User:Erdluf17992
Updated keybindings
Major features: I now have the keybindings mapped to 13 action-bar slots (main action bar, +1 button). This makes it very easy (looking at a single action bar) to see which button gives a particular action (in case I forget).
Nostromo mapping for main keys is
- 1 2 3 4 5
- 6 7 8 9 0
- shift F9 F10 F11
Orange thumb button is ctrl. Game-pad is forward/strafe/flip-camera Mouse-wheel (mouse and nostromo) is zoom and toggle-autorun
Theme has changed from (some keys for dps, some keys for heal) to unshifted=dps, shifted=heal, ctrl=forms/items. Almost all single-target spells will use mouseover targets in preference to my current target. I'm still not using focus (noob).
| Spell Attacks | Caster
No Modifiers |
Feral
Ctrl+Shift | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Entangling
Roots |
Hurricane | Typhoon | Starfall | Force of Nature |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 |
| Cyclone | Wrath | Starfire | Moonfire | Insect Swarm |
| Shift | F9 | F10 | F11 | |
| Hibernate | Assist | Target Enemy |
| Heals | All Forms | Shift | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Innervate | Thorns | Mark of the Wild | Abolish Poison | Remove Curse |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 |
| Tranquility | Healing Touch
Revive Rebirth |
Regrowth | Lifebloom | Rejuvenate |
| Shift | F9 | F10 | F11 | |
| Target Prev Friend | Bandage | Target Next Friend |
| Me | All Forms | Ctrl | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Trinket 1 | Trinket 2 | Drums | Nature's Grasp | Barkskin |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 |
| Mount
Swift Flight Form |
Dire Bear Form | Cat Form | Travel Form
Aquatic Form |
Moonkin Form |
| Shift | F9 | F10 | F11 | |
| Shadowmeld
Prowl |
Health Pot+Stone | Mana Potion |
| Attacks | Feral Forms | Nomod | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Attack | Maul
Pounce Rake |
Lacerate
Ravage Shred |
Swipe
Claw |
Challenging Roar
Maim |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 |
| Demoralizing Roar
Rip |
Enrage
Ferocious Bite |
Faerie Fire (Feral) | Frenzied Regeneration
Cower |
Growl
Dash |
| Shift | F9 | F10 | F11 | |
| Bash
Tiger's Fury |
Assist | Target Enemy |
Combat related things I still have to click, or move hand to main keyboard
- Food
- Drink
- Other Items (different drums, quest items, ...)
- Faerie Fire (caster) -> May bind to ctrl+shift+8
- Soothe Animal
- Target Previous Enemy
- Target Party Members
Additonal notes: From caster form, ctrl+shift+1 is Attack.
- The stuff below here is obsolete
TLDR Version: First takes on switching from clicking to keybinding.
I got an n52 keypad for my birthday. I've always been a mouse-clicker, but I decided to jump in and try switching to using my keys.
The n52 has three rows of keys, which by default are bound to
- <tab> Q W E R
- <caps> A S D F
- <shift> Z X C
It has a scroll wheel at the 'V' position, bound to the mouse scroll wheel.
The thumb gets two buttons and an eight-direction game pad. The buttons are initially bound to <alt> and <space>. I changed <alt> to <ctrl> to avoid Windows <alt><tab> behavior. The game pad was bound to something not recognized by WoW, so I changed it to be the outer ring of keypad numbers (1-9, excluding 5).
It is possible to designate keys to make the n52 shift between 4 modes (indicated by color LED's), with entirely separate key bindings for each mode. I'm not using that, at least so far.
The setup I went with was
- Default mouse settings, except that clicking the scroll wheel toggles auto-run.
- n52 gamepad is used for forward/back/strafe
- <space> is jump/up. <shift><space> is sit/down.
I assigned the three rows of keys to
- Targetting/Forms
- Moonkin Combat
- Restoration
| Tab | Q | W | E | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| > Friendly | < Friendly | Assist | < Hostile | > Hostile | |
| Ctrl | Self | Party 1 | Party 2 | Party 3 | Party 4 |
| Shift | Mount Macro | Bear | Cat | Travel Macro | Moonkin |
| Caps | A | S | D | F | |
| Auto-attack | Wrath | Starfire | Insect Swarm | MF 12 | |
| Ctrl | Cyclone | Roots | Hibernate | FoN | MF 11 |
| Shift | Nature's Grasp | Barkskin | Faerie Fire | Hurricane | MF 1 |
| Shift | Z | X | C | ||
| Regrowth | Rejuvinate | Lifebloom | |||
| Ctrl | Healing Touch | Abolish Poison | Remove Curse | ||
| Shift | Tranquility | Mana Potion | Drink |
After a weekend of battlegrounds and grinding, I was correctly using all of the un-modified keys, and the modified versions of the top row of keys. The <ctrl> and <shift> versions of the bottom two rows still need more training. Dropping Hurricane, when I wanted to drop FoN is funny in retrospect ... .
I'm thinking about swapping the positions of Wrath and Insect Swarm. Pinky finger already gets a workout from <shift>. Making it also do Wrath-spam is wearing it out.
I may change the binding of that <caps> key. Using it in combat meant that I was SHOUTING a lot in chat.
Previously I had the 4 main healing spells (HT, Rb, Rj, Lb) only on my caster-form bar, so I had to explicitly switch to caster before casting a heal. I really enjoyed single-press Lifebloom from within MK. However moving those to my right toolbar meant something had to go, so I now have to go to my spellbook for professions (LW, FA, Cooking), and to my backpack for my fishing pole.
I still have to mouse-click or use the main keyboard for trinkets, drums, weapon swaps, buffs, shadowmeld, ...
One thing I don't like with this settup is that I can strafe, but not easily turn while I have a Ground-Target AoE indicator up. That isn't much of an issue for FoN. It is a considerable nuisance while doing bombing runs in BEM. If I use the mouse to turn (or change altitude) I lose the targetting indicator. I can move my left hand to the main keyboard and use the arrow-keys for turning, but then my fingers are out of position for strafing or changing altitude.
If you've got suggested improvements, I'd love to see them.
Thanks Erdluf 15:29, 3 March 2008 (UTC)