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Survey - mouse click or hot-keys to trigger abilities?
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flakmeister
The first couple of months I was a confessed clicker. Every action, no matter how mundane, was activated through clicking.
Being a former WC3 player, however, I remembered the usefulness of keybindings, and how it served a pivotal role in carrying out complex micro and macro commands, and I began to try to emulate that playing style.
It has taken me damn well near a year to perfect, but I am now able to issue nearly every command entirely without using the mouse to activate them. Only my HS, profession skills and my paperdoll are still clicked into being.
I cannot stress how big a difference it has made in my way of playing, not having to bother looking at an action bar. I feel much more in touch with the flow of the game and it serves me greatly as a tank, as I can now command a much wider view of the raid's situation and adapt.
It will always be a trial to shift from mouse to keyboard but there is no denying the superiority of the keyboard playing style. Just bear with it and you WILL turn out a more competent player in the end.
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Omerta
Keyboard for the win. It does take some adjusting to though. I use Dominos so I can see what I need too while keeping my rotation right under my feet.
-Tom
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Reedyn
The only fault you did was to use mouse for movement, you should only use mouse for turning camera, clicking mobs, and in some cases clicking a button.
Movement = WASD keys.
And spells, personally i use 1-6 numbers, and then i use the buttons surrounding the WASD keys for quick reach and with a modiefier on alt and shift for even more combinations.
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Post by
FritzTheCat
Both.
Tanking as a warrior generally means I click most of my abilities save 3:
1- Taunt
2 -Heroic Strike
F1 - the 'oh crap' button for my cooldown blowing macro
I click all the rest of my abilities as needed. The other keybinds I use frequently are for quickly marking monsters - like 5-0 keys are skull, x, square, etc
This style has paid off going into Ulduar, as I find I need to concentrate a lot on moving around in Ulduar, and that means lots of strafing/keyboard turning. =)
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sugarzombie
i keyboard turn & use number pad (0-9 and alt 0-9) for abilities. tab & shift tab to change targets, but sometimes i move my hand between num pad & mouse.
mouse is for looting & i have wheel up & down bound to panic buttons (taunt and intercept) for quick target-and-response.
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DaCyclops
I generally use my keyboard 1-5 for skills I need in-combat, macro'd to stack a little extra into them. I use my mouse to trigger anything that is situational (Chal Shout, Vigilance, Potions, Panics) as well my mouseover Taunt/HeroicThrow. Side button on mouse is set to Heroic Strike.
Movement is with mouse when relaxed, Keyboard when focused/incombat.
I come from an FPS background, so I dont have too much of an issue juggling keyboard movement and keyboard skills at the same time. If I do, I will just draw the mouse down for a moment.
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Everborne
If you use only the mouse for movement and turning, what do you use for strafing?
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