Guild Wars 2

What keybind setup do you use, and why do you use it?

I’m pretty curious because I know the bindings from my guildies differ from mine greatly, and profession choice/mouse can impact the binds significantly.

I use the one I’ll link in the image below.

I find that if I ever really need to move away from a fight, it’s quicker to turn around and run the distance or strafe diagonally backwards via camera movements instead of moving slowly backwards, so I don’t have walk backwards bound anymore. That leaves QWE as my movement (also, this is a much more comfortable resting position for my hand than AWD). Utilities right under movement so I can press them without needing to move my fingers off the movement keys (if necessary) and weapon skills on the regular 1-5 keys. Weaponswap on Tab for easy access. Heal on ~, since it’s used less frequently, but still in closer than hitting 6. Dodge close by on R, interact close by on F, Elite on G because it’s used very infrequently for most professions. F1 on my mouse forward button, because I generally play Necromancer, Thief, Warrior(I have the rest of the profession mechanic buttons still bound to F1-4, but I’d have to change up something if I wanted to play any of the professions that require them competitively).

My set-up is below.

I use the number pad in combat and because I’m left-handed I have my thumb on the arrow keys for movement. (I’m still experimenting with where to put a jump button to fit it into this set-up.)

I also have a G400 mouse with 3 extra buttons down the middle and 2 on the side, which I use for dodge, auto-run, F, inventory and as a right mouse toggle so I can move the camera without holding the button down.

The other side of the keyboard is used out of combat. I forgot to draw them in but I do still have A and D bound to turn left and right because I use them for positioning when taking screen shots.

My setup is similar to Sonic, except I moved the movement keys to SDF instead of QWE. this put my hand more centered, thus able to easily reach more keys.
mouse button 3 = weapon skill 1
QWER = weapon skills 2-5
mouse button 4 = dodge
ZXC = utility skills
1234 = profession skills
T = swap weapon
Shift = interact
tab = target next enemy
G = heal
A = elite

My personal key bindings:
Q – Heal
W – Left
E – Forward
R – Right
T – Use / Activate
A – Util 1
S – Util 2
D – Dodge
F – Util 3
G – Ultimate
Z – F1
X – F2
C – F3
V – F4
` – Swap weapon

No back to force myself to be a better player.

This setup makes all the important stuffs near one another.