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Guild Wars 2's next story season The Icebrood Saga starts this month


Plus, first expansion now free with Path of Fire.

Free-to-play MMO Guild Wars 2’s latest season of “Living World” episodic updates, The Icebrood Saga, will begin on 17th September, according to developer ArenaNet.

The Icebrood Saga marks the start of a new storyline for Guild Wars 2, which, following on from the defeat of the Elder Dragon Kralkatorrik at the conclusion of last season, begins as an ancient power stirs beneath the icy spires of Far Shiverpeaks.

Alongside the new story arc, Guild Wars 2’s latest season will introduce a variety of new features, including new boss creatures around Grothmar Valley and the Northern Shiverpeaks, plus 10-man boss encounters known as Strike Missions. These, says ArenaNet, will “combine the group coordination skills of raids with the large-scale conflict of a Guild Wars 2 meta event”.

The Icebrood Saga kicks off on 17th September with scene-setting prologue episode Bound by Blood, which will be followed by Episode One some time this “autumn”. The entire season will be free to players that own Guild War 2’s second paid expansion, Path of Fire – and ArenaNet has also revealed that first paid expansion Hearts of Thorns will free for Path of Fire owners too from on.

Those that purchased Hearts of Thorns previously will, says ArenaNet, get a special Heart of Thorns Veteran’s Pack, containing the likes of an exclusive Mordrem glider, the “Vanguard” title, plus a voucher for one of a possible sixteen different gem store armour skins.





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