ArcDPS

ArcDPS is an add-on developed by deltaconnected.

It shows, for example:

• Combat statistics of you and anyone in your party or squad
• Outgoing/incoming damage and boons

and much more, and allows for an in-depth analysis of your combat performance.

ArcDPS’s real-time charts and the logs produced (more on that below) give you the go-to basic tools for raiding or other similar content. They're a great help whem aiming to improve.

ArcDPS is currently the only allowed officially tolerated combat analyzer and parser for Guild Wars 2 (as per Archive.org link to a developer comment on a 2017 ArenaNet Reddit thread).

As stated in the game's User Agreement and Code of Conduct - “don't be a dick” while using this software.

1. Go to the official ArcDPS website. At the bottom of the page, click on "here" or "current".

2. Download d3d11.dll.

3. Fully close Guild Wars 2 if it is open, including the launcher.

4. Open the installation folder for Guild Wars 2. On Windows you'll usually find this in "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2" or "C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2".

5. Add the d3d11.dll file you dowloaded in Step 2 to the main "Guild Wars 2" folder. It should look something like in the picture below.

Start Guild Wars 2, log in, and jump ingame with any character.

If ArcDPS doesn’t show, toggling its menu (by default Alt+Shift+T) does nothing, or if Guild Wars 2 crashes, check the ArcDPS website for solutions.

These two hotkeys are the most common fixes:

• To show/hide all ArcDPS, use Alt+Shift+H
• To show/hide ArcDPS’s menu, use Alt+Shift+T

Log into a character and open ArcDPS’s menu with Alt+Shift+T.

• For basic damage statistics in combat, enable "Area Stats".

• To save logs from encounters, under "Logging", enable "save after boss encounters" and "lock target to encounter NPC".

• To increase the usability of Area Stats, right-click on the Area Stats window, and then under "Display", set "stats format" to "@5, @6 (@2, @3)". This shows “single-target DPS, percentage of all single-target DPS (cleave DPS, percentage of all cleave DPS)”.
  You can change the stats format to what you’d like, but always include "@5", as single-target DPS is in a lot of cases the number you want to be seeing.

• For additional information, in the main ArcDPS menu, enable "Metrics".

F = FPS, P = Ping, and R = Server Tick Rate.
Your ideal Server Connection is a constant ~25. If it’s a lot higher or lower, you’re probably missing packets, which might be server-side rather than client-side.

By default, logs are saved in "Documents\Guild Wars 2\addons\arcdps\".

More information on this can be found on our Reading Logs guide page.

ArcDPS has a wide variety of plugins/extensions that make it even better, add features, or otherwise generally build upon its functionality. Here's some suggestions and their short descriptions. For a full list, visit the Elite Insights discord server. Keep in mind, some of these might be more than others in the gray area of game rules.

• Boon Table - Alternate boon table for better tracking of boon uptimes in combat.

• Mechanics Log - Lets you see details on fight specific mechanics. Use this to correct your own mistakes, don't call others out.

• Buildpad - Allows saving, copying, and filtering build templates with an in-game overlay. A glorified notepad if you will.

• Healing Stats - Tracks outgoing and incoming healing and adds it into logs.

• Killproof - Shows the killproof.me website's info of other players if they have it added.

• Unofficial Extras - Adds some additional details for other addons to use. Newly allows for profession-specific keybinds.

• Food Reminder - Reminds you when food/utility buffs run out on either you or your squad memebers, and tracks food and utilities used.

• Squad Role Tracker - Helps you track what roles you have in your squad and see which are missing.

• Uploader - Allows you to upload logs from in-game and their integration with Discord.

• Clears - Tracks weekly boss kills. You can share clear info with others and see your friends' progressions.

• Scrolling Combat Text - Changes the way damage numbers show up on screen and has a lot of UI customization and features. Example video.

• Once you know which ones you want, download the .dll file for each of them.

• For Github links, you'll find this under the "Releases" section on the right, or the download link on the page.

• You only need the .dll file, you don't need source code or other files.

• If the main download is a .zip file you'll need to extract the .dll file after downloading.

• Move the downloaded file(s) to your "...\Guild Wars 2\bin64" folder.

• Launch the game and check that your addons are working. They should show in the ArcDPS "Extensions" menu without you needing to do anything else.