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Post by
impsy
Not clicking just makes that much of a difference, try different button combinations until you find one thats right for you. I still have some random things that arent keybinded but they arent really important. I find that I like to use Q E R and then the rest are 1,2,3,4,5,6 // shift-1,2,3,4,5,6 // ctrl-1,2,3,4,5,6 Works pretty well for me.
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Geosis
Last night I wanted to get a bit more serious about PvP (even tho I'm fully tank geared lol)
Anyway, I got rid of the A + D left and right turns and made those my strafing keys
Q + E are now my Icy Touch and Scourge Strike keys with X as death coil, and F as rune strike.
Holy ^&$# did it make a difference - Basically I'm strafing circles around allies so fast that they can't even hit me while I'm firing off all my special attacks.
Hmm, sorry to interupt or anything.. but did you actually JUST figured that out? Because it was the first thing I saw in pvp when I started playing this game, and plain logic. And of course they can hit you, because it's what you expect a melee-er to play like in pvp. Keyboard turners are no more then epic-fail imo.
But then again, I can't imagine how people never thought of keybinding. I do know that it's laughable to face a melee-er in pvp and watch him turn around real slowly, sometimes standing still even like "what's going on?".
I always thought that this was one of the best playable MMO's, just because of it's excellent controlls. I have yet to see another MMO where this goes so smooth.
Anyway Xyphion, I'm happy you figured it out. This will bring so much more pleasure in playing the game as it's supposed to be :).
EDIT: After I got a major crit from the wall of text, I decided to straighten it a bit into something a bit easier for the eyes :).
Post by
dabrixmgp
Getting a real mouse helps a ton. I use a 5 button mouse and my hand hardly ever leaves my mouse. I have auto run bound to middle button then with Alt+Shift mods I can have a total of 8 more binds just on my mouse using the 3,4,5 buttons and leaving the main left and right ones alone. Then I mostly use 1-4 for my attacks and then Alt 1-4 for special abilities. Im sure that will change once I get more. Also changed F1-F4 but got a good ROFL when I tried to bind F4 with an Alt mod.
I am one of those people that even though I have been using computers for most of my life I still have to look down sometimes which can get you killed. But when my hand is always on my mouse I dont have to take my eyes off the screen because I am comfortable using the bindings on my mouse.
Also I like that changing A and D to strafe and using Q and E for Plague Strike and Icy Touch soon as servers back up thats what Im changing. Even when I first started playing I never used key movements other than strafe anways. Mouse just seemed a lot easier.
Post by
Vlet
Getting a real mouse helps a ton.
For a melee class, those thumb buttons are awesome! Regardless of my current build, put my main attack on one, most common closing move on the other.
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Xyphion
Last night I wanted to get a bit more serious about PvP (even tho I'm fully tank geared lol)
Anyway, I got rid of the A + D left and right turns and made those my strafing keys
Q + E are now my Icy Touch and Scourge Strike keys with X as death coil, and F as rune strike.
Holy ^&$# did it make a difference - Basically I'm strafing circles around allies so fast that they can't even hit me while I'm firing off all my special attacks.
Hmm, sorry to interupt or anything.. but did you actually JUST figured that out? Because it was the first thing I saw in pvp when I started playing this game, and plain logic. And of course they can hit you, because it's what you expect a melee-er to play like in pvp. Keyboard turners are no more then epic-fail imo.
But then again, I can't imagine how people never thought of keybinding. I do know that it's laughable to face a melee-er in pvp and watch him turn around real slowly, sometimes standing still even like "what's going on?".
I always thought that this was one of the best playable MMO's, just because of it's excellent controlls. I have yet to see another MMO where this goes so smooth.
Anyway Xyphion, I'm happy you figured it out. This will bring so much more pleasure in playing the game as it's supposed to be :).
EDIT: After I got a major crit from the wall of text, I decided to straighten it a bit into something a bit easier for the eyes :).
Ok, show me anywhere in my post where I said Holy &*!@, you can bind keys to spells/abilities!
I clearly said that "I wanted to get more serious about PvP." It's not that I didn't know how to do it, I just chose not to.
And to tell me to play it "the way it should be" Maybe I was the only one, but I didn't get a manual telling me exactly how to play the game - as everyone plays with a different style.
Playing as a tank for PvE i used the 1-0 keybindings, basically I was saying I changed them to be keys that are closer to my fingers for quicker movement.
Maye I took this way too far, but PLEASE don't put words in my mouth when you have no idea what you're talking about.
k.thx.bye
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Geosis
Oh Xyphion, looks like I've hurt your feelings reading your offensive reply.
Now stick that k.thx.bye (attitude) where it belongs, like the elitistforums for example.
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Buttery
I believe their setup is to turn with the mouse and use your left hand to do most of the atking and moving. The mouse being used to turn/look and the buttons binded to the most common atks.
I use the f1-5, 1-5 and then numpad with ctrl and alt modifiers on the numpad keys. I generally put the lazy buttons on f1-5 (buffs, bandages, pull ability, etc), on 1-5, i put heals and other channeled spells or defensive cooldowns, and for the numpad; all my atk abilities
This this makes sense to me, since i wont need to move if i'm channeling and if i need to use a defensive cd, i'm probably running (1 button).
The only time i need to use my mouse is when I'm targeting and even then, i put all targeted spells in a mouseover macro so i dont have to click.
Hope this helps, happy facemelting!
edited for clarity
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Post by
Gnomespwn
PvP - hot keys ONLY.
PvE (dungeons raids) - depends on class, but hot keys preferable
PvE (solo) - whateva ;)
Post by
Preciouss
If you set up your keys right....you can be ambi-keydextrous. I use both keys and the mouse to use both abilities and move. Its truly the best way to go. It sorta feels like using the controls operating a tank with tracks on it.
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