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Game Update 2026-04-01
Update April 1, 2026 Today we are releasing a significant build on April 1st and in many places around the world today is celebrated as April Fools' Day. There are no fake release notes today, although there are some Ap…
Event18 changesFixGameplay - Guild Wars® Reforged
Discounts Are Blooming with Our Spring Sale!
Save during the Spring Sale—now through March 26 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. · Guild Wars Reforged —40% O…
Announcement - Guild Wars® Reforged
Game Update Notes 2026-03-02
Update March 2, 2026 Guild Wars will now always run from the executable directory it was started in rather than trying to run from the "installed" directory as specified in the registry. This helps players keep their fi…
Patch notes5 changesFixGameplay - Guild Wars® Reforged
Game Update Notes - 2026-02-25
Update February 25, 2026 We continue to exercise the content tool chain. Today we're proud to show you our latest experiment. New Content Bastion in the North Quest — A new quest is available in pre-Searing for Reforged…
Store7 changesGameplayBalance - Guild Wars® Reforged
Players of this recently revived MMORPG are hoping a short teaser means it's bringing the old band back together
When you suddenly decide to bring a two-decade-old MMORPG back from the brink, nothing is off the table. And with the Guild Wars socials lighting up today with a fairly loaded question backed by the face of its mascot,…
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Game Update Notes - 2026-02-12 - Steam/In-Game Store Grand Opening
Update February 12, 2026 Steam/In-Game Store Grand Opening Today we are pleased to announce the Grand Opening of the Steam/In-Game store with a 20% sale on upgrade items! If you login via Steam, the store button will ta…
Security2 changesUI/audio - Guild Wars® Reforged
Game Update Note 2026-02-10 - 60/60 PvP Item Exploit items corrected
A bug in the PvP Equipment panel allowed for non-PvP items to be customized, and in some cases would apply item upgrades that were incompatible with the customized item. This resulted in items being created that couldn'…
Announcement1 changeGameplay - Guild Wars® Reforged
Game Update Notes 2026-02-09
Skill refinements: Spirit changes Fixed issue with spirit range increase. Winnowing - Cast time 3s, duration upper bounds increased to 30-240s, range increased to 3500 Primal Echoes - Cast time 3s, duration upper bounds…
Store2 changesFixBalance - Guild Wars® Reforged
Game Update Notes 2026-02-05
Update, February 5, 2026 We have two updates today. One is a skill update and the other is that we are going to start rolling out the Steam-based in-game store. The first is a special surprise. As some of you know, as a…
Security91 changesStoreBalance - Guild Wars® Reforged
21 years after release, Guild Wars 1 just got an 'Ironman' mode inspired by a venerable community-driven challenge
Guild Wars might look indistinct among the many MMOs that arrived in the wake of World of Warcraft's genre-defining heyday, but it has relatively little in common with WoW or even EverQuest, the Iron Age big dog in the…
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Game Update Notes 2026-01-28
Update - January 28, 2026 Today we're introducing another game mode for those of you looking for further challenges in Guild Wars. Melandru's Accord - A new mode that requires you to earn all the skills and items for yo…
Event5 changesUI/audioCompatibility - Guild Wars® Reforged
Patch Notes January 8, 2026
Fixed a bug where the status of "dialog pinning" and "start menu dragging" options were reset every time a person re-logged.
Announcement1 changeFix - Guild Wars® Reforged
Patch Notes January 7, 2026
Fixed an issue where the title badges for Dhuum's Covenant and Reforged Mode were sometimes missing (or applied too early, before the first title rank was earned) Fixed a bug where getting drunk (in game!) caused an int…
Announcement7 changesFixMaps - Guild Wars® Reforged
Guild Wars Reforged adds two new modes, including permadeath (of pride), to the decades-old MMORPG
Just a few short weeks from the release of a big update that largely came out of nowhere, Guild Wars Reforged has delivered on a cryptic promise that suggested the overhaul was just one small part of a renewed effort to…
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Patch Notes December 19, 2025
Hotfix #1 Fixed an issue where a player could move the camera in some character select scenes that would leave the camera in an awkward position when switching back to the Prophecies pregame scene Fixed a bug where play…
Store11 changesFixGameplay - Guild Wars® Reforged
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! Reforged Mode (Alpha) Activate Reforged Mode (Alpha)…
Patch notes13 changesFixWorkshop
