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)

[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?

[Svpernova09]

Nostromo N52 Left hand, Mouse Right hand.

For intense fights: Throw a straw in the mt dew.

For raid nights: skip the umbrella in the screwdriver.

[Slats]

power word: Shield!

Fortitude!

Chain lightning!

Fsssssssk-force ligh...i mean frost shockkkkk!

[Seldum]

Well if the tank is tanking the right mob, and its only my toons which needs to move - fx. when a mob throws a AoE on them, I move my toons with the arrow keys while spamming the dps key. I have a main dps key key "2" and a aoe threath spam key "1" where my dps toons do nothing. My healer heals the tank on "1", which is nice as I use Vuhdo and Isboxer repeater regions for healing normally, which would be impossible when my right hand is moving the toons around.