gw2-alternator

RIP

The Wizard’s Vault replaces the existing daily login rewards

So long and thanks for all the fish

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

Running

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
- SideBar
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
Settings, Account details, metrics and logs are found here: %AppData%\gw2-alternator

Metrics

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