Guild Wars 2

ok i want to clear this up if we can. GW2 is promoting their new keyboard, ok sure, but my question is if you sell me a keyboard for YOUR game with macros built in and use that idea as a promotion then does that mean that YOU are promoting the use of macros within YOUR game?
this is a copy/paste from GW2 site promoting the keyboard
“Our partners at SteelSeries, world-class creators of gaming peripherals, have made a specially designed gaming keyboard for Guild Wars 2 that is worthy of the most demanding MMO players.
The Guild Wars 2 Gaming Keyboard features a visually stunning design, vibrant red illumination, raised macro keys, a fully customizable keyboard, and more.”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

SteelSeries makes terrible peripherals anyway. Anet should have partnered with logitech.

IMO team up with razer : )

I love my Noppoo choc mini though I wish I had bought the one with brown mx switches instead of the red. SteelSeries makes great mice regardless.

Stop derailing this thread. The OP asked a simple question: Does GW2 support macro use due to their advertising of this new keyboard?

And I want to know also, have a G350 in the closet..

Anet allows macros that only execute 1 action. Good for mice not needed really for keyboards.

I want that keyboard… Oh wait, I don’t live in USA, never mind.

And no, you can’t use macros in GW. That is just a re-skinned keyboard with a GW theme. Those raised macro keys are there to be used anywhere else (just because is promoted by GW don’t mean it must be used exclusively with GW).

daimasei please, re-read what you wrote. ANet is endorsing this keyboard pointing out the macro support on their own site. That means they support macros.

Thanks Amstel, a link for your source and we’ll be golden.

Dunno where a particular link is but, if you have a mouse that goes beyond the windows 4&5 buttons (thumb buttons on a logitech gx) you’ll need to setup the rest of the buttons through macros. 1 press 1 action. Too bad that board isn’t mechanical though, unless I missed it in the specs.

Macro use in GW2 has been allowed since the beginning.

10 abilities and people need macro’s ?
We’re heading in a bad direction . . .

Im Mudbone, post a link outlining macro use please.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Policy-3rd-Party-Programs-Multi-Boxing-Macros/

Thank you Healix!

MeanPi.6025:

Im Mudbone, post a link outlining macro use please.

Here ya go; https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Policy-3rd-Party-Programs-Multi-Boxing-Macros/first#post1532762

edit beat me to it.

I’d like clarification on what they call “macro”.
And by clarification, i mean “staff answer”, not “player opinion” :p
As stated by many other players, assigning ONE key for ONE action to ONE button, it’s a hotkey, or a “layout redefinition”.
Doing a macro, it’as to have several keystroke and/or a script to do something.

So if i read their rules and they keep to use the word “macro”, it means i can attribute, for example, an autoit script ?
Little example, event if it’s useless, just for demonstration :
Macro to CTRL+SHIFT+1, call a autoit script that looks pixels in my health bublle, if it’s red, do nothing, if it’s “black”, need to heal, call keystroke(6) for heal skill?

But like uMod to replace TexMod, and a lot of other programs, they just keep “blur” on their definitions. That’s furstrating when we see the liberty on LotRO for example.

Im Mudbone.1437:

Macro use in GW2 has been allowed since the beginning.

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This means that if you program a macro, it must require one keystroke per action. You may not program a single key to perform multiple functions.
"

Not actually “macro” by definition then, one click/stroke = one action..

I could have sworn that assigning a single action to a keystroke is a/an ‘hotkey’.
And that a keyboard macro was multiple keystrokes assigned to a single key. (simplified)
So if Anet is promoting a keyboard for its game, and advertising the ability of using macros on said keyboard; can’t one infer that it is okay?
I wouldn’t know since I’m using a laptop and Mamba mouse. Not much room for macros with that setup. I was just curious how convoluted the issue is becoming because of advertising like this.

Infernia.9847:

I could have sworn that assigning a single action to a keystroke is a/an ‘hotkey’.
And that a keyboard macro was multiple keystrokes assigned to a single key. (simplified)
So if Anet is promoting a keyboard for its game, and advertising the ability of using macros on said keyboard; can’t one infer that it is okay?
I wouldn’t know since I’m using a laptop and Mamba mouse. Not much room for macros with that setup. I was just curious how convoluted the issue is becoming because of advertising like this.

Well, maybe the way it works with GW2 is that you assign the key for multiple functions but still requiring one press = 1 action. For example, playing a GS warrior, hitting the key once throws the sword (4), second time you hit it rushes (5), third time used hundred blades (2).

I do remember being able to do macros like that in WoW, as in, doing a single action but a different one each time I pressed the key (or in the case of my druid, different actions depending on which animal form I was using at the moment).

Despite saying that one keystroke per action is allowed (which includes striking the SAME key for different actions), it also specifies “You may not program a single key to perform multiple functions.” which is what happens if you program 4 different actions on 4 sequential strokes of the same one key. It’s confusing.

It seems clear, though, that normal key binding or remapping (terms they should be using) is safe. I’d stick with that.

One action…so making a macro that ‘Targets the called target and attack it’ isn’t allowed?

ThiBash.5634:

One action…so making a macro that ‘Targets the called target and attack it’ isn’t allowed?

Indeed, since those are two actions:
1) Press T
2) Attack

Link to the official stance on Macros:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Policy-3rd-Party-Programs-Multi-Boxing-Macros/first#post1532762

I still think that when Anet advertises a keyboard with macro capability, and endorses the keyboard on the site, it creates a real confusion within the community. (especially for new players that don’t think to check the specific TOS section/official statement on the forums dealing with macro use)

Hmm think about this… I own a supermarket and i say don’t you dare eat foodstuff in my supermarket at the same time i have foodstuffa up for sale…. I am endorsing the foodstuffs but at the same time not allowing you to eat them in my store…. Sue Me!