Upcoming changes and features

The following features have been mentioned by ArenaNet staff and are expected to be part of future game updates and releases.

Calendars

• Release calendar — calendar of known current and future releases
• Events — events calendar on the official Guild Wars 2 forum

Content updates

Announced

The following features have been mentioned by ArenaNet staff and have been confirmed to be part of future game updates and releases.

Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity additional releases

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• Three free major quarterly updates:

Overview
	Expansion launch (October 28, 2025)	Raids and Wardrobe (February 3, 2026)	The Only Way (May 12, 2026)	Quarterly Update 3 (TBA) (~September 1, 2026 subject to change)
Story	Launch Story Arc (Chapters 1 to 8)	—	Story Continues (Chapters 9 to 13)	Story Concludes
Zones	Shipwreck Strand Starlit Weald Comosus Isle (Homestead instance)	—	Eternity's Garden	Map 4
Instanced Combat	—	Raid encounter — Guardian's Glade with a challenge mode	—	Raid encounter with a challenge and legendary modes 1 new Fractal with a challenge mode 1 new Convergence
Features	Homestead Layouts Enhanced Shadow Tech	Fashion Templates Unified Raids and Strike Missions system with buffed rewards Raid Quickplay mode, new UI, leaderboards for challenge modes Wizard's Vault improvements	—	—
Combat Updates	New Elite Specializations for every profession. 6 Exclusive Relics Juvenile Raptor Swiftwing pet	6 Exclusive Relics	6 Exclusive Relics Juvenile River Otter pet	6 Exclusive Relics
Masteries	Castoran Survivalist Skimmer Adaptation Wild Castoran Magic	—	Extended Castoran Survivalist mastery track: Combat Maneuvers Extended Wild Castoran Magic mastery track: Residual Mirror Magic	Mastery Updates
Major Rewards	Legendary spear/staff — Aetheric Anchor (Ancora Bellum/Ancora Pax) Legendary aquabreather — Selachimorpha Armor: Alliance Field Operative armor, Extremis armor, Restless Captain's armor Weapons: Chromatic Resin weapons, Fast Constructor's weapons, Seer-Enchanted weapons, Strelitzia Crystallinum weapons Infusions: Chromatic Bubbles, Ethereal Sea-Life Infusion	Legendary ring — Endless Summer Weapons: Bleeding Edge Inquest weapons	Legendary accessories: Stella Radians (PvE), Strife Unending (WvW) Armor: Forge Guard's armor Weapons: Glimmering Resin weapons Infusions: Seer Transcendence	Legendary weapon 1 weapon set 1 armor set
Wizard's Vault	Seasonal Refresh	Seasonal Refresh	Seasonal Refresh	Seasonal Refresh

General content

• Skills and Balance Update — July 14
• Several improvements and polish to older content, including a rework to the Zhaitan fight in the personal story — Late 2026 through 2027
  • Players can submit suggestions for quality-of-life changes they would like to see on the official forums.
• A Hall of Monuments for Guild Wars 3, spread across multiple releases — First release in late 2026
• A new borderlands map for WvW — Beta starting in late 2026
• A new map in Orr, accessible to everyone regardless of expansion ownership. — 2027

Special Events and Festivals

• Dungeon Rush Event — July 14–21
• WvW Rush Event — July 21–28
• World Boss Rush Event — July 28–August 4
• Festival of the Four Winds — August 11–September 1
• Guild Wars 2’s 14th Anniversary — August 28

Mentioned

These changes have been mentioned by ArenaNet, but lack specific details and/or a release date.

Living World

• Possible return of the Southsun Cove/Consortium story arc from Living World Season 1.

Super Adventure Box

• World 3 and World 4 were stated in 2020 to be unlikely to be added within the next year or two, but ArenaNet was "chipping away at it behind the scenes".
  • World 3 Test Zone 1 was released in 2023 and extended in 2024.
  • An Ooze Kitchen was released in 2025
  • World 3 Test Zone 2 was released in 2026.

Automated changes

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