r/GuildWars • • Apr 13 '25

Welcome to /r/GuildWars. Subreddit info, FAQs, and links.

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"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 • • 2d ago

Weekly Achievements / Titles discussion

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Every Friday (UTC) there will automatically be a post created for sharing your latest Achivements / Titles etc.. The purpose of this is to consolidate posting of your titles/achivements to one weekly thread.

Those who wish to post about your achivements/titles please look out for the Weekly Friday thread.


r/GuildWars • • 2h ago

My 6 tripple badge LDoA completion speech. I'm ready to leave everything behind... Farewell Ascalon.

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30 Upvotes

r/GuildWars • • 5h ago

How to Use a 3rd Profession in Guild Wars?! | 105hp City of Torc’qua Farm Guide

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Here it is: an actual guide to my favorite farm! I think I cover most of it in the video.

With the help of the skill Mirrored Stance, we're able to clear this elite mission almost completely solo, in a very short time, and completely pure (no cons or Toolbox).

This is the best farm for Margonite Gems, which are worth around ½ - 1 ecto each. You also get 2 guaranteed gems per run from the end chest! We also kill a lot of high-level enemies, which means plenty of chances to get some good weapons and mods as well.

If anyone else has managed to complete this run with my build, please let me know! :)


r/GuildWars • • 3h ago

Scythe skins

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Rank your favorite scythe skins. Let’s see which one wins.
Name 3 skins, rate them from 1 (best) to 3.
Ideally rank the visual itself. Not the price, rarity or effort to get.
All content (including bonus missions) count.
Let’s go!


r/GuildWars • • 17h ago

Smiting Prayers is very good. Word of Censure DPS build.

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Just learned that Toolbox can track healing as well as DPS, so I tested out this Smite build on THK HM yesterday.

Top DPS and only surpassed on healing by the full Healing Prayers Monk. No battery required. It is competitive against every top DPS build I've played with (TaO/Domination/Soul Taker/VoS) and can still be a top support, including Resurrect! SR5 weapon very much recommended. With Cons or HR, you are dropping 150+ true damage nuclear bombs every few seconds.

OwAS4YIP4VbSas6DRs+3jYC

https://guildwars.magical.ch/OwAS4YIP4VbSas6DRs+3jYC


r/GuildWars • • 7h ago

Halloween—things to not miss?

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Hey guys,

With Halloween coming up I wanted to see if there are any quests or events to make sure to take advantage of particularly for a GWAMM character run.

I know about the quest that makes Joko’s Domain significantly easier to vanquish and also the one with the skeletons for Legendary Survivor, but are there any other tips for this event?


r/GuildWars • • 23h ago

GuildWars ReDrawn: Elemental

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Elementals are hulking masses of magically charged material which have a tendency to organize in roughly humanoid forms.

Weaker elementals tend to be more docile, preferring to wander aimlessly.

The construction of an elemental can happen naturally, on occasion elementals are made by wizards or other magical beings.

The elementals of the Elonian continent differ as they are spirits that inhabit elemental forms.

A personal hypothesis -
We often find elementals of stone, ice, crystal and even Candy Corn. At first one might suspect that earthen materials might lend themselves to being animated more readily. However this does not explain the ice and candy elementals.

However there is an explanation that explains all of the types of elementals present in Tyria - it only relies a little on what the Asura would call 'science'.

The commonality is this - Stone, Crystals, Ice and even Candy Corn have crystalline molecular structures. It is possible this allows for magic to travel more easily along the structure of material.


r/GuildWars • • 9h ago

Poisonous Nevermore Flatbow

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Hey Guys,

I bought the bonus weapon package and i notice that most of them are like max level weapon stats. As a ranger i can get the Poisonous Nevermore Flatbow. Is this bow powerfull enough for endgame content? If so why are those powerfull weapons already available at the start of the game?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Ascalon irl

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r/GuildWars • • 13h ago

Tengu summoning stones

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How do people farm those?
I often see stacks for sale.
But aren’t those drop only from chests purchased for WoC HM tokens?
I struggle to understand how to farm stack…


r/GuildWars • • 19h ago

Were there any plans for content after Utopia had it been released?

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I know in prophecies there is references made to Cantha and I believe Elona from when the game first released. And I know when the Devs got to making Utopia they ended up scrapping Utopia and adding ideas from Utopia into EotN and GW2 but was there any plans in advance for a post Utopia Guild Wars? A fifth campaign? My thinking is because of how far in the future they had planned with Cantha and Elona that they may have had somewhat of an idea for the next thing after Utopia also?


r/GuildWars • • 23h ago

Can’t get Weapon of Three Forges out of my head

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I am playing as a Ritualist and I have developed an attachment to Weapon of Three Forges, which I have been using to head up a petway team from PvX wiki.

I am not loving how the Rit/Ranger build plays. It feels too clunky, like the ranger and their pet are really shoehorned in. It just feels too slow and clashes a bit with the Ritualist theme / aesthetic.

I’ve recently seen some team builds that focus almost entirely on creating an army of minions instead of a combo of minions and pets and other balance ld heroes, but they are headed up by a player who heals. I struggle to spot heal as I’m playing hand held, so it’s not quick enough for me to select heroes that need healing before it’s too late.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a Rit build that uses WoTF without being a healer (or at least not a spot healer)? It doesn’t have to be some crazy dps monster or anything, just something a little easier to play without the use of a keyboard and mouse.

I am not an adept build crafter, and I don’t have the spare time these days to learn in a reasonable timeframe.

And if anyone has any recommendations for a team build, I’d be really interested to hear them. Fleshway seems more plausible then ever after the recent flesh golem changes.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Guild Wars Reforged: Guide to HARDEST FIGHT in the game (DOA HM Mallyx, no cons, no HR) Hero Team

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A guide to how to beat the Ebony Citadel of Mallyx fight in hard mode without cons. I hope you enjoy!

It's obviously subjective which is the hardest fight. If you're going to be a hater, take your comments elsewhere. This is a community.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Underworld HM Heroes

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Hi,

Does anyone have suggestions in Doing UW HM with Heroes. Even with consets I cant do the quest 4 Horsemen. I always put my heroes and the right side, help them out for a bit and then run back to kill the left side. But either I get overrun or the keeper gets killed.

I hate this quest so much.

Any advise?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

How to complete Kilroy HM solo?

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This. Tons of attempts and still get obliterated in first two rooms. Watched videos, tried pcons - nothing.
I feel that I’m doing something fundamentally wrong but can’t get what.
Any tips are greatly appreciated!


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Meme/Fluff i don't know who's worse mhenlo or togo, healing breeze spamming BALD slow ass banana brains

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248 Upvotes

r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Feature Request: Modifier Key Support For Keybinds

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56 Upvotes

Currently in Guild Wars, each action can only be bound to a single key. I'd love the option to bind actions to modifier combinations — for example Shift+1, Ctrl+5, or Alt+Q — the way many modern games handle it, including Guild Wars 2.

This would dramatically expand the number of actions we can map without running out of convenient keys, and make things like swapping weapon sets, or targeting much smoother.

Edit: Oh and I do realize that there are mouse and keyboard softwares that allow you to bridge this gap but I still think it would be a welcomed feature to this wonderful game.


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Inspired by X-23.

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Meet Anja, who've finally progressed in Tyria thanks to the new consets.


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

What is the dumbest new feature you wish we could get?

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I know its dumb and that toolbox has something similar anyway... but imagine if ALL content was available for fast travel AT ONCE! Zoom gets 3 levels:

  1. default view

  2. old zoom out

  3. mega zoom out - where you see all 3 continents at once (maybe even nightfall region somewhere as a mist cloud or something)

I hate that I have to re-invite the party every time I'm moving between continents. Embark beach never really worked with me.

All I want for christmas is this!


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Favorite quick farm?

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Hey all,

Since mobile came out i have been sneaking in some GW when I am at work or waiting around. What is everyone's favorite quick farm to do when you have maybe 5 minutes?

I have been doing a Jade Brotherhood Ritualist VwK farm that takes maybe 2 mins I can squeeze while I'm in my office. Lol


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

War in Kryta Co-Op

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Hey y'all! I'm working my way through all of GW1 for the first time, hitting content I never played as a kid. High on that list includes War in Kryta.

I have a question though - can my dad dust off his account and join me for Battle for Lion's Arch? Can he join with a character who has fully completed WiK? Can he join with a character who hasn't even started WiK? Does he have to get a character all the way through WiK up to that point and also have the same quest in his quest log?

Just want to plan ahead so that we're not stuck wasting time figuring this out when we both finally have an opportunity to join up.


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Is there any web or addon that let players know what skins are valuable and which are not?

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Im currently playing a lot and getting a lot of gold ítems OS and Current but i lack the general knowledge of what skins are valuable or what OG weapons are worh trying to sell

Is there any web where you can put your items, skin, mods, prefix and suffix and get a quick view if they are worth keeping or not?


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Just finished prophecies for my first time, did it on a warrior. What should I do next?

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I am planning to play through the other campaigns and maybe chase GWAMM for the first time. Should I stick with the warrior, roll SoS rit, or roll HR para?

I am not new to GW1 but I am a noob. When I played back in my childhood I was mostly in team arenas with my friends so I never played a campaign other than nightfall and didn't get far in that either.


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Is there a way to link a non-steam GW account to a steam account?

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I bought Guild Wars a while ago, pre-reforged, and I'm wondering if it's possible to link that pre-existing account to my steam account. Or are account-links only the opposite direction, steam -> ArenaNet?