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I use one of those alt keyboard with a built in thumb stick. I can now cast spells, and move out of lava at the same time! I couldn't play this game without it. It is called a Razor Tartarus V2.
Im happy that im using a Naga Pro, i dont need to think about all that. 1-12 on side of the mouse. Buttons im so used to it now, its like a part of my hand. Then if i need second bar. Shift+1-12. Then CTR+1-12 for the 3th row. I never stretch a finger on my keyboard. If i have spell, that needs to go on the ground, its macro single click to mid mouse button. If i want to go full single hand, i have CTRL and Shift on middle mouse button to, just move it left and right and cast. So when im fighting a boss, I can drink coffee with one hand and do full rotation on the other hand. Ive heard it so many times on stream.. How can you eat and raid at the same time? Like the stream is recorded.. The mouse is so powerfull, its like sitting with a legendary in your hand. If someone take away that mouse from me. I wont be able to play the game ever again. I use it in every game that i play. Having the freedome to not move my hands to do things is so good. I might have to move my pinky finger to shift or control, or move my thumb abit to the left or so. It gives you more control in game. Its after that you stop fucking up in game. Because your hand is all over the keyboard, then trying to go back to the mouse. I have seen so many players, play wow.. It looks like work.
Im fine with Shift, Ctrl, Alt, and all the combinations. I don't need a MMO mouse for that. But what really helped me for different characters is kinda see all classes as the same. Maybe sound dumb, but all classes have some sort of interrupt, all classes got some defensive, some offensive CD's etc. So i basically just have the same binds of all chars, like interrupt on the same keys, combat ress etc. And it really makes it easier to get used to new classes aswell since you already got an idea of spells and keybindings.
you not need it but it makes life so much easier and opens up way to some "insane" bind combos that suits your playstayle with whole specter of right side of keyboard + with some of them you can actually do key combos outside of game enhancing your effectiveness even more ...
I do the same, I go from 1-4 for the main rotation, Q for interrupts, E for movement abilities, F for heals. My F1-F4 are defensive Cds, Alt 1-4 offensive CDs, Shift + key are my AoE modifiers, Alt + Key are my "disruptors". The same keys for every character. Sometimes my bars look empty with buttons missing, but Im so used to Shift + F being an AoE heal that, even if I have space on my 1-4, I'll leave them empty because I know my AoE is Shift + F.
I am so glad with this update. I have used your key-bind tutorial since the start of Shadowlands, and it did help me a lot on my alts to have a similar easy going experience as I had with my main. I am not much of an add-on person, but setting up my keybinds and rotation with this in mind really helped a lot. So again, thank you for the update and great work on these recent videos on the quality of life aspects of WoW :-)
Or just use an mmo mouse. 12 buttons on one finger. No contorting your left hand. Some models have an extra click button that you can bind to alt, shift or control. So 24 buttons with no hassle at all
Bought one of those MMO mouses back in 2013 and it was a fucking game changer. Changed me from a very casual player just doing quests to a heroic raider/mythic+ grinder
I've been abusing my hands since the original Doom and now I suffer from Cubital Tunnel Syndrome. I get extremely painful burning in my forearms, wrists and hands, some days I'm in agony and can't even hold my phone, let alone a mouse. Now I have to take Tramadol and Naproxen (strong prescription painkillers) just to get through the day, and I will need to go through a Nerve Conduction Study and then surgery to repair the damage. So yeah, don't neglect your hands, you will regret it later in life.
Biggest for me in this list is having consistent keybinds across characters. Main attacks always on certain keys, on demand heals/move speed on mouse wheel, interrupts/executes on mouse buttons, SHIFT modifiers for mouse buttons. Also love being able to macro all my DK buffs together with frost breath, turns five button presses into one massive BELCH. Recently have started putting defensive CDs next to each other so I can just 1,2,3 in emergencies and not have to find them all when I'm about to die. Also iirc RSI can be alleviated (to some degree) by keeping those muscles strong. Get a gripper to use, lift some weights, etc.. this may not be useful if you already have it badly but, I've been fending it off for years this way.
A tip for people with big hands, don't use WASD, personally I walk with UHJK and keybinded regular spells all the way to the left like EDC and to the right PL, you only have one modifier, but you also get way more real estate. It will take quite a lot of time, to update your muscle memory, but I've been doing this since the start of WOTLK
This is one my favorites that I learned when I started in BC! It seems so obvious after you do it, but I never see it mentioned anywhere. But what do I, a lowly keyboard turner, know lol (without a gaming mouse though, I need way too many buttons to not use my right hand on the number pad!).
Almost effective, try placing your buttons similar to how they are on your keyboard then you wont find yourself looking at it, in the middle of a fight when you get your hand off center. Example Top row - s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 with a few open unbound for situations stuff like consumables or say a quest item (though the UI now allows you to use many of them without doing) Second Row - 123456 Third Row - q e r t f g sR sT sF fourth row, z x c v sZ sX sC sV sG Granted this is a bit more then many (or even most) casual players will use. This allows you to be fluid in combat and not have to look at your binds or finger positioning in the heat of the moment. Also allow the use of multiple macros and such that many people don't ever use, nor understand.
For me once I found a 12 button mouse, I made all keys on the side relate to buttons on the keypad, and so frees up my left hand for pressing the cds that require my mouse to move and place for the @cursor macros. And yes I generally have a button to press for 1-5, Shift+1-5, Ctrl+1-5, and all 15 of my mouse keys including Tab. It just allows my left hand to stay in the exact same position as always and my right mouse hand to never have to really move either. Less stretching for keys below or to the right of your hand.
Changed over to ESDF, never going back to WASD for movement keys... Moving to ESDF frees up another row of keybinds to the left of your movement keys. It only really took a few hours to get used to the new movement keys...
I really think unbinding and rebinding q and e is bad because they are closer to 12345. I can comfortably press 1-6 and f1-f4 on my large keyboard because my finger rest higher on the keyboard. My thumb can press xcv and pinky shift z etc. Also undinding turn left and right can be detrimental to fast pace accurate actions. Without a and d, if I want to move out of fire while staying in range of my target (especially as melee) while doing anything else, it becomes impossible or more dangerous and less accurate. It's just limiting your ability to move, just as if you unbound the s key. Example, mouse-over-macro, none tab target targeting, moving you camera to gain positional awareness, if your healing: preparing your mouse to target someone, targeting a gate or npc. Etc etc
Instead of changing the movement keys. I disregard the mouse and bind spells and abilities to the number pad. Left hand for movement ASDW and STILL have access to the surrounding keys. Right hand on number pad. Use Ctrl as a modifier. You have access to WAYYY MORE buttons and keybinds.
I long converted to putting all my modifiers onto my Mouse... reprogrammed them to CTRL and SHIFT might convert ALT too and basically rely on just 1-6 for almost all of my most used combat buttons, then i convert 5-0 as an AoE space, so pretty much only move my hand to flip from Single Target to AoE. - and = usually end up being used enough often super conditional or out of combat thing, i.e. in FFXIV its Sprint on =, and for Healers it's Esuna, Tanks its the default Ranged Move. Works fantastically for me... but MMO mouse so tons of buttons to turn into modifiers if i want to.
“My cat accidentally jumped on my keyboard during mythic progression. Now I’m guiltless and suspended for 30 days from playing WoW due to mass reporting from the guild”
My hands seem to get lost on the keyboard from time to time, so nowI use an azeron. All my heals are my ring finger reaching forward, all my interrupts are my pointer reaching forward. No reaching or stretching really needed. Been the best way to not click my buttons. With no WASD all my movement is mouse driven. Its a big commitment but I play lots of WoW so I feel like it earns its spot on my desk,
Using Razer Tatarus and Corsair Schimitar. 1-12 Shift 1-12 Ctrl 1-12 If needed Alt 1-12 Being an altoholic, I do keep same abilities in the same keybind across characters for the most part.
Since I don't tank, I see little to no use to have the ability to backpedal, so I have a keybind in my S key. I have been playing since 2009 and I cannot remember a single time when I said: Oh no! I need to move backwards!
Somehow I know where things are based on class. Interrupts are typically either X or V, depending on melee or caster. Defensives... A lot of them are shift-4/5, some are on shift-S.
Blizzard decided to reset my key binds one morning.. just deleted a bunch of them and remapped a whole lot of other keys to things I used months prior. Was strange for sure.
Thanks for all these awesome UI and gameplay improving videos - loving it! PLEASE do a "reviewing your wow setups" video - that would be so funny and interesting!
Looks like more of a beginner guide, so truthfully I didn't watch it to end. One tip I have would be to use a gaming mouse with 12 keybinds. Got mine 10 years ago and it significantly improved my gameplay for every mmo I've ever played. If this was said in the video, apologies ahead of time.
Maybe I'm in the minority but I'm loving the new default UI, I dumped Domino's, bagnon and some other add-ons and using stock action bars, still using shadowed unit frames though. Moveany/improveany and extended edit mode add-ons are quite good. Speaking of keybinds, I'm left handed so I my left hand for my mouse, my keybinds are numpad 1-9,0,.,\ and ctrl 1-9,0,.,\ and I use theins/del, home/end and pgup/pgdn with a mix of ctrl and shift as well as my mouse side buttons and middle click so my total number of keybinds I use 37!
yeah i’ve been doing these things for years already. But good tips for people in general. I use E,shift+e, shift +w, to bind my movement keys. like dash, etc.
I made this switch back in Pandaria, to an extreme. I removed my walk backwards key. I only move forward with S, strafe right with D, and strife left with F. Leaving A and W available to abilities. Back then my hunter main was bloated with abilities and this was a necessity, lol.
Been doin something similar for years. I use a razer Nostromo for my left hand which has 20+keys and a joystick-like spot for thumb to sit for wasd movement. Right hand i have razer naga for another 14+ easy buttons. Allows all my abilities and movement with no extra need to move hands. literally cannot play tab target MMO without that setup now though haha.
Since we're on the topic of keybinds and muscle memory, anybody else have weird bindings they're used to now? for years (and I'm talking ~15 years) I've always rebound jumping from space to scroll down on my mouse wheel for any game. I've always found it so much faster, stupid I know. On top of that, I'm also ESDF over WASD. I feel with ESDF you have more keys in reach of your core movement bindings.
played my holy priest for years....there is nothing more satisfying then have all my bars invisible and knowing every single key bind from muscle memory. great video as always
Great video. Luckily I have huge hands so I can reach a lot of buttons lol. And that's the key the same spell types on the same keybinds on all characters. C is interrupt on every class. Oh and a 12 button mouse.
In regards to your bonus segment.. I work from home and LOVE playing games. It is easily my main past-time. One thing that often really bothers me, is my hands becoming ICE COLD after sitting in the same position for too long playing/typing away. If anyone else experiences this, I'd love some suggestions around how to combat this. Normally I take that as my indicator that I should take a break from work or have been playing a bit to long, I find if I move around the house and do anything really, that it does get better but sometimes, it will take almost no time at all for my hands to revert back to ICE when I sit back down and get into something. Also, that wheel addon you showed off is amazing and I am totally downloading that badboy when I get back onto my PC later tonight!
Mostly in the game now for some relaxation, no real goals, but I find it still important that the location of things in my action bars is linked to my base rotations + fixed locations for function types like healing etc. Still have the muscle memory from my crazy ‘many buttons mouse ‘ from about 10 years ago. It’s crazy how our brain works 😀
I just got back into WoW. Haven't played since Cataclysm. Let me tell you I spent hours just trying to figure out my UI, add-ons and keybinds. Thank you so much for this video!! I really needed this!!!
You can also keep RSI at bay if you use touchpad + roller mouse at work, and a vertical mouse at home. Human arms don't really like lying flat down on a table, they prefer thumbs up :P and close to your body, so smaller tenkeyless/split keyboard might give you more room for swinging that mouse around in front of your stomach. At some point I got it so bad I had to practice/experiment with a left-handed mouse or gamepad for PC gaming. Good luck doing that in shooter games! Take care.
I made one of my side mouse buttons to be “shift”. So now I have all the buttons around my movement keys and then automatically double them with the press of my thumb. Do it
Iit's nice seeing OPie getting some recognition! I've been using it since original wrath and it's been such a lifesaver as I learned how to use my keybinds.
This was really helpful. Returning player from 09’ with limited gaming time. You just saved my brain hours & me from teaching myself the “wrong way”. Newb question: I setup my keybinds based on rotation initially. It sounds like instead, I should arrange based on “skill type” & “frequency, cooldown, importance” - consistency being ‘key’ ;). Since my previous process of keybinding was flawed - how’s the best way to get down a rotation? Write it down & practice while doing world quests? I wish there was a place that removed cooldowns, like a zone. To practice endlessly without 1-2min cooldown delays, assessing dps. Any favorite addons for rotation guidance and cooldown/reminders? I lose so much dps from this xD
i have shift and ctrl on my mouse, so pressing 1-5 s1-5 ctl1-5 makes it so i dont even have to move my hands at all to use 15 things. 6-9 are unbound, too far away. i also have a s d r f t bound (with shift and control modifiers) and tilda which is 36 keybinds not needing to move your hands really at all. yes i cant backpedal, but with holding right click, and using q w e to move you dont need it. and i use f1-f4 for defensives (x is for things like sooth, or buffs[mark of wild. arcane int]) shift+space is for mounting
To add to everything you've said -> Staying on WASD for movement is optional. If you struggle to reach the middle of your keyboard, consider switching to ESDF for movement. It might take a small while to adjust, but a lot more binds are reachable and feel comfortable. It seems such a simple change, but it's so rarely thought about.
When you take into account Shift Ctrl and Alt modifiers, moving to esdf lowers your total number of binds you can easily reach. s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 1 2 3 4 5 6 q e r t f g sR sT sF z x c v sZ sX sC sV sG
Do not forget about easiest key to press - spacebar. I use Shift+Spacebar as a key for defensive cooldown. Good "Oh shit" button that is easy to smash.
That's partly why I feel kinda slighted the way this video presents itself. I personally want to keep the keybinds as consistent between WoW and FF14 as much as humanly possible, and changing it to this degree will utterly screw me.
I've been using these same 12 keys for my key binds for over a year now. I mentioned offhand to a friend about a skill I have mapped to z and he just couldn't wrap his head around using that key at all. I'm glad to see I'm not alone in thinking 1234qerfzxcv are good options. Although, my category and placement breakdown is a bit different. q and e are some of the easiest keys for me to hit, so I give them priority for things like interrupt and taunt/taunt like skills.
Stay away from naga razor, but get a red dragon or magic eagle off Amazon. $30 15-button mouse. Bind number row to mouse, modify with alt. Never move your hands again
I used a third party program to use a controller back in cataclysm and it actually worked really well the way I bound my keys. But, I did use console port when it came out and it was alright. Now I am setup on a controller with the new Blizzard controller interface and I love it. As long as keybinds are setup right. I will say that I wish when you interacted with someone via the right d-pad that you could use the controller to accept quests. I keep having to use a mouse.
Q - Quickly (Movement Buff) Z - Zoomies (Movement Buff) C - Cancel / Cilence - Interrupt X - X-Ecute E - Everyone - AoE Mouse Up - Power Up - Damage Buff Mouse Down - Simmer Down - Stuns / Defensive Buff
It boggles my brain people still use ASDW instead of SDFE. The latter opens up so many more binds and it's just way more comfortable since that's where your hands sit when you type anyways.
Always use 1-4 , Shift 1-4, Ctrl 1-4, Alt 1-4, Q, E, SQ, SE, .... etc, z for mounts, x , c for something special that i never use, came up with that years ago while playing FFXVI and i never used another config again.
make it even easier buy an mmorpg mouse bind the buttons 1-12 to F1-F12. Then have SHIFT F1 - SHIFT F12. Could even add ALT in there too. all the CD's 1 - 6 interrupt Q and E. Trinks and pots F, G, etc :) mmorpg mouse was the best thing i bought years ago in mop and i havent looked back since. I even keep a spare one in my drawers just incase
I truly do not understand the hate on the base UI. It's perfectly fine and serviceable. If you're using Keybinds, it dooesn't really matter what the UI itself looks like. You'd just memorize what you keybound to what don't you? I persnally really dislike the new UI. Been on the base so long that it's now a bit more difficult to play since I've no idea where anything is.
What?? You don't want a giant mass of icons in the center of your screen? I don't get it either. Keybinds with default old UI works just fine. The new UI is based on what hardcore players and streamers use so that's what everyone must want I guess.
everything is very accurate. but I will just stick to shift ctrl alt modifier macros bound to mouse scrolling. also using an azeron gamepad and a g600 mouse.
Bellular, can we have an update on this for 10.1.5 please? I don't know how to setup Augmentation Evoker and some class specs had spells replaced that I don't know what to do with... :/
even though its not needed an mmo mouse will help with core abilities if you put then there. i totally get why you dont talk about it but its there if you wish
Thank you for the video. Quick question, as a Paladin, how can I have my Holy Power Bar on screen clean like yours? The default one under the pg portrait is too small.
I have a gamepad (Belkin N52TE) and have used it for a very long time it helps a lot to not have to use a keyboard also having the extra keys for the left thumb means I don't have to use an MMO mouse.
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I use one of those alt keyboard with a built in thumb stick. I can now cast spells, and move out of lava at the same time! I couldn't play this game without it. It is called a Razor Tartarus V2.
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Im happy that im using a Naga Pro, i dont need to think about all that. 1-12 on side of the mouse. Buttons im so used to it now, its like a part of my hand. Then if i need second bar. Shift+1-12. Then CTR+1-12 for the 3th row. I never stretch a finger on my keyboard. If i have spell, that needs to go on the ground, its macro single click to mid mouse button. If i want to go full single hand, i have CTRL and Shift on middle mouse button to, just move it left and right and cast.
So when im fighting a boss, I can drink coffee with one hand and do full rotation on the other hand. Ive heard it so many times on stream.. How can you eat and raid at the same time? Like the stream is recorded.. The mouse is so powerfull, its like sitting with a legendary in your hand. If someone take away that mouse from me. I wont be able to play the game ever again.
I use it in every game that i play. Having the freedome to not move my hands to do things is so good. I might have to move my pinky finger to shift or control, or move my thumb abit to the left or so. It gives you more control in game. Its after that you stop fucking up in game. Because your hand is all over the keyboard, then trying to go back to the mouse.
I have seen so many players, play wow.. It looks like work.
@@glenni83 how do you orient yourself according to all those mouse buttons?
Yo Bellular have you tried WoW on the Steam deck? Im going to use it for leveling and dailies. Plays great on the go
Im fine with Shift, Ctrl, Alt, and all the combinations. I don't need a MMO mouse for that. But what really helped me for different characters is kinda see all classes as the same. Maybe sound dumb, but all classes have some sort of interrupt, all classes got some defensive, some offensive CD's etc. So i basically just have the same binds of all chars, like interrupt on the same keys, combat ress etc. And it really makes it easier to get used to new classes aswell since you already got an idea of spells and keybindings.
interrupt, core attack, stun, dot/hot, self heal, and big cooldowns can all be shared across classes for muscle memory 100%
Yeah, I do the same, all similar spells I have binded on the same keys, same for all burst CDs.
you not need it but it makes life so much easier and opens up way to some "insane" bind combos that suits your playstayle with whole specter of right side of keyboard + with some of them you can actually do key combos outside of game enhancing your effectiveness even more ...
I may change jump( spacebar) to shift
I do the same, I go from 1-4 for the main rotation, Q for interrupts, E for movement abilities, F for heals. My F1-F4 are defensive Cds, Alt 1-4 offensive CDs, Shift + key are my AoE modifiers, Alt + Key are my "disruptors". The same keys for every character. Sometimes my bars look empty with buttons missing, but Im so used to Shift + F being an AoE heal that, even if I have space on my 1-4, I'll leave them empty because I know my AoE is Shift + F.
I am so glad with this update. I have used your key-bind tutorial since the start of Shadowlands, and it did help me a lot on my alts to have a similar easy going experience as I had with my main. I am not much of an add-on person, but setting up my keybinds and rotation with this in mind really helped a lot. So again, thank you for the update and great work on these recent videos on the quality of life aspects of WoW :-)
Or just use an mmo mouse. 12 buttons on one finger. No contorting your left hand. Some models have an extra click button that you can bind to alt, shift or control. So 24 buttons with no hassle at all
This is what I do it's so much easier and way faster I find then clicking or using the keyboard lol
Bought one of those MMO mouses back in 2013 and it was a fucking game changer. Changed me from a very casual player just doing quests to a heroic raider/mythic+ grinder
would get a mouse like that but wow is not the only game i play. a mouse with 12 buttons is way to overloaded for someone that also plays fps games
@@1blameonme1 they come with magnetic attachments now if you buy a razer one
@@1blameonme1 If you can afford it you can buy it and switch depending on what you're playing. Im mostly playing wow on pc so for me it's ideal
I've been abusing my hands since the original Doom and now I suffer from Cubital Tunnel Syndrome. I get extremely painful burning in my forearms, wrists and hands, some days I'm in agony and can't even hold my phone, let alone a mouse. Now I have to take Tramadol and Naproxen (strong prescription painkillers) just to get through the day, and I will need to go through a Nerve Conduction Study and then surgery to repair the damage. So yeah, don't neglect your hands, you will regret it later in life.
For mounts I highly recommend LiteMount, as it will intelligently select mounts from a single button, as well as Ghostwolf / druid travel form.
Does it work now? It broke for me in pre-patch sadly. I loved that addon! :/
@@Finjix Haven't had any issues personally.
Biggest for me in this list is having consistent keybinds across characters. Main attacks always on certain keys, on demand heals/move speed on mouse wheel, interrupts/executes on mouse buttons, SHIFT modifiers for mouse buttons. Also love being able to macro all my DK buffs together with frost breath, turns five button presses into one massive BELCH. Recently have started putting defensive CDs next to each other so I can just 1,2,3 in emergencies and not have to find them all when I'm about to die.
Also iirc RSI can be alleviated (to some degree) by keeping those muscles strong. Get a gripper to use, lift some weights, etc.. this may not be useful if you already have it badly but, I've been fending it off for years this way.
A tip for people with big hands, don't use WASD, personally I walk with UHJK and keybinded regular spells all the way to the left like EDC and to the right PL,
you only have one modifier, but you also get way more real estate. It will take quite a lot of time, to update your muscle memory, but I've been doing this since the start of WOTLK
I ALSO SUFFER FROM BIG HANDS BUT I FOUND A WORKAROUND. I USE MY ENORMOUS PENIS TO COMPLIMENT MY KEYBOARD MASHING.
I have small hands but I use ESDF and it works great
I love my razer naga with the 12 thumb buttons; those are for most of my needed items
I'm so surprised how little the mouse wheel is suggested for binding
Shift+mswhlup/dwn are staples I can't live without.
Dracthyr in the thumbnail is about to say "My name is Skyler White, yo" 💀
Super advanced old school tip: remap WASD to ESDF so that you get a whole extra row of keys for the left hand side of your left hand
This is one my favorites that I learned when I started in BC! It seems so obvious after you do it, but I never see it mentioned anywhere. But what do I, a lowly keyboard turner, know lol (without a gaming mouse though, I need way too many buttons to not use my right hand on the number pad!).
Hell yeah! Same here
Almost effective, try placing your buttons similar to how they are on your keyboard then you wont find yourself looking at it, in the middle of a fight when you get your hand off center.
Example Top row - s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 with a few open unbound for situations stuff like consumables or say a quest item (though the UI now allows you to use many of them without doing)
Second Row - 123456
Third Row - q e r t f g sR sT sF
fourth row, z x c v sZ sX sC sV sG
Granted this is a bit more then many (or even most) casual players will use. This allows you to be fluid in combat and not have to look at your binds or finger positioning in the heat of the moment. Also allow the use of multiple macros and such that many people don't ever use, nor understand.
For me once I found a 12 button mouse, I made all keys on the side relate to buttons on the keypad, and so frees up my left hand for pressing the cds that require my mouse to move and place for the @cursor macros. And yes I generally have a button to press for 1-5, Shift+1-5, Ctrl+1-5, and all 15 of my mouse keys including Tab. It just allows my left hand to stay in the exact same position as always and my right mouse hand to never have to really move either. Less stretching for keys below or to the right of your hand.
Changed over to ESDF, never going back to WASD for movement keys... Moving to ESDF frees up another row of keybinds to the left of your movement keys.
It only really took a few hours to get used to the new movement keys...
I just looked at an old screenshot I had of the old action bar UI orientation and made the new UI look as similar to that as possible.
I really think unbinding and rebinding q and e is bad because they are closer to 12345. I can comfortably press 1-6 and f1-f4 on my large keyboard because my finger rest higher on the keyboard. My thumb can press xcv and pinky shift z etc.
Also undinding turn left and right can be detrimental to fast pace accurate actions. Without a and d, if I want to move out of fire while staying in range of my target (especially as melee) while doing anything else, it becomes impossible or more dangerous and less accurate. It's just limiting your ability to move, just as if you unbound the s key.
Example, mouse-over-macro, none tab target targeting, moving you camera to gain positional awareness, if your healing: preparing your mouse to target someone, targeting a gate or npc. Etc etc
Instead of changing the movement keys. I disregard the mouse and bind spells and abilities to the number pad. Left hand for movement ASDW and STILL have access to the surrounding keys. Right hand on number pad. Use Ctrl as a modifier. You have access to WAYYY MORE buttons and keybinds.
I long converted to putting all my modifiers onto my Mouse... reprogrammed them to CTRL and SHIFT might convert ALT too and basically rely on just 1-6 for almost all of my most used combat buttons, then i convert 5-0 as an AoE space, so pretty much only move my hand to flip from Single Target to AoE. - and = usually end up being used enough often super conditional or out of combat thing, i.e. in FFXIV its Sprint on =, and for Healers it's Esuna, Tanks its the default Ranged Move. Works fantastically for me... but MMO mouse so tons of buttons to turn into modifiers if i want to.
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My hands seem to get lost on the keyboard from time to time, so nowI use an azeron. All my heals are my ring finger reaching forward, all my interrupts are my pointer reaching forward. No reaching or stretching really needed. Been the best way to not click my buttons. With no WASD all my movement is mouse driven. Its a big commitment but I play lots of WoW so I feel like it earns its spot on my desk,
Using Razer Tatarus and Corsair Schimitar.
1-12
Shift 1-12
Ctrl 1-12
If needed Alt 1-12
Being an altoholic, I do keep same abilities in the same keybind across characters for the most part.
Nice one! I was waiting for this, the past key bind sheet helped me out a lot too :D
Since I don't tank, I see little to no use to have the ability to backpedal, so I have a keybind in my S key. I have been playing since 2009 and I cannot remember a single time when I said: Oh no! I need to move backwards!
I just realised being left handed gives me easy access to the more left out side of keyboard, good trade off for not being able to use MMO mouses.
use shift and ctrl plus whatever keybind you wish, you will triple the amount of keybinds and you will get used to it pretty quickly.
Somehow I know where things are based on class. Interrupts are typically either X or V, depending on melee or caster. Defensives... A lot of them are shift-4/5, some are on shift-S.
playing mmos for 15 years and never thought of these changes haha. tyvm buddy :)
I still use the num lock lmao. I've gotten so used to it that it just feels right.
Glad That I'm doing things mostly right. My side mouse buttons are always interrupt and Charge/DeathGrip/etc.
Blizzard decided to reset my key binds one morning.. just deleted a bunch of them and remapped a whole lot of other keys to things I used months prior. Was strange for sure.
Thanks for all these awesome UI and gameplay improving videos - loving it! PLEASE do a "reviewing your wow setups" video - that would be so funny and interesting!
Looks like more of a beginner guide, so truthfully I didn't watch it to end.
One tip I have would be to use a gaming mouse with 12 keybinds. Got mine 10 years ago and it significantly improved my gameplay for every mmo I've ever played.
If this was said in the video, apologies ahead of time.
I highly recommend a game pad, like the razer tartarus
Maybe I'm in the minority but I'm loving the new default UI, I dumped Domino's, bagnon and some other add-ons and using stock action bars, still using shadowed unit frames though.
Moveany/improveany and extended edit mode add-ons are quite good.
Speaking of keybinds, I'm left handed so I my left hand for my mouse, my keybinds are numpad 1-9,0,.,\ and ctrl 1-9,0,.,\ and I use theins/del, home/end and pgup/pgdn with a mix of ctrl and shift as well as my mouse side buttons and middle click so my total number of keybinds I use 37!
yeah i’ve been doing these things for years already. But good tips for people in general. I use E,shift+e, shift +w, to bind my movement keys. like dash, etc.
I made this switch back in Pandaria, to an extreme. I removed my walk backwards key. I only move forward with S, strafe right with D, and strife left with F. Leaving A and W available to abilities. Back then my hunter main was bloated with abilities and this was a necessity, lol.
You strafe right with D and left with F wtf that could mess my mind so bad, the furthest right key is for left ?
I dont use the S key to move backwards neither, but your strafe keys are really weird lol
I use the S key for my mount ring with OPie. I'm very used to strafing by now so not having backpedal is pretty irrelevant.
@@jarofpickles4057 such a waste :P
wow interesting, i feel like this is optimal, since walking backwards is useless aside from maybe people who rp.
I gotten a razer Naga about 10 years ago and I’m so stuck into using mouses with a numpad on side to where I cannot play this game without it 🤣
Been doin something similar for years. I use a razer Nostromo for my left hand which has 20+keys and a joystick-like spot for thumb to sit for wasd movement. Right hand i have razer naga for another 14+ easy buttons. Allows all my abilities and movement with no extra need to move hands. literally cannot play tab target MMO without that setup now though haha.
You forgot to change your movement keys to esdf, so that your hands rest on the home row correctly.
Since we're on the topic of keybinds and muscle memory, anybody else have weird bindings they're used to now? for years (and I'm talking ~15 years) I've always rebound jumping from space to scroll down on my mouse wheel for any game. I've always found it so much faster, stupid I know. On top of that, I'm also ESDF over WASD. I feel with ESDF you have more keys in reach of your core movement bindings.
played my holy priest for years....there is nothing more satisfying then have all my bars invisible and knowing every single key bind from muscle memory. great video as always
I mean, spamming flash heal and renew how hard could it get? Healing have been made easy mode these days
Gotta bind mouse up and mouse down also. Life changing.
This was one of the better sponsor intros.
Great video. Luckily I have huge hands so I can reach a lot of buttons lol. And that's the key the same spell types on the same keybinds on all characters. C is interrupt on every class. Oh and a 12 button mouse.
In regards to your bonus segment.. I work from home and LOVE playing games. It is easily my main past-time. One thing that often really bothers me, is my hands becoming ICE COLD after sitting in the same position for too long playing/typing away.
If anyone else experiences this, I'd love some suggestions around how to combat this. Normally I take that as my indicator that I should take a break from work or have been playing a bit to long, I find if I move around the house and do anything really, that it does get better but sometimes, it will take almost no time at all for my hands to revert back to ICE when I sit back down and get into something.
Also, that wheel addon you showed off is amazing and I am totally downloading that badboy when I get back onto my PC later tonight!
I am not any kind of professional, but are your hands very elevated when you're using the computer? Maybe it's a bloodflow issue?
Mostly in the game now for some relaxation, no real goals, but I find it still important that the location of things in my action bars is linked to my base rotations + fixed locations for function types like healing etc. Still have the muscle memory from my crazy ‘many buttons mouse ‘ from about 10 years ago. It’s crazy how our brain works 😀
I just got back into WoW. Haven't played since Cataclysm. Let me tell you I spent hours just trying to figure out my UI, add-ons and keybinds. Thank you so much for this video!! I really needed this!!!
You can also keep RSI at bay if you use touchpad + roller mouse at work, and a vertical mouse at home. Human arms don't really like lying flat down on a table, they prefer thumbs up :P and close to your body, so smaller tenkeyless/split keyboard might give you more room for swinging that mouse around in front of your stomach. At some point I got it so bad I had to practice/experiment with a left-handed mouse or gamepad for PC gaming. Good luck doing that in shooter games! Take care.
I made one of my side mouse buttons to be “shift”. So now I have all the buttons around my movement keys and then automatically double them with the press of my thumb. Do it
Iit's nice seeing OPie getting some recognition! I've been using it since original wrath and it's been such a lifesaver as I learned how to use my keybinds.
This was really helpful. Returning player from 09’ with limited gaming time. You just saved my brain hours & me from teaching myself the “wrong way”.
Newb question: I setup my keybinds based on rotation initially. It sounds like instead, I should arrange based on “skill type” & “frequency, cooldown, importance” - consistency being ‘key’ ;). Since my previous process of keybinding was flawed - how’s the best way to get down a rotation? Write it down & practice while doing world quests?
I wish there was a place that removed cooldowns, like a zone. To practice endlessly without 1-2min cooldown delays, assessing dps.
Any favorite addons for rotation guidance and cooldown/reminders?
I lose so much dps from this xD
For one just learning key bindings this video couldnt hsve come at a perfect time
i have shift and ctrl on my mouse, so pressing 1-5 s1-5 ctl1-5 makes it so i dont even have to move my hands at all to use 15 things. 6-9 are unbound, too far away. i also have a s d r f t bound (with shift and control modifiers) and tilda which is 36 keybinds not needing to move your hands really at all. yes i cant backpedal, but with holding right click, and using q w e to move you dont need it. and i use f1-f4 for defensives (x is for things like sooth, or buffs[mark of wild. arcane int]) shift+space is for mounting
using the scroll wheel up for interrupts and down for defensives changed my life. 10/10
Thank for the keybinding and macro file, useful!
To add to everything you've said -> Staying on WASD for movement is optional. If you struggle to reach the middle of your keyboard, consider switching to ESDF for movement. It might take a small while to adjust, but a lot more binds are reachable and feel comfortable.
It seems such a simple change, but it's so rarely thought about.
When you take into account Shift Ctrl and Alt modifiers, moving to esdf lowers your total number of binds you can easily reach.
s1 s2 s3 s4 s5
1 2 3 4 5 6
q e r t f g sR sT sF
z x c v sZ sX sC sV sG
@@crisnmaryfam7344 only if you can't reach those from esdf. I can reach fine, so there's no loss for me.
@@Ashaeron Can reach shift, ctrl and alt just fine, but access to Y, H and B as additional keybinds.
this seems interesting. I have smaller hands, so this might be a good solution. Although I know it would take me so long to get used to it!
wasd is overrated. I've used esdf since wrath and use it in every game I play. Gaining access to A as a keybind is great too.
Do not forget about easiest key to press - spacebar. I use Shift+Spacebar as a key for defensive cooldown. Good "Oh shit" button that is easy to smash.
You can't claim that YOUR preference of ui is a way to make the game fundamentally more fun lmao.
Must be running out of ideas with all these ui vids
That's partly why I feel kinda slighted the way this video presents itself. I personally want to keep the keybinds as consistent between WoW and FF14 as much as humanly possible, and changing it to this degree will utterly screw me.
Video chapter called: "Convenience"
Starts by giving literally the most INCONVENIENT tip in the history of the game.
Wow.
I used the video you made for this a few years ago to set my keybinds. Still always worth another look.
I've been using these same 12 keys for my key binds for over a year now. I mentioned offhand to a friend about a skill I have mapped to z and he just couldn't wrap his head around using that key at all. I'm glad to see I'm not alone in thinking 1234qerfzxcv are good options. Although, my category and placement breakdown is a bit different. q and e are some of the easiest keys for me to hit, so I give them priority for things like interrupt and taunt/taunt like skills.
Stay away from naga razor, but get a red dragon or magic eagle off Amazon. $30 15-button mouse. Bind number row to mouse, modify with alt. Never move your hands again
I used a third party program to use a controller back in cataclysm and it actually worked really well the way I bound my keys. But, I did use console port when it came out and it was alright.
Now I am setup on a controller with the new Blizzard controller interface and I love it. As long as keybinds are setup right.
I will say that I wish when you interacted with someone via the right d-pad that you could use the controller to accept quests. I keep having to use a mouse.
DialogKey used to work for that. Somebody took over the addon recently, might want to look at DialogKey-DF in curse.
@@SttravagaNZza definitely will! Thank you!
Q - Quickly (Movement Buff)
Z - Zoomies (Movement Buff)
C - Cancel / Cilence - Interrupt
X - X-Ecute
E - Everyone - AoE
Mouse Up - Power Up - Damage Buff
Mouse Down - Simmer Down - Stuns / Defensive Buff
It boggles my brain people still use ASDW instead of SDFE. The latter opens up so many more binds and it's just way more comfortable since that's where your hands sit when you type anyways.
I can never find a key binding video that incorporates a 12 side button mouse.
Always use 1-4 , Shift 1-4, Ctrl 1-4, Alt 1-4, Q, E, SQ, SE, .... etc, z for mounts, x , c for something special that i never use, came up with that years ago while playing FFXVI and i never used another config again.
Q and Q+modifiers for taunts and atracts, E+modifiers for movement like dashes and stuff, and E, F are my ultimate keys.
opie is great for spells too even though some call me a madman but it's just so good once you get used to it.
use mouse binds for things you need to press while you need to move. Way easier then twisting your fingers. For example, dispells or interupts
make it even easier buy an mmorpg mouse bind the buttons 1-12 to F1-F12. Then have SHIFT F1 - SHIFT F12. Could even add ALT in there too. all the CD's 1 - 6 interrupt Q and E. Trinks and pots F, G, etc :) mmorpg mouse was the best thing i bought years ago in mop and i havent looked back since. I even keep a spare one in my drawers just incase
My auto-run keybind is shift-W. Just feels natrual.
Juste found your google sheet, and immediatly fell in love ❤
I truly do not understand the hate on the base UI. It's perfectly fine and serviceable. If you're using Keybinds, it dooesn't really matter what the UI itself looks like. You'd just memorize what you keybound to what don't you? I persnally really dislike the new UI. Been on the base so long that it's now a bit more difficult to play since I've no idea where anything is.
What?? You don't want a giant mass of icons in the center of your screen? I don't get it either. Keybinds with default old UI works just fine.
The new UI is based on what hardcore players and streamers use so that's what everyone must want I guess.
nice one :) ty all for the good info and sheets :) they will come in handy , have fun and good luck in DF :)
everything is very accurate. but I will just stick to shift ctrl alt modifier macros bound to mouse scrolling. also using an azeron gamepad and a g600 mouse.
"We are not getting any younger and time has passed hasn't it?"
Sylvanas was right... The system is flawed... *existential crisis intensifies*
Blizzards ui is fine! Some minor tweaks could be nice and we will hopefully see some in 10.1 or 10.2
12 side button raid mouses. So liberating.
You should have written the Addon name in the video description ;)
I requested editor status for the spreadsheet. There's still no AugVoker keybind guide and there's outdated spells throughout. It needs an update. :/
Bellular, can we have an update on this for 10.1.5 please? I don't know how to setup Augmentation Evoker and some class specs had spells replaced that I don't know what to do with... :/
16 years of playing WoW, and I'm still a keyboard turner.
And I'm a healer.
Your worst nightmare.
Honestly I'm half considering getting a foot pedal in part to give me an extra modifier button but I dunno if it'd work for WoW
I use 1-6/ shift 1-6 with my left hand and then 7-=/shift 7-= on my mouse. Usually covers everything I need in combat
core rotation for firemage comboost for me when i just started playing -> 1-q-a-z
even though its not needed an mmo mouse will help with core abilities if you put then there. i totally get why you dont talk about it but its there if you wish
RIP best action bar addon, Neuron. Maybe someone will take up its torch someday?
The biggest game changer for me with all of this including comfort, was when I bought a Keypad. using that for wow changed my gameplay drastically.
Shift spacebar for mounts changed life. Enjoy
WQSE never known why but always used that for my movement.
Ty so much for remaking this!
I'll never understand how people find x/c/v to be useful combat keybinds.
Thanks for the help I was about to not even bother coming back and setting up everything but you made it easy ty
Thank you for the video. Quick question, as a Paladin, how can I have my Holy Power Bar on screen clean like yours? The default one under the pg portrait is too small.
Love the google sheet! Question why is moonfire on there twice for guardian druid?
Good tips. I have to change my set up.
Keeping my always buttons close to my movement keys would prove tricky indeed.
I use the d pad on a Tartarus as my wasd
I have a gamepad (Belkin N52TE) and have used it for a very long time it helps a lot to not have to use a keyboard also having the extra keys for the left thumb means I don't have to use an MMO mouse.
Your keybinds are the only reason i still play WoW thank You for updating it.