Guild Wars 2 News

Guild Wars 2 is turning eight years old next week and ArenaNet is celebrating the occasion by giving away a whole host of anniversary gifts. The anniversary gift bundle includes a Celebratory Birthday Enrichment item with a “dazzling celebratory aura”, an Amulet of Celebration, the Dedicated title, a randrom wardrobe option, as well as exclusive armor and weapon skins. Characters [...]

Guild Wars 2 is currently experiencing latency problems, which ArenaNet admits won’t be easy to fix, but they’re already hard at work trying to track down the individual problems to come up with a solution. “We know this makes for a frustrating gameplay experience, and we want to let you know what we're doing to find and mitigate those problems,” [...]

The Festival of the Four Winds will be returning to Guild Wars 2 for the third year in a row. The announcement on the official site doesn’t really give any particulars which probably means that this year’s festivities will be following the same format as previous iterations of the event. “The Festival of the Four Winds returns on August 11! [...]

ArenaNet has just rolled out the latest balance patch for Guild Wars 2 which introduces a long list of changes to profession skills and traits across the board. The Dolyak and Mad King Runes in Structured PvP have also been nerfed along with Warclaw, Dragon Banner, and Siege Weapons in World vs World battles. The studio has also revealed their [...]

It’s dragon killing time again in Guild Wars 2 as the Dragon Bash Festival returns to Tyria. Starting today, players will be able to take holographic dragons and bust open dragon pinatas to earn various rewards. “Tyrians held the first Dragon Bash after Zhaitan’s defeat—an expression of relief and joy at beating impossible odds. With Jormag’s influence on the rise, [...]

ArenaNet published a post on the Guild Wars 2 official forums explaining why they decided to delay the 3vs3 PvP mini-season. According to the devs, they’re currently working on balancing the time between the end of the conquest season and the start of the mini-season to give players time to relax during the downtime. “We're trying some different things as [...]

ArenaNet has just released the official trailer for No Quarter, the third chapter of the latest Living World episode, The Icebrood Saga. The studio also dropped more information about the upcoming chapter including plot points and the name of the new map. “Chapter three of Guild Wars 2’s ongoing story The Icebrood Saga arrives Tuesday, May 26, plunging players into [...]

Last week, ArenaNet rolled out the Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire episode which features a new type of Living World content for Guild Wars 2. In the new episode, players get to know Ryland Steelcatcher a little better through the eyes of a member of the infamous Steel Warband, and as Ryland himself. Living World Content Designer Chloë [...]