Suggestion: custom keybinds for classes

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Posted by: Darknicrofia.2604

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as title states, I would like to see this implemented as a feature/option, reason for this is simple: different classes have different playstyles and class mechanics – a warrior for example has only a F1 burst skill but quicker weapon swaps, an ele has 4 attunements on F1-F4 that might require constant swapping and would likely require a more accessible set of keybinds (be it changing to 1-4 or ASDF or w/e) and a guardian only has 3 virtues that some people might prefer to bind to the side mouse 1-3 key on a Razer mouse.

keeping a global account based set of keybinds makes playing a different character more of a hassle, I’d love to see the option for keybinds being separated by classes/characters.

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Posted by: Belzebu.3912

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I read some similar suggestion before, but instead of be profession bound, it simply be character bound, so the player may key-bind as he wants even if he has 2 of the same class but with different setups.
But, yeah, I’d love to save different key-bind for different characters.

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Posted by: NumenorLord.6539

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as title states, I would like to see this implemented as a feature/option, reason for this is simple: different classes have different playstyles and class mechanics – a warrior for example has only an F1 burst skill but quicker weapon swaps, an ele has 4 attunements on F1-F4 that might require constant swapping and would likely require a more accessible set of keybinds (be it changing to 1-4 or ASDF or w/e) and a guardian only has 3 virtues that some people might prefer to bind to the side mouse 1-3 key on a Razer mouse.

keeping a global account based set of keybinds makes playing a different character more of a hassle, I’d love to see the option for keybinds being separated by classes/characters.

You could go F11 and change the setup everytime you swap classes if it’s a big issue for you.

Another thing you could do is buying a gaming keyboard or gameboard where you can upload different preset and change them fast. I use the Logitech G13 but only change the presets when playing with Engi, Mesmer or Ele because of the F4. You could check that out.

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Posted by: Vavume.8065

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I’ve wanted this from day one, I played SWTOR before GW2 came out and it had the option to keybind per character, so when I started playing this I was disappointed from the start.

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Posted by: ArchonWing.9480

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Soulbound keybinds and Account Bound Keybinds would be amazing, I’d say.

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

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I’d be in favour of it as long as it was an option you could turn on or off.

I can completely understand why some people want it but I’m the opposite. My other MMO (Elder Scrolls Online) has character specific keybindings and one of the first addons I downloaded was one that allowed me to instantly copy the keybindings to each character because it was by far my least favourite part of making a new one. (Or switching to one I hadn’t used in a while.)

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Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781

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You could go F11 and change the setup everytime you swap classes if it’s a big issue for you.

Another thing you could do is buying a gaming keyboard or gameboard where you can upload different preset and change them fast. I use the Logitech G13 but only change the presets when playing with Engi, Mesmer or Ele because of the F4. You could check that out.

Your solution is to change keyboards or remap every key every time you swap characters? Even the G13 only memorizes a few mappings at a time and it’s sometimes touchy about loading them accurately.

At best, those amount to kludgy workarounds to the stated issue. This is a problem that would be better dealt with from inside the game, even if I’m not holding my breath that ANet will implement it before 2020 (heck, they don’t even allow us to save our current settings, never mind save multiple profiles).

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Posted by: ArchonWing.9480

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I’d be in favour of it as long as it was an option you could turn on or off.

I can completely understand why some people want it but I’m the opposite. My other MMO (Elder Scrolls Online) has character specific keybindings and one of the first addons I downloaded was one that allowed me to instantly copy the keybindings to each character because it was by far my least favourite part of making a new one. (Or switching to one I hadn’t used in a while.)

Well, it’s why I suggested a “account bound” (global selection), and a “soulbound” (individual character) selection. What I would want is that you could set a global keybind that becomes the default for all characters and then be able to customize it per character. That way if you have no intent of making it different for your characters, it doesn’t affect you.

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Posted by: knh.9378

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pretty ridiculous that this isnt in the game. i will not spend my time constantly rebinding keys for other characters, therefore i wont be playing other characters, which makes the game boring for me.

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Posted by: roachsrealm.9284

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the only time I wish I had a separate key bind set was for the engineer. everyone else is pretty basic when it comes to F skills (save ele, but even then you aren’t hitting those constantly, and they are just attunement swaps.) only on engi do you run the gamut of skill types in your F skills. (GTAoE, Heal, Melee Attacks, Ranged Attacks, etc)

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