Guild Wars 2

Classes like Mesmer and Ranger I know have to “kite” the enemy a lot to avoid being killed. I would recommend saving those for later.

I just started a Guardian and they have a melee style for the most part, but lots of blocks and shields that you must remember.

I think for someone new, a Warrior might be the simplest. Jump in there and hack away bcuz there are enough health points to not get squashed right away.

More important is positioning your hot keys and learning how to move and press keys without errors and without looking at your keyboard. I just added an update to my topic about this.

But then, I am new to the game as well so someone correct this post if I’m off.

Just an update on what I finally went with:

Switched the ESDF movement and interact to:
SDF are now my run and strafe keys.
X is about face
C is move backwards
A is nearest enemy
QWERT are attacks that were 1-5
My skills are ZVBNM
Map I moved to L which I associate with “look” as in look at the map. yeah go ahead and smile
Weapon switch is mouse wheel.

Most importantly I had to retrain myself to only use the R mouse for direction. I had to start a new character from lvl 1 to break bad habits. Totally worth it.

Thanks to players that took the time to type out such complete answers. I hope other readers get something out of this post.

Now I want to do some dungeons and fractals.
If anyone wants to do some “tutoring” mail me or whisper in game. I am on Ehmry Bay server if that matters. I would like to do almost any content with a party just to get better.

Thanks again!

You can’t post on any forum anywhere without condesceding and mean spirited answers from people that half read your post and love to show you up.

I think Mesmer has a skill that will rez downed players, but nobody has this skill active since it isn’t very useful- most of the time.

Wow thank you so much.
This will help my play a lot. I will probably need to practice in lvl 15 areas, but so worth it.

Yes this is what I was looking for.

These are really good setups imo. I would like to try Silmar Alech’s system for a while because I have short fingers and lifting my hand off the keyboard usually results in setting it back down in the wrong spot. I tried putting a sticker on W, but the knob on the F seems better.

If anyone wants to chime in on how you move the character, this is hard to explain for me, I can’t seem to get the hang of walking on beams and narrow paths. Like in jumping puzzles and such. Do players just get really good at using the movement keys? Or are you lining up the walk path with the mouse somehow? Do players use the mouse to steer at all?

I have been using the mouse click wheel to change weapons, LMB for moving the screen, RMB for nothing now that I think of it and wow how dumb.
I have a wireless keyboard that requires CTRL for all the F1-F12 functions but I’m sure I could change that.
My playstyle has been to strafe a lot, dodge all the time because I have a Mesmer and I’m a little hooked on getting a clone every dodge. Then I have about face on X which shortens that process.

I deff appreciate the keyboard layouts. Good stuff, really good.

Does anyone want to get specific about mouse use and how to improve my steering? ***********

It is asking a lot, but very much appreciated, by me a probably by other players that didn’t find much googling it either.

Man what a long post. Well thanks in advance.

-innerlight

I was wondering how ‘good’ players use their hands when playing.
I googled keyboard gw2 and saw some good hot key setups, but I’m wondering what you do with the mouse and keys.

For example I have been learning bad habits and clicking half of my attacks with the mouse. I want to get better and don’t think this will cut it. I am guessing good players do all attacks with keyboard and somehow steer with the mouse, but I’m not clear on how it is done.

I think this question is clear, but if anyone wants more explanation, no problem.

I look forward to seeing what different players do ….

-innerlight

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just had to give it up fo Smokin Muh Blunt Yo 9/10

This worked for me too.