Personal Housing, A New Raid, A New Weapon, and More: Janthir Wilds launches August 20!

We are thrilled to announce that the next Guild Wars 2 expansion, Janthir Wilds, is launching August 20, 2024! Janthir Wilds will bring a new story, two new maps, account-wide personal housing, on-land spears for all professions, a new raid, the Warclaw mount in PvE, and more! Read the details about these features here! GW2-JW_AnnounceTrailer_Full_4K_EN.mp4 Like what you see? Prepurchase is available now! Prepurchasing any edition of Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds before the expansion launches at approximately 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) on August 20, 2024, will grant you the “Homesteader” title, the Dual Serpents Shoulder Armor skin, and a box with your choice of one Serpent’s Wrath weapon skin. Visit the official store page for full details on the items included in the Standard, Deluxe, and Ultimate Editions. You can purchase Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds through the official store or from the in-game store, Steam, or official retailers.

We're working on that--the publishing process chose a FINE TIME to rebel. 😄

Like we said in this morning's news post, we're going to have much more info coming about Janthir Wilds. I don't want to spoil all of that but I can give you a few quick answers to questions I've seen here and there: Your current home instances are not going away when Homesteads arrive on August 20. Homesteads will have a separate crafting profession from Guild Scribing. We are not planning to add new strike missions in addition to the raid with Janthir Wilds. We have a lot more to share with you between now and Janthir Wilds launch. Stay tuned!

I can confirm that we are not gonna be doing that. 😛