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 • • 5m 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 • • 1h ago

Official Guild Wars Reforged Merch

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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 • • 4h ago

found a Chinese Guild Wars artbook

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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 • • 3h ago

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

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


r/GuildWars • • 4h ago

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

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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 • • 3h ago

Anticipated New Type of Content

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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 • • 5h 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 • • 7h ago

Single Profession Characters

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Is there still a way to create Single class characters?


r/GuildWars • • 4h ago

MA(DC) safest playthrough

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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?).


r/GuildWars • • 1h ago

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

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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 • • 3h ago

Minipet and Everlasting Tonic Prices

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Hey everyone,

I just logged into my account after 11 years and got TONS of birthday presents to open.

Now since I‘ve been gone, prices have significantly changed, but are there any reliable sources left, where I can check or at least estimate the value of these items? I realize that there are still a lot of traders in Kamadan AD1, but I don’t want my lack of knowledge to be taken advantage of.

I‘m grateful for any help ☝️


r/GuildWars • • 13h ago

Technical issue/question Help with carto mods

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Hi

No matter if I use this one or the carto made easy, I get this problem when in some instances. I use texmod.

Any idea how I can fix it?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

PvP MakePVPGreatAgain

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r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Small Achievement

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150 Upvotes

So I've been logging on every morning and doing some presearing Huntsman gift farming. Finally got 1K gifts! Going to transfer them to my main character soon but I wanted to share this small nearly pointless accomplishment. Was fun drinking coffee and doing simple mindless grind every morning lol


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

I feel in love with this game again

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I remember playing this game about 20 years ago and having an amazing time with it. Started with Factions. The game ambience, its style and distinctive gameplay really fascinated me compared to other popular MMOs at the time.
A few days ago I discovered the Reforged version and tried it on my Steamdeck. Many things were forgotten but everything had so much nostalgia, the music, the visuals, the sound effects. It really has a calming effect on me, like a time capsule of sort.
I am so glad that I started again, although I lost my old account. Somehow starting fresh is even better, I get to experience again all that captivated 20 years younger me. Now with a wife and kid, I couldn’t be happier to delve back into this game (when I get the opportunity).
What a truly fantastic game, I just love it.
Glad to be back


r/GuildWars • • 19h ago

SaO Chain Cartographer Help

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Does anyone know exactly how to SaO jump from Arbor Bay to Riven Earth without triggering the portal? Apparently according to the new cartographer mod I am missing one tile and the instruction says "Mapped by SaO chain portal jump from Arbor Bay to Riven Earth" as an alternative to Zinn's Trial (which I completed since I thought I uncovered everything already).

Tried for over an hour going in every direction to no avail.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Questions about lockpicks

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Hey, everyone! I recently returned to the game after over a decade and decided to finally achieve the GWAMM title. I used to play too many characters, so my progression was always fragmented. I earned Legendary Defender of Ascalon on a new Mesmer and just recently finished the three campaigns on normal, with bonuses.

Now that I'm in Eye of the North and Hard Mode content, I've noticed that I am rarely retaining lockpicks, and they're expensive. I am only rank two in Treasure Hunter and Lucky, so I think it's a 19% chance or something to keep each lockpick in HM for now. I was able to buy some lockpicks from a Faction vendor.

For those of you with more experience: are lockpicks still worth it to use? Since I've only just returned and don't have coin, is there a way I could possibly farm them instead of buy them? I know these account-wide titles aren't required, but opening chests while questing or vanquishing is fun, so I would like to make it work if I can.

Also, I bought the infinite identification and salvage kits; I have been salvaging everything except wood items and selling the materials once I get a stack. Should I swap to only salvaging valuable runes/insignias and selling the rest? This could be why I am broke, lol.


r/GuildWars • • 20h ago

Beginner question Storybook problem?

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Finally scraped and scrounged my way to 900k experience and went to hand in my storybook, but it won't let me turn in the normal one. Weirdly, the hard mode ones went through fine, so I know I'm in the right place and doing it the right way. Am I missing a step or a requirement for the normal version?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Purchasing help Can I play the free Android version a bit to see if I like Reforged, then completely wipe the character and instead buy the game on Steam and link my Steam character to Android?

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I'm really interested in trying Guild Wars Reforged out, having never played GW1 back in the day. I primarily play things on Steam though and I'd like to continue with that - so I'm hoping I can "trial" the game on my Retroid Pocket 6 for a bit (Android-based), and if I end up liking the game... then I would purchase it on Steam and use that account as my "main" account... so I'd like to wipe my trial character and link my Steam account character instead.

Is this doable?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Technical issue/question Semi-new, and suffering from regular freezing whenever I try to do anything in game

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When Reforged launched I played it up to about level 7, with no problems, but I've come back to play again but now I'm having some rough technical problems.

It started with freezing and sluggishness ever new page of character creation, and now that I finally have a character created, the game freezes whenever I try to open a menu.

Any chance someone knows what the issue is and knows a solution?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

New/returning player New to the GW Community

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How’s it going everybody, never tried guild wars back in the day as I was a die hard RuneScape player, found reforge in the App Store and a buddy of mine at work are trying it out/thinking about starting a work clan. Any tips for a new player? All advice is welcome


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Meme/Fluff Luxon Warrior wants to battle! Luxon Warrior sent out SEIGE TURTLE!

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279 Upvotes

Critical hit!

It's super effective!

Enjoy the double Kurz/lux rep week

Mb for typo


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Melandru's Accord

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Been playing since I was like 14, and reforged + updates are amazing to see.

I am playing an Ele Melandru's + Dhuum's + Reforged + aiming for LDoA (have done LDoA like 4-5 time already, some deathless, some for the hell of it).

What is worth keeping for Melandru's?

I figured spider webs for silk and charr hides/worn belts for bolts of cloth and THS or similar mats, but I also recall there being a few easy farming locations for things like this in Post.

What exactly is worth keeping for mats? Also heard that its better to keep them in their initial format because you can ultimately get more out of a stack of for instance, charr hides VS a stack of THS.


r/GuildWars • • 23h ago

why, 2weeks, whyyy

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Nobody likes kamadan and you have an amazing skybox to flex for screenshots (second screen from halloween 2008). Plus Tomb of the primeval kings is peak nostalgia meeting spot.

I demand justice. Change the meeting spot or add a second meeting D:
EDIT since it's not apparent? : I'm memeing, not that outraged, but I legitimately think it's too bad they missed that occasion. that skybox is so perfect for halloween.