Guild Wars 2

Has anyone tried GW2Stuff overlay for tracking world events? Is it safe/allowed? Just wanted to hear some opinions before I install.

Here’s a link for anyone interested: http://us.gw2stuff.com/en/overlay

Yes I use it all the time. Very safe, makes world event farming for ascended much easier

I am not sure, but I think they get their event info straight from Anet.

I really hope GW2 doesn’t turn in to this…

Dehvi.1435:

Yes I use it all the time. Very safe, makes world even farming for ascended much easier

Awesome! Looks like I’ll be trying it out then.

Thing is Xenon, you don’t need to use the overlay for this site. It shows the same info on the website. The overlay is just an extra and in fact I don’t use it as I don’t like making my game windowed mode in order to use it. I don’t think GW will become anything like that because of overlays..

Dehvi.1435:

Thing is Xenon, you don’t need to use the overlay for this site. It shows the same info on the website. The overlay is just an extra and in fact I don’t use it as I don’t like making my game windowed mode in order to use it. I don’t think GW will become anything like that because of overlays..

We also only have 10 abilites, no dedicated healers (so we don’t need grid), no threat/dps meters and most players arent running in 4:3

This topic comes up a lot – yes it is allowed, I use it all the time

Xenon.4537:

I really hope GW2 doesn’t turn in to this…

Of course he’s dead, with that many stuff on the screen it’s impossible to see if you’re being attacked

That’s a terrible UI, and from the timestamp on that picture we can say Discord was out back then. The user could have crafted a million times better UI for himself, but didn’t. Not the game’s fault.

Dehvi.1435:

Thing is Xenon, you don’t need to use the overlay for this site. It shows the same info on the website. The overlay is just an extra and in fact I don’t use it as I don’t like making my game windowed mode in order to use it. I don’t think GW will become anything like that because of overlays..

I know you don’t need it, and I’m not necessarily against little addons and stuff as long as they aren’t some form of hack or exploit. I’m just a passionate advocate for minimal UI in video games. The image I linked is a joke about WoW. I think if a game requires the player to be aware of that much information via the UI, something is desperately wrong with that game design.

I almost wrote a massive wall of text on this but it pertained more to dodging and boss mechanics, so I think I’ll make my own thread on that.

For now you just have an overlay for events. What’s next though? A DBM for GW2? Will Anet start relying on the fact that players can literally see the cooldown timer of a boss skill to shape future boss encounters? That’s what I’m worried about

I understand what you mean, and you are right. It could turn into something like that. For me personally though I don’t even use the overlay I just use the site.

If someone comes up with a way to view cool downs of world bosses or whatever, then I think they are idiots. What is the point of playing the game if you are just going to make some stupid hack for it. That would be sad.