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GWAMM, day zero

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This is the first entry in a journal. The goal is God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals: thirty maxed titles on one character. The twist is that Guild Wars got three new ways to play in the last year, and I’m doing it in Reforged Mode under Melandru’s Accord. This post is the rulebook and the ledger. Later posts are the entries.

Reforged

Guild Wars Reforged is the name for the stream of updates ArenaNet and 2weeks started shipping on 3 December 2025. Existing accounts get all of it free.

  • Controller and Steam Deck support, a quest tracker, HD skill icons, high-DPI UI.
  • Owning any one campaign now unlocks all three.
  • Three optional, per-character modes, toggled at creation or at a Shrine to Godly Accoutrements in any major city.

Reforged Mode (beta) reworks Prophecies rather than restricting it. I’m in, for two reasons: skills cost half as much, which matters when Skill Hunter is three titles on the list, and the new content is only reachable this way.

  • Skill costs roughly halved and capped at 500 gold. Skill Hunter drops to about 145 platinum.
  • Mission rewards raised to 2,000 XP, 200 gold, and a skill point. Hard mode gives 3,000 XP and 500 gold.
  • A permanent 5% gold and XP bonus in normal-mode Prophecies exploration.
  • Pre-Searing gets the Northlands quest chain, the Piken Square outpost, the Forsaken Tunnels dungeon, Devona as a hero, and foes with 20% less health and armor.
  • Early henchmen are a few levels higher and Alesia finally carries Resurrect.

Dhuum’s Covenant

A survival mark. Opt in at creation, or later at a shrine if the character has zero deaths. I’m not taking it. The Accord is the constraint that changes the plan; the Covenant only changes the badge. It still deserves a description.

  • A small badge sits next to your name while the covenant holds.
  • Title ranks earned while it holds keep the badge in the Hero panel forever. Ranks earned after it breaks don’t.
  • It breaks on the first death, including the PvP fight when leaving Pre-Searing. Dhuum rises out of the ground, kills you again for effect, and the party is told the mark is permanently lost.
  • The exceptions follow the Survivor title: cinematic deaths, instant-kill traps, mission failure, resigning, and dying in towns don’t count.
  • You can keep playing afterwards. You just play without the badge.

Melandru’s Accord

This is the one I’m bound to. Ironman. The in-game text says it all: no trading with other players, no account storage, no mercenary heroes. The wiki fills in the rest.

  • No picking up gold or items dropped or assigned to other players, in either direction.
  • No material, rune, scroll, dye, or sigil traders. No Zaishen Menagerie. No skill tomes. No /bonus items.
  • Skill trainers only sell their own base pool, not account unlocks.
  • Heroes can use their starting skills and anything this character has learned, nothing from other heroes.
  • Account-wide titles cannot be displayed, give no passive bonus, and do not count toward Kind of a Big Deal. Lockpicks always use the minimum retain chance.
  • Zaishen quests, storybooks, and festival quests still work. Heroes double as storage for runes and insignias.
  • It can be removed permanently at a shrine. It cannot be re-added.

What that does to the maths

Kind of a Big Deal counts 43 titles. GWAMM needs 30 of them. Under the Accord the 12 account-wide titles are off the table: both Kurzick and Luxon saviors, Treasure Hunter, Wisdom, Lucky, Unlucky, Zaishen, and all five PvP titles.

That leaves 31 character-bound titles for 30 slots. One spare. Every remaining title is mandatory except one, and the three consumable titles have to be fed with alcohol, party items, and sweets this character farms itself.

The spare is already spent. This character is Tyrian-born and has Legendary Defender of Ascalon, so only two of the three consumable titles are needed.

The ledger

  • Legendary Defender of Ascalon
  • Legendary Survivor

Protector, Guardian, Vanquisher, Cartographer, Skill Hunter:

  • Tyria ×5
  • Cantha ×5
  • Elona ×5
  • Legendary Guardian, Vanquisher, Cartographer, Skill Hunter
  • Legendary Master of the North

Reputation:

  • Holy Lightbringer
  • Legendary Spearmarshal
  • Not Too Shabby (Asura)
  • Legendary Delver (Deldrimor)
  • Secret Agent (Ebon Vanguard)
  • Slayer of All (Norn)

Consumables:

  • Incorrigible Ale-Hound
  • Life of the Party
  • Connoisseur of Confectioneries

Score: 28 / 30. Accord: bound.

Status, 14 October 2026: everything outside the consumables is done. What’s left is two of Ale-Hound, Life of the Party, and Connoisseur, fed entirely from this character’s own drops.

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