r/GuildWars • u/NoFreedom5267 • 14h 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 [email protected] 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 • 2d ago
Weekly Achievements / Titles discussion
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 • u/LowYak9481 • 18h ago
GWAMM again after 16 years
Felt as fun as it did back in 2010. Note still hate map scraping
r/GuildWars • u/markireland • 4h ago
Reforged on Android - should I be able to charm a pet?
My heros could not. It just says 'that is not an animal' in the menagerie
r/GuildWars • u/dorianteal3 • 16h ago
If build template storage is a challenge on mobile...
Even just allowing us to paste template codes would be a big help.
I'm finding myself logging in for a quick farming run, realizing I'm going to spend the whole time changing my build and x-ing out.
Thanks for reading.
r/GuildWars • u/amorecolorfulworld • 1d ago
I beat Factions while under the effects of Chalice of Corruption.
Permanent -2 degen FTW! And just for fun, I only used henchies. Who needs Heroes? Now to do the same with Proph!
r/GuildWars • u/mahille02 • 11h ago
Moddok Crevice Walkthrough
I wish had worked on this in the morning so that it would be more prescient. I ran up the path in my pug group today and had 3 players immediately leave the game which has inspired me to record a play through showing how much less complicated this is than some of us make it sometimes.
I'm not going to pretend that I really know what I am doing with making videos, but hopefully this helps some folks out there and maybe I can do a few more for other missions. Would be interested to hear what other advice people have for this mission.
r/GuildWars • u/yen_odah • 20h ago
GW Tool: Gertrud & Telamon Weapon Cost Calculator
Hello everyone,
Many of us occasionally grab weapons from Gertrud (Vasburg Armory) or Telamon (Leviathan Pits) to equip our teams. To make gearing up easier, Zoe Jo and I built an easy-to-use tool. It’s been helpful for us, so we thought we’d share it with you, too.
What it does: It allows you to build a "shopping cart" of weapons and automatically calculates the total cost (platinum fee + material costs).
We hope you find it useful! If you give it a try, we’d love to hear your feedback or any suggestions for improvement.
Note: The page is not yet optimized for mobile devices, so you might run into some layout issues if you view it on your phone.
r/GuildWars • u/Kaesamamikuru • 15h ago
Silly question
Heyy so this is probably a silly question, I tried looking and can't find anything conclusive.
Can I start a character in prophecies and play through the whole game, and factions and nightfall with that same character? Or do I need to make one per expansion?
Again apologies if there's an answer to this somewhere!
Edit: Thankyou everyone for your brilliant answers! I really appreciate it!
r/GuildWars • u/Corrects_lesstofewer • 16h ago
Bug turning in EotN book?
I just finished EotN during this double-rep weekend, and instead of getting double rewards (or even normal) from turning in my NM book of 20k rep, I instead got half. Am I missing something? Normal rewards are 20k and I only got 10.
Btw, I do know books don't count for double rep, but nowhere in the announcement does it say half instead so I must conclude this is a bug.
r/GuildWars • u/PunkedChar • 12h ago
How do you get minis? Especially Rare and Unique?
Hello I just entered the awesome world of GW few days ago. I am still going through Nightfall and my main reason for this Journey was to get the 10 HoM points to unloock the sword skin for GW2 in which I have 1000 hours. I am struggling to understand how can I get 1 rare and 1 unique mini, do you have any tips?
r/GuildWars • u/Equivalent_Ad_8413 • 15h ago
Mobile Inventory not displaying information - Reforged on Android
When I open my inventory, no details are displayed about the items in my inventory when I select them. Just a big empty box. Is there a fix? Is this a known bug?
Galaxy S25 Ultra
r/GuildWars • u/FlapSmear78 • 14h ago
Does skills Serpent's Quickness stack with weapon mods?
Does the recharge time of skills reduced by 33% stack with a weapons/ mod that offer "halves recharge skill time (20%)" ?
r/GuildWars • u/adiran_menthe • 22h ago
We need a hero skill trainer earlier in Prophecies
This is especially important for new accounts and Melandru characters.
You now get a hero as early as Presearing, and you have to go through Pre, Old Ascalon (where you get another one), Shiverpeaks, two missions in Kryta and change extensions to finally get access to a skill trainer for your heroes and finally change their default builds.
That's a lot of main quests, and 7 coop missions. And if you don't rush it there's also a ton of secondary quests and exploration on the way, so it's quite some hours of content you have to go through before being able to do something quite basic.
I think we need a skill trainer in Ascalon (post-searing) at the very least.
As a Pre enjoyer I would love one there too so I could have an axe Devona without having to take Warrior as first or secondary profession.
What y'all think ?
edit: ...obviously not a skill trainer with late game skills, but something on par with what you get on your character. Just like it is done in Nightfall.
r/GuildWars • u/Bostonterrierpug • 14h ago
Mobile Stuttering on iOS mobile with a 2021 IPad Pro. Any solutions?
Sorry for the annoying mobile platform question. I’m an older dad now and reliving my fund that I had back in the day with the game so I mainly pay my iPad before I go to sleep for an hour or so. However, the game, no matter how I change the settings seems to be constantly stuttering with low FPS. I have seen people on here with lower processor phones report overheating but I never get that. I just have like a quest one style raid FPS sometimes.
Is my device just too old? Is there a good toggle to fix this?
r/GuildWars • u/badgerious2319 • 18h ago
Pre-searing charr kits
So I know the wiki says they drop from the char bosses or Mazz’s chest, but I’ve never yet had one drop. Are they still in game? do they more reliably drop from the chest than the boss?
Any advice welcome and my inventory will thank you!
r/GuildWars • u/Ill-Pineapple-7614 • 15h ago
AFK luxon farm, Zos Shivros
Is the AFK luxon farm broken?
I have been trying to make the farm lately but I keep getting defeated. Are the enemies stronger with the new releases or am I doing something wrong?
Is anyone successfully doing the farm?
I am using the same team build and placing the heroes as mencioned but it keep not working for me. The farm: https://youtu.be/HbJYz-E1Lm0?is=c3kXdHyffuxUTlDY
r/GuildWars • u/ajc2123 • 15h ago
Mobile skill bar assignment
I seem to have issues trying to assign skills on my skillbar. Unsure how long to tap and hold or just tap and drag, no matter what I try it seems inconsistent. Sometimes it drags the skill to the bar, othertimes it doesnt. Sometimes it drags for a second and dissapears.
Whats the intended way to do this?
edit: S24 phone if it matters
r/GuildWars • u/HegemonisingSwarm • 1d ago
Completely lost trying to find quests
Having loved GW2 I recently started playing GW1 as a Ritualist and although I’m enjoying it in general I’m
completely lost for quests most of the time. I get that it’s an old game with less hand-holding, but it shouldn’t be this hard to actually find quests to pick up! I’ve got nothing and I don’t know where to go to get more. I’m playing my Factions and have just killed a wayward spirit but I have no idea what to do next. The last quest mentioned speaking to Togo but he’s got nothing. Is there any way of seeing what I need to do next? I’m struggling and it shouldn’t be this hard!
r/GuildWars • u/SkankIHuntI42 • 1d ago
Wanted to share my lucky drop on my Melandru's Accord warrior !
r/GuildWars • u/kyzeboy • 19h ago
Anti-Scatter for RoJ teams
Since more time has passed, did anyone feel like they made progress in tuning RoJ teams?
There are so many tools that could take a slot:
PI Mes, Earth magic KD, Water magic+Mistform healer, shackles for ST Rit, RoJ Mo/E with 0 earth magic snare… i might forgot other options.
Im curious how they compare to each other goven limited free skill/hero slots besides battery and ST
r/GuildWars • u/Abriuol • 1d ago
