Guild Wars 2

Can anybody tell me what good keybinds are for a thief in WvW? I’m just using D/D for the most part but I’m having issues deciding what keybinds to use for my weapon skills/steal while still being able to use w,a,s,d keys to move and dodge. Just clicking the skills isnt working very well.

well, not exactly what you asked for, but if you feel like switching to mouse movement, you could bind your abilities to two rows of your keyboard keys, and dodge and interact to two others. wish I could help more, but I use a keypad combined with mouse movement, so I don’t have a setup like you’re looking for I can give you that I know works.

my mouse has 2 extra buttons near the thumb, so i bound the one as my auto attack and the other as death blossom. shift + those buttons are steal and my elite skill. the middle mouse button is my CnD. heartseeker is E and dancing dagger is Q. my heal is C, as that’s always my preferred button for stealth in games and i use hide in shadows as my heal. 1 and 2 are my first 2 skills, and my third skill is always a signet so i left that unbound.

Yeah really the only special things I have are some extra mouse buttons down by my thumb, like Phantom. I use them for the Steal and my Elite as well. I have Dodge bound to my Mouse 3 (the wheel button) as it’s LOTS faster and more precise to be able to Dodge on-demand for me using that button instead of movement double-tap (which doesn;t fire about 10% of the time for some reason).

Recommend trying to move your “home” movement keys from WASD to ESDF. This puts your pinky on A (still giving you access to tab, caps, shift, ctrl). If you touch-type then you won’t have to move your left hand to communicate quickly even during battles.

Now look at your hand – you will have keys such as Q, W, R, T, G, V, C, and to a lesser extent, Z, X, Y and H. All of these should be considered for your skills. The number keys and F1 are just too far away in comparison.

spif.7580:

Recommend trying to move your “home” movement keys from WASD to ESDF. This puts your pinky on A (still giving you access to tab, caps, shift, ctrl). If you touch-type then you won’t have to move your left hand to communicate quickly even during battles.

Now look at your hand – you will have keys such as Q, W, R, T, G, V, C, and to a lesser extent, Z, X, Y and H. All of these should be considered for your skills. The number keys and F1 are just too far away in comparison.

Actually not a bad idea, but I don’t touch type and on MY keyboard (a laptop) the F keys are still too far away. BUt I can se that working after adjusting for the different keys, sure…

Well the way I play, being the keyboard genius blessed with nimble beautiful fingers, is like this;

WASD movement.
Tab: Heal Skill.
F: Target.
Ctrl: Dodge.
1-5: Weapon skills.
Shift 1-3 Utility, Shift 4: Elite.
5th Weapon skill also on Q.
1st Weapon Skill also on Mouse 5.
C: Steal
X: Weapon Swap.
R: Holster weapons. (fast way to cancel attack) and looks sexy.
E: Interact.
Z: Call Target.
Caps Lock: Look behind.
Alt: Show Enemy Names. (For Quest/Event nodes.)
*; Town Clothes.

1-5 weapeon skills 1-5
Dodge-shift
jump space

all utilitys on my naga, mouse buttons

Swap weapeon- mouse button 3(wheel click)

Steal-R
Alt-look behind
Tab- swaps target

Just a little advice from me:
You can bind Alt+Any Button and use it with great success.I find left alt very easy accessible with my thumb.This is maybe not very handy for spamming skills,but for UI skills is great.I use alt-E,alt-Q,alt-D,alt-A,i even have alt-X which i press entirely with my left thumb.

You absolutely must bind “Look Behind” to an easily-accessible key. It’s just way too useful not to.

If your mouse has extra buttons, dodges and stun breaks should go there.

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Here’s my setup, mainly as an example of how you can still have everything close at hand even if you’re hooked on the game’s standard six-button (WASD + QE) movement:
WASD + QE = movement
~ = switch weapons
1-5 = weapon skills
Mouse 3 (scroll wheel) = heal skill (also 6)
Mouse 4 (big thumb button) = dodge (also V)
Z = utility 1 (also 7)
X = utility 2 (also
Mouse 5 (little thumb button) = utility 3, which is usually my stunbreak or other fast-reaction skill (also 9)
F = action
G = look behind
R = autorun
T = switch to called target
C = target nearest
Shift + S = turn around
Shift + Mouse 5 = Steal (also F1) — not 100% happy with this at the moment

1-5: weapons
6: Push down mouse wheel
7: R
8:G
9:V
Elite: Shift
Dodge: E
Steal: Q

I have a Razer Naga and a G15 that I use. Almost all of my skills and things like dodge are all bound on my Naga, and are readily available to use easily, while keeping my movement free with WASD.

Kurow.6973:

I have a Razer Naga and a G15 that I use. Almost all of my skills and things like dodge are all bound on my Naga, and are readily available to use easily, while keeping my movement free with WASD.

I’ve got the MMO version of the Razer Naga… it’s very nice, all the number keys are thumb accessible.

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The problem with most keybinds is key conflict. Let’s say you have [D] bound to “strafe right” and [F] bound to your healing skill. You’d hit both of them with your first finger. So what happens if you’re strafing right to circle-kite an enemy and you need to heal? You either stop strafing (allowing them to catch up to you) or you delay your heal (potentially causing you to die). Any keybind system using standard hardware (not a Naga or G15 or whatever) and WASD will run into skill conflict for almost any skill. If you have three fingers for movement, you’d have to hit every key with your pinky to avoid conflict.

My build absolutely removes any conflict. Movement does not conflict with weapon skills. Movement does not conflict with utility skills. Utility skills do not conflict with weapon skills. There is a little bit of conflict (weapon swap and weapon skills use the same finger), but it’s minimal and never causes me issues. It allows you to retain complete control over your movement while using any of your skills.

It’s a little bit different, but it gives you great performance.

My set up is logitech G300 mouse – attacks 1-5 on the extra buttons it has on top of the mouse. WASD movement, disable keyboard turn, use right mouse to turn.
Q- steal
E – heal
R,F,V – util 1-3
B- elite
N – stow weapon (cancel)
tab – switch target
caps – switch weapon
shift – dodge
alt- look behind
hope this helps