Guild Wars 2

so, which way do you folks do it? I have movement on naga, spells on keyboard. I’ve been playing like this from the beginning (few month now). but sometimes it feels other way around, movement on keyboard, spells on naga would be more effective. i tried it and was hard to relearn, but I could try again if it would make difference.

I have movement and skills on keyboard, with targeting related things and profession mechanics on my mouse.

movement on keyboard and key skills on mouse.

yeah…
gotta relearn…

Honestly it’s whatever works for you. Re-learning may cause more problems than it helps.

I use the Naga for skills 1 to 5. Steel Series Merc Stealth Keyboard for everything else.

Exactly what Lux said. Sometimes even though what you are doing is technically not quite optimal, the simple fact that you are used to it will make it better than it would be if you swapped over.

Not always the case, but often times with things like keybinds it can be.

Just click your skills fellas, just like these legends in WWW.

Skills on Mouse – It may be too late to suggest this, but if you can return the Naga, go with the Logitech g600 – more solid construction, logitech is a great company for warranties, and you get double the keys (there’s a third button that switches all 12 thumb buttons to a second mapping).

If you have small hands stick with the naga, if you have big hands enough to palm an nba basketball get the g600, unless you only want to use the firsti 9 skills. (i used all of the 12 buttons on the g600, but it is a little uncomfortable).

I have nothing on my naga because it doesnt want to work anymore so i bought a logitech

Movement on keyboard, skills on naga

For some reason, I still have to use weapon swap and DS on the keyboard because I can’t get used to them on the mouse

My Keybinds:

F – Forward

G – Skill 1

B – Skill 2

D – Skill 3

S – Skill 4

A – Skill 5

Right side of the bar is mapped Q – Y in the same order they are on the bar. R is mapped to reverse direction.

Interact is V, AOE loot is C. Dodge is shift, jump is space bar, weapon swap is Z.

Function keys are mapped H, N, U, and J. I main a thief so I mostly just use H for steal (F1)

On the mouse I use 4 and 7 for sidesteps, 6 for auto run, 5 for walk backward (lol), 12 for push to talk onTS, Mark and target marked are on my top two little buttons. Rest is all non- essential non-combat stuff.

This lets me keep my middle finger on forward and hit AOE loot when everything is dead. Pointer finger handles 1,2, utility 3, elite, interact, and function keys. Ring finger handles 3 skill, and utilities 1 and 2. Pinkie handles skills 4, 5, heal, dodging, and weapon swap.

This set up let’s me keep my thumb on the Naga’s 4 and 7. Weaknesses of this setup for me is my ring and pinkie fingers will occasionally not be where my brain thinks they are. Being a thief, pinkie generally rests on Shift (dodge) which I think contributes to that. Having the sidesteps on the mouse is very useful when doing some hard mouse turning, but I don’t feel quite as fast if I need to do some rapid Right/Left spam.

I never even thought about using it for movement. I’ve always used a keyboard for that.

i use naga for utility skills and f1-f4, but the best skills to bind to it are ones that are instant cast because then you have more freedom over wasd keys, i try to bind f, r, q and 3 to skills that have cast times or that I don’t have to kite to use (eg; using a skill bound to f while strafing to the right is annoying lol, especially since we can’t use skills while jumping in gw2).

thx for tips ppl. I switched movement to kbd, spells and targeting to naga. was bad, but its improving now. i guess this is more effective, at least for gw2. though pulling combos takes some finger wriggling.
I wish naga had 5×3 buttons (instead of 4×3)

gesho.9468:

thx for tips ppl. I switched movement to kbd, spells and targeting to naga. was bad, but its improving now. i guess this is more effective, at least for gw2. though pulling combos takes some finger wriggling.
I wish naga had 5×3 buttons (instead of 4×3)

That “finger wriggling” is the most efficient way to control your character with the highest precision.

This is pretty much how my hands look while PvPing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYhX8fjmo8

gesho.9468:

thx for tips ppl. I switched movement to kbd, spells and targeting to naga. was bad, but its improving now. i guess this is more effective, at least for gw2. though pulling combos takes some finger wriggling.
I wish naga had 5×3 buttons (instead of 4×3)

It takes some time to get used to the mouse (and it will feel like a step backwards until you get used to it), but once you’ve got it down, you’ll wonder how you ever did without it.