Game pad vs Keyboard

[ispano]

Most of that doesnt make much sense but in my case I can target what i want, hit the spell i want in 3 or 4 button presses given that i have macros on triggers. in av for example group stop at your kill spot target your mob usually involves pressing left or right once or twice if you target one thet dies fast hit your trigger and press your macro.

while a mouse has a sense of precision in the mass pull fests this game has trying to click the mob in the middle with the most hp with a mouse is rather hard to do personally. with a pad i can just hit left or rightt ill i find one with high enough hp to survive my casting time.

the differences between pad vs mouse/keyboard aren't dramatically different. and vary hugely. you'll never see evidence that gamepad monks regularly out perform mouse keyboards monks or vice versa

You'll hopefully realize in my first response I said that the current UI latency and whatnot reduces the effectiveness. However, come 2.0 much of that should be cleared up.

Let me ask you this? What if you have several macros, not just 2 or 3? What if you need many many skills? You'll have to hit a button several more times to get to the appropriate key. As it is now, I hit the key I need, OR use a thumb button once to move the bar up or down, then hit one key. I don't need to move to the right or left whatsoever. Come 2.0 I won't have to move the bar either.

As for one outdoing the other? I've played with many people, many who use one form of control or the other. The ones using Gamepads I can regularly see me, even with my 200+ Latency, performing skill chains before them, getting into position before them and whatnot. That's of course only my word on that, no real proof.

Also, not to mention, while you're "tabbing" through targets to get the right one, with the default controller setup you're also not moving. If you change movement to the other stick, or targeting to a different button you can, but then you can't do something else while moving and targeting. I can.

Also saying the differences aren't dramatically different, yet vary hugely, is contradicting yourself.