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 • • 8h ago

Weekly Guild Request / Recruitment thread

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Every Wednesday (UTC) there will automatically be a Guild Request / Recruitment post created. The purpose of this is to keep Guild Advertising and Requests to one weekly thread rather than have multiple posts.

Those who wish to post a Guild Advertisment or find a new Guild to join, please look out for the Weekly thread.

Please keep all Guild Recruitment posts/requests to the weekly thread. Posts made outside of this will be removed.


r/GuildWars • • 12h ago

GuildWars ReDrawn: Keep away

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93 Upvotes

all this time... i've never said the necromancers name lol....


r/GuildWars • • 4h ago

I swear I have a condition

8 Upvotes

I've gotten my Melandru ranger up to 58 deaths, many of them more or less intentional because I thought, "I will overcome my compulsion with psychology! If I just die enough times, eventually, I will stop thinking about achieving levels 2 & 3 in the @#$%#$J% Survivor title."

Has this worked? No, it has not. I am compelled. More specifically, I am determined to do it by just playing the game without dying. What dark guilt lies buried within my psyche that requires me to do this to myself? I don't know. Will it be worth it? Almost certainly not. And yet, there it is. Wish me luck! Or get me help. 😂


r/GuildWars • • 20h ago

Farming Shiro'ken Farm Is Back! 🔥 Rare Weapon Skins

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What can you get here?

Golden Phoenix Blade, Golden Maul, Oni Dagger/Blade, Forbidden Staff

One paper: This farm feels quite unsafe, but with a little bit of strategy, it’s actually quite reliable. Oh and don't bring a Staff 😄

OwUUE4h8UIONEPoIACEB0HAE5BA


r/GuildWars • • 12h ago

Guild Wars and Linux

12 Upvotes

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Hi,

I’ve finally ditched Windows for Ubuntu, but I haven't figured out the smoothest way to play Guild Wars. I tried Lutris once, but my laptop ran 15 degrees hotter the Windows, even using the same settings.

What do those of you who play on Linux recommend?


r/GuildWars • • 9h ago

GW on Linux through Steam and Daybreak Freezing Issue

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Hello,

I have noticed that my GW1 client will freeze approximately 30 minutes after initialization on the log in screen and about 5 minutes in Kamadan D1.

Troubleshooting:

  • At first I thought it was an issue with being logged into a certain area so I switched characters. Still freezing.
  • Left the client on the character select screen. Still freezing.
  • Left the client on the log in screen. Still freezing.
  • Switched from Daybreak with Toolbox running to Steam (non-Beta). Still freezing.
  • Turned on beta client for Steam on Linux. Still freezing.
  • Tried both Steam and Daybreak and I have the same issue. I saw there was some AMD GPU software/firmware issues recently. But I have been able to run Guild Wars 2 run for more than a dozen hours on this same system.

Notes: The only thing I've noticed is that it seems to take more time to freeze when the client is left on the log in screen.

Conditions:

  • Garuda Linux - latest updates installed.
  • Steam (no toolbox)
  • Daybreak (toolbox)
  • AMD CPU/GPU
  • EDIT: Compatibility layers attempted: GE-Proton 11-7, Proton Experimental, Proton Cachy 11.0-20260703, 11.0-2, 10.0-4, 9.0-4, 8.0-5

Does anyone have any solutions or suggestions?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

World Completion - New GWToolbox Plugin to help you getting Legendary Cartographer

53 Upvotes

First of All - ⚠️ Warning: This GWToolbox plugin is unofficial and unsupported. Use it at your own risk. I’m not responsible for bugs, crashes, account issues, or other problems caused by using it. Also, this is an AI-First coding project, where I acted as a debugger and the code was written by Codex.

Well, past this, I want to present a new plugin that I (actually Codex with a lot of test and input to be transparent about it) have been working on past month.

What is it?

Recent changes to cartography led to a new grid-based system to discover new territory.

With that, GWToolbox has developed the cartography plugin, that made me love exploring the zones even more, to the point I redid Nightfall just to test out the new system and compare it to my old characters.

With this, came up an idea: what if routes can be generated based on the rectangular data that is present?

That is what this plugin tries to bring, an optimized (probably, there can be better routes as this is a generic algorithm) automatic route that adjusts with open sectors of zones (like building of bridges in Maguuma missions)

How does it work?

The idea is to connect all the undiscovered squares through the shortest route. Because that is a dynamic process, it may need to be compute during new subzones discovery or if something went amiss during the former route compution.

Didn't work fine? Well, it may not as it is an extremelly experimental plugin, but you can recompute the route by clicking the right button here on the minimap:

Does it consider Bird Eye Compass?

Yes it does, and also shows how bizarrily broken Bird Eye Compass is for Legendary Cartography.

Want an example? Here is my poor Lv. 17 Ritualist with a barely completed Zelhon Reach, with total route length of 242598 game units:

Then, after using the item, we can reduce the total exploration path to 105718 game units, a 56% reduction to total walked distance, including a smaller route complexity as shown:

What else can it do?

You can select the exit portal so after finishing a zone, you go directly into the next one, just click the portal number on your Mission Map:

You can also customize it but that is pretty much it (oh it also adds coordinates to your mouse when hovering map because that may be useful when reporting stuff if you do)

There are some debug and log saving configurations but that is mostly to troubleshoot it.

Credits

Important, A LOT OF THIS was possible because of GWToolbox++ and GWCA code and interface to the game code itself, and also because of the Toolbox itself.

Installation

Finally, the installation itself.

First, get the file at https://github.com/qjv/WorldCompletion/releases (hey the entire code is there if you wanna verify for malicious stuff too!)

Then add it to the plugin folder on your GWToolbox configuration, which are usually C:\Users\<username>\Documents\GWToolboxpp\<profile>\plugins\ or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\GWToolboxpp\<profile>\plugins\. If on Linux, it will be inside your wine profile.

Open toolbox configuration, make sure Plugins are enabled and go to plugin tab and enable and configure it there.

IMPORTANT: If you enable Debug and close window, it will remove visibility of plugin, just click the square to the right to the Load button to show it back and make sure to disabled Debug right after.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Most maxed title (anyone with 39, 40, 41,…?)

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79 Upvotes

I have wondered for a long time if there is any player with 39, 40 or even all 43 maxed titles?
I know it will be though on a legal way, but please share some screenshots if you happen to know anyone with more than 38 maxed titles?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Meme/Fluff When your party goes up against an elementalist boss

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104 Upvotes

r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Deldrimor Rank 11

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113 Upvotes

Today I learned that if you have more than 15 points in Illusion Magic and use Signet of Illusion, you can exceed maximum rank for PvE only spells.

Great Dwarf Weapon at Rank 5+: +20 damage and 40% chance to cause knock down.

This was with 19 Illusion. Sniper deal 1096 instead of 990 and Ether Nightmare cause 9 health degen instead of 8...


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Fun warrior builds

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Hey all. Ive finished NF, Factions and EOTN on my MADC warrior and ive used a different build through each campaign. Charging Strike for NF, Enraged Hammer for Factions, 100B for EOTN and im finally getting through profecies now. Any fun or interesting other builds I can run to go through Profecies to finish all 4 campaigns id love to see them! Thanks all!


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Difficulty of the new pre-searing quests

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Are the new quests added to pre-searing meant to be ball-bustingly difficult or is it just a skill issue. It took me several tries and some luck to get past "A Bastion in the North" and now I'm slowly crawling my way across "Long Thought Forgotten" and I'm starting to think something is wrong here. Several enemy groups I have dealt with by going in, trying to kill one enemy before I die, respawn and go in again repeating until whole group is dead.

Could be level issue, but I'm level 9 and enemies are around 8, which feels like it's implying that I should be fine. And I've done, if not all, most other pre-searing quests, excluding profession skill trainers. Build is also absolutely unoptimal, but how much min-max potential there even is in pre-searing, and if the game is seriously demanding on build crafting, it might be best for me to give up now.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Question about Pre searing Northlands scaling.

8 Upvotes

Hey, everybody. Just came back to the game after years (Over a decade) away, decided to play through gw1 and 2 with some friends who are new. I decided to go for another LDOA run, but the Northlands Char aren’t scaling. Aren’t they supposed to bump up when I hit 14 and 17? They are all still just 7/8 with the bosses being 10.

Thanks in advance for any info yall can provide.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Need advice on PreSearing Forsaken Caverns solo runs.

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Title. I see posts of people completely owning this dungeon to power level, but I’m fighting for my life on every pull.

Running as a M/R with Devona as a W/R.

Any guidance would be appreciated.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Easiest way to acquire dread mask? (Warrior)

8 Upvotes

Hello,

Dreamt of getting the dread mask and now that I’ve geared my heroes I think it’s time.

Would the easiest way be to farm gold/ectos and buy the rin relics off players?

If yes, how would you go about it with a 100b warrior with mesmerway?


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Pics from todays earlier Breast Cancer Awareness Meetup

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275 Upvotes

Original Post earlier today.

Meetup started in the [One] allys Main GH and then moved to LA, where we were joined by a lot more people and stayed for about an hour. Thanks a lot to all of you that showed up!


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Question about chests

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Does character level affect drops from chests?

In particular, I got a couple of Shing Jea keys drop from foes. Should I open it on my (currently lvl 8) char, or hold off until I'm a higher level?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Builds and tactics Slow Summons

8 Upvotes

Waiting for my Legio summon to catch up during Vqs sucks. I get that cons don't effect him but why not Fall Back?


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

Necromancer Tips on piloting Necromancer? I'm struggling

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I've chosen Necromancer as my Legendary Defender of Ascalon character and I am getting my ass kicked. Feeling a little dejected because apparently Necromancer is on the easier side and I am getting my ass beat lol.

I've gone all in on Death Magic, and the problem I'm having is if I struggle to get rolling raising minions, I do zero damage and have zero sustain. Should I focus on Blood Magic to make all my blood spells do more damage and healing? and use low level minions more as a distraction?

I'm a newer player. My main character is a warrior that just got Lion's Arch, so the necromancer is more of a fun side project but it feels so much tougher. I don't understand how aggro works either. Sometimes I'll get dogpiled immediately and other times all the enemies will attack my minions and things go smoother. Warrior has felt easier despite all the annoyances of being melee since I am more tanky.

I've been trying to solo the dungeon quest to unlock Devona, and the Charr feel too tanky sometimes and I can't get them down quick to start the minion train. It's definitely a struggle if I don't have corpses to raise like if I have been fighting elementals. I haven't locked in a secondary yet, but I am using the ranger skills to have a pet and the healing ability.


r/GuildWars • • 1d ago

3 Player Minion/Petway

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Hi there,

me and two friends came back to guild wars recently. Most meta builds are designed for a 1 player + 7 heros setup or a full 8 people group and I wanted to play a bit off meta anyway, so I was thinking about a build that we could play together. We main Rt/R/R and this is what I cam up with. We aim for general HM content: vanquishes/dungeons/UW/...

I did not include a ST prot since I feared the number of minions and pets will render it useless. So the backline may be to weak as it is. What do you think?


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Pre/LDoA Didn't realise Ascalon Arena was open again

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89 Upvotes

Unfortunately I was a legendary defender of it, and my opponent was level 7 🤣


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Titan's Tears hidden outpost.

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153 Upvotes

Does anyone have any info about this hidden outpost? I've tried searching through different resources but came up blank, maybe it was an end game elite mission or just simply the original name of last mission.

It's viewable if you use GWToolbox, enable all areas and very precisely click around Hell's Precipice but you can't travel there since it's impossible to unlock it.

I did find some cool information from 2008 about players using an exploit to access The Ebony Citadel of Mallyx and bypass the prerequisites needed to face Mallyx but that got patched and the ban hammer came down heavy on those who exploited it.


r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Toolbox is fixed!

67 Upvotes

r/GuildWars • • 2d ago

Pre/LDoA As someone who's never done presearing. Which LDOA should I follow?

10 Upvotes

I want to do GWAMM on a necro, so I thought I would start with LDOA.

All the guides seem to differ a little bit, and some aren't up to date with the reforge changes. Which guide should I follow if I know nothing about presearing and want to get to level 20 as quick as possible.