The 5 MOST ESSENTIAL Guild Wars 2 Skills to Improve Mobility
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- Guild Wars 2 combat is so fluid that the skill ceiling is extremely high for players who get good at controlling their characters. These are the most essential settings, mechanics, and techniques to learn to optimize your ability to travel quickly.
0:00 - Movement and Kiting
0:51 - Strafing and Turning
2:15 - Free Camera
4:00 - Efficient Substitutes
5:19 - About Face
7:47 - Kiting
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First step to become good is being able to control your character and good keybinds, then later worry about your builds, this is a game where mobility is overpowered.
Feel every game wether moba or more, is always about movement. Even if you can kill anyone if nobody can catch you then you will control objectives
Don’t know if I would call the mobility in this game “over powered”? I think it’s more like a skill that can be developed and improved with practice.
Vallun is one of the most skilled GW2 players I have ever seen play the game. There are probably many other players who are better, or just as good, but they don't make GW2 UA-cam videos. Learning how to play GW2 from Vallun is a sure way to improve your game play and make it easier for you to complete all levels of content within the game with greater ease. I've learned so much from his videos, but need to watch them many more times and practice his principles, before I will get close to his skill.
The last part with the battle from WvW was insane! Would like to see the full video of it with explanations, that's dope!
i will be doing a full wvw commentary video soon using similar situations
watching Vallun beating the crap out of fellow players in WvW could be sold as therapy. listening to his explanations could turn a long distance flight into something magical
Been playing this since 2011 kiting and mobility is very important with current state of pvp in this game and just how fast you can die if caught out of position, he speaks the truth here its worth learning if you want to improve your gameplay.
Love your guide format and clarity.
Top tier topic and coverage, really liked the mouse/keyboard indicators.
Fantastic video, honestly one of the most important skills for getting from being an intermediate player to advanced is learning how to properly control your character.
For me 1st skill would be to go back to non action camera. :D Though it is just much more relaxed for me not having to hold down right button at all.
I needed these vidz. Thank you for uploading GW2 vidz bro. Subbed @ main as well!
Also, strongly recommend to disable "Right-Click to Attack/Interact" if you plan to use the mouse buttons this much to control the camera otherwise its a disaster in mis-targeting. Alternatively, if your character doesn't need to 'about face' for skills but you still need to look behind you when running, just bind the "Look Behind" feature to a key and use that instead. Much easier than having to deal with the free camera thing but to each their own.
This is one of the best video ❤️ no one talks about it so thanks for making a video on it
Every gw2 player should sub. This is gold.
Thanks for these tips. Right mouse button steering. OMG so handy🤠
For me, the most essential skill to learn FIRSTLY, is to master Touch Typing. I'm a Hybrid type who sometimes have to look at my keyboard to press the correct key. It gets worse when I panick especially at PvP.
after years of playing mmos i learned where the most accessible keys are to my left hand. Takes a lot of practice and muscle memory but you are right that is more of an essential thing to all games
Buying a naga v2 hyperspeed and a Tartarus v2 has def improved things for me.
This is exactly what I needed as a newer player.. gotta build the habits early but jeeze it looks difficult
My mobility has been improved.
Do you experience about face “after cast”? What i mean is if you’re running and press LMB, about face, then IMMEDIATELY press RMB to face forward, sometimes the camera turns back around
Yes that was the the reason i gave up on this cancerous game
Can u recommend some keybinds for active camera players? Is it possible to be good ar pvp with active camera and do you have some guides on that subject. Thanks
Hi Vallun! Thank you for all the awesome content. If you don`t mind me asking, what is the best way to practice strafing? Thank you
try to do your damage rotation while moving, find a dps golem or something you can hit for a while and just hit it while moving around. Ideally you also have keybinds that are near eachother so your three fingers in that area can trade off pressing buttons
Nice vid. Been playing 10 years and the first criticism I faced was lack of keybinding. Now all these years later I am finding a shortcoming in character movement. About face without being completely disoriented is going to be my next leap forward I think. Is annoying getting circle strafe kited by melee classes and feeling like I have no answer.
I also have been playing GW2 for over ten years and I wish I would have known the importance of keybinds and movement tricks when I started playing, because it’s harder to learn after you have already developed bad playing habits and muscle memory. Anet should point all new players to videos like this one.
Do you have any videos on your key binds. I have yet to find a way to have all my skills easily accessible with my left hand and still keep my movement keys in their midst. If that makes sense.
Since a certain patch, A and D keys are bound to strafe by default.
Decouple dodge from double-tap.
In the name of Dwayna, _put it on Shift._
Let's move quicker!
so with the action camera this is impossible right? because when running into your camera the action cam forces you to face where you cast .... whyyyyyyy
most of the video is not using action cam yes
I saw from the Mukluk video that the Blish Hud has a range indicator. It can be super useful for new players to understand how far 400, 600, 1000, and 1200 units are with these indicators on.
Is it possible to combine with actioncam usage?
No way
Bru i just started playing this game and am using action cam to make movemnet easier
how to run back and forth freely? i put free camera but my character is still walking backwards
Left mouse to detach the camera from the character, than about face. You'll run towards the camera while still holding W (your S key sees almost no use with this technique, and will still make your character run backwards if you use it).
something that wasn't mentioned in the video but you can try for that
In the settings there is a toggle for action camera that will give you a crosshair when you turn it one
left click becomes your 1 ability/auto attack
right click becomestargeting
if action camera is turned on and you start pressing S to run backwards your character will turn around unless casting/attacking
same thing with strafing
I very much believe that action camera is underrated
@@eranoszrill8907 action cam is fine for some things, and might help some players learn to move more fluidly, but it's generally considered to have a lot of limitations for endgame content, particularly depending on your class.
For example, you lose the ability to place AoE behind you (or even to the sides) with the camera forward, which is a big detriment in situations where you need that forward facing or wide-ranging awarenes. You also have to home in on every single enemy you want to kill instead of being able to rely on a blend of targeted and manually placed attacks. Overall, it's a situational tool with some fun quirks rather than a full alternative. Which isn't to say that skilled players can't pull it off! It's just that if you're looking to make life easier, action cam really isn't that. You're going to have to put work into compensating for its drawbacks.
@@TottWriter I feel like people get this wrong a bit
I agree with the AOE placement
but you can still use tab targeting and your shots will try and hit the selected enemy
you don't need to be precise with it just because you have a crosshair on your screen
and for those situations where it limits you
quickly switching out of it to place 1 aoe is more then doable
To me it just feels like people are just very very used to more traditional mmo controls so they dismiss it as lesser
i presonally have an easier time because even in a crowd i can aim at what i want, target that enemy and shoot
while with tab targeting i might have to cycle through a bunch of enemies in a crowd and need a different key bind if i accidentally miss it and cycle over it or i have to cycle through them again
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Any tips for actually practicing movement?
go to an invincible golem in either pve or raid test zone, and use your combos and skill rotations WHILE moving in all directions. Make sure you can do it going backwards, change direction. Mostly takes time if you dont practice it this way.
I got really good at this game after I learned to play the piano fairly well.
i have 200 ping so my movements are pretty clunky and its kinda hard but idk i got so used to it i can play decent after 13k hrs
What's that armor you're wearing on your Necro?
its from the hall of monuments gw1
meaning you can get it only when you did your chores back in GW1.
wouldnt alot of the skill cap of gw2 be unlocked by making a free move option relevant to camera angle? basically convert a top down control scheme to whatever direction the camera is facing on its x axis.... basically so if you hold down s or backwards you would turn and run backwards instead of walking back facing forward.... a simple option could fix alot of these videos explaining movement and things like using about face to its potential..... imo my best play style would compliment that kind of controls... it is subjective but sux i cant play like that
no because that already exists and its action camera, and you can do fine with it, but you can do better by doing these things, and every competitive game has these small mechanics that you need to optimize beyond the core games mechanics that make no sense, if you just want to play the game then ignore this, but it assumes you want to learn how to get better not just have the game play itself
Dang here I thought action camera was standard for some reason lol
What's the music in the outtro? It's super familiar but I can't place it!
lol its from tales of phantasia, an ocremix called koan of drums, its my theme
@@Vallun Tales of Phantasia, of course! God, I haven't played that game in ages, no wonder I was struggling to place it. Thanks!
*Proceeds to relisten to that entire game's soundtrack and then the whole Summoning of Spirits OCRemix album again because damn nostalgia is a powerful thing.*
I use a ps4 controller, I find it really good
holding both mouse buttons down enables movement. less keys, easier play.
I use a controller but watched the whole video anyway
Instructions unclear: broke all my fingers.
Bro, i use F2, 1,2,3 to replace WASD and use my left thumb all over the keyboard and bind my current rotations in easy to sequences like " G
probably because most games try to use similar keybind layouts so its easier for gamers to pick up a new game and wasd is the simplest one
Wasd is decent. Actually better would be to play on something like rdfg, leaves more stuff on the left side for your pinky to hit.
Your setup with f2 doesn't work on many keyboards, the function keys are just too far away to be usable at all.
Casting everything with your thumb alone sounds slow as hell...if you're just spamming a rotation, fine, but when you gotta improvise and react in pvp, thumb would need to do too much work at once.
are we not going to talk about how he is level 1720? how long you been playing.. 😵
In spvp he's like 3k something lmao
I know gw2 is an old game, but man when you shoot a gun the bullet shouldn't go backwards
looks goofy af
lmao true
I'd like to add that using the Action Camera (and learning when to toggle it on-&-off) is a god-send.
If you're used to playing other RPGs like that lock the camera to the front to your mouse (i.e. Genshin Impact, etc.) Action Camera might be easier for you, especially if you PvP a lot. Though it does become problematic for controlling ranged AoE skills, you can toggle the Action Camera on-&-off in order for better aim. It's definitely a little janky at first - but after getting used to things, it's a great substitute.
If you wanna try it out:
Options --> Control Options --> Camera --> Toggle Action Camera
If you're not comfortable with it, stick to whatever you like to play with!
That's the beauty of the gameplay!
Enjoy the game and take a breather~
Yeah I 99% used a combat action camera and bind the shift key to toggle it on/off for quick casting certain skill to certain area.
i think targeting AOE spells with action camera can be made easy if you toggle the option that doesn't let you target them past their cast range
I'm always using action camera and with that placing AOEs are fairly easy but sometimes might requere a flick but that's a skill that you can bring from FPS games and such
of course to each their own
I've been playing since 2013 using an Xbox 360 controller lol. I've always been a console gamer, PC games never appealed to me until then. but when I discovered gw2 it was love at first sight. but i was terrible playing the game on the keyboard. I then discovered a way to emulate the xbox control on the PC. it was heaven for me. I have no idea how to play the game any other way now. with the implementation of the action camera everything became easier.
I use a Logitech G600 mouse, it has 12 programmable buttons on the side, I control all movement with the mouse. My left hand is a Logitech G13 game pad for my skill keys and other stuff. It has a joy stick on it so I can control movement from that is need be. Another good vid. thanks.
I just use action camera, it makes everything alot easier and no need to change all sorts of key binds.
Or learn to use action camera...
advent children music?
Bro I just use action cam...
thats fine, when you are ready to move off training wheels though youll know where to go
@@Vallun ouch. I feel called out by that burn. Lol.
But yeah... I recognise my weaknesses. Mobility is something I need to relearn or at least try too. I'm severely dyslexic, so one of my problems is disassociating movement directions with camera direction.
Maybe I can mix the two. I'll have to try it.
One thing that did revolutionise my mobility was simply disabling double tap dodge and using a key dodge instead.
I swap between depending on which setup I have or what I feel like using. Action cam is really nice for directional skills and easy movement, but if you want to hit consistently with skills that are directly cast, especially charge abilities like those on warrior's great sword and shield, it's usually better to use tab targeting so you don't miss.
Ultimately just do what works best for you.
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0:24 or if you live in OCEAN or SEA with constant 250 ping
Same situation here - lucky if its 250. I am playing with 300-400 sometimes 600 and I love PvP.Just recently got the ascension backpack though.
And always use combat camera! (That's a joke don't use it)
What's the issue iuse action camera and I'm.slapping in pvp ha
@@___m16 sure
I honestly feel like GW2 is not a "true MMO" purely because of the combat.
It's way closer to an Action RPG.
I understand that pedants will say "It's still an MMO because it's an RPG online with a massive player base"
You know what I mean, shut up.
Its all good, but i will change the caption to "the 5 most essential guild wars 2 skills to Improve mobility FOR RIGHT HANDERS". As a left hander its harder to play with keybinds. Im moving with arrows and i learned to click faster and i find it challenging for me for example to make it to plat in pvp this way.
the idea is great ... but dodging with double clicking W A S D will be hard
And not getting mad when you lose to a spell breaker Val