Guild Wars 2 is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by ArenaNet. The game, just like its predecessor, does not require any subscription fees and is free-to-play.

Guild Wars 2 takes place in the high fantasy world of Tyria, 250 years after the defeat of the Great Destroyer in the Eye of the North expansion. During the time between that event and the start of Guild Wars 2, five so-called Elder Dragons sleeping beneath the continent have awoken, causing widespread destruction to Tyria and corrupting its inhabitants. The role of the player is to reunite the disbanded Destiny's Edge, a multi-racial adventuring guild, whose combined strength is needed to effectively combat Zhaitan, the undead Elder Dragon.

Guild Wars 2 allows a player to create a character from a combination of five races and eight professions. The five races being: humans, charr, asura, norn, and the sylvari, a race exclusive to Guild Wars 2. The trademark of professions in Guild Wars 2 is that they are divided into armor classes: "scholars" with light armor, "adventurers" with medium armor, and "soldiers" with heavy armor. There is no “healing class” and the game focuses heavily on PvP mode. One of the most important features of Guild Wars 2 is also the dynamic event system that replaced traditional questing.