As the title says, I wish to know how you activate your slot skills. Is it by simply clicking on them or have you bound them to certain buttons or perhaps use futuristic methods?
I am asking this question because I’m still activating them with my mouse, which turns out to be highly insufficient due to loss of time. And that, as we all know, is a huge deal when fighting tough enemies.
edit: I now realise the correct word is ‘which’ instead of ‘what’ (I’m referring to the title) >.<
Weapon skills:1-5
Healing:Q
Utilities:E (usually stun breaker), R (here just anything, but mostly condi removal), V (here usually if I use a passive skill or a situational skill)
Elite:0 (I just click it, but lately I’ve started to feel that I need this one binded).
I have tried using Q and E for skills, but I just can’t get the hang of it because I’ve been using them for strafing in pretty much every game that uses WASD.
Thank you for your response anyway
I don’t use Q and E for skills because I prefer having all movement options available for that rare case where I want to turn while my mouse is tied up in the TP window or something (Also, my hands aren’t exactly tiny.)
One of these days I want to try my G13 on GW2. I used to use it in Rift and SWToR, but GW2 doesn’t nearly require as many different keys.
1-5 for weapons, heal is on the thumb button on my mouse, and my elite is on another mouse button as well and then QER for utilities. Profession skills are alt+1-4
I dodge and interact(f) with my mouse buttons.
For movement, I usually use Q E strafing and mouse, so that freed up A and D for me.
R – heal
ADF – utility
C – elite
weapon skills: 1-5
heal: E
elite: Q
utility: Z,X,C
I use A,D to strafe and hold RMB to turn because that is the default control setup I’ve encountered in basically every other third-person game besides GW2.
1-5 for 1-5
Z for 6 (but honestly I just press 6 most of the time. Long fingers.)
(X for back mirror)
C for 7
Mouse 4 for 8
Mouse 5 for 9
Shift+1 for 0
Mine is very similar to aznricepuff.
Weapons 1-5
Q heal, E elite
CVB for 789
shift for dodge X for weapon swap
I use A and D to strafe and have no need of turning keys as I just use my rbm for that. If you are used to using Q, and E for strafing, perhaps you can use A and D for skills instead.
I figured out how to change the buttons! I used to click on some of them because the numbers were too far …
Now I have:
W and S like normal
A and D to move to the sides
1-5 for the weapon
Q, E, R and T instead of 7-0
Shift to dodge!
The middle mouse button to swap weapon
12345 are normal.
6 is mouse thumb side
7 is mouse thumb lower
8 is mouse thumb upper
9 is mouse wheel scroll left (usually my ‘Im in trouble’ utility)
0 is mouse wheel scroll right
weapon swap is bottom mouse button (app switcher by default)
z is “toggle walk”
shift is “dodge”
v is “stow / draw weapons”
c is “target nearest”
x is “swim down”
using a logitech mouse, nothing too fancy.
Smitten Mittens (The Gothic Embrace [Goth], Fort Aspenwood)
I cheat and use a Razer Naga. All the slot skills are bound to 1-0 and I use the mouse buttons to activate the skills. It takes minimal effort and really helps with twitch play. Since I play a Thief main, steal is on ‘Q’.
Using the mouse allows me to continuously move while using my skills giving me full range of motion during combat where position and skill usage is important.
(Also, my hands aren’t exactly tiny.)