Hi gw2-community,
I searched for a possibility to make this request and decided maybe this would be a good place to start. It’s a very light request compared to the amount of anger regarding locked traits and intruduced grinding mechanisms but it’s something that is – at least for me – as important as the other stuff.
To the point. I’m using the crafting system and the mystic forge rather often in my daily quest for loot and better equipment. As someone who uses a graphic tablet instead of a mouse since my hand already hurts whenever I touch a mouse from working in IT and playing games on PC since I was a child I’m not thrilled by the amount of “double clicks” the game forces me to do. Whenever I try to discover things as a cook or combine items to get bonus experience, or when I put loads of green items in the mystic forge to get a yellow item – there are several hundred double clicks I have to do to finish my tasks. I’m glad my tablet pen has buttons that I can program with “double click”, but I’m concerned this issue affects everyone using a mouse to play gw2.
I just want to indicate that, in terms of medical conditions, this will do severe damage to your hand in a long run. I’d be glad to looking forward to a system that reduces the amount of unecessary clicking.
Sorry if there are any spelling/grammar errors since this isn’t my native language. :(
Other occasions where clicking overkill occurs:
- Selling crafting items to the trading post (like when you want to sell >20 different items and you have to open the sell settings menu for each of them)
- Opening bags, Using Essences of luck, Consumable Items in general
- Using salvage kits can be a chore sometimes with the overload of blue/green items you get nowadays
I hope this request is heard by the developers as it affects us every day we’re playing and can lead us to carpal tunnel syndrome and other permanent damages to our hands.