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Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2 is a MMORPG game which is available as a standalone Launcher for Windows and on Steam.
Resources
There are many useful resources. This section provides a select few of them. They are grouped for a better overview.
The first group of resources can be used to make money on the trading post.
- Craft To Gold analyzes crafting items to sell on the trading post.
- GW2BLTC is for playing the trading post.
- GW2TP analyzes the trading post.
The second group provides guides and builds.
- Hardstuck provides guides but is most useful for its builds. Especially the PvP builds are good and well maintained.
- MetaBattle provides guides and builds. Another interesting page of it is the best spending of WvW points.
- Snow Crows is a guild that provides guides and builds that are especially well suited for instanced PvE content.
Finally the this groupd provides various guides and gives information on in-game mechanics.
- [fast] Farming Community is a guild that provides many useful trackers for items, dailies and more.
- Guildwars 2 Wiki is the official wiki.
- GW2Crafts provides guides to level crafting.
- killproof.me provides killproof for raids or strikes. It is also available as add-on.
Add-ons
Guild Wars 2 features a large add-on community. All add-ons described in this guide will assume gw2-add-on-loader is already installed. It has to be set up first if not already done. Additionally this guide assumes the usage of DX11 rendering which is enabled by default. Many of the following add-ons are on the Approved-Addons list by gw2-addon-loader.
The following subsections assume that Guild Wars 2 is installed at
gw2_root_directory.
Replace this directory placeholder according to your installation.
Updating of the add-ons is done by downloading newer versions of the mentioned
files and replacing the old ones at the corresponding locations.
gw2-add-on-loader
To make multiple add-ons work together an add-on loader is recommended. One option for this is gw2-add-on-loader.
Download the current version from the
releases page.
Proceed to place the files and folders from the .zip archive into the root
directory of guild wars 2.
This add-on loader is capable of loading both DX9 and DX11 add-ons. This functionality can be added with d3d9_wrapper. The installation of it is therefore recommended.
This add-on does not need to be updated often. It only is required when Guild Wars 2 switches its API.
d3d9_wrapper
d3d9_wrapper is a wrapper
to the d3d9 API that includes d3d9 loading.
Download the current version from the
releases page.
and move the downloaded .dll file to
gw2_root_directory/addon/d3d9_wrapper/gw2addon_d3d9_wrapper.dll.
This add-on does not need to be updated often. It only is required when Guild Wars 2 switches its API.
arcdps
arcdps is a damage meter.
Download the file d3d11.dll from
their website.
and move the downloaded .dll file to
gw2_root_directory/addons/arcdps/gw2addon_arcdps.dll.
This extension can be opened with the hotkey Alt-Shift-T.
arcdps' font can be easily changed.
For this a .ttf file is needed.
By moving and renaming the file to gw2_root_directory/addons/arcdps/arcdps_font.ttf the new font
will be enabled following the next start of Guild Wars 2.
A font similar to the default Guild Wars 2 font is Lato.
Lato can be downloaded from the Google fonts website.
This add-on and its sub-add-ons needs to be updated regularly to work correctly.
boon-tables
The boob-tables extension displays the boon
stats which are not easily readable otherwise.
Download the current version of the
gw2-arcdps-boon-table
and move the downloaded .dll file to
gw2_root_directory/addons/arcdps/d3d9_arcdps_table.dll.
This extension can be opened with the hotkey Alt-Shift-B.
clears
The clears extension displays the raids that have
been cleared by the squad members.
Download the current version of the
arcdps-clears
and move the downloaded .dll file to
gw2_root_directory/addons/arcdps/arcdps_clears.dll.
This extension can be opened with the hotkey Alt-Shift-C.
commanders_toolkit
The commanders_toolkit extension provides a
menu to note the roles and responsibilities of squad members.
Download the current version of the
GW2-CommandersToolkit
and move the downloaded .dll file to
gw2_root_directory/addons/arcdps/arcdps_commanderstoolkit.dll.
This extension can be opened with the hotkey Alt-Shift-Q.
food-reminder
The food-reminder extension displays the foods
that were consumed by squad members.
Download the current version of the
arcdps-food-reminder
and move the downloaded .dll file to
gw2_root_directory/addons/arcdps/arcdps_food_reminder.dll.
This extension can be opened with the hotkey Alt-Shift-F.
killproof.me
The killproof.me extension
provides an overview of the raid stats of squad members via the website
killproof.me.
For it to function in different instances the unofficial_extras extension is
needed.
Download the current version of
arcdps-killproof.me-plugin
and move the downloaded .dll file to
gw2_root_directory/addons/arcdps/d3d9_arcdps_killproof_me.dll.
This extension can be opened via the extensions menu of the original arcdps
settings.
know thy enemy
The know thy enemy extension
provides an overview of the enemies of the last fight in WvW.
Download the current version of
know-thy-enemy
and move the downloaded .dll file to
gw2_root_directory/addons/arcdps/know_thy_enemy.dll.
This extension can be opened via the extensions menu of the original arcdps
settings.
mechanics
The mechanics extension is a log of
mechanics for various strikes, fractals and raids.
Download the current version of
gw2-arcdps-mechanics-log
and move the downloaded .dll file to
gw2_root_directory/addons/arcdps/d3d9_arcdps_mechanics.dll.
This extension can be opened via the extensions menu of the original arcdps
settings.
unofficial_extras
The unofficial_extras extension
provides additional infos to other arcdps extensions and is not useful by itself.
Download the current version of
arcdps_unofficial_extras_releases
and move the downloaded .dll file to
gw2_root_directory/addons/arcdps/arcdps_unofficial_extras.dll.
uploader
The uploader extension provides an easy way to upload
EVTC combat logs from inside the game.
Download the current version of the
arcdps-uploader
and move the downloaded .dll file to
gw2_root_directory/addons/arcdps/d3d9_uploader.dll.
This extension can be opened with the hotkey Alt-Shift-U.
gw2radial
gw2radial is a add-on for Guild
Wars 2 that allows faster access to markers, mounts and novelties.
Download the current version from the
releases page.
and move the downloaded .dll file to
gw2_root_directory/addons/gw2radial/gw2addon_gw2radial.dll.
This extension can be opened with the hotkey Alt-Shift-M.
This add-on does not need to be updated often. Updates are only required to get new functions working for example when new mounts are added.