Only Two Hands - How do you do it?

[Greythan]

Okay, a question that's been nagging me for sometime: Could I be more efficient in my set up to maximize the limitation of only having two hands?

Seriously, here's my basic set up:

Left Hand
- Movement (WASD, QE for strafe, these six only control my main)
- Tank threat spam and DPS spam ("2" key)
- Tank threat only spam ("3" key, slaves do nothing)
- Consecration ("4", I find I need that spell on a stand alone key and use it quite often, slaves do nothing)
- PBAE ("6" key, my three DPS do whatever PBAE they have)
- Divine Protection (the pally damage reduction thingie, "8")
- All-in-One ("-")
- Jamba follow master ("=")
- Miscellaneous (burst DPS is "alt-7": bloodlust, mirror image, dps trinkets, etc., Targeted AE ("alt-9") sets up a click to have DPS cast ae targeted spells with ISBoxer, etc.)

Right Hand
- Select targets
- Click healing with Healbot via window repeater region from my pally (main) to the priest

This set up works just fine. I can handle most PvE content that I'm geared for other than stuff I'm simply too lazy to master (HoS Brahn event, Occulus, Old Kingdom). However, what I'm noticing is when I'm movement challenged my left hand is busy working the WASD keys and my DPS stops (i.e., I can't keep spamming "2" while moving very well. ). I simply will never get used to the idea of mouse driving and even if I could that would compromise my click healing.

What do you do?

P.S. On a side note, I'm wistful about the days of hardware 3 boxing in EQ1 where I had a set up that read the log file and would simply spam DPS until the mob died leaving me free to do other things. Yes yes, automation but those were the old days.

[Fursphere]

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga/

Put your right hand thumb to work.

http://www.xkeys.com/xkeys/xkfoot.php

Put your feet to work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition
http://windows7news.com/2009/09/18/h...ith-windows-7/

Put your mouth to work.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...pulse_actuator

Put your mind to work. (YMMV)

[Crum1515]

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga/

Put your right hand thumb to work.

I just bought this mouse, and it is simply amazing!

[Mooni]

I'm pretty primitive, after all.
I don't use WASD to move much. I use "R" for autorun and I steer with the mouse. Or I click-to-move, because of all the threads about how awesome that is (click to move plus key bound to interact with target)

Button 1: I don't think this does anything, anymore. Might be my earth shield button on the resto, I forget.
Button 2: Hammer of Justice, or Wind Shear. OR something else on my hunter, but nobody cares about hunters.
Button 3: THIS IS WHERE THE ACTION IS! It's my 96969 pally macro (minus consecration), and the FS-LS-LB etc macro on shamans. It also activates all trinkets. Maybe elemental mastery too, I forget.
Button 4: Taunt and Lesser Healing Wave.
Button 5: Consecration and chain lightning and multi-shot. They spam well together.
Button 6: Avenger's shield and thunderstorm and frost trap/freezing arrow. Usually works fine because avenger's shield is on cooldown from the beginning, so if I'm spamming thunderstrorm in an emergency in the middle of a fight I won't waste a cooldown on avenger's shield.
Button 7: Self-buffs that you do before a fight, like Sacred Shield. Might be my Earth Shield button too, I forget.
Button 8: Empty for some reason.
Button 9: More self-buffs that are suited to pre-combat use; water shield and Seal of Right
Button 0: Follow focus.
Button -: Divine plea (i should probably put this somewhere else) and grounding totem.
Button =: Holy Wrath and Earthbind Totem. <--- the second one is just how it's always been since 2004.

I only really like to use 1-5 in combat. So I hit shift and go to my other bars, sometimes.

Shift+2, button 1: The "accept" macro you see around here. Invites everyone, accepts everyone, accepts quests and trades and all that at once.
Shift+2, button 5: Fire nova
Shift+2, button 7: Fire elementals
Shift+2, button 9: Earth elementals.
Shift+2, button 0: Drink water.
Shift+4, button 5: Flametongue weapon, and Righteous Fury.
Shift+3, button 6: summon non-combat pets (on the first press), target them and attach leashes (on the second press).
etc etc up to mount buttons. I don't use /click because it'd require starting over, and as you can see I'm set in my seemingly random ways.

I'm not posting this as an answer, but as a post that raises more questions as you figure out making your way through your own KEYBINDER'S ODYSSEY

[Mooni]

And then? Since I only really use R to move around (unless I need to move everyone, then I use WASD) I sometimes take my hand off the mouse and hit the NUMPAD keys.
Numpad1 : Everyone heal my tank. alt+numpad1: Everyone chain heal my tank.

This goes for numpad 1-5. I can just add someone else's name into the target line of the macro if I swap out an alt.
Numpad6: EVeryone chain heal yourself.

Others I forgot about:
F key: Assist focus. (useful in ToC mounted combat etc)
G and H keys: These are my 2-part spread out macro.
[ and ] keys: One equips the argent lance, the other equips your main weapon.
~ key: interact with target.
Only tank interact with target.

[HPAVC]

Voice commander is a pretty good option for spot healing if you run with a dedicated healer. There is a classic video of a mage and a priest in SM as a demo of it. I also use it for rallying my camp (the non tanks) and some lazy strafing.

[Siaea]

Q and E are valuable hotkeys. I use movement keys and right mouse to strafe. I keep often used spells between ` and 5 on my bars. I also have a G11 with the buttons on the side, and my pinky uses about 4 of the closest ones. You just gotta be creative in this hobby

[Littleburst]

Mouse with a couple of buttons is good to have. besides that you can use the scroll wheel for 3 binds aswell, scroll up, scroll down and click the wheel. Gives 5 additional buttons, on which you could bind the spam button for example.

[Greythan]

I have an HP voodoo mouse with five buttons. Have some healbot stuff tied to buttons 4/5. Hadn't thought about scroll up/down, but I'm SO USED to that being my camera zoom I don't know if I could train off of it. Good idea though as ripping the scroll wheel would be pretty easy.

I'm still curious to hear how others are handling encounters where there's a need for coordinated movement and healing. Specifically when having to deal with team movement and heavy incoming damage, how do you keep your DPS spam going?

[heyaz]

On what fights do you have to move and click healbot so much that mouse driving would be an issue?