Guild Wars 2 News

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The fifth and final episode of Living World Season 1 is now playable for free in your story journal. This chapter brings Season 1 to a close and finally bridges the longstanding gap between the core game and Living World Season 2. The complete saga of Guild Wars 2—from the original release to End of Dragons™—is now fully playable from start to finish.

This content returns for the first time since its initial release in 2014, along with new and returning rewards and achievements. This episode and all other Season 1 episodes are free, permanent additions to the base game and are available to all players.

To begin this content, navigate to the story journal in your Hero panel, select "Living World Season 1," then select "5. The Battle for Lion's Arch." Click "Play This Episode," and you will receive a letter from Logan Thackeray requesting your presence at Lornar's Pass.



The archvillain Scarlet Briar now descends upon Lion's Arch with all her deadly forces. Rally together and defend the besieged city in the new publicly joinable instanced battle, the Battle for Lion's Arch. Join the fight now by speaking to Lionguard Peltgnaw in the Gendarran Fields, just outside the gates of Lion's Arch.


[h2]Lion Captain and Lion Champion Gear[/h2]


Complete new achievements to earn new cosmetic rewards: the Lion Captain's Cape, the Lion Captain's Mantle, and the Lion's Champion weapon set.

[h2]Lion's Memory[/h2]


Completing the Lion's Memory achievement—a meta-achievement that includes content from all of Living World Season 1—will also unlock the Lion's Pride, a permanent teleportation item that will allow you to visit a Lion's Arch that has yet to be visited by Scarlet Briar's destruction.

Check out the full notes for this release on the official Guild Wars 2 forums.

Please join us this Friday, November 11 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-8) on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel for a preview of the November 29 profession balance update!

We'll have Skills and Balance Team Lead Cal "cmc" Cohen and Associate Game Designer Roy "Roy" Marks on stream to walk you through the details of the upcoming changes. Following the stream, we'll post the full balance preview notes on our official forums. We're looking forward to reading your feedback!

As a small teaser ahead of our stream on Friday, we have prepared a carefully cropped screenshot for you:

Team ArenaNet's Extra Life Game Day is tomorrow, November 4, at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7). We'll be streaming for 24 hours straight in support of Children's Miracle Network. If this is your first time hearing about Extra Life, check out our previous announcement regarding the event here.

Since our last update, our running donation total has hit over $13,000 USD! Our goal this year is to raise at least $125,000 USD, bringing our lifetime total funds raised to over $625,000 USD, and we need your help to do it.

Your donations will help children's hospitals across the United States and Canada care for ill and critically injured children whose families need support. To donate to Extra Life now, visit the Team ArenaNet page. If you'd like to help us reach our goal by streaming any game or telling your friends and family about Extra Life, choose to join Team ArenaNet when you sign up! If you want to form your own team, you can select "Create a Sub Team" when you sign up to join the ArenaNet Super Team.

The funds you raise as a member of Team ArenaNet will contribute to our overall donation total. As in previous years, if we reach the $25,000 USD donation goal, we'll match it to bring the total donation to $50,000!


Tune in to the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch stream or the streams of any of our official ArenaNet partners for free rewards! Check out more information here.

Keep an eye on our Twitter throughout the event for updates on our fundraising goals and events! Check out the full schedule here.

See you there,
The Guild Wars 2 Team

We're activating Guild Wars 2 Twitch Drops once more to celebrate our Extra Life Game Day stream! From Friday, November 4 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) to Sunday, November 6 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7), you'll be able to earn in-game rewards for Guild Wars 2 by watching the official Guild Wars 2 Extra Life Game Day stream or the streams of any of our ArenaNet partners.




You simply need to link your Twitch account with your Guild Wars 2 account, log in to Twitch, and watch any Guild Wars 2 broadcast with the "Drops Enabled" tag while the campaign is active.

[h2]Account Linking Instructions[/h2]

1. Log in to the ArenaNet Account Management Site and navigate to the “Applications” tab.
   
2. In the “Account Linking” section, click “Connect” next to Twitch.
   
3. Follow the prompts to connect your Guild Wars 2 and Twitch accounts*.
   
4. You’re ready to watch!

Once you've linked accounts and met the watch-time goal for a reward, you'll need to claim the reward on Twitch before it will be delivered to you in the game. You'll get a notification in Twitch chat to claim it after you've met a goal, or you can claim your rewards from your Drops inventory on Twitch. Once you claim the reward on Twitch, it will be delivered to your in-game mail. You can learn more about Twitch Drops on Twitch's help site.

*Note: Only one Twitch account can be associated with a Guild Wars 2 account for each Twitch Drops campaign.

The Riftstalkers' incursion into Tyria has met with little success, thanks to your efforts. Mark yourself as a Rift Warden, standing guard against the invaders from the Mists, with this armored mask and hood.


For the next two weeks, we're offering a 20% discount on the following items.
[h2]Temporary Lounge Passes[/h2]
Try out the incredible convenience of our various lounges—from Armistice Bastion to the Mistlock Sanctuary—for two weeks. For just 120 gems, you'll get a teleport scroll that will instantly take you to a lounge where you can easily access the trading post, bank, merchants, and more. If you like what you see, consider picking up one of the permanent passes!
[h2]Black Lion Contract Boards[/h2]
Add these contract boards to your home instance for daily deliveries of various crafting materials. These are permanent, account-wide unlocks.
[h2]Black Lion Garden Plot Deeds[/h2]
Add up to two additional garden plots to your home instance, each with 4 harvesting nodes that can be customized to grow just about whatever you want and harvested daily. Unlock this permanent, account-wide home instance upgrade for just 800 gems.


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

• Dark Wing Throne
  
• Great Lodge Chair
  
• Legionnaire's Chair
  
• Super Adventure Box Chair
  
• Volcanic Throne

Log into Guild Wars 2 and press 'O' to access the Black Lion Trading Company for these great offers and more!