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How to get away from clicking?
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drewidice
I'm wanting to get away from clicking but am unsure what to do for key bindings. Some of my friends use 1,2,3 and 4 but thats just as ineffective as clicking I think, and I'm a rogue so I have way more then 4 moves that I use often. So can someone explain how you use your mouse in conjunction with movement keys and key bindings? Just give me an example of how your keyboard is set up and how you use it.
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besaba
if you have big hands, it's more effective to use esdf as it frees up more keys to use. Bind s and f as left and right strafe and have no sideways movement keys using right click mouse and dragging it to turn. Once you get used to it, its superior imo than having to use two extra buttons for left and right. My keybindings are as follows:
1: Invuln belt/battlemaster trink/healthstone macro
2: rupture
3: vanish
4: trinket one (usually pvp trink), shift+4: trinket two
5: snd
q: blind, shift+q: prep
w: kick, shift+w: wotf
a: kidney shot, premed while stealthed
z: sprint
x: evasion
c: ghostly strike, sap while stealthed
v: eviscerate, garrote while stealthed, shift+v: envenom
g: hemo (g is always my main attack), cheap shot while stealthed, shift+g: cloak of shadows
r: gouge, ambush while stealthed, shift+r: deadly throw
y: spare keybind, usually for adrenaline rush when I spec combat, shift+y: shiv although I think there might be a better place for it
h: expose armor, shift+h: thistle tea
b: mh weap swap macro, shift+b: offhand weap swap macro
j: reply to whisper
u: bandage, shift+u: cannibalize
6-0 are various gear swaps
spacebar is jump, shift+space is unbound because in a bg it will toggle the scoreboard while you're trying to fight
My mouse has a button on the side which I use for shadowstep or cold blood mutilate. I hope this helps, it took me forever to type it out/remember it. :(
Post by
drewidice
Right-click+drag for turning. W for forward, A+D or Q+E for strafe. Don't touch your turning or backwards keys.
Bind everything in finger's reach. Stick to the letter keys before the number keys. Bind your most frequently used abilities, or most important abilities to R, T, F, and G and modifiers. And try to group logically (eg F is my control key; F for Sap, shift-F for Gouge, ctrl-F for Kidney Shot, alt-F for Cheap Shot).
My exact button layout (using a 5 button mouse) for a rogue is:
W: Forward
A: Strafe left
D: Strafe right
Middle click: Set focus
R: Hemorrhage
sR: Eviscerate
cR: Ghostly Strike
T: Slice and Dice
sT: Expose Armor
F: Sap (popular Sap macro for PvP)
sF: Gouge
cF: Kidney Shot
aF: Cheap Shot
G: Blind
sG: Deadly Throw
cG: Shiv
aG: Distract
B: Garrote
sB: Rupture
V: Bandage
sV: Cannibalize
cV: Potion
aV: Food
C: Kick
X: Misc engineering items (including modifier keys)
Z: Feint
2: PvP Trinket
s2: Will of the Forsaken
3: Secondary DPS trinket
4: Cloak of Shadows
s4: Evasion
5: Preperation
s5: Premeditate
Mouse4: Stealth
sMouse4: Vanish
Mouse5: Shadowstep
sMouse5: Sprint
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you others for explaining and giving me different setups :))
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