kondou

kondou is a program that allows you to generate Guild Wars 2 build images (including traitlines and skills) with support for parsing and generating chat links as well, which allow you to link builds in-game.

Unlike the alternatives (see below), kondou is designed around non-interactive use, for example to batch-generate images to be included in offline guides or documents. kondou was written as a result of screenshotting and embedding gw2skills images.

Features

Finds skills and traitlines by name instead of ID.
Can parse and generate chat codes.

Building

The complete build process is managed by cargo, the standard Rust package manager. As such, cargo build --release will download all required dependencies and build kondou in target/release/kondou.

Usage

(See kondou --help for a list of all supported options)

Generate a build by specifying traits/skills by hand:

kondou Mesmer -s 'Signet of the Ether' -s 'Signet of Inspiration' -s 'Well of Action' -s 'Well of Senility' -s 'Time Warp' -t 'dueling:top:bot:top' -t 'inspiration:bot:mid:bot' -t 'chronomancer:mid:top:bot'

Generate a build by using a chat code:

kondou -c '[&DQcBHRc7KDYjDwAAgAEAAIcSAADPEgAAvAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=]'

Output:

Profession:    Mesmer
Skills:        Signet of the Ether
               Signet of Inspiration
               Well of Recall
               Well of Action
               Time Warp
Traitlines:    Dueling - top - bot - top
               Inspiration - bot - mid - bot
               Chronomancer - mid - top - bot

Chat code:     [&DQcBHRc7KDYjDwAAgAEAAIcSAADPEgAAvAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=]
Image saved in buildtemplate.png

Example image:

Example output image

You can change the output file location by using -o filename and you can suppress the output by using -q, in which case only the chat code will be printed (useful for usage in other scripts).

Alternatives

gw2skills has more features and allows you to test out different stat combinations, runes, sigils, ... in your armor/weapons as well. However, it is designed for interactive use, which makes it harder to use in an automated fashion.
armory-embeds are good for websites, but lack the feature to render a static image. Additionally, you have to use the skill/traitline IDs instead of the names, and you cannot use/generate chat codes.