Guild Wars 2 News

With the Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons expansion launch drawing near, ArenaNet is keen to give players another chance to test the World vs World restructuring before it goes live. The third WvW beta test will kick off on January 14th and will run until January 21st. The upcoming beta test will come with the same functionality as the [...]

Tom Abernathy, the Senior Narrative Director for Guild Wars 2, has left ArenaNet after five years in the company in pursuit of greener pastures. Associate Narrative Director Bobby Stein will be taking over his position according to Abernathy’s post on Twitter. “After 5 years in the best job I’ve ever had, it’s time for me to find new challenges,” tweeted [...]

Toymaker Tixx has returned to Divinity’s Reach to spread holiday cheer as Guild Wars 2 kicks off its annual Wintersday celebration. This year’s winter event will feature the usual lineup of activities and mini-games with new meta-achievements thrown in to keep players busy. Toypocolypse has also been updated to make the defense mini-game a little bit easier to complete. “Bring [...]

ArenaNet has published a new End of Dragons preview video showing off Guild Wars 2’s new Cantha-inspired guild hall which will be opening its doors when the expansion finally comes out in February 2022. The new guild hall is called the Isle of Reflection and will feature distinctly Asian designs, architecture, and decorations. The new video offers a quick tour [...]

The fourth and final Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons beta test starts today with all nine new elite specializations up for testing, all of which have received major adjustments based on player feedback gathered from previous beta tests. Players will also get to test out the new Siege Turtle two-player mount and its mortar cannons, jump jets, and its [...]

ArenaNet has gathered plenty of player feedback on the new Guild Wars 2 elite specializations over the course of the previous End of Dragons beta tests. Over the past few weeks, players have been able to test the new elite specs in batches and have had a big hand in shaping each of them. Next week’s fourth and final beta [...]

This weekend’s Guild Wars 2 World vs World beta test has been delayed due to a recently-discovered issue that needs to be addressed first. ArenaNet explains the issue in-depth in a post on the official forums and how they plan to fix it. It’s basically an issue with players being counted towards the map cap twice which will require integral [...]

Elite specs might be all the rage now in the Guild Wars 2 fandom but the Cantha-inspired advanced classes aren’t all that’s coming to the game when End of Dragons rolls out next year. The expansion will also improve on the existing Strike Missions which will come with a new Challenge Mode that Encounters Design Lead Cameron Rich describes as [...]

It’s End of Dragons beta day in Guild Wars 2 with the final three elite specializations, the Specter, Untamed, and Mechanist, up for testing over the next few days. The beta will kick off at around 9am PDT today and will be open to anyone with a GW2 account, even free-to-play ones. “The third playable beta for Guild Wars 2: [...]

ArenaNet has revealed the ninth and final Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons elite specialization – the Engineer’s Mechanist. The Mechanist wields the new mace as their primary weapon and can adapt to different roles in combat. Plus, they have a giant customizable jade mech fighting by their side that’s armed with the awesomely-named Jade Buster Cannon. “Choose your mech’s [...]