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

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 • • 14h ago

Second GWAMM

17 Upvotes

Just got my first GWAMM on my Derv!

My childhood dream is complete!

I have every other class and every character with Obsidian Armor/ chaos gloves so I have a plethora of options for my 2nd!

I think I want to do either my Monk Sin or Necro.
Necro would probably be the most versatile.

What do you recommend ?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Well, GWAMM has been a journey

93 Upvotes

I certainly learned a lot about the game doing it


r/GuildWars • • 18h ago

Ritualist’s or Assassin?

10 Upvotes

Hello everyone,

Like most, I came back to the game about a month & a half ago. Played Guild Wars very young (10), loved it back then, and the love has reignited!

When I was a kid, Guild Wars was gifted to me, and all I had ever played was prophecies. Parents never bought me the expansions.

So, upon returning, I started with my ol’ familiar Warrior & completed prophecies, already achieved obsidian armor with him and slowly working through EOTN. The game is a completely different experience this time around. Running Mesmerway with hero’s, constantly using wiki for builds. Able to farm UW with ease, something I couldn’t dream of as a kid. This game is even more epic than it was to me back then!

Simultaneously, I started NF for the first time. I am advancing through that campaign with a Derv. I have already completed EOTN with that character. My plan is to have one class, specific to the campaign, advance through and complete both the main campaign & EOTN for all my characters. So I’ll probably complete NF this weekend I’d imagine (mission/bonuses).NF has been a breathe of fresh air since it was new to me.

I’ll be starting factions sometime soon. I find things that I like about Ritualists & Assassin. I’m just not sure which one to pick when I start factions! Please, comment what you’d reccomend for the first time. I’m leaning more towards Rit, just because War/Derv are more melee characters already. I’d like to experience a caster.

Anyways, let me know what you’d recommend and why!


r/GuildWars • • 17h ago

Chest Run Recs

9 Upvotes

I’ve never done chest running before. I’m looking for some specific criteria, and despite looking at some Peter Kadar and GWReborn videos, reading some Agent Chevy legacy posts, etc, I’m still not sure where to start.

Things I care about:

Ease for mobile - I’m primarily interested in chest running to be able to do them on my iPad while watching sports or other things. I’m okay with a little hero microing - I do raptor farm (paragon hero microing), Stygian gemstone farm (microing spirits), vaettirs, etc. But some of these chest runs that are challenging with body blocking, IAU, etc, may be tough for mobile.

Treasure Hunter title - not interested if the chests don’t count toward treasure hunter. Also will be using lockpicks for lucky/unlucky, but I really care about ratio of rares for wisdom title purposes.

Drops - lower priority for me, but I do want there to be a chance for valuable drops. I don’t need anything highly profitable, but it’s fun if there’s a chance at something of value - some hope to keep you going.

What recommendations do you have for me?

Thanks in advance


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Senior post

35 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 • • 1d ago

Grawl in pre

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21 Upvotes

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


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Mobile Guild Wars Reforged on my Bold N4 cell

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21 Upvotes

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


r/GuildWars • • 19h ago

Mobile Reforged showing blank login screen on iOS

3 Upvotes

Is anybody experiencing this issue on iOS? I recently updated to the latest iOS 27.2 Beta 4 which might have something to do with it. Nothing fixes it (app reinstalls etc)


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

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

40 Upvotes

r/GuildWars • • 2d 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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281 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 • • 1d ago

Solo Oolas lab SC

7 Upvotes

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 • • 2d ago

Mobile This is the best Mobile game period

97 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

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 • • 2d ago

Official Guild Wars Reforged Merch

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122 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

Melandru monk builds

4 Upvotes

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 • • 2d ago

Nostalgia found a Chinese Guild Wars artbook

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90 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 • • 2d ago

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

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64 Upvotes

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


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Bonds quick apply and remove?

3 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 • • 2d ago

Heroes and drops

7 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 • • 2d ago

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

25 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 • • 2d ago

Anticipated New Type of Content

20 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 • • 2d ago

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

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25 Upvotes

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