Keybindings Tips Please

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Looking for some keybindings tips from players in their setup. I feel like I’m running out of room for my abilities any tips are appreciated!

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Keybind R to your interrupt.

I also have F keybinded to Turtle mode.

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I bound r,t,y,f,g also have a mouse with 12 macro buttons. I have a buddy that uses the upper key buttons for the main action bar and the number buttons for his extra action bar above.

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Does the mouse work pretty good or is it hard to get used to/missclick?

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I don’t know what your familiarity is with more complex keybinding and macro’n but you want to make ample use of alt and shift modifiers, combining those with various keys and mouse buttons. Whatever you can’t keybind with basic blizz UI settings, use the bindpad addon and your mouse software. Bindpad in particular is a God level addon for keybinding.

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Just takes some getting use to pretty simple they are all on my thumb side of the mouse. The hardest part is probably setting it all up in the software so the buttons actually function. Everyone’s different. All preference.

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Macros using modifiers saves a ton of space.

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] spell 1; [nomod] spell 2

There’s also help/harm macros that are very useful for healers

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help]Renew;[@mouseover,@target,harm]Shadow Word: Pain; [] Renew
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My primary skills are on my mouse (12 button side), and then my other important skills/spells/activates are on alt 1-12 and ctl 1-12. > and < are for mounting and fishing, ` is for focus; food, pets, toys, etc. are off to the side and unbound.

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For important and most used spells I like to bind 1.2.3.4 and ,Q,E,R,F. Other usfeul for not so common spells G,T,Z,X,C.

Then you can bind 1-2 min cds on ctrl1-4

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Keybind 1-9, shift, alt, tab, ctrl, Windows key. And when that’s not enough, pray the RNG lords give you another finger.

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I’m kinda ignorant about this stuff but is this the same as using bartender and setting up a keybind as “shift+whatever key”

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Generally I use
12345

Mouse wheel up & Down (usually rebind my camera to like page up/down as I don’t use it much)

QERTSDFGZXV

+shift/alt variants (cntl if you feel more comfortable I just hate iirc)

For S I know most people use it to backpedal, I’ve just changed that to one of the buttons on my mouse

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Sort of. Making the macro is more flexible though.

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Get a Razer Trinity and use the side plate with 7 buttons on it imo. I’ve been using it for many years since it was 6 buttons and was called the Razer Naga Hex. It’s the perfect amount of buttons where you can have 21 extras readily accessible by using the 7 buttons plus shift and alt as modifiers but the buttons are extremely easy to adjust to. They are big and not super close together so mis-clicking never happens for me and almost never did. Plus there are two buttons on the top right next to the scroll wheel. I use 1-3 for my first 3 abilities, then my 7 side buttons, along with F and my middle mouse button. For spells that you need to target the ground with, I strongly recommend using F because you can mess up your aim putting pressure on a side button to get the spell ready to cast. Then for hotbars 2 and 3 you just use shift and alt as modifiers and boom, you have 36 buttons bound and never have to click anything. I also use 4 for my character window so I could free up C, along with X just to use for focus target stuff or macros.

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I use

Swqerf for abilities. Q is usually CC r is mobility.
A and D for strafe
Zxc for arena 123 and raid potions/flasks

V for defensive abilities
123 for mounts trinkets

Every button has a shift control and alt modifier.

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I bind “a” and “d” to strafe, “s” to run forward and bind “w” to an ability.

Interrupt on “q” and main rotation on e, r, f, c, w, x and z, and buttons 1-6. Can go to t,g and v as well if your hands can reach them.

I bind my caps-lock key to ctrl as it’s much easier to reach. That gives me easy ctrl, shift and alt mods for all those same keys.

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I can get by with binding a,d,f,r,t,c,v,g,z,x and also having these binding with a shift modifier. Then 1,2 3,4 plus a couple of macros. That’s 24 easy bindings for every spec. When specs leave me wanting more I add in shift + numbers and ctrl + letters as above. Slightly more clunky but you get used to it. And click cast your buffs. No need to waste a keybind on food or Windfury weapon or something.

I still wish I had a system in place for bindings all my different battle potions.

Edit:
Also shift+space for my main movement ability. It’s very handy for e.g. a jump then dash maneuver

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I use mouse for movement.

12345 cds
qwert (q/e strafe)
asdfg
zxcv
Above with alt modifiers also.

Keeps me covered.

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I do 1-6, shift 1-6 (main dps abilities, stuns, silences. All om same spot all the time)
f1-f3 (party wide CDs like speed buff or pain suppression)
alt 1-4 (misc. but fixed. A1 short personal defense, A2 always health stone, A4 always brez A3 always class buff).
alt a (racial)
E Q, shift E Q (aoe, heal aoe, group cc).
G X (short cooldowns)
Shift A S D F G H (cooldowns)
control a s d f (stances)
Control 1-6 (pet)
Shift R, control R (movement)
’ (escapes/oh s*** button like ice block or disengage).
Side mouse button 1 &2, and shift side MB (heals, or certain spammable utility like slows)

I try to systemize as much as possible. Shift 4 is always interrupt, 5 always dispel. Etc.

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So I recently started working in Ctrl Number Pad keybinds.

Here.

These are my preservation evoker’s bars. In order, you have the following.

1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 ,6 R , T, C, V, G, `, M5, M4, F1, F2, F3, F4
N1, N2, N3, N4, N5, N6, N7, N8, N9, N0, -, +, SR, SF, ST, CN1, CN2, CN3

All N keys are number pad ones, including - and +. I started working in Ctrl binds with number pad keys because I hit ctrl with my palm given where my hand rests on the keyboard.

Hope it helps!