Guild Wars 2

At the moment, weapon skills are assigned fixed positions in the action bar.

Though it is fine for players who use mouse and click gameplay, it compromises the gameplay of users who use the keyboard or multi-button gaming mice (mbgm, more than 3, up to 20 buttons).

To understand this, one needs to realize that mouse and click gameplay relies mainly on the sense of vision to recognize which icon corresponds to which skill. However, a keyboard or mbgm player uses mostly kinesthetic or tactile sensing.

For instance, say a crowd control skill appears in slot 4 and an AoE skill appears in slot 5 (for the ranger with a longbow for instance). As you switch weapon or go underwater, depending on your weapons type, the crowd control now appears in slot 3, and the AoE in slot 2 (for the ranger with a shorbow for instance).

For the mouse and click player, it does not really matter, because he recognizes which ability to use based on the way the icon looks. But for the other two who rely on the acquired kinesthetic reflex pressing on the same key or button does a totally different thing.

This can be easily overcome by allowing the user to move around skills for each weapons type in the “Hero/Skill and Traits/Weapon Skills” Tab.

At the moment it is very annoying for keyboard and mbgm players, it compromises reactivity, and confuses game-play.

Looking forward to seeing this addressed in the near future.

Cheers,

Looloop

Thanks a lot Dobz,

cool trick ^^ very smart indeed.

It works and actually, if you want to hide the shortcut that appears in the “Documents” folder, you can by changing the file attribute to hidden.

Thanks Squall Leonhart,

Interesting link.

However, the command line arguments currently supported do not allow specifying the location of the "./My Documents/Guild Wars 2’’ folder.

Perhaps you got mixed up with the -dat argument used to define the location of the gw2.dat file.

I am surprised there is not a setting within the launcher or the program to do this easily. It is available in most software, including other mmos.

Hello,

Hope you are all well.

GW2 launcher creates a folder C:/Users/<Your Name>/My Documents/Guild Wars 2 where it stores user data such as login settings, music playlists and screenshots.

Like many users, I keep my game files on a different partition / hard disk and use the famous MS Windows OSs “My Documents” folder for other purposes.

I could not find anywhere within the launcher or the program itself a way to define the “Guild Wars 2” folder location.

Any workaround other than low level reprogramming the gw2.exe file?

Cheers mates,

Looloop