Guild Wars 2 Lunar New Year’s Is Back!
Lunar New Years is back in Guild Wars 2 for 2025! Its the Year of the Snake and with that we have a ton of cool and unique rewards!
Lunar New Year is a great event to make some real Gold, theres tons of events and mini games to explore, and if you have been saving up those exotic Essence of Luck all year you will be able to turn those in for some Lucky Red Bags and tons of other rewards!
Check out our guide here to help you maximize your time doing achievements!
Lunar New Year’s Guide
Patch Notes
Lunar New Year
Another new year dawns on Tyria—join the festivities in Divinity's Reach! The Year of the Snake is once more upon us, and the Lunar New Year festival returns with new rewards. Collect and open lucky envelopes to earn essences of luck, delicious foods, fireworks, valuable items, and a chance to find the new Lucky Snake Lantern and Lucky Great Snake Lantern backpacks!
The Lunar New Year annual meta-achievement, Lunar New Year Customs, has been updated with a new reward, the Snaketail Breeches! Last year's meta-achievement reward, the Dragon Descendant's Helm, can now be purchased from the Lunar New Year rewards vendors.
The new Lantern weapon set is now available! You'll receive your choice of a weapon by progressing the (Annual) Lunar New Year Customs meta-achievement, as well as the (Weekly) Lunar Festivities achievement.
The Fortunate weapon set is now available from the weekly Lunar New Year vendors.
Three new Jade Serpent weapons are now available as a rare drop from Divine Lucky Envelopes. They can also be purchased from Sparking Stone in Divinity's Reach.
Lucky envelope rewards have been updated with new items for the Year of the Snake, including a new backpack to celebrate the Year of the Snake in style.
A new mini, the long-awaited Mini Snake, has been added to the festival reward vendors.
Deft Lahar is visiting Divinity's Reach for the festival and has a variety of homestead recipes for your favorite Lunar New Year decorations.
New guild decorations have been added to commemorate the Year of the Snake:
Snake Statue
Golden Snake Statue
Plain Red Lantern
Plain White Lantern
The offseason Lunar New Year vendor in Hooligan's Route now stocks a greater amount of Lunar New Year items to enjoy throughout the new year, including the recipes for homestead decorations.
Special objectives are available in the Wizard's Vault to earn extra astral acclaim as you enjoy the festival.
The area to light each firecracker during Firecracker Lighting adventures has been adjusted to more accurately reflect the firecracker's position and reliably detect players.
Celestial Challenge Updates
Using Lucky Aura to open extra treasure chests now also advances the (Weekly) Lunar
Festivities achievement.Added several jump platforms to make it easier to navigate up to terraces.
Improved the responsiveness of the race checkpoints in the "Horse's Challenge: Race to the gates!" and "Rabbit's Challenge: Race to the gates!" events.
Updated bundle skill names and icons in the "Boar's Challenge: Deliver the celestial tributes!" and "Rat's Challenge: Deliver the celestial tributes!" events.
Attempting to pick up a second bundle while already carrying one during Boar's and Rat's challenges will now cancel the attempt rather than consuming the second bundle.
Fixed an animation issue with the Monkey's Firework skill and shortened its cooldown.
The Ox's March skill now pulls enemies toward the player in addition to its current effects.
Extended the Ram's Advance dash to better match its marker and increased its damage to targets.
The Snake Tunnel skill no longer requires a path, enabling teleportation up to the terraces. It now also grants superspeed after use.
Lunar New Year will be active until February 18 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-8). See you in Divinity's Reach!
General
Improved the precision of frame-timing calculations for the Frame Limiter graphics option.
Added 120 and 144 FPS options to the Frame Limiter graphics options.
Fixed an issue that prevented the deadeye Malice user interface from rendering correctly in some environments.
Fixed UI interactivity while mouse-looking and zooming.
Updated the days remaining in the Wizard's Vault Special Objectives tab.
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