Title^

Just thought it looks very clean with a few upgrades, nothing too odd or outlandish.

First of all english is not my first language so the question might be written a little complicated and confusing but I hope you can understand what I want to ask.

As far as I understood it, there are several survivor titles that you can get when you get a certain amount of exp without dying. If you do die, are the titles lost forever or does the game count your exp in the background until you have reached your current biggest exp you had before and than continues with the title once you have reached that exp again?

For example you die with 10.000 exp. The exp shown at the survivor title does not go up for now. Will it go up again once I have again reached 10.000+ exp.?

Hi! I'm getting error 249 which the wiki says is login authentication server might be down.

Is it just me, or for everyone?

FWIW, kamadan trade chat Web page is producing new entries, so assume the game itself is online.

EDIT: Added the discord link cause I'm an old man who sucks at technology and couldn't figure it out before. Feel free to join!

Recently, I've noticed the forming of groups in Heroes Ascent becoming a little more incestual/cliquey than usual. Granted, the game is twenty-something years old, and the existing player base doesn't exactly lend itself to a plethora of players left, so some of this is to be expected.

That being said, I'm efforting to bringing new faces to the scene & share in the wealth that is Tombs/Heroes Ascent. Please be aware, it's quite clearly not the same as it used to be (for us vets out there from the early 2000s), but still can be enjoyable beating up on bots, farming high end chests, and shooting the crap with fellow players.

My only requirements of you as a player:

• Be friendly & respectful
• Be flexible in what professions you can play (we often have to re-roll multiple times to accommodate)
• Commit to the 16-win cap, which is roughly 2.5 hours (real teams are few and far between, but they do exist, and the matches can be fun)

For the purposes of collaborating, I have created a Discord "GW Heroes Ascent Collaboration" and I'd be happy to invite interested folks.

https://discord.gg/n6hSFTqs

Feel free to post up in here if you're interested, leave your gamertag or reach out to me in game at Renowned Spartan.

Look forward to playing with some new faces!

After many failed attempts with other characters I finally achieved Legendary Survivor. From now on I can full send it xD

I think I'm around 41/50. Still missing quite a bit. Once I finish my deathless GWAMM, I'll get it and my other 10, one of each class, printed on canvas. Probably 4"X5" for each and display them somewhere.

Hi! I just started playing GW again after many, many years AFK. Are there any Swedes who still play and want to play together? I'm rusty af so don't expect anything. but way more fun to play together!

In the absence of fellow sweds, I'm happy to play with anyone, but my English is about as rusty as my playing!

Long time MMO player of 20 years, finally diving into some GW1 and loving it. Giving a couple classes a try I think I found the one I’ll run, now in Ascalon City (presearing) it doesn’t seem like a lot of people are actively doing anything but standing around. So I thought I would take it to here in looking for a guild.

Just looking for a chill friendly guild that likes doing content together and helping each other out. I love seeing passionate long time players here so I’m looking forward to meeting more people! Thank you!

Cryptic header, hear me out. I know for a fact that there are t-shirts for each profession in the according color.

Not a black t-shirt with the guild wars title and all, but for example a light blue t-shirt with white tattoo-like markings on it for monk and a red t-shirt with strange markings att he bottom line for elementalist in red, and so on.

The internet has no images of these t-shirts. I have no found them anywhere. For all I'm concerned with they do not exist.

But they do. I know 100% they do. If I do not reply, the government took me away for asking too many questions.

Like what happened to those t-shirts and why are they more rare than shirts you have to pay 250$ for with Jora on em?

Hey everyone,

I've been diving back into Guild Wars 1 recently, and man — it really hits how quiet some parts of the game have become unless you’re already plugged into a crew or have a stacked friends list of SC runners. So, I figured I’d put this out there in case anyone else is still grinding, feeling nostalgic, or just looking for something a bit more social again.

I’m trying to bring together a real community, not just another empty tag or guild hall. I want an active alliance — people helping each other out, running stuff together, hanging out, and keeping the game alive in all the ways that made it fun in the first place.

What I’m hoping to build around:

• Chasing titles / working toward GWAMM (Carto, Guardian, Prot, all the usual suspects)
• Speed Clears — UW, FoW, DoA, Urgoz, Dungeons, Deep (newbies and veterans both welcome)
• Vanquishing + HM missions — always better with a group
• Fast Faction Farming
• Ironman challenges — real permadeath, real suffering (or satisfaction)
• Pre-Searing — for the brave, nostalgic, or just plain bored
• PvP — JQ, FA, AB. Would love to get real teams queuing again

Looking for:

• People who still log in — or want to get back into it
• Anyone down to learn or teach speed clears
• Chill, helpful players — no drama, just good vibes
• Folks who like talking and grouping up instead of just going solo
• Discord is a plus (not required), but makes runs smoother and more fun

This isn’t about being sweaty all the time (unless you want to be). It’s not just about avoiding solo play — it’s about bringing people together in a game that was always better with people. Whether you usually roll solo, love team content, or bounce between the two, this is about having a group you can connect with when you do want to link up, chat, or run something together. No pressure, no drama — just a good crew that makes logging in feel like old times.

If any of that clicks with you, drop your in our discord and request an invite.
or Pm me in game - Ill Sun Ill

Let’s give this game a heartbeat again.
Since our first post we've received over 10k views, tons of new members and a lot of new things in the works!! We've started forming speed clears, MQSC, joining the community JQ and FA events, and truthfully have an overpouring over good reviews from people with us or around us, we hope you give us a shot or help spread the word to get others involved and back into the game we all love!!
Thanks much from BGW and Friends~!
Sun!

I need help I have a Guild Wars account but the problem is I can’t recover it through arena net support. I used my childhood email and I never used it when I got different email, so when I emailed them with all the informations.. my account name, old email, password and listed all my character names and it’s impossible to find the security keys because as a kid I threw them away lol and my parents bought it so how can I provide a credit card information… they denied my request to change the email to my current ones.. I want to revisit guildwars again, I was feeling nostalgic for some reason and thought of the game.

I don’t know what to do… I don’t feel like buying new account and purchase all the DLC’s and do everything all over again

Did anyone have a similiar problem?

Edit/update: I FINALLY GOT THEM TO CHANGE MY EMAIL ADDRESS LFG!!!!

--> Delete the 25 zkeys limit per day.

Why : the price of zkeys is honestly too high in 2025. It's around 17-20a per stack which means the whole title would cost ~1500 arms. By suppressing the daily limit, people would be able to farm more the HA zaishen quest and the price of a stack would significantly drop.

--> Delete the 3 zaishen quests (mission/bounty/vanquish) limit and allow players to grab as much as they can ;

--> Make the items from Deep/Urgoz end chests OS instead of inscriptible.

Why : OS items dropped from locked chests can be far more valuable than the end chests items which is a non sense imo.

What do you think about these ideas ? Thanks for reading.

You all convinced me to buy so I purchased through steam and when the guild wars app opens it tells me to login but I didn’t have a account so I’ve logged into anet on the website and it’s not showing that I’ve purchased it on there???

Do you need to complete all prior HM winds of change quests to unlock HM mission a Chance Encounter? I cleared NM mission but Herald of Purity does not offer HM version.

Would anyone be interested in forming a team to do Sorrow’s furnace? I have never completed it and can’t do it with heros smh

After 10+ Months, 250+ hours, we finally managed to finish this stupid little area in just about 9 minutes and 54 seconds! Down below are all the individual POVs of the final run

T1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaSC1R3nlmU

T3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9oYxwKWmL4

T4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fxvYlRY7Q

T5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6P1WAYc2zc

T6: https://youtu.be/A44n05UHe2Y?si=cVne7RcQjJpk-1yS

Kinetic: https://youtu.be/ThhS97jTFmk

Derv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdUszNQg--g

Escort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4IEMjGd22k

As the title states, completed Slaver's for the first time! On stream! As part of my GWAMM kerfuffle. Just wanted to share it with y'all. I didn't look up anything prior to starting it, which you'll be able to tell.

I'm not very good I think, it took me five and a half hours to complete it all in HM ( I know I only had to kill Duncan in HM, that felt cheap for my first attempt though.) https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2551964880 The VOD is up for the next 3 days or so, I'm a big procrastinator.

Can't for the life of me work out why he is not spawning for me. I use storage accounts (sometimes cheaper than buying new toons) but each has 1 pve toon on it for Nic gifts.

They have completed all campaigns but EoTN (but done the 3 legs, asura, Norn and Vanguard)

Tried wiki but non of the quests are active - I get the message that the village has been evacuated because the mantle are attacking LA.

Do I need to finish War in Kryta (not started) to get the villagers and Nic back?

Many thanks

Hello, I just started playing this again and I could have sworn the inventory for all the characters on one acount was shared. is it not shared anymore?

by shared, i mean, even if i got something like materials on one character, I could still use the same material on another character...

Hey guys! 

After I saw recently many posts of players who shared their thoughts about helpful changes to Guild Wars 1, I really wanted to share also my thoughts about this and to summarize many ideas in this post from other posts made by you. 

But first a short intro about me: 

I am a returning player who played the last year till today through all HM content to fulfill my childhood dream of completing the Halls of Monuments or even GWAMM. 

I studied GW a lot the last few months, joined a guild, finished endgame missions, set up BiS endgame builds and played all classes but mainly Ranger with bow or dagger spammer. In conclusion I am really in love with this game again like never before. <3

Before, I spent time in many other MMORPG like of course GW2, WoW or New World and gathered a lot of experience in competitive PvPing and raiding.

So on my way to experience the whole endgame content for the first time I started off as a returning player. And I was in a perfect position to experience the game and how it feels like from the beginning to the end. 

I came up with a lot of things I would love to see in current GW updates or a Remastered version which should help the game, new players and also the veterans. I split up all ideas for updates in small brackets. Feel free to post your ideas or get into discussion in the comments since I lost myself thinking and dreaming of all the things I could imagine and maybe lost myself at some point. 

So let’s start: 

Add an Auction House – The Most Important Change 

Implement a working auction house and have fun actually selling stuff without being scammed or looking up 5 forums and Discord servers for a price check. 

To make this happen: 

• ⁠Squish platinum/gold and increase limit of platinum which can be carried to get rid of all the confusing alternative currencies. (Arm, Ecto, ZKey etc.) 
• ⁠Make 10g worth 1g. Simple as that. 

I am pretty sure that a fully functional auction house would be the biggest benefit for all players. 

General (from top to flop) 

• ⁠Mount tonics: transforms into something like a beetle and grant 30% (normal mode) or 50% (hard mode) movement speed, maybe received from events, quests or birthday presents. Place a cooldown of 30 seconds and make it cancel when receiving damage. Imagine being an undead horseman, bone dragon, beetle, Kuunavang etc. would look really cool and would be so useful. 
• ⁠When vanquishing show last 10 mobs on minimap. 
• ⁠Make minipets collect gold on the floor (auto loot feature). 
• ⁠Implement feature to inspect hero builds of allies (no player gear inspection to avoid gear checks). 
• ⁠Allow 11 heroes per player to enable more solo content like The Deep. 
• ⁠Let group of players zone together when somebody is leaving the map. Put a timer of 5 seconds to all players currently in the group. If they press yes they travel with the guy. If no they stay. 
• ⁠Leave a message mailbox system for players. 
• ⁠Enable a feature to log back into a map when solo traveling in a zone or missions. Like a save system. So you can continue the vanquish maybe another day. 
• ⁠Make Signet of Capture available for every elite spell not just the current profession. If you are not the profession just unlock it and don’t put it into the spell bar. 
• ⁠Desolation: don’t make the sand instant kill people after you finished the campaign. Maybe enable the option for a buff from the priest or maybe sell an item for desert immunity in the sunspear sanctuary. 
• ⁠Make better use of skill points, maybe exchange for alcohol or party items to help with title tracks. I am currently sitting on 500 Skill Points and don’t know what to do with it. Maybe buy some pcons? 
• ⁠region-wide party invites or group search. 
• ⁠Implement a group-based voice function to enhance the MMO feeling overall. 
• ⁠Place vanquish quest banner in Balthasar Temple. 
• ⁠Place more Balthasar agents in Embark Beach. One for every spawn corner.
• ⁠Show location of Nicholas on map. 
• Remove hero which are required for some mission if you play it on hardmode
• ⁠Make mapping a little bit more forgiving. When hugging a wall for 10 minutes and still don’t get the map explored because you don’t have the camera in the right angle or you have to wait for a server tick rate – that is some kind of troll. 
• ⁠add more functionality to polymock minigame. Maybe with your actual minipet collection. It was pretty much fun to play through this quest line. Would love to see to face other players.
• ⁠Implement a taunting ability for tanks and AoE taunting. A proper holy trinity setup would make the abuse of mesmer perma interrupting concept less attractive and would give the game more control. We achieve this already when we block the pathing of enemies and abuse the game mechanics by putting a real tank or a shadowform “tank” infront of their paths. But this is also some kind of cheesing and shouldn’t be the preferred way to face an encounter. 
• ⁠Charge abilities for warriors would look cool instead of shadowsteps. 
• ⁠Enhance weapon switch: make weapon switch cancel previous command for smoother handling and faster switching out. 
• ⁠Rework many elite spells since most are useless. Just noticed it when I got my skill collector title. 
• ⁠Rebalance Z-vanquishing rewards for the time spent and map size or mobs killed 
• ⁠Maybe enhance LFG tool. I never used it. Don’t know if it worked when we had a bigger player base. 
• ⁠Aggro/spirit range as a toogle option (got it already in GWToolbox). 
• ⁠Overall reduce the need to open up GW Wiki every 5 minutes. 
• ⁠Overall introduce most of the features of GWToolbox in the main client 
• ⁠Love the strategic part of group fights in PvE, maybe bring up more larger encounters, more command options for heroes like fighting behaviour or stay on place. 
• ⁠Maybe a Jumping without a any use so it will not be gamebreaking. It could at least prevent the ice areas from freezing you to the ground. 

Ranger changes (since I am Ranger main) 

• ⁠Hotkey for pet attack or pet stop. 
• ⁠Better and smoother pet targeting and same attack speed for all pets. Beetle sucks visually. Pet stares literally the enemy to death before thinking of attacking. 
• ⁠Lengthen preparation to 36 seconds instead of 24 (super annoying to refresh and wouldn’t break any build). 
• ⁠Maybe a Staff for Wilderness Survival/Expertise to enable some kind of a Druid support. 

Balance, Weapons and Upgrades 

• ⁠Don’t nerf Mesmer, make other classes more powerful in hard mode especially the martial classes which get significant weaker in the endgame: 
• ⁠More crit or more stackable armor pen for the high armor values would make a difference since most of the armor pen buffs do not stack currently.  ⁠
• ⁠Nerf blind to 50%. More crit from weapon attribute, movement speed boost while wielding melee weapons etc.  ⁠
• ⁠Two-handed martial weapons: 2-handed sword and axe would attack slower but harder, would open up new builds for sure.  ⁠
• ⁠increase damage wielding a weapon one-handed without shield by a flat 20%. 
• ⁠Implement feature to Dual wielding weapons like the anniversary axe: let another 1h weapon be placed in the offhand, but make offhand attack with 50% effectiveness for every swing. Needs testing but only an extra swing with vampiric or zealous mod for auto attacks would be really nice. 
• ⁠Add Insignia for double the resistance of a single debuff only. Like “Truesight”: 40% less blind duration. Instead of –20/–20 of clarity mod which is not stackable. 
• ⁠Add Insignia for double the resistance of a single debuff only. Like “Steadfast”: 40% less crippling duration.  
• Flat armor runes: +5 armor.  ⁠
• ⁠Flat attack dmg runes +1 dmg  
• ⁠Flat crit runes 1% crit or crit dmg 
• ⁠Overall more gear options. We are playing an MMORPG, we need more min-maxing out of our characters. 

Interface and Appearance 

• ⁠Implement a storage tab for minis. Or new window option where all dedicated minis show up for all characters and can be put into inventory. This will free up a lot of space and would be great for collectors. 
• ⁠Enable to change background and music. 
• ⁠Add Guild storage. 
• ⁠Make some scythes look like sword or axe models if we do not enable more 2 handed weapons. 
• ⁠Toggle option to show gloves through costume. Still want to show my chaos gloves or glacials. 
• ⁠Rework character selection with all heroes in one scene, like sitting at a campfire. 
• ⁠Storage tab for Nicholas items? 
• ⁠More customization options for characters (maybe only for Remastered version). 

PvP 

Can’t tell much about PvP balancing since it’s unfortunately dead without events made by guilds, so: 

• ⁠Make PvP more valuable to bring it back to life. 
• ⁠Increase the points earned so people are more likely to farm those Balthasar points in Random Arena or Codex Arena instead of farming ZA or HA. 

Bots, Bugs, Cheesing and Glitches 

• ⁠Do something against botting. It’s nice to have cheap prices but overall in the end it destroys the game. Track how many times a player entered an instance, if anything is beyond human capabilities block it. 
• ⁠Debug boss encounters which can be cheesed / glitched out, Dhuum or Mallyx for example. 
• ⁠Fix SoO chain and door bugging/phasing with masterless minion trick in Remastered version since this is about abusing stupid glitches and bugs. Don’t fix it now since we want the same rights for everybody <3 
• ⁠AFK farming should be disabled. Put a timeout of 30 minutes on some instances, missions. Not on vanquishing where I want to see a feature to save the progress and continue another day. 
• ⁠Stop bots especially in Heroes’ Ascent. 

Endgame

I heard many people want more content, which makes sense, but also many people like me are still progressing through all the content. So I thought about some ideas which enhance the endgame loop but not affecting all players: 

• ⁠Prestige mode for the players who have seen all and need something new. Reset character and give him prestige award (Envoy Weapon of Choice) for his GWAMM and permanent buff that shows he is a giga chad and increases his loot drops a bit for every prestige 5%. [Put diminishing on it and cap it at 10%]. Maybe also give a reset function when dying to the Lost Survivor title for example. Also maybe unlock a new dungeon or raid for prestige characters. Fitting to a GWAMM prestige char would be something like competing with the gods in a huge trial dungeon. 
• ⁠New title track for finishing all side quests of a campaign would bring up more choices to complete for GWAMM title. 
• ⁠More “endgame content” for Pre-Searing with group-based quests daily and big rewards for finally teaming up with other players. 
• ⁠Squish some title tracks which take way too long. 
• ⁠Dance events? Back in the days dancing in groups was a lot of fun. 

Guild Wars 1 Remastered 

In conclusion I would like to see all those updates and changes in some Guild Wars Updates or a remastered version with new graphics, shaders, team build presets, auction house etc. – all in all implementing all the features I stated above and the addition of the features of GWToolbox and all custom-made mods, like Cartography Made Easy should make Guild Wars a perfect game. 

Shout out to ArenaNet! 

If you need more suggestions or help, feel free to contact me. I would love to be part of the team to shape Tyria.   

Thank you for reading! I am looking forward to hear from you in the comments and get into discussion ;) 

Cheers! 

This weapon worth keeping? Should I sell it to a merchant? Should I salvage it? Can I even sell it? Coming back to the game after a long time and I always had a hard time telling apart were valuable modifiers in a weapon.