Guild Wars 2

First off let me say I’m not a console guy. Last console I bought was a Gamecube back in 2002. But I am a geek and want to try this out.

I have seen some videos of people playing with a controller. It kind of interest me to stream to my tv and play on the coach. Any one try this and if so what did you use to do it? How do you like it? What can’t you do with a controller?

I played exclusively with a controller for the first 2 months after release. I used an Xbox 360 controller and Xpadder for mapping.

Overall it’s pretty easy. This game is almost simple enough in combat to use a controller. Movement was fluid, combat was easy, and depending on your skills you could have a very good experience roaming maps and exploring.

Some points of trouble that caused me to stop doing this:

Ground targeted skills are problematic at best.
Using menus and dialogue interfaces took a lot of extra time.
Finding somewhere to assign the “swim down” button was convoluted.
It was impossible to use chat.
Swapping utilities took extra time.
Jumping Puzzles and other content requiring precision movement were a challenge.

Using a controller you really need like, 3 controllers in one (which you can do using Xpadder) by making the left and right trigger buttons, when held, change the functions of all the other buttons, since you have to cover 10 skill slots, 5 directions of movement, jumping, dodging, and looting. You also need a mode to open menus (same mode that changes camera control to mouse cursor control.)

It’s a lot more trouble than it’s worth. If you just want to farm events in silverwastes or orr and not worry about moving your camera around too much, a controller will work. For anything where you need to react to changes quickly, it will only be a burden.

Thanks for the info! Ya feel if there was a mmo you could play with controller it would be gw2.

I dont have any of those issues most people have playing on an xbox controller. In fact I play better with a control.

Here is a video of me playing all the classes including revanant on xbox controller:

once you get used to it its really confy to play with controller, most ppl prefer gaming mouses though (those with 12+ buttoms)

I use a 360 controller I’ve got about 4500hrs I speed run dungeons do fractal 50s and spvp and have about kitten win rate and win 7/10 1v1s I’ve even commanded in wvw some but the typing part is a pain, however I do use a wireless KB and mouse for menus. For the camera issues i just bound right click to left trigger and just hold it down most of the time about ground targeting it can take some getting used to but I play engi a lot so i got a lot of practice what i do is kinda aim with the camera it’s hard to explain.

Is there a way to do it with anti micro? I have no way to buy xpadder.