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Wiki admin here.

Already talked to OP on discord, but posting here as well. The long story short is that the wiki (the full suite of wikis, GWW, GW2W EN, GW2W DE, GW2W FR, and GW2W ES) (and websites on the internet in general) have had to deal with a lot of botscraping over the past couple years due to the rise of LLMs, to the point that without some bordering-on-draconian firewall rules, the wikis would be too DDOS'd to be accessible to anyone.

So if you're trying to browse special pages like WhatLinksHere and so forth, it's normal to get 403 errors while not logged in. You can solve this by making an account.

If making an account (and being logged into your account) doesn't solve your issue, you can post on https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Help:Ask_a_wiki_question or on the GW2W discord in the #wiki-not-game-support channel (just specify that it's about GW1W). Helpful information is the specific page(s) you get 403'd on, the date and time (with timezone), and your username/IP.

On a sidenote, if you need to quickly contact GWW admins, there's a #gw1w channel on the GW2W discord that a bunch of us are in and keep an eye on.

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I had no idea a site like this existed either. Is this a legal site to trade/put in order like materials?

It's a visual way to display what players are selling in-game. Rather than posting in/reading the Kamadan chat. An alternative to creating a thread on this forum.

A seller can select the items and create their 'stock' for other people to search/browse. They then meet-up in game to trade.

Same as looking at items on a Legacy thread, and then finding the player in-game to trade.

Some people are finding it useful to make trades rather than spamming in Kamadan.

Gothic Sword is Vampiric Strength 'Dual Vamp' so will be worth a decent offer. Don't merch that one.

edit; Missed that it was 1 off max damage though, so maybe not as valuable as I first thought. Still might be worth not merch.

Since this forum is about Guild Wars 1. And you indicated it has controller support with Reforged.

What are you asking about, GW2?

How ArenaNet Is Modernizing Guild Wars Without Remaking It

ArenaNet breaks down how Guild Wars: Reforged keeps a classic MMO relevant without erasing its identity in our interview.

www.forbes.com

A few interesting quotes snipped from this article:

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Which classic Guild Wars values were “non-negotiables,” that you protected during the modernization process (such as combat feel, instancing model, buildcraft, etc.)?
We’re not going to change the basic gameplay. Guild Wars is unique in the way it mixes skills and skill-building. But we want to expand the audience in two directions: one is more challenge for long term players while simultaneously making the game more accessible for new players.

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Similarly, what were some of the difficulties with making Reforged in general? Did anything surprising present a roadblock?
The one area where we faced challenges was with the tools for making content.

No new content has been made for the game for a long time, and the tools for making things like 3D models or introducing new items or spawns had accumulated compatibility issues over time. We’re still actively recovering a lot of those tools and getting them working again. For a big online RPG like Guild Wars, that’s a mountain of work, but it’s also rewarding “archeology,” each new tool we recover opens up additional possibilities for future features and content.

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What kind of future updates are on the table down the line? Maybe some more QoL enhancements?
Guild Wars has been around for 20+ years at this point and there are a few legacy behaviors that folks have been working around that we’d love to improve. We’d love to keep coming up with interesting ways for folks to re-engage with the game from a new perspective like the Dhuum’s Covenant mode, which recognizes players who haven’t died a single time.

We’re also on the lookout for ways to make the experience more inviting for new players. Guild Wars is a complex game with a steep learning curve, but is extremely rewarding once you’ve started to develop some mastery with its systems. We want to make it easier for new players to get to that point.

One of the biggest benefits of shipping Guild Wars Reforged is that it has reinvigorated the community for the game, so the experience is alive with other players in a way it hasn’t been for some time. We want to help continue to grow that community.

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How will you decide what to tackle next—community surveys, telemetry, support tickets, Steam reviews, or something else?
It’s a bit of everything. We definitely spend time on various channels seeing how folks are engaging with the game and listening to pain/high points. We also have testers come in that have a range of experience with the game and ArenaNet has an excellent community voice team that helps us consolidate and prioritize feedback from all of these sources.

We’re also fans of the game and have our own ideas about the ways we’d love to see it grow. We love finding ways of surprising new and long-time fans.
Since 2018, Reddit has been our main communication path with players. For Reforged, we significantly ramped up our social media outreach. We're expanding our creator partners program to support OG Guild Wars and we hope soon to be working with some of our passionate fan sites and fan groups.

This came out just before the 28 January Melandru Accord Beta Release, so they've got a flow with a news release and an update.

Pleased to hear they've worked on some of the old development tools to help aid in improving things for new and old players and are keeping working towards that!

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Hello everybody - big news, as the new archives are now live!
Hop on over to https://archive.guildwarslegacy.com to check it out - feel free to leave feedback here for future improvements.

Kevin

This new backup/archive still seems to be missing the Gladiator's Arena. Previously it was between "The Campfire" and "Explorer's League".

Any plan to re-instate it or is there a reason it is missing.

In the GW Global Discord and the /r/GuildWars subreddit information to help price check/value items has been worked on and consolidated over time. I realised we don't really have anything like that here, so I'm copy and pasting the same information here to see if anyone has advice / comments then I plan to pin a thread in Price Check with a few key bits of information.

This is not intended to replace any Price Checks but maybe give people the tools and source of knowledge to help understand the GW economy a bit better.

I would like to get your opinion and contribution on this if you think there is anything to add/change.

Thank you.

Basic Info:

• There is a Price Check forum and Trading forum on GW Legacy: The Xunlai Market
• You can search Kamadan Trade Chat: https://kamadan.gwtoolbox.com/
• You can search Kamadan Trade Chat: https://kamadan.decltype.org/
• You can search Ascalon City (Pre-Searing) Trade Chat: https://ascalon.gwtoolbox.com/
• Pre-Searing Drops: https://presearing.boards.net/thread/1516/de…s-worth-selling
• Drops Guide Flow Chart: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/173…yestMoA_wILAEk/
• All Trading happens in-game at Kamadan American Districts.
• Miniature(s): Everyone is returning to multiple Birthday Gifts/Miniatures. There is some value in those only obtainable from 7th year gifts, others are not very valuable, 1-6 Birthday ones are worthless if Dedicated. Consider holding off opening many gifts/tokens until you have a plan as they fill up storage.
• If you're returning after a very long time, your account may have items that a no-longer obtainable "pre-nerf" items. Info about them here: Prenerf

Non Inscribable ("OS") Weapons:

Shields

• Single Mod? - Always merch/salvage.
• Dual mod perfect? (Both mods are maximum amount they could get) - Always get price check.
• Dual mod, one imperfect? (one or two of the mods does not have maximum) - Still ask for price check.
• Dual mod, both imperfect? - Always merch/salvage.

Martial Weapons - must have max modifier (Like 15 over 50, not 14 over 50).

• Daggers: if the requirement is not 9 - Always merch/salvage. For requirement 9: only 15 over 50, Stance, Enchanted, and +5energy will have value.
• Bows: if the requirement is not 9 - Always merch. For requirement 9 only 15 over 50, Stance, +5energy, Vampiric, Zealous will have value. Bow prices are generally what people want to pay as demand is low.
• Hammers, Axes, Swords: if the requirement is not 9 - Always merch/salvage UNLESS the modifier is Vampiric, Zealous. For requirement 9: only 15 over 50, Stance, Enchanted and +5energy for Sword/Axe will have value.

Caster Weapons

• Staves: Only when the 20% HCT and HSR matches the Attribute. Exceptions when the requirement is for Primary Attribute and the modifier is for an Attribute of same profession. In case of other combinations, ask for price check.
• Wands & Focus: Single Mod? - Always merch/salvage. Max/one-off dual mod ask for price check.

Thanks for bids.

Bump.

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bsoltan Since the poll has ended, shouldn't the threads reunite?

Thanks for the prompt. Yes following the vote the decision was in favour of having just one thread and moving it to General.

This has now been done, title and posting has been reverted. I hope people weren't too inconvenienced.

(Still don't know why only one poll worked but it had enough votes)

I will try and do more votes in the future if it may be impactful to threads/discussion.

Thanks, happy posting!

Thanks for bids.

Bump.

I think there are some 'bugs' with forum permissions, that they display things differently for accounts logged out vs logged in vs verified.

We'll try and dig into this a bit to correct it. It's not the first comment I have had from someone who can view Xunlai logged out but not logged in. Shouldn't really be that way.

If more people / anyone else has any forum errors when reporting posts or elsewhere on the forum please mention or share so it can be investigated.

For me I haven't had a slow response / load time but some pages that are image heavy become slow to scroll/navigate.

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It should be possible to view the history of past transactions, either through specific access rights or through new rules. For example, item prices should no longer disappear once a sale is closed.

Just looking at the enthusiasm for Guru’s transaction history is enough to show that there is a real need to preserve and maintain historical data. This kind of transparency helps users better understand the market and builds trust.

Out of curiosity how do you see this working?

There is no requirement to post prices that items were traded for, and as far as I know people don't go through and remove bids/offers/prices.

Threads that are closed should still be visible to read.

For mods, it has been discussed in this thread: Valuable Skins, Mods, and GW Drops Guide

Added to the GW Drops Guide: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/173…yestMoA_wILAEk/ (admittedly it needs some further updating since the "of Profession" mods dropped as the market is more stable now).

The intention here was to keep a list of ones that are generally more in demand and more valuable.

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I think a list of generallz valuable mods would be useful, but for prices we should spread among newcomers that for regularly sold items such as mods, kamadan.gwtoolbox.com is the best bet.

There used to be a link to Kamadan.gwtoolbox.com on the bottom of the mainpage of legacy. Idk why Iaerah removed it?

Edit: also i guess even when it was there ppl still asked

The link is now available in the menu bar along the top of the site under Tools & Downloads.

edit: I did put a News Post about the re-organisation - Forum layout changes

I have Sun and Moon Shield and Militia Shield AR8 no req in my sell thread here:

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Selling Low Requirement Tactics Inscribable Shields

This is a sale for a few low requirement shields.

Trade in Ecto preferred. Reserve right not to sell.

Thanks

S1 c/o 25e T Miles	Purple Round Shield AL 9 Req 1 Tactics
S2 c/o 40e T Miles	Blue Wooden Buckler AL 12 Req 4 Tactics
S3 c/o 10e T Miles	Blue Wooden Buckler AL 13 Req 5 Tactics
S4 c/o 15e Koop	Blue Round Shield AL 16 Req 8 Tactics
S5 c/o 20e Brock	Purple Tall Shield AL 12 Req 4 Tactics
S6 c/o 1a scarlettestace	Purple Sun and Moon Shield AL 8
S7 c/o 25e WhiskeyTangoSierra	Purple Sun and Moon Shield AL 12 Req 4 Tactics

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bsoltan

January 16, 2026 at 9:59 AM

Hi Legacy members. This is a post to inform about some layout changes of the forum. There are many Sections and Sub-Forums that were low on the forum list and do not see much activity. To help give better visibility to posts, threads and forums, some Sub-Forums are being moved/merged.

Guild Wars has got some updates and love and we thought Legacy should too.

Changes

The following Sub-Forums have been moved into Plains of Ashford section:

• Guild & Alliance Recruitment
• Forum suggestions and help
• Game issues

The following Sub-Forums have been removed:

• Contests: Community events and contests

  Events/Contests can still be posted, they now belong in General. If you want particular attention to be given to an Event message the Moderation team.

  Past Events/Contest posts have been moved into General and not lost.

• Guild forums
• The Asuran Lab
• Links
  

External site links are now in the top Menubar:

• Tools & Downloads - Added Kamadan Chat and GWToolbox
• Created Fansites menu - Added Preasearing.com, PvX Wiki, Speed Clear Records forum, Speed Clear Wiki

The forum is now split in to four main sections / categories.

Game discussion topics - Plains of Ashford

Game trading and discussion - The Xunlai Market

Collections discussion & item data - The Museum & The Library

Game builds and guides - Builds and Guides for content

I hope this consolidation and cleanup helps all members find content, promote discussion and maintain an active community.

Regards

Bumping up

Thanks for the bids. Updated current offers.

New day new bump

Reports still come through, but seems like this error is still occurring for some users?

I'll tag Iaerah here to see if there's something they can look into..

Going Up

This is a sale for a few low requirement shields.

Trade in Ecto preferred. Reserve right not to sell.

Thanks

S1 c/o 25e T Miles	Purple Round Shield AL 9 Req 1 Tactics
S2 c/o 40e T Miles	Blue Wooden Buckler AL 12 Req 4 Tactics
S3 c/o 10e T Miles	Blue Wooden Buckler AL 13 Req 5 Tactics
S4 c/o 15e Koop	Blue Round Shield AL 16 Req 8 Tactics
S5 c/o 20e Brock	Purple Tall Shield AL 12 Req 4 Tactics
S6 c/o 1a scarlettestace	Purple Sun and Moon Shield AL 8
S7 c/o 25e WhiskeyTangoSierra	Purple Sun and Moon Shield AL 12 Req 4 Tactics
S8 c/o 10e nategoesevil	Purple Skull Shield AL 12 Req 4 Tactics
S9 c/o 1a scarlettestace	Purple Militia Shield AL 8
S10 c/o 30e nategoesevil	Purple Militia Shield AL 11 Req 3 Tactics

You're better to ask for support / report issues on their GitHub https://github.com/gwdevhub or Discord https://discord.gg/pGS5pFn so you can follow the Troubleshooting help.

If you get a crash report you can share it there so they can check/investigate.

I saw someone share a link to a version of multi launch they fixed for working on Windows 11 and GW.

Maybe that helps? I can’t verify it.

Release GW MultiLaunch 0.6.9_64 · soletscripts/gwmultilaunch-reforged

Fixed to work with Guild Wars Reforged in Windows 11

github.com

Another alternative is to switch to using GWLauncher

GitHub - gwdevhub/gwlauncher: A Guild Wars game launcher to allow for easy management of multiple accounts

A Guild Wars game launcher to allow for easy management of multiple accounts - gwdevhub/gwlauncher

github.com

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Hello,

In November I made a change to the Xunlai Discussion post about "How did Guild Wars treat you today" to apply to Items/Drops only.

There were several reasons for this;
1) The majority of posts were for item/drops and praising or commiserating.
2) As a forum, many alternative topics can easily get lost in one topic about anything.
3) As a forum, separating some discussion is beneficial for overall activity and contribution to discussion, stop it getting lost in a "flood" of posts.
4) This thread is in the Xunlai Market section relating to items/drops and economy so discussion about other things is kind of in the wrong section.

Feedback on this change was mixed but there was a fairly vocal opposition to something I thought would be beneficial for the forum and user experience.

Feedback posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Therefore I'd like to ask your vote - in the thread(s) so it is easy to find. Can vote in either/both. (Poll closes Monday 19 January 18:00UTC)

I don't intend to 'derail' this thread with discussion so if you want to discuss please post it here, but the poll will exist on the thread(s).

Whatever the outcome of he poll is I'm happy to follow that and ensure good user experience across the forum.

Thanks.

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I am confused as to what triggered this post. Did someone derail the thread?

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See the multiple Feedback posts (1-7) linked above. Some users were not keen on the change. Nothing more recent.

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bsoltan How do we vote? I cannot see any voting buttons or can click on anything to vote (please dont ban me before being off-topic)

It isn't showing at the top of the post? It shows like this on my screen. If no I'll have to get it checked by Admin.

Hello,

In November I made a change to the Xunlai Discussion post about "How did Guild Wars treat you today" to apply to Items/Drops only.

There were several reasons for this;
1) The majority of posts were for item/drops and praising or commiserating.
2) As a forum, many alternative topics can easily get lost in one topic about anything.
3) As a forum, separating some discussion is beneficial for overall activity and contribution to discussion, stop it getting lost in a "flood" of posts.
4) This thread is in the Xunlai Market section relating to items/drops and economy so discussion about other things is kind of in the wrong section.

Feedback on this change was mixed but there was a fairly vocal opposition to something I thought would be beneficial for the forum and user experience.

Feedback posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Therefore I'd like to ask your vote - in the thread(s) so it is easy to find. (Poll closes Monday 19 January 18:00UTC).

I don't intend to 'derail' this thread with discussion so if you want to discuss please post it here, but the poll will exist on the thread(s).

Whatever the outcome of he poll is I'm happy to follow that and ensure good user experience across the forum.

Thanks.

Hello,

In November I made a change to the Xunlai Discussion post about "How did Guild Wars treat you today" to apply to Items/Drops only.

There were several reasons for this;
1) The majority of posts were for item/drops and praising or commiserating.
2) As a forum, many alternative topics can easily get lost in one topic about anything.
3) As a forum, separating some discussion is beneficial for overall activity and contribution to discussion, stop it getting lost in a "flood" of posts.
4) This thread is in the Xunlai Market section relating to items/drops and economy so discussion about other things is kind of in the wrong section.

Feedback on this change was mixed but there was a fairly vocal opposition to something I thought would be beneficial for the forum and user experience.

Feedback posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Therefore I'd like to ask your vote - in the thread(s) so it is easy to find. Can vote in either/both. (Poll closes Monday 19 January 18:00UTC)

I don't intend to 'derail' this thread with discussion so if you want to discuss please post it here, but the poll will exist on the thread(s).

Whatever the outcome of he poll is I'm happy to follow that and ensure good user experience across the forum.

Thanks.

Feedback/Discussion relating to the thread management for

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How did Guild Wars treat you today? Daily Game Discussion

Figured it was time to get this one up and running again...if need be someone will merge it with the old one (wont be me though)

so let us know what good (or really bad) things happened for you today while playing!


November 2025 thread update:

edit: by bsoltan - I'm hijacking this first post to make it clear that this thread is related to the Xunlai Market area and for ITEMs / Goods found/dropped/traded in-game and not for General 'this is a cool thing that is happening'.

This has long been the…

cosyfiep

May 20, 2016 at 4:59 PM

There is nothing anyone can help with other than ArenaNet Support. If you've already contacted them and provided all necessary details and keep getting the same reply I think you have your answer.

You're better to ask for support on their GitHub https://github.com/gwdevhub or Discord https://discord.gg/pGS5pFn so you can follow the Troubleshooting help.

GWToolbox by it's nature has to interact with the game code so it gives false-positives to antivirus software.

2. Darkwing - 20e

Happy Bump Day

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I don’t see this on the list but I believe I posted this on the old pre nerf thread

I think this thread mainly deals with items that dropped from foes in the game. Although there has been some talk about quest reward items.

This Battle Axe looks to be one that was from https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Urgent_Warning Quest Reward, there is a note on the wiki page:

"Originally, the Battle Axe (cleaver) that is given as reward in this mission, had different upgrades, being "Energy +3 (while Enchanted) / Energy +5 (while Hexed)" at the same time. It is unknown in which update this was modified since it's not registered in the official Game updates log."

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I assume because the forum is searchable just having a static selling page or shop that you just keep on top of updating would be fine without the need to bump?

Sure. It depends how different users use the forum. Will people use the same search terms. If you use images they're not searchable. How much detail do you want to describe in a post.

Are people going to bother searching or just scroll/view recent posts/threads.

People can manage their thread/search how they wish.

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Share whatever you have going on in-game/discussion here.

The Xunlai Market for items/drops still exists here: How did Guild Wars treat you today? Items/Drops ONLY

Just don't post the same content in multiple places. Thanks.

i still completely fail to see even the premise. what problem is this trying to solve?

all this does is destroy an organic conversation by splitting it up

Because this is a forum. Where it is possible to have multiple relevant sections, threads and topics to aid in discussions.

It is not necessarily a problem but a way to improve visibility and discussion across the forum.

By putting any/all (discussion) content into one thread it means interesting topics, like the one you posted with model appearance, get lost with an immediate number of posts about something else.

If that is what people actually want, that is ok. It is simple enough to merge the content back and move it to General area.

There was a mixed response to changing the existing thread, and there was not any constructive discussion such as in the Forum suggestions and help area about how to manage this kind of thing. Only Neutral_CH reached out with a message to Moderators this week.

Most of the content in the thread in Xunlai was related to drops and comments on them. It was rare something else was mentioned and always that content could have gone in a separate thread to encourage more discussion and topics. I have tried out making this change to improve discussion and activity in the general forum areas rather than having all content go to one thread.

Share whatever you have going on in-game/discussion here.

The Xunlai Market for items/drops still exists here: How did Guild Wars treat you today? Items/Drops ONLY

Just don't post the same content in multiple places. Thanks.

Hello, the rules are explained here:

https://guildwarslegacy.com/forum/xunlai-marketplace-rules/ - It is the top sub-forum in the Xunlai Market section.

1) 24hrs must pass since the previous post you make in your thread.

Bumping

Bumping is the act of the thread creator posting so that the thread returns to the top of the forum list.

• Any post that you make in your thread is considered a bump.
• Once you have submitted a thread/post you must wait at least 24 hours before posting again in your thread.

2) You can edit any post or title at any time. It is common to add and remove items from a Selling thread.

Regards

Other Shields 3. Shield of the Wing q7 Tactics AL15 - 20e