Guild Wars 2

A good keybind system is very important imho (especially in PVP).
Here is mine (good enough for me, but I’m looking for new ideas):

GW2 keys

e, s, f: movement (forward, left, right)
d: dodge
a, q, w, r, t: weapon skills
ALT+ a, q, w, r, t: heal, utility skills, elite
z, x, c, v: profession skills
ALT+x: weapon change (press with thumb both)
g: interact
SPACE: jump

There are two major advantages:
-I can keep the middle finger on forward key all the time (this is the reference point) meanwhile all skills are accessible
-the directional dodges can be done even with one finger (by pressing the corresponding two -or three!- keys at same time).
I marked the fingering too (only musicians knows the importance of right fingering )

Please help me (and the GW2 community) with sharing your thoughts, your keybinds and the philosophy behind

Default… I use a Naga. :P

Seriously though, I highly suggest people rebind their F1-5 keys to shift + 1-5. Changed my life.

My button layout is kinda funky. I also linked my mouse I use as an attachment so you can have some sort of idea as I explain the layout. “the mouse is a logitech g700” Also you might have to click on the picture to see the layout I made for you

1-3 keys are default

Movement is default – Q -W-E-A-D

R – heal

Alt + E is the number 9 skill

Alt + X Elite skill

Alt + D is my f3 skill, which is diversion

Alt + F is my f2 skill, which is Cry of frustration

F1- Buttons on Mouse “See attached file with this post”

F4- Buttons on Mouse “See attached file with this post”

4-5 Buttons on Mouse “See attached file with this post”

7-8 Buttons on Mouse “See attached file with this post”

Dodge Roll Buttons on Mouse “See attached file with this post”

I hope this helped you

I have a 20 USD mouse from best buy that has 4 easy to reach mouse buttons along along the sides. I use those 4 for my F1-F4. I have all my utilities on zxcvb. That’s about it. I read somewhere that someone bound zxcvb so that he has to slide his fingers across to pull off a combo. I loled.

M4 for interact, M5 for wep swap

XCFRE for weapon skills, QZGVT for heal, utilities and elite. Also CTRL + G for guild thing, and WASD for movement. I like double tap to dodge too, so i have that on

Mouse 4 (clicking scroll weel) – Skill 9.
Bottom side mouse button – Skill 7.
Upper side mouse button – Skill 8.

Top, top-corner mouse button – Skill 6
Bottom top-corner mouse button – Skill 5.
Everything else is default.

Gotta change those Top-corners to something useful.
X to turn backwardz…

I use a Naga Hex, so all of my weapon skills, utility skills and my elite are bound to 1-6 and Shift+1-3. WASD movement, dodge Q, jump E, autorun R, Call target T (none of this CTRL+T business – that’s for assisting). Z-V is the profession mechanic. F is interact, TAB is weapon swap.

My most important keybind? Heal on the Space bar. It’s a huge, easy-to-reach key set apart from most of the others, so I never have to worry about hitting it by accident while I’m moving or using skills. Most people have Space set as jump, but I prefer jump with the rest of my movement keys, since it makes it easier to manipulate midair movement, and if I hit it by mistake, consequences are minimal (compared to something like putting a skill on cooldown in a close fight).

Movement: W, A, S, D
Weapon Skills: Q, E, R, 3, 4
Healing/Utility/Elite Skills: Left Shift, C, V, B, Left Ctrl
Professions Skills: F1/Middle Mouse, F2, F3, F4
Weapon Switch: 2
Nearest Target: Tab
Call Target: X
Assist Target: Z
Look Behind: Left Side Mouse
Turn 180: Right Side Mouse
Stow Weapon: U
Continues Running: T
Score Board: Caps Lock

Everything ells is by default.

Movement: WASD
Weapon skills: 1-5
Healing skill: C
Elite skill: V
Utility: Q E R
Dodge: mouse #5
Autorun: mouse #4
Proffesion skill: F1

Mostly use default for the unmentioned ones, no need for more buttons, since I can reach everything quite easily and comfortably.

Trigr.6481:

Movement is default – Q -W-E-A-D

You wasted best keys for strafe left / strafe right??? You dont need “Turn Left” “Turn Right” if you have mouse…. Just move strafe to a/d and you can have Q/E for something really important.

Naga hex

1-6 = weapon skills + heal on 6
shift 1-4 = F1 profession mechanic skills
Q weaponswap
ERT utilities
G elite
F interact

1-6 normal keys. 7-9 on mouse
f1-f4—→ shift, Q E R
Elite c
dodge f
stomp g

set target: v
take target: t

f1 and 2222222222222222222222222222222222 thats all I need

WSAD, for movement where as A, and D are strafes
1-5 weapon skills
` as heal
Q,E,R utilities, with T as ultimate
middle click as weapon switch
alt-e for F1 key skill
alt-q for F2 key skill
alt-middle click as F3 skill
shift-space as F4 skill
V for dodge
F for interaction
Tab for target next

Movement: W-A-S-D, the usual
Healing: E
Uti1: R
Uti2: T
Uti3: Left Shift
Elite: Middle mouse button

I use siri.

…

w,e,r – strafe left, forward, strafe right
q – dodge
(shift – mouse side button)
shift + q, 2, 3, 4 – attunement shifting
s, f, v – util 1, 2, 3
c – elite
a – heal
F3 – weapon swap (because i played ele for so long, this one is less than ideal)
` – autorun
caps-lock (remapped to control) – about face
g – stomp/interact
4, 2, 3, D, 5 – standard 1-5 abilities, in that order

w,a,s,d – movement (hold right mouse for strafing)
1,2,3,4,5 – weapon skills
m4 (thumb button on death adder) – heal
q,e,r – utilities
f – elite
left shift – weapon switch
left alt – dodge
` – interact

Seems to work pretty good as it allows everything to be within easy reach of my left hand.

W-def, S-def, A,D – strafe, q, e, r, g -utis, Shift+WSAD- dodge, middle mouse- F1. Playing warrior, don’t need keybinds for F2-4, however binded them to c,v,x

2 2 2 2 2 2 and 2

kp8 – forward
kp2 – backward
kp4 – strafe left
kp6 – strafe right
kp9 – jump
kpEnter – use
arrow left – walk
m3 – look behind
m5 – dodge

arrow up – switch weapon
arrow down – sheath weapon

kp+ – closest enemy
arrow right – next enemy
insert – call target
end – focus target

m4 – bar1
kp7 – bar2
kp. – bar3
kp0 – bar4
kp5 – bar5
page down – bar6
kp1 – bar7
kp3 – bar8
kp- – bar9
kp/ – elite
kp* – class move (i’m only running a war and a thief so far, gonna have to find better mapping for classes running more than one)

optional – press numlock by mistake to screw yourself (it’s like my personnal desktop button -o-)

Learned to keybind on numpad 15years ago on my first FPS’s, it sticked.

On a side note i was about to post a keyboard image full of 2’s but Kakeru kinda beat me to it.

i just remapped all my abilities 6-0 to Shift+1-5

my laptop keyboard is kinda small so it works and i still run f1-f4 for attunement swaps when i play ele.

Also, I’m of the opinion you dont need fancy gear to be at the top of your game. Investing hundreds of dollars on a nice mouse and keyboard seems silly for a broke guy like me haha.

WSAD – Movement
QE Strafe
12345 weapon skills
6 heal
Shift 123 Utilities
Shift 4 Elite
Shift 5, C, X, R Class Skill/ Attunement
V Dodge
` Weapon swap
Mouse button 5 Stomp
T sheath weapon

I use a naga.

nostromo.
2 rows of 5
1 row of 4
two thumb buttons.
almost like it was made for gw2.

i do suggest remapping all or most of the keyboard commands to open non combat windows to non text keys.
So that if you miss the chat activation you dont open a bunch of useless windows blocking the screen.

A,D =strafe

Q, E, R = utilities

2,3,4,5. = class mechanic

1 , “four mouse buttons” steel searies GW2 mouse = weapon skills.

C = heal

Mouse wheel click = doge

Is this inefficient in any way?

kinda weird, strafe AND utility on the same key (D)
:P

Daishi.6027:

A,D =strafe

Q, E, D = utilities

2,3,4,5. = class mechanic

1 , “four mouse buttons” steel searies GW2 mouse = weapon skills.

C = heal

Mouse wheel = doge

Is this inefficient in any way?

Wooyadeen.6491:

Trigr.6481:

Movement is default – Q -W-E-A-D

You wasted best keys for strafe left / strafe right??? You dont need “Turn Left” “Turn Right” if you have mouse…. Just move strafe to a/d and you can have Q/E for something really important.

I have plenty of buttons on my mouse. Don’t worry

csineva.2684:

kinda weird, strafe AND utility on the same key (D)
:P

Daishi.6027:

A,D =strafe

Q, E, D = utilities

2,3,4,5. = class mechanic

1 , “four mouse buttons” steel searies GW2 mouse = weapon skills.

C = heal

Mouse wheel = doge

Is this inefficient in any way?

2 keys in one without a macro Like a pro!

Jk miss type Q,E,R for utilities A,D for strafe I use right click on mouse to turn left and right :b