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09-06-2009, 01:15 PM
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Xella has a great post over at WoW LJ about keybindings (http://community.livejournal.com/worldofwarcraft/8030242.html), and it got me thinking. I play with what I thought was the "standard" way -- with the left hand sitting on the home fingers of Shift, A, W, D, and the spacebar, and then jumping up to the 1-6 (or further down the number line if necessary, though truth be told, I usually mouse-click those when I have the time (http://www.wow.com/2008/02/13/breakfast-topic-clicking-vs-hotkeys/) to do so) to hit various abilities. But xella does it very differently -- she maps her fingers to the top abilities keys, using only her ring finger for movement. I would probably never have come up with that on my own (my habits come directly from FPS games, where the 1-6 keys are mostly for weapon switching, something you don't do quite as often as casting abilities), but it does make a lot of sense, even if xella says her ring finger, with all of those movement motions, is getting somewhat worn out.
And then she hits on something else I've been dealing with lately, too: changing what you've got. Setting up your keybinds is one thing (http://www.wow.com/2008/12/24/wow-rookie-leaner-meaner-character-controls/), but actually changing them can be tougher.Continue reading Keybindings and how to change them (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/06/keybindings-and-how-to-change-them/)
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Xella has a great post over at WoW LJ about keybindings (http://community.livejournal.com/worldofwarcraft/8030242.html), and it got me thinking. I play with what I thought was the "standard" way -- with the left hand sitting on the home fingers of Shift, A, W, D, and the spacebar, and then jumping up to the 1-6 (or further down the number line if necessary, though truth be told, I usually mouse-click those when I have the time (http://www.wow.com/2008/02/13/breakfast-topic-clicking-vs-hotkeys/) to do so) to hit various abilities. But xella does it very differently -- she maps her fingers to the top abilities keys, using only her ring finger for movement. I would probably never have come up with that on my own (my habits come directly from FPS games, where the 1-6 keys are mostly for weapon switching, something you don't do quite as often as casting abilities), but it does make a lot of sense, even if xella says her ring finger, with all of those movement motions, is getting somewhat worn out.
And then she hits on something else I've been dealing with lately, too: changing what you've got. Setting up your keybinds is one thing (http://www.wow.com/2008/12/24/wow-rookie-leaner-meaner-character-controls/), but actually changing them can be tougher.Continue reading Keybindings and how to change them (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/06/keybindings-and-how-to-change-them/)
Filed under: Tips (http://www.wow.com/category/tips/), Tricks (http://www.wow.com/category/tricks/), Fan stuff (http://www.wow.com/category/fan-stuff/), Odds and ends (http://www.wow.com/category/odds-and-ends/), AddOns (http://www.wow.com/category/addons/), Hardware (http://www.wow.com/category/hardware/)
Keybindings and how to change them (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/06/keybindings-and-how-to-change-them/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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