Guild Wars 2

I found a working DPS meter addon for GW2. Personally, I think that GW2’s policy of no addons is extremely disappointing.

I will only use this for personal use. There is no way to link information shown in the addon in chat so there is no possible way of creating “player toxicity” in game. This is not an exploit and will net me no gains. It does not give me any kind of in game advantage over another player. It is simply a way of seeing information differently in game for PVE only.

My question is will this get me banned?

An image example: http://i.imgur.com/mZ2a8WB.png

Yes, I am aware of the terms of service such as terms 8,15, 17, 19, and 20 in the code of conduct but they are quite vague on consequences.

What does it get you. Combat chat shows the damage so why need something else?

Rip Van Winkle.4859:

What does it get you. Combat chat shows the damage so why need something else?

It gets me an easy to see and read display for assistance in making optimal builds without having to sift through and compile information from combat logs.

Can it get you banned? Yes. Will it? Probably not.

DPS meters work by reading the client’s memory, which is against the rules and ArenaNet can ban your account for any reason they see fit. However, in a general sense, they don’t care what you do as long as you’re not affecting the game or other players.

Healix.5819:

Can it get you banned? Yes. Will it? Probably not.

DPS meters work by reading the client’s memory, which is against the rules and ArenaNet can ban your account for any reason they see fit. However, in a general sense, they don’t care what you do as long as you’re not affecting the game or other players.

This is very gray line. I’ve had talks with Anets devs on this topic over the last couple years. The issue remains that Anet cannot see when you read/inject data into your game client. They can ONLY see data that gets sent to their server that is not supposed to be there.

They ARE working on a way to fix this though, so eventually client side memory hacks (Flight, super Jump, Botting…ect) will be fully detectable. But right now, there is no way for them to know.

So unless you are telling other players about it, nothing will happen to you.

But, it is against the EULA to use any 3rd party app that uses exposed memory registers in the game client. If its not exposed via an API its not supposed to be done.