Using the N52 pad

[Drex]

I'm new to boxing at WoW. I was very successful with it at Everquest but the combat there was rather simpler and little was required of my secondaries regardless of class. Now instead of obtaining a larger desk or finding some other place to set my collection of beer bottles awaiting recycling I've switched over to this smaller gamepad and secondary mouse to control one of the comps. I'm curious how others might have set theirs up and what kind of additional macro options it has, if any. I've had it for some time but never learned to use it properly. Big hardware changes have a bad effect on my all important BF2 kill/death ratio.

Thanks. I'll probably figure something out eventually. It just bothers me that I'm so uncoordinated right now.

[Svpernova09]

I'm new to boxing at WoW. I was very successful with it at Everquest but the combat there was rather simpler and little was required of my secondaries regardless of class. Now instead of obtaining a larger desk or finding some other place to set my collection of beer bottles awaiting recycling I've switched over to this smaller gamepad and secondary mouse to control one of the comps. I'm curious how others might have set theirs up and what kind of additional macro options it has, if any. I've had it for some time but never learned to use it properly. Big hardware changes have a bad effect on my all important BF2 kill/death ratio.

Thanks. I'll probably figure something out eventually. It just bothers me that I'm so uncoordinated right now.

I use 2 n52's. 1 for my laptop that runs slaves and 1 for my main. I've pretty much bound movement to the D-Pad, and the main action bar to the numbers. I've also got tab and jump bound to the numbers so I can essentially play and use abilities with my left hand and move / click off abilities with my mouse hand. You have to be very careful with the scripting because much of it is automation and will get you into trouble. After seeing its full potential I don't use any scripting.

[Ishar]

I have 2 N52's too. I used them extensively in EQ and even in WoW when I was only 2-3 boxing. (2 boxing in wow, 3-6 boxing in EQ). Meh, thats probably confusing...but , more or less like teh other guy described

Comp 1. Main: Kbd only
Alt comp 1. 1 alt in wow, 2 in EQ. (Could easily do 2 in wow too...i just had 'alt tab' bound to a key on my nostromo, and tabbed back and forth. You might could couple this with something like keyclone to broadcast the keystrokes to the multiple instances, since in wow tabbing is kinda too slow. I really used to like trying to get all of a characters functionality onto a Nostromo, but it is a bit of a challenge. I used the D-pad for targeting (in eq), eg, up = f1, down = f2, etc. (diagonals were f5/f6, i stuck agro magnets in the first 4 group positions). Movement was the center keys, and i bound actions around them.
Err, this might help:
1 2 U 3 4
5 L D R 6

I forget what the other keys were, but i remember the bottommost key was 'alt tab'. hehe. And in EQ (and wow) i just limited myself to those 6 buttons . Which was pretty hard to do, and required cutting corners on what the characters were gonna do.

When i went to WoW the frist time, I just kept the same setup pretty much. (was only 2-boxing). My second N52 was used the same way.

shamefully, both nostromos are collecting dust on my desk, cause I bought a vetra keyboard broadcaster, and have a full hardware setup now, and as a USB-device, well, can't broadcast them. If i was only 2-3 boxing, I might use them...nah...the broadcaster is too much fun. But if you were only 2boxing, or were running all the alts on a 2nd machine and used something like keyclone to handle their broadcasting, well, it'd be a nice way to control 'just' the alts. Course, why not slave them all to one KBD if your gonna do that. Well, would give you some additional control.

Eh, another thing about the nostromo, well, its really really hard to resist the simple automation and using pauses in the macros that it provides ya. Which in wow = you are the devil. Which is sorta silly, i dont see how pauses are a combat decision, but, them's the breaks.

[Drex]

I think I'm starting to get it. I still occasionally fumble when I'm halfway through a six pack and get swarmed with mobs, but that's kind of alright since I made sure both of my toons can resurrect. I've got all the combat and movement basics covered now, the rest is just practice and building familiarity.