GWFreaks

GWFreaks is a offline character builder tool that help players to plan ahead different combinations without having to actually have the skill or equipment in Game.



= Background information =

GWFreaks exist since the beta of the game. The first version was in Green and Pink and became instantly popular among the tester. The tool has been translated by the community in 13 languages (English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Dutch, Polish, Slovak and Swedish. The entire database (skill, class, attribute, location) and templates are stored in XML file to be re-use easily.

GWFreaks is written in VB.NET (over 26 000 lines of code) by Zyo and Maligor (designed by Sweet) and have many external contributors for maintenance, translation and skill corrections.

= Features =

Most features are skill oriented. Every month new features are added or updated. The tool can run in 2 modes: Account (by default) and Team.

Account Mode [1st tab]
In account mode you can track you unlock skill (remember in Guild Wars, once a character have unlock a skill, the entire account is aware of it and you can use this skill for any new pvp characters).

To unlock a single right-click on the skill and select the menu "Unlock skill X".

This mode allow you save your Fame (rank is automatically calculated), Faction score with 4 characters.

Team Mode [1st tab]
The team mode do not have the skill unlock tracking, if you do not want to track them you should go in team mode. This mode allow you to have up to 8 characters.

Character [2nd tab]
The character tab allow you to customize a single character. You can store the name, the race, primary and secondary classes. You can set up the level (will affect health, energy and attribute points) as well as two 2 quests that grant extra attribute point.

Base on your selected classes you will see each attribute line and will be able to assign you point directly.

The section under the word "level" is using your attribute point (based on your level and quests) The section under the word "bonus" is using your equipment.

By selecting bonus based on the equipment, GWFreaks will select for you the appropriate equipment (the tool only check the attribute bonus).

Equipment [3rd tab]
The equipment module allow you to select from existing equipment (armor and weapon) the one that give you the most appropriate bonus based on your skills and ideas. For each pieces of armor you can select a rune in the right column.

You can also create your own equipment if the one you found in the game is not listed. Select the right equipment type and press the [add] button.

Skill search [4th tab]
GWFreaks offer all skills in a single list. To find the skill you need you can use many build-in filter such as by class types or attribute line.

Free text search is also instantaneous.

All skill can be sorted by name, attribute name, energy cost, recast time, duration, damage, duration or skill type. When selecting a skill you see additional information in the lower right section.

Special search tag
elite : having the word elite in the search string will only return you elite skill. -elite : will return you skill that are NOT elite skill. ''[city name]

Map [5th tab
GWFreaks have single map, the full explored world map (no pre-seering or dungeons). The map is at 75% zoom level from the original size in the game, you can zoom out more (up to 5%) with the 2 buttons in the upper right section of the map.

To move with the map, it's using drag and move just like in the game.

The left section offer you a quick city search. By typing the first letter in of the city name you will find it pretty fast. If only one result match your search the map will automatically move to the result.

You can also search for skill, the arrow on the map will indicate Boss that have the skill that could be capture from.

Exporting your character
Beside the native XML format (check out in the folder \Templates\Characters) you can export your template in many friendly format such as plain text, html, bbCode, phpBB, punBB, VN Board and gwBBCode.

There is also various option to export single player or entire account/team, skill description or not...

= Legality = GWFreaks is not a cheat or hack it's only a reference tool. The tool do not interact with Guild Wars in any way.

= Acceptation = While in Guild Wars there is a important and clear message about not trusting external application that are character builder, tool that could contain key-logger or hack, GWFreaks have proved over time to be safe. Many elite fan sites link or host the popular character builder.