Guild Wars 2 News

Playing among the stars is easy when you've got your own portable star field. Lounge in style with this snazzy moon-shaped chair!

This item will unlock a new chair in your account wardrobe. Chairs can be found under the Novelties menu in your Hero panel. Resting in a chair for 5 minutes will grant you a one-hour bonus to experience gained in the open world.


For the next week, we're offering a 20% discount on the following items:

[h2]Home Instance Nodes[/h2]
These items add permanent gathering nodes to your home instance. You can take advantage of these new nodes once per day for easy access to basic crafting materials.

• Basic Cloth Rack
  
• Basic Harvesting Node Pack
  
• Basic Leather Rack
  
• Basic Lumber Node Pack
  
• Basic Ore Node Pack

[h2]Waypoint Unlock Packages[/h2]
Take your newest alt on a speedy tour of all your favorite places in Tyria! Purchase the Waypoint Unlock Box, the Central Tyria Waypoint Unlock Package, and the Expansion Waypoint Unlock Package now to unlock waypoints across the world!


Starting this Friday, look for the following items to be added to the Gem Store at a 20% discount:

• Phoenix Light Armor Skin
  
• Magitech Medium Armor Skin
  
• Braham's Heavy Armor Skin

[h2]Available Now in the Gem Store![/h2]
Log into Guild Wars 2 and press 'O' to access the Black Lion Trading Company for these great offers and more!

The annual Lunar New Year festival begins next week! Tyrians are celebrating the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit with fireworks, games, delicious Canthan food, and prizes. The Crown Pavilion in Divinity's Reach will be lit up with traditional Canthan decorations and will be your party hub to usher in the new year.

During the three weeks of the festival, you'll be able to participate in various activities and minigames only available during the celebration. There's something available for everyone—from the competitive, dodgeball-like Dragon Ball game mode to the agility-focused Celestial Challenge.

By participating in Lunar New Year events, you'll be able to earn loads of luck, which can be used to permanently increase the magic find bonus of your account. Magic find allows you earn higher-quality loot from foes, and bonuses to magic find obtained from luck are permanent and account wide.

We'll have more information about the returning activities and this year's rewards available next week. As always, the full release notes will be available on the official forums.

Happy new year, Tyria!

Celebrate the Wintersday spirit and treat your friends and family–or yourself–to the gift of Guild Wars 2.


The following discounted items are available now on the Guild Wars 2 Steam store page!



Experience the entire dragon cycle saga from beginning to end with Guild Wars 2–The Complete Collection. This bundle contains all three expansions and all purchasable Living World episodes to date.

You'll also get two Level-80 Boosts, allowing you instantly level up two characters and jump straight into our latest content, with two Shared Inventory Slots to easily share items with every character on your account.

This collection is available now at a 20% discount during the Winter Sale for $79.99.




The future of Cantha is now. The dragon cycle that has sustained and blighted Tyria for ages is collapsing. Mortal hearts and choices will define this moment in history–and echo in the future forever. Unlock new elite specializations, Masteries, and more, including access to fishing and skiffs.

This expansion is available now for $23.99, a 20% discount.




Unlock mounts, gliding, and more with the first two expansions for Guild Wars 2. This package grants you access to a new profession, the revenant, as well as eighteen elite specializations to change the way you play. Experience the joy of movement with the best mounts in MMOs.

This expansion bundle is available now for $14.99, a 50% discount.

[h3]For the next two weeks (12/22/22 10 AM - 1/5/23 10 AM PST), get discounts on Guild Wars 2 expansions! Celebrate the Wintersday spirit and treat your friends and family – or yourself – to the gift of Guild Wars 2.

And don’t forget, our yearly holiday festival Wintersday is now live and available until January 3, 2023.[/h3]


[h2]Guild Wars 2 — The Complete Collection[/h2]

Experience the entire dragon cycle saga from beginning to end with Guild Wars 2 — The Complete Collection. This bundle contains all three expansions and all purchasable Living World episodes.
You'll also get two Level-80 Boosts, allowing you instantly level up two characters and jump straight into our latest content, with two Shared Inventory Slots to easily share items with every character on your account.

This collection is available now at a 20% discount during the Winter Sale for $79.99.


[h2]Expansion 3: Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons [/h2]

The future of Cantha is now. The dragon cycle that has sustained and blighted Tyria for ages is collapsing. Mortal hearts and choices will define this moment in history — and echo in the future forever. Unlock new elite specializations, Masteries, and more, including access to fishing and skiffs.

This expansion is available now for $23.99, a 20% discount.


[h2]Expansions 1 and 2: Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns & Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire [/h2]

Unlock mounts, gliding, and more with the first two expansions for Guild Wars 2. This package grants you access to a new profession, the revenant, as well as eighteen elite specializations to change the way you play. Experience the joy of movement with the best mounts in MMOs.

This expansion bundle is available now for $14.99, a 50% discount.


[h2]Wintersday 2022 Is Live[/h2]


Come join us in celebrating Wintersday—Toymaker Tixx has made his annual visit to Divinity's Reach to spread seasonal cheer and festivity! Bring the cheer of Wintersday to the distant north in the Secret Lair of the Snowmen, complete daily achievements to earn fanciful holiday weapons, save Wintersday for the orphans located around Divinity's Reach by giving them wrapped gifts, test your snow-throwing skills against other players in Snowball Mayhem, experience the joy of jumping in Winter Wonderland, defend against waves of toys in Toypocalypse, and help keep Tixx's airship, the Infinirarium, in order!

This festival is accessible to players of any level. Even if you’re brand new to the game, you can easily take part in our Wintersday activities and earn new cosmetic unlocks, utility items, and more!

[h3]What To Do[/h3]
Divinity’s Reach is the hub for Wintersday festivities. Check your mail for a letter from Tixx containing an Invitation to Wintersday, which you can use to travel instantly to Divinity’s Reach. Portals leading to Divinity’s Reach will also be available in Lion’s Arch, the Black Citadel, Hoelbrak, Rata Sum, and the Grove.

Visit locations marked by peppermint candies on your map to participate in Wintersday activities. Don’t forget to visit Wintersday trees and Toymaker Tixx himself each day to collect gifts.

You can check out all the details in the full release notes on our official forums. Read on for a quick rundown of the activities you can take part in during this festival!

[h3]Rewards[/h3]
Wintersday activities award Wintersday Gifts containing an assortment of holiday treats and surprises. Festival currency includes snowflakes, Snow Diamonds, and karma, which you can exchange for new minis, guild hall decorations, recipes, tonics, and more.

Speak to one of the Charity Corps Seraph at the Crown Pavilion in Divinity’s Reach to exchange your snowflakes for Snow Diamonds, and your Snow Diamonds for unique Wintersday rewards.

Many unique rewards—such as the new Wintersday Snow Boots and the Snowdrift weapon set—are obtained by completing achievements. You’ll find more information on the Wintersday achievements and their rewards in your Hero panel under the Daily and Festivals categories.

[h3]Happy Wintersday, Tyria![/h3]

Before we head out for our annual holiday break and bid farewell to 2022, we want to take a few moments to celebrate the past year and extend our heartfelt gratitude to you, our players, for making it all possible.

2022 was a fantastic year for Guild Wars 2, and it started off with a bang. On February 28, we released our third expansion, Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons™, which brought a climactic end to the elder dragon saga (spoiler!). The team poured their heart and soul into bringing a reimagined Cantha to life, and in the end, we delivered an experience that we're incredibly proud of.

But the expansion is just one part of this year's story. Living World Season 1–which had previously been unplayable for over eight years–returned as a free and permanent addition to the base game. We delivered significant quality-of-life gameplay improvements for both new players and veterans, with more to come. We made considerable progress on long-term initiatives like the DirectX11 upgrade and WvW World Restructuring, and we renewed our focus on regularly refreshing key gameplay systems like combat. And we released Guild Wars 2 on Steam, putting Tyria on the map for an entirely new group of gamers.

We've also reinforced our commitment to being transparent and communicating regularly with all of you, with regular studio updates, quarterly roadmaps, and balance preview livestreams. In the background, we've been working quietly on our next content update, and we began early development on our fourth expansion. In the midst of everything, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Guild Wars 2's original release–an achievement only made possible by the support of our community.

All of this paid off in a big way. Back in April, we reported that our active player count had more than doubled over the past few years and that Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons had already outsold our previous expansion, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire™. Today, we're excited to share a new accomplishment. This year we've already seen more players venture into Tyria for the first time since 2015– the year we made the base game content playable for free and launched our first expansion, Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™. This has been one of the best years for Guild Wars 2 in recent memory, and we're eager to keep building on that momentum.

We’ll be back early next year to talk about our Q1 plans, which include wrapping up the DirectX11 transition, continuing work on World vs. World, upgrading our in-game browser technology from Coherent to Chromium Embedded Framework, and of course new Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons content. We're also looking forward to sharing our long-term vision and plans for the game.



Thank you all for a fantastic 2022. Let's do it again next year.
Have a wonderful Wintersday!
–The Guild Wars 2 Team