Click or Press?

Hi all.

Just wanted a response from the community about different play styles.

This is a simple poll , however clicking and pressing are too very different things.

Pressing: Our 8 skills as you know are hot'keyed as 1-8, 1 being the first on the left, 8 being last on the right. Are you somone who presses your skills using the 1-8 keys? If yes, then your a presser.

Clicking: Obviously the opposite to pressing, you're a clicker if you want nothing to do with 1-8, and click all of your skills with your mouse.

Personal experience has shown me that it is far more practical to press rather than to click. To click requires our brain to send a signal to our hand to move and click what are eyes are focused on, where as to pressing only requires us to teach our fingers what to press without looking at the keyboard. I find that my mouse is far better suited to stearing my camera.

If the camera system in guild wars was better, it would be possible to play without a mouse, as everything we need to do in combat is all in close range of w,s,a,d. We have Tab to target, C to target closest, and our skills just above.

I find that by having my combo in order of 1-8 on the skill bar, I can maximise my usefulness in all situations, as I do not have to take my eyes off my target to see where I am clicking, an extremely usefull skill in pvp.

If my poll works correctly, you will have the option to choose what catagory you fall under. If not, simply reply as:

Clicker

or

Presser

or

Mixed

Mixed.

Depends what I'm playing, so mixed. Sometimes I use my number keys for targeting teammates (monking) and other times for skills (offensive professions).

mixed. I press when monking (got my numpad set up for quick select of party members), do both on my rangers and warrior (left hand: tabbing targets and skills 1-4, right hand camera angles and skills 5-8), and mainly click on my elementalist because of the offsets for recharge.

I almost always use my left hand to tab targets. I changed the defaults, so that tab is target closest, and the tilde is target next. that way, I don't have to reach for any targetting keys, they're all right there.

Hi

Spam skills will always be pressed (well not exactly spam skills, but those you use moet often) whereas those rarer occasions when you use those skills that arent needed that often will be ckilcked (examples, maintained enchantments,)

oljomo

I have 2 thumb buttons on my mouse that I have set for next or previous target, tab set for closest target. I click mostly, although even though I have been playing since launch of prophecies, I still tweak my setup, ever evolving playstyle I guess.

I have 2 thumb buttons on my mouse that I have set for next or previous target, tab set for closest target. I click mostly, although even though I have been playing since launch of prophecies, I still tweak my setup, ever evolving playstyle I guess.

Presser.

Ive done my settings for 1-5 are normal, t g and b are the skills 5-8. r f and v all have thier uses aswell

I use keyboard for 1-5 and 8, with skills 6-7 on mouse4+mouse5

1-4 Keyboard
5-8 Mouse

Naturally I have all my useful skills in the front 4 slots

Mouse4 opens Hero menu because I use it so much, Mouse5 is TS talk button, used to open all bags :|

Mixed.

Also bound the select called target button to my mouse.

presser. skills 1-4 stays were they are, but 5-8 are mapped near the wasd keys.
for example 5=q, 6=e, 7=r, 8=f

1-4 pressing (attack and healing skills)
5-8 clicker (rez skills, evade stances, cap signet)

Mostly clicker unless I'm healing then I press skills and click players. I've gotta train myself to press combat skills so I can look up and enjoy the scenery once in awhile..

Quote: Originally Posted by White_Chaos

Press.. I have big hands. :|

Press - I have a Nostromo.

I couldn't imagine clicking.

On my monk I am a presser, using my mouse to select party members.
With all other professions I am a clicker.

when i 55 i press but other than that i click almost always except whn using R for auto run

Mixed

If im going to use only one skill multiple times (such as Barrage or Repeating Strike) I usually just set it to 1 and spam away with that

but other wise i usually click, since im not really looking around when im in the middle of combat (thats called unfocused )