Guild Wars 2

I am an MMO vet going back to EverQuest. I was playing SWTOR and wanted to try this game. One think I really did not like about SWTOR was that I had 38 key binds for skills, I was at first very intrested in the ultra basic keybinds of GW2. Now that I have played a while I find myself utterly frustrated by the inability to set up my rotation the way I want. I am testing a few toons out and trying many builds and weapon types to find what I enjoy because I can not move skills around I simply can not get into a grove with GW2 and build a solid rotation. In other MMO’s my binds 80% overlapped (i.e. Mouse 8 is gap closer, 9 is CC, etc.) so I could jump between toons and builds pretty seamlessly, I do not find that to be true here. So…

1. is there any way to re-order my skills WITHOUT REBINDING THE KEYS every time I swap toons or builds? Why you would allow this on one side of the skill bar but not the other is simply beyond me, but maybe I just missed an option?

2. For skills which have more than one more can I break them out into separate buttons. This is less impotant IMHO but Infiltrators Step and Shadow Return for example reallykitten me off with it’s attempt to mind read when I want to set my point vs when I want to return to it. I would personally like that on two separate binds.

I want to like the game but I have logged out at least 3 times saying F-this I’m done. That has never happened to me so early in a game.

so I guess i’m not missing anything… bummer.

It’s an odd choice not allow the moving of the abilities I agree. But the only real way around it is just rebind them. You might not have your ideal setup but considering the small amount of binds you learn em pretty quick. I wouldnt be surprised if this was changed in a patch down the road but then again there might be a good reason why it’s not allowed.

I would much prefer having certain skills on certain keys, I like that they have tied the skills to weapons, but it would be good if I could move the three main hand, or two off hand to a more comfortable place. It’s weird and frustrating but hang in there.

I’ve rebound everything that matters above “4.”

My “4” ability is now my ‘q’ key.
“5” ability is ‘e.’
“6” healing ability is “4.”
“7, 8, and 9” are on my mouse.
Elite skill is “r.”

Elaborating more, yes, you can “reorder” the skills by rebinding them. They won’t change in location, BUT the key you press to activate them changes, AND IT WILL CHANGE ON YOUR HUD, TOO!

For instance, under my healing skill, it says “4” instead of “6.”

So, your HUD keys will go 3, 4, 1, 5, 2, but you CAN reorder them in a sense…

Do you use Keybinds or prefer to just click. Maybe that’s whats frustrating to the OP. he might wanna align them in order of a “click” rotation. If that’s the case I guess I could see why you are so frustrated with this setup. But if you do still “click” this is a great game to learn keybinding considering the limited amount of button memory you need to be successful. Either way good luck and hope you don’t let it be your “killjoy”