Guild Wars 2

First, yes I am new to the game. I played with grenades a little, but everything just seemed really awkward. I use a mouse/keyboard movement with wasd and spamming 1, trying to strafe with a-d and keeping my camera in the right place with my mouse doesnt seem to allow me much to target with. I either end up with grenades all over the place except where I intend or spending WAY too long getting my cursor int h right spot. I know there are successful grenade builds out there, just wonder the best way to manage targeting so I can at least make use of the skills whether or not I am using thm predominantly or not.

You need to change your settings. You never ever want to throw grenades with the base settings that require you to move the AE target then click again to fire.

You can go to Settings and there is a drop down box allowing you to change to still have the indicator of the AE but fire on the first click. Soooo helpful.

Free camera helps you throw behind, but another easy trick is to bind your mouse wheel button to the look behind key and simply throw that way.

As for a couple of range tricks that will make you hit more:
1. It is MUCH easier to hit grenades from medium distance vs long. Learn that first.
2. At long, learn how far an enemy can move while your nades are in the air.
a. Best way is to shoot off some grenades straight in front of you while you are running, strafing etc. Get used to just firing off grenades at random blank space when you run around. You will learn quickly the distances you have to adjust for.
3. A good trick is to start by throwing grenades (on mobs) roughly so just the edge would hit the mob of the indicator. They tend to move around that fast generally.
4. Remember you can drop grenades at your feet and it hits just as hard.
5. Have a guild mate run around while you try to land a few grenades on him/her. Believe me you will learn how to anticipate this way better than anything else I know of.

Put your cursor in the middle of the screen, now a few cm to the top and right click, and keep pushed. Now your targeting is locked and you will be moving with wasd and turn around with the mouse. That’s how I do it.

Clicking only once to attack can be helpful if you don’t wanna doubleclick, I personally don’t like it since I only would use it on engi.

Two great suggestions so far. The ground targeting option “Fast with Range Indicator” is a must.

I would like to add that I bind my ‘1’ key to a side mouse button as an alternate. That way when I’m using nades I can just spam click that button instead of the keyboard. It’s much easier.

I use standart aoe settings. I hate when I don’t have much control and it doesn’t bother me that i have to push buttons more