Guild Wars 2

Hi,
I just turned from a clicker to a keyboard user and have some questions.

1) Left click mouse turn the camera and my character stand still facing the same direction . If I hold the left mouse and click the right mouse button my character turns to the direction I’m looking and starts running that way.
Now the same happens when I click the right mouse button (the camera turns, my character stays still), hold the richt mouse button and click and hold the left mouse buttom my character starts running the way my camera is facing at.
Is that normal ?
2) Circle strafing : I use the strafe left keybind while holding left-and right mouse button. Right?

Tx in advance

1. Hmm, I do the reverse. I hold right click to look around. Assuming I understand your second point, I’d then tap the left mouse button once to turn my character that way, though I usually just use WASD to take off at that point.

2. Actually, the way I do it is using the turn keys (A and D) while holding the mouse button down. Then if you need to do a quick evade in that direction you can just double tap what you are already holding. Assuming you didn’t turn it off because you consider it ‘suicide mode’ in jumping puzzles. I heard that one the other day, thought it was funny.

I still like to have the target on for area effects, but tapping once gives you the target, and tapping a second time fires the spell off, so a double tap on any area number gets it off quick if you know where your mouse is. If you don’t, as in the middle of circle strafing, you can hit it once, and if it’s too close or far from you, you can just tilt the mouse up or down before pressing the attack button again to get it where you want it.

I still use WASD to move and I still find a use for Q and E as strafe in some situations, mostly because I’m so used to it. I know there are folks that used protractors and an old HP 12 calculator their grandpa had around to figure out they could save 0.0000325 seconds by remapping lots of the movement keys, but I don’t enjoy that myself.

I just added a few to get quicker access to 6-10 without having to move my left hand, using some alt- shift- combinations.

But I have no sPvP accolades or Call of Modern Monkey Commander NASCAR 5000 achievements, so take that all with a grain of salt.

1:
Left mouse button: Look, but don’t turn.
Right mouse button: Look, and turn if moving or using a skill.
Both buttons together: Move forward in the direction you’re looking.

2:
That works. Or you can press the strafe and forward (ie, A/D and W) while holding down the right mouse button for the same effect. Doesn’t matter which. Technically you don’t even need to hold forward, though pure strafing is slower than diagonal forward strafing. Hell, back in WoW I held strafe, back, and both mouse buttons: the mouse controlled the camera, and holding back and mouse-forward at the same time negated each other, but I could lift up one finger or the other to move forward and backwards. It worked for me back then, so why not?

Just don’t turn with your keyboard. That’s all.

All you have to do is hold down the right mouse button to angle your character towards the enemy- Holding left mouse button is not needed. Strafing is kind of annoying in this game compared to other games, in my opinion. Some games I have played your character has a 180 degree and strafing is super easy. In Guild Wars 2 you have to turn your character more and keep the enemy in line, or you’re not going to be doing anything.

notebene.3190:

1. Hmm, I do the reverse. I hold right click to look around. Assuming I understand your second point, I’d then tap the left mouse button once to turn my character that way, though I usually just use WASD to take off at that point.

2. Actually, the way I do it is using the turn keys (A and D) while holding the mouse button down. Then if you need to do a quick evade in that direction you can just double tap what you are already holding. Assuming you didn’t turn it off because you consider it ‘suicide mode’ in jumping puzzles. I heard that one the other day, thought it was funny.

I still like to have the target on for area effects, but tapping once gives you the target, and tapping a second time fires the spell off, so a double tap on any area number gets it off quick if you know where your mouse is. If you don’t, as in the middle of circle strafing, you can hit it once, and if it’s too close or far from you, you can just tilt the mouse up or down before pressing the attack button again to get it where you want it.

I still use WASD to move and I still find a use for Q and E as strafe in some situations, mostly because I’m so used to it. I know there are folks that used protractors and an old HP 12 calculator their grandpa had around to figure out they could save 0.0000325 seconds by remapping lots of the movement keys, but I don’t enjoy that myself.

I just added a few to get quicker access to 6-10 without having to move my left hand, using some alt- shift- combinations.

But I have no sPvP accolades or Call of Modern Monkey Commander NASCAR 5000 achievements, so take that all with a grain of salt.

wait, alt-shift-combinations? Can you map skills to multiple keys? (I’d try it but I’ve had my share of GW2 for the day).

Kusiobache.7203:

wait, alt-shift-combinations? Can you map skills to multiple keys? (I’d try it but I’ve had my share of GW2 for the day).

yes. my heal is shift+q.

Awesome.6120:

Kusiobache.7203:

wait, alt-shift-combinations? Can you map skills to multiple keys? (I’d try it but I’ve had my share of GW2 for the day).

yes. my heal is shift+q.

My problems are solved! Thank you.