How do you control your necromancer?

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Posted by: TChalla.7146

TChalla.7146

I’m a newer player, and I’m running a necromancer as my main. In other games I’ve played, using the mouse to move around was by far the better choice. However, I’m wondering if I’m doing it wrong this way due to the number of AoE target abilities the necromancer has at their disposal.

So I’m putting the question out there. Should I be using the mouse to maneuver in combat, or is it actually better to move via keyboard and use the mouse to use skills and target AoE?

Might seem like a stupid question, but I don’t want to be a hindrance when playing in groups, etc.

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Posted by: Luke.4562

Luke.4562

Yes, use mouse to control the camera and other actions which would hinder your left hand when controlling your movement.
On the mouse i keep the dodgeroll, autorun and the key to look at your back with no need to rotate the camera.
The keybinding for the left hand are though to choose. The objective is to have all your most used spells under control while you can still move around freely with no hindrance; which is a problem by the moment you can’t decide the slot for your #1,2,3,4,5 spells.
WASD for the control of your character, I substituted the S backpedal with the turnaround 180° action AKA “About Face”, which is really nice in pvp (hard for jumping puzzles to get used to). N.B: Atm it’s a bit bugged, it seems you can keep hold just 2 keys together, so this action can be used mostly when you are autorunning.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Can-t-bind-About-Face-to-Mouse-3/first#post3096688
F1,F2,F3.. keys are too much uncomfortable, so just forget them, unless you have a keyboard whith them stick to 1,2,3,4…
Shift for DeathShroud is awesome, Q for healing, E for Stunbreakers, C, V (uncomfortable, usually binded to mostly less used spells), R to switch weapons (epically comfortable), X for the Elite, forget about Z.
Of course remember to keep T for focus targeting (Ctrl+T for calling it), F for generic actions.
Keep in mind the function of Ctrl and Alt, to detect the nameplate of Hostile or Friendly targets. (A tip, disable the friendly nameplates on your option panel).

It would be great if they would implement the keybinding for the mouswheel, which i would bind with the next and previous target, by the moment the kittening TAB and combinations are the most uncomfortable keys ever.

Imho you can’t use the mouse just for the movement control, by the moment you have, as you said, more Aoes to place.
I suggest using the last made option to cast aoes on the release of the key, while maybe autorunning, it’s a bit uncomfortable by the moment you have to release the camera controls, but the instruments we have are these, unless ANET won’t study a better way to control your character you have no other choice.

Have fun!

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Posted by: Mookzen.4583

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I find that the most efficient solution is to leave 1-5 and F1 as they are, get rid of the turn commands and rebind A and E to strafe while making Q E R the utility keys and T for the elite. I also bind the heal and dodge to unused mouse buttons.

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Posted by: Troll.4237

Troll.4237

I play with an xbox controller and can’t go back to keyboard/mouse.

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Posted by: Smoke.9273

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12345, W & S as they are.
A & D bound to strafe.
6 is my elite.
Q, E & C are my utility skills.
V is my heal.
R is my deathshroud.

Mouse controls the camera, targetting. Right mouse button together with movement keys at certain moments.
A 3rd mouse button for calling a target (default ctrl T).

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Posted by: Bhawb.7408

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The only thing I have to use the mouse for is turning the camera (key-turning is a big nono). WAD controls my movement (forward and side strafing), S is dodge (walking backwards is, again, generally a nono).

1-5 is the same, Shift is F1 (only one I need as necro), Q/E/R/F/T is all my utility skills, G is my interact, and then the rest is all pretty much standard I think.

Also, one great use for your mouse no matter who you are, is stuff like targeting/camera movement. I have all my targeting, call target, take target, swap target, etc. all on my mouse, and all of my camera movement stuff is there as well, because those are all things that are much more easily taken care of by the mouse (won’t make weird hand movements because of trying to hold down the look behind key while doing other things).

Besides that, I suggest you do what you need. I’ve played games that “idled” (just casual walking around) at like 100-200 APM just with my fingers, and spiked up a lot higher with combat, so I’m very used to doing some finger acrobatics to keep everything going. So for me, it isn’t difficult to do most of what needs doing with just the keyboard. But if you find that the keyboard is holding you back (you’ll stop moving to cast certain rotations, or can’t dodge at any moment) then start moving stuff over to your mouse.

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Posted by: Sandra Martino.3870

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i use both my mouse and WASD skills for moving around, scroll wheel click is dodge, Mouse 4 (right side) is autorun, Mouse 5 (left side) is interact button. (F = autoloot spam) I use the traditionally 1-5 buttons and the F1 button. The ` button (left of 1) is wpn swap. My utilities are shift- 2-5 with my elite being shift-1. I kinda got used to using modifier keys because i played " this other game" and you had like a million skills you had to use :P

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Posted by: Rym.1469

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I use typical mouse and normal keyboard. Necromancer isn’t a hard class to control. I have dodge under my shift, which I find good enough, weapon switch on ` (deafult I believe), WSAD as other said, A,D – strafe, S- U-turn. DS under mouse wheel click, utilities :
6- for heal
-Q- first utility, commonly something with bigger cooldown or more situational, like Corrupt Boon
-E,R- Combat utlities, handy
-G- Elite – just because I have long fingers, got used from WoW and it’s hard to missclick for me

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