Hi as the tile says since wednesday i been playing with mouse clicking all my spells and a friend told me about keybinds i change them this week and are like this action bar qerftv123456 then in multi action bar i have shiftqerftv123456 and ending with 8 mouse buttons that i have free i just dont know how to prioratize spells and what to put where please help i really wanna get into keybinds to improve my gameplay thanks in advance and sorry to be a pain alsi my movement keys are wsad i strife with a and d and move foward with w and backwards with s
I would suggest whatever is comfortable for you rather than conforming. I use some weird keybinds like for example my silence/interrupt is always shift-S but hey I make it work. Never been an issue.
Edited: had to edit that.
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If you have 8 free mouse buttons that are easily accessible (ie: not DPI/Profile adjusters below the scrollwheel or something), I’d suggest focusing on those first.
Put all of your rotational stuff on those.
Don’t forget you can bind Middle Mouse Button, Scroll Wheel Up, and Scroll Wheel Down as well.
You’re already using modifiers, too, so remember you can do the same with your mouse buttons.
They’re there to be used, don’t make them secondary to mapping all over your keyboard IMO.
Oh, and typically if a mouse has that many buttons, it has software to rebind what those buttons do. You can probably set them to weird keys / key combos you will never normally use for anything and therefore allow yourself to use 1-6 or whatever like normal if you’re more comfortable with those once you feel you’re “out” of reasonable buttons on your mouse. Of course you can also go the “map all around your movement keys” route, but just a suggestion.
As far as where you should put specific abilities, it’s really just up to you. It doesn’t matter as long as you can comfortably reach the keybinds.
Just try to replicate whatever you do as closely as possible across your characters so you don’t have to totally relearn your setup for each one.
ie: single target filler goes here, single target finisher goes there, interrupt over there, etc.
A good tip I use is to position the keybind relative to where it is on your action bar.
I.E
QWERT
ASDFG
ZXCVB
SHIFT+1234
would all have their icons on the left side of any action bar. place any cooldown weak auras/timers/etc in a similar fashion so when you process information, you see something on the left side of your screen and know your left hand will be the one pushing said keybind
if that makes sense
the buttons you spam the most should be on the most accessible keys. if you play multiple characters, assign similar spells to the same hotkey. i.e stuns always go on mouse 2, cooldowns always go on shift+1, filler spell always goes on 3, etc
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Start with a few at a time and get more once you’re comfortable with the ones you already have. Prioritize important abilities like main combat abilities and interrupts/defensives first.
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I also suggest you use the same keybinds for similar abilities across all of your characters. Like for example Shift-2 is my kick on all of my characters. F is my big stun so like HoJ , Kidney, Bash.
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I do a mix of keybinds, clicks, and mouse keys.
W A S D and the mouse I use to move.
V R F G T C B Y is use for binds.
I have a mouse with 12 keys on the thumb pad that I use also.
Everything is muscle memory.
Here’s mine.
Default
1–2--3–4--5–6--7
Mine
-------f1–f2–f3–f4
~–1--2–3--4----5–6
TAB-----------------R-T
----------------------G-H
--------Z-X-C-V—
Notes:
-The bottom two rows are used by my thumb.
-1 is always low cost ranged.
-4 is always spender.
-R is always AOE.
-6 and/or TAB for slows.
-Tilde (`/~) is always stuns.
-f1—4 is for cooldowns and common utility.
-T, G, and H are specifically used for less common utility and/or cooldowns
-V is for tab targeting.
Mouse Bindings (Logitech G600)
-3-6-9–=
-2-5-8-(-)
-1-4-7–0
Ctrl Mouse Bindings
-3-6-9–=
-2-5-8-(-)
-1-4-7–0
Notes:
-1 is always stun.
-2 is always movement.
-3 is optional usage.
-4 is always quick and/or efficient heal.
-5 is always expensive heal
-6 is cooldown heal.
-7—9 optional usage.
-0 is dispel or other debuff remover.
Ctrl Notes:
-1 is either speech macro 1 or cat form.
-2 currently unbound.
-3 unbound.
-4 bear form.
-5 travel form.
-rest unbound.
Lol, sorry if this is confusing.
I have clicked for 15 years, I will click for 15 more. I do however have 6 extra mouse buttons that I bind important abilities to.
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Echoing this. Additionally, depending on class/spec there’s a lot of stuff that simply isn’t important enough to have to keybind, should you find yourself running out of room.
Might sound dumb but I sue modifiers for my defensives/offensive CDs as to NOT use them on accident. they are hard to press, for a reason.
I hate to say it, but I play on a small laptop with a mouse pad (no physical mouse) and I get along just fine with some intuitively named macros and a few extra keybinds.
It doesn’t actually take a lot to fine-tune your performance so long as you do what some others have said here - that you’re comfy with your system, know where everything is on your keyboard or mouse.
Good luck to you!
I like that you’re a clicker.
Former guild, the main raid tank is a clicker, he’s amazing. Been that way for a decade. Guild mate bought him a Razer Naga mouse.
Tank’s comment…
Thanks, but that’s a lot of buttons for me to not use. 
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Agree on this too, defensives/twitch abilities are easily accessible but hard to accidentally press. So for example, counterspell/kick/etc for me is Caps Lock (which I’ve remapped to Control) and F, which is easy for my hand to snap to intentionally but hard to fumble.
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I have Death grip, Death and Decay, Brain Freeze, Asphyxiate, Wraith Walk, and Icebound Fortitude bound to my extra mouse buttons for my DKs. I always put similar important mobility/utility/aoe abilities on them. I don’t think I could play nearly as good as I do if I clicked everything.
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Mine are all that way too, I was mainly referring to the priority of which abilities you should bind first, core rotational abilities first then interrupts and defensives.
I’ve seen guys that have 7 different mounts and their hearthstone keybound but click shield wall.
use the modifiers alt and shift (if you are right handed)
both of them are easily accessible with fingers.
Shift through the small finger
Alt with the thumb
if using a qwerty
then attach a modifier to everything from;
q-t
a-g
z-b
to one of those modifiers
Reassign commands like reply to chat, sit/stand and sheath/unsheath to hard to activate buttons, like ctrl down/up/left/right arrow
Some of us even remove the strafe bindings completely and steer with our right mouse button held down.
Yes! Shift Q is my interrupt. It makes it so easy to remember. Shift w is my “Blink” or forward/mobility ability
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Keep rotational and frequestly used abilities (like mobility) to comfortable close binds, either near movement keys or personally I use mouse buttons (the ones where my thumb it as natural extension as opposed to ones near the heel of my palm).
Defensives typically go ones that are easy to access quickly but not necessarily that you will want to be hitting too often, think keys like G, or use mouse buttons closer to the heel of your palm.
Offensive cds are sort of similar, although they don’t need to be accessible as quickly as they are less reactionary, so you can manage to use buttons even down to C for stuff like that.
That’s the main sort of basis I use, and then I work around those combinations with modifiers.
Oh, also interrupts want to be similar to rotational, you want to find a button that is both quick and comfortable to access so you can really easily use them within an instant.
Hopefully that gives you a feel for not how you should set up your keybinds, but more how to think about setting up your keybinds.
What’s comfortable for one might not be comfortable for you, and neither may they have the same gaming setup as you for peripherals as well. So it’s unwise for us to say “keybind 2 to your main rotational ability” or something similar.
Good luck and welcome to the wonderful world of keybinds.
I spent 2.5 years as an accounting clerk while I was working on my undergrad and can do the 10 key fast by touch so I use those for my main spells. I also can reach the arrow keys with my thumb for when I’m healing BGs and need my mouse to select targets, I’m almost always moving in combat.