So I think I finally did it.Follow

I think I finally kinda-sorta figured out mouse-moving.

Last night, I had a convo with my GF (who already mouse-moves) and I was talking to her about it, and I expressed my confusions, and such, and she gave me advice, the most crucial was re-binding the mouse-wheel click to Auto-Run. I was like "OH! Duh.."

Well, today I decided to give it a whirl.

I successfully completed 4 quests on my hunter in Storm Peaks, only touching the arrow keys once (I forgot that S is backwards, and I needed to take a couple steps backwards to get into shooting range).

Otherwise, didn't touch the arrow keys once, and at first it felt kinda weird, but then after a few minutes, it started feeling better. I think this would be better if I had a 5-button mouse, maybe bind two of its buttons to strafing, I'm thinking. Might need to reconsider hotkey buttons too, move more-used buttons to 1-6 and lesser used to 7 through =, as the split in the ergonomic keyboard I use makes it hard to get the 7 through = with my left hand.

I use 'w' and 'r' to strafe right and left, and then rebind all the other keys around them to abilities. I do have 'e' and 'd' set to forwards and back, but I very rarely use them.

As a primary healer / tank, I don't NEED to mouse move a ton unless I'm PvPing. I actually find it clunky as heal for healing (since I use a clique + PB4 interface) and inconvenient for tanking.
Of course, hotkeying is necessary. Just something about the ability to move my tank backwards while still pressing all my abilities is nice.

Hmm, everyone I know who commonly keyboard turns does the both clickers to run or the back button auto run thing O.o
I thought the 'hardcore' types bound WASD to other abilities and left their mouse for 'full' navigation?

I use werd because I like my strafe keys to be wr rather then sf, but I certainly use my keyboard as part of movement. I wonder if this is a big thing that makes people who keyboard turn not want to use a mouse; They think that people are advocating ONLY using the mouse.

My movement is very char/role dependent.

Rogue is pretty much what Theo describes. Playing a melee character with keyboard movement just seems wrong. Given that whatever you're attacking tends to be right in your face anyway, and those things can move around a lot.

Tree tends to be more keyboard movement though. It's harder to click on targets to heal while running if you're doing a lot of mouse stuff for movement. That being said it gets used times I'm not actively healing; like coming out of fear or stun or something, other times not as much. Usually the slower turn is worth it, if it means I can keep casting heals uninterrupted.

Bear is mostly mouse turn and keyboard move, like rogue. The exception comes at times where there are a lot of adds. Then you may see some slow turning as going tab-tab-tab-tab-tab to try to taunt something seems to be a good way to get your healer killed. Those times though I usually try to position myself so there's little turning involved anyway, so it's not really a big deal. I don't really enjoy showing mobbies my butt anyway.

Warlock is whatever I happen to be in the mood to use at the moment. Usually whatever character I was playing last has it's turning style transfer over. Ranged doesn't turn much, and has the added bonus of being able to see more stuff coming before it gets there. If something is so close I have to mouse turn to escape, I'm probably in trouble anyway, or already screwed up, or something. Granted Warlock has mostly only done PvP and soloing so far, so I've yet to really get firm habits set there.