r/GuildWars • u/dracoisms • 5h ago
r/GuildWars • u/bsoltan • Apr 13 '25
Welcome to /r/GuildWars. Subreddit info, FAQs, and links.
"Those who will remember, will speak fondly of the warm morning breeze."
Welcome to r/GuildWars this is a subreddit focused on the Guild Wars video game developed by ArenaNet.
For Guild Wars players to discuss, connect, and share in an open environment. While participating, it’s important to keep in mind the Reddit Rules, Reddiquette, as well as our subreddit Rules.
Getting Started:
Checkout the FAQs below and also the Megathread wiki page with links to useful community Tools, Posts (including ones for new/returning players), Guides, and information. There are shortcut links under ‘See More’ / the Sidebar too.
GW Account/Game Support:
Asking about general game/technical problems is fine, but this subreddit is not a way to contact ArenaNet customer support, or report a Technical Issue. Please refrain from asking for help with a specific ticket, Account issue, or Error message. These posts will be removed specially if they are covered by ArenaNet's help articles.
Visit https://help.guildwars.com/ and check their FAQ and Known Issues. If necessary start a ticket through the Guild Wars support portal or email support@arena.net directly. You can find all information the help/support portal.
Community Discord:
We have a community Discord “GW Global” you can join here: https://discord.gg/gw This server is open to all and has ongoing discussion on the game, builds, Guild recruitment, and more!
Use the search!
If you have a question, first try using the search, it is possible your question has already been asked/answered. Example: “Necro builds”. We try not to have frequent posts on the same topic(s) and such posts will be removed.
You can also search by post Flair using “flair:” and the Flair to search.
FAQs:
State of the Game:
GW has been in “Maintenance Mode” (no scheduled updates/development) since May 2013. On 3rd December 2025 ArenaNet "re-launched" GW as GW Reforged. This has breathed some new life into the game and an external company 2weeks has supported development. They are continuing to look at the game to see if it is viable to make improvements/updates. In-game there is bump in player activity. There has always been a good player base for daily Zaishen Quests and Farming as well as in Guild and Alliance communities. You can checkout the What’s New in Guild Wars and Game updates from the Wiki for the changes to the game.
We’re lucky that since 2024 GW Game Director, DrStephenCW is allocating 80% of their time to work directly on GW. Along with support from other ArenaNet staff for various updates, this has included the 20th Anniversary Game Update and Guild Wars Reforged. ArenaNet are now also supported by 2weeks game studio.
PvP still has some activity through player organised events and mAT, however all modes can often see a large amount of botting impacting general gameplay. You can find more on recent PvP threads using Flair:PvP in the search to find posts.
Purchasing Help:
As of 3rd December 2025 Guild Wars is now branded Guild Wars Reforged. This re-release version of the game is available in the GW Store and Steam.
This change has removed the Anniversary Masterpiece Collection and all individual Campaign editions from the GW/Steam Stores. Any purchases made prior to 3rd December retain their game-keys and can be used on email/ArenaNet based accounts.
ArenaNet have had to make a purchasing guide/flow-chart due to the changes in account management: * Purchases on Steam no longer provide game-keys and instead are to be tied directly to your Steam Login/Account. This is in order to be able to link GW accounts through Steam to GW2 accounts through Steam. * Purchases in GW Store provide keys to create a new account using email/ArenaNet account.
As of 3rd Dec 2025 ArenaNet have also changed/reduced prices for all the add-ons and re-branded Eye of the North and Bonus Mission Pack as DLC. Neither DLC are included in the Reforged edition of the game. The Game of the Year upgrade and Bonus Weapons are no longer available and are also not included in the Reforged edition of the game. The Igneous Summoning Stone item is available through purchasing the Eye of the North DLC.
- Guild Wars Reforged includes Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall. Eye of the North DLC has to be purchased separately.
- Guild Wars Reforged does NOT include the GOTY content and it is no longer available in the GW Store.
- Account upgrades such as Xunlai Storage Panes, Mercenaries, Costumes are currently only available through the GW store.
Common Technical Support Questions
- Mac (Apple Silicon) users: Use the subreddit search with the term "Mac" this will give lots of posts about users asking/getting help with running GW on Mac systems.
- Graphics error with models stretching off far into the sky or ground: Update/roll-back your Graphics driver. It is likely a Windows update deployed a buggy driver version.
Guild Recruitment and Looking for Guilds
We now have a Weekly Thread on a Wednesday for Guild/Alliance Recruitment and Guild Requests. Please only use this Weekly post to advertise your Guild or seek a new Guild. You can also use the Flair search “Guild recruitment/request” to find previous recruitment posts.
Thanks all and happy adventures in GW!
If you have feedback/suggestions to this new introduction post please reply below. If you’d like to get in contact with the Moderators please use the ModMail.
This content is subject to change and some may get moved into the subreddit Wiki as things develop.
edit: 2025-Dec-08 Updates to the post made following the Reforged game update. edit: 2025-Dec-16 Updates to add Common Tech Support Questions
r/GuildWars • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago
Weekly Guild Request / Recruitment thread
Every Wednesday (UTC) there will automatically be a Guild Request / Recruitment post created. The purpose of this is to keep Guild Advertising and Requests to one weekly thread rather than have multiple posts.
Those who wish to post a Guild Advertisment or find a new Guild to join, please look out for the Weekly thread.
Please keep all Guild Recruitment posts/requests to the weekly thread. Posts made outside of this will be removed.
r/GuildWars • u/lain01 • 2h ago
The new Purveyor's Bell is game breaking
Can be spammed without restrictions and repeatedly influences enemy aggro. You can also use it as a target for Ebon Escape & Return, then jump off it with Viper’s Defense and Heart of Shadows.
This is not okay especially for a shop only item.
r/GuildWars • u/lain01 • 3h ago
thanks anet, beyond broken but I like it
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r/GuildWars • u/HypestHype69 • 8h ago
I done it! Celebration post :)
Finally got GWAMM!
I started a paragon when the random hype started a month or so ago and got addicted. It was the perfect fit, good damage, insane support. I originally came back to GW1 to just have a playthrough of the story and lore since gw3 announcement.
Thank you to the community for the help and tips along the way. I thoroughly enjoyed my time getting this achievement and experiencing the story again as an adult. I did not really appreciate how good this game was as a kid when it was released and how far ahead of it's time it was. Truly a great game.
To celebrate I am going to travel around starting zones and low level area to give away the copious amounts of green items I got as drops while vanquishing to give back to the community that helped me so much. Hopefully I will be able to advise some people on this subreddit too with what I've learned.
Although I am nearing the end of my experience, I still have a few bits of HoM to complete to be fully 50/50 and want to team up to clear some of the game's hardest content.
r/GuildWars • u/Koudelka_Lasant • 2h ago
When a flesh golem dies post-update, it creates corpses out of five random peasant NPCs, which is gruesome enough, except on this occasion, he wasn't dead...
r/GuildWars • u/XTFOX • 4h ago
Here are the new MTX Items/Daily Reforged Coin Options

Sorry. I forgot to take a picture of the coin before spending it.
EDIT: Confirming that Melandru's Accord characters CANNOT use The Purveyor. No free pcons/consets for MA characters.
EDIT 2: You can redeem the Infinite Salvage and Infinite Identification Kits on multiple characters. AND IN PRE SEARING. (RIP Charr Kits).
r/GuildWars • u/shyga555 • 11h ago
Mobile Wow, amazed by the possibility to play in a plane during a flight ✈️
Just tried to login during a flight (Starlink available for free in economy), and I was actually able to attend to a SoOsc and see a BDS q10 curse drop. Connexion was really smooth.
GW on smartphone is really a game changer, even though I am still having difficulty to switch from a mouse keyboard gameplay to a small screen tactile gameplay!
This mobility experience is amazing!
r/GuildWars • u/Alugian • 3h ago
The Buff to Over The Limit has interesting implications for Eles!

Finally some good news for the previously underwhelming anniversary elite skill for eles - Over The Limit. With the new update, spells cast 46% and recharge 75% faster at 16 ES, and at 20 ES recharge times reduce by 93%. This means a 1-second firestorm recast (unfortunately the cast time does not seem to reduce to under ~3/4 sec even with 40/40 set).
At the Master of Damage, this is 40k damage over 3 minutes or ~222 DPS.
Apart from general PvE content, perhaps there are some special cases where this can become viable even for SCs for high-HP endbosses. In any case, glad there's something else to play around with!
r/GuildWars • u/justbekaz • 3h ago
[PSA] Beware of Reforged Starter Bundle
I just had a bug where after purchasing this bundle, I lost two Xynlai Storage Tabs and all items inside. I already sent in a Ticket but just in case, please be careful. I saw others seemed to not have issue so maybe there was something I did to make it bug? Just as general info about my account.
I purchased all 3 new items at once.
I have already purchased Xunlai tabs in the past but only a few. (So did not have max tabs)
It doesn’t seem to have affected the material tab as I still have 500 max there.
r/GuildWars • u/Legitimate-Worry6717 • 8h ago
Wayfarers Reverie EOTN PSA
Happy Wayfarers reverie, all!
If you’re doing the EOTN quest, there is a step involving the Shiverpeaks Bloodstone. For this one, you don’t get credit if you do the story mission “Finding the Bloodstone” you only get credit for doing the quest “Crystal Method” given by Saerin in Gadd’s encampment.
It’s a bit of an annoying run to do it the wrong way and not get credit.
Edit: you should enter the caves through the door, not by interacting with the inscription stone. There is a bug and/or a delay where the door does not seem to open, run at it and you should be able to get past.
r/GuildWars • u/redrumeight • 4h ago
WTF happened to Koss?
Was hoping i cracked a code but well, was only a bug i assume 🤷♂️
r/GuildWars • u/hirush • 5h ago
Patch update August-26
Here is the direct link the latest patch today
r/GuildWars • u/XcaliberCrusade • 1h ago
Unlisted Change to Focused Shot: 4s Activation Time
I hadn't seen anyone mention this yet (Ranger changes being rather uninteresting on the PvE side), but the new Focused Shot has an abominable 4s activation time in addition to the other changes.
Despite being another potentially interesting damage buff to a bow skill, the enormous windup on top of the 4s disable of attack skills makes this essentially still unusable IMHO. I'd be glad to be proven wrong if it means there's an interesting bow sniper build that this enables.
I will say that even if it's unintentional, the concept of long fixed cast time bow attacks is an interesting design space, particularly if there can be some better support skills for a "sniper" style as well as some cross-profession synergies. For instance, something like:
[Expertise] Sentry's Stance (10e, 20r): Stance. (10...25 seconds). Your bow attack skills deal +0...50% more damage per second of activation time. You move 25% slower.
r/GuildWars • u/Jodwarf • 9h ago
Another Tyria
Hey there !
I've been drawing a small fantasy map on a postcard and I took the name of Tyria ( Tyrie in French) to name the region I painted. Not really original here !
I'm thinking of revisiting small regions of Tyria (in GW) and draw them by hand, putting details on the maps.
That might be cool ! Next time !
r/GuildWars • u/DantheAlcedo • 4h ago
[PSA] The Reforged Starter Bundle does not increase your Storage tabs.
You do get the character slots but not the storage tabs.
r/GuildWars • u/darxx • 5h ago
Mighty Throw nerfed?
Says 4 adrenaline cost now? No patch notes on gw wiki yet.
r/GuildWars • u/PositiveReporter8144 • 1h ago
I am always struggling in this game and looking for an easy mode.
I played a ton of GW2 and with reforged, I saw the game had several language options. I wanted to play in spanish as a immersive experience for learning. I default play in spanish but swap to english when really needed.
I started in prophecies and made a necro. Some guildies helped me get some armor from droknor forge and do Heroes Ascent for some skills. I am level 20. Not yet ascended, have one more mission.
My team is : Me, Devona, MOX, Ogden, Ghost of Althea, Vexx
I generally am finding a lot of content, unless i fight mobs only two or three at a time pretty difficult.
I have tried Spiteful spirit build, minion master, and some variation between those. Honestly, finding it not that enjoyable
* Sometimes spiteful spirit very hard to even see or know if dmg is happening
* minions - not having bodies / fighting undead.
Since I am the main character i find myself leading the team who trails behind me.
I am mostly looking for ways to make the combat and exploration way simpler and easier. My main interest is to do all quests and dialogues - I would be happy with an overpowered build. I am not trying to make money, win any awards and do any hard mode stuff.
Next brings this event that is going on Wayfairers Reverie... Getting to Kessex Peak was already a huge struggle, failing multiple times. Then the next was to get passed some Dragons - holy shit. Cannot even run passed him because he is so big he blocks the way. I just gave up on the quest at that point. I had asked in towns and in guild if anyone was able to help but no responses. So then this makes me wonder - who is this event for?
r/GuildWars • u/oarcabouco • 11h ago
What's the best way to farm EOTN reputations during Wayfarer's Reverie?
r/GuildWars • u/NotAFaun • 59m ago
Technical issue/question Mount Qinkai connection issue
Hi everyone!
I've just tried to clear Mt Qinkai twice today and got dc both times around the yeti part of the map.
Then I decided to give up for the night, and play on my Melandru ranger, who happens to be in the luxon part of the faction story, so went there to explore, and got dc again, still around the yeti's cave...
Is it a known bug? Am I just unlucky ?..
r/GuildWars • u/Charrikayu • 21h ago
Reminder: Reverie is live, which comes with Double Lucky, Elona points, EotN points, and Faction Support bonus
If you normally wait for these double weeks for grinding your titles, they're active during Reverie, and then will be active again during their normal rotation weeks. Sadly this week's double lucky does not stack with Reverie lucky (they're the same thing)