Guild Wars 2

I don’t like to click on UI elements on the screen in combat.. is there a keybind to use countermagic (if not there should be one)? How does it work for people who use action camera?

There is a keybind for it. Special action or something. Not sure about the action camera.

I don’t know personally on action camera but I’d assume it would work just fine with that enabled as it’s two different things. As long as you can see the special action box pop up on your UI, and have bound Special Action to a key of your choice, you just tap that key when you see the box.

I will be more than a little miffed if they ever put in a mechanic where tapping Special Action does bad things to you, given how hard it is to see the box in the middle of combat and how fast you have to tap the key when you do see the box. We’re being trained to tap it without thinking, so it had better continue to be beneficial to do so.

I don’t mind it having different effects — eg so far I believe the two main uses I’ve seen in the open world is to avoid major damage/knockdown or to gain a ton of dps or even a spare set of banner-like skills. One just saves you, the other makes you more effective against the boss. And it’s worth learning what to do during your more effective window. But if ever it wrecks you to tap it, that’ll ruin a lot of reflexes as people have to stop and think if it’s safe to tap, by which time the box is gone.

The default keybind is “-” and it can be rebound under F11> Control Options > Skills > Special Action. I

I went into option and rebound my ‘special action’ to shift+R. It works great so far.
Also I use action camera, and no problems at all with using counter magic.

Maybe I’ll post my keybinds in case anyone wants to try it. These are keybinds I settled on after spending the first GW2 beta weekend playing around with how it feels.

E-forward
S-Strafe left
D-backward
F-strafe right

1,2,3,4,5 – Profession mechanic skills

Z,A,Q,W,R – Weapon skills

V – Healing

C,T,Shift+C – Utility skills
Shift+T – Elite

G – Interact

Shift+R – Special Action

Astra Lux.2846:

The default keybind is “-” and it can be rebound under F11> Control Options > Skills > Special Action. I

Quoting for truth since I assume quite a few people will have an issue with this.