Guild Wars 2

I only have a week or so at this game, so my view is purely from an engineering (IRL) standpoint.

Nothing is truely random on computers. I’m sure someone is already sitting in a corner, throwing their elixirs and tabulating the percentages of each possibility.

Though, I don’t understand why those percentages just couldn’t be provided.

Anyway, after you have this data, you just look at it like you would look at crit. You work the elixir into your rotation and it’kitten or miss for the one or two things you want. And you know that this potion has a 15% for regen, how much regen it will do, and if you throw it 3 times a minute, you can calculate how much regen, on average, you will get from such a potion. Or how much time you will spend buffed per minute.

I think this makes elixirs very stable for long hauls because as long as you keep up on your rotation, you know what’s happening. PVP is a whole different animal, though; you’re playing chess now, not a card game. Still, maybe we’ll come to love it. It’ll be like chess mixed with some dice throwing, it could be fun.

Maybe down the line these elixirs will work like crit and you will be able to gear/trait yourself towards a certain disposition. Who knows?

I just started playing and quickly learned that engineers require rebinding all the keys. I’m a purist and don’t believe in any fancy gear. It’s almost like playing the piano, which i think is pretty cool.

I was wondering what other people have done. I have seen some posts in other threads but nothing dedicated to key bindings.

My own keys:

Keys that are the same:

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, F1, F2, F3, F4, F5
  My F keys touch my number keys so they are still very convenient.

Changed Keys

• Healing – C
• Utility 1 – R
• Utility 2 – F
• Utility 3 – V
• About Face – X
• Defend – Z
• Interact – B
• Autorun – T

It has been very fluid for me so far. I find ctrl and alt to be in weird places on my computer so I haven’t used them yet. Maybe i’ll learn when I get used to them. I’m ususally using pistols, grenades, and elixers because I’m leveling with my friend and he’s a guardian, so defense and control isn’t that important. We’ll see how things change as I get higher. I need to figure out what to do with the elite key still.