Guild Wars 2

So I know people re-assign their keys (like F1-2-3 are now keys R-T-Y for example). I’ve kept mine as F1-2-3 because I have giant hands and I’m just fine with moving my fingers around, but I am thinking about re-assigning everything to keep it in one place on the keyboard and make things run smoothly.

Anyone have any suggestions on how they’ve set their’s up?

I’ve seen some SS’s and videos with different key assignments, but they don’t always seem to make sense. It’s almost like they assigned them when they were level 1 and just went with it and never thought to change it around.

Shift + 1... etc

If i’m not using ground targeting stuff, I use the number pad with the right hand. There’s a whole bunch of extra keys you can map.

I have a mouse with two keys on the side that are by default set to forward/back a page when not in game. I was surprised to find out that GW2 recognizes a whole score of keys/buttons that most games don’t. A lot of games I’ve played couldn’t recognize anything on the mouse except the scroll, left and right click. Another possibility that I’ve done before and gotten used to is you can shift your entire movement key area over one so WASD becomes ESDF freeing up the W key and putting the T key in easy reach.

ArtemisEntreri.4138:

Shift + 1… etc

Yep, I do the same.

I use alt+1,2, and 3. Just because the way may hand sit on the keyboard, my thumb rests right over it and the space bar. I use shift for my heal(It’s just enough out of the way so I don’t accidentally hit it, but easier to hit than 6). The only annoything thing is using my heal skill sometimes instead of talking in the channel, which has yet to happen while in combat.

Use free cam. Unbind your map rotation keys, change them to strafe keys.

1-5: normal
mouse 3: heal
utility 1: Q
utility 2: shift mouse 3
utility 3: E
Elite: X/shift number
F1-4: Shift 1-4/Alt1-4

Alternativly, if you have the extra mouse buttons, mouse 4 and 5 and shift mouse 4 and 5 for your elites.

Free cam helps alot. Takes a bit of getting used too, but once you get in the habbit of clicking mouse 2 any time you need to make sharp turns, the added keybinds on Q and E help alot.

1-5 = 1-5 because that placement is actually intuitive
6 = c because heals have quite the cooldown attached to them anyway
7-9 = t,f,v utilities mostly don’t need really fast reaction times, or you can guesstimate when you will have to react fast
0 = x again, long cooldowns, still quick to reach
weaponswap = q enables you to somewhat reliably hit on-swap effects, plus after weaponswap I can easily hit 1 again
dodge = e still an old habit from WoW. I put the skill with the most critical timing on e (used to be dispel in wow)
F1 = r made sense for warri and necro, turned out to be good for guard as well
F2, F3, F4 i haven’t used on my chars so far. I put them on F4 and F5 for now, which i kinda like

Bawi.9541:

1-5 = 1-5 because that placement is actually intuitive
6 = c because heals have quite the cooldown attached to them anyway
7-9 = t,f,v utilities mostly don’t need really fast reaction times, or you can guesstimate when you will have to react fast
0 = x again, long cooldowns, still quick to reach
weaponswap = q enables you to somewhat reliably hit on-swap effects, plus after weaponswap I can easily hit 1 again
dodge = e still an old habit from WoW. I put the skill with the most critical timing on e (used to be dispel in wow)
F1 = r made sense for warri and necro, turned out to be good for guard as well
F2, F3, F4 i haven’t used on my chars so far. I put them on F4 and F5 for now, which i kinda like

I set-up similarly to this, however I put F1 on mouse 4. I find myself zerging a lot lately (in PvE at least) and Virtue of Justice is great to spam the might + blind in groups of mobs.

I was just tired of actually clicking some skills [like my elite]. Some skills I still like to click just because I don’t want to use them at incorrect times, but otherwise what you said I pretty much set-up the same way. I AM thinking of moving from WASD to ESDF though, but I doubt I will because WASD is just muscle-memory at this point.