angelinaholy
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Maybe your a new player to WoW, or perhaps you have played a long time clicking those abilities along the way. Now your enjoying PvP and would like to expand your skills and improve your speed. Well, using keybinds is probably the fastest and easiest change you can make.
Many players feel intimidated switching to binds and quickly become frustrated. Fortunately, in the FTP bracket we do not have a huge number of abilities. This will make it much easier to make that transition from clicker to binder.
In this thread, I'll share some of the techniques that made my transition smoother years ago.
Personally, I changed my movement keys to ESDF instead of the usual WASD, and unbound my back peddle key. This opens up a few new binds and because in this bracket we have a limited number of abilities shift and alt modifiers arent quite so needed. Back in the day I used to use the thumb button on my mouse as the modifier. You can also use your middle mouse button but like I mentioned its not really needed here.
The next thing I did was bind my two most used twitch skills to mouse forward and mouse backward. And that was the only binds I used for a few battlegrounds. I was really impressed with how much quicker my reaction were with just this change.
Eventually, I added other frequently used abilities to easy keys to reach. Keys R, W, G, D, A, and middle mouse were to first ones. And I switched my target nearest enemy to T because tab became difficult to use with ESDF.
My best advice is to take it slow. Start with your most used abilities and add more from there. In this bracket, you really only need maybe 15 binds or less for any class. Add a new one a day and get used to it before adding more. Within a week or so, clicking will be a thing of the past and you won't ever want to go back.
These days I use a Razer Naga so my binds would be less then useful to share. But given this setup on a blood elf disc priest this would be my binds.
MouseF - Flash Heal
MouseB- Renew
MouseM - Power word Shield
Q - Heal
W - Arcane Torrent
R - Trinket
T- Target nearest enemy player
Tab - Target nearest enemy
D - Pennance
A - Psychic Scream
G- Holy Fire
V - Mind Blast
B - Smite
C - Shadow word Pain
Then I would click my buffs or bind them to something easy to reach like 5 and 6 etc.
Obviously, this isnt the only way to keybind. But just some examples and things that helped me personally. Hopefully, this post can help some other players and help them have more fun in game.
Many players feel intimidated switching to binds and quickly become frustrated. Fortunately, in the FTP bracket we do not have a huge number of abilities. This will make it much easier to make that transition from clicker to binder.
In this thread, I'll share some of the techniques that made my transition smoother years ago.
Personally, I changed my movement keys to ESDF instead of the usual WASD, and unbound my back peddle key. This opens up a few new binds and because in this bracket we have a limited number of abilities shift and alt modifiers arent quite so needed. Back in the day I used to use the thumb button on my mouse as the modifier. You can also use your middle mouse button but like I mentioned its not really needed here.
The next thing I did was bind my two most used twitch skills to mouse forward and mouse backward. And that was the only binds I used for a few battlegrounds. I was really impressed with how much quicker my reaction were with just this change.
Eventually, I added other frequently used abilities to easy keys to reach. Keys R, W, G, D, A, and middle mouse were to first ones. And I switched my target nearest enemy to T because tab became difficult to use with ESDF.
My best advice is to take it slow. Start with your most used abilities and add more from there. In this bracket, you really only need maybe 15 binds or less for any class. Add a new one a day and get used to it before adding more. Within a week or so, clicking will be a thing of the past and you won't ever want to go back.
These days I use a Razer Naga so my binds would be less then useful to share. But given this setup on a blood elf disc priest this would be my binds.
MouseF - Flash Heal
MouseB- Renew
MouseM - Power word Shield
Q - Heal
W - Arcane Torrent
R - Trinket
T- Target nearest enemy player
Tab - Target nearest enemy
D - Pennance
A - Psychic Scream
G- Holy Fire
V - Mind Blast
B - Smite
C - Shadow word Pain
Then I would click my buffs or bind them to something easy to reach like 5 and 6 etc.
Obviously, this isnt the only way to keybind. But just some examples and things that helped me personally. Hopefully, this post can help some other players and help them have more fun in game.
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