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This guide is meant to aid people who use their keyboard arrow keys to turn in the game, since it has been noted all over the internet that mouse turning is more effective than using the keyboard, especially in PvP. It is also agreed by most long-term players that mouse turning is superior to keyboard turning in most fights in general.
This is also especially helpful when swimming, or while in flight on a flying mount.
This guide is being written by someone who has only used the keyboard to turn, and has not ever played any First Person Shooter games. In order to really learn this method, the best advice is to keep your right hand off the arrow keys. KEEP your mouse hand off the keyboard. Even if you are just in your home town walking around, unless you are in danger of falling, keep your mouse hand off the keyboard, (unless you are chatting of course).
It is written with the basic three button type mouse in mind, the type with two buttons and the center scroll wheel. Tips for using other types of mice will hopefully be included by players who have other types of mice. It is also written with the assumption that the user is right-handed.
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Swimming is hard to describe, because it is a very fluid movement which involves more dimensions than simply running around. As with running, you can either hold both mouse buttons down, or use the middle one if it's bound to autorun. Then, when you want to go up to get air, you skate the mouse up, or away from you, and to go down, you pull the mouse toward you. You can go right or left while also going upwards or downwards. The best thing to do is find a good spot to practice, and just practice a lot. It's very frustrating to suddenly be in the middle of a fight, especially if you are with a group of people who make swimming seem so effortless, and be floundering around and going all over the place. So, the three P's apply here: practice, practice, practice. If you can find a warlock friend to help, that is the best possible scenerio, since they have the Unending Breath spell, which can keep you from drowning if you get hopelessly lost under water, especially if you want to practice in deeper waters.
Mouse sensitivity is important here, especially if you are in PvP, or fighting mobs which are coming from different directions. You want to be able to click the right mouse button and skate your mouse either left or right and be able to turn around quickly to target your foe. Once again, this is something that takes practice, so it's best if you are close to a graveyard when you are doing this. Low level battle grounds are also a good place to practice, if you don't get embarrassed easily, because they require quick thinking. Once you're able to move around town, and fight a mob or two with your newly learned mouse skills, try out Warsong Gulch or Arathi Basin. This will help you learn to think quickly on your feet, using your abilities, etc, while also using your mouse to turn and move with. Battle grounds are very serious business for some people, but, at the same time, you will probably get good at using your mouse very quickly in a situation like this, and if it is too frustrating for you, just switch back to the arrow keys until the battle is over, and try again later.
Take some time when you are doing something leisurely, or nothing at all to practice. You will need some time to get used to it. You don't want to practice in the battle grounds, or while doing a quest that involves killing mobs you can't one-shot.
You mostly want to practice in spots where you won't die, in the beginning. These would be spots where there are not mobs to run into, and cliffs to fall off of. Find a place where you can run in a straight line. Run straight, then quickly turn and run the opposite way. This is the best way to see how efficient mouse turning is, when you see that you are not running in a wide arc to turn and run the other way, as you would when using a keyboard to turn.
Another good place to practice is shallow swimming holes, such as the pond in the middle of Thunder Bluff, or in a swimming place that is free of mobs, such as many places right offshore with no murlocs around.
As you get used to moving around, you might want to try more risky areas to practice in, such as around staircases where, if you fall, you might take damage, but not die. One good spot is to run around in the Pools of Vision in Thunder Bluff.
Later, you may want to start fighting either in duels or with mobs that aren't a huge risk to you. Of course, if you get in a bind, you can always resort to the keyboard for turning.
From Chancresore:
Here is how I do things as a lefty. First of all, the Gods hate south paws. There is only one worthwhile lefty mouse on the market (that I am aware of) and it's the Logitech MX610. I cannot recommend it enough. I have one at home and work. It almost makes me feel like a real person having a mouse contoured to my hand :'(
I digress.
The way I do it is I have Mousewheel Up for autorun. The only real problem I have with this mouse is the way the wheel is located I have a hard time not scrolling when middle clicking. Therefore, mousewheel up.
When not autorunning, I use the both click method, or I use the arrow keys. The nice thing about the arrow keys is that they are close to Ctrl and Shift. Since my mouse has 5 buttons that I use for WoW I effectively have 10 buttons with the modifiers. That makes strafing with the arrow keys pretty easy.
This is coming from a lvl 70 Shadowpriest whose first entry into PC gaming was WoW.
Special thanks go to the many members of the Allakhazam WoW Forum for help with this guide and all the other wiki articles on this site! :)
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