Yay, my Nostromo is here!Follow

Stationary = Immolate, Conflagrate, Chaos Bolt, Incinerate. = 4
Mobile = Bane of Agony, Corruption, Fel Flame, Shadowburn = 4
AoE = Shadowfury, Rain of Fire, Hellfire, Seed of Corruption = 4
Non-spell CDs = trinket1, trinket2, engineering rockets, parachute cloak, healing injector, healthstone = 6
Soul Shard use = Soulburn, Soul Harvest, Soulfire, Summon 3 different demons = 6
Fears = Fear, Howl of Terror, Death Coil = 3
Other CC = Shadowflame, Banish = 2
Health related = Life tap, Drain life = 2
Buffs = Soul Link, Nether Ward, Dark Intent, Fel Armor, Demon Armor = 5
Other = Summon Portal, Use Portal, Shadowbolt (gotta fake cast) = 3
Pet Commands = 9

That's a total of 48.

Plus there are things I haven't even put on that list (curses for example)...

I don't click anything except food/drink, professions, and buffs that I cast out of combat. Everything I ever use in combat is bound to a key. Off the top of my head, for a holy priest that was something like 5-6 healing spells, 5-6 offensive spells, plus several panic/utility buttons that need to be within easy reach because in my experience, "I couldn't reach it fast enough" is right up there with "the dog ate it" on the acceptable excuses scale.

All 22 keys on my G13 were bound to something I used often. Jumping, targeting, modifiers, etc. were bound to my Naga to free up the keypad for abilities. And none of that is even counting spells I didn't cast often, like shadow spells. Those got modifiers.

I have an n52te and I used it for a couple of years in WoW. Now that I'm thinking of returning, having been away from the game for several months, I'm going to have to dust off the mini-keyboard because muscle-memory dictates that I should still use it. In fact I can't contemplate how bad WoW will be without it.

My set-up is something like this:

WASD is on the hat (4-way thumb controller) with jump on the mini spacebar just below it;
Escape is the button above, still used to cancel commands, spells, etc.;
The three buttons running down the left side are SHIFT, CTRL and ALT, to modify the next set of keys;
The remaining nine buttons are used as 1-9 for commands I regularly use. Even with pots, food, professions, spellbook, etc. I didn't feel the need to go for 3-way combos e.g. ****+CTRL+1 but it would have been possible; and
That leaves the scroll wheel, which I find impossible to use effectively given its position. I use my mouse scroll wheel for targetting.

The only difficulty was running and jumping at the same time, so I put auto-run onto one of my mouse buttons.

THB aren't very comfortable for me. T, I can probably tolerate but H and B are a stretch. I don't even like going after V. I guess I could use my thumb for V, B, and possibly N. But then what else is going to spam spacebar endlessly?

lol.

I thought that's what Vent/TS was for, lol.

You don't really think people type in the middle of combat in any sort of raiding environment even without a Nostromo or similar device, do you?

Even being able to do 80+ WPM, typing "/r taunt please" (or even just 'taunt please' if you have it set to /r automatically) takes 3-4 seconds... that's two whole GCDs and 3-4 seconds of no movement.

That could easily mean death.

Edit: And also, you could use keybind macros for that. Set /r taunt please to a macro if you're going to be fighting in a battle where the two tanks must taunt off each other frequently, or if you're in a raid battle where you need bubble on a specific target, make a macro that says "/r bubble xxxxxx" or whatever.

Edited, May 17th 2011 1:11pm by Lyrailis

Many people agree that using your Mouse to turn (that is, holding the RMB down and dragging the mouse to cause the character to turn) is the best way to play the game. That is called "Mouse-turning" or "Mouse-moving".

However, some people don't play that way, or I didn't either for the longest time. I used the arrow keys on my keyboard. Instead of holding the RMB down to turn my character, I simply used the Left/Right Arrows to turn the character instead.

The character will turn a bit slower, true, but it just felt more comfortable at the time. Usually the only two places that one actually runs into a problem with Keyboard turning is Raids and PvP, and I've even done Raids with Keyboard turning (making up some crafty solutions to a couple boss fights). But in PvP, keyboard turning will likely get you killed often because everyone likes to strafe+mouse turn to run circles around you constantly and keyboard turning just won't turn you fast enough to keep them in your Line of Sight.

Edit: I think most people who "mouse-turn" use the WASD keys as such:

W = Forward
S = Backward
A = STRAFE (not TURN) left
D = Strafe Right

And if you Strafe Left + Drag Mouse Right, you get this nice little circle that your character runs around a certain point (usually another player).

Edited, May 17th 2011 4:27pm by Lyrailis

It is inferior in terms of sheer performance (how fast the character can turn and ease of strafing), yes.

However, keyboard turning still rules in the "keep one hand free" department, for times you're trying to eat and play WoW or do homework, etc. Mouse-Turning requires both hands be active full-time usually.

Keyboard turning will easily be good enough for solo questing, and even Heroic dungeons and easier raids. Progression Raiding and PvP, you'll run into trouble tho.

Well, I dunno about anyone else, but the Mouse is usually used with your dominant hand. Since I'm right-handed, the Mouse is used with my Right Hand...

You try writing a check, or eating (or whatever else you want to do), with your off-hand and see how well you do it. Or, try reaching across the keyboard to use your mouse with your OH while your MH tries to do the aforementioned activities.

Sometimes I do.

Sometimes I get a few bills I need to send in, and of course they simply cannot have online electronic billing, so I'll be doing dailies or stuff while writing out the checks, and such. That's with copious amounts of auto-run and tapping either the arrow keys now-and-then or the keys on the left side of the keyboard.

I set up my action bars to be a perfect little 7-7-5-3 replica of my G13, and to change when I press a modifier, so as to serve as a cheat sheet. The diagram helped me very quickly memorize the position of my abilities relative to where my fingers were, if not their actual letter binds. So Shadow Word:Death, say, is not so much "G" as it is "one to the right of my index finger." (See? I haven't played WoW in a month and I still remember where it is.)

I still couldn't consistently play more than one class though.

Rift does not allow me to customize my toolbars in this manner. Chaos has ensued.