Guild Wars 2

What’s everyone’s opinion on its current state, and how would you like it to be?

Right now left clicking allows looking around but your turning is exclusively controlled by that sloth like keyboard turning. While right clicking allows you to whip around as long as you are moving forward.

Why not at least allow right clicking to turn your character without very slight forward movements? Why not give an option where the mouse would normally turn your character and only upon holding LMB would the cursor appear and you could release it over something to click it. ( you could still click things by aiming the middle of the screen at them.) This would just be an option for people who preferred this playstyle. (EDIT: That just sounds wonky in retrospect.)

Something needs to be done I think to help make action oriented mobile combat even easier to manage. Right now you can whip around but only be pressing W while hold the RMB and looking around. At least remove the necessity of holding W to turn your character as well as camera while holding RMB.

You could also switch LMB and RMB out if you wanted. Or how about in the keybind tab, you could have a drop down menu on each action that allowed you to tie it to mouse movement (if it was feasible) so you could tie “Turn Right” and “Turn Left” to your mouse movement. I think double clicking a target should activate ability 2 as well. So you can have your first two abilities on your primary mouse buttons.

I’ve got a lot floating around in my head right now, and I think my first solution is enough because LMB already turns camera without affecting your character. RMB should allow you to turn your character with out moving foward.

Give me y’alls thoughts.

Right click does allow your character to turn. Stand still, right click, whip your mouse, then tap w and look at what dirrection your character is now facing. It turns your orientation without actively turning the character untill your character moves.

That’s just it. I wanted right click to turn camera and character without pressing W. Left click already just looks around. Why have RMB do that at all?

Shadow, right click DOES turn your character, it just isn’t a physical representation.
Hold right click while strafing and turning to keep people in view. Use it for fast turns while moving or not moving.

While running and wanting to stay movign in that direction, use left click to pan around you and keep your head on a swivel in wvw while continuing to your destination.

Hence why you have both.

Well then I guess I’m saying I’d appreciate some physical representation. It still seems to me though that since you have to press W to then see you character flip and head in that direction you have to step forward a tiny bit. Is that just me? Can you truly rotate in place? I guess it’s not really a hindrance, it simply feels just a little funny.

And I’d still like to flip LMB and RMB out. And double right click a target to use ability 2.