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 • • 1d ago

Weekly Achievements / Titles discussion

6 Upvotes

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 • • 5h ago

Well, GWAMM has been a journey

48 Upvotes

I certainly learned a lot about the game doing it


r/GuildWars • • 8h ago

Senior post

20 Upvotes

I'm 36 going 37.

I discovered my first love in this game at 17, met friends i still have at 36.

Lost friends in the game at 25.

Made a guild at 21 wich i still have.

Played AB,GVG,FOW,UW, at 22 and still going.

Lurked in this reddit from 30.

Enjoyed team skill building from 25.

I stil love every aspect of this game.

Ty stephan and 2 weeks i dont think you guys realise how much this means to us old souls.

From the bottem of my ectos TY, all of you.

Lost grim reaper


r/GuildWars • • 9h ago

Mobile Guild Wars Reforged on my Bold N4 cell

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17 Upvotes

Love being able to play on the go, now if I could only do it with Guild Wars 2.


r/GuildWars • • 8h ago

Grawl in pre

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10 Upvotes

Ive had more black dyes than magic armor drop off the level 6 grawl in the northlands..


r/GuildWars • • 17h ago

Best PR for a Moa Bird pet I've seen.

31 Upvotes

r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

New/returning player Logged into guild wars reforged with my old email. I haven’t played since like 2006. I was shocked my old characters popped up.

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261 Upvotes

The nostalgia is overwhelming seeing all my old gear and characters. My beloved fellblade i was so proud of lol probably worthless now though.


r/GuildWars • • 18h ago

Solo Oolas lab SC

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Hey everyone!

I recently came across a video of a solo D/N Oolas lab SC. I've never done any solo dungeons before so I'm quite eager to try this out to make some money.

It says cons are not a requirement but will make it easier (unfortunately I don't have any cons).

Does anyone have any tips on making successful runs? I killed Xien once on an attempt out of 20 tries but I keep dieing on most run attempts then the DP gets too high I have to go back to outpost and try again.

Here's the video and a PVX link for reference

https://youtu.be/iXQi9EdOtPU?is=2kkN0FJreqetT83H

https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:D/N_Oolas_Solo

Thanks!


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Mobile This is the best Mobile game period

92 Upvotes

It absolutely crazy how nice this is to play on a tablet, and with its insane content nothing even comes close as a mobile MMO especially as it's got no ads, pay to win..

I really think Anet is not pushing the mobile angle enough right now, hell even the controller hand held experience is really nice.

The only thing I wish they did was have a loot or interact button on the right side by the weapon so you didn't need to reach across the screen when playing mobile and looting .

Other than that it's just fantastic


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Official Guild Wars Reforged Merch

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114 Upvotes

I hope we’ll get more Reforged merch than just that … shirt. But merch has never really been ArenaNet’s strength, which i dont understand


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Devona hero skills

7 Upvotes

I have a question regarding skills for heroes.

I started a new character and just got Devona (in pre-searing).

I thought i would be able to change her warrior skills up because I've collected almost all warrior skills in the game (with a warrior character), but she only has the ones she comes with.

Does she have to be a certain level for me to see those skills? The skills merchant doesn't have them either currently.

Wondering how that works.

Thanks for the help.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Nostalgia found a Chinese Guild Wars artbook

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79 Upvotes

Found on Taobao. Originally 65 yuan (9$ or 8€), got this secondhand for 21 yuan. Seems to be the combination of official Factions Artbook and Nightfall Artbook, as the sticker said, but with a couple pages missing​​ on wiki.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Melandru monk builds

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I'm going through the profession that I played the less amount of time within this last decade and of course it's monk.

I had the idea to try a Melandru character as I will mostly play alone and in short session.

I basically only played Monk for farming and SC so my pve builds were mostly Roj and Hammer build with the new anniversary weapon which was a lot of fun.

I'm going through all campaign in "order" and looking for fun or original build of your own madness that are not related to healing.

I have currently a mix of prot and smithing currently trying to help a bit the prophecy healer Merc

I had the idea to do prot and warrior shout fighting with a sword and a shield

Having close to no skill available to the skill trainer is challenging, crazy how my other character have easy life without knowing it.

Looking forward to skill cap later for my Devona

I would love to tank and ball group in later content as a monk/warrior or assassin

I have no problem with trash tier build if they are a lot of fun.

I just want ideas and test/refine it


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Meme/Fluff I guess she really didn't 𝘴𝘦𝘦 that one coming!

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62 Upvotes

She's just as useless when she is blind, as she was when she had eyes.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Bonds quick apply and remove?

5 Upvotes

My UI is a little complicated. I am trying to find a quick way, maybe a keybind to remove bonds?

For example as a monk running UA and someone dies too quickly res them I have to hover my mouse and double click. But as some of you know that mouse cursor is tiny and it is yellow and when there's lots of particle effects on the screen, sometimes we loose track of my mouse pointer and have to find it to double click UA. Needless to say this is a bit uncomfortable

Does anyone have any advice maybe a toolbox command or any keybinds to quickly remove bonds? I'm especially interested in monk mains or e/mo constantly run bonds. Any tips or pointers would be appreciated.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Best mod for Cartho

2 Upvotes

What is the current best mod for cart title?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Heroes and drops

6 Upvotes

Quick drops question. I know drops get randomly assigned across the whole party, including heroes and henchmen, and anything assigned to them just disappears. The wiki says each party member has an equal chance at each drop.
What I can't find is whether distance matters. If I flag my heroes way back outside compass range, do they still get assigned a share of the drops? Or does the game only assign loot to party members near the kill?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Thinking of starting GW reforged. Good secondary profession for warrior?

24 Upvotes

I want to create a warrior since that was always my preferred RPG class archetype. I know you can respec your secondary profession, but im getting discouraged since I’m reading that due to warrior’s low energy pool, many secondary choices are poor. So now im not sure if I should pick another class, since it looks like warrior ruins the fun of mixing class combos and being creative. I was thinking of warrior/necro and be like a life stealing blood knight. Or maybe warrior/para since both focus the most on adrenaline? Just don’t want to regret picking warrior but the class looks the most appealing to me, even more than Dervish.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Anticipated New Type of Content

19 Upvotes

Months ago, it was announced that a new type of content is going to be developed for GW1. No timeline or details beyond that as far as I am aware. Does anyone have theories on what it could be? Any type of content popular in GW2 that doesn’t exist in GW1? Thoughts ?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Guild Wars Reforged: Defend Droknar's Forge (Hard Mode Only) beaten with my Paragons hero team

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Took down Evirso Sectus first try. Lvl 40 Titans are no match for Paragons!


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Vizunahn Square local quarter access question

5 Upvotes

I have a factions assassin with the quest to enter vizunahn local quarter. Is there a way to keep this quest to help other people reach it?

Is the only way for a foreign character nightfall or prophecies characters to access this mission is to have a local factions character with the quest active take them there? Is there any other way for a foreigner to enter the local quarter?

should I leave my assassin on this mission in case people need it and go level up somewhere else?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Wondering if I make this game (Prophecies) harder than it needs to be.

7 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I never played the original GW that much, so I decided to jump back in and try it out again.

I continued playing with my ranger/warrior from years ago, who is currently questing in post-searing Ascalon and surroundings (Piken Square, Diessa Lowlands etc) and just reached lvl 11.

I use henchmen, primarily the warrior, the healer and the elementalist, along with Melandru's stalker and sometimes my fire imp.

So far, the whole questing process is really tedious and takes a long time, which makes me wonder if I make this more frustrating than it needs to be.

A couple of questions:

I use axe/shield (ditched the bow) and have most of my points in axe mastery and beast mastery (around 5 each) and some in other specs (marksmanship only 1 so far).

I feel like my damage output is pretty low and due to using medium armor, my defense is also pretty bad. I typically don't like respeccing in RPG as it feels weird from a roleplay perspective, but it seems like my build is far from optimal.

Maybe I should bite the bullet and respecc or just put the next points in sth else. Since this is my "first" character, I'm not too keen on using a build, but I feel like it might be better for this game. What do you recommend?

I also tend to avoid fast travel due to roleplay reasons, but the areas between outposts seem pretty vast and full of enemies, which makes me wonder if I should use it more often.

Is this something most people do or is it "frowned upon"? Should I use moving speed skills instead?

Besides that, I have a hard time figuring out what to sell, what to salvage and overall what to do with my stuff. I'm low on inventory space and low on money.

I bought one of these items that upgrade a bag from 5 to 10, but even then my inventory is pretty full. I feel like I could make at least some money by selling stuff, but never know whether I should sell trophies for example or give them to collectors, which rarely seem to have the items I'm looking for. Also don't know which weapons to keep.

I'd really appreciate some help so I can make the experience a bit more enjoyable. Thanks!

TL,DR:
Should I respecc?
Should I use fast travel?
What to do with my inventory?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Single Profession Characters

17 Upvotes

Is there still a way to create Single class characters?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

MA(DC) safest playthrough

11 Upvotes

Veteran PVE player here, having a blast playing MA(DC). Heroes are of course not fully decked (mainly runes) after completing the 3 campaigns and EOTN before going into more difficult content (HM, mostly).

What are the big things to do or avoid in order to make the playthrough as safe as possible, decreasing the difficulty when possible?

The big one I found is the War in Kryta foes (peacekeepers) in most of Kryta as I would want to vanquish those areas, so I'm looking to vanquish first (easy areas, 8 players from ToA), then complete Hell's Precipice second (as it's still unclear to me if that alone triggers the foes appearance in Kryta, and there is no toggle on/off as we do for WoC).

Minor one : having the Galrath quest active makes Kessex Peak vanquish way easier.

Do you know anything similar that would be interesting to share? I wish the wiki had a nice guide for this (is there?).