Guild Wars 2

Im fairly new to gw2 and i was wondering how you control your person when in combat… do you use hold your mouse down and rotate the camara or do you use a,d to turn? im not sure what the best way is i feel the mouse is better and the a,d is slower

i was new to gw2 as well, and WASD in general. the last PC games i played (before some d3) was red alert and warcraft 2 lol. so it took some getting used to.

that being said, i prefer using the mouse. i feel A + D to turn is too slow, although some people actually prefer this. so like many, i’ve rebound strafe to A and D, and have Shift + A or D for keyboard turning if i need (mainly in jumping puzzles but even then, i rarely keyboard turn)

- Hold left mouse button is to just move your camera angle (good while running through WvW to keep an eye on your surroundings).
- Hold right mouse button to control your character’s camera, along with movement

also you can adjust the in-game and out-game mouse sensitivity to allow for faster turns.

just practice and see what feels best for you! : )))

I always press and hold the right mouse button down to make my turns. It is much faster and accurate after you get used to it. Once you know how to turn with the mouse well you can start advanced techniques such as circle strafing (Holding down the A or D turn key while at the same time holding the right mouse button down to keep focused on the target).

Mouse for me. Bonus is that it freezes your cursor in place, which if you use a targeted skill (e.g. grenades for an engineer) as long as you remember where your cursor was you have very consistent targeting.

fyi, (probably others will find this useful) I changed my key config.
To turn the character around, I use Q and E instead of A and D. I am accustomed to W-A-S-D movement type, so I am awkward at moving with Q-W-E-S

Basically, keyboard turn is the action of your character turning around and forcing the camera to follow your character
and
the mouse turn is to rotate the camera while the character stands still in their current position. They have different uses.
You can prove it in mining or chopping down a tree or reviving someone. If you use keyboard turn, the action will stop because the character turns around. In the other hand, if you use mouse, the action will still carried on while you look at the situation around you

simply said, the keyboard turn is slower but, when you press W, the camera will not rotate back (any action is canceled)
the mouse turn is faster but when you press W, the camera will rotate back to the direction your character is currently facing (any action is still carried on)

try, and you will understand
hope that helps
:D