Guild Wars 2

Great suggestions from the OP, really hoping some of the things suggested will be implemented.
I find concerns about the negative impact of hand health when playing GW2 is a legit one and comes down to some game design flaws.

I’ve been playing games for nearly 10 years without any problems related to hands being strained but one month in GW2 is starting to give me some serious trouble.
The huge difference I notice is that GW2 lacks tools that other game developers have implented to reduce the amount of strain on your hand.
For example, ingame macros use keystrokes for commands instead of mouseclicks and some games support the use of mouseover-macros which further minimizes the strain done to your hands and the stress on your actual mouse aswell.

The amount of loot that is given out in lootbags, which every single one of them requires double-clicking to open them up. After opening up there is more clicking to be done if you want to salvage or sell the items.
Silverwastes, as much as I enjoy the zone, is a serious issue in this regard. Not only the opening of bags and salvaging (for mats that you want/need to craft for!) you are given tons of Pile of Silky Sand, Ambrite, Essence of Luck (which is still putting tons of strain even after crafting them to higher qualities)…etc. The list goes on and the clicking really never ends while playing this game.

Any sort of help or input is appreciated because I find I will have to limit my gaming experience due to not wanting to risk some long-term injury. I’ve already tried the Numpad-trick (Alt + Shift + NumLock and then + on numpad to salvage), and it would work if I wouldn’t have been a leftie (silly…I know) and have to change my primary mousebuttons around, i.e it won’t salvage unless I constantly keep changing the mousebuttons around when I want salvage, consume luck etc.
I’m not really computer savvy so I’m not sure what is really allowed by Anet when it comes to macros or how to even run them so yes, anything that helps me play this game without having to click insane amounts of times during one playsession is very welcome.
I really enjoy this game and want to keep playing it but not on the cost of my hands.

Thanks!

Menadena.7482:

Aww, I really feel for you. All that treasure is SUCH a burden. Two solutions:

a) do not farm chests in the first place
b) delete those equipment bags after getting the crests and such

I regularly have around 70 free slots in the open world and could have more if I wanted. No, that is not extra bag slots … just regularly cleaning up junk I do not need with me. It allows me to go to several world bosses and open all the loot without worry.

You are completely off, the OP is not complaining about the amount of loot per se but that the game design does not give players adequate tools to deal with the loot without risking some long-term injury.

RSI and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome are real and GW2 is NOT a hand-friendly game since it requires some ridiculous amounts of clicking by just simply playing the game. Other game developers have solved these issues by giving tools to let players handle repetitive tasks with keyboard but GW2 has none of that and on top of that, GW2 gives players heaps of loots in bags that requires opening with doubleclicks for every single bag which is unnecessary as it can be solved in different ways that haven’t been done.