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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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Guild Wars 2 has been around since 2012, but it's still going strong!
ArenNet just finished up The Icebrood Saga for us, which is also known as Season 5.
Looking ahead, the GW2 Expansion Pack 3 is in active development!
Further, Guild Wars 2 is being released on Steam! This has been pushed back and will occur after the Expansion Pack 3 release.
This platform puts the game in front of over 20 million PC gamers and is sure to make Guild Wars 2 the biggest MMORPG ever.
The following are advantages GW2 provides to players over other MMORPG's.
These advantages make choosing GW2 as your MMORPG an easy decision for everyone.
IMPORTANT NOTES
NOTE: The beginner's guide below came out before the HoT expansion was included for free when you buy the PoF expansion.
Consider not one profession, but the set of three professions you like the most by armor weight.
You'll spend a lot of time and gold getting into full legendary armor, and being able to switch that set of armor around between your characters is really important.
Yes, but you should be aware that F2P accounts are restricted in every possible way from enriching anyone else.
It's best to spend a few bucks to upgrade your Free-To-Play accounts immediately with cheap CD Keys purchased online. This will start the timer towards removing restrictions, as the restrictions are not lifted immediately upon upgrade. Retailers
Get your GW2 “CD Keys” from an official retailer. Retailers
You should also use these sites to buy 2000 Gem Cards when you need gems, so that you remain anonymous.
You can give your new accounts a huge boost by buying two items from the gem store.
These items will allow you to free up a ton of inventory space and prevents having to visit vendors often.
You want one single Minion account under which all your bots will run.
You'll then need one Minion key per GW2 account that will be botting simultaneously.
Licensing Option 1 (multiple keys, botting simultaneously)
Licensing Option 2 (single key, different time slots)
Maintain a text file with all of your account information.
You may need any or all of this information to re-claim an account or work with ArenaNet customer service, and it increases the sale price significantly should you sell your GW2 account later on.
Example Text File
Additional Pro Tips
Try a different browser.
Also disable any ad or script blockers.
Your key code is found on the “Keycodes” tab of the launcher.
Key codes are not e-mailed.
Ideally just buy a trial key… they're super cheap.
With that said, you can also visit ElitePvPers and reply to this thread for a free trial key.
Minion is compatible with the Guild Wars 2 Tactical Overlay. (GW2 TacO) Feel free to use it while running Minion.
MMOMinion is not compatible with Windows Insider builds.
At this time Minion is not compatible with many popular DirectX hooks including…
The following software may cause game crashes, performance problems or other issues.
Only if you use a VMWare solution to host Windows virtual machines.
Other solutions like Linux Wine will not work.
Only if you use a Windows virtual machine.
Full screen is not supported by Minion. You must play in Windowed mode, although Windowed Fullscreen should work.
You have 3 options to monitor your DPS.
When all else fails, please read closely and follow the Install Guide.
Check the e-mail you used to register your GW2 account. You likely need to authorize the network with the e-mailed passcode.
This error often results from not having the game fully downloaded or is caused by a VPN / Proxy / bitchy 3rd party antivirus or firewall.
NOTES:
Error: Failed to download the update manifest for product ID=7. Something has blocked the manifest, Minion will not work properly
This is a problem with your Comcast/xFi Internet Service Provider.
You need get on the Xfinity xFi app, select More > My Services > xFi Advanced Security > Disable.
“Guild Wars 2 is unable to access its archive file Local.dat. Please verify that this file is accessible and writeable, and that no other program is currently using it.”
This error occurs because you have another copy of GW2 running simultaneously.
Run the following from an elevated command prompt to make sure all instances of GW2 are closed before attempting to launch it again.
“Update your game, there is an update available!”
If the launcher tells you to update the game client, but it has already been updated…
What if the Minion launcher is taking a really long time to update Minion?
The problem could be your ISP. Test with a VPN to Germany. Private Internet Access is cheap, easy, allows up to 10 connections per account and offers a 7-day money-back guarantee.
Running the following from an elevated command prompt and rebooting can help with many FPS issues, including those that occur when moving the mouse.
Minion will reduce your FPS due to its DirectX hook and all core bot framework running in the background. Some FPS loss is unavoidable.
Many addons may cause additional FPS loss if they require a lot of computing power. You can uninstall addons temporarily to see if any are affecting your FPS.
The most important thing you can do is changing the following in-game settings to “Lowest”.
Setting these to “Lowest” will hide or dull the other players running around with pixel spam.
You can reset the bot defaults by renaming the following folder.
C:\MINIONAPP\Bots\GW2Minion64\MinionFiles\Settings
NOTE: This will not reset addon defaults. To reset addon defaults, delete and reinstall them from the Store in the Minion Launcher.
Some of the Skill Manager profiles have a requirement that you've unlocked weapon slot 3+.
Try switching to a two-handed weapon. If that doesn't work, try manually leveling up until you've unlocked a few weapon skills.
Skill Bar “Weapon skills are acquired through levelling, with skill slot 1 being automatically unlocked at level 1 and skill slots 2, 3, 4 and 5 being unlocked at levels 2, 4, 7 and 10 respectively.”
Also make sure you have completed the tutorial mission on new characters.
Turn off double-tap to evade in the game settings.
Full screen is not supported by Minion. You must play in Windowed mode, although Windowed Fullscreen should work.
To make sure your GW2 in-game settings are saved, load GW2 without Minion first and configure all the settings how you like. Then exit the game and re-launch Minion.
The default skill manager profiles haven't been updated in quite some time. They're missing a lot of skills and don't work well. The default Skill Manager profiles will not be maintained due to the vast number of added skills and frequent “balance” patches ArenaNet started that change them around.
With that said, one of the best things you can do for yourself is learning how to use Skill Manager. It was created with the intent to make managing skill usage easy for those who are not developers.
Skill Manager is located under the MMOMinion –> GW2Minion –> Skill Manager menu.
Usually just put your heal skill on top, followed by elite/utilities, followed by skills 5,4,3,2,1. It casts in order from top to bottom. It's a “priority list”, rather than a rotation. If something can cast that's higher in the list, it goes first, and so on.
Also remember to create a new skill manager profile from scratch before you start editing. If you modify the default ones, they'll be overwritten the next time Minion updates, and your work will be undone.
By default, Skill Manager Profiles are stored in the following folder.
If you're too busy to create and maintain your own Skill Manager profiles, you can choose to pay someone to do it for you by purchasing an addon in the store.
Occasionally you can find a free Skill Manager profile in the forums. (http://www.mmominion.com/forum-34.html) Please note that these are unsupported and could cause problems with Minion if they're outdated.
To install a Skill Manager profile from the forum, simply download the .SM file, copy it to the following folder, and then hit CTRL+L to have Minion reload. (adjust the path for your Minion installation)
C:\MINIONAPP\Bots\GW2Minion64\LuaMods\GW2Minion\SkillManagerProfiles
The bot is moving for me while in Assisted Play mode. How can I turn this off?
Which salvage tools should I use for each item rarity?
These are the unlimited salvage tools that you should invest gems in.
These are the rules you should follow by item rarity.
If you want the bot to ignore a specific mob or event, add it to the List Manager.
GW2Minion doesn't have the ability to use locked waypoints, although we've asked for the hack. (no ETA)
You have a few options to unlock maps.
Notes:
Minion will only attack world bosses with Skill Manager IF you manually target them.
No, it's depositing them in your bank when possible. This feature is on by default.
You may turn this off in the Settings menu.
MMOMinion –> Main Menu –> Settings –> Ingame –> Deposit Items (uncheck)
If the behavior persists, check if you've enabled any “Fast Deposit” options in addons.
If the entire screen has gone back but you can still see chat and the skillbar, you've turned on “Disable Rendering”.
This option is located on the main menu under MMOMinion –> Main Menu –> Setting –> Ingame –> Disable rendering.
You can also type the following into the console to turn it back off.
Settings.GW2Minion.disablerendering = false
If the bot is in “No Downtime” mode, you might not be able to click things in the game.
Copy/Paste the following line into the console (CTRL+C) to work around the issue until the bot is updated.
GUI:CloseCurrentPopup() gw2minion.versionchecked = true
GW2Minion lacks the API's/functions to do the Personal Story in GW2.
Specifically, GW2Minion cannot:
You can use the “Scotty” addon to quickly teleport through the Personal Story, and even have it automatically handle some dialog.
How can I get earnings from my “alt” accounts to my “main” account?
Start your own guild. Have alts deposit gold or high-end stackable items in the bank. Withdraw up to 500g/week or an unlimited number of high-end items from the bank using your main.
You may alternately mail high-end stackable items to your main, but this is riskier than using a guild bank.
It is not recommended to mail gold directly to your main account.
If the default bot modes, Grind and Gather, are not getting you enough gold per hour, there are a lot of options to choose from in the addon store.
Take the time to review the addons available in the store. Join the Discord channels specifically for those addons or reply to the forum threads for them to see what other users' experience has been and what they recommend.
Most have a trial period, and you have Minion's 3-day money-back guarantee on top of that.
Which PvP track makes the most gold?
If you don't yet have a set of full Legendary armor, I'd highly suggest the Glorious track until you have enough Mist Core Fragments to create a set.
If you're just doing it for gold generation to be fed to your main account, there are a lot of opinions.
No.
ArenaNet once illegally deployed spyware to catch cheaters and ended up suspending the accounts of many innocent players, resulting in an attempted cover-up and public relations nightmare. Future attempts to catch bots or cheaters based on collecting client-based data are very unlikely to happen again now that better global consumer protections exist such as GDPR and APPI.
With that said, your behavior may be detected server-side. It is generally recommended to not bot 24×7 or do anything repeatedly for many hours.
Here are the most common times GM's appear to be “hunting” for bots, inclusive of ALL games modes and ALL server locations.
The closer you bot to this time frame, the higher the risk of getting caught.
No, but you'll get suspended if people see you using them and you get reported many times within a short time frame.
ArenaNet attempts to tie accounts together and will often suspend them all at the same time if one gets caught.
Here's how ArenaNet ties your accounts together and what you can do to prevent it…
I was suspended, and now any new accounts I create are automatically suspended too. How can I get around this?
You can try changing your network card's MAC address AND windows machine name to work around this. NOTE: Any accounts that have already been “stamped” are tied together, so do this before creating any new accounts.
Why?
Other Advice
You can always purchase from MMOMinion with confidence!
You can always make Minion purchases with confidence thanks to the user-friendly refund policy.
You can join Minion's primary discord server by clicking this link.
Support options are typically listed on the information page in the store.
You can also choose to filter addons by developer on the Store page of the Minion launcher.
Some support options by developer are listed here.
Discord Support
Developer: Black117 (aka Hanaumi)
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/JjpMrRu
http://www.mmominion.com/user-53516.html - User 53516
Developer: DeathCallsYou
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/DXwJuA4
http://www.mmominion.com/user-29489.html - User 29489
Developer: DopeEx
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/ktxNQds
http://www.mmominion.com/user-37293.html - User 37293
Developer: Frenkey
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/JQrsX3HP7s
http://www.mmominion.com/user-37159.html - User 37159
Developer: Madao
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fd5Ht6D
http://www.mmominion.com/user-48120.html - User 48120
Developer: Modera
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/ApqjdWG
http://www.mmominion.com/user-52225.html - User 52225
Developer: NullPtr
Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/RJt8vFw
http://www.mmominion.com/user-64993.html - User 64993
Developer: Urguwno
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/npFXSUz
http://www.mmominion.com/user-516.html - User 516
Forum Support
Developer: FxFire
Forums: Find and reply to the correct forum page for the addon. http://www.mmominion.com/forum-170.html
http://www.mmominion.com/user-2.html - User 2
Developer: Jorith
Forums: Find and reply to the correct forum page for the addon. http://www.mmominion.com/forum-170.html
http://www.mmominion.com/user-6085.html - User 6085
Developer: MMOAlt
Forums: Find and reply to the correct forum page for the addon. http://www.mmominion.com/forum-170.html
http://www.mmominion.com/user-11004.html - User 11004
I purchased Madao's WvW Roamer addon and it doesn't work, telling me that the “Prime Time Dodger” is activated. Why?
Madao is trying to keep WvW botting on the DL so that we can all continue to enjoy it with no action from ArenaNet. So far there have been no suspension “waves” for bots in WvW, and that's likely largely due to the WvW bots not running during prime-time – when they'd get mass-reported far more often. Given that WvW, unlike PvP, has a join limit, ArenaNet would certainly take action if they got a lot of complaints about WvW queues being very long due to bots.
We have to remember that our bots are currently living in relative harmony with ArenaNet… driving sales and the 11+ million player base they constantly boast about. There's no reason to rock the boat by causing them and real players grief. Let their design and dev teams focus on new content, like the upcoming Expansion 3, rather than having to spend dev and customer service cycles addressing bot complaints.
The following recommendations may help you optimize your VMWare virtual machines for the best performance.
No. The health and damage output calculations are all server-side.
Available hacks can be found in the Dev Monitor addon under the “Hacks” section, or you can look in Dev.lua for examples.
Not at this time, due to a lack of LUA API functions.
With that said, crafting in GW2 is just a matter of throwing a lot of gold at it and spending a few minutes following one of the “fast” guides on the Internet.
No. You can start the game, then have Minion attach by not filling out your game username and password in the launcher.
Read up. Also feel free to learn LUA from YouTube University. (i.e. search YouTube)
Minion's LUA API - http://wiki.mmominion.com/doku.php?id=lua_api
LUA Reference Manual - https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/
Outdated Wiki Examples - https://github.com/MINIONBOTS/GW2Minion/wiki
Free Examples in Forum - http://www.mmominion.com/forum-45.html
Minion's GUI API - http://wiki.mmominion.com/doku.php?id=gui_api
Examples of almost everything you can do with the bot are in \MINIONAPP\Bots\GW2Minion64\LuaMods\Dev\Dev.lua