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Guild Wars 2 and Wrist Pain
And now for a style of gaming completely different!
Danae and I are playing a *lot* of Guild Wars 2. It's a ton of fun. However, I find that I am limited in more difficult parts that require a lot of movement/skill use combination because of my chronic wrist pain.
I have a mouse I love with three joysticks on it that I've mapped enough controls to that I can play with one hand. (I don't know what I'm going to do when this long-discontinued mouse dies; it literally makes games playable for long periods without nearly debilitating wrist and arm pain.) But I have to look down at the bottom of the screen to click the skill buttons and I can't do that while moving and dodging and tracking enemies in combat when things are very complex. (Mapped to my mouse, I have movement on one joystick. Mounting/dismounting, inventory, and trading post on another, and map and the interact key on the third. There are a few open positions left for mapping functions, but not nearly enough for all the combat skills I'd want to have easy access to.
Danae thought maybe I could try playing a tanky build; one who can stand around and soak damage. However, it seems to me like Guild Wars encourages more rounded, less single-purpose characters who all have the ability to engage in relatively complex combat strategies when dealing with high-level content. And that's awesome! But makes it harder to do things one-handed.
If you're curious, this is the mouse I have. I bought it new old stock from Amazon, and found a third party driver that someone wrote that allows much more functionality for the joysticks. I would hug the person who wrote it if I could and they liked hugs.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/80954-sandio-3d-game-o2-mouse-review
Danae and I are playing a *lot* of Guild Wars 2. It's a ton of fun. However, I find that I am limited in more difficult parts that require a lot of movement/skill use combination because of my chronic wrist pain.
I have a mouse I love with three joysticks on it that I've mapped enough controls to that I can play with one hand. (I don't know what I'm going to do when this long-discontinued mouse dies; it literally makes games playable for long periods without nearly debilitating wrist and arm pain.) But I have to look down at the bottom of the screen to click the skill buttons and I can't do that while moving and dodging and tracking enemies in combat when things are very complex. (Mapped to my mouse, I have movement on one joystick. Mounting/dismounting, inventory, and trading post on another, and map and the interact key on the third. There are a few open positions left for mapping functions, but not nearly enough for all the combat skills I'd want to have easy access to.
Danae thought maybe I could try playing a tanky build; one who can stand around and soak damage. However, it seems to me like Guild Wars encourages more rounded, less single-purpose characters who all have the ability to engage in relatively complex combat strategies when dealing with high-level content. And that's awesome! But makes it harder to do things one-handed.
If you're curious, this is the mouse I have. I bought it new old stock from Amazon, and found a third party driver that someone wrote that allows much more functionality for the joysticks. I would hug the person who wrote it if I could and they liked hugs.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/80954-sandio-3d-game-o2-mouse-review