We’re partnering with OMEN Gaming Hub, DXRacer, and HyperX to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Guild Wars 2 with amazing prizes!

Visit the Gleam.io portal and complete activities for a chance to win.

Grand Prize (1 Winner)

• Guild Wars 2 branded HP OMEN 16 Gaming Laptop
• HyperX Guild Wars 2 custom keycap

Runners-Up (9 Winners)

• 1st Prize (1 Winner): DXRacer Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons™ branded gaming chair and HyperX Guild Wars 2 custom keycap
• 2nd Prizes (3 Winners): HyperX Alloy Origins 65 keyboard + HyperX Guild Wars 2 custom keycap
• 3rd (5 Winners) Prizes: Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons branded HyperX headset + HyperX Guild Wars 2 custom keycap

To celebrate, we’ve put together an infographic with some of our favorite facts about your adventures over the last decade.

Happy anniversary to our amazing community, and to all our new players: welcome to Tyria!

Ten Years of Guild Wars 2 in Numbers

The 10th anniversary of Guild Wars 2 is here! It’s time to celebrate our incredible community and a decade of adventures in Tyria, so let’s jump in to see what’s in store.

Guild Wars 2 10th Anniversary Event

When you log in today, you’ll find a new series of achievements waiting for you that will take you on a journey to experience the best of Guild Wars 2, Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons, world bosses, Living World, World vs. World, Player vs. Player, and more.

As you complete these tasks you’ll earn Proofs of Legend, which can be traded in for the new Decade’s armor set. Characters who are turning ten themselves will also receive an extra Proof of Legend to kickstart their collection. Speak to an ancient armorsmith in one of the capital cities or Lion’s Arch to trade in your Proofs of Legend and collect your rewards. Complete enough achievements and you’ll also unlock the Decade’s War cape skin and your choice of a weapon from the new Dragon Decade set.

These achievements are permanent additions to the game for all current and future players.

Life Is Better with Friends

Log in and check the Gem Store today to get a free Life with Friends Box, containing five Teleport to Friend tokens and one Revive Orb. And don’t forget to log in later this week to claim a free Communal Boost Bonfire. We’ll have additional Gem Store giveaways running through the end of August.

To welcome our friends joining us from Steam, we are also offering the following bundles for new players to jump-start their new adventures in Tyria. These are available for purchase by all:

• Steam Welcome Pack: Two Bag Slot Expansions, two 20 Slot Black Lion Satchels, five Experience Boosters, five Account-Bound Unidentified Dyes, and ten Merchant Expresses
• Steam Elite Jump-Start Pack: Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic, Shared Inventory Slot, Unbreakable Gathering Tools Container, Character Slot Expansion, and Royal Terrace Pass

Steam Is Live

With the release of Guild Wars 2 on Steam, a whole new group of players are joining us on our adventures. Our wonderful Guild Wars 2 community has always gone to heroic lengths to welcome new players to Tyria, and we encourage everyone to offer new commanders a friendly helping hand.

Steam players can experience the entire base Guild Wars 2 game for free! You can upgrade your account with expansions at any time to remove the restrictions placed on free accounts.

Reminder: existing Guild Wars 2accounts can’t be linked to Steam and vice versa. Please visit our knowledge base for more info.

Twitch Drops

Celebrate Guild Wars 2‘s 10th anniversary and the launch of Guild Wars 2 on Steam with our first Twitch Drops campaign!

Link your Twitch and Guild Wars 2 accounts and earn rewards for watching any Twitch channel broadcasting Guild Wars 2! Tune in to any Twitch livestream with Twitch Drops enabled between August 23 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) and August 28 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) to earn Transmutation Charges, boosters, a mini, a Total Makeover Kit, a Glowing Purple Mask, and your choice of a classic Guild Wars 2 character outfit.

For more details about Twitch Drops, visit this blog post.

Members of the ArenaNet Partner Program will be streaming a wide variety of content during the Steam release week and tenth anniversary (and beyond) to showcase all aspects of Guild Wars 2: story content, raids, Strike Missions, fractals, Player vs. Player, World vs. World, and more. There will be something for everyone.

If you’re looking for an exciting broadcast to check out while you collect your loot, tune in to the livestream on the Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel on Saturday, August 27 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) for the August monthly PvP tournament finals. MightyTeapot will be shoutcasting the tournament along with ArenaNet Game Designer Roy Marks.

Join us as we support our content creator community on Twitch and welcome a new generation of players!

Seattle Community Event

Celebrate with us at our upcoming community event in and Seattle, Washington. For more details, check out the blog post.

Crucial Sweepstakes

Our friends at Crucial will be hosting a sweepstakes to celebrate the 10th anniversary with the community!

Fans have a chance to win ten amazing prizes from Crucial, including a 32GB Crucial DDR5 RAM Kit, 1TB Crucial X8, 1TB Crucial P5 Plus NVMe SSD, and Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons Standard Edition.

For more details and to enter, please visit this link.

Ten Years Young

Thank you for making Tyria your home, and we look forward to many more years of fun and adventures with you!

Happy anniversary,
—The Guild Wars 2 Team

Celebrate Guild Wars 2‘s tenth anniversary and the launch of Guild Wars 2 on Steam with our first Twitch Drops campaign! From August 23 at 12 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) to August 28 at 11:59 p.m. (UTC-7), you can earn in-game rewards for watching any Twitch channel broadcasting Guild Wars 2.

How to Participate

You simply need to link your Twitch account with your Guild Wars 2 account, log in to Twitch, and watch any Guild Wars 2 broadcast with the “Drops Enabled” tag while the campaign is active.

Account Linking Instructions

1. Log in to the ArenaNet Account Management Site and navigate to the “Applications” tab.
2. In the “Account Linking” section, click “Connect” next to Twitch.
3. Follow the prompts to connect your Guild Wars 2 and Twitch accounts*.
4. You’re ready to watch!

Once you’ve linked accounts and met the watch-time goal for a reward, you’ll need to claim the reward on Twitch before it will be delivered to you in-game. You’ll get a notification in Twitch chat to claim it after you’ve met a goal, or you can claim your rewards from your Drops Inventory on Twitch. Once you claim the reward on Twitch, it will be delivered to your in-game mail within an hour. You can learn more about Twitch Drops on Twitch’s help site.

*Note: Only one Twitch account can be associated with a Guild Wars 2 account for each Twitch Drops campaign.

**Participants in our 10th Anniversary Twitch Drops event are intended to receive 2 Heroic Boosters after watching an eligible Guild Wars 2 Twitch livestream for 30 minutes. Due to a bug players are only receiving a single Heroic Booster.

Thank you for your patience while we fix this!

Free Anniversary Gift: Life with Friends Box

Log in today to pick up your free Life with Friends Box from the Gem Store! This gift contains 5 Teleport to Friend tokens and a Revive Orb.

Mount Select License

Missed the original Black Lion mount skin collection? Here’s your opportunity to choose your favorite with a Mount Select License.

Kirin Jackal Skin



Set yourself free into a world of wonder with a lovely kirin friend—the best companion to see the Canthan sights with.

Steam Elite Jump-Start Package

A selection of the best items available to take on a new adventure! This package contains a Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic, Shared Inventory Slot, Unbreakable Gathering Tools Container, Character Slot Expansion, and Royal Terrace Pass.

Steam Welcome Pack

Kick off your journey in the world of Tyria with this pack valued at 2,200 gems. This pack contains two Bag Slot Expansions, two 20 Slot Black Lion Satchels, five Experience Boosters, and five Account-Bound Unidentified Dyes.

Firestarter Chest

Inside each chest, you’re guaranteed to find a Black Lion Mastery Coffer and two common items. You also have a chance to find something rarer in the fifth slot, including exclusive items, glyphs, and skins from the Orchestral Weapon Collection and Endless Ocean Weapon Collection.

Exclusive Item: Candlewick Sprite Jade Bot Skin



You’ll never lose your way with a whimsical glow burning bright from your jade bot!

Guaranteed Item: Black Lion Mastery Coffer

Jump into the fun with Black Lion Mastery Coffers. Each one contains a random Elixir of Mastery to help you unlock new horizons faster.

What’s in Stock

Returning Today

10% Off—Black Lion Backpack and Glider Voucher, Black Lion Glider Voucher, Black Lion Chair Voucher

Later This Week
Anniversary Giveaway—Communal Boost Bonfire

• Available Now in the Gem Store!

  Log into Guild Wars 2 and press 'O' to access the Black Lion Trading Company for these great offers and more!

Don’t miss the next episode of the Guild Wars 2 Art Show livestream, where our ArenaNet Creative Partners show their latest Guild Wars 2-inspired work, discuss art techniques, and hang out in chat. Let’s celebrate art together!

The Guild Wars 2 Art Show

Wednesday, August 24 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7)
Host: Reixart and Inoa Art

ArenaNet was founded over twenty years ago with a simple yet ambitious mission: challenge conventions in the MMO genre and usher in a new era of online role-playing games. This mission led us to create of the world of Tyria, a place we first explored together in Guild Wars: Prophecies® in 2005. It was different, and our players knew it, too. Who ever heard of a successful online role-playing game without a subscription fee? Well, the idea caught on, and its success allowed us to double down with a sequel: Guild Wars 2.

Guild Wars 2 launched on August 28, 2012, and since then, over sixteen million players from across the globe have stepped into Tyria. Later this month, we’ll reach an incredible milestone by celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Guild Wars 2 launch. Together, we’ve embarked on epic adventures, forged lifelong friendships and rivalries, created countless memories, and defeated a few dragons in the process, too. Ten years is a remarkable achievement for an online game, especially when you consider that many don’t make it through the first. We continue to be thankful to you, our community—we’re here today because of your support and trust.
We took an innovative, player-first approach to Guild Wars 2, challenging conventions in the same spirit as the original Guild Wars . We created an immersive world that focuses on fun rather than endless gear grind—a game that respects your time and never invalidates your hard work, where you’re always happy to see another player. We did it without charging a subscription fee or introducing pay-to-win monetization. We took risks, and we continue to take them.

Unfortunately, many of the player frustrations that we observed in the industry during Guild Wars 2‘s early development are still prevalent today. At ArenaNet, we’re gamers just as much as we’re game developers, and that’s why it’s important to us that we continue to stand by our values and our players even when it proves to be a more difficult path. We want to build the kinds of games that we want to play. Thankfully, we know there are a lot of gamers out there that feel just like we do. We’re celebrating the tenth anniversary of Guild Wars 2 by reaffirming our commitment to being different, honoring our community, and introducing the world of Tyria to an entirely new group of players who are also looking for something different.

Steam Rises

It’s time to tell your friends to update their Steam wishlists—we’re pleased to announce that Guild Wars 2 will launch on Steam on August 23 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7)! This is something we’ve wanted to do for a long time, and the tenth anniversary felt like the perfect moment to make it happen.

Steam players will be able to experience the core Guild Wars 2 game for free (with the same restrictions applied to free accounts created on GuildWars2.com), with options to upgrade to Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire™, and Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons™ from day one. We’ve heard your feedback that Living World unlocks should be better communicated to prospective players, so we’ll also be creating a Complete Collection bundle that includes Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons, and Living World Seasons 2 through 5 (Living World Season 1 is free for everyone).

The Complete Collection won’t be immediately available to players outside of Steam, but we’ll be working to add it to our web store and the in-game store for players with accounts created via GuildWars2.com in the near future. (Note: Existing Guild Wars 2 accounts can’t be linked to Steam and vice versa. Please visit our knowledge base for more info.) Additionally, we’ll be making it clear on our Steam page that Living World seasons must be purchased separately from expansions. No surprises.

We want to make the most of the Steam launch, so over the past few months we’ve been working on improvements to the new player experience. We’ve improved leveling pacing, updated default options and key binds to be more sensible, added multiple tiers of new achievements that guide players up through level 80, added a free trial for the raptor mount once players reach level 10 (which becomes a permanent unlock after purchasing an expansion), adjusted level-up rewards and Black Lion Instant Level 80 Tickets, updated early game content like world bosses with revised mechanics and tutorials, streamlined dungeon currencies and increased their rewards, made it easier to get into raid content, added accessibility options, improved the player experience in story instances, revamped fractal instabilities, improved raid and Strike Mission rewards and currencies, removed tedious mechanics like equipment repairing, fixed some long-standing content bugs, and implemented DirectX 11 to improve game performance. We also released the first three episodes of Living World Season 1, which gives new players a better understanding of the story as they head into later content. The fourth episode will drop on September 13.

We’re happy to report that our metrics show that these changes have made a significant impact, and we’ll continue to make additional improvements in the coming months as we monitor the Steam launch. We’ll see a steady stream of new players coming into the game from Steam moving forward, so even changes that come after launch will be beneficial. Overall, we’re feeling pretty good about the balance we struck between investing in the new player experience and making progress toward developing future content for our veteran players.

We’re incredibly excited about the upcoming Steam launch, and we hope you’ll join us in shouting it from the rooftops—tell your friends, family, neighbors, and of course your gamer pals! This is the perfect time to join the Guild Wars community.

Guild Wars 2 10th Anniversary Event

It wouldn’t be a true celebration if we didn’t show some love to the community that’s supported us all these years. When you log in on August 23, you’ll find a new series of achievements waiting for you that will take you on a journey to experience the best of Guild Wars 2: world bosses, Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons, Living World, World vs. World, Player vs. Player, and more. As you complete these tasks, you’ll earn Proofs of Legend, which can be traded in for the new Decade armor set.

These achievements are permanent additions to the game, so our new friends joining us from Steam will be able to make progress on these achievements as they explore Tyria at their own pace.

A +30% bonus to karma, magic find, and PvP and WvW reward-track progress will be active for one week starting on August 23.

As is traditional, we’ll also have a wide range of Gem Store sales to celebrate the anniversary, and maybe even a few freebies to collect (spoiler: mount skin).

Twitch Drops

Soon you’ll be able to link your Twitch and Guild Wars 2 accounts and earn rewards for watching any Twitch channel broadcasting Guild Wars 2 on Twitch! Tune in to any Twitch livestream with Twitch Drops enabled between August 23 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) and August 28 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) to earn Transmutation Charges, boosters, a mini, a Glowing Purple Mask, and your choice of a classic Guild Wars 2 character outfit.

Members of the ArenaNet Partner Program will be streaming a wide variety of content during the Steam release week and tenth anniversary (and beyond) to showcase all facets of Guild Wars 2: story content, raids, Strike Missions, fractals, Player vs. Player, World vs. World, and more. There will be something for everyone.

Stay tuned for more information on how to participate!

A Call to Arms

When Guild Wars 2 launches on Steam on August 23, we’ll have a wave of new players entering Tyria for the very first time, and those players will be looking for new friends and communities to call home. We hope our veteran players will join us in welcoming these new players into our world with open arms. We’re stronger together!

Beyond the tenth anniversary and Steam launch, there’s so much on the horizon that we’re excited about. Some of the big items are:

• The final two episodes of Living World Season 1 Return (plus a new Strike Mission and challenge mode).
• A new location and story to experience in Cantha.
• World vs. World updates, including World Restructuring and Alliances.

Not to mention that our next expansion is in early development! There’s never been a better time to be a Guild Wars 2 player.

Happy anniversary,

—The Guild Wars 2 Team

Free Black Lion Chest Key

Guild Wars 2’s tenth anniversary is just around the corner! We’re kicking off this occasion with a free Black Lion Chest Key in the Gem Store. Only available today.

Trimaran Skiff Skin



If you’re longing for a rustic gateway, this new skiff skin has the perfect weathered look for a cozy voyage. Sit back and enjoy a pleasant day at the lake.

Geomantic Fishing Rod Skin



No fish will be able to resist the azure shine of these gorgeous, magic-imbued crystals. Just beware of rogue skritt.

What’s in Stock

Choose your favorite items from a huge selection with Black Lion vouchers, which are available for a limited time at 10% off.

Returning Today

10% Off—Black Lion Weapons Voucher, Black Lion Instrument Voucher

Anniversary Giveaway—Black Lion Chest Key

Returning this Week

Anniversary Giveaway—Total Makeover Kit

• Available Now in the Gem Store!

  Log into Guild Wars 2 and press 'O' to access the Black Lion Trading Company for these great offers and more!

Don’t miss the next episode of the Guild Wars 2 Art Show livestream, where our ArenaNet Creative Partners show their latest Guild Wars 2-inspired work, discuss art techniques, and hang out in chat. Let’s celebrate art together!

The Guild Wars 2 Art Show

Wednesday, August 17 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7)
Host: Inoa Art

Water Dragon Spear Skin



This weapon is as beautiful as an iridescent jellyfish, and it can be yours to wield beneath the gentle ocean waves.

Water Dragon Wings Backpack and Glider Combo



As delicate as seaweed and as strong as a tsunami, these beautiful wings will make you look like a fabled water dragon. Stand fearless and command the tide.

What’s in Stock

Returning Today

20% Off—Aurene Wings Backpack and Glider Combo, Shimmerwing Skyscale Skin, Desert Racer Mount Adoption License, Desert Racer Mount Select License

Returning This Week
20% Off—Bank Tab Expansion, Bag Slot Expansion, Additional Crafting License, Shared Inventory Slot

• Available Now in the Gem Store!

  Log into Guild Wars 2 and press 'O' to access the Black Lion Trading Company for these great offers and more!