gw2-alternator

RIP

The Wizard’s Vault replaces the existing daily login rewards

So long and thanks for all the fish

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Tool to help logging-in to multiple Guild Wars 2 alt accounts so as to harvest the daily rewards. Logging in every day can be a chore but a few factors make this much less so:

• You do not need to click the chest, just logging into the world claims the reward
  • In fact you can force close the GW2 client as soon as the world loading starts
  • Chests will wait until you collect them (or auto loot if > 4 stacked)
• Harvesting the rewards is even slower and is best done periodically, say once a month

Requires at least .Net 6.0.2

Warning

Latest version may have issues authenticating, expect a few extra automatic retries

Features:

• Import account details from GW2Launcher and/or GW2Launchbuddy
• Automatically login to accounts with no user input
  • Some failures are sadly expected and logins will retry automatically
• Assist with collection of rewards every few days
• Application has no access to your GW2 authentication details
• Whilst you can still use your PC while this is running focus will constantly be stolen and this can be annoying

Before You Start

• Configure all your accounts in either GW2Launcher or GW2Launchbuddy
• Ensure that the Two Factor Authentication (SMS/Email/App) is trusted on all your networks for all you accounts
  • Click Remember this network
  • This can be a bit painful to setup on multiple accounts but only needs to be done once

Getting Started

• On first launch you will see a security warning
  • Click "More info" then "Run Anyway"
  • This is because it is too expensive to sign executables, sadge
• On application launch you will be asked to confirm admin access
  • This is so symbolic links can be created (similar to GW2LaunchBuddy)
• If you have no accounts defined then go to settings and import from GW2Launcher and/or GW2Launchbuddy
• Click Login to login to all the accounts
  • Only accounts not logged-in that day will launch (unless you click Force all or make a selection)
  • If you have > 20 accounts expect that some will fail (they will retry automatically)
  • The first character on the account will be automatically selected, this will be the one that logged in most recently
• You can select accounts if you just want to launch a subset, this will ignore the date filtering
  • Use CTRL-click to unselect
• Click Collect to harvest, it is best not to run the Login step that day as this may trigger ArenaNet's login throttling

Usage

• TitleBar

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• SideBar

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Working with Multiple Accounts

• ArenaNet's anti-botting measures tend to make dealing with more than 10 accounts difficult
  • There is a hard limit of 40 accounts from a single IP address, resets every 8 hours
• Use email aliases to set-up your accounts : https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9308648?hl=en
• Logging into many (>10? ) accounts on https://www.guildwars2.com/ may cause a lockout that takes 24 hours to clear
  • /!\ Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes
  • Speculation: This is linked to using email aliases
  • Using a VPN seems not to help here
• Logging into the game will become slower after multiple (>10?) accounts and may block entirely
  • Using a VPN will help
  • Waiting a few minutes (5?) will help
  • GW2-Alternator tries to counter this by slowing down the login attempts after a failure
    • However the delay required depends on the past login history and is difficult to guess
    • There are tuning parameters in Settings to help adjust this
• To update the GW2 settings for accounts:
  • Check Force Serial
  • Check Ignore VPN
  • Select some accounts
  • Use the Collect button

Advanced

• Launchbuddy Account/Character auto extraction
  • Set the name to "account : character" and they will be extracted automatically
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• Settings, Account details, metrics and logs are found here: %AppData%\gw2-alternator

Google Doc

GW2 API Key

• Given a GW2 API key then Laurels and Mystic Coins will be counted (excludes any from unclaimed reward chests, max 4)
  • API access: Account/Inventories/Characters/Wallet
  • Assumes that the final reward chest is converted to laurels

VPN

• Alternator assumes that all accounts also authenticated for your non-VPN configuration
• If you create manual VPN configurations in Windows then alternator can be configured to use these automatically
  • Ensure that the connection is a static IP or restricted to 255.255.255.0 subnet (for smooth GW2 authentication)
    • Windows stores them here: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\rasphone.pbk
    • They are found using the search pattern in settings
  • Shark VPN instructions
    • Mighty Teapot Referral

Login Errors

• Typical errors you may see
  • Fixes
    • Update the client
    • Wait 5 minutes
    • Use a VPN

This one usually means the client needs updating

Credits:

• GW2 Launchbuddy https://github.com/TheCheatsrichter/Gw2_Launchbuddy
• GW2Launcher https://github.com/Healix/Gw2Launcher
• GW2 API access using GW2Sharp https://github.com/Archomeda/Gw2Sharp
• MVVM async using https://github.com/brminnick/AsyncAwaitBestPractices
• MVVM Dialogs using https://github.com/FantasticFiasco/mvvm-dialogs
• Logging using NLog https://nlog-project.org/
• Unit Testing using xUnit https://xunit.net/ and FluentAssertions https://fluentassertions.com/
• Main icon by https://www.flaticon.com/authors/ingmixa
• Other icons from: https://www.iconsdb.com/ with color: #FB651D This site is so good :)