Guild Wars 2

To the moderator who locked my previous thread after giving a link to the policies thread…Thank you for the information. I wanted to say this in that thread, however you locked it for…reasons unknown?

I wanted to ask a further question about the policies that were stated in that thread:

• “Does this program allow someone to play faster, better, longer, or more accurately than someone who doesn’t use it?”
• “Does this program allow someone to ‘play’ when he/she is not at the computer?”
• “Does this program allow the user to gain undeserved rewards?”

With a permanent hand injury, having to repeat keystrokes tends to get painful after 15 minutes or so. With my Guardian it was mostly auto attack, with a rare use of other skills. But with my Ranger, it seems the only way to have a good damage rotation up is to use #3, #2, then #1 for auto attacking until #2 is finished cooling down (this is with a longbow). I chose Ranger, as I figured it would be easier to play with a pet to “tank” for me, so I don’t die so much from slow movement in the game on the melee classes.

My reason for asking about keyboard macros was to ask if I could use a macro that would hit the #3 button, then #2, then #1. There aren’t any decision-making processes available to the keyboard as it doesn’t actually talk to the game at all. It just hits keys in that order, with a time delay if specified (probably about 4 seconds after hittin #2, as it is a channeled ability).

Doing this doesn’t allow me to play faster, better, longer, or more accurately than someone who doesn’t use it (I’m still slow). It doesn’t allow me to play when I’m not at the computer. And it doesn’t allow me to gain undeserved rewards.

Could I get a definitive answer? To my interpretation, it wouldn’t violate those three rules that were posted (not even a “maybe”), but I obviously don’t want to try to make my gaming experience better for myself, only to have my $60 original license key + $50 in the gem store be tossed to the wind, so to speak.

I agree. Even without a hand injury, lobbing grenades on my engineer with no auto attack can get pretty painful 12345, 123, 12, 12345 lol!
I have a Logitech G510 and would love some macros! I’ve got 18 keys sitting around for it :-\

You can trust me or not. They have spoken, they have a canned response. This is how big business works, you won’t be getting anything more with that. There has been no indication they have had any issue with using std devices like your keyboard and using macro’s. They mentioned those devices are ok, they won’t go to far with the macro part, but also state they aren’t creating any apps to police it as they have plenty of other things to do. But feel free to wait for the same canned response.

JERRIX.5390:

I agree. Even without a hand injury, lobbing grenades on my engineer with no auto attack can get pretty painful 12345, 123, 12, 12345 lol!
I have a Logitech G510 and would love some macros! I’ve got 18 keys sitting around for it :-\

Very funny! I wanted to play an Engineer, but it was just too hard. Ranger has F1 to pet attack, F2 for pet special attack, F3 to return to the Ranger, and F4 to swap pets. It’s so hard to use them, and I don’t have enough keys near my uninjured hand to rebind those 4 + dodge + other keys.

I was hoping to have a response because it’s just irresponsible for a developer to make a game, when the hardware is available and widely used to do this, then give us canned responses and rhetorical questions to ask ourselves on whether we think it is allowed or not. Because obviously, my opinion could differ from ArenaNet’s. And in the case that I actually do this, and our opinions DO differ…well…I don’t want to have my account banned because of it (thus, the irresponsibility of the developer to state whether circumstances like mine are valid or not).

What’s funny is that even with keyboard macros on the Logitech…I still do less damage than someone 3 levels lower than me, haha!