Guild Wars 2

I’m asking mostly about in wvw/spvp, how do you guys position your hands/configure your buttons for effectively dueling? I am left handed and a lot of the time I kind of feel like Im kitten because often in duels It’s hard to cross my hand over to hit f1, f2, f3 or any of the number skill keys and still maintain movement/I don’t feel like I have a lot of fluidity which helps get me killed.

It’s really annoying because there are duels I know I would have won if I had a better setup (I am thinking of buying a gaming mouse to help so I can hotkey some of the numbers to new buttons).

But I’m curious, what are your guys setups like? Am I the only one with this problem?

I think a gaming mouse with a couple additional buttons can help a lot. I have heal and autoattack bonded to the mouse. Also I’d suggest moving some of the utilities to q e r just because they are easier to access then 789.

Razer Naga Epic + keyboard. I only play Mesmer so, my mouse glows magenta. That’s the winning recipe right there.

Lately I’ve been holding my newborn daughter in my left hand, so I’ve had to solo guys with just my right hand on the mouse. Add in two, or three guys depending on the class, and I’ll get overwhelmed without my second hand to handle movement properly.

But honestly, having the appropriate glowing mouse color is where it’s at.

Actually because I’m left handed i play with my right hand on okl; for movement, but I see what you’re getting at, I am looking at a razer mouse and hopefully that will help

Razer Naga Epic. I have all my skills (1-10+F1-F4) and weapon swap on my mouse. I use the keyboard for movement and evades. It takes a week to get used to, but after that it’ll only enhance your gameplay! In a game that’s as fast paced as this, it’s really recommendable to get a good gaming mouse

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Razer Naga Epic + keyboard. I only play Mesmer so, my mouse glows magenta. That’s the winning recipe right there.

Lately I’ve been holding my newborn daughter in my left hand, so I’ve had to solo guys with just my right hand on the mouse. Add in two, or three guys depending on the class, and I’ll get overwhelmed without my second hand to handle movement properly.

But honestly, having the appropriate glowing mouse color is where it’s at.

Congrats man

Razer Naga. Movement keys all bound to mouse thumb pad, dodge on middle button.

That leaves my keyboard completely free to rebind skill buttons to the most convenient configuration for my left hand. It also means that my dominant right hand controls all movement for ‘twitch’ reflexes. Apart from spacebar/jump -which for some reason feels better left-handed.

I Have a 3 button foot pad too, for nearest-target run/walk/ and loot/interact.

P.S completely frees the left hand while running so that I can drink my beer.

Well usually handbags at dawn. Sometimes pistols.

… buy a gaming mouse if you can’t physically set up your keyboard comfortably.

Normal keyboard, normal mouse.

My skills go 1-2-3-4-5-Q-E-R-X-C // F1/F2/F3/F4

V for evade, B to look behind myself. Allows me to press all my skills very easily.

colesy.8490:

Normal keyboard, normal mouse.

My skills go 1-2-3-4-5-Q-E-R-X-C // F1/F2/F3/F4

V for evade, B to look behind myself. Allows me to press all my skills very easily.

Listen to this guy. Having most of your utilities bound closer than 5-0 helps a lot with responsiveness. Keeping your profession skills on the F keys is usually fine unless you’re an elementalist I think.
Keep in mind that you can bind keys to use Shift + [insert key here] to broaden the amount of keybinds close to home.

Lets not forget about tab, caps, shift, ctrl on the left side of the keyboard. Give that pinky something to do. I also use macro function in the mouse to program the mouse wheel. Scroll down to switch weapons, scroll up is Utility 3. Auto Hotkey can also do it for free with any mouse. Function keys I remap to Z X C V.

I use the CM Storm Inferno mouse which adds a few extra buttons to the mouse (not a fan of the 2 dozen button mice… some day they will push out a nice 4 or so thumb button mouse with nice big buttons).

I`m a leftie, but have (awkwardly) learnt to use a mouse right handed.
Used to have Razer HEX which was more then fine for my ele, but changed to a G600 which has more buttons then I could ever need.
If you don`t want to go that route, google for “taugrim keybinds”, that may help out a tad.

Someone want to meet me on TC borderlands sentry between bay and garrison for some.