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Fire PvP Key Bindings
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GrooveMaster
Upon recieving the scorch spell, and having heard how important it was going to be later on, I decided to bind it to the immediatly accesible 'R' key. THEN I got the the firestarter talent, and realized that, while I could still strafe 'left' with my ring finger and cast scorch with my index, I couldn't do the same while strafing to the right -- a huge issue in PvP where being able to stafe in both directions easily while still casting scorch is essential. I realized that no matter where i mapped scorch to on the keyboard, this was still going to be a problem.
I eventually came up with viable solution: i simply mapped scorch to mousewheel-down, freeing up my left hand entirely for strafing. I then proceeded to map the rest of my instants to the mousewheel as well (fire blast to mousewheel-up, counterspell to middle-click, blink to shift-mousewheel-up and so on.) There was a bit of a learning curve, but I eventually got the hang of it and it's been working well so far.
Anyways, was wondering if other fire-specced pvp-er's had a different solution to the issue(one that doesn't require a special keyboard/mouse and/or joystick.)
Post by
vincistis
Mine only works if your on a 13 inch laptop, but Il still say to give ideas. Since my laptop is small I can use my right thumb to move with the trackpad (Macbook, the whole pads a button) so, I can use my other right fingers to move with the arrow keys, and strafe with my thumb on the trackpad. Then I have every other key keybinded, for my left hand to press.
Post by
neogramps
I only recently started using the mousewheel for binds because I thought i might accidently mis-trigger it - but I've found it's actually very handy, so I now have m-up and down as well as 2 side buttons so I manage my pet, blinking and on the move instants from the mouse and everything else with my left hand.
Never had a huge issue moving off of a strafe for the split second it takes to hit R - but I currenlty have R for cone of cold, so I don't tend to do that while strafing.
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Post by
GrooveMaster
I tend to just jump when I cast anything that requires me to take my hand off the strafing keys. Your character keeps the momentum of whatever direction you are jumping in, and you have about a second to hit whatever other key you want to before returning your hand to the WASD keys.normally i'm a big fan of this: on my hunter for example, where ranged instances make up a large percentage of my spells, i'd jump, spin in mid-air with the mouse, fire off an abillity, and spin back the way I was facing before landing again.
The problem is that scorch, in conjunction with firestarter, can be cast while moving, but still has a cast time longer than the time it takes to jump and land again.
Anyways, ty all for your thoughts -- sounds like there's no easy solution to this, so I'll probably keep scorch bound to the mousewheel for now.
Post by
twsX
You can get used to anything and play it well..... you just have to get used to it.
Redundant, I know.
Here's what I have, and have had for a long time now:
http://i.imgur.com/E6u1t.png
What I do in regards to your problem is move to the right with my index finger (F) and press the scorch key (5) with my middle finger. Seems strange and unusual, but works perfectly well once....... you get used to it.
Also, abandoning WASD in favour of ESDF is the best thing I ever did.
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