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 your character without leveraging player trading, account storage, etc. This new mode is inspired by the community-driven Ironman challenge.
  • Specifically, you:
    • can't trade with other players,
    • can't pick up drops from other players,
    • can't access account storage via the Xunlai vault,
    • can't use skill tomes to train skills unlocked on the account,
    • can't use /bonus, /bonusitem, or /special,
    • can't access the Zaishen Menagerie,
    • can't access traders that buy and sell items from other players at market prices,
    • can only train skills available from the skill trainer (normally you can train skills already unlocked by another character on the same account from any trainer),
    • can't add mercenaries to your hero roster, and
    • heroes can only use their starter skills, skills learned from a trainer on the current character, or from a hero skill trainer.

  • You can be awesome.
• UI badge consolidation - Badges displayed next to character names (Reforged mode, Dhuum's Covenant, and Melandru's Accord) now stack on top of each other to take up less space. Hovering over them on another player will cause them to temporarily expand.
• Reforged mode: - We are bringing the early experience in Prophecies more in line with the early experience in Factions and Nightfall.
  • Reforged skill cost retuning - To make it easier to acquire more skills, we are lowering the skill cost progression curve by roughly half and lowering the cap to 500 gold.
  • Reforged mission XP tuning - Prophecies mission rewards are increased when playing in Reforged mode:
    • Mission completion reward: 2000xp, 200gp, 1sp
    • Bonus objective reward: 2000xp, 150gp, 1sp
    • (Hard mode mission completion reward has also been increased to 3000xp)

  • Reforged mission/quest gold rewards - Several Prophecies quests have had gold rewards added or increased when in Reforged mode
• Alpha/Beta feature localization - Translations from English to Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish and Russian are now available for all in-progress features (Melandru's Accord, Dhuum's Covenant, and Reforged mode).
• Touch screen improvements - Touch-based scrolling is now supported for Steam Deck and laptops with touchscreens. Just touch a panel with a scroll bar visible and drag the contents up and down.