are small jade mechs created from dragonjade by Xunlai Jade. They provide day-to-day aid for Canthans who can afford them, as the dragonjade technology is very expensive. They are also used as help with transportation through Cantha via Zip Lines and can be deployed for security purposes or scanning mined jade.

Jade Bot skins

Jade Bot skins can be unlocked account-wide by purchasing them in the Gem Store or through Black Lion Chests. The skins have only cosmetic effects; there are no gameplay advantages associated with them.

The skins are visible while performing various tasks around the world, including:

• Interacting with Jade Tech Defensive / Offensive protocols, using a Jade Battery, zip-line, opening a Jade Tech chest, using gliding boost, using Rescue Protocol, setting up Jade Tech Waypoint, using Skiff Supercharger, and remotely controlling the Bot.

List of Jade Bot skins

See also: Gallery of Jade Bot skins

Candlewick Sprite Jade Bot Skin
Cuddly Cat Jade Bot Skin
Fluttering Fairy Jade Bot Skin
Jade Bot
Playful Ghost Jade Bot Skin
Roundtail Dragon Jade Bot Skin

Gallery

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  As previewed in the Jade Bots trailer.

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  As previewed during Guild Chat - Episode 118.

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  Animations of the basic skin (open to play).

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  Previous workbench UI.

Related achievements

• Cantha: High Tier — Equip a tier 3 jade bot module. (5)
• Cantha: Powered Up — Equip a tier 10 jade bot core. (5)

Notes

• You cannot turn off visibility of other player's jade bots, but the bots are not visible at all times, only spawning when deployed for specific actions.
  • The exception to this is if the player has their Miniature set as a Jade Bot.
• Many of the animations are implemented via skill effects, as the devs were concerned about server performance of having another entity spawn for each player.
• Cannot be named in-game.
• Jade Bots can be flown underwater.

Trivia

• During remote control while on the ground as well as in the jade bot panel, the bot has idle animations, one of them being a dancing animation.
• Movement speed during remote control is 600 units/sec for backward and forward movement, and 300 units/sec for ascend, descend, and sideways movements.
• The controls during remote control are similar to underwater mode movement.
• For a short time immediately after the launch of End of Dragons, jade bot remote control was unavailable due to technical issues. In its place, the Jade Bot Terminals for Help Xunlai Jade test and promote jade tech (80) provided a "Jade Tech Rifle" that could be used to light the Jade Tech Lanterns^{[verification requested]}.

See also

• Mini Jade Bot — a miniature that will transform into your currently equipped jade bot.

External links

• Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons - Jade Bots, YouTube.com
• Guild Chat Episode 118 - Jade Tech Mastery Preview, YouTube.com

References

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Jade Bot equipment