Guild Wars 2

What hand do you use for what control in-game?
I use left hand for 123 etc, for skills. WASD for movement, and some other assigned QEZC for additional skills. I use right hand for mouse, to look around as I move.
It feels extremely weird for me?! I’m using my left hand for three things, while my right hand just barely rotates the mouse…?
What do you guys use? Like instead of clicking 123 for skills, do you use mouse to click on the skills or something??

left hand
w- forward
a- strafe left
s – backwards
d – strafe right
q – heal
e – utility skill 3
v – dodge
space – jump
1-5 – weapon skills
f1-f4 – class skills

right hand
mouse movement – camera
right click – target
hold left click – camera cntrol
zoom in/out – camera zoom
m3 (mouse wheel press) – tab target
m4 (side button) – utility skill 1
m5 (another side button)- utility skill 2
trying to work out what i could bind to my horizontal scroll wheel; but cant think of anything… need an easy to access auto run; but cant think of one either

This is a personal question.

Kidding.

Im an oddball here:

Mouse 1 + 2 = move forward
Mouse 5(side button) = auto run

Z = Straff left
X = Straff right
Space = Jump
Alt = backpedal(although I dont think you can assign alt in this game?)

1-6 are defaulted.
7 = Q
8 = W
9 = E
10 = 10

I use the mouse only for aiming and moving forward.
The rest is done with the left hand…lefty I call him.

Let me point out that if you are a new gamer, or new to this type of game, most people use the generic WASD setup. Google it.

W for forward
A for straff left
D for straff right
S for backpedal.

Also, people buy gaming pads that have a ton of keys within reach of all fingers, so you dont need to move often.

Left for 1,2,3, R, F1 … Right for arrow keys and mouse. Mapped right ctrl and keypad 0 for staffing.

Left hand handles
WASD – forward, strafe left, back, strafe right
2,3
Q – heal
F1-4 → zxce – these can be activated either by the fingers above them or the thumb

1 – mouse
4,5 – mouse + keyboard
7 – mouse
8 – mouse/mouse+keyboard
9 – mouse+keyboard
0 – alt+e

and the mouse is still use for turning and the rest should be mostly defaults

Lefthand for the keyboard – F1-F4, WASD, Shift (talk/action), ctrl (show enemies,etc), C (stow weapons), Space (jump)

Righthand on gaming mouse – right mouse (control direction), assignable buttons 1-12 (weapon skills, utilities and elite) middle mouse button (heal)

Using the mouse took a bit of getting used to but now I would not be without it.

My set-up is pretty much the same as the OP’s except I’m left handed. And I have a few extra mouse buttons to play with.

In combat I have my right hand on the number pad where I’ve mapped my skills, with F1-4 across the top row, dodge and weapon swap on the two side buttons (enter and +) and closest enemy on the decimal point button. I also use my thumb on the arrow keys to strafe or dodge sometimes. My left hand is on the mouse for camera and character movement, but I also have dodge bound to one mouse button and F to another.

Out of combat I still use my left hand on the mouse to move (with auto-run mapped to a mouse button) but I have my right hand either on ctrl+alt for exploring or shifting around between the number keys (for very short battles/speed boosts etc.), WASD and \ Z X C and V where I’ve bound jump, about face, dodge, stow weapon and toggle town clothes (in that order).

It does seem odd in a sense to have one hand doing more than another (especially with me where it’s my less coordinated hand doing most things) but when you think about it the movement/action split makes sense. Movement is a fairly continuous thing in this game, unless you’re at the bank or crafting or something you’re either moving or may need to start at any time. Whereas you’re usually only performing one action at a time. So it makes sense to devote one hand to movement and do everything else with the other one.

I have a razer mouse now and more buttons on my mouse hand than I know what to do with now. Like most gamers, I used WASD for movement and it’s easy for me to hit numbers 1-4 for attacks but after that, my small hands stop working so well.

Therefore before my fancy mouse, I would shift my most used skill to the mouse-wheel-downpress (usually a heal or in GW2, perhaps that would be dodge). I would then bind SHIFT-mousewheel-up, SHIFT-mousewheel-press and SHIFT-mousewheel-down to skills I used frequently and needed to reach without excessive strain.

That pretty much covered me for most games, since I now had four skills bound to my basic mouse, freeing my left hand up a bit and kept my finger keyreach to something I could manage.

I’ve got a Razer Naga expert mmo gaming mouse, so i use all the skills and stuff with my mouse. It has 17 buttons, moving ofc i use my left one on W,S,A,D

I do recommend the Razer Naga mouse

Once you go naga, you’ll never go back to regular boring mouses xD

Undertaker.2731:

I’ve got a Razer Naga expert mmo gaming mouse, so i use all the skills and stuff with my mouse. It has 17 buttons, moving ofc i use my left one on W,S,A,D

I do recommend the Razer Naga mouse

Once you go naga, you’ll never go back to regular boring mouses xD

Got a naga hex recently because my old mouse was not really clicking anymore(the clicker has been worn down, there is a 2mm gouge on it :P). I actually prefer the old mouse(Logitech MX310) over the naga hex.

What changed the way I play was when I discovered I could map the “back” button (the thumb one) on my mouse to “shift”. Once done, you can map several keys on your left to have different results if shift is pressed. That solved the whole “those F1-F4 buttons are hard to reach” problem for me.

Left hand:
WASD – movement
123QE – weapon skills
ZXC – utility skills
F1-F4 – class skills (I guess it helps I have big hands, I don’t have a problem reaching them without taking the hand off the keyboard)

Left Hand:
mouse (right click to look, left click to interact)
two extra buttons on mouse mapped to heal and elite skill.

Khisanth.2948:

Undertaker.2731:

I’ve got a Razer Naga expert mmo gaming mouse, so i use all the skills and stuff with my mouse. It has 17 buttons, moving ofc i use my left one on W,S,A,D

I do recommend the Razer Naga mouse

Once you go naga, you’ll never go back to regular boring mouses xD

Got a naga hex recently because my old mouse was not really clicking anymore(the clicker has been worn down, there is a 2mm gouge on it :P). I actually prefer the old mouse(Logitech MX310) over the naga hex.

I don’t really like the Hex, the way the buttons are put on the side of it just makes it a bit harder to get to them, while on the original normal naga you can get to 9 of the 12 buttons that on its side. This is my first gaming mouse tbh, before this i had a boring normal 2 clicker + wheel logitech mouse so i’m just loving the naga and its made m play better the game

Razer Naga mouse with all movement keys on the mouse only. (dodge is the middle mouse button with fwd and strafe l/r conveniently under the thumb)

Keyboard is remapped for minimum hand movement in combat (pinkie stays anchored to ‘1’ at all times) Fingers use 1,2,3,4,5 and Q,W,E,R plus the function keys. Thumb is used on D,F,C,V and spacebar.

Also bought a triple footswitch for easier tab-targeting and picking up those loot bags in WvW.

I’ve got a Razer Naga too. I’ve pretty much kept all of the keys at default except for weapon swapping. I assigned that to one of the buttons below the mouse wheel. (can’t remember what number button that’s considered. lol).

I even stuck with double-tapping for dodges (I know, I’m weird).

I use WSAD for movement, And the number pad on the right of keyboard mapped out for all my skills.

Mouse is used for normal stuff