Guild Wars 2

Lets face it. Everyone that is not terrible at the game has rebound their keys to become more ergonomic (or is using gaming hardware). It’s terrible that this game was designed with movement controls and attack skills bound to one hand while only camera controls on another. Default controls need to change, or control schemes need to be introduced to the game. Here’s what I’m suggesting.

Original control scheme: Controls remain as they are to prevent people from crying that they liked the original controls (not probable but also not impossible). (movement/combat on keyboard, click-selecting targets and camera on the mouse)

Combat mode control scheme: Add an option to lock the camera in place, removing tab targeting, but instead instantly target opponents on the center of the screen (with a crosshair in the center). Introduce skill highlighting with the scroll wheel. (movement on the keyboard, camera and combat on the mouse)

• What I had in mind:
  W- forward
  S- back
  A- Strafe left
  D- Strafe right
  F1: Auto run
  Tab – Change weapon / Toggle attunement
  1-3 : Utility skills 7,89
  ZXCV: Profession skills
  R: Elite Skill
  Q: Call target
  E: Take target
  F: Interact
  R Ctrl: Finisher (I want a separate button to finish enemy players. Too many times have I tried to finish a player, but instead attempted to revive someone.)
  L Shift: Toggle lock-on target (the default control in game is to hold down the key, which doesn’t make sense)
  Space: Dodge Roll
  L Alt: Jump
  +- : Zoom in/out camera
  (underwater)
  Alt + W/S: Surface / descend
  Mouse 1 (left click) – Activate highlighted skill
  Mouse 2 (Right click) – Activates skill 1
  Mouse 3 (scrolling) – scrolls through skills 2-5. If the skill is ground targeted, display the target aoe when the skill is highlighted.
  Mouse 3 (click) – Activates skill 6
  Use interface controls are the same.

Point and click control scheme. Give players an option to move to areas via click of the mouse. Not putting much thought into this, but should still be an option for players to use.

Anyways tl;dr, Default controls are terrible from the start and schemes will give more flexibility to the game.

It’s a matter of preference. The default controls are, actually, pretty standard to games these days.

Default controls are almost fine for me, the only change I made was A and D to strafe instead of turn.