Guild Wars 2

Is it legal to create a macro specifically to buying those god awful food buffs from the vendor? I have like 50k candies and it’d be great to purchase food by whole.

Nope.

ArenaNet policy is: 1 keystroke / 1 action.

The reason far that is it would be hard to determine when a player is using macros for ‘advantages’.

Btw: I agree with your frustration. Best solution would be a bar or a field where we could set hom many we want to buy.

So uhm, if I bind like “-” key and it presses “left mouse click” that’s 1 keystroke but on an infinite loop. Guess it’s okay?

This is what support usually says in the Account Support forum:

Gaile Gray.6028:

As long as the process is not “auto-clicking” or giving multiple clicks per action (keyboard or mouse) then this reads as ok to me.

To get a clear answer I would suggest you contact support or post in the account forum and wait for an answer from staff. This way if something happens you have information from staff, not just players, as to if it is acceptable or not.

I’ll prolly post this on the account forum too and wait for their answers. Thanks!

What I think should fit their 1 keystroke/1 action thing is binding several keys on your keyboard to left-click (or double-click, as long as that’s considered one action) and spamming everything. Something comfortable, like asdf;lkj or awef;oij, should still let you click way faster and with way less risk of a RSI.

Disclaimer: I’m not an Anet employee, and in general they don’t like confirming or denying that some specific action fits their criteria, so this is just what I think should fit, not what they’ve explicitly allowed.

(I’ve done this in both GW and GW2, there for titles and here for buying and using Orrian boxes and karma, and I haven’t been banned, but of course lots of people do prohibited things and get away with it, so that’s no guarantee, either.)

Yeah, I’d rather wait for an answer from their team to be safe.

I’d love for the option to “use all” on things like stacks of coffers. After 2000 coffers, it starts to get old…

Official post: Link

The general rule really is “1 button or keystroke = 1 action”.

Of course, some people might interpret this to a very extreme, like “1 button = OPEN ALL THE BOXES! .. I mean, they’re all ‘containers’ and I’m performing ‘one action’ and that’s opening my boxes with one click.” or maybe “1 button = CONSUME STACK”.

Granted, I have yet to hear anyone get banned for the use of the software that came with their gaming keyboards and mice. If that was the case, then Razer, SteelSeries, and others would get a lot of flak for it. “Dude! Why you sell stuff that gets my account banned?”

Of course, your mileage may vary.

Rhythm.7256:

Yeah, I’d rather wait for an answer from their team to be safe.

I’ve never, ever seen them say, “Yes, this is acceptable” to a question like this. (I assume this is so that nobody can be banned and then come back and say, “But you said…,” which is reasonable.) All I’ve ever seen in the last eight years is them repeating their policy.

Yup, got an official answer from Sir Vincent III’s post. Thanks everyone!

I used the same method in this video and it works in game when you place the “Yes” for confirming the item you want to buy over the item you are buying so you only need to hold the macro key that you set it to.

I haven’t bought the few hundred that I plan to buy but I’d still like confirmation from the devs is its ok to buy stuff from this vender this way. :/

Bind “click” to your scroll wheel and simply scroll until you bought all you need.

Other option is to bind “click” to every key on the numpad and bakitten with full fist. That’s still within the letter of the rules.