Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone
I’ve been looking at some addon to check my dps in GW2, and i found this site.
http://gw2specs.com/

I just wanted to know if it’s safe to used, and autorised by Anet?
I saw some reddit thread about it, but i wanted to be sure, so i thought it would be better to ask here directly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/66m13h/anet_this_really_should_be_part_of_the_game/dgjwapj/

This didn’t help me too much, i’m talking about the addon above, and this thread is really long so i don’t have any idea what happened in it. I just want a yes or no answer, can i use this or not?

Why even bother using it?

You can check your dps in the raiding area at will against the boss dummy.

In actual combat its irrelevant since you are usually fighting either NPC packs (yeah your 30K dps will be enough against five level 68 mangy and starved quaggans with sticks as weapons) or players in WvW where a single dodge nullify your awesome max dps 55555555 rotation on the daredevil.

I just started the game after about 4 years, there’s a lot of change, and I just want to be able to test what’s the best build i can find.

You say there’s a raiding area with a dummy where you have information about your DPS? Where can i find this area?

Anataboshi.9842:

I just started the game after about 4 years, there’s a lot of change, and I just want to be able to test what’s the best build i can find.

You say there’s a raiding area with a dummy where you have information about your DPS? Where can i find this area?

Inside the raid aerodrome in Lion’s Arch. It’s called the special forces training area. You can set a golem up and give both you and it whatever buffs you want and smack away at it.

So, short version long, gw2specs uses image recognition to OCR the combat log. It works, but not super reliably.

On the other hand, anet have explicitly said they are … tolerating the use of memory reading DPS meters at the moment, provided the authors adhere to relatively limited scope for what they show.

arcdps is probably the best bet, right now, if you want one, but gw2helper or BGDM are also options. I’d strongly encourage one of the first two as being the most obviously trying to conform to the rules as written.

Using any of those is “safe” in the sense that unless anet change their mind, it’s not going to lead to a ban or anything on your account — and if they do change their mind, just stopping is likely to fix any issue raised by support or anything.