Guild Wars 2

I’ve played with the normal keybindings since release and never actually changed them.

My usual binding was
Weapons Skills: 1-5
Heal 6 (and a mousekey)
Utility: 7,8,9 (and a mousekey)
Elite: 0 (and a mousekey)
Class skills: F1,F2,F3,F4
Interact: F
Swap Weapon: ^ (don’t know if it’s on every keyboard like on germans, this is the key left from ¹)

Now I changed the Weaponskills and the Class Skills:
Weapon skills: Q,M3,E,R,F
Class Skills: 1,2,3,4
Interact: C
Swap Weapon: Tab

I just tried to PvP and I really sucked hard against enemies that I usually could have beaten.
What are your experiences with new keybindings?
How long did it take you to get used to it?
Is it worth the pain?

~ Me Games Ma

If I change I do it one or two at the time and for me it takes A LONG time to change. I only play once week though.

At one point, guardian GS skills had their CDs rebalanced which caused the #3 and #4 skills (i think) to switch places.

There were a lot of complains following this on the forums.

If you play a while with the same setup, you stop thinking about which button to press and do it intuitively (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory).

To get rid of this can take some time and you will certainly fail a lot while relearning everything.

Of course it takes time. It took me weeks to get used to having a gaming mouse (Naga Razer), I changed the keybindings again after half a year and that took another good week or two to get used to again.

It’s worth it, having hotkeys in sensible places will allow your action to keep up with your perception in PvP.

I remap almost all of my key commands; I do for every game I play. I cannot stand the cramped and limited space default bindings leave you with. I don’t have time right now to post what binds I use, maybe I’ll remember later after work.

I added a keybind for About Face, moved my heal, utility, elite skills around WASD (Q, E, R, Y, X). Weapon skills and F1 – F4 remained the same.
It took me about a week or two to get used to it but it’s worth it. Main reason why I changed them was because I wanted to get into PvP and WvW more and I couldn’t do that if I have to look on my keyboard and stretch fingers across or use mouse to click on skills.

2-3 matches

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I bought a LG g600 and it changed my life lol. I only use my keyboard for movement and my “F1-F4” skills which are conveniently bound to keys around my movement keys I use (E,D,S,F) for movement and as for my “F1-F4” I have them bound like this: (A – Mind Wrack, W – CoF, C – Diversion, G – Distortion). I use the mouse for all other skills.