I'm parsing the binary files...not an easy thing...pretty sure I had a series of micro strokes the other night trying to pickup on this stuff. So, here's what I know...all the item data is either in the gw2.dat or it's possible to force the server to send information for items you don't have. This i...

Has anyone, who is willing to share, discovered where to look for item details in the gw2.dat? I'm specifically looking for recipe info. I've been parsing the data...slowly...but with so many files a pointer would be much appreciated.

Yeah, what they said...it's almost identical to gw.dat format (http://www.guildwiki.org/User:Dr_ishmael/Gw.dat).

I built a proof of concept in PHP (http://dev.kantanker.us/lab/) and you can see my code at (http://dev.kantanker.us/lab/code.php).

Update: Code updated to better display strings