One thing to add, if you're a Grenade Kit Engineer or something else with a lot of ground targeting where speed is more important than precision, definitely go with 'instant' over 'fast with range indicator' ground targeting. If you have issues with knowing where you cursor is (which shouldn't be the case if you're throwing 'nades all the time, look at some cursor add-ons), I think that's just a MUST for Grenade Engi's.
So ive been playing on and off for many many years...going back to the launch. Jesus how did i not know all of this camera stuff. And the targeting?!? my goodness thanks for this video.
"Lock Ground Target at Maximum Skill Range" should ALWAYS be enabled in my opinion. I would not be able to play the game without that option enabled. It should be enabled by default
Great guide, thanks! I learned a lot. One thing though, "Adjust Camera to Character Height" on or off depends on your race as you'll wanna have it boxed on an asura but not on a norn (for example) 🙂
I just started playing GW2 two weeks ago and dove into WvW a few days ago. It really scratched the itch I had for ZvZ content (that I didn't even know existed in this game) and I'm hooked. Unfortunately, I'm a level 80 Engineer without my Elite Spec and it's going to be a long time before I get enough points to equip Scrapper. I've found it really difficult to contribute meaningfully, but I hate the idea of being a meta slave (I understand why its important). Right now I've just been running with my med kit out most of the time, healing what I can, applying boons (w/ increased duration) and condition removal. I don't even think about touching offensive abilities. I joined a squad doing Stone Mist Castle and was having a blast rolling with the zerg. Then I doubled tapped 'A' while moving and dove head first over the castle wall and fell to my death. I took a replay to see wtf happened because I couldn't tell in real time lol. I am DEFINITELY turning "double tap to evade" off right now and never looking back haha. I don't have the Warclaw yet, so I had to run all the way back from spawn and rejoin the fight. Only 3k more points to go and I will complete the reward track and I've already completed the other 7 parts. Looking forward to getting some more experience and maybe becoming a little bit more useful!
I prefer to have ground targeting to instant and snap ground target to current target to make these skills work more like Guild Wars 1 and other MMO's.
Hey thanks for the video!, i've been struggling targeting enemies and im not sure how to correct the enemies most of the time, i disabled autotargeting (thanks god) and i added "nearest target" to my hotkeys which sometimes is not that great. do you recommend instead of using nearest target just target manually or is there another way to have an easy access to targetting? thanks for reading!
Nearest target is definitely the way I would go too. You can also do another keybind for "Next target" if you want to go really overboard. I personally use Nearest Target and click with my mouse if needed for someone very specific.
One thing to add, if you're a Grenade Kit Engineer or something else with a lot of ground targeting where speed is more important than precision, definitely go with 'instant' over 'fast with range indicator' ground targeting. If you have issues with knowing where you cursor is (which shouldn't be the case if you're throwing 'nades all the time, look at some cursor add-ons), I think that's just a MUST for Grenade Engi's.
So ive been playing on and off for many many years...going back to the launch. Jesus how did i not know all of this camera stuff. And the targeting?!? my goodness thanks for this video.
"Lock Ground Target at Maximum Skill Range" should ALWAYS be enabled in my opinion. I would not be able to play the game without that option enabled. It should be enabled by default
Great guide, thanks! I learned a lot. One thing though, "Adjust Camera to Character Height" on or off depends on your race as you'll wanna have it boxed on an asura but not on a norn (for example) 🙂
I just started playing GW2 two weeks ago and dove into WvW a few days ago. It really scratched the itch I had for ZvZ content (that I didn't even know existed in this game) and I'm hooked.
Unfortunately, I'm a level 80 Engineer without my Elite Spec and it's going to be a long time before I get enough points to equip Scrapper. I've found it really difficult to contribute meaningfully, but I hate the idea of being a meta slave (I understand why its important). Right now I've just been running with my med kit out most of the time, healing what I can, applying boons (w/ increased duration) and condition removal. I don't even think about touching offensive abilities.
I joined a squad doing Stone Mist Castle and was having a blast rolling with the zerg. Then I doubled tapped 'A' while moving and dove head first over the castle wall and fell to my death. I took a replay to see wtf happened because I couldn't tell in real time lol. I am DEFINITELY turning "double tap to evade" off right now and never looking back haha. I don't have the Warclaw yet, so I had to run all the way back from spawn and rejoin the fight. Only 3k more points to go and I will complete the reward track and I've already completed the other 7 parts. Looking forward to getting some more experience and maybe becoming a little bit more useful!
thanks, just started WvW and this helped a lot
Oh that should help, thank you!
So helpful :D
You forgot the sound setting, put player instrument volume to 0. HAHAHAHAHA
I prefer to have ground targeting to instant and snap ground target to current target to make these skills work more like Guild Wars 1 and other MMO's.
Thanks for this going in now to tweak :D3
some of the featured settings are defaults now since the August 2, 2022 patch
Yes!
I was really excited to see them finally change some of those horrible defaults that used to be.
Hey thanks for the video!, i've been struggling targeting enemies and im not sure how to correct the enemies most of the time, i disabled autotargeting (thanks god) and i added "nearest target" to my hotkeys which sometimes is not that great. do you recommend instead of using nearest target just target manually or is there another way to have an easy access to targetting? thanks for reading!
Nearest target is definitely the way I would go too. You can also do another keybind for "Next target" if you want to go really overboard. I personally use Nearest Target and click with my mouse if needed for someone very specific.
I’m curious about how you always have an enemy targeted. When I click to target I often target friendly players instead
I use a keybind to target enemies, no need for clicking with your mouse 👍
nah, effect lod off so you dont get hit by stuff that doesnt render