Guild Wars 2

and is probably why I see so many bad players around me and I see this often:

• “Can’t Use My Joypad in GW2”
• Do no Key-bind their abilities on the keyboard

Every time I see someone spam link their skill in /m or /t my eyes start having spasms and roll to the back of my skull and twitch – I know instantly they were in a heated moment and were holding down the SHIFT key while trying to mouse click on their ability.

People, please key-bind and stop using joysticks/pads in MMORPG games.

BECAUSE THEN YOU WILL NOT NEED THE USE OF HACK/CHEAT PROGRAMS TO PLAY YOUR kitten GAME!

Power to the Gamer!
“We the gamer, in order to form a more perfect game . . .”

shift is push to talk. is there a way to unbind shift from linking in chat?

tldr: get on my level

actually it’s the ctrl key, happens when you are holding it down to look at enemies, or also locking onto target.

But more importantly, follow GuardianOMS advice.

I keybind everything, and yet I still think this is one of the most useless rants I have ever read on these forums…

Get over yourself already.

Put it in the tech forums perhaps, if you really must.

Crawford.4135:

and is probably why I see so many bad players around me and I see this often:

• “Can’t Use My Joypad in GW2”
• Do no Key-bind their abilities on the keyboard

Every time I see someone spam link their skill in /m or /t my eyes start having spasms and roll to the back of my skull and twitch – I know instantly they were in a heated moment and were holding down the SHIFT key while trying to mouse click on their ability.

People, please key-bind and stop using joysticks/pads in MMORPG games.

BECAUSE THEN YOU WILL NOT NEED THE USE OF HACK/CHEAT PROGRAMS TO PLAY YOUR kitten GAME!

Power to the Gamer!
“We the gamer, in order to form a more perfect game . . .”

TL/DR: OP died to a keyboard turning, skill clicking, ranger….

Kimbald.2697:

I keybind everything, and yet I still think this is one of the most useless rants I have ever read on these forums…

Get over yourself already.

Put it in the tech forums perhaps, if you really must.

This^^
People have to learn to play the game. That’s all. Nobody’s born knowing how to mouse-turn or rebind their keyboard.

Bro… I can press CTRL with my little finger, WASD with my ring and middle finger, and zero with my thumb: as a Mesmer traited for dodge-cloning and near constant 3-illusion upkeep.

Get, on, MY, level… BRO.

Crawford.4135:

I know instantly they were in a heated moment and were holding down the SHIFT key while trying to mouse click on their ability.

Thats not always true. Holding down control toggles showing enemy/object names. Sometimes it helps when scanning the horizon to find a mining node or npc or whatever.

players using CTRL key for Push to Talk? Guy I gamed with a long time ago did that, and I couldn’t help but laugh at him for a moment. He struggled with keybinding all of his abilities and I explained to him "don’t use CTRL as Push to Talk, use it to CTRL+1 to make “1” do another ability. Every key you bind can become 2 abilities with CTRL keybinding an the same key."

I still tease him about that, and others in my guild who use CTRL for Vent/TS.

this post was to make fun of Hackers/Cheaters, not legit players. You guys are taking this thread a bit too serious.

Virtute.8251:

Bro… I can press CTRL with my little finger, WASD with my ring and middle finger, and zero with my thumb: as a Mesmer traited for dodge-cloning and near constant 3-illusion upkeep.

Get, on, MY, level… BRO.

I had a reading fail and thought you had your thumb on 1 when I first read this. I had a really tough time trying to make that combo work…

To the OP, I’m fairly certain you can get a game pad to work in GW2, and doing so isn’t hacking or cheating as long as one button still performs one action (this is ANets official policy on macros- 1 button=1 action). It’s no different than using a keyboard or mouse with programmable buttons.