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

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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 • • 5h 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 • • 47m ago

Most Useful, Warrior Green Weapons for Casual Gameplay

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r/GuildWars • • 2h ago

What are you getting into this weekend?

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r/GuildWars • • 11h 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 • • 6h 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 • • 13h ago

I made a quick guide for those farming skellies

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r/GuildWars • • 1d 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 • • 21h 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 • • 1d 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 • • 1d 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 • • 21h 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 • • 1d ago

NEW COSTUME IN THE STORE

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r/GuildWars • • 1d 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.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

I don't understand

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How do I fix this? I've filled my inventory then emptied it and tried that, I relogged, I completely emptied it and still get this message


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Skellyfarm question

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Since wiki is down and this is my first Halloween…
When I have enough skellies for survivor - how do I properly turn those in?
Do I need to split 3 at a time and keep rest in bank to avoid spending stack on one quest submission?
Or there are no bugs like this?
Thanks!


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Old GW1 Accounts Passed on Between Friends - How Has ArenaNet Handled This Historically?

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Hey everyone,

I'm curious about something that probably affects quite a few longtime GW1 players.

Back in the day, some players passed their accounts on to friends when they quit the game. Years later, those friends may have played on the accounts for much longer than the original owners, without ever knowing the original registration details.

With 2FA and account verification requirements, this raises an interesting question:

Has anyone had experience with ArenaNet's handling of these old, voluntarily transferred accounts?

I'm particularly interested in whether support has ever considered long-term account usage or other account-specific information when the original registration details were unavailable.

I understand that account transfers are against the Terms of Service. I'm not looking for help with a specific support ticket, just curious about people's experiences and how these situations have been handled over the years.

Thanks for sharing your experiences! <3


r/GuildWars • • 19h ago

GWP Spell Acquisition changed

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Disclaimer: I may be wrong and thus the following paragraph would be fake news.

Does anybody know when and why Guild Wars Prophecies postponed the acquisition of several spells you could acquire towards the beginning of the game?

I've just seen a Regorged Mode level 12 elementalist character that has several Earth skills I don't have in either of my level 18 elementalists (one is Reforged whereas the other is not; the Reforged one is secondary elementalist whereas the other is primary elementalist) and I definitely tried to do every single quest so far and probably did with both.

What's more, his character doesn't have several Air, Fire and Water Magic skills I do have, and the player claims he had them so our theory is that he didn't lose the Earth ones because he had them equipped in the skill bar.

The Earth ones he says he either got them in quests or in the Post-Searing Courthouse's skill trainer.

I can't buy from any skill trader up to Lion's Arch included either of those Earth spells he has and I don't.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Builds and tactics Guild Wars Reforged: Guide to beat When Kappa Attack (Hard Mode Only) no cons

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r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Creative Mesmerizing girls in your area (GW commission part 5)

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r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

I've compiled a table of Daily Activities and this week's and next week's Nicholas the Traveler gifts and map location

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Had to use Wayback Machine to compile this. Since ArenaNet in the official Guild Wars discord confirmed that the wikis will be down for about a week (due to Guild Wars 1 and Guild Wars 2 using old PHP version and the recent PHP vulnerability discovery, RIP. So no backlog info for about 3-7 days), I've complied a list of daily activities until the end of the Halloween event for convenience. I've also listed this week's and next week's Nicholas the Traveler's collector items and his location for convenience. Also credit to the German Guild Wars wiki that is still running for the high definition maps.

Date Zaishen Mission Zaishen Bounty Zaishen Combat Zaishen Vanquish Shining Blade bounty Vanguard Quest Pre-searing Nick
10/21 The Elusive Golemancer Urgoz Fort Aspenwood Grenth's Footprint Calamitous Farmer Hamnet Dull Carapaces
10/22 Riverside Province Fenrir Heroes' Ascent Jaya Bluffs Greves the Overbearing Charr Baked Husks
10/23 Boreas Seabed Selvetarm Alliance Battles Holdings of Chokhin Lev the Condemned Countess Nadya Red Iris Flowers
10/24 Ruins of Morah Mohby Windbeak Guild Versus Guild Ice Cliff Chasms Justiciar Marron Footman Tate Spider Legs
10/25 Hell's Precipice Charged Blackness Codex Arena  Griffon's Mouth Justiciar Kasandra Bandits  Skeletal Limbs
10/26 Ruins of Surmia Rotscale  Random Arena Kinya Province Vess the Disputant Utini Wupwup Charr Carvings
10/27 Curse of the Nornbear Zoldark the Unholy Fort Aspenwood Issnur Isles Justiciar Kimii Ascalonian Noble Enchanted Lodestones
10/28 Sunjiang District  Korshek the Immolated Alliance Battles Jaga Moraine Zaln the Jaded Undead Grawl Necklaces
10/29 Elona Reach Myish, Lady of the Lake Jade Quarry Ice Floe  Justiciar Sevaan Blazefiend Griefblade Icy Lodestones
10/30 Gate of Pain Frostmaw the Kinslayer Codex Arena Maishang Hills Insatiable Vakar Farmer Hamnet Worn Belts
10/31 Blood Washes Blood Kunvie Firewing Heroes' Ascent Jahai Bluffs Amalek the Unmerciful Charr  Gargoyle Skulls
11/01 Bloodstone Fen Z'him Monns Guild Versus Guild Riven Earth Carnak the Hungry Countess Nadya Unnatural Seeds

This week's Nicholas current location (5 Forgotten Trinket Boxes per gift):

Next week's Nick location (3 Icy Humps):

A few tips for daily activity efficiency during Halloween event:

  • Since the best way to farm Trick or Treat Bags is through doing the Every Bit Helps repeatable quest in the Underworld (which involves capturing 3 Skeleton dimwits), you might as well pick up the Charged Blackness Zaishen Bounty on Sunday as well. Unlike the Bladed Aaxtae bounty we had a few days ago, this one is actually a lot easier to do.
  • Next Monday (10/26) involves Rotscale Zaishen Bounty. If I remember correctly, one of the main Halloween quests involve going to Rotscale's place, so you might as well kill this dude in Hard Mode (also don't forget to vanquish the area, Majesty's Rest, where Rotscale is, it's basically two birds in one stone and a quick vanquish to boot). EDIT: For very efficient vanquish, just clear out most of the eastern area, then complete the vanquish killing Rotscale LAST, because the Halloween quest, IIRC, requires you to enter a specific area of Rotscale's Mausoleum (also recommend you take a Ray of Judgement smiter monk since although Rotscale doesn't take double holy damage, his undead buddies and the Halloween mobs do)
  • Justiciar Marron I believe is around the same explorable area where you need to go to for one of the Halloween quests.

Misc efficiency:

  • You may want to hold Jahai Bluffs and Issnur Isles Zaishen Vanquishes for the week after next week (I believe it's the Elonian bonus week of 11/2), it's basically doing 2 birds in one stone. Ruins of Morah and Gate of Pain are something you might want to pick up and hold on for similar reasons as above. Same with Korshek the Immolated.
  • Any Zaishen bounty that rewards at least 140 copper coins is something you want to hold on for week of 11/9 (I believe that's the week for double Zaishen coin bounty, but correct me if I'm wrong).
  • For any vanquishes this week for the double zaishen coin bonus, I highly recommend you pick up Griffon's Mouth this Sunday (10/25). Not only it's relatively quick 100 Copper coins, but next week's Nicholas the Traveler's gifts involve 3 Icy Humps per gift, and all of mobs in this region are Ettin mobs that drop them. About 8-10 character Zaishen Vanquish runs will give you enough humps for next week.
  • Save Jaga Moraine vanquish quest, available on 10/28, until 10/31 where you can pick up Blood Washes Blood zaishen mission quest. You can basically vanquish the area and do the Blood Washes Blood afterwards. Be sure you end up in the Vaettir area when you finish the vanquish (which fortunately enough, Jaga Moraine's layout makes it very easy to pull off). It's also recommended that you bring the Ursan Blessing elite to make things a lot easier for yourself for Blood Washes Blood.

EDIT: Added a few more tips and recommendations.


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Pre/LDoA Is there an updated LDoA guide for Guild Wars Reforged?

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I was wondering if there's an updated guide for getting the Legendary Defender of Ascalon (LDoA) title since Reforged came out. The guide I keep seeing recommended was made before Reforged, and with all the changes I'm honestly pretty lost on what I should be doing at each level now.

Is there an updated guide that explains the best way to level from 1 to 20, including which quests to do (or save) at which levels?

Would really appreciate any tips or links to a current guide!


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Prepare yourselves: Guild Wars Wiki (GWW) could be down for several days.

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r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Mobile Guild Wars Reforged Mobile stuck on Welcome screen – login not showing

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to play Guild Wars Reforged on mobile, but I’m stuck on the Welcome screen. The login screen never appears, so I can’t log in.

I’ve already tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but the issue persists.

Has anyone else experienced this, or found a way to fix it? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!