How to setup keyboard?

How to setup keyboard?

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Posted by: Justin.5231

Justin.5231

I use Mesmer, new player, level 6.
I have laptop with NUM keys and a normal mouse.

Right now, I have it set to basically walk with WASD,

Turn the camera with the right arrow, and enter button on the NUM pad.

Then use my num pad for abilities.

(Basically I don’t use my mouse at all.)

BUT I just unlocked the Blink ability, requiring me to use my mouse. And I don’t understand how to do this fast if I’m in a big fight…
I feel overwhelmed with the need to have 2 hands on the keyboard AND use the mouse at the same time… (I don’t have 3 hands lol).

Does anyone know of a pretty good setup, or maybe especially for a mesmer with blink?

How to setup keyboard?

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Posted by: Justin.5231

Justin.5231

(Note: My laptop also has the numbers above the normal letters and under the F keys.)

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Posted by: Killing Joke.4371

Killing Joke.4371

There are probably people better equipped to answer this, though I will tell you my basics minus some fancy mouse buttons i have.

Firstly hold down right mouse button at almost all times, this allows you to camera navigate with the mouse and changes wasd into strafe instead of turn.

Secondly using this method you can use your left hand to punch in skill commands using the number keys above your movement controls, though maybe that just works for me.

Thirdly bind q and e and any other keys close to your movement keys (c, r, x etc) to important skill slots (I’d use skills 7, 8, 9 or 0 as they are hardest to hit using this method, or even heal as its very important)

Fourthly I use middle mouse button as heal, though this depends on your mouse, some have sticky buttons, mine is very responsive. In any case don’t forget about it as an easy to use button you can bind.

These are some simple ideas I hope they help.

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Posted by: kokocabana.8153

kokocabana.8153

There are probably people better equipped to answer this, though I will tell you my basics minus some fancy mouse buttons i have.

Firstly hold down right mouse button at almost all times, this allows you to camera navigate with the mouse and changes wasd into strafe instead of turn.

Secondly using this method you can use your left hand to punch in skill commands using the number keys above your movement controls, though maybe that just works for me.

Thirdly bind q and e and any other keys close to your movement keys (c, r, x etc) to important skill slots (I’d use skills 7, 8, 9 or 0 as they are hardest to hit using this method, or even heal as its very important)

Fourthly I use middle mouse button as heal, though this depends on your mouse, some have sticky buttons, mine is very responsive. In any case don’t forget about it as an easy to use button you can bind.

These are some simple ideas I hope they help.

This is what I generally do too. Rebind the A and D key from turning to strafing like when you are playing a shooter. I rebound all keys around wasd to my skill slots starting from left to right is (1,q,e,r,2), healing(g), utility slots(mouse thumb buttons and mousewheel), elite(shift+R). I only play an engineer so we have toolbelt skills but every class has some sort of other f1-f4 skills which I bound as (z,x,c,v). For AOE, enable fast ground targetting so you can just fire off the skill at wherever your mouse is.