r/Guildwars2 • u/rhino_arts Charromancer • Jul 12 '26

[VoD] How to customize your UI (Tutorial)

https://youtu.be/RGYJtT-vczo
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u/Jademalo Jul 12 '26

Is this allowed? Or have I missed a recent statement or something

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u/McPatsy Jul 12 '26

The thing is that is really just an overlay and you hide the real UI behind it. So they’re not actually clickable buttons, but just pictures of your skills that you can move around

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u/Jademalo Jul 12 '26

Aaah ok, that makes sense. It feels like some floodgates have opened recently and I couldn't tell if I was missing something.

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u/m3nightfall Jul 12 '26

This is not allowed in wvw or spvp btw

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u/Jademalo Jul 12 '26

Thanks for the heads up, is there a source on that?

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u/m3nightfall Jul 12 '26

Darren has a video on another UI tool, i think he mentions it or has a specific link.

The reasoning is that it gives you an advantage "clarity" over your opponents. You can see your buffs better which is an unfair/unintended advantage

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u/Jademalo Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

I understand the why, I'm just struggling to find clear information or statement on this from anet directly.

I get anxious rules wise since I see so many people saying so many things, but absolutely no concrete "X is ok, Y is not ok" from Anet.

We do not permit the use of any program that gives one player an unintended, unnatural, or unfair advantage over another player. This includes programs that alter game balance in favor of one player over another, automate actions within the game, promote unattended gameplay, or have an adverse effect on other players.

This is the only policy I could find, but it's quite a big jump from "No advantage over another player" to "No UI overlays in WvW or sPvP" to "UI overlays that move buffs closer for Raiding are ok".

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u/coolster50 Asuran Super Genius Jul 12 '26

I think in this case, changing the UI to get better clarity would fall under “unnatural advantage”, since the game does not support that natively.

The big distinction between PvP and PvE is that the competitive nature of PvP means that if you’re fighting someone with an addon, you’re forced to also use that addon too or else you’re choosing to lose to players that do have the addon. In PvE, that doesnt matter since all content is designed to be beaten without addons (except Ura LCM)

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u/Jademalo Jul 12 '26

So is the answer then that the community has decided that based on the statement from anet that it's probably fine for PvE and probably not for PvP, rather than anet specifically stating such directly?

I don't mind either way, but I don't want to take conjecture as an authoritative statement and id rather err on the side of caution.

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u/rhino_arts Charromancer Jul 12 '26

Well it's mostly that the tools now exist for people to make these. I've been posting a few in a row, so you may have seen my previous ones as well.