User:Ra Nae/tips

Tips
Here are a few things not every player knows but should. This list is in no way exhaustive - I presume you're familiar with basic stuff like c+space c+space c+space, since it's what you're doing 90% of the time in GW.


 * You don't need to open (I) Inventory and drag&drop to equip items. Open your bags with F9 and double-click on the item you want to use. Works for changing armour pieces and getting dressed quickly too.
 * If you run out of bag space in an instance (i.e. not a town) and get another good drop, you can make room for an extra item by equipping a secondary off-hand weapon. Unless you're already equipped with one, obviously. So when wielding a staff/hammer/scythe/bow, you can also carry a shield/focus, though you don't get to use it.
 * To synchronize emotes type /emote *. That's: slash-emote-space-star. Emotes are looped so if the person you want to sync with is already dancing, enter /dance * just before his dance moves reset/restart. If someone is sitting, everyone run behind his head and do the same with /drums *.
 * Did you know that you can observe PvP battles? See Observer mode to find out how.
 * Tab: cycles through targets (Shift+Tab does this in reverse).
 * You can target objects too, like loot on the ground. Open Options F11, Control and look for Targeting: Item. Bind a key to it and you'll be able to use that+space instead of clicking on the loot to pick it up.
 * Open Options F11, General, Text Language and pick Bork! Bork! Bork! to... bork.
 * Take some money with you into explorable areas & kneel at rez shrines: ghosts that pop up will offer various buffs.
 * Unless you're on dial-up, use -image.
 * You don't need to run back and forth between merchants and storage. Just keep the storage window open.
 * You don't need to click on a player to invite them to your team. Just type their name into the empty slot under the names already in your party and hit Enter or click on the little plus. The party leader will be whoever had the largest party when the invite was accepted or whoever issued the invite if the two teams were the same size.
 * If you run from a mob with your back to them, you're likely to take more damage (larger chance of critical hits). At least while you're still in their reach.
 * Ctrl+Shift+space to just target instead of perform action, e.g. "Ona Nae is dead!" (Ctrl+Shift+space) vs "I'm moving to Ona Nae's corpse." (Ctrl+space)
 * Once an enemy target has been called (high-priority target), you can press T or click on the T next the caller's name in the party panel and you'll be targeting the same foe. It's usually used to say either "this thing must go first" or "need more help killing this".
 * If you have a funky build, Ctrl+click on your skillbar while you're still in town to let your team know. Casters will usually want to do this so they can adapt and make their builds work together, e.g. you'll usually want a protection monk + a healing monk and not two protters.
 * When you have an enemy targeted you can see what skills he/she/it is using. If it's something that needs to be interrupted or avoided or is just annoying, Ctrl+click on that skill icon (usually below monster's name) to warn your team, "[Enemy] is using [a skill that might be a problem so pls act accordingly]!"
 * If you have a hex/condition on you that is a serious pain and you know that a party member has hex/cond removal, Ctrl+click on it to let them know you'd like to see them use it on you. Do this too often or when everyone else has the same hex/cond on them and you'll really be popular.
 * If you're about to take on a large mob, let your team know if you're out of energy by Ctrl+clicking (once) on your energy bar. If they have brains, they'll wait for recharge.
 * Ctrl+skill when your team needs to know it, e.g. with Totem of Man to let them know you're out of Ursan or when rezzing someone so the rest can carry on fighting (ofc heroes&hench won't care, they'll happily take a moment for a simultaneous rez ><).
 * If you're lying on the ground, quite dead, you can click on a party member and watch the action from their perspective.
 * You don't have to retype the text you've already entered in chat. Just press up&down arrows when your cursor is in the chat box to scroll through recently typed comments.
 * You don't have to click on the chat line/box to activate it: press Enter. Start with one of the symbols you see in chat tabs above the chat line to switch between boxes. You can also switch chat windows with shift+[number key], such as shift+2 for guild and shift+5 for alliance chat.
 * To hide the user interface, press Ctrl+Shift+H. Press the same to turn it back on. You can Shift+PrintScrn to quickly take a screen shot without the interface. Shift+PrintScrn also hides some things Ctrl+Shift+H doesn't.
 * If you have several of the same item stacked together, you can split that stack in two by holding down Shift, clicking on the stack and dragging it to another inventory slot (works in storage and bags). A window will pop up asking how many you wish to transfer.
 * You can flag your heroes further away than your radar lets you. Open the U mission map and place flags on that.
 * if you have more than one keyboard layout installed, you can switch between them with Shift+Alt (just in case you switched by mistake and don't know how to fix it).