The Ganking Ends Here! Now You’ll Be The One Laughing
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Gavin under Efficiency Tips, General Tips, World of WarcraftYou already know how to play the game. But you know you could get better. You picked the PvP server on purpose to give yourself a challenge. But it’s starting to get old. I seems like everywhere you go you’re getting sand kicked in your face. You win some, you lose some, and sometimes - you just get pwnd.
You think it might be just the fact that they have you out-geared. But then another dude comes along and whips the guy who just ate your lunch, and made it look easy. You know there’s a secret to it, but you’ve just never figured out what it is.
Well we’re about to tell you a little secret we use to Dominate every area of the game.
Being a great player is all about reaction times. Now, there is something to be said for being proactive, but there are just so many situations that require you to SEE what’s happening in the game and then USE the right spell or action. When you get so fast you can respond to everything going on around you and have time to spare - that’s when you start making them react to you, and that’s when you begin to dominate. Sure, you have to know WHAT to do and WHEN to do it, but you have to think fast, recognize fast, and cast fast.
When you get so fast you are waiting on the global cooldown for your next THREE spells, now we’re talking being ahead of the competition. That’s when you can just yawn while you rip someone’s head off.
Rookie professional athletes talk about having to get used to the “speed of the game.” Pros are just bigger, better, stronger, and way faster. But that doesn’t mean you’re stuck with being a 100 pound WoW weakling forever.
Now, there is something to the gear issue. You really WILL get your head knocked off in arena matches if you have vastly inferior gear. Which brings up an interesting point: how do you get the gear to dominate if you can’t dominate enough to get the gear?
You Need An Edge
A little boost so that you’re not stuck grinding it out in the battlegrounds forever for season 1 welfare epix. And even though we’re talking about PvP a lot here, it will make an even bigger difference in PvE. You’ll be the first person people come to to start their groups. The MVP of your raid and guild.
One of the best ways to get your speed kicked into warp gear is to use macros. Have you ever looked at the poor schmucks on the forums trying to find a macro? Unless you’re a whiz at that sort of thing, writing your own toon specific macros is probably going to end in frustration. It did for me. There are just way too many variables to give you a set of macros you can put on your 1-9 keys that will cover every situation.
But there is another way, and it’s simpler, easier, and far superior to macros and mods alone. The Fang gaming pad can put you in the driver’s seat, and turbocharge your play speed.
We process things in the game visually. We can’t really smell the ganker coming over the hill behind us, and unless you dropped serious bucks on sound cards and headphones you won’t hear them either. So we rely on what we can see.
The best way to improve your reaction times is practice. See what your opponent is doing and then counter that move. It all starts when you’re a poor little level 1 lowbie. You learn to react to a limited number of things mobs throw at you. By the time you reach 70 you have a pretty good feel for what to do in a lot of situations, but you’ve just run out of simple ways of using what you know.
That’s where the Fang will become your best friend. With this little weapon, you can put every single skill in your book at your fingertips. After just a few hours practicing, your fingers will be hitting all the right keys so much faster than before it will amaze you.
The Fang has 36 programmable keys that you can hotkey to the action bars in WoW. It also has the traditional movement keys right in the center including the strafe functions, but with bigger, better feeling buttons that really make moving better than it’s ever been.
How does it help? You’ve probably heard some jerk elitist dork say “get rid of all that clutter on your screen, learn 2 play!” I guarantee you there was a time (like 3 years ago) when he didn’t play without looking either. So don’t listen to the turds. Get you a mod like bartender and put ALL of your spells out where you can see them and then link them to the fang and your 1-0 keys - then get ready to rumble!
Next, just go out and work through some tough situations. Do things that you have found difficult in the past. Fight elite mobs, take on 5 mobs, go to a heroic instance, do some battlegrounds - in other words, Practice!
You will find that you will naturally group together certain types of actions on the fang in little clusters. Now your right thumb becomes a lethal weapon against rogues - your pinky dots folks to death, and your middle finger? Well you’re starting to see the point.
With the right tool and a little practice, your game will make a quantum leap in speed. You will be able to see not only what the game is about to do to you, but make the keystroke NOW! You’ll already have your counter spell in motion and the offensive spell ready before they knew what hit them.
Now, you can choose to spend a couple of hundred hours learning to be the best macro programmer you can be, good luck with that. For those of you who DO use power macros - imagine having 36 situation specific macros to use! We’re not knocking macros, but they are only useful if you can trigger them easily.
There is simply no better way to trigger skills and macros faster and with fewer keystrokes than a Fang.
Sure, you can do without it. You can figure out how to to toggle 4 actions bars worth of buttons with four different keystroke modifiers and just use your right hand to click 2 or three buttons, but WHY? That’s like walking around the block to get to the store across the street.
The easier you make it on yourself, the faster you will play. Make it easy on yourself to Dominate and grab a Fang.
Use it for a month and you’ll never be able to live without it. How much will that set you back? About 30 cents an hour - and forever after that it’s absolutely free. So what do you think? Is it worth three dimes to absolutely spank everything in sight for an hour? You’ll never miss a few bucks, but once you play with a Fang we guarantee you’ll know what you’ve been missing.
All you have to do is click the picture to check one out or grab one right away. It’s time for you to Dominate.
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Good advice. i did this awhile back except i use a Belkin n52te…Essentially the same thing just a bit different layout. i linked the website for it if anyone is intereseted
Thanks Gavin
hey all
thanks for the tip gavin, i just wanted to add to what you were saying about reaction time, not only do you need to be good at that, but you also need to know what to react with, and on top of that it is also not a bad idea to learn the other classes abilities, so you know whenever you go up against some1 that you know exactly what is coming, and how much people can actually do yo you, target week points, if you on a caster, kite him to a place where you can LoS, if it is melee just plain smash his face in… when i pvp i go sl/sl and melee just sucks to me but hey, thats me…lol
study your spellbook, as alot of ppl dont even know how handy some of there spells are, till they pay some attention to them in there books =)
i dont use a fang, i use some macros, my bar addon that i like is bongos so yeah uh, invest some time into maybe studying other classes spells aswell, would come in handy =)
thanks alot keep it coming gav
by the way i never get bored of my pvp server, go to ele plet and SMV and i gank all day, i love it
narthix 70 lock laughing skull PVP
HORDE FTW!
Ok i dont know how much it is but i really thibnk this is a big waste of money.
Everyone i know uses the WASD keys for every game and always say that they are way superior but in WoW arrow keys FTW…
with arrow keys u have wwaaaaaayyy more buttons than the standard WASd key user.
1-9 on the numpad only requires stretching your left hadn thumb adn your right hand can hit the + - keys even whilst using the mouse. this gives you 13 buttons ( including the / and *) without even pressing anything else…
Then you can use shift AND ctrl to make that 3 x 13. then you also get your page down, page up, insert, home, end and delete keys to give you a total of 45 buttons which you can assign anything to.
I have every single move that is available to my characters hotkeyed i even have my mount and potions hotkeyed so i am super fast. On our battlegroup I am ALWAYS first out of the cave in AV and not includiong the paladin buff, first to Galv. I think that with just a few dfays practice you can be clciking those buttons so fast that you will wonder how you did without. 1-0 and - and + is so far to stretch that actually its not practical to use the very end ones so you get WAAAY less keys.
I also haev a multimedia keyboard so when im grinding amnd i have ALL my music on shuffle i can just change the track if i dont liek it without losing any speed because it is just above the numpad…
Most peiople will laugh at this good piece of advice but Seriously, you WASDs should revert to the oldskool way of playing…. ASTRO?
I personally use 1-5 Q and E Shift and all the keys, and Ctrl and all the keys, along side my mouse buttons, with Shift and ctrl using them for different spells as well….Never go passed 5, never have to move my hand….Arrow keys ftl…
tbh the ‘best’ control keys to use would be RDFG, with your hand almost centered on the keyboard almost every key from tab to rshift is within reach of at least 1 finger. But personally i use the traditional WASD layout, had it burned into me from the FPS days
the 1-9 and - adn + is refering to ther WASd keys btw and also a good point that many miss out on is that bliz gives you spells for a reason… you should always have all of them beacuse when your being whacked by a player a lvl above you with great gear that one move you might see an opportunity for and you will be glad you have it.

p.s soprtry for the spelling errors im trying to gank sum dude in STV lol… ganking is 1/2 the game …
hey Gavin first off srry about my past terminology but also you forgot to mention the logitech g-11 ( formerly g 15 ) that has the same setup only a little more programming but its excellent for gaming may i suggest the next gear your system out to the max you mention mouses and keyboards but i use the old g-15 keyboard since i play a hunter its easy but yes speed is what its all about the difference between number 5 in the raid and number 1 is speed im lucky since im left handed so my left hand which i use for gaming is faster then my mouse button but before i played a hunter i played a warlock and that was what 9 buttons and the logitech g-15 has 18 buttons and 3 modes so 54 macros and that’s rly all you need for wow rly plus its back lit and `a full functional keyboard with LCD display and yes these do improve speed i out dps 70 mages all the time at level 68 on my hunter due to how fast i can cast. btw for a mouse i use a mx air logitech mouse even thought i only use mouse for walking and some stuff.
P.S is it just me or are you being payed to advertise these products
Unfotunatly also, reaction time is a big thing true, but rather than being reactive you want to be proactive! there will come a time where you will be able to work out what your opponent will be doing next, as that is just what that class always does in combination with other moves. So u want to be that one step ahead rather than just faster at reacting.
Then again, this could just be because i am an Aussie, and i have to play with latency 3-4 times higher than Americans do on American servers. gotta preempt everything, hell i get attacked in melee when im still 10 yards away on my screen cause of the in world locations in relation to my latency :”(
Awesome Game pad. I have a Z-board which is essentially the same thing. The Z-board keys are split weird which makes typing in game chat difficult. So I use two Keyboards, the Zboard and a regular wireless keyboard to chat in game. I could not game with out my Zboard or something equivalent these dayz. A must have to improve your game!!!
Thank you very much for this bit of advice i have been looking at a similiar item from the px(army) for about 6 months now and i really didnt just wanna fork out 25-30 $ for something i wasnt sure was gonna work for what i needed. from what u have just said in the statement above i believe it just may work for all my toons to include the pally. tyvm for all ur great advice and if u have anyideas how to lessen lag from other contries im sure all the aussies and the troops in iraq are listening 3900 lat is bs but we try to make it work lmao.
hmmm i have bongos but its hard for a noob as my self to learn how to use macro eventually i learned how to do macro and i got bongos mod it helped a crap load and ty for the info gavin
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” You can figure out how to to toggle 4 actions bars worth of buttons with four different keystroke modifiers and just use your right hand to click 2 or three buttons, but WHY?”
Helooooo exaggerations! It’s not half as hard as you make it, and if you use more than one keystroke modifier you ought to hang yourself anyways. Prioritize your things. Primary nukes are bound to my mouse. Other primary spells are bound to qerfgvc, zx for trinkets, and AoE’s are 1-4 (I play a mage). A shift key will downrank the AoE’s, and I use shift on spells that are very situational, or are buffs, such as Invisbility. My keybinds use half a page on a bindpad frame, which is to say, not very much.
On another note, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you mention using a and d to strafe, rather than turn. Turning belongs to the mouse, not the keyboard!
I would like to know more about macro for every class….
i had a longer version of this typed out but i stupidly didn’t sign up first. i mainly wanted to know at what point u expected this *tbh i dont know what the hell it is* mouse?is suppose to replace skill on the part of a pvp player. reaction times and macros will only ever get you so far and it wont get you to the upper rating’s anyone who is playing the arena seriously is hoping for. if this is designed purely for the people grinding honor then tbh a one key macro which then can spam would be sufficent
I think that if you are a person that uses Hotkeys and everything then this is probably a great thing to have. All depends on your style of play.
I myself am a “clicker” the only keys i touch are W, A, S, D and Tab everything else is done with my mouse. I have a few special macros that I wrote and modified for specific situations but I rarely need them and most are for stance dancing. I am a warrior, in PVE I do CC less heroic runs holding up to 8 mobs when I tank. In arena or in a battleground when I respec to arms im constantly changing stances and weapons to best my opponents. Ninty percent of the time I dont look where I click since the position of everything is stamped in my mind.
So if you are someone who uses their keyboard and have everything hotkeyed then certainly I would give that a try. But always play to your strengths even if that earns you the title of noob others eyes.
I have to agree. I admit, I am by no means an über PvPer, but I am pretty decent. It all comes down to knowing the situation. When you target a player, WATCH his/her progress bars…Most classes have interrupt talents, which often include a stun or disallow the same spell (*school) from being cast for a period of time (ex. Earth Shock for Shamans, Shield Bash and Pummel for Warriors, etc). I am amazed at how underused these abilities are on most BGs :shock:.
What I am trying to say is that knowing the situation is more important than quick access to keys. I mostly click. On my shaman, I keep all the abilities in manageable groups (eg. all the healing spells next to each other) and anything I don’t use in combat goes up on the right action bars. Most of my abilities (n/i the totems) have cast times, so I put the quickest to the left, slowest to the right. The most used are right in the middle where the separator is, and where my cursor usually is. Due to cast times and cooldowns, my cursor is usually hovering over my next move waiting for the counter…I couldn’t be faster if I used TELEPATHY! If you like toys, then go spend the money, but you are unlikely to see large gains in speed. Make decisions fast, and you WILL see improvement. Purge (or equiv) is always good for de-bubbling priests and pallies so you can hit them. Nature’s Swiftness is awesome for huge instant heals or big, long casting time dmg like chain lightning (of course these apply to shamans, but other classes have similar). Don’t forget your racial abilities like Gift of Naruu or Stomp for mana free bonuses. And finally, to all you folks who run from my rogue, I can continuously backstab you as you run away from me, and usually you die w/o even giving me a paper cut! TURN and FIGHT, even if you die, you make me more vulnerable to your pals. And if I am stuck fighting you, I am losing time for grabbing flags or whatever the real goal is. I sometimes will tie up 4 or 5 players who just want to gank me while my team mate grabs their flag unmolested!~ If you know how other classes fight, you will be able to not only react FASTER, but appropriately.
Well for the WASD part and the looong stretch between the to 0-+
i usually TAKE my have off my mouse, and press it. its NOT the big of a deal honestly.
Using Bongos2 (it stance switches much easier than Bongos), there is no reason why you cant set up a group of buttons (6w x 2h), map them from 1 to = (12 keys), and then page them with the Alt, Ctrl and Shift keys.
This can give you a huge advantage, especially for those who do not use macros, as it effectively gives you 48 hotkeys within reach of you middle finger. All without taking your hand off the Fang.
You can set the Fang to default, or program any of the buttons to suit: ie giving you the R,T,F,G buttons right there at you finger tip. Page switch those and you get another 16 buttons. That is an impressive 64 keys within reach without having to ever let go of your mouse, or stretch you hand.
I am not claiming to be the “be all and end all” of players, but changing from the keyboard to the Fang was the best thing I ever did. I no longer have to find a spell for a specific offenee or defence, they are all there.
PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. That cant be stressed enough. Whether you use the Keyboard, or any of the multiple brands and styles of game pads out there, practice makes perfect (or at least improves your response and game play).
FYI: The Ideazone Fang is available in Australia on via online purchase (it was taken out of retail about 8 months ago). You can pick it up (inc freight) for around about $80Au.
I still use the mouse and click method tbh, a little slower but i can still own.
Sup i jst use wsad to move (god damn cs) and then hotkey 1-5 qzgfe and i also hav a hotkey on my mouse…i then set scroll to change action bars between 1 and 2 and huzza i hav 20 moves i can use. I then put things ill use wen out of combat on the other toolbars which arnt on hotkey eg food hearth etc
WoW coming back to this im amazed at all these new concepts that people use. All my friends use click and wasd keys, I would like to add that actually everyone ahs their own style and if you find sumthing your compfortable with you shouldnt go for sumthing else just because a pro does it. I had loads of mash macros which i was given by a pro who used them constantly but i just didnt like them as it was random and i wasnt able to really control my moves and so was losing too much health / kill. He was PVE tho :S
waay ahead of you. remember that post “gavin wants to know what you use to dominate”? i saw the fang on there, and after some research, go one. this was about 3 months ago. i love it
you are all pathetic, i mean come on
you have ppl that think “the fang” will be able to help them, but are using a and d to turn? mouse turn ppl, a and d are for strafe. on top of that when you play you shouldnt be using all the number keys, use 1 through to 6 qerfgvcxt, stamp your abilities in the seqeunce you want to do them, then shift + 1 or shift +2 will give you a whole new bar to play with, use bongos2. ultmiately what will really make you dominate is knowing al the classes off by heart, reaction time, and most importantly PLANNING! plan your game, dont play his, make the other fella play to your tune!!!
but hey we al need noobs right? so we can kick sand in there faces. i respect gavin and lawbringer for trying to help, but some ppl are ultimately lame at this game, also to the fella that uses clicking and you play a warrior? wow that is lame as hell, i would pawn you in 10 secs flat probably as for you being able to hold 8 mobs? i highly doubt it considering you are a clicker, and ontop of that, warriors arent built for holding multi mobs, palli tanks are.
well besides that, thanks again gavin for some good pointers. but i think those gimmics are only good for grinding or pve, not pvp. pvp isnt about gadgets, its about targeting, planning, execution and reaction.
thats all i have to say
narthix 70 UD lock
Narthix: You are rude.
Totally agree, some people you can just walk all over, and clicking with keyboard turning is one of the things that mainly causes this, along with a rush in and hope for the best tactic… which, with an experienced player on the other end unlimatly fails ^.^ keybinding your spells is a must, I mean, how can you react as fast when you have to look down at your action bar and aim to click a spell, you just move and react slower, its SIMPLE.
Of course when you use new keybinds you get pwnd, you need to get used to it, I’d suggest binding 1 spell at a time to 1 key, a spell you use often, to get the feel for it, and know where it is when you need it!
To the comment about reaction time isnt everything… well sorry to say but that’s a load of crap, how can you react to a spell thats being casted with a 2 second cast when it takes you 3 seconds to actually use the spell?
I really think that this keypad would be worth while using IF people use it PROPERLY, Everyone in this game was a keyboard turning noob who got walked over, but its just the ones who had the initiative to actually learn how to play properly who succeed, in PvP that is (PvE is kinda easy when you have to click 2 buttons against a mob that for the most part part doesn’t do anything unexpected) And ultimatly its the lazy ones who cant be bothered to bind keys or theorycraft that end up just failing embaressingly :P.
But to all the clickers out there, it’s not about your own style of playing. sure have one, but don’t complain if your not getting anywhere! And if you are, then that just proves how imbalanced the game is.
Thats my personal opinion on the situation, read it and make use of it, or don’t, I couldn’t really care less if you disagree because ultimatly I’ve quit WoW, just passing on a few things might help you guys out if you decide to read it. Because in the end, keybinds got me to my modest 2388 rating last season on my rogue and I know I could have NEVER EVER EVER got there if I was a clicker.
I saw a number of comments about Bongos and Bongos 2. Please know that Bongos (1 and 2) has been largely abandoned by the author who is now working on the complete re-write of Bongos, which is called “Dominoes”. I made the switch and I like Dominoes better, though it took just a little getting used to - the big difference I have seen so far is just in how you edit/set up the bars. Once you clue in to the “new” way of doing it, I think Dominoes is easier to use than Bongos. FYI.
Also, instead of use WASD for directional control, you can shift the keys one over and use ESDF instead. Doing this, I then use W and R for strafing - which means if I push W and F at the same time, I run in a circle, always facing in which is great for melee PvP. With just a little practice, you can really use the strafing and turning keys at the same time (off an on) to navigate very quickly and “minding” what direction you are facing. Remember that you strafe at the same speed as you run, so running sideways away from a mob can be just as fast as running completely away, but you take out the “from behind” attacks with all its problems (daze, etc.).
I then have QZXCVGT as easy-to-find keys that are right around the directional keys. Since Blizz uses many of these for standard functions, I keybind the Control Key with the normal setting (i.e. Control-X is for sit, Control-C gives me the character pane, etc.) and that frees up the regular (no modifier) key for anything I want. That gives 7 extra key for binding that are right next to my directional keys - so they are always findable without looking down.
Then I use the numeric keypad for my main abilities. That gives me 17 keys where again I do not have to look down to use them. On most keyboards with numeric keypads, there is also a “middle” pad with a small set of keys above the arrow keys. That gives me an extra 6 keys (Blizz doesn’t seem to recognize the F14-F16 keys on a Mac - not sure why) that are easily hit, but I do have to look down (I use them for mount, hearthstone, trinkets and the like).
Lastly, it was hard to get used to - and I used up some big abilities at wrong times while getting the hang of it! - but I made the space bar one of my “oh shit” buttons. I use Command-Space for jumping. I’m usually not in combat when I need to jump, so then I use the mouse for directional control and can hit Command-Space no problem for timing the jump.
With this set up I find I can have very similar keybindings between toons. Thus T is a “big heal” and G is a “normal heal”. On a priest or Pally it is my healing spells, on a warrior or rogue it is two different healing potions. My “1″ (numeric keypad) is always a spell interupt and 2 is either an agro grab (taunt or Righteous Defense) or a defensive manuever for when I have grabbed aggro and don’t want it (feign death or feint). 4, 5, 6, and + are my attack keys, with the normal attack sequence going from left (4) to right (+). On a warlock, this gives my my dots in the “right” order but lets me still control which spell goes when without relying on a macro.
With this, I can keep the same “reactions” with each toon - generally, hitting a given key accomplished the same basic function regardless of the toon. This doesn’t obviously work across the board and when I switch toons I can forget where spells are - and then I have to look down to see the %*%^%^#$% icon and try to remember which one is which - but that takes all of 5 minutes of play to work out again.
It sounds more complicated than it really is, but I have both hands on the keyboard while fighting and I have “instant” (i.e. without looking at the keyboard) access to a lot of abilities and macros as well as moving keys. The only thing I figure I lose is the instant turn with the mouse. This only has been an impact on my Hunter - I can’t do jumping-turn-shots without the mouse - so I have to train myself to switch back to the mouse when kiting and shooting.
You should all realize that Gavin foreshadowed his expectation of rudeness in the article. We hear so many people say so often things like “WTH do you still use XXX for? Only noobs do that, you should do XXX idiot.” It was only to be expected.
There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to this type of brain fart crustiness either. You’ll notice that several of the “I’m Wicked Awesome and Everyone Else is a Loser” folks above contradict each other. If there really was a consensus on what really IS the absolute best keystroke setup then there would be a single methodology that ruled in these type of discussions, but there never is.
It does, in the end, all boil down to what you like best. Anything that gives a player of any skill level the ability to more easily toggle abilities is a plus. But keep in mind that it also needs to be simple to use and simple to learn. And just because it’s simpler doesn’t mean it’s something for noobs.
The same thing happened this last year in the NASCAR circuit. Drivers were all crying about the new “Car of Tomorrow.” It turned out to be superior to all of their “we do it our way” methods, but they had to be forced to use it. Well, it was better for everyone until JGRT decided it would be cool to cheat with their engine. Anyway, the car was better because it WASN’T some hodgepodge of glop. It was a well thought-out, well-designed and engineered system, and not just a collection of stuff from over the years.
Every now and then you have to start over with a clean slate and honestly ask yourself “what can I do that can help me improve?” It doesn’t matter if you already win 90% of your arena matches and have a rating of a bazillion. You can still be better, you could be winning 95% of your matches. You can’t let hubris get in your way - look it up.
There are several good keyboard options available, but it’s a fairly short list. Anything SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to add keystroke functionality and ease of use is going to ADD KEYSTROKE EASE OF USE. Pretty simple right?
When you go to the bank to make a deposit, they won’t give you a “little extra” in your account just because you make the deposit more difficult for you. You can even brag about how you always make your deposits in pennies, and that somehow it makes you a superior financial wiz. But that doesn’t make it true. Some of us are banking online and wonder why you still go to the bank at all! If I can move any amount of money in 3 clicks of the mouse, then why in the world would I ever drive to the bank and go through the hassle at all?
In the same way, saying “I can use 4 different modifiers to access all my bars (ignoring that there are mods that can let you see all those bars WITHOUT modifiers, and products such as the fang which let you toggle them WITHOUT modifiers) and still I RULE BECAUSE I AM THE MOST AWESOME GUY AND YOU ARE ALL STUPID!” is just nuts.
For those of you that still have a few open brain cells, consider adding a Fang to your arsenal. Sure, it’s only as good as you are in the long run, but why do it a harder way if there is an easier one? You will still have to practice. You will still have to gather gear. You will still need to learn more and learn to do more with what you know. But at least start with an equipment advantage. Then as the rest of it comes, it can turn into a dominating one.
lol just a quick noob question could u setup 2 of them and not use a keyboard at all? or what would be good to use with it ?
ive been thinking of trying a mouse on wow.. just cant find where you plug the tail in…
Whatever happened to that keyboard that WoW released as the ultimate WoW console? You remember it had the classic Pic of the dwarf and elf on it… Anyway. I am a casual gamer with a 70 hunter and a bunch of slowly lvling lowbies who works in bands every Friday and Saturday night, not to mention father of a boy under 2 years old. Sufficed to say I don’t get invited to Kara (I’ve been once - up to the dragon) and although I’m on a moderate amount of the time, I’m never on at the right times to get the uber t-whatever gear every other sucker is proudly strutting around with…
What I want to know is, is anyone else using the default settings? I am too technologically dumb to understand macros (no one has ever explained it to me) and would suffer an eternity of homemade DoTs from my wife if I spent our money on a Fang or similar.
I want to pwn, but seem destined to only get epic gear from bgs (got 6 months to work up the honor for one item?) and forever destined to get pwnd by nerd virgins who, lets face it, need SOME success in their lives…
Sorry this has turned into a whinge session, but at least all you elite pwnage readers (roll something besides a lock.. please!) will feel better there is someone who has been playing this for a number of years now and sucks compared to you.
Sincerely,
can’tbelieveI’veplayedthislongandamstillsoshit
when you find a place that can help with creating useful macros, let me know. my feeble attempts have led to immense failure, and i’m floundering. also, tips for marksmen hunters. everyday i hear the same old story, “bm is better for this, surv is better for that” well us mm hunters are useful too! but i sure would like to top the dps charts once in awhile. i figure i just don’t know enough about my class and spec to be doing it right, so a helping hand here would be awesome. thanks for everything so far, i may not be fuly dominating my server yet but i am on the path to the top!
Nothing beats WSAD if you know how to use it, this is what I have:
wsad
12345
qert
fg
xcv
I have a rogue and I love having Gouge on F and kidney shot on C.
Honestly, i dont understand this article Gavin, It’s quite a step down from your normally good advice
and im disapointed.
Sure, you shouldnt be using 1-0 keys on a regular keyboard, because you’ll miss or basically have to move your hand to far and not be fast enough. There are probably other good ways to do this, but here’s my suggested way to bind stuff
use 1-5 or 1-4, anything beyond that is too far. Keep your hand centered on awsd, whether you move with those or not, i usually move with my mouse, but those when i’m using my hand for eating or something.
Then, alt+123, shift 123, and control 123, are all excellent. now, if you straif a lot ( i dont ) and you use awsd, i suggest binding a and d to straif, since you usually dont turn anyway. That opens up q and e for bindings. R and F are also good, and dont forget z, x, c, v, and maybe even t g and b. AND, please bind ` to something you use sometimes but not really very much, i use my wand for that. Need even more buttons? Any of the letters can also be combined with shift, alt, or control. I suggest shift, it’s the easiest to grab with ur pinkie and another letter or something else as well.
Now, if you have the money and want to make an inventment im something that will help, i still dont suggest this little board doodad. A mouse with multiple extra buttons on it are amazing, and adding shift to those as well, as though it can take some getting used to, can help too
Basically, stragitic key binding can replace any fancy item like this. Dont waste your cash.
But finally, i will give you credit, the best pvpers OBVIOUSLY use keybindings of some sort. PLEASE dont click, even if you’re used to it, get away from it. It’s slower, and worst of all, you have to look for the button, and that just is a waste of time. With stratigic keybindings, you should have all your abilities memorized and off your bars in no time.
Seeing as this is an old article, no will probably read this but I still feel like commenting…
I completely agree with what Lawbringer wrote and that different methods work better for different people. If you use a good old qwerty keyboard and it meets your needs, then that’s what works best for you. If you use a special gaming console and it does what you want, then that’s what works best for you. Personally, I just use a good ol’ keyboard and mouse and on my priest, for example, I use Healbot with all the modifier buttons in combination with my mouse. It took a little getting used to, but since I used it while I was leveling, all my spells have become instinctual and I don’t have to think about which modifier I even need to use in combo with which mouse button. I find it greatly improves my reaction times over those healers that don’t use the Healbot interface and button combinations. It has many times made the difference between a wipe and a successful boss kill because I got the appropriate heal off fast enough.
So don’t go around claiming to know Thee right way to control a toon because what works for you may not work for someone else. If you met another person with the same toon and same abilities who used a completely different control method and were forced to switch with them… you’d both pretty much suck at first. That doesn’t mean you’re a bad player or have no skill, it just means that you’d already found a way that works for you best.
In closing, I think the spirit of Gavin’s post was to offer those who don’t think they’ve found the best means of control yet an option that might allow them to improve their play style, not to say you’re a noob if you don’t have a gaming console like that.
Happy Gaming all