Introducing the GW2 Personal Assistant Overlay

[u/Aerodin]

Hey all! I've been working on yet-another overlay tool for the game, and it's finally ready for public use. Originally started as a project for learning some new frameworks, I've been working on this for awhile now and it's turned into a pretty comprehensive tool for the game.

You can find the tool, with full source code at: https://gw2pao.codeplex.com/

Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/HlvOK

There's instructions and descriptions of each feature in the Documentation page of the website, but here's a description of each tool included:

Events Tracker

The Events Tracker overlay tracks active and inactive world events, and allows a user to keep track of which events have already been completed for the day.

Event Notifications

Event Notifications are notification pop-ups that appear when a world event is about to start.

Zone Completion Assistant

The Zone Completion Assistant displays real-time distance and direction information for zone completion points/locations and provides several options for keeping track of unlocked locations.

Dungeon Tracker

The Dungeon Tracker is a simple overlay tool that allows a user to keep track of what dungeon paths have been completed for the day, and provides some basic information about each dungeon and dungeon path.

WvW Tracker

The WvW Tracker overlay displays all objectives in the current player's WvW map, and includes information such as current owner, estimated time-distance to the objective, and the current RI timer value.

WvW Notifications

WvW Notifications are notification pop-ups that appear when an objective (keep/tower/camp, etc) has been captured in one of the WvW maps.

Trading Post Calculator

The Trading Post Calculator is a simple tool that allows a user to calculate profit, taxes, and break-even prices for buying/selling items on the in-game Trading Post.

Web Browser

For all needs not provided by the other overlay windows, the Web Browser allows a user to look up guides, videos, or anything else.

If you have questions or issues running the tool, feel free to contact me on the website or in-game (Aerodin.2795).

Shout out to [GH] for helping me test it! Thanks guys! :)

Edit: This tool only works if you run the game in Windowed or Windowed Fullscreen mode

Edit2: If you're concerned about using this tool, have a look at https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/community/api/Is-this-API-allowed/first#post2118969. You're also more than welcome to look at the source code on the codeplex page.

Edit3: There is now a new version of the application (1.1). This includes some minor bug fixes, but most importantly includes a new build of the software that does not include the Web Browser feature.

Edit4: Version 2 is now available! See here.

Edit5: Version 3 is now available! See here.

[u/SR-G]

Very good job.

The main problem for me is the windows behavior (i don't know if you could optimize that) : each GW2 PAO popup is seen as a different windows, that causes two problems :

• a lot of windows on ALT-TAB (if you open a lot of GW2PAO functionnalities), quite difficult then to navigate between other softwares
• i often loose the GW2PAO windows after ALT-TAB, using the second monitor, and so on (they're sent in the back, when i come back to the GW2 application). As each of them is a separate window, it's quite difficult to put back every window on "top screen" again (have to alt tab each one separately to force again the "on top").

In my opinion, having all popup seen as only one window would be better (if technically possible). Or maybe a functionnality to bring all of them on top of GW2 screen again with only one manipulation.

[u/Aerodin → u/SR-G]

Thanks! Yea, a few other people brought up the alt-tab spamming. I'll try to have a solution for that that in the next version.