Keybinds vs clicking

Ever tried holding your left mouse button down, then pressing the ability and then letting go?

There you have no delay..

Wow, wonder what else I can school you guys...

When people talk about keybinding being more efficient, what they're talking about in most cases is saving fractions of a second. Now, a good player can do a lot of damage to you if you give him that fraction of a second opening. But frankly, most players (in Regs, grouped ranked is another story) aren't that good.

So I'd say if you plan on going into grouped ranked (I don't know how solo ranked will shake out skill-wise), yeah, switch to keybindings. But a more casual player might find that the effort involved in making the switch not really worth it.

Okay then let me put it in terms you understand better. What gives you the right to judge another person as a bad player for playing how they want to? it may have a very SLIGHT impact on the overall team performance. But nothing of a major importance.

By your view on the topic, responding to you is an utter waste of words, and you should be grateful for even doing so.

For others to try and enforce their own game play prefrences is like me trying to force you to eat peanuts and like them even if you have an allergy to them.

Those "Fractions" of a second count up véry quickly one after another.
And can most definitely mean the difference between Victory and Defeat. Life and Death.

You can't speak. You havn't fully keybinded.

I've been a clicker once, and for the last 3 years a fully decked out keybinder. Clicking is bad.

If you made the change you would agree with me, but untill you have done so.. your opinion is void.

This game is my first MMO. I used to keyboard turn and click abilities. Then I tried keybinding and mouse turning about 15 months ago. It took me a full month to adapt myself to where I was comfortable but now I would never go back to keyboard turns and clicks. After binding for a year, it simply does not make sense to me for anyone to keyboard turn and click abilities. My pvp is so much more fluid, it flows. I am able to pay better attention instead of looking for my abilities to click on the hotbars. I am able to tell (almost subconsciously) what abilities are available and which are on cooldown without ever taking my eyes off of the action. My peripheral vision takes care of it for me instead of my central vision.

When you click abilities your central vision has to be distracted momentarily or you risk clicking the wrong ability. It's that simple.

Play the way you feel most comfortable. Keybind, mouse, or clicking it's all a matter of preference. When I play some one I have no idea whether they are a clicker or not. Some people will argue the point because they had been made fun of by another player. So they try a new skill and get really good at that.

I will admit there are certain things that might come easier to keybinders like, facing target and type speed. But I personally have quickly adapted my game to match theirs. And now the only thing that slows me down is the GCD lol.

That's my two cents.

Not arguing that. But when I first switched, I literally gave up twice before it stuck. You will spend at least a couple weeks just getting facerolled while you hit the wrong key and are constantly looking at your keyboard trying to avoid that, instead of paying attention to the action. It's not as easy as flipping on a toggle, and in Regs, for the most part, you can definitely do "good enough" just with clicking.

Whether "good enough" is acceptable or not is up to you.

You make a good point with the GCD. I personally am much faster with unleashing my abilities than the average rank pvper. This might be because I played this game since launch, and know every class weaknesses and strengths. However a clicker can duel a keybinder and still win.
I am sure it's happen before.

Yeah, it seems like your argument is not really keybinds vs clicks, its more like a philosophical argument of "in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter so let them do what they want". The same argument can be made about people not getting good gear or not augmenting gear-it's their money let them buy what they want with it, why do they have to buy kits and augments?

Just like not augmenting, clicking instead of keybinding does have an effect on the battle field. Keyboard turning has a huge effect on the battle field (I can easily kill a keyboard turner, but a mouse turner is more of a challenge). I won't go into why it has an effect as I believe a few others gave many reasons why already, but I will say that it is annoying having them on my team, just as it is annoying having someone unaugmented or geared in BM gear.

It all comes down to respect for other peoples time. We all put in our time and effort to try to win, and if someone just doesn't want to put any effort into learning how to keybind, or taking an hour to learn about he bolster or invest some of his money in augments, I don't want to play with that person. If he doesn't have enough money for all augments, no problem; if he still can't understand some aspects of the bolster, its ok; If his/her hands are too small to keybind every single little combination possible or he is still learning how to do it, not a problem. We all went through this at some point and might go through it again later.

But when a person is too lazy to learn a better way to play, I feel like he does not respect the time of his teammates and I do not want to give him any of my time in return. You get as much as you put in, imo.