Guild Wars 2

What are the rules on keybinding software, like the ones that come with most Joysticks and other game controllers?
Or in general, is it fine to bind say a mouse scroll to a key using a simple script? I have heard differend opinions from differend people, so I’m sort of confused here.

I haven’t heard anything official but I think it depends on how much it automates the process.

They’re obviously fine with people using gaming mice that let you bind keys to the mouse buttons (or at least they’ve never said anything against it, and have done promotions with companies like Razer who specialise in that kind of thing).

But I’m not quite sure where the line is between that and botting. My logitech G400 is a fairly basic gaming mouse, but even that lets me bind a string of commands (complete with timings) to one button. If I wanted to I could program it to do some combination of attack, loot, find a new target, repeat and then all I’d need to do is find an area with plenty of enemies, set it going and I’d have myself a bot. (And not long after a banned account.)

But as a general rule I think if you’re binding one key to one mouse or joystick button then it shouldn’t be a problem at all.

Allright, what you said is also how I have understood it: depends on how much it automates. Personally I wouldn’t want to automate anything. I simply need more skills avaible directly from my mouse as my left hand doesn’t quite have the required dexterity. However, my mouse is a basic one with just 2 buttons and pressable mousewheel. So I thought that my mouse wheel could work as two buttons if I mapped a single to skill to “mouse wheel up” and other to “mouse wheel down”.