Guild Wars 2

Hello, I have a question maybe I could get an official response to or if everyone else comes to a consensus that’s great too. Now that achievement points are so beneficial, it seems everyone is trying to squeeze every last bit they can out of them. I want to get the thirst slayer achievement. This requires 100,000 drinks, or just 25,000 if you buy the drinks that cost 28 karma each. This also requires a LOT of clicking.

I have read Anet’s stance on macros, and the recent replies in the AOE auto loot macro thread for WvW. I understand why that would not be allowed, but my question seems to not be 100% the same. I have a keyboard that can do simple macros. I want to set up a macro that just clicks over and over again so I can buy all these drinks, and then drink them while saving my hand some serious cramping. It doesn’t let me buy them any faster than I normally could. I would still be at my computer since I have to move the mouse around to go from stack to stack. I just want to set up a macro to have my keyboard do the tens of thousands of clicks for me.

What do you think? Illegal or okay? I think I can correctly answer “no” to the questions here, but I want a second opinion because Anet takes bot-like behavior seriously, and so do I.

It’s illegal.

It ticks the boxes on:

• Allowing you to play when you’re not on your computer
• Allowing you to gain undeserved rewards (the achievement)
• Gives you multiple actions per single keystroke

Quote from the topic that you linked:

You cannot program an “auto-clicker” macro that, for instance, opens chests while you play elsewhere.

From what I have read in similar threads it may get you in trouble. One key or button press can only = 1 action. By pressing a key once that makes the key click over and over may cause problems. I’ve seen others ask about doing similar with a mouse button macro and one person even wanted to make a mechanical finger, LOL. I don’t recall what how the later turned out though.

Olba.5376:

It’s illegal.

It ticks the boxes on:

• Allowing you to play when you’re not on your computer
• Allowing you to gain undeserved rewards (the achievement)
• Gives you multiple actions per single keystroke

Quote from the topic that you linked:

You cannot program an “auto-clicker” macro that, for instance, opens chests while you play elsewhere.

1) I disagree. I have to keep moving the mouse to use the different stacks of drinks. I can’t go anywhere.
2) I’m pretty sure if I spend 700,000 karma and sit and my computer going through all the drinks I deserved it. I just don’t think my hand deserves the agony.
3) This one I agree with. I had misread the section this was in, thinking it only applied to multiboxing.

The quote I don’t believe applies to this situation either. I am doing nothing else, it’s not allowing me to gain an advantage or do something I couldn’t otherwise do, and I’m certainly not playing elsewhere.

Unfortunately for me any of these are enough and I agree that #3 probably disallows this. Thanks for the clarifications. At best I will have to enable “Ease of Access” to make the mouse button become ‘numpad +’ and just smack the heck out of that thing.

My first thought of reading the title:

http://elitekeyboards.com/suppdata/images/bluesw440.jpg

It’s technically a violation, but they rarely, if ever, ban for it. I’ve never heard of someone getting banned for macro use outside of looping a macro to bot. Many people use macros to open bags.

Afya.5842:

My first thought of reading the title:

http://elitekeyboards.com/suppdata/images/bluesw440.jpg

Lol, somewhat related as I have one with cherry switches. In that way my keyboard already clicks for me.

I believe this is what you require: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iapECJKx4k0

Adamantium.3682:

Olba.5376:

It’s illegal.

It ticks the boxes on:

• Allowing you to play when you’re not on your computer
• Allowing you to gain undeserved rewards (the achievement)
• Gives you multiple actions per single keystroke

Quote from the topic that you linked:

You cannot program an “auto-clicker” macro that, for instance, opens chests while you play elsewhere.

1) I disagree. I have to keep moving the mouse to use the different stacks of drinks. I can’t go anywhere.
2) I’m pretty sure if I spend 700,000 karma and sit and my computer going through all the drinks I deserved it. I just don’t think my hand deserves the agony.
3) This one I agree with. I had misread the section this was in, thinking it only applied to multiboxing.

1) That’s irrelevant, as you can still get the full stack of items used without being anywhere near your PC. That’s why it ticks the box.
2) That makes no sense and you should know that. You obviously do not deserve to get an achievement for doing nothing. Not to mention that the exact parameters of “undeserved” are up to the developers, not the players.

The quote I don’t believe applies to this situation either. I am doing nothing else, it’s not allowing me to gain an advantage or do something I couldn’t otherwise do, and I’m certainly not playing elsewhere.

You’re choosing not to do anything else. You could very easily go around to explore the map or do jumping puzzles.

Healix.5819:

It’s technically a violation, but they rarely, if ever, ban for it. I’ve never heard of someone getting banned for macro use outside of looping a macro to bot. Many people use macros to open bags.

You’re probably right but on the off chance they did want to suspend/ban my account there would be nothing I could do since they would be right to. I wouldn’t take that risk over 35 more achievement points.

Break your finger like the rest of us.