Nightfall version of The Edge, a GW utility

My brothers and I have just released a new version of The Edge (a guild wars utility - not a game add-in). We first released this program right before Prophecies and have had over 100,000 downloads. Here's a snippet from our website at:

http://renobrothers.waynereno.com/

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The Edge Nightfall, (with Factions and Prophecies) version 3.04 is a Guild Wars utility that lets you research many facets of the game. For the first time, ALL of the skills from all three campaigns are available. This means you can now see all of the Nightfall skills and their icons, PLUS, all the new skills and icons for the first six professions and the Ritualist and Assassin! The damage calculations in The Edge have been greatly enhanced in this release.

You can do sophisticated word-searches of all skill information, sort for the most useful skills, view damage and energy use per second and adjust your attributes, armor, weapons, energy and health settings to tweak, test and document your builds. You can easily use The Edge to find the locations of skills (including elites) so you'll always know which quests to do and which outposts have the skill trainers you'll need. If you want to be a great Guild Wars player, you need The Edge! For more information see the tutorial.
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Hope some of you find this utility of benefit. Believe me, a LOT of hard, voluntary work has gone into this program, including gathering all the skill and icon data during the preview events.

Zam

I refuse to download anything til there is proof from the community that its clean. If it is, I look forward to downloading it.

I was going to say, if you had checked their site it shows the download is hosted on GWO, so clearly it must be safe.

I will stick to Guildwiki for my skills info needs in the meantime

Yes, it pays to be cautious. That's why we have a fansite hosting it and don't allow downloads from any other source. The Edge has been used by lots of people for 1.5 years with no PC problems because there isn't any malicious code in it; again, if downloaded from that single source.

By the way, I use GW Wiki too for many things but it doesn't have comparative damage calculations, skill grouping via search features, or the tracking of which skills you do and don't have.

Zam

I wont download it simply because its on GWOnline..


I wonder how many MORE dl's that program would get if it was on Guru..

I'd estimate 3 or 4 times more at least

I'm sure it would help but we have a mutual arrangement with GWOnline that grants us access to their skill data, etc. and they provide the bandwidth for all the downloads. It works out pretty well for us and we've been with them since before the first release.

Zam

Looks better than GWFreak

i would get it but cant be bothered to register a new account on a site i have no interest in visiting just for a download that i may or may not use.. looks good aswell, oh well

Seems a bit premature to release something with Nightfall skills info since the skills in the pve preview are all subject to change. But then I was annoyed that they got added to the master lists on Wiki too.

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Honestly, are they ever going to change that? I mean login just to read the forums, whats up with that? That's one of the many reasons I never go on those forums...

QFT.

But they do it to save bandwidth most likely. Basically they won't want freeloader guests taking bandwidth.

Just a guess

I downloaded it and i like it. Nice job.

I highly recommend The Edge. It had been a while since I tried it, and I'm glad I tried it again.

Keep up the good work!

I believe the term you were looking for was "bloated membership"

Thanks for running this!

Thanks, wattsja. Glad you like it!

Baggy, it's good to hear you like the latest version. Go Siege Turtles!

As players, we wanted to start looking at all the new skills in preparation for the 27th. Of note, whenever ArenaNet updates skills, they are brought into The Edge as soon as possible. People that run the program are prompted to download the latest skill changes if they like. I'll tell you what though, it is a lot of work to not only bring in the new skill descriptions and then to manually go through each one to determine the impact on the damage calculations and make that update as well.

would you have a problem if someone hosted it on a mirror?

Thanks for asking. We've considered this in the past and decided that if we let it get away from our single control point, we can't assure folks the program is clean of malicious code.