Guild Wars 2 Dmg Meter

Legal GW2 dmg meter. Contribute to jaxnX/DmgMeter development by creating an account on GitHub. The personal damage information is retrieved directly from the callback that provides the information to the game client hence it is 100% accurate for personal DPS and does not require to have the combat log open to get the data, this is also far more accurate than combat log based DPS meters as the combat log is missing some information (e.g. Life siphoning traits) and in addition all suffer. Version highlights: Time label showing the time in combat. Configuration possibility of the number recognition process. Bugfix, which could cause the dps to overflow on higher 'updates per second' settings.

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  • DPS Meter Question. It's not spying though especially for damage. Both how much damage the mob takes is publicly visible and so is condition application and CC. Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Heart of Thorns, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, ArenaNet, NCSOFT, the Interlocking NC Logo, and all associated logos and designs are trademarks.
  • Since damage meters are essential to optimize traits in almost any game and the developers of Guild Wars 2 decided to not support them by default, several people developed their own damage meter.
  • Version highlights: Time label showing the time in combat. Configuration possibility of the number recognition process. Bugfix, which could cause the dps to overflow on higher 'updates per second' settings.
  • Guild Wars 2 - The Pros and Cons of a DPS Meter - MMORPG.com. I never liked damage meters and will never like them. The focus on damage meters is one of the main reasons why mmo fail to have a proper player-skill-based combat. Forget about the numbers and make it more about class versatility, variety, and complexity.
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Guild Wars 2 Addons Dmg Meter

Guild wars 2 damage meter

I have heard a lot of back and forth about this and I just want to know for sure before I go and download something that is going to get my account banned.
Are DPS Meter's against Anet Policy? I've searched the forums and that only added to my confusion with these two forum discussions.
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/1570/psa-build-templates-by-arcdps-green-lighted-by-arenanet
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/5193/how-to-get-addons-for-dps-hp-numbers
Please help.

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  • Sorry, I don't have an actual answer for you, just the question. Why? Why do you even need this?

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  • edited January 7, 2018

    I actually think it's usefull to improve yourself to see if you do the right rotation to optimize your dps etc . SO i think anet tolerates it

    And i can relate it can be scary as ppl kick other players cause they don't have enough dps (known thanks to that add-on) from fractals or raids .. can be pretty toxic but almost never saw things like that in raids for now but hey i'm just at 25 LI and playing raids casualy XD most of the time it's not a dps issue but a 'staying alive' and/or mechanics issues.

  • edited January 7, 2018

    DPS meters are allowed and deltaconnected has a few more relevant links on his website: https://www.deltaconnected.com/arcdps/

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  • ArcDPS is 3rd party allowed to use by anet security officer. However, they do not check the compliance of the tool for every update and anet will never help you if this tool causes any harm to your account. It's 'use it at your own risk' policy.

  • edited January 7, 2018

    @Kal Spiro.9745 said:
    Sorry, I don't have an actual answer for you, just the question. Why? Why do you even need this?

    It is exactly as @Nath Forge Tempete.1645 stated, 'to optimize my DPS'

    Thank you @CptAurellian.9537 for your quick response.

  • As stated, DPS meters in general are allowed. But please research the meter of your choice and check it against the reddit post mentioned by CptAurellian
    There are some limitations for the data collection the entire thirdparty tool can use. Most popular ones are ok (obviously), but not all.

  • DPS meter should primarily be used to help you improve your own damage and theory crafting. It also adds another level of competition in WvW and Raids.

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  • edited January 7, 2018

    Right now I think the only DPS meter that they allow is arcDPS, it also comes with an add-on for build templates if you want those.

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  • @Kal Spiro.9745 said:
    Sorry, I don't have an actual answer for you, just the question. Why? Why do you even need this?

    A DPS meter benchmarks your DPS, just a wild guess here, but I reckon he wants to know how much damage he's doing..

  • DPS meter is a tool helping massively to learn and improve. It is showing if the player is casting skills timely and if the combination of skill used gives expected efficiency in term of damages. It becomes even more helpful if doing seriously WvW, Raids and Fractals. In that case, a certain rotation shall apply, and the DPS meter is in that case incredibly supportive because the result matters for the whole team.

    As said in other threads before: A DPS meter is a good tool. That some players use it for unfair purposes is due to the people, not due to the tool.

    Personally I believe that the best solution would be that Anet is adding one integrated into the game, what would give them full control on it. It could be adjusted to prevent unfair use, like for example, with the option for the player to share - or not - data to others.

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  • If you see someone in raid under performing dont kick help person get better

  • edited May 1, 2018

    @Laila Lightness.8742 said:
    If you see someone in raid under performing dont kick help person get better

    I say kick them all. Last person i tried to help fix their build because who the hell runs 25% movement signets in the raid, started insulting me for being toxic elitist telling him how to play. It's just not worth the effort trying to help people, since they never listen and then all get 'toxic casual' at you.

  • @Cynn.1659 said:

    @Laila Lightness.8742 said:
    If you see someone in raid under performing dont kick help person get better

    I say kick them all. Last person i tried to help fix their build because who the hell runs 25% movement signets in the raid, started insulting me for being toxic elitist telling him how to play. It's just not worth the effort trying to help people, since they never listen and then all get 'toxic casual' at you.

    Depends on the recipient, if the player responds as this guy did, kick away! But if they actually take advice on board and do start to improve, you helped another player for the better in a fractal/raid scenario.

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  • @Cynn.1659 said:

    @Laila Lightness.8742 said:
    If you see someone in raid under performing dont kick help person get better

    I say kick them all. Last person i tried to help fix their build because who the hell runs 25% movement signets in the raid, started insulting me for being toxic elitist telling him how to play. It's just not worth the effort trying to help people, since they never listen and then all get 'toxic casual' at you.

    And this right here is why I will not go anywhere near raids.

  • @Cynn.1659 said:

    @Laila Lightness.8742 said:
    If you see someone in raid under performing dont kick help person get better

    I say kick them all. Last person i tried to help fix their build because who the hell runs 25% movement signets in the raid, started insulting me for being toxic elitist telling him how to play. It's just not worth the effort trying to help people, since they never listen and then all get 'toxic casual' at you.

    That would be mean and generate more hate for meter

  • If people read the announcements page, people would know what made people get banned. Arc dps is legit and you will not get banned for using it. Matter of fact I use it, and did not get banned. And I have a few buddies who use it. Arenanet also said they supported arcdps. And will not make their own meter. So all you gotta do is download it and instal into your bin64.

    Meters are great to keep you in check.

  • @Kal Spiro.9745 said:
    Sorry, I don't have an actual answer for you, just the question. Why? Why do you even need this?

    dps meters help you improve. After installing arc, I discovered that my damage in fractals was pretty bad. This was obviously because i was moving and dodging and curing all over the place, instead of letting our healer do his job.

    But until you don't see it, you don't believe it. I discovered that dps can and will plummet if you don't find the way to be efficient.

    Only once someone told me my dps was bad. And i had been sucking all of my life before that!!!!

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  • @Laila Lightness.8742 said:
    If you see someone in raid under performing dont kick help person get better

    I agree with this, but unfortunately players like that treat other players like NPCs or tools to help that person win, not someone they're actually playing a game with. I just avoid everyone that even mentions using a DPS meter because I don't play like that. Don't need that negativity in my life.

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  • @Dreamy Lu.3865 said:
    Personally I believe that the best solution would be that Anet is adding one integrated into the game, what would give them full control on it. It could be adjusted to prevent unfair use, like for example, with the option for the player to share - or not - data to others.

    I don't think it would be a good option to hide your damage to the others, because the point of a dps meter is also to know how you perform relatively to the others, not just how much damage you did. In WvW, I play as power Herald or power Weaver, so I should be in the top 10 damage of my squad, that way I know I did my job, but if I only see that I did 320k damage and don't know what the others did because they all hide their data, I won't be able to tell if I did good or not.

  • @Tails.9372 said:
    DPS meter should be an ingame feature.

    NAh - all DPS meters
    should be completely banned!

  • edited May 1, 2018

    @Aenesthesia.1697 said:

    @Kal Spiro.9745 said:
    Sorry, I don't have an actual answer for you, just the question. Why? Why do you even need this?

    dps meters help you improve. After installing arc, I discovered that my damage in fractals was pretty bad. This was obviously because i was moving and dodging and curing all over the place, instead of letting our healer do his job.

    But until you don't see it, you don't believe it. I discovered that dps can and will plummet if you don't find the way to be efficient.

    Only once someone told me my dps was bad. And i had been sucking all of my life before that!!!!

    How did you not know your DPS was bad? It's incredibly obvious when your DPS isn't good, it takes too long to kill things. The DPS on my main is not good. It takes a long time to kill stuff because he's designed around survival not DPS. He can take multiple hits that would instantly defeat other builds, but I don't pretend his DPS is good just because I don't use a meter.

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  • @Kal Spiro.9745 said:

    @Aenesthesia.1697 said:

    @Kal Spiro.9745 said:
    Sorry, I don't have an actual answer for you, just the question. Why? Why do you even need this?

    dps meters help you improve. After installing arc, I discovered that my damage in fractals was pretty bad. This was obviously because i was moving and dodging and curing all over the place, instead of letting our healer do his job.

    But until you don't see it, you don't believe it. I discovered that dps can and will plummet if you don't find the way to be efficient.

    Only once someone told me my dps was bad. And i had been sucking all of my life before that!!!!

    How did you not know your DPS was bad? It's incredibly obvious when your DPS isn't good, it takes too long to kill things. The DPS on my main is not good. It takes a long time to kill stuff because he's designed around survival not DPS. He can take multiple hits that would instantly defeat other builds, but I don't pretend his DPS is good just because I don't use a meter.

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    Maybe his dps wasnt that Bad and he was in zerker gear. I mean If every1 in ur party does 20k dps and you do 15k, meter is a good way to see that.

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  • @Laila Lightness.8742 said:
    If you see someone in raid under performing dont kick help person get better

    Hmmm.. Here is what I got from T4, not even raids, when trying to help someone. Power reaper, he was (didnt kick him for it)
    'Mate, could you use pots and food? We all are. It makes your life easier, along with everyone else's. Also, that locust sig could be replaced with a better utility. Thanks'
    'I wanted to do 86 first, why you change it to 96?'
    'Its all in the dailies, mate. We will do 86 later. We always start with the highest to lowest. Now, about that food and pot--'
    'kitten. I want to do 86.'

    And it goes on till the kick. Please, PLEASE dont tell me you havent run into guys like this one. Being helpful, is one thing. The other side has to want to be helped. People, apparently, hate being told that they have better alternatives in endgame stuff. So.. There is that. Dont get me wrong, elitism exists, people will also oftentimes say 'noob signet nec, kick' without as much as a second glance. But.. YEah.

  • People who kick others for they dont meet silly requirments are bullies > @Voltekka.2375 said:

    @Laila Lightness.8742 said:
    If you see someone in raid under performing dont kick help person get better

    Hmmm.. Here is what I got from T4, not even raids, when trying to help someone. Power reaper, he was (didnt kick him for it)
    'Mate, could you use pots and food? We all are. It makes your life easier, along with everyone else's. Also, that locust sig could be replaced with a better utility. Thanks'
    'I wanted to do 86 first, why you change it to 96?'
    'Its all in the dailies, mate. We will do 86 later. We always start with the highest to lowest. Now, about that food and pot--'
    'kitten. I want to do 86.'

    And it goes on till the kick. Please, PLEASE dont tell me you havent run into guys like this one. Being helpful, is one thing. The other side has to want to be helped. People, apparently, hate being told that they have better alternatives in endgame stuff. So.. There is that. Dont get me wrong, elitism exists, people will also oftentimes say 'noob signet nec, kick' without as much as a second glance. But.. YEah.

    If they dont want to be helped then those who better should carry that person anyway
    Who are they too judge that there way is better

  • 'should carry that person'.
    No, sorry. Noone should carry anyone who doesnt want to improve. Also, toxic behavior should never be encouraged, be it in the form of elitism or laziness.

  • There is so much more that makes a player skilled than damage per second alone. Some players may have lower DPS but higher survivability and/or healing stats allowing them to survive where pure DPS specced players are dead on the ground. It is hard to measure the value of a player in a party with a number value, even if you take defensive and healing capabilities into consideration. The ability to lead, follow, communicate and know the strategy is at least as important to the success of the party.

    It can be good to know DPS, but I would not judge people on it. And that is where the core of the problem is. People get judged on DPS alone.

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  • @TheQuickFox.3826 said:
    There is so much more that makes a player skilled than damage per second alone. Mac cache cleaner app. Some players may have lower DPS but higher survivability and/or healing stats allowing them to survive where pure DPS specced players are dead on the ground. It is hard to measure the value of a player in a party with a number value, even if you take defensive and healing capabilities into consideration. The ability to lead, follow, communicate and know the strategy is at least as important to the success of the party.

    It can be good to know DPS, but I would not judge people on it. And that is where the core of the problem is. People get judged on DPS alone.

    well, when you join a group as a dps,it is natural to be judged on your dps.
    and if you run healing stats for whatever reason you are propably in the wrong group anyway.

  • @Laila Lightness.8742 said:
    If they dont want to be helped then those who better should carry that person anyway
    Who are they too judge that there way is better

    That's the kind of toxic attitude that leads to many misunderstandings.

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  • @Laila Lightness.8742 said:

    If they dont want to be helped then those who better should carry that person anyway
    Who are they too judge that there way is better

    You are, apparently. You said, '..then those who better should carry that person..'

    Games are played in, hopefully, peoples' leisure time. So, two people are playing in their leisure time. Why is the leisure time of the person who does not want to be 'helped' more important than the leisure time of the person who does not want to 'carry' him?

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