Guild Wars 2

Pretty much in the thread title. I don’t know about everyone else, but I seriously miss the “auto-approach” feature GW1 had. I don’t mind WASD’ing around all day, but playing a Warrior, it gets kinda’ hectic constantly moving the camera, re-positioning the toon, strafing, dodging, using a skill while trying to strafe…etc. You all get it. It’d make life as the underdog a little bit better in PvE and PvP.

And to “Click-to-move”, It’s click-to-move. Why isn’t such a basic thing already in the game? I seriously thought my left clicker on my mouse was broken the first hour I was playing. Yes, it took me that long to figure that out.

I hope there’s some support behind this, as if you’re coming from GW1 like myself, these two small things make so much of a difference it’s unreal. While I get a nice work-out with ole’ lefty during my playtime, I frequently resort back to my old left-handed “tactics” ( pinky-index on 1, 2, 3, 4, thumb on “C” key or on Spacebar ) which, obviously doesn’t do much other than me whiffing on my skills. As far as the whole clicking gig goes, it’s easier ( for me ) to get out of AoE or anything really, instead of:

“OMG I’m going to die, getting hit by AoE and two other mobs aggroed! Time to run! OMGWTF! I can’t run through this dude because of that darn check-box feature I clicked and I’m still in AoE, okay, okay, I got this, time to hit W+D.”

And…this is usually the outcome of my poor example: "OhWTF? I quit for a few hours! I got out of the AoE, around the boss, then accidentally “dodged” back into it getting KD’d and died."

I know there’s been talks about more movement features mentioned, but I’ve yet to see either of these two specific…uh, topics (?) talked about. Anyways, I’m done. You may now call me different variations of “noob” and tell me I need to “L2P”.

Have fun.

Along with “Follow”, these are easily 3 of the top 5 things missed by GW1 players who move over to GW2. And this was brought up a lot during the beta and early days of GW2. So I’ll try to let you down easy. The “auto-navigation” type functions in GW1 caused a lot of problems for the devs, and they always wanted that functionality taken out of GW1. So this was not implemented in GW2, and with the more sophisticated map topography, it would certainly not be practical to put it back in. I’m with you – I really miss it, but it isn’t something that will be put back in. Maybe a dev will comment here and give us some of the technical reasons.

Hold R and L click same time to run forward.

Warrior is the underdog class in pve and spvp? Could have fooled my 4 warriors.

So your suggestions are for them to dumb down the controls which are already quite simplistic so you don’t have to learn how to not accidentally mash incorrect keys? You want to play with 1 hand it sounds like. The day someone can play this game with 1 hand…. Well that will just have meant they ruined all the skill-base for me and I will leave.

I suggest changing move/ strafe to wasd. Change 6-0 to shift+1-6. Change profession skills to q e r t. Change auto run to g. Put target next and target nearest on your mouse. Disable the checkbox that makes you run into mobs.

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

Hold R and L click same time to run forward.

Warrior is the underdog class in pve and spvp? Could have fooled my 4 warriors.

So your suggestions are for them to dumb down the controls which are already quite simplistic so you don’t have to learn how to not accidentally mash incorrect keys? You want to play with 1 hand it sounds like. The day someone can play this game with 1 hand…. Well that will just have meant they ruined all the skill-base for me and I will leave.

I suggest changing move/ strafe to wasd. Change 6-0 to shift+1-6. Change profession skills to q e r t. Change auto run to g. Put target next and target nearest on your mouse. Disable the checkbox that makes you run into mobs.

All in Bold.

1. No point in getting into that here. It’s my opinion as well as many others that Warrior is definitely the underdog in this game for sPvP. Please refer to those forums for all the reasons listed, then check out the one million QQ threads about them in the Warrior section. I personally try to stay away from such topics, and already regret inputting my comment about them in my original post. But Warrior’s are not nearly as good as their GW1 counterparts due to gameplay mechanics, skills, and the current Meta.

2. Not “dumb down the controls”. Implementing what was in the previous game. There’s a lot of things that the original Guild Wars did perfectly. With Guild Wars 2, they’ve reworked or completely done away with many, many things that doesn’t make sense. You know the whole “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it” thing.

3. You couldn’t just play with one hand as you say. You still had to strafe, move the camera, re-position, etc. I’m going to assume you didn’t play the original, otherwise you’d know that. Sure, didn’t have to so much in PvE other than getting out of AoE, but in Arenas, you most certainly did. It kept you close to your target.

Copestetic.5174:

1. No point in getting into that here. It’s my opinion as well as many others that Warrior is definitely the underdog in this game for sPvP. Please refer to those forums for all the reasons listed, then check out the one million QQ threads about them in the Warrior section. I personally try to stay away from such topics, and already regret inputting my comment about them in my original post. But Warrior’s are not nearly as good as their GW1 counterparts due to gameplay mechanics, skills, and the current Meta.

Fortunately or unfortunately a LOT of people play warrior, therefore there is a large percentage of bad warriors out there. A lot of young gamers seem to also like warrior, and don’t know or don’t care to know much about creating viable builds. These people complain a lot about things they know nothing about. Cleansing ire combo’d with quick breathing right now is so incredibly strong it’s ridiculous.

These warriors you talk so much about get themselves stuck in one opinion by trying to use bad spvp weapons like greatsword. But saying that warrior is not good in spvp is 100% wrong. In fact the daze stun mace shield hammer build is incredibly strong right now, gimmicky, but strong. Longbow is also crazy good.

i met some pretty terrifying warriors in pvp arenas.
that said, you’ll get used to how movement works here, and when you dodge you’ll learn to pay attention not to step inside another AoE, it’s kinda the tricky part of dodging, you just don’t dodge randomly in this game, it is a very important feature.

as the click to move, i’m glad it’s not there i hated it in gw1.