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Dragon Bash 2026

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Game update: Tuesday, 2 June 2026

New achievements

New skins and equipment

New items

New miniatures

New decorations

Guild Hall decorations
Homestead decorations

New recipes

Gem Store

The Only Way

The Only Way banner.jpg

Game update: Tuesday, 12 May 2026

Visions of Eternity story

Act 3 – The Only Way

New Zone

New Achievements

Categories
Individual achievements

New Masteries

New Currency

Content Updates

Fashion Templates

  • Updates to the Fashion Templates system that add new ways to change individual cosmetics and improve your look in templates.
    • A new Travel submenu in which you can customize the appearance of your gliders, mounts, skiffs, and conjured doorways. They can be edited, saved, and shared in the same way as Wardrobe cosmetics.
    • A new Current Fashion tab in Wardrobe and Travel submenus, which brings back the "old way" to change cosmetics.
      • The cosmetics and dyes can be changed without needing to assign and apply them to a Fashion Template.

New Rewards

Legendary items

Skins and equipment

Mount skin

Wizard's Vault

Relics

Minis

Decorations

Guild Hall decorations
Homestead decorations

Recipes

Items

Armor tokens
Legendary gifts
Chests & containers
Soundtrack Singles

Gem Store

Raids and Wardrobe

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Game update: Tuesday, 3 February 2026

New achievements

Categories
Individual achievements

Content updates

Raids

  • Guardian's Glade — new raid encounter — Kela, Seneschal of Waves, and its challenge mode
  • Raids and Strike Missions got unified into one system, with its own new UI, rewards, and leaderboards.
    • Strike Missions are now called "raid encounters".
    • Introduction of new raid UI, which can be accessed at Lion's Arch Aerodrome. Now squad leaders can select which encounter to enter, including specific bosses of multi-encounter raid wings and all challenge modes. The new UI also tracks weekly clears.
    • Introduction of raid encounter quickplay, letting players enter the queue for a random raid encounter without manually organizing a group.
    • Introduction of leaderboards for challenge mode completions. They will display global top completion times as well as players' own times for the raid challenge mode.
    • Raid encounter rewards are now awarded on a weekly cadence.
    • Previous raid encounters currency — Prophet Shards — got converted and merged with Magnetite Shards.
    • New, exclusive and buffed rewards — titles, infusions, skins and currencies.
    • New daily, weekly, and permanent achievements to hunt after.

Fashion Template

A new Fashion tab has been added to the Hero panel, where players will now change the appearance of their characters' equipment. The old Wardrobe and Outfit submenus in the Equipment panel have been removed.

Wardrobe

  • Players can choose skins and dyes for their armor, weapon, and outfit slots.
  • Skins and dyes are displayed simultaneously and no longer require players to access different submenus in the Equipment panel.
  • Players can now store multiple sets of skins, dyes, and visibility toggles in Fashion Templates, enabling them to switch between looks at the press of a button.
  • Each account will start with two Fashion Template tabs. Up to seven additional tabs can be purchased in the Gem Store, giving players access to up to nine tabs.
  • Fashion Template tabs are unlocked across your account, but data is stored per character.
  • Transmutation Charges will still be used to save changes to a Fashion Template; however, applying a Fashion Template will be free.
  • If the player has unlocked equipment in their Legendary Armory that could be placed in the matching equipment slot, changes to that fashion slot (regardless of whether that item is equipped) will not cost Transmutation Charges.
  • Fashion Templates can be renamed, cleared, and shared both in and out of the game. You can optionally set them to apply automatically to newly equipped items.
  • A saved Fashion Template's individual slots can also be applied or cleared.

Tools

Wizard's Vault

New rewards

Legendary items

Skins and equipment

Mount skin

Wizard's Vault

New additions

Relics

Minis

Novelties

Decorations

Guild Hall decorations
Homestead decorations

Recipes

Items

Services

Gem Store

Lunar New Year 2026

Lunar New Year.jpg

Game update: Tuesday, 3 February 2026

New skins and equipment

New items

New miniatures

New decorations

Guild hall decorations
Homestead decorations

New recipes

Gem Store

A Very Merry Wintersday 2025

A Very Merry Wintersday banner.jpg

Game update: Tuesday, 9 December 2025

New skins and equipment

New items

New miniatures

New decorations

Guild hall decorations
Homestead decorations

New recipes

Gem Store

Shadow of the Mad King 2025

Shadow of the Mad King banner.jpg

Game update: Tuesday, 7 October 2025

New achievements

  • Rare Collections.png Rare Collections: Black Lion Gobblers CollectorUnlock gobblers obtained from the Black Lion Trading Company. The Wizard's Gobbler uses this achievement to allow you to purchase their respective items.  You may have to travel to Lion's Arch with the item in your inventory to update progress. (0Achievement points)
  • Festival Collections.png Festival Collections: Friend of DragonsUnlock all 6 festival plush dragon backpack skins in your wardrobe. (10Achievement pointsTitle: Friend of Dragons)

New skins and equipment

New items

New miniatures

New decorations

Guild hall decorations
Homestead decorations

New recipes

Gem Store

Festival of the Four Winds 2025

Festival of the Four Winds logo.png

Game update: Tuesday, 5 August 2025

New vendor

New achievements

New skins and equipment

New items

New miniatures

New decorations

Guild hall decorations
Homestead decorations

New recipes

Gem Store

Dragon Bash 2025

Dragon Bash banner.jpg

Game update: Tuesday, 17 June 2025

New vendor

New skins and equipment

New items

New miniatures

New decorations

Guild Hall decorations
Homestead decorations

New recipes

Gem Store

Absolution

Absolution banner.jpg

Game update: Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Janthir Wilds story

Act 5 – Absolution

New Zone

New Achievements

Categories
Individual achievements

New Masteries

New Currency

Content Updates

Public Instances

Fractal

Quality of Life

New Rewards

Legendary items

Skins and equipment

Wizard's Vault

Relics

Minis

Novelties

Decorations

Guild Hall decorations
Homestead decorations

Recipes

Items

Home nodes

Gem Store

Super Adventure Festival 2025

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Game update: Tuesday, 15 April 2025

New achievements

New zone

New vendor

New skins and equipment

New items

New miniatures

New decorations

Guild hall decorations
Homestead decorations

New recipes

Gem Store

Wizard's Vault

Wizard's Vault PvE.png Special
(Festival) Complete the (Annual) Super Adventure Box Nostalgia Achievement 300 Astral Acclaim
Complete the (Annual) Super Adventure Box Nostalgia Achievement in the Super Adventure Box.
(Festival) Complete the (Annual) World 1 Classic Achievement 100 Astral Acclaim
Complete the (Annual) World 1 Classic Achievement in the Super Adventure Box.
(Festival) Complete the (Annual) World 2 Classic Achievement 100 Astral Acclaim
Complete the (Annual) World 2 Classic Achievement in the Super Adventure Box.
(Festival) Complete the (Annual) Zone Runner Achievement 100 Astral Acclaim
Complete the (Annual) Zone Runner Achievement in the Super Adventure Box.

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