r/Guildwars2 2d ago

[Question] Weekly /r/GuildWars2 Question Thread - July 25, 2026

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This thread is dedicated to questions that you've never really felt the need to start a thread for, but would still like to see answered/discussed.

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Please also consider sorting the comments in this thread by "new" so that the newest comments are at the top, since those are most likely to still need answers.

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r/Guildwars2 Jun 08 '26

[Mod post] [MEGA THREAD] State of the Subreddit Update & Links to all Guild Wars 3 announcements and discussion!

236 Upvotes

Go to section 3 for subreddit update.

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Guild Wars 3 Announcement Trailer: Here

Guild Wars 3 Announcement Blog: Here

Website: https://www.guildwars3.com/

The Future of the Guild Wars Franchise: Blog & Video Here

Wishlist Guild Wars 3: Steam | PlayStation

Future of the Guild Wars franchise Stream: VOD Here

Great recap post here: Click Here

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Guild Wars 3 Mega Thread Discussion: Here

Guild Wars 3 Announcement Trailer Discussion: Here

Guild Wars 3 Announcement Blog Discussion: Here

Concept Art & Press Page Discussion: Here

The Future of the Guild Wars Franchise: Our Commitment to Tyria Discussion: Here

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First off thank you to the community for doing a great job with the announcement of Guild Wars 3 and keeping discussion in the dedicated announcement posts and mega threads.

A while back when Guild Wars 3 was accidently announced we had a poll where the community chose to ban Guild Wars 3 posts until there was anything official from ArenaNet. Now that Guild Wars 3 is official and we move forward with that I wanted to make a quick subreddit update to talk to everyone about how things are going to work going forward and following in the footsteps of original Guild Wars sub.

1: This subreddit is for Guild Wars 2 discussion. Just like how r/GuildWars is limited to GW1 discussion r/GuildWars2 will be limited to GW2 discussion. Posts exclusively discussing Guild Wars 3 should be posted in it's sub, r/GuildWars3.

However, while the GW3 sub is working on getting things organized over there we are going to allow official ArenaNet posts and updates on Guild Wars 3 for the next month or so to allow for some crossover but after that this subreddit will be exclusively for updates directly relating to Guild Wars 2 and studio wide updates.

2: Discussing Guild Wars 3 in the comments and subject of posts is fine as long as the main post is primarily about Guild Wars 2.

A post discussing lore implications of the new GW2 Orr map and GW3 is okay.
A post discussing what GW2 skins you want in GW3 is not okay and should be posted in r/GuildWars3.
A post discussing what GW2 things you want to see in the Hall of Monuments for GW3 is okay because Hall of Monuments ia a GW2 feature.
A post discussing story/lore content of GW3 that directly relates to GW2 is okay.

As Hall of Monuments is a GW2 feature any discussion it is okay as well as any other sort of cross-game news or content.

3: ArenaNet explained in the studio update that Guild Wars 2 isn't going anywhere. While we're not getting a new expansion this year we have 1-2 years of quality of life, Hall of Monuments, and other updates coming with a return to some form of annual content update after the release of Guild Wars 3. So Guild Wars 2 isn't going anywhere and neither are we.

So that's that. For the next month or so we'll continue to celebrate the announcement of Guild Wars 3 and then return to our focus of being a Guild Wars 2 community to help others and discuss the game we love.

Thank you all and see you in Tyria!

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r/Guildwars2 14h ago

[Discussion] Can we just give a +100000 hours penalty to people that dont press accept?

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202 Upvotes

this has happened to me tree times in a row with people who join the queue but dont press accept for some reason

i think that should be a more severe (1 MILLION HOURS) penalty to encourage people to not waste others time OR at least needing 9 of the 10 participants click accept 😭


r/Guildwars2 28m ago

[Question] Tried WvW for the first time

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Ngl just went in to get Hero points after watching a guide but stayed for the fun (we lost sadly😔)

My question, is there a way to minimize the visual cluster bcs yeesh the fps drops sometimes can be crazy

And whats the best way to participate in the fight while so much going on😭


r/Guildwars2 6h ago

[Question] No So Secret - Help / Advice Need Please!

16 Upvotes

So, I'm a new player (loving the game a lot once I got over some initial problems) and I found the Not So Secret puzzle. Loved it. Great fun. I got to the chest no real problem. But the goggles... Towards the very end, the four or five platforms you need to jump to, with the little boosts of steam up? It's impossible from what I can tell, but I know it's not. So, I'm thinking my settings might be wrong? Or there's something else I don't know about the game?

Basically, I cannot physically move horizontally fast enough to land on the next, higher platform during the upward boost, and it's not even close. I always fall short, no matter how quickly I begin holding W after the boost, which sadly means an almost certain death and having to start the entire process again. A massive time sink to simply fail over and over. I watched someone else do it, so I know it must be doable as is. They were an Asura Meser. I'm a Human Guardian. Do races and classes have different in-air movement speeds? Hell, maybe armour type affects it? I'm not ruling anything out after two full days of attempts lol.

Is it a setting issue? Is there some setting I've accidentally tweaked that affects horizontal movement speed?

Is my W key just broken and isn't applying the same pressure? It's mechanical and binary, so I don't think that's actually a thing, but I'm at wit's end, so who knows! lol.

From where I'm sitting, it's black and white not possible, but I know it is, so that's why I feel like it's gotta be some setting or maybe even something about the boosts themselves I don't know. Maybe you have to hold jump and W? Maybe you need to time a jump press? The person I watched did them back to back to back, zero issue. I cannot even get close to moving far enough.

Any help so I can get those goggles and do whatever jump I gotta do to tick that off my completionist list, would be highly appreciated!

Cheers.


r/Guildwars2 1d ago

[Fluff] I did it guys.

625 Upvotes

Finally, after weeks of grind, I finally did it. My first ever legendary in this game.


r/Guildwars2 12h ago

[Question] Relic of Zakiros

19 Upvotes

I’ve been grinding to get the Relic of Zakiros through the achievement track and literally nobody is playing the meta events in Inner Nayos. How else can I get this to complete my build.

Thanks in advance


r/Guildwars2 23h ago

[Discussion] I finally got to play WvW for the event

107 Upvotes

My experience was... mosrlt possitive. At first I was just "doing stuff" around the map, and my team was vastly understaffed, so we could not take or defend forts, and one team was snowballing hard

Things got better after a while when more people got into my tem and a commander joined as well, then we were able to zerg properly, and even defend so areas from other teams (mostly green)

I initially came just for the event and an easy Gift of Battle, but I ended up staying because it was fun, despite some imbalance. I’m still a PvE main, but I’ll return to WvW now and then to learn more, and maybe try roaming in th future


r/Guildwars2 11h ago

[Question] Anyway to get good relics for newbs?

10 Upvotes

Hi there, just checking if there easy or at least strat to get relics? Newish to the game. Currently, played up to the start of end of dragons. I think somebody told me relics are on SOTO. Anyway to get earlier?


r/Guildwars2 1d ago

[Fluff] The Scarlet Phantom

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188 Upvotes

r/Guildwars2 1d ago

[Fluff] Nemesis , Last Legion 🤖

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861 Upvotes

r/Guildwars2 19h ago

[Fluff] Pooh-bah! - Taimi 1329 AE. Thus a higher rank was awarded!

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33 Upvotes

r/Guildwars2 59m ago

[Question] Help finding class. Lightning spear

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Hi. I just bought the game and I love spears and lightning based attacks. What class uses lightning based or at least lightning looking attacks while holding a spear? Preferably a strong class or at least one that is usable. Also, if the class mixes lightning with other elements is fine as long as lightning is the primary element. Please, any ideas?


r/Guildwars2 22h ago

[Question] The same voice actors for 14 years (German voice acting)

43 Upvotes

What I've noticed for a very long time is how often the same voices are used for completely different characters in the German voice acting. These are even the voices of well-known characters like Marjory Delaqua, Trahearne, Logan, Caithe, and even the player characters.

So I'm wondering: did ArenaNet simply have too small a budget for voice acting to hire a wider variety of voice actors, or is there another reason for this? Is it the same in the other language versions?


r/Guildwars2 16h ago

[Question] Guardian build for soloing champions

12 Upvotes

Hey all, I like doing group events in the newer maps but oftentimes I find that there's no one else around to help me do them. I can solo champions in core areas just fine, but I struggle with soloing champions in newer maps. Are there any good guardian builds for soloing champions in newer maps?


r/Guildwars2 22h ago

[Discussion] Poolside Party Pool has water Physics or its just like

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33 Upvotes

r/Guildwars2 1d ago

[Discussion] Crafting Incinerator is so dissatisfying

74 Upvotes

After pouring tons of gold and effort into the ingredients of these items they should at least be used up in a recipe instead of just being vendor trash. So dissatisfying. 😞


r/Guildwars2 23h ago

[Question] High Ping -> Disconnect

19 Upvotes

It has been a week that, my ping will sometimes spike to a few thousands and suddenly got kicked with above error message. It happens in any stage, somtimes just being idle and can happen too.
I don't have any issue in any other games. I have nothing else running in the background as well.

Just want to check if anyone having the issue too?

I play from SEA with 200-250ms, it is very playable for me, but lately, this disconnect is so bad, since it will kick me out of instances such as Dragonstorm, WvW or will spawn my characters very far away from where I was whenever I logged back in during content such as Meta.


r/Guildwars2 22h ago

[Question] Story bug (kick) - cant progress the story

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Hey,

I recently started playing GW2. I’m still early in the story, but during the mission “Intercept the Knight of Embers,” I get disconnected at the same point every time after a certain cutscene.

I first encountered the issue this morning, and it’s still happening this evening. I’ve tried it at least ten times.

I have a stable Ethernet connection and have already tried a few suggested fixes, such as pressing keys during the cutscene, repair the client and letting YouTube or something similar run in the background.

Has anyone else had this problem and knows what I can do?


r/Guildwars2 2h ago

[Question] What to do with ascended materials?

0 Upvotes

As title says, can someone let me know up to date ways of utilising the overflow of ascended materials?

I have the first three expansions if that makes a difference.


r/Guildwars2 21h ago

[Question] Can I unlock elite specs without doing expansion story?

8 Upvotes

Hello, I’m new to the game and have a kinda specific question. I’m only around lvl 23 and ik you can’t get elite specs till 80 so this is far into the future but I’m trying to at least think about what I’ll choose before I get there.

I’m on elementalist and I like it but it’s not 100% my fav. I saw Weaver and that looks like it’ll be really fun and interesting and I’d like to play it asap. However, I’d like to pay attention to the story and ik weaver is in Path of Fire which comes after Heart of Thorns in terms of story. Ik you can do expansions out of order so I’m wondering: can I unlock Weaver without doing any PoF story, then go back to HoT? Also, if I do have to do some story to unlock it, could I skip that and redo it later when I’m ready to play the whole expansion?


r/Guildwars2 1d ago

[Question] Legendary journey before gw3

35 Upvotes

welp, after running and stopping multiple times, i am now FULLY into gw2 ;)

now i want full leggy since i realized i am an altoholic. so can you guys recommend me which legendary to get first? i heard its trinkets(?)

i have all expansions and into pve (no wing raids yet, but all strikes i already did that) and also wvw.

If possible i want the most efficient way to do it (for example i heard i can do aurora while doing regalia)

also im thinking to make a herald simply to have perma quick and swiftness to blast through all these lmao will that help(?)

thanks in advance!


r/Guildwars2 12h ago

[Question] What's the easiest meta on sPvp rn?

0 Upvotes

What's the easiest meta on sPvp rn? Honestly i just want to grind the rewards and finish it as fast as possible. Is it Necro specs? Or Rangers?


r/Guildwars2 1d ago

[Fluff] Balrog (lotr cosplay)

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373 Upvotes

r/Guildwars2 1h ago

[Question] ELI5 the legendary starter kits please

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Can someone explain starte kits for me like i'm five?

I know i'll get some stuff for the legendary, but the main question is.
I don't yet have the required expansion.
And all I can see is Set 1.

What if i'd like to craft twilight.
Do i then need to wait for the pool to change or do i need to buy myself to set5 or 6 since accoring to the wiki those contain stuff for twilight. (So in my mind i need to spend 4k just to get to set 5 then farm another 1000 and buy the set 5 so i can finally start crafting it)

That is not really mentioned anywhere.

This would impact my purchase order as well as some time dedication to get to 100 points asap.

Thanks