Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™ is the first expansion for Guild Wars® 2. Founded on the idea that the journey is the goal, the Heart of Thorns expansion continues the Guild Wars 2 tradition of challenging the conventions of MMOs to fulfil the promise of what online worlds should be.





The Heart of Maguuma

New adventures await you in the heart of the Maguuma Jungle. Confront the growing hordes of Mordremoth’s minions, discover allies from ancient civilisations and battle new enemies.

• Tackle challenging group content.

• Explore new open world jungle maps.

• Experience new events and storylines.

• Test your mettle in new boss battles.





The Mastery System

We’re reimagining progression with our new Mastery system. Explore new training opportunities for your character beyond level 80 and master abilities like hang gliding in the jungle, tearing the bark off of heavily armoured Mordrem, or building new collections that earn precursors to a legendary weapon.





New Profession: Revenant

Channel legendary powers to slaughter foes and unleash chaos on the battlefield with our brand new profession: the Revenant. Enter the field of battle heavily armoured and equipped with the otherworldly powers of the Mists.





Specializations

Evolve your gameplay. With profession specializations, you’ll unlock access to a weapon previously unavailable to your profession as well as new traits, skills and unique mechanics – all of which will transform your profession into something new.





PvP: New Stronghold Game Mode

Gather supply to hire soldiers. Battle for control of heroes. Man the trebuchet to defend your stronghold, and storm the enemy gates to defeat the guild lord! Use our new guild team feature to team up and battle to the top of the leaderboards. Stronghold offers an entirely new way to play competitive PvP in Guild Wars 2!





WvW: New Borderland

Experience epic battlefield combat like never beforein World vs. World’s latest core addition, the new Borderlands map. Navigate treacherous heights with traps that blow your foes to the depths below and ferocious defenders to help keep the enemy at bay. Map objectives will be more important than ever before, as they’ll unlock new strategies, tactics and play mechanics that you’ll want to use to your world’s advantage!





Guild Halls

Your guild has roamed the world together. Now, it’s time to claim a piece of it. Work with fellow guild members to claim and grow your own guild hall in the heart of Maguuma.





Guild Wars 2 core game included





Minimum System Requirements:

Windows® XP Service Pack 3 or better Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 or better 2 GB RAM NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI Radeon™ X1800, Intel HD 3000 or better (256MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better) 35 GB available HDD space Broadband Internet connection Keyboard and mouse

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