Guild Wars 2

I don’t have a fancy gaming mouse or keyboard. I have never done keybinds before so what is a good basic setup for a noob? I am playing an elementalist if there is a specific setup for them.

Pretty basic ones, only 2 mouse binds:

WASD – Movement

1 through 5 – Weapon Skills

< (to the left of Z) – Heal
Q – Utility 1
Z – Utility 2
X – Utility 3
E – Class #1
R – Class #2
F – Class #3
C – Class #4
V – Dodge
G – Interact / Stomp

Side Mouse Button 1 – Toggle Run
Side Mouse Button 2 – Elite

T – Take Target
Alt-T – Call Target (only really used on WvW leader at the time)
Alt-Q – About Face (handy for Burning Retreat and a number of other skills)
Left Shift – Look Behind
Left Ctrl – Push To Talk

I would recommend getting at least a cheap gaming mouse for intuitive set ups, I only have two side buttons on my mouse so these are mine:

WASD Movement

1 – 5 weapon skills
Q heal
E utility 1
R utility 2
C utility 3
V utility 4
Shift – Dodge
F – interact/stomp

alt is bound to Mouse 5 (side mouse button)

alt + 1 – 5 is attunement swap

T – target

I really like having the attunements on the same buttons as my weapon skills, it makes it very easy to swap attunements quickly without dancing all over the keyboard.

Mines rather different to most people, I don’t have a gaming mouse either, just a 5 Button mouse. (Two side buttons)
Movement:

T – Forward
G – Backwards
F – Strafe Left
H – Strafe Right

1-5 Skills:

1 – Z
2 – X
3 – D
4 – S
5 – A

Utility Skills:

Heal – Mouse 4
Utility 1 – Mouse 5
" 2 – R
" 3 – E
Elite – W

Attunements:

Fire – Y
Water – U
Air – J
Earth – N

Misc:

Call Target – Left Alt
Nearest Enemy – Middle Mouse
Interact/Finish – K
WvW/PvP Points – Tab
Look Behind – Q
Dodge Roll – B

Means I get the most use out of my keyboard, and have the most movement ingame while still being able to reach skills (I find it awkward to use the numbers above WASD, I’d rather have them at the side).

Wow, I don’t know if i could ever get used to that Curring, but whatever works for you :P

It worked for two of my friends so I thought I may post it to see if it helps anyone, for me it’s the most comfortable so it doesn’t feel like a workout. :p

Keep it simple, buy a Naga and reduce your keynbinds.

Then, change your strafe buttons to A/D and forget the turn buttons. You can increase your mouse sensitivity and mouse turn.

I make Q my call target button and E stomp/Interact.

I keep Tab as target because I’m used to crappy Tab Target from other games.

Really, that’s all you need for GW. If they added a Utility bar for using Seige equipment/Food in WvW that would be great…I would probably bind that to Z,X,C,V