Guild Wars 2

Is it ok to program a macro to your mouse/keyboard to enable mouse look? What I’m basically asking is if programming a macro so as one button strike holds down right mouse and another strike releases right mouse, effectively enabling mouse look, would lead to a ban.

By extension, would binding an action skill, for example auto attack, to right mouse lead to a ban?

And, an unrelated-ish question, would binding engineer’s grenade kit auto attack to a macro that hits your “1” key twice a second as long as you keep the button pressed, effectively making engi’s grenade kit’s “1” work like a real AUTO attack, lead to a ban?

Is this information not readily accessible? People come here and ask about macros like once a week, and it’s the same answer every time. The rule of thumb:

Mapping one keypress to more than one action is forbidden.

Do with that information what you will. Personally, I just play the game as is. Also, you’re probably not going to get banned for anything you don’t get reported for…

The first question: binding a mouse click to a keyboard key – no, i dont see any reason this would get you a ban.

the second – grey area. It would effectively be binding multiple keystrokes to one key, however I’ve not heard of people getting banned for macro spamming <loot key> in WvW. But for a combat skill, it may be deemed an unfair advantage by anet.

Andred.1087:

Is this information not readily accessible? People come here and ask about macros like once a week, and it’s the same answer every time. The rule of thumb:

Mapping one keypress to more than one action is forbidden.

Do with that information what you will. Personally, I just play the game as is. Also, you’re probably not going to get banned for anything you don’t get reported for…

Yeah I did know that 1 key=1 action. But it doesn’t say anything about holding a key for you.

Also, of course I did a research before posting, but I didn’t find an answer to my exact same question otherwise I wouldn’t ask.

So… HOLDING a key for you is ok then?

Hmm. I misread your post a bit, but my answer to the first still stands. I don’t think that would be a problem at all.

I know a lot of people who use a macro to hold down ctrl for chest hunting in silverwastes. Its purely a convenience thing rather than an unfair advantage.

As for readily available info.. it would help if the SEARCH WORKED. <— but i think anet may be wanting to change forum software to one with a working search function. In the mean time http://www.google.com/advanced_search With site/domain set to https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu works out ok.

Yeah, by the rule of “1 key stroke per action” you macro #1 looks fine, but the macro #2 would break the rule.

If this doesn’t give you a real advantage over other player I don’t think this will be a problem.
If all you want to do is play an grenade-engi in pve without breaking your fingers, I don’t think anyone would ever ban you for that.

On the other hand, Anet won’t make any definite statements like YES or NO. So all you do you do on your own risk. But as long as you use common sense, you should be fine.

Yeah the issue I have with the “getting an advantage over other player” is that it’s quite a broad rule. For instance, my mouse had 2 thumb buttons, and I used them for 8 and 9 utility skills. This already could be meant as an advantage over other players, since I have 2 more easily accessible buttons. Having toggle mouse 2 bound to a keyboard press would free up a mouse button, giving me one more button over players that only use a classic 2 buttons+mouse wheel mouse. And what about players having a real gaming mouse? Should they be banned just upon logging in with said mouse connected to their pc? And what about people with faster connections, better computers, bigger screens and so on? It’s quite a wide definition to make a judgement call that could potentially kill an account with hundreds of hours in.

The second question I was asking myself before trying out said “mouse look” macro toggle is: if the developers didn’t add a mouse look toggle in almost 3 years maybe they don’t want players to use said toggle for some reason.

My problem is, I had to buy a new mouse and it’s quite lightweight and small. Playing with holding mouse 2 all the time is very uncomfortable and really prevents me from moving the mouse with accuracy, so I thought about getting a program to macro mouse 2 hold to avoid such inconvenience.

This isn’t a definitive answer but I’ve been using a mouse-look macro and posting about it on the forum for quite a while and I haven’t been banned.

I don’t know if this is important but because mine is just a simple script in the Logitech Gaming Software it works exactly like I have the mouse button held down – the cursor disappears and I can’t use it, there’s no cross hair or anything – so definitely no advantage over other players, except I don’t get a sore finger when playing.

I have to admit I do find it extremely useful though. To the point where I use it in most RPGs with a similar camera system, when I got Dragon Age Inquisition it was the first keybinding I added.