Only Two Hands - How do you do it?

[Maxion]

just had a thought - does anyone know of a keyboard with 2 really big buttons i can place in front of my 9 month old; the idea being i'll link healing to those 2 buttons which frees the adult keyboard to do DPS and Tank. And preferably plays nursery rhymes too

One of those foot keyboards might work for that.

[HPAVC]

just had a thought - does anyone know of a keyboard with 2 really big buttons i can place in front of my 9 month old; the idea being i'll link healing to those 2 buttons which frees the adult keyboard to do DPS and Tank. And preferably plays nursery rhymes too

I have something like this, I used some spare buttons from some mame cabs I built.

If you an find a playskool trackball, they are nice, basically a ball the size of a mini basketball that doesnt pinch fingers and has two slappable large buttons on both sides. I think its only PS2 however.

[Pycno]

Forge of Souls, Harbringer of Souls.
Pit of Saron, Ick and Krick
Pit of Saron, Big Ass Giant
Pit of Saron, Final Boss
Halls of Reflection, all three bosses.

Those are where I find myself wishing I could move and heal easier...

I heal with Grid and mouseover macros. Its simple and work quite well, I have boss/enemy targeted at all time and just move pointer over any target in Grid to heal or dispel them.

[Toned]

F1-F12 (F1-F5 used to be my healing buttons pre-repeater regions)
F6 = dps cooldowns,F7 defensive cooldowns, F8 all assist current window, F9-F12 = long cooldowns like Elementals.
1-= mostly littered with my /click macros with creative planning for situational nuking...
Whole Numpad - Totems/Trinkets/Blessings watershield/weapon buffs/seals etc...
Click heal with repeater regions... Left Mouse, Right Mouse, Middle Mouse, Mouse 4, Ctrl + Mouse4, Shift+left click.
MKeys on the G11 (Keybroadcasting/MouseBroadcasting toggles)
G1-G5 window swapping
G6 Toggle Click to move on and off
G13-18 = Formations + KeyMap Toggles
Arrow Keys: UP all move up, Down all move down, Left all but tank strafe left, Right all but tank strafe right
F = All Follow
Ctrl + T = Interact With Target (all)
T = Interact With Target Melee only (when applicable)

[jimbobobb]

mouse wheel up: dps/heals/tank

mouse wheel down: same thing

mouse button 1: os button
mouse button 2: hero/mirror image
mouse button 3: drop totems

I then just target things and scroll my mouse. I basically play the entire game just with my mouse

Sure there are all kinds of situational buttons on my keyboard, but really what else do you need to do normally besides just your tank rotation, dps rotation, and heal?

Do you guys really micro manage your healing and stuff? Why? Just link heals/dps/tanking all to the same button and smash on it like a monkey. You guys make stuff too hard, seriously.

[Khatovar]

Do you guys really micro manage your healing and stuff? Why? Just link heals/dps/tanking all to the same button and smash on it like a monkey. You guys make stuff too hard, seriously.

Where's the fun in that? My healer only heals when she needs to, which at this point is rarely. Right now, she can spend the majority of her time purging and DPSing instead of wasting mana on heals that aren't needed.

[jimbobobb]

Where's the fun in that? My healer only heals when she needs to, which at this point is rarely. Right now, she can spend the majority of her time purging and DPSing instead of wasting mana on heals that aren't needed.

I don't heal heroics either anymore except to hot up the tank before bosses. I'm not really talking about that, more I'm specifically talking about the multiple people here that have a billion buttons for every single heal on their bar for every single person in their group. If you're not involved in the very high end of pvp where you really need to play optimally or at least close, do you really need all this complication for boxing?

[Toned]

Efficency is key :P I used to multi-box 5s at decent ratings (1900-2100), and I like to be able to jump between bgs / world pvp / heroics/ 10mans / swap in real people in any slot and not have to reconfigure anything and still be optimal thus the ammount of buttons.

[Khatovar]

And these same people who don't have the gear yet to make heroics or even non-heroics trivial probably also don't have the gear to blow mana on casting a heal every button push. You're running a druid healer, you're supposed to roll hots and WG.

A lot of other people are running Shaman or Priest, even Holydins. Hell, some people don't even have dedicated healers, they rely on DPS heals like Rets with AoW procs or all Ele shammies with LHW and CH. Group healing requires varied targeting for certain classes and Tank +4DPS setups require more flexibility so as to not step all over DPS output when heals may be needed. 1 button healing is not the most effective way to deal with boxing for many people. Multiple healing configurations make things a lot easier for some people, not more complicated.

[Seldum]

I had my healing bound to my dps button and my healer ran out of mana fairly quickly.... I found I just needed one button for healing the tank and the rest is done using the repeater regions /vuhdo setup...

Like Fur said, its the hax.