Hey all, I know I don’t post here often - I wanted to reach out and invite the Guild Wars 2 tumblr community to Sparkfly.gg - a companion web app intended to make fishing in Guild Wars 2 more convenient. This has been a personal project of mine for a bit over a month now.
Designed to be used side-by-side with Guild Wars 2, its primary target audience is people looking to complete fishing collections, whether for unlocking the fishing meta-achievements, or simply for fun and profit.
Its features include:
The ability to pull personal achievement progress from the Guild Wars 2 API
View collected and remaining fish with a variety of optional filters
An achievement-style main panel, with fish tooltips that mimic the in-game collection help details
Pin different regions for quick access/region switching
Regional help details, including recommended waypoints for fishing holes and supplies
Wiki links and click-to-copy in-game links for quick waypoint navigation
If you have any recommendations or bug reports, feel free to send them my way!
Special thanks and credit to @leafofkudzu for both all of the graphics, images, and screenshots - as well as the tons of time she’s spent testing, and giving me feedback and feature recommendations.
I’m a little late on my tumblr announcement for the site, but I did want to include the new details that I’m working on the updates version 1.2, including a notification system that can be configured to alert you ahead of in-game time changes. These notifications can now be previewed at our test site: test.sparkfly.gg (YMMV: expect bugs and other problems)
Lastly, there are plenty of other, older fishing resources out there. They all do things differently, and in case you like them better than what we have, you should check them out too!:
FishingBuddy (for those who use BlishHUD)
Ferthi’s GW2 Fishing Spreadsheet
Peu Research Center’s Fishing Page
theartofmadeline
germansingergirl
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