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What you can do with an API key

API Key Usage Guide

At a glance

Find remaining achievements on the Wiki and inspect your materials and equipment on GW2Efficiency. Keys enable these personal data features; public guides and basic pathing also work without one.

Official GW2 Wiki: mastery points and achievements

Official GW2 Wiki
wiki.guildwars2.com

Pages with API support grey out completed achievements. Expand Optional: API settings in the page body, paste a key with progression permission, and select Apply.

Mastery point unlocks

At wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mastery_point_unlocks, review the mastery point achievements you have not completed. Open an achievement's page for its location and requirements.

Achievement pages

Achievement and collection pages that offer an API field can show progress or completion.

GW2Efficiency: view your account in one place

GW2Efficiency
gw2efficiency.com

Use a key to inspect equipment and inventories across characters, along with account storage and achievements.

  • Item search and account value: inspect character inventories, bank, and material storage, and estimate item values. The estimated account value includes bound items.
  • Crafting materials and estimated costs: use the crafting calculator with your owned materials to find shortages and estimate costs. Actual spending depends on prices, buying methods, and calculator settings.
  • Achievements and collections: review collection achievements, unlocked skins, mini collections, and more.
  • Character equipment and builds: inspect your characters' equipment and trait selections outside the game.
  • Daily crafting checks: the Daily section shows completion for daily crafting and exchanges exposed by the API.
  • Trading Post activity: check pending buy and sell orders and transaction history. Requires tradingpost permission.
Register your key through the top-level API Keys (gw2efficiency.com/user/api-keys) page. If data is slow to appear, check permissions and API status. API caching can delay changes made in-game.

gw2crafts.net: plan crafting levels

GW2Crafts
gw2crafts.net

Guides provide leveling paths based on Trading Post prices for specific disciplines and level ranges. With an API key, Get Bank Content can account for your owned materials and unlocked recipes.

  • Select a discipline and an available level range, then follow the shopping list and crafting sequence
  • Calculations use updated Trading Post prices, which may differ from prices when you place orders
  • No key is required for basic use. Accounting for owned materials needs inventories; unlocked recipes need unlocks

Whether starting a discipline or preparing for ascended crafting, choose a guide that covers your current level and target range.

Chef: check Gourmet Training at level 425
Gourmet Training becomes available at Chef 425. Its racial training branches grant crafting levels, and some steps require a higher Chef level.

Blish HUD: an in-game pathing overlay

Blish HUD
blishhud.com

Blish HUD is a community overlay program. Install modules to add pathing, timers, and other features. ArenaNet does not officially certify or approve individual third-party programs.

Setup: Blish HUD → Pathing module → marker packs

Blish HUD runs modules. Install the Pathing module to display trails and markers, then add the marker packs you want inside Pathing.

  • Blish HUD: the overlay framework, available at blishhud.com
  • Pathing module: the trail and marker module installed through Blish HUD's Module Repo
  • Marker packs: location and route data for Pathing, covering jumping puzzles, achievements, gathering, and more

Download packs from the marker pack repository inside Pathing. Manually downloaded .taco and .zip marker packs go into Pathing's designated pack folder without being extracted.

What marker packs can provide

  • Achievement and mastery point locations: display locations included in the pack. Markers with an API achievement condition can disappear after you complete that achievement.
  • Gathering and chest locations: follow the routes supplied by a pack. Hiding markers after a visit or interaction, and resetting them later, depend on the pack's settings.
  • Jumping puzzle routes: display a path through difficult jumping puzzles.
  • Guild mission routes: supported packs can show target locations. Meta event timers come from separate modules such as Events and Metas Observer.
Connect an API key
Add a key under Manage API Keys in the Blish HUD panel. Also grant the permissions requested when you enable a module. Pathing achievement integration needs progression permission and a pack that supports the relevant achievement conditions.
TacO is a separate overlay
Blish HUD's Pathing can read TacO-format marker packs. To follow this guide, use Blish HUD with Pathing.