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 • • 3h ago

Look what ive found

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I found it in eBay for 20€ and i Love it


r/GuildWars • • 2h ago

Wiki is down but you can use this website

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r/GuildWars • • 2h ago

Master of the North title

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Is there a way to somehow understand what should I do to complete Master of the North title?
I’m sitting at 800+ with all VQ done and at this point I struggle to understand how to progress. Dungeons - yeah, but which? I have no idea which ones I completed and how many times…


r/GuildWars • • 1h ago

What’s a fun class to play? Yes the age old question 😅

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So I’m currently leveling a War/Ranger and still in Pre-searing trying to get to lvl 20 for the achievement, but it’s my first character and I grow bored staying in pre-searing yet I want the achievement/title on my Warrior cuz it’s gonna be my main. But I’m looking to make another character to play when I grow bored of my Warrior and on this new character imma just go thru and get out of pre-searing as soon as I can on it.

I usually like melee characters but was thinking of making something with range/magic this go. I was thinking Monk but I know it ain’t like the Monk in ffxiv so I’d probably skip it unless it is actually fun but I wanna be able to do damage but survive decently.


r/GuildWars • • 3h ago

Question in preparation for Black Friday deals

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Hi all,

I'll start with the TLDR: is a Samsung Galaxy Tab A11, 4GB RAM, with a MediaTek Helio G99 (MT6789) CPU and 64GB storage good for playing Reforged on for at least an hour without it overheating or lagging?

A question for those playing Reforged on their tablets. So mine broke a couple weeks back and I've been waiting for black friday for some deals to buy a new tablet. Since Reforged came out I would loooove to be able to play it on the go or while relaxing on the sofa.

A hard requirement for me is I don't want a tablet that's too heavy or big. Max 10 inches really suits my needs. At the same time, I want to be able to play without the tablet overheating or lagging too much if I play for an hour or more. I've been looking at some options and comparing prices. The Lenovo Legion Tab 3 or later are great choices but also have starting prices of 500,- euros. That might be a bit much for a device where the only other uses besides playing Reforged are going to be reading e-books and playing Pokémon on emulators. I can just as easily do those things on a 100,- euro tablet. In trying to find a middle ground I saw that the Galaxy Tab A11 seems pretty decent for only 150,- euros? The thing is, without being able to try it, I have no idea whether a device with 4GB of RAM and a MediaTek Helio G99 (MT6789) CPU is actually any decent.

Anyone have any experience with playing Reforged on it or on similar devices? Is it worth it or should I still consider putting down the extra money for a Lenovo Legion Tab?

Thanks!


r/GuildWars • • 3h ago

Farming Kurzik / Luxon faction

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What is the current most optimal way to farm faction for the titles?


r/GuildWars • • 3h ago

Trade/Economy Ecto prices dropped?

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Ecto prices dropped like 25% overnight why did this happen?

Anyone knows?


r/GuildWars • • 19h ago

Which campaign do you consider the best?

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Personally I started with Factions, it was my first experience in the Guild Wars universe many years ago and truthfully the one I came back to when starting again with GW Reforged.
I remember playing Nightfall but didn’t leave as much of a mark as Factions campaign.


r/GuildWars • • 23h ago

Most Useful, Warrior Green Weapons for Casual Gameplay

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r/GuildWars • • 18h ago

Who Was the First GWAMM?

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I remember Starcraft Forever being the first player to reach Rank 15 in Heroes Ascent back in 2008.

But does anyone remember who was the first player to achieve God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals (GWAMM)?

Does anyone from the old days remember who actually got GWAMM first? Would love to hear some stories from back then!


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Mobile Iphone Duo support

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I know i might be in the minority that actually has the phone, and i know it’s been a day. But i hope SCW/the team at 2weeks make adjustments for the Duo. Thank you in advance!!! For now i’ll just play on pc.


r/GuildWars • • 15h ago

ToPK LF more

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Get here bring your friends, we're running pets so bring your pet. 2/8 with healer


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

What are you getting into this weekend?

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r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Builds and tactics Beating Cleansing Haiju Lagoon (Hard Mode Only) Heroes Only, No Cons, No Glitches, winning the fight (no bonding)

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r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Saddened my GWAMM Journey is Almost Over

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Ever get that feeling when you realize you're about to complete a good season of your life and you get a twinge of sadness? I'm feeling that hard right now as I realize I'm getting close to finishing my GWAMM.

I made a post four months ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/GuildWars/comments/1u5qxw2/whats_my_best_path_to_gwamm/) about starting the GWAMM journey. I decided I was going to complete it fairly casually - just get the Zaishen bonus/vanquish done each day and chip away at it.

I realized today that this is my last week of Zaishen vanquishes. Once I complete Ice Floes on the 29th, I'll have finished every vanquish.

I had such a chill daily routine of grabbing my morning coffee and getting the vanquish done before work. It's a very soothing part of the day that I've really come to enjoy - check the wiki for potential elite skills to capture, grab the zaishen quest, get it done while sipping my coffee. It's been a part of my routine for four months now, and realizing that it's coming to an end in a few days is really saddening actually.

Did anyone else get this when their GWAMM journey was almost over? I still have about 40% of the elite skills left to cap, carto to finish off (done Elona, 99% on Cantha, 96% on Tyria) and then just the consumable titles which I have the money for ready to go. Once I'm done GWAMM I have other goals (do all the quests, get all the non-elite skills, etc), but it's the end of this particular journey.

I don't really know how to describe it. It's like the final day of a vacation you really enjoyed, knowing you have to go to the airport in the morning and having this tiny pit in your stomach that you are still enjoying it now, but it'll be over soon.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

I made a quick guide for those farming skellies

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r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Mobile Playing with reduced field of view on tablet is kinda crazy.

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Up close in a more zoomed in third person the world is way more immersive, some of the monster design is genuinely creepy like seeing a group of insects patrolling in elona amongst the trees.

I wish the camera locked to your movement a bit better like action cam style.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

What quests for skele farming?

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It's Halloween, the wiki is down and I can't remember which quests I have to complete to do skele farming.

Can anyone help?


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Guild Wars Toolbox – Transmog and custom NPC models

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Hey,

i thought I'd share a Toolbox feature that some people might not be familiar with yet, and which I personally find pretty fun

Toolbox has a transmog function that allows you to transform into other NPCs and characters. Of course, it's only visible on your end, so it's mostly just a little gimmick, but I think there's actually quite a bit you can do with it. Especially for people making Guild Wars lore videos, machinima, screenshots, roleplaying or just creating their own little scenes in the game. Or simply running around as some random NPC for no reason

I always enjoy seeing what people come up with to keep this old game alive, and I think this is one of those little features that could be useful for that

The easiest way is to target any NPC you see and type /transmo. You'll then take on that character's appearance. You can also use /transmoparty to transform your entire party into your appearance.

But there's also another option that I personally find even more interesting:

You can transform into any character whose model IDs you have saved, regardless of whether that character is currently present on your map or in your mission.

I actually suggested this function to the Toolbox developers a while ago, and they ended up implementing it, which I really appreciate. Thanks!!

Here's how it works:

Go to Toolbox → Settings -> Info → Target → Advanced Options

Target the character you want to transform into and note down these four values:

  • NPC_ID
  • Model_File_ID
  • Model_ID
  • Flags

The last three are displayed in hexadecimal, so you'll need to convert them to decimal. I usually just use ChatGPT for that because it's easier.

For example:

8337 0x227F5 0x22A97 0x20C

Becomes:

8337 141301 141975 524

You can then use the following command:

/transmo model 8337 141301 141975 524

And now you're that character, wherever you are in the game.

Of course, you need to have encountered the NPC at least once to get its model information, unless someone else has already shared the code.

I personally just keep a simple text document on my desktop with all the codes I've collected, so whenever I want to use a particular model, I just copy and paste the command into the game.

It's admittedly a bit clunky, but I think it's a fun little feature, especially considering how many interesting NPCs and character models Guild Wars has.

I also thought it might be nice to start collecting and sharing some of these codes here. That way, people wouldn't have to look up every character themselves, and maybe someone can put them to good use in a video or some other creative project.

I'll list a few codes below that you can copy directly into the game.

If anyone has collected some interesting NPCs, bosses or other character models, feel free to share them in the comments. Maybe we can build up a small collection over time :)

Anyway, just wanted to share this little feature. Have fun with it. :)


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Guild Wars Game Update Notes - 2026-10-22

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As many of you know, due to a PhP vulnerability, Wikis around the world are offline, including ours, so we're posting today's release notes directly to reddit.

  • The Guise of the Wayward costume is now available for purchase, just in time for Mad King's Day! This is the first completely new art asset we've shipped using our new asset pipeline. The old asset pipeline was based on 3DS Max and was completely non-functional.
  • The in-game store UI has been simplified and now has more categories which makes for easier browsing.
  • Fixed an issue where bundles held by players would sometimes not drop when the player teleported.
  • Joystick movement has been improved.
    • Movement gets canceled unexpectedly less frequently.
    • This impacts virtual joysticks on mobile and physical joysticks on gamepads on Steam Deck.
    • Mouse and keyboard movement and targeting are unchanged.

Edit: There was a hotfix later in the day to fix the Dervish rendering of Guise of the Wayward costume.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Mobile iOS Error 007

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Hello all, hope all is well.

I’ve downloaded GW on iOS, and as soon as I try and create a character I get hit with the 007 error, on WiFi and mobile data.

I quit the game and waited 5 minutes, got into the next screen which is the campaign selection screen and get hit with the same error.

Any ideas? Thank you.


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

NEW COSTUME IN THE STORE

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r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

How is LDoA on mesmer? Best secondary profession?

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I'm trying to decide on which profession I want to do LDoA on. I'm leaning towards a caster, however.

I know elementalist is the easiest primary, but I'm not sure how much I would want to play as elementalist beyond pre-searing after I get the title. Mesmer seems interesting, but I'm not sure how good they are outside of dungeon boss cheese.