If your issue with a desktop is size, you can get pretty small with micro-ATX or mini-ITX. Not as small as a laptop of course, but hell of a lot more performance.
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@Stinkfinger75 said:
Allow me to explain. At best with a kb/m you are using only one key to move. But chances are that's not during combat, during combat you are doing many things at once, moving in probably more than one direction (back and to the left perhaps), using weapon, class, and profession abilities, targeting, and dodging. Lets illustrate a scenario (based on the default key mappings), you are in a fight, moving away and to the left and want to dodge, there's three fingers needed (maybe one less if double tapping dodging is enabled) on your keyboard for movement plus your mouse hand manipulating the camera, then you want to target another enemy, that's a finger stretch to the T key, then you want to fire off weapon skill 1, that means probably moving one of your movement fingers over to the 1 key, by this point you've taken a beating and want to heal, then you have to stretch a finger over to the 6 key. I don't think that's an unrealistic situation, requires a lot of finger gymnastics, and all happen in very quick succession. That means five (maybe six) very fast finger movements using six keys in a very very short time frame, plus you are still using your right hand to control your camera. To me that seems like there is a lot of room for error in a pretty standard situation. On a controller using my profile I can do all that on two sticks and two buttons, all conveniently within very close proximity of one another on a device designed to play games with. To me that seems like far less room for error and thereby results in better game playing. Over on the Pinnacle site there are some notes about how I came up with my "controller theory" for how the buttons are mapped, once you grasp the simple concept I think playing with a controller is a completely viable option for GW2.
There's one thing you've taken for granted - the fact that your comparison uses default keybinds. Just as you have painstakingly crafted a profile analagous to the keyboard bindings, a custom keybind setting plays a lot better than the default; Taugrim actually has a pretty good setup for Guild Wars 2. Yes, your controller setup is viable with the caveat that it only works for combat. However, I don't think it 'trumps anything you can do with a keyboard and mouse' when you haven't explored the idea that the keyboard can be further optimised.
Still, great job at porting the controls!
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