Heart of Thorns is the first expansion for Guild Wars 2 which has received over 100 awards and accolades.

New adventures await you in the heart of the Maguuma Jungle! Confront the growing hordes of Mordremoth’s minions, discover allies from ancient civilizations, and battle new enemies in a world that will have you reaching new heights and hang gliding into the depths of the jungle. Tackle challenging group content, explore new open-world jungle maps, experience new events and story lines, and test your mettle in new heart-pounding boss battles.

• New Abilities. 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 armored Mordrem, or building new collections that earn precursors to a legendary weapon.
• 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.
• New Profession: Revenant. Channel legendary powers to slaughter foes and unleash chaos on the battlefield with our latest profession: the revenant. Enter the field of battle heavily armored and equipped with the otherworldly powers of the Mists.
• Guild Halls. Stake your claim! 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.
• 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 before in 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 enemies 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!
• Raids: Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns introduces the ultimate challenge: our first raid, which is made up of three distinct raid wings. Raids are 10-player, instanced,elite dungeon content that’s a challenge unlike anything we’ve previously released in Guild Wars 2. These raids are meant to put you and your teammates to the test and challenge you to grow your skills as Guild Wars 2 players. Raids are our answer to what skilled PvE players have to look forward to at endgame—the ultimate test to overcome and defeat.
• Core game included. The original award-winning Guild Wars 2 game is included with every purchase of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns.
• No Subscription. Get the game and play. It’s that simple.

OFLC Rating M Fantasy violence