One more week! Our second major release for Guild Wars 2®: Visions of Eternity™ launches on May 12, and with it comes new story chapters, a new map and meta-event, two legendary accessories, Mastery updates, a refresh to the Wizard’s Vault, and scads of other rewards and achievements.
We’ll dive into each of these features in more detail next week, but for now, check out our trailer for next week’s release: “The Only Way.”
Greetings, Tyrians! Our next content release for Guild Wars 2®: Visions of Eternity™ arrives on May 12 with “The Only Way,” which continues our story on the mysterious island of Castora. Watch the story recap video below to revisit what the commander and their allies have experienced so far in this expansion.
Spoilers ahead!
It’s just been a few months since we released Guild Wars® Reforged, a significant update to our award-winning roleplaying game. Now, as we celebrate its 21st anniversary, we’re expanding our effort to improve access to the original Guild Wars with a new free-to-play mobile app available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. Preregistration is available now for Android users, who will enjoy a new user interface and control setup specifically designed for mobile play.
When Guild Wars® Reforged launches on mobile, newcomers can download and play select parts of the game for free as an ad-supported client. The free-to-play experience offers access to the entirety of the original Guild Wars: Prophecies™ campaign, while the rest of the game’s available content will be available for purchase. Each campaign’s paid version can be purchased as a standalone add-on for .99. The Guild Wars: Eye of the North™ expansion and Bonus Mission Pack will also be available on mobile for .99 and .99.
Existing Guild Wars Reforged players on ArenaNet accounts can simply log in on mobile to progress their characters across PC, Steam Deck, and mobile devices with no cost, ads, or restrictions!
Testing on mobile will begin soon for Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the Philippines while global launch is planned for this summer. Existing Guild Wars Reforged players should log in on mobile using their ArenaNet account to carry their progress over. New mobile users will log in to their devices using their Mobile IDs and will have the option to convert their account to an ArenaNet account to continue their progress on other platforms. Unfortunately, Mobile IDs cannot be linked to Steam accounts at this time.
Mobile players will share the same game servers as PC or Steam Deck players, so you can play with your existing friends and guilds on the go! Mobile’s new UI and control setup is also customizable, similar to the PC user interface. Here’s a look at the two experiences side-by-side:
We want mobile players looking for something timeless, social, and built for their enjoyment to experience Guild Wars like our original PC players did twenty-one years ago—with joy and passion! You’ll still be collecting skills throughout Tyria, fighting in tactical combat that rewards skill, exploring this magical world to your heart’s content, while not limited by energy gating or other gimmicks that waste your time or money.
If you haven’t played yet, now is a great time to download and start playing to get ready for the mobile launch. Preregistration is available now on the Google Play game page for Guild Wars Reforged. Apple App Store preregistration will be available soon and we’ll share more info about the global launch of Guild Wars Reforged on mobile this summer!
It’s time for the most pixelated party in Guild Wars 2®, the Super Adventure Festival! Moto has once again opened the doors to his virtual world, inviting players to jump, battle, and collect a treasure trove of new and returning rewards. Moto has also opened a new (partially submerged) test zone for early access!
Super Adventure Festival ends May 5. Check out the full release notes on the official forums, or log into Guild Wars 2 now and check your in-game mail for an invitation to the Super Adventure Festival. Double-click the invitation item to teleport instantly to the Super Adventure Box near Magustan Court Waypoint in Rata Sum.
A range of retro rewards is newly available! In addition to returning awards, adventurers can earn a Powered Vest, Plush Ess Backpack, the Forged-Light weapon set, a Mini Super Red Ooze, and a Retro-Forged longbow, focus, and greatsword. New homestead decorations, including the Super Rapids Flowing Water and Super Rapids Plateau, have also been added.
We’ll be partying up with some of our partners to play Super Adventure Festival. Tune into our Twitch channel at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) on April 17 to join the fun!
Enjoy the festival and good luck testing World 3’s Test Zone 2 for Moto!
Guild Wars® was released 21 years ago this month, and we’re celebrating with a sale. Save during the Anniversary Sale, now through April 16 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific (UTC-7), when you buy or gift Guild Wars® Reforged, Guild Wars Eye of the North™, or the Guild Wars Bonus Mission Pack.
In addition, until April 16 save 40% on all Guild Wars Reforged in-game items!
The sale is also on Steam, but only until April 9 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific (UTC-7).
Adventure awaits!
Tyrians, rejoice! Our yearly Black Lion Trading Company’s March sales have begun! Many discounts are awaiting you, so buckle up and take a gander at our selection. During our sales, we’re adding bundles that will upgrade your account with valuable items. But that’s not all! Some cherished items are about to return to the Gem Store at a discounted price. As always, brand-new cosmetic items and Black Lion Chest updates are on the calendar, too. Follow the trail of discounted goodies over here:
March Sales ScheduleBlack Lion Chest Keys will be discounted by 30% during two separate intervals. Stock up from February 27 to March 3 and from March 28 to March 31 to take full advantage of these savings!
Week 1—February 24 until March 3We’re kicking off our March sales with an amazing bundle tailored for all lovers of high Tyrian couture! This fashionable offer can only be purchased once per account and contains the following items:
The Fashionista’s Package is now available for 800 gems from February 24 until March 10.
Build and Equipment Template BundleFrom March 10 until March 17, upgrade your account with our returning template bundle! This offer can be obtained once per account, and it is available for 800 gems.
From March 17 until March 31, expand your journey in Tyria with a variety of items that’ll enhance your incredible adventures. The Superb Storage Package has a limit of one purchase per account, and it is available for 1,600 gems.
Have fun, and happy gaming!
Log into Guild Wars 2 and press 'O' to access the Black Lion Trading Company for these great offers and more!
Ferret warclaws are known for their playful and prankish behavior; they are extremely energetic but also love sleeping for long periods during the day. With a mount like this, you won’t run out of funny and fluffy surprises! The Mischievous Ferret Warclaw Skin is now available for 1,600 gems.
We’re shuffling our stock of mount and skiff skins this week! Starting on Friday, February 20, these items are 20% off until March 6. Some of our favorite items include: Shelled Skyscale Skin, The Ferryman’s Skiff Skin, War-Torn Marauder Warclaw Skin, Dreadnought Raptor Skin, Regal Moth Skyscale Skin, Panda Roller Beetle Skin, and Fluffy Samoyed Jackal Skin.
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Looking to share an item between all your characters? We have the perfect discount for you! From today until February 24, Shared Inventory Slots are available at a 20% discount.
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Greetings, gamers!
The Competitive team is excited to talk about an upcoming event we’ll be running during the month of March! As we’ve talked about in the past, one of our priorities is to align player goals when it comes to winning and make winning feel important to teams. On the road to reaching this goal, we’ve made several changes to scoring in World vs. World (WvW) in the past. We’ve made updates to victory points and adjusted the points gained from objectives, both per tick and on capture, but now we’re looking at changing how War Score is gained.
Before we dive into the details, it is important to note that the changes we’re making for this event are not final. We’ll be looking for and gathering as much feedback as possible from the community, and we will make updates or even fully roll back changes as needed.
War Score is the term for the points you currently gain from capturing and holding on to objectives. These points accumulate over the course of a skirmish—a two-hour window in WvW—and at the end of each skirmish. Victory points are awarded to teams based on that score, which in turn accumulates over the course of the week. We want to change how War Score is gained throughout the skirmish period while incentivizing and rewarding more active gameplay. To achieve this, we have some War Score rebalancing changes that we’ll be beta testing in an event in the near future!
During this test, we’ll be removing the points gained from holding objectives. This sounds like a big change, and it is, but we’re going to add it back in several different places. You’ll earn points for taking part in multiple different activities in WvW as either a defender or an attacker while ultimately helping your team achieve victory. You can get points for things like killing guards, building siege equipment, and downing and resurrecting players. The purpose of these changes is to give more agency to players when it comes to how their team is performing in the Mist War while not relying so much on passive progress ticks. That being said, it’ll still be extremely important to hold on to objectives and participate in actively defending the objectives you own, as you can generate large amounts of War Score for your team during defense events. Additionally, the points gained from capturing objectives will be increased. Several actions that grant War Score will also scale by objective type, upgrade level, and the number of defenders in the area.
Currently, new teams are created during the first week of each month; however, for this test, we’ll be moving team creation a week earlier, starting on February 27. This means you’ll need to have the correct guild selected for team creation before lockout on Monday, February 23. This test will run for about five weeks, with the next team-creation period returning to its normal schedule on April 3, which will mark the end of this test.
Quality-of-Life UpdatesWe’re also planning to make some quality-of-life updates to a few WvW systems alongside this test, including allowing waypoints in your home borderland and Eternal Battleground spawn keeps without needing to upgrade and a change to help cut down on players being stuck in their spawn keep versus overwhelming forces on Eternal Battlegrounds. We will also be adding access to the newly released Infinite Utility Primer and Infinite Metabolic Primer via WvW, as we mentioned on the forums. The full notes on these changes will be found in the February 24 release notes.
Before signing off, we want to give a brief overview of some other WvW work that we have planned. During the beta test, we’ll be paying close attention to the amount of War Score being generated from the new sources to see how they’re performing relative to our expectations. We plan to run a second beta test of the system with these War Score adjustments alongside another new system: end-of-match rewards. As mentioned earlier, we want to make winning a match feel more important to teams, and additional incentives for match placement are one element of that. After the second test is complete, we’ll reevaluate the state of War Score distribution, and if we’re happy with the result, the changes will stay enabled. Otherwise, we’ll continue to iterate on the system through beta-event tests until we feel that it meets our goals. End-of-match rewards will be permanently enabled once we’re confident that the updated War Score system is a good representation of playing WvW with the intent to win.
End-of-match rewards are a good reason to care about the match at large, but we also want to reward players for their accolades during smaller chunks of time. With that in mind, we’ll be looking to create a similar reward system on a per-skirmish level to better align with individual play sessions. Log on, play for a skirmish, and get some cool stuff.
Further down the road, we also plan to look at the participation system with many of the same intentions as the War Score updates: rewarding players for active gameplay while removing some of the passivity of the current system.
These plans are largely focused on updating reward structures and incentives to better align with active gameplay, but we’re also looking into new content ideas. While there aren’t any specifics to share just yet, we’re thinking about ways to add new gameplay experiences to WvW. Whether that will be by refreshing existing mechanics or adding new things entirely—i.e., new events—we’ll likely want to leverage a similar beta test and iteration cycle for these new ideas, but our goal is to find things that will be positive permanent additions to WvW.
As always, we’re on the lookout for smaller quality-of-life adjustments or mechanical tweaks to improve the overall gameplay experience and flow of the game mode for the future, and your feedback helps shape the direction of those changes.
Happy gaming! We’ll see you in the Mists!
Love is in the air, so show off your quirky cuteness with the Cute Poses Emote Tome! This emote pack contains the “/PoseShy” emote, “/PosePeace” emote, “/PoseHeart” emote, and “/PoseSassy” emote, and it is now available for 600 gems.
We’re getting a big restock! Starting on Friday, February 13, mount adoption licenses and mount packs are 20% off. This offer will last until February 27. Some of our favorite items include: Astral Manticore Skyscale Mounts Pack, Amnytas Feathered Raptors Mounts Pack, Skyscale Ascension Mounts Pack, Exo-Suit Mounts Pack, Eternal Crossings Mount Select and Adoption Licenses, Arcane Delights Mount Select and Adoption Licenses, and Shiverpeaks Mount Pack.
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Upgrade your account today with our weekly discounts! From today until February 17, Bank Tab Expansions and all permanent lounge passes are available at a 20% discount.
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Rock the vibe of a modern villain with a style that’ll make you feel as powerful as you look. This pack will pair perfectly with the Feathered Inquest Armor Pack; adjust your infiltration look with some perfect finishing touches! The Spiked Inquest Package includes the Spiked Inquest Helm Skin, Spiked Inquest Gloves Skin, and Spiked Inquest Greaves Skin, and it is available now for 1,200 gems.
Inside each chest, you’re guaranteed to find a redeemable Black Lion Statuette, the Evon Gnashblade Lucky Envelope, and two common items. You also have a chance to find something rarer in the fifth slot, including special items, glyphs, and skins from the Imperial Everbloom Weapon Collection and the Necrotic Essence Weapon Collection.
Exclusive Item: Dance Platform Package
Become the star of the dance floor with our new rhythmically funky package. Follow the groovy beat, and your moves will tear up any stage with a lively bop! The Dance Platform Package includes the Dance Platform Glider, Dance Platform Chair, and “/HappyDance” Emote Tome, and is a new, exclusive drop from Black Lion Chests.
Paint the battlefield with pure vibrant art as you fight your way through the challenges of your epic journey. Arm yourself with the most powerful weapons of all: your imagination and creativity. Each weapon skin can be obtained in exchange for 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket.
On Friday, February 6, we are getting a fantastic restock of dye kits with a 20% discount. This offer will be available until February 20! Make sure to check out some of our favorite items: Norn Dye Kit, Jormag Dye Kit, Glint’s Winter Dye Kit, Frost Dye Kit, Winter Chimes Dye Kit, Solar and Lunar Dye Kit, Metallurgic Dye Kit, and Blue Shift Dye Kit.
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We have a fantastic selection of discounted items waiting for you. Until February 10, Material Storage Expanders, Recharging Teleport to Friend, Black Lion Expedition contract boards, and Black Lion Garden Plot Deeds are available at a 20% discount.
Log into Guild Wars 2 and press 'O' to access the Black Lion Trading Company for these great offers and more!