Guild Wars 2

Devs,

I logged on yesterday after being out of town for a week and was cruelly disappointed….

I appreciate that you’re trying to improve things – but please don’t ever re-arrange skills on the bar again. That’s months of muscle memory I’ve got to re-train. Now I have to keep staring at my UI instead of where I’m going, and out of habit I’m constantly hitting the wrong skills. And please don’t tell me to re-bind them – then they’d be out of sorts when using my other characters and weapons.

If I’m not allowed to arrange my own skills, please just leave them where they are

Cheers

I second this, even if it wasn’t a big deal for me.

I don’t see why it was even nessicary to rearrange.

There ARE skill sets out there where cooldowns do not go lowest > highest. Off the top of my head, Dagger offhand for Elementalists in the Earth attunement. 5 skill has shorter cooldown than 4.

And I really don’t think order needs to have anything to do with which skills are considered “primary” or anything either, other than obviously 1 should be the basic.

I don’t see the reasoning behind changing it.

I have been gone 3-4 days as well…
it’s not as bad as I first feared though, maybe cause I am not 80 on the guardian yet.

it will be a non-issue eventually… but getting to that point I will be hitting the wrong key bind for weeks.

errrr if your using skills from muscle memory. Just change your key bindings. It won’t make any differene then would it.

KensaiZen.3740:

errrr if your using skills from muscle memory. Just change your key bindings. It won’t make any differene then would it.

problem is… there are 8 classes.
so change key binds for 1, too much of a pain in the kitten to have the change only effect 1 character and not the others.

Muscle memory develops from repeating the same action repetitively.
Therefore, if your muscle memory is causing you to use your skills incorrectly, then you have spent too much time repeating the exact same skill combination while you’ve been playing. The skills, in my understanding, are setup so that there are multiple ways of combining them. So my advice is to break habit and start changing your skill usage up. You may find yourself fighting more effectively.

Muscle memory may not be the best description.

so used to pressing one button without looking when I want a certain skill, now it’s changed.. so it takes some time to learn the change.