Guild Wars 2

The reason I’m here is because it stopped working yesterday. But this is what I was doing successfully.
Multiwars worked for a while, I had some trouble, so I switched to manual.
o Get a hex editor, I like “Icy Hexplorer” but I’m sure any would work.
o Copy your GW install directory. I call them GW2-1 and GW2-2
You have to repeat this every time they send a patch, 6-7 times a month.
o Start the 1st then the 2nd. If the 2nd one doesn’t display, then you know it was patched so you need to do the following.
o hex edit the 1st gw2.exe (or gw2-64.exe) (the one that was just patched). Search for “Guild Wars 2”. Change the “2” to a “4” (or any other character). You don’t need to change them all, just the 1st one found from the top. Save-As over the 2nd GW2.exe.

That’s it.
Notes:
o Use the same character (“4”) each time as your roaming profile creates folders with it and you want to use the same ones.
o I do better waiting for the 1st one to completely display the character selection screen before trying to start the 2nd one. For me, graphics gets confused.
o my 2nd short cut, oddly, needs to present the 1st folder as the “start folder”, even though the gw2.dat file it uses is in the 2nd folder.
o I was unable to get them to share the same dat file. This just means you load that twice, wasting 30 seconds twice a week.
o I actually have 3 accounts and 3 install directories. The system can handle it but I cannot possible adventure with 3 characters, although the daily dragon chest farming works OK.
o I emphasize that you cannot be controlling 2 characters with the exact same key/mouse movements, that is “multi-boxing” and forbidden. You need to switch between windows frequently.

If you stand in the symbol of swiftness for 4 seconds you get 18 seconds of swiftness. Call it 20 with boon duration increase. Countdown starts at the beginning so you’ve already used up 4 seconds when you start moving. So you are not moving for 4 of those 20 seconds; and so running swiftly for 16 seconds..
— If normally you run 20 units in 20 seconds:
— With swiftness you run 26.7 units (20*1.3333)
— With the above you run 21.3 units (16*1.3333)

So “near 100% upkeep of swiftness with little work” means 6.7% speed increase (21.3/20). Whoop.

I don’t think you do a little better staying for only 3 seconds, so swiftness and skill recharge end at the same time.

I use Runes of the Traveler.

I think if you run through the symbol (no stopping) you have swiftness for 5 seconds out of 20, and it works out to be an identical benefit.