GW2 Stress Test - May 14th:

[Loggahead]

All,

Just saw a tweety tweet tweet from Arenanet that they will be having a surprise stress test this coming Monday, the 14th from 11:00am - 6:00pm PDT (1:00pm - 8:00pm CST)

Post here if any of you plan on getting on for a little bit. I doubt I will get to play much since I don't usually get to fire up a game until around 8pm.

Here's a linky link link

-logga

[morgwath]

I unfortunately will not be able to log on during that time. For part of it I am at work, then I have an awards ceremony (for the students) that I must attend.

[Drittunge]

I didn't get a chance to log on and get a few minutes in. Anyone get a second peek? Any changes?

[Loggahead]

I did get a chance to play maybe 30 minutes to an hour. I didn't do too much since I knew my time was limited.

I did however spend some time changing and testing around with my control scheme in GW2. I had a hard time in the beta getting used to constantly moving / avoiding combat while activating skills. Especially when it came to using the F-key skills for profession skills.

I decided that I was past due on buying a new keyboard and mouse to give me a better layout for games and used this stress test as a window to test out my new mouse and keyboard. I purchased a Razer Death Adder mouse which gave me two side buttons (which I didn't have on my prior cheapy mouse) and a Roccat Arvo keyboard that has three macro buttons underneath the spacebar. My goal was to add easily accessible keys/buttons to my setup.

The Death Adder mouse was defnitely the best purchase and I couldn't be happier with it. I looked at the Naga by Razer but felt the 6-12 buttons on it were too much. I may still consider the Naga Hex, who knows. Anyhow, I used the side buttons for my healing skill and to bring up the in-game map. This worked great! As for the keyboard, I used the three thumb keys (under the spacebar) to map as F1-F3 for my profession skills. I am not sure I am going to keep the keyboard because of its compactness, but the thumb keys are incredibly functional.

All that said, I had a good time as always in GW2 and the paradigm shift of how combat works is starting to click with me. I'm having to break out of the mindset of standing in front of mobs and activating skills. More positional awareness is needed!

[Drittunge]

I bought a Razer Naga when I started playing SWTOR. I love it. At the start, I could barely hit one or two of the thumb buttons on command. But after a bit of playing it starts becoming second-nature. I find it hard to play games without it now. Absolutely fantastic for PvP/twitch gaming. Even more button combos when you think of alt, ctrl, shift along with 12 buttons at your thumb's command.

I could definitely use a new keyboard though. The one I'm using now has mini F-keys that aren't even marked with the F-key name, just hotkeys for system commands.

I'm looking forward to the combat movement. I never did much in the past usually playing tank/healer, other than not standing in the fire (at least trying not to...), but I played a mobile, ranged-dps vanguard in SWTOR that required a lot of distance control. It made fights much more interesting.

[morgwath]

I looked REALLY hard at the naga when i got SWTOR, but with my big fat thumbs i didn't think i could handle the buttons very well, plus i use a Belkin(now owned by razor i think) n52te gaming pad(allows me to use a thumb on a directional pad instead of ASWD which frees up my other fingers for the other 16 programable keys + scrollwheel).

So i ended up going with the Razor Imperator for a mouse and have really enjoyed it.

[Loggahead]

Morg, when using that gaming pad, what binding do you use for jump? I thought long and hard about either getting the Razer Nostromo or the Logitech G13 for that purpose and using the dpad as well for movement.

Ok, so I returned the Roccat keyboard and bought a Razer Anansi at Bestbuy. I freaking LOVE this keyboard!!!

[morgwath]

there is a small button under the control pad that can be used for swapping profiles, but it also makes a good jump button.