I honestly find it frustrating both setting them up, and using them. It also makes me feel stupid not being able to do them, as well feel a slight pressure to use them if i want to be effective, wat do, and how to do it in a way that doesn’t feel like I’m tying my fingers into a horrid disfigured mess?
I have “universal” keybinds set up. So like AOE is always Q, no matter what character I’m on. E is always a movement ability. V is always the interrupt. I haven’t played a character where the rotation extended past 1-5. Cooldowns I click.
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Personally, I’d recommend starting with a few simple ones and going from there. It doesn’t take a ton to get most of the way there. You might not be on par with the best of the best that have 900 keybinds all tied to slightly different macros but you shouldn’t really be falling behind outside of that.
I do that as well, with different buttons. I keep my major CDs on Shift+1-5, my interrupts, short-CD movement abilities, and taunt (or tank specs)on my forward and back mouse buttons (with and without shift).
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Same here.
I always use on all chars:
Z - mount up
T - silence
f1 - trinket
f2 - immune or bubble or whatever
c - speed boost
x - cleanse
e - taunt
q - whatever
etc.
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Don’t feel bad, keyboard turning and clicking is a very hard habit to break.
Echoing what some have said put your most used abilities to Q, E, R, F, C (those are the most comfortable for me). Then you start using shift+Q, shift+E, etc. Start small.
Oh yea to get Q and E unbind strafe, rebind strafe to A and D and start turning your character with your mouse.
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Pretty similar approach for me. Works well
Recently added Alt + 1-5 to all my rotations, always takes some getting used to.
Your best bet OP is to just force yourself to use them one at a time. Do some low challenge content and set a keybind for one commonly used ability. Rinse and repeat.
If you do it enough they just become muscle memory.
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I tried that and I couldn’t ever get used to it. It always felt too awkward to me.
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Keyboard turning is a non issue for me, I do mouse turn, it’s just everything else, My fingers literally end up feeling they’re fusing into an abomination mess when I attempt to play the keybind way, that i just use 1-5 then clicking everything else, I’d probably partially blame that on being used to a controller over kb+m.
Did at first here too but I have a macro for PoH that uses an alt modifier. Got me into the swing of it 
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Haha it’s all good. It’s a big adjustment. Personally I don’t use 1-0 on the keyboard because it just seems like it’s too far to reach when I need it. I do have a Logitech G600 so I have 1-0 and a few more bound to the side of my mouse.
I’d say pick some keys you’re comfortable reaching and constantly tapping.
Start small.
The first binds I did were F1-F5 for interrupts and stuff.
Pick one or two and start using them. Don’t blast yourself with 20 new binds.
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Variations yeah and OP if you get the hang of those it’s easy to use CTRL for a second set.
So like CTRL + T, R, F or whatever.
I think it’s going to be about finding the ones that feel natural for you and are not too far away from WASD
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Something about it just doesn’t want to work for me. If I try to hit alt with just my thumb, I end up hitting the Windows button half the time. If I turn my hand it’s moderately uncomfortable for my wrist and I still overshoot and hit the Windows button some of the time.
Of course, I’m not the most coordinated person around so that doesn’t help either. It’s the same reason I can’t use one of those gaming mice with a dozen buttons on the side. I always end up hitting the wrong one.
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Those mice always feel weird to me too, dunno maybe I have fat thumbs. Nothing beats watching a friend play w/ a trackball mouse. It makes me a crazy person and does not compute.
I think everyone eventually finds the ones that don’t give you crazy hand cramps eventually.
EDIT: He mostly plays RTS games too which just leaves me questioning what sorcery is going on there.
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I use a 12 button mouse, and honestly I jist click my cooldowns. If you want yo play with the top 1% of people, sure go force yourself to keybind.
Otherwise its just a nice feature that you don’t really need.
There are people in this game that still turn with the keyboard, so if you dont do that, you are still leagues ahead.
Just start with about 4 keybinds (1,2,3,4) for your common combat abilities. Just get used to that for a week or two, while using your mouse to move around your opponent. Then add 1 and get comfortable with that.
I did that in a PvP setting and you’ll eventually get frustrated that one of your abilities isn’t keybound, causing your death, and then that motivates you to incorporate another keybind.
Basically, start very slow with limited keybinds and then progress at your own pace.
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