Originally posted by KingGator

Originally posted by Quizzical
What is a "clicker"?

Its a label the hard core nerds put on people who click the keyboard to indicate they're not cool in the eyes of the uber geeks.

I hate elitism as much as the next guy, but you might want to consider learning what a term means before going off on it.  

It's just a very inefficient use of the mouse, to click skills with it.  You need the mouse in other ways, so using your keyboard for skill use, whenever possible, is just a better coordinated way of going about it.  It's not about elitism, so much as just a question of whether being that coordinated and efficient is necessary to enjoy GW2, I guess due to it being more demanding.  If you're a clicker, you're probably not very mobile, and will inherently have a harder time with some of the combat mechanics.

Originally posted by Vhaln

Originally posted by KingGator

Originally posted by Quizzical
What is a "clicker"?

Its a label the hard core nerds put on people who click the keyboard to indicate they're not cool in the eyes of the uber geeks.

I hate elitism as much as the next guy, but you might want to consider learning what a term means before going off on it.  

It's just a very inefficient use of the mouse, to click skills with it.  You need the mouse in other ways, so using your keyboard for skill use, whenever possible, is just a better coordinated way of going about it.  It's not about elitism, so much as just a question of whether being that coordinated and efficient is necessary to enjoy GW2, I guess due to it being more demanding.  If you're a clicker, you're probably not very mobile, and will inherently have a harder time with some of the combat mechanics.

This ^

For certain PvE encounters, you could probably get away with clicking, but I would definitely say that the game is not very friendly to clickers.

I have to seriously question some of the posters here who claim to have 'done just fine' in PvP with clicking on skills. Id be willing to be that, at the very least, they weren't playing melee characters, and even more likely, they were probably sitting back and nuking from afar (Which seems to be one of the only methods of fighting that supports clicking.

Positioning is just too important in this game to sacrifice that function of the mouse to use skills. Most people won't hit if you aren't facing / aiming at your target. Thieves do more damage when behind their targets and will drop targets who don't deal with that well extremely fast. AoE is very stationary friendly, but most competent players won't sit in AoE.

The combat for most of the game is just too mobile. I really don't see how people can click through the majority of this game. Either you're a ranger in PvE, letting your pet do most of the work, or you are a meatshield in PvE stacking AoEs on yourself.

I stopped my clicking days in SWTOR. That's around when I bought my Naga Epic, and now I'm neither a clicker or a keyboard presser. I'm a mouse button presser >:D, oh and I'm still playing.

Originally posted by aesperus

Originally posted by Vhaln

Originally posted by KingGator

Originally posted by Quizzical
What is a "clicker"?

Its a label the hard core nerds put on people who click the keyboard to indicate they're not cool in the eyes of the uber geeks.

I hate elitism as much as the next guy, but you might want to consider learning what a term means before going off on it.  

It's just a very inefficient use of the mouse, to click skills with it.  You need the mouse in other ways, so using your keyboard for skill use, whenever possible, is just a better coordinated way of going about it.  It's not about elitism, so much as just a question of whether being that coordinated and efficient is necessary to enjoy GW2, I guess due to it being more demanding.  If you're a clicker, you're probably not very mobile, and will inherently have a harder time with some of the combat mechanics.

This ^

For certain PvE encounters, you could probably get away with clicking, but I would definitely say that the game is not very friendly to clickers.

I have to seriously question some of the posters here who claim to have 'done just fine' in PvP with clicking on skills. Id be willing to be that, at the very least, they weren't playing melee characters, and even more likely, they were probably sitting back and nuking from afar (Which seems to be one of the only methods of fighting that supports clicking.

Positioning is just too important in this game to sacrifice that function of the mouse to use skills. Most people won't hit if you aren't facing / aiming at your target. Thieves do more damage when behind their targets and will drop targets who don't deal with that well extremely fast. AoE is very stationary friendly, but most competent players won't sit in AoE.

The combat for most of the game is just too mobile. I really don't see how people can click through the majority of this game. Either you're a ranger in PvE, letting your pet do most of the work, or you are a meatshield in PvE stacking AoEs on yourself.

Or...they are just good and are not bound by others' assumptions of deficiencies 

Originally posted by bossalinie

Or...they are just good and are not bound by others' assumptions of deficiencies 

No reason to take it personally.  I'm not calling you deficient.  I have no idea how well you do.  It's just that in my own experience, mouse-clicking skills is a deficient way of using a skillbar. YMMV.

I'm mostly a clicker and am still playing regularly.

In fact, I play pretty much the same way I did in GW1 except for moving now.

Originally posted by pupurun
one of the dumbest polls i ever got to vote on....

You had to be there lol. Someone this morning made a trollish post that is now locked. In it it said "All the clickers and the bads have left the game." Along with a bunch of other things. 

I agreeded with all but this statement and another line. 

Yes, I click 14 buttons on my MMO7 mouse: http://www.cyborggaming.com/prod/mmo.htm

No, though this game would make clicking a handicap more so. It is no where near as complex as other games mind you, but having control of the camera is a big help in being able to move around effectively which is where most of the skill comes from in this game. 

Truthfully though, clicking even in other games should be just as ineffective in more difficult environments such as raids, even more so. 

I am hybrid.. 1-4 sometimes 5 are pressed numerically with hotkeys.. Q and E strafe and I control the view (so mouseturners can't try to outmanuever me by running in circles) also using backpeddling (yes, I said it, backpeddling) to keep my enemies in front of me..

I tend to click skills that don't rely so much on timing, but utility of use..  In GW2 since there arent millions of hotkeys to be pressed to fight, doesn't make since to try and callout "clickers"...

How many people are clickers in League Of Legends?

Get a gaming mouse they bind your too main attacks on the side thumb buttons if you get a gaming mouse with 4 buttons you can bind more then two skills or spells. I have a logitech G500 great mouse won't break on you I have two backupsi I bought for refurbs off ebay.

I use a combination of clicks on the screen and just use two main attacks on the mosue and just the keyboard for movement.

What happens with my elementalist the spells can screw up once you get a slot skill in use so it messes up your system.

Playing Duke Nukem till level 42 helped with my keyboard skills.