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Content Update December 18, 2025

Update -- December 18, 2025 Features Our partners at 2weeks.games have been hard at work understanding our tool chains. We present to you their first experiments!

In this update4

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Full Guild Wars® Reforged update

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What changed

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  • Balance
  • Compatibility
  • Gameplay
  • Events
  • Store
  • Fixes
changedReforged Mode (Alpha)Activate Reforged Mode (Alpha) during character creation. Your character will have a badge visible in-game. Piken Square will be accessible as an outpost for Reforged Mode players in pre-Searing Ascalon - but you'll have to fight your way there. Players gain 5% more experience and gold in the Prophecies campaign. Enemies have lower health and armor in pre-Searing Ascalon. Henchmen have been retuned and are more powerful with additional skills. The Northlands in pre-Searing Ascalon has additional spawns.
changedReforged Mode (Alpha)For multiplayer parties, all players have to be in Reforged Mode to experience Reforged Mode content and balance changes. Mixed parties will see the standard content.
changedDhuum's Covenant (Beta)Activate Dhuum's Covenant during character creation.
changedDhuum's Covenant (Beta)Dhuum's Covenant is a challenging mode, available throughout the game, where you strive to avoid dying. Ever.
changedDhuum's Covenant (Beta)Characters created with Dhuum's Covenant get a badge visible in-game.
changedDhuum's Covenant (Beta)Upon your character's death, you lose the badge permanently (but can keep playing the character).

Guild Wars® Reforged changes

changedActivate Reforged Mode (Alpha) during character creation. Your character will have a badge visible in-game. Piken Square will be accessible as an outpost for Reforged Mode players in pre-Searing Ascalon - but you'll have to fight your way there. Players gain 5% more experience and gold in the Prophecies campaign. Enemies have lower health and armor in pre-Searing Ascalon. Henchmen have been retuned and are more powerful with additional skills. The Northlands in pre-Searing Ascalon has additional spawns.
changedFor multiplayer parties, all players have to be in Reforged Mode to experience Reforged Mode content and balance changes. Mixed parties will see the standard content.
changedActivate Dhuum's Covenant during character creation.
changedDhuum's Covenant is a challenging mode, available throughout the game, where you strive to avoid dying. Ever.
changedCharacters created with Dhuum's Covenant get a badge visible in-game.

Update -- December 18, 2025

Features

Our partners at 2weeks.games have been hard at work understanding our tool chains. We present to you their first experiments!

Reforged Mode (Alpha)

  • Activate Reforged Mode (Alpha) during character creation.

    • Your character will have a badge visible in-game.

    • Piken Square will be accessible as an outpost for Reforged Mode players in pre-Searing Ascalon - but you'll have to fight your way there.

    • Players gain 5% more experience and gold in the Prophecies campaign.

    • Enemies have lower health and armor in pre-Searing Ascalon.

    • Henchmen have been retuned and are more powerful with additional skills.

    • The Northlands in pre-Searing Ascalon has additional spawns.

  • For multiplayer parties, all players have to be in Reforged Mode to experience Reforged Mode content and balance changes. Mixed parties will see the standard content.

  • This is an alpha feature we are sharing early to gather feedback. It is only presented in English.

Dhuum's Covenant (Beta)

  • Activate Dhuum's Covenant during character creation.

  • Dhuum's Covenant is a challenging mode, available throughout the game, where you strive to avoid dying. Ever.

  • Characters created with Dhuum's Covenant get a badge visible in-game.

  • Upon your character's death, you lose the badge permanently (but can keep playing the character).

  • Any titles you earn while under Dhuum's Covenant will have the badge in the Hero panel.

  • If you lose Dhuum's Covenant, any future ranks earned for that title will not display the badge.

  • This is a beta feature and may undergo changes. It is currently only presented in English. We'd love your feedback!

Four Player Parties in Pre-Searing Ascalon

  • This matches the maximum party size at the beginning of Factions and Nightfall.

One More Thing

Classic pregame backgrounds

  • You can now choose which background scene is displayed during login and character selection!

  • Choose your background in Options->General->Pregame Scene.

  • Choose between Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, and Eye of the North.

  • The Prophecies scene was not designed to support 360 degree views therefore it has a fixed camera placement. There is some risk that the zoom level may cut off some of your view of your character in ultrawide screen resolutions.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a delay where Steam DLC was not always available immediately after purchase.

  • Fixed a bug where the mouse would move unexpectedly when you touched the screen on some devices like Steam Deck and Windows-enabled touchscreens.

Source

Steam News / 18 December 2025

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