Guild Wars 2

For me, a huge barrier for the grenade kit was the fact that to keep dps up, you need to constantly keep pressing 1 to bring up the AoE target then press again to throw. Doing this makes moving around and dodging harder for me so I figured I’d ask if anyone does anything special to make it easier. Macros? Special Keybinding? Anything really, because I would hate to miss out on such a great kit for both power and condition damage and the only time I feel comfortable using them is underwater ._.

Some people use the fast-cast option – ‘press to prepare, release to fire,’ more or less.

Anymras.5729:

Some people use the fast-cast option – ‘press to prepare, release to fire,’ more or less.

I see, I wasn’t aware of this option, but then again I’ve been away from the game for quite a while. I’ll give it a shot. Still wish it had some sort of autoattack like the rest of the 1 skills.

To be honest, if you are really concerned about maximizing your damage you won’t be spending that much time using gk auto (at least in pve). Most of the time will be spent cycling through your skills that all have stronger damage coefficient’s than the auto attack I.E. Barrage, Acid bomb, Flameblast, Shrapnel Grenade, Freeze Grenade, Blunderbuss, and Jump shot and then gk auto for a few presses until cooldowns line up and it’s time to start the whole thing over again. The engi max damage rotation is by far the most complicated of any of the classes right now with just the sheer amount of cooldowns to keep track of in your head, but once you get the timing down whooo baby watch out. Having said all of this, I would recommend turning the ground targeting to instant and it will throw the nades wherever your cursor is at the time without needing to press a second time or release to throw.

same for pvp, you are not a ranger to use auto only :P

maybe just in wvw zerg you’ll have to use #1 more then once while suppressing a wall, or taggin enemy players

Ok cool, I was under the impression the grenade auto attack was pretty much the go-to attack for dealing damage when things are on cd. I used to be pretty good at managing cds b/c before I left I was using a 3kit build but now I’m all out of practice.

Necrotize.2974:

Ok cool, I was under the impression the grenade auto attack was pretty much the go-to attack for dealing damage when things are on cd. I used to be pretty good at managing cds b/c before I left I was using a 3kit build but now I’m all out of practice.

When things are on cooldown gk auto is the way to go, it’s just you don’t spend much time without something being off cooldown.

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 ENgi NA and world first rank 80!

Make sure to have the Use Free Camera option enabled in your options! This way you can run in a direction, use left click to move the camera while still running in the same direction, and throw grenades behind you!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

What helped me a lot when I specialized in “run and gun” grenades was that I bought a G13.

It’s a specialized keyboard, one hand wide, made by logitech.

With it, I have the skills mapped to my fingers , I move my character with the thumb’s mini-joystick, and the mouse is free to manage the camera / aim the grenades. Between this and the fast-targeting, I found my accuracy improved tremendously.

Step 1: Free camera.

Step 2: Choose the type of ground targetting that is right for you. For ground targets, there is no correct answer; whatever you’re comfortable with is best. Indicators help a lot with nades since it shows the center of the AoE and it’s possible to only land 1 or 2 nades on the outside of the radius.

Step 3: Practice a LOT!

I’ve played since almost day 1 maining a nade engi. I still miss nades. It’s not easy and it’s never going to be perfect. Just try your best! If you want someone to compare to, I stream quite a lot