The winner of our last contest is; Felic (Please contact me with proof that it is you via PM on our forums)
With his ideas of;
Glyph of Repentance: if repentance is broken before its full duration the target is silenced for 2 seconds.
Glyph of the Scarlet Defender: While your Holy Shield is active, undead targets deal 3% less damage.
Glyph of Salvation: Reduces the cooldown of your Hand of Salvation by 50%
Glyph of Kings: Increases the bonus received from kings by 1%
These all are very solid glyph ideas.
In other news, I’m getting there. 75 so far, leveling to me is a lot like church, I feel like the moment I look away I’m going to hell. Oh and I do look away. I grab some crackers, chillax, tab out, watch something on Hulu.com and then next thing I know, I’m doing the exact opposite of leveling.
I feel however, that Wrath is a very strong expansion, and a better, more well thought out game overall compared to Burning Crusade. I even like the theme of it more.
One thing a few people have been asking me about lately is Keybindings. The easiest way for me to spot someone that isn’t playing at their full potential is when I see they don’t have their keys bound. Don’t take that the wrong way. I understand you might be comfortable with clicking and that it would take time to learn key pressing instead, but trust me when I tell you, you will become a better player if you let yourself become just as comfortable with keybinds as you are with clicking.
The main question about keybindings for people though is “How should I bind my keys?” Everyone is different so take that into account when answering and making this statement. You need to do what is natural. Don’t bind everything at once, you will completely cluster your head and it just wont be as easy of a process as it would be if you did it slowly, getting down 2-3 moves and then moving up in how many binds you have.
Most classes have a spammable ability. These make them interactive and fun. We have a few short cd attacks that should be spammed near the time they are ready. These need to go on keys that are easy for you to repeat. Obviously Shift + 9 isn’t a very good bind for Crusader Strike. However, a good bind might be “1″. Infact that’s what my bind is.
For me 1 =
/startattack
/cast Crusader Strike
I can spam this, won’t even have to click the person as long as they are the closest thing (this is amazing for going against stealth and they are the only thing around, if you see them it won’t be a matter of clicking on them first) It’s so easy for my left ring finger to spam that button.
Other keybindings need to take into account how often you use the spell. Blessing of Sacrifice for example, isn’t used very often, but still needs to be fairly easy to press. Shift + 4 is easy for me, but I have to think about it very slightly to press it. Perfect for a spell I premeditate to use. More important things, like Hammer of Wrath, which aren’t used very often but are required to go off ASAP should be placed in a more reasonable location. “F” is my bind for Hammer of Wrath. I find that to be one of the best buttons to have as a finishing move that you wont want to always press but it feels just as natural to press as “1″
So spells like, Avenging Wrath, which you want to premeditate before using, are far on the keyboard for me. “H” is my Avenging Wrath. This allows easy access but thought required, on top of that you will notice that it is near my Hammer of Wrath. When someone gets bopped, and you blow Avenging Wrath + Hammer of Wrath to finish someone, you feel that much better and realize how much it was worth binding those keys.
Remember you need to keep your bindings feeling natural. I know the ladies and men with smaller hands usually don’t stretch to buttons like, “H” and “N” so if you are one who falls into that category you should focus on keeping binds easy for small hands, and vice verse for bigger hands, take advantage of how far you can stretch without a lot of thought process.
There is one thing to be said for keybindings that I will never stress enough, after you bind your buttons the game changes for you. Your character feels more in sync to what you are thinking, and doesn’t feel like the middle man between you and the game. Trust me when I say again and again, every player that wants to enjoy this game to the fullest needs to bind their keys.
-Slayton
November 24th, 2008 - 9:53 pm
level your ass faster!
and read the blue post on upcoming paladin changes:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12891294929&sid=1
November 24th, 2008 - 10:02 pm
I’ll be 80 within the week.
I’ve read the changes already, and I fully agree with them.
November 24th, 2008 - 11:16 pm
Most of them are needed. I’m still disappointed there’s no new pvp crap but yet another change related to bubble. Bubble penalty is needed but so are the generic melee skills. Sometime before next expansion, i wish.
Playing without +int on your gear sucks at the moment too. Maybe if blizzard would have actually tested it…
BTW our glyphs suck. I dont even have a 3rd minor glyph. I would have gotten glyph of turn evil but opted to get the pos crusader strike one eventhough it barely helps the mana situation (depending on who is in your group.) If only I could have might and bow on myself [solo] with a glyph…
November 25th, 2008 - 12:41 am
When I was playing arena back in the days
I could not have done it without an addon called Clique. It lets you set binds for spells directly with your mouse without having to use a bar for them.
For example I had shift + leftclick for BoSacrifice and I just quickly clicked my raidframe, and still kept my target on attack so I would not stop going at him. Leftclick was then for BoP and just right click was dispel.
Also Quartz, an amazing tool even though you would not think it matters.. it does. Each time I had just swunged (???) my sword I would look at the timer and normally throw off a dispel or two before next autoattack, which came in really handy vs. 2xcasters + bloodlust.
November 25th, 2008 - 1:02 am
I enjoy the thems and story’s more than BC as well.
And I love the artwork.
Here’s to 2200 at 80 and enjoy the ride there.
November 25th, 2008 - 1:19 am
I just hit 80 today. I”ve completed all the quests in all but two of the zones (Icecrown and Howling Fjord) and I can say that this is really the first time I’ve been interested in the stories behind the quests.
It seems they’ve picked up some better writers and had much more thought out ideas behind the quest lines. I found them to be more enjoyable and interesting to read. In fact I think the Wintergarde chain that leads to the cut scene at Forddragon Keep and then the raid on Undercity is by far the best quest I’ve ever done in WoW.
November 25th, 2008 - 2:41 am
Keybinding is the transition that will take a player who understands their class but moves clunkily to the top. You don’t have to take your eyes off the screen, you don’t have to waste mouse movement, and you start to be more aware of your environment (important in both PvE and PvP) as well as having faster reaction times.
Some examples of keybindings. I have medium hands so I don’t use keybindings that are a stretch - also I hate ctrl.
1 - DS
2 - SoB
3 - JoL
4 - CS
5 - Repentance
6 - Exorcism
F - HoJ
E - Trinket
M4 - Cleanse (Mouseover, target, self)
M5 - HoW
Shift+1 - FoL
Shift+2 - BoSac
Shift+3 - JoJ
Shift+4 - HL
Shift+E - BoP
Shift+F- HoJ Focus
Shift+5 - Repent Focus
Shift+Spcbr - Divine Shield
Shift+MswhlUp - Freedom
Those are my main keybindings. They’re not gonna work for everyone they just happen to be what I’m comfortable using. More keybindings for less used things, further away or more impractical to hit.
November 25th, 2008 - 3:38 am
I use a few key bindings, but not a lot, mainly only the things I use very often or very instinctively and quickly. I always wondered how people who keybind everything access things like the Character sheet or Honor sheet, which are default C and H. Do they re-bind these to something else? or use the menu buttons?
I think I would find this a tad annoying, C for Character and H for honor make sense to me, and having to click on things every time I view them would quickly get old. Although I guess its better than having to click a spell every time you use it in combat.
On the recent paladin changes. I think they are all pretty fair. It’s a shame I can’t bubble and HoP my partner at the same time now, but it’s not the end of the world, and at least I can use wings more often. I’ll reserve my judgement of the wisdom change until I see some numbers, as GC didn’t say what % base mana would be returned.
November 25th, 2008 - 5:07 am
Congratulations, Felic! =)
November 25th, 2008 - 5:52 am
Indeed. Garts.
November 25th, 2008 - 6:27 am
Grats Felic ^.^
@Aedreys - Since I use both C and H for other keybinds (I will list all mine farther down in my post) but I just use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+H for Character Sheet and Honor Tab Respectively.
@Harv Grats on 80, I’m a bar away from 79 myself
@Everyone who says that LK’s Story is better than TBC, your god damn right it is. I’m still busy drooling all over Icecrown atm
Keybinds
1=Shield of the Righteous (Will be changed to Sacred Shield @ 80)
2=Seal Modifier Macro (Currently Nomodifier Martyr, Shift Righteous, Ctrl Vengeance, Alt Command) [I Expect Command to move with Vengeance]
3=Judgement Modifier Macro (No Modifier Justice, Shift Light, Ctrl Wisdom)
4=Crusader Strike
5=Divine Storm
6=Hammer of Justice
Q=Holy Light
E=Flash of Light
R=Avenging Wrath
`=Hammer of Wrath
T=PvP trinket on every toon
C=Cleanse
Shift+F=Hand of Freedom
Shift+V=Hand of Protection
Shift+R=Hand of Sacrifice
Shift+T=Hand of Salv
Mouse5=Mount
B=Bubble
Shift+Mouse4=Exorcism
Crtl+Mouse4=Holy Wrath
Alt+Mouse4=Turn Evil
Ctrl+Q=Crusader Aura
Ctrl+W=Devotion Aura
Ctrl+E=Retribution Aura
G=Repetence
H=Consecration
Alt+3=Seal of Light
Z=Seal of Justice
Freedom, Sacrifice, HoProtection, Holy Light, Cleanse and Flash of Light are all on Mouseover macros
And herm, looking at this, I think it might be time to move around some keybinds (Things like X and V are free now with my modifier macros)
Oh and Quartz+Grid are 2 really good mods to have >.>
November 25th, 2008 - 6:29 am
I slapped Hammer of Wrath, Repentence, on F1, F2.
In Arena, I have macro’s allready set on mouse buttons for
/cast [target=Parnter1name] Cleanse. etc etc.
November 25th, 2008 - 7:33 am
Grats Felic. I don’t really have all that many keybindings as of yet.
1=DS
2=HoJ
3=CS
4=JoL or JoW (I switch them out depending on which I am using primarily)
5=JoJ
6=Repentance
F=HoW
G=JoW or JoL (This would be the one I’m using secondarily
Z=FoL
Ctrl+Z=Holy Light
X=Sacred Shield
E=Cleanse
T=Divine Shield
V=Freedom
Mouse4=Wings+trinket macro
Mouse3=pvp trinket or consecrate for pve
Ctrl+1=Command or Martyr
Ctrl+2=SoJ
Ctrl+3=SoW
Ctrl+4=SoL
Ctrl+5=Seal of Vengeance
I’m thinking about putting divine plea on C, atm I just click it. And incase anyone was wondering, Q is my autorun button and shift is my vent button. A habit from an old game called Planetside that I can’t break away from lol.
November 25th, 2008 - 7:35 am
76 =)
November 25th, 2008 - 8:39 am
Heyo,
Mouse 3 = HoW
Mouse 4 = Judgement
Mouse 5 = Crusader Strike
Mouse Shift 3 = Cleanse
Mouse Shift 4 = Flash of Light (thank you art of war!)
Mouse Shift 5 = Divine Storm
1 = Repentence
2 = HoJ
3 = Arcane Torrent
4 = Turn Evil
Shift 1 = PvP Trinket
Shift 2 = Blessing of Freedom
Shift 3 = Consecrate
Shift 4 = Wings + AP trinket
November 25th, 2008 - 8:54 am
Well for me since i play on a laptop cuz im on the road alot im kinda of a clicker. it works for me and i do my job
1. Judge of wis
2. judge of light
3. crusader strike
4. Ds
5. Hoj
6. Repent
7. Hammer of wrath
8. Consecration
9. SoM
0. FoL
then holy light
its the way ive had learn to play as holy doing 1.holy light 2 flash of light 3 cleanse
im going to try out some key bindings now to see if that feels better
November 25th, 2008 - 9:03 am
Imo its time to adress PVE concerns…Help us get to state of dps leetness again… which enchants… best glyphs… best 2 handers out there and and and
RAID DPS spec - Ive been doing 10/5/56 But I think I hate Seals of the Pure so I might change it to Spell push back on Light spells…. insights please?
TY
This website is geat and Ferraro is hot…
November 25th, 2008 - 11:08 am
@ Slayton, F2 is arcane torrent…oh yea jealous aren’t ya!
November 25th, 2008 - 11:15 am
November 25th, 2008 - 11:40 am
I hate Shift + a key i use alt instead and love it
1 Auto attack (shut up im making slaytons startattack Crusader Strike macro
2 SoB/Cmd pve/pvp
3 Crusader strike
4 DS
5 Cleanse Mouse over
6 HoJ
7 Divine Shield
8 divine protection
alt 1-3 judgments justice, light, wisdom
alt q consecration
alt e arcane torrent
my fav
` beside 1 trinkets plus avenging wrath adding alt modifer only does trinkets for pvp etc
z rept focus, shift z rept target
x hammer of wrath target of target also
shift x HoP
alt s salvation
alt d sacrifice
mouse 4 for leveling divine plea rest of time for pvp trinket or specific item quest etc
shift mouse 4 exoricism
mouse 5 i forget usually trinket spot
f - FoL mouse over
g - Holy light mouse over
keybindings greatly improve your game
November 25th, 2008 - 12:15 pm
I recommend binding S and F to strafe and E and D to forward and backward run. It opens up more options for key binds.
November 25th, 2008 - 1:42 pm
Key-bindings are a great topic. Something I’ve put a ton of thought into while working up the system I use.
My basic premise going in was I don’t want to have to move my hands a lot. The idea being that if what you need is always under your finger its faster. Of course easier said then done.
So for me this is what I worked out and why.
Right hand on mouse, left have on keyboard and I still have the WASD buttons mapped as movement. This lets me still run and turn etc. will looking for something in my bag or dealing with any of the number of none combat type things that I still click for.
Combat however and the mouse becomes movement and the fingers on the AD shift up to QE. Both are set to macros. Q is a spell sequence for DS/Conc. E for JoW/CS. Both start with /Start Attack. This way when I’m in a position to go “all out” I can just mash through both Q and E and cycle through my 4 main attacks or just E when I’m in a spot with CC and can’t use AOE. CS is also bound to the G16 button (Logic keyboard) because it has a shorter cool down then JoW and thus as you cycle the rotation of JoW/CS I can still sneak in CS here and there by hitting it with my pinky with out having to move my hands of the main attack cycle buttons. From there the E finger shifts to F for HoW and G for Exo and most of my main day to day attack options are covered with little to no hand movement.
The QWE fingers can also shift up quickly to the 12345 buttons where I have heals, hands etc. set or farther up to the F1 to F4 buttons where wings and stuns are set.
The end result being that with very little movement of my left hand I’m able to access everything I need to quickly.
So while this might not work for everyone, I think the concept of mapping this way is one that everyone can use.
Put your hand on the keyboard the way you want it to rest. Then map the spells that you use most to the keys easiest to press. For me that means my middle finger rests on the W button and everything else fans out from there based how often I use it.
November 25th, 2008 - 1:58 pm
q JoW or JoL
e CS
Shift+e Consecrate
Shift+q HoW
Shift+3 HoP (pvp) or BoSalv (pve)
Shift+f HoF (target=focus or raid1)
1 Cleanse
2 JoJ
3 HoF
4 (I forgot what I have here….lol)
5 HoJ
Shift+Space Seal button (whichever seal I put in that slot…)
November 25th, 2008 - 3:26 pm
I use a N52te so I just picked the keys that don’t have base bindings but previously I used ESDF for my forward, back and strafe, just so I could use more keys.
November 25th, 2008 - 4:04 pm
This is a pretty good topic. I was just talking to one of the pallies in my guild about this. I think I’d be a better pvp (do key binds help all that much in pve substantially?) player if I keybound things. I’m guessing to go along with that you should move with your mouse and not the keyboard? I have a few things keybound but they revolve around my wadx movement. Trying to use the mouse just gets me dizzy. Maybe I should turn down the sensitivity.
November 25th, 2008 - 5:40 pm
1:CS
2:DS
3:Judge(jow/jol)
4:judge(joj)
g:conc
x:repentance
shift+x: seal 2 (corruption, might make it divine plea)
c:seal (blood/comm)
shift+c:FoL
v:AW
shift+v:HL
z:BoF/S/taunt
f:HoJ
a:Fear/HW
d:arcane torment
t:bop
shift+g:pvp trinket
shift+f:bubble
M4: HoW
M5: cleanse
——————–
q:strafe left
w:forward
e: strafe right
s:backward
r:auto run
——————–
/: char pan
]: run/walk
F5: set focus
——————–
backspace: re-whisper
..
that’s about it off the top of my head.
i’m probably missing some things.
basically my hands can make some weird positions. otherwise this set up would suck.
i enjoy it because:
very dense area of important keys
i always have at least one finger on movement keys while dpsing/doing whatever with no loss
i’ve used it for a long time
limits gaps between stuff
November 25th, 2008 - 8:26 pm
1 = Judgement of Light
Alt 1 = Judgement of Wisdom
Shift 1 = Judgement of Justice
2 = Seal of Blood/Command (constantly dragging out for pve/pvp)
Alt 2 = Seal of Corruption
Shift 2 = Arcane Torrent
3 = Crusader Strike
Alt 3 = Divine Storm
Shift 3 = Seal of Justice
4 = Hammer of Justice
Shift 4 = Righteous Defence
5 = Repentence Focus
Alt 5 = Repentence Target
Q = Holy Light
Shift Q = Turn Evil
E = Flash of Light
Shift E = Exorcism
R = Hand of Freedom
Shift R = Hand of Protection
G = Hand of Sacrifice
Shift G = Seal of Light
` = Hammer of Wrath
F = Cleanse
Z = PVP Trinket
Shift Z = Concecrate
X = Damage Trinket
Shift X = Avenging Wrath
V = Divine Shield
F1 = Retribution Aura
F2-F4 = Resistance Aura
F5 = Crusader Aura
I think I got them all (Alt is self cast unless binded otherwise)
Stuff that needs to be binded, Seal of Wisdom, Sacred Shield (clicking atm LOL)
November 26th, 2008 - 4:09 am
I have kinda of a simpler set of keybinds that have gotten me through the game with alot fun so far…
1= Racial (trinket thing; human)
2= Bubble
3= Seal
4= Macroed FoL on focus
5= Divine plea
R= Judgement
F= CS
V= DS
T= Hammer of Wrath
G= Hammer of Justice
B= Repentence
Haven’t gotten around to using Shift+key buttons…i’ll try those out when I’m done with midterms and all…schools rough at the moment and not giving me alot of play time. But I’m at 78 now! woot!
November 26th, 2008 - 11:55 am
Hi there, really enjoying your style - good to have you in the blogosphere - you aren’t just talkin to yourself!
November 26th, 2008 - 8:16 pm
Too many binds for me to post here. But i do believe that using keybindings CAN help you become a faster player, as long as you’ve gotten used to where everything is, and have keybound everything you use on a regular basis, you’re golden. Implementing and using them may be harder than you might think, but once you’ve gotten the hang of them, they can serve as a great tool.
December 1st, 2008 - 3:48 am
I play Murazorr on Feathermoon
I use my left hand on ASDF and my right on my mouse. My bindings:
1 - BoKings (shift - GBoKings)
2 - BoMight (shift -BoWisdom)
3 - HoProtection
4 - HoFreedom (shift - Every Man for Himself)
5 - HoSalvation (shift - HoSacrifice)
6 - Righteous Defense
Q - Avenging Wrath + AP trinket
W - SotMartyr (shift - SoComm, ctrl - SoJustice)
E - Divine Storm
R - Hammer of Wrath (shift - Consecrate)
T - Cleanse (shift - Cleanse on focus)
A - Autoattack
S - Judgement
D - Crusader Strike
F - Hammer of Justice (shift - Repentance)
G - Excorism (shift - Holy Wrath, crtl - Turn Evil)
Z - targetnearestenemy (shift - Focus target)
X - Lifebloom, Medallion of Heroism and then one of the next three: Flash of Light (shift - Holy Light, ctrl - Divine Plea)
C - Lay On Hands
V -Divine Shield (shift - Divine Protection)
F1 - Flash of Light on Focus
F2 - Holy Light on Focus
F3 - Holy Shock on Focus (I just train myself to look there for HS even if I dont currently have it specc’ed)
F4 - Lay On Hands on Focus
December 1st, 2008 - 3:51 am
Bah, always forget something…
S - Judgment of Light (shift - Judgement of Justice, crtl - JoWisdom)
B - Seal of Light (shift - Sacred Shield, ctrl - Seal of Light)
December 1st, 2008 - 1:41 pm
I do not move with my keyboard at all. I have the Visiontek XG6 mouse, and this allows a few extra buttons along with two 4-way PoV switches you can keybind as well. I do all my movements with my mouse (except jump.)
1-Cleanse
2-Exorcism
3-Holy Light
4-Flash of Light
5-Sacred Shield
6-Battlemaster Trinket
Q-Every Man for Himself (PvP trinket)
W-Repentance
E-Divine Shield
R-Judgment of Justice
T-Judgment of Light
Y-Consecrate
A-Hammer of Justice
S-Divine Storm
D-Seal of Command
F-Crusader Strike
G-Hammer of Wrath
H-Hand of Sacrifice (mouseover macro)
Z-Avenging Wrath
X-Lay on Hands
C-Hand of Freedom (mouseover macro)
V-BoP (mouseover macro)
J-Turn Evil
Backspace-Blessing of Wisdom (mouseover macro)
L-Blessing of Might (mouseover macro)
Mouse keybindings:
Top Hat
Forward-Run Toggle
Back-Walk backward
Left-Ret Aura/Crusader Aura toggle macro
Right-Seal of Wisdom
Left Hat (by your thumb)
Forward-Turn Left
Backward-Turn Right
Up-Strafe Right
Down-Strafe Left
Buttons by Right Thumb:
-Judgment of Wisdom
-Divine Plea
In a raid/5 man dps environment I substitute SotM for SoC.
December 2nd, 2008 - 1:52 pm
~ = AW + AP trinket
1 = Seal of Blood
2 = Judgement of Wisdom
3 = Crusader Strike
4 = Divine Storm/Consecrate castsequence macro.
F = Hammer of Wrath
E = Hammer of Justice
Q = Divine Shield (both for convenience and irony)
R = Flash of Light
T = Exorcism/Divine Wrath
G = Repentance
Z = Cleanse mouseover macro
X = Hand of Freedom mouseover macro
C = Arcane Torrent (Shift for Divine Plea)
V = Hand of Salvation
B = PvP trinket
Note:
I have 2-4 as macros with AP trinket bound, so if forbearance is up, it will use the trinket anyways.
Also, I have noticed that alot of the bindings seems to implicate a DS -> CS -> Judge or CS -> DS -> Judge rotation. I always Judge first to try to get Libram AP procs (if using Seal of Command) or to activate crit buff if using Libram of Furious Blows (?)…am I doing it wrong?
December 2nd, 2008 - 2:47 pm
Nope… should judge first.
December 2nd, 2008 - 11:35 pm
I’m a bit of a bind whore. I can’t stand clicking anything if I can avoid it. So yea…here’s the list.
1 - CS
2 - DS
3 - Exorcism
4 - HoJ
5 - Repentence
6 - HoSalv
Alt+1 - JoL
Alt+2 - JoJ
Alt+3 - JoW
Alt+4 - Consecration
Alt+5 - SoW
R - Flash of Light
Shift+R - FoL Focus
T - Sacred Shield
Shift+T - Sacred Shield Focus
C - HoW
Shift+C HoF
F - SoCom
Shift+F - SoBlood
X - Cleanse
Shift+X - Cleanse Focus
Z - HoP
Shift+Z - HoP Focus
Forward Mouse - Bubble
Back Mouse - Arcane Torrent
V - PvP Trinket
Shift+V - Avenging Wrath+Trinket
` - Holy Light
Shift+` - Divine Plea
I think thats everything…
December 3rd, 2008 - 6:00 am
@Drosii Ya I Bind MS to the Q key on my Warrior and to Chains of Ice on my DK >< I figure I can get away with Q for HL though since a 10k crit heal will make someone QQ as well
December 3rd, 2008 - 10:46 am
@Dragonspear
Q = Fear on warlock, MS on warrior, Arcane Barrage on mage, Death Grip on DK, Pain Suppression on Priest, and Shadowmeld on my night elf druid (coincidentally, shift+Q is flight form…shadowmeld -> flight form = new levels of ganking pleasure. qQ I’m gone! ;D)
Irony can be so ironic.
December 4th, 2008 - 7:05 am
My bindings:
I use a 4 button mouse
mouse 4 judgement macro
mouse 5 crusader strike macro
mouse 6 divine storm
mouse 7 avenging wrath
alt-mouse 4 divine plea
0 repentance
1 taunt
2 hammer of justice
3 human racial
4 bubble
5 bop
6 consecration
7 turn evil
8 lay on hands
9 holy light (not the best place:( )
Q cleanse
E freedom
F flash of light
G Hammer of wrath
T-O seals
P blessing of might
Ő blessing of sacrifice
It’s comfortable for me. I move with mouse and WASD and i don’t miss my Q and E. Shift is for focus and Ctrl is my ventrilo button.:)
December 4th, 2008 - 8:35 am
Personally I use the numeric keypad. I have never been able to cope with movement with ASDW from the 8 bit days with spectrums and C64s.
1235 move
Left mouse button: Pan camera, and move toon
Right mouse button: Just camera pan
roll mouse roller (either direction): toggle run
click mouse roller: Jump
Left mouse side button: CS
Right mouse side button: Judgement
4 Seal (martyr in raid, command soloing)
6 cons
0 DS
. bubble
Enter AW
+ FoL
7 HoW
8 Exorcism
9 HoJ in 5 man/soloing, Divine Plea in raids
/ HW
* cleanse me macro
- HoSalv
Insert: push to talk
Delete: special function, quest items you use, target macro on some bosses, health stone etc
December 4th, 2008 - 8:52 am
1 - Crusader Strike/start attack macro
2- Consecration
3- SoB
4- HoJ
5- SoC
Mouse 1 - Judgments
Mouse 2 - DS
Mouse 3 - Exorcism
Shift Mouse 1 - Bubble
Shift Mouse 2 - Divine Plea
Shift Mouse 3 - Holy Wrath
`- Repentance
Shift ` - BoP
Shift 1 - Salv the stupid warrior
Shift 2 - Holy Light
Shift 3 - Cleanse
Shift 4 - FoL
F3 - Arcane Torment
Shift F - Avenging Wrath
Shift R - Sacred Shield
Shift E - PvP Trinket
Caps lock - Hammer of Wrath
December 16th, 2008 - 3:21 pm
I use to use foot pedals to alternate betwen keys.
I configure my 3 Foot Pedals to Shift, alt an ctrl keys. That allows me to use much less buttons then u guys at a MUCH faster response.
See yall in arenas.
December 22nd, 2008 - 5:01 pm
Recently I’ve bought a mouse with some additional buttons on it (actually 4-directional ring and a big red button in it for the thumb, wheel that can be pushed right and left, additional “3 shot” button on left one).
Mouse is programmable, so I use the following bindings:
For right thumb: forward button on the ring - auto run (it’s pretty uncomfortable to push it during the fight, so it’s not used for simple forward movement), big red button - forward, rest of the ring - strafe left/right and step back.
This way my left hand is used only to cast, not for the movement. I can easily place the buttons as I want there. So the left hand lies on f-j keys and its thumb is able to press either Space or Alt key. Almost all letters are used for spells and other stuff I need instantly. Alt+letter keys are used this way too. Center of the keyboard - most used. Party members are on number keys from 5, auras are Alt+numbers. Alt is also my “Auto loot” key. (;
All functions I don’t need while I’m in the fight (character, talents and other windows) are on Ctrl+ keys.
I must say that the idea of splitting movement and abilities to the different hand helps much. You can move and cast instants or use potions really simple, these don’t share the same finger. (:
Oh, I’ve forgotten of the rest of the mouse keys. “3 shot” is used to target an enemy and the wheel right/left is really used to mounting and to fishing. (; I don’t really need so much in combat and sometimes I prefer to use just one hand to travel and leave the other one to have some tea/beer with cookies/sandwiches/whatever. ((:
BTW: The idea of foot pedals looks not just useful, but also healthy…
December 23rd, 2008 - 9:43 am
Try to get yourself a g15 keyboard
1 button press = 3 to 10 different keybinds. Tie in some macros on the keybinds and your a one-touch walking murder machine.
The ultimate in lazyass true, but nothing like tearing down multiple enemies in 2 button presses.
March 23rd, 2009 - 8:34 pm
I am very happy that I found this site.
May 1st, 2009 - 6:03 pm
One thing i do that helps a lot also: I set one of my Mouse’s thumb buttons to shift. (When i tried a hunter the other was control). This makes all those shift+1, etc keys even smoother and more natural to use (for me).
June 18th, 2009 - 12:43 pm
My keybindings are very easy, I only use my left hand to get acces to most spells. Here’s my keybinds:
1=CS
2=JoL
3=DS
4=Exorcism
5=Concectration
6=Holy Wrath
7=Repentance
+=Hand of Reckoning(Taunt)
Q=Blood elf racial silence
E=Cleanse
F1=Trinket+Avenging Wrath macro (I use Wrathstone as trinket in PvE)
F2= Divine Plea
F3=Lay on Hands
S-E=HoJ
S-Q=Bubble+Divine Sacrifice macro
S-R=HoP
Mouse 5=HoF
S-Mouse 5=HoSalv
on Bar 2-
1=Holy light
2=FoL
3=Random(HoSac, Divine Protection etc)
June 26th, 2009 - 10:48 am
I’m happy with these keybindings =)
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/279/wowsettings.png
*srry i don’t show which key does witch spell :(*
July 4th, 2009 - 2:21 am
A PvE key binding tip is to bind them the way your rotation is. When this post was made, the rotation was: Judgement, Crusader Strike, Consecration, Divine Storm, Exorcism, Holy Wrath.
And therefore they are:
1. Judgement
2. Crusader Strike
3. Consecration
4. Divine Storm
5. Exorcism
6. Holy Wrath
That makes it much easier, and it can also be used in PvP. Hope this helped someone.
March 11th, 2010 - 7:58 am
I use a razer naga. 12 buttons in reach of my thumb and then another 12 for alt shift etc its awesome faceroll