Only Two Hands - How do you do it?

[Fursphere]

Sorry for dumb question Svper... but how do you reach all of 1-9 (and the even harder with alt modifier down)?
Or maybe you don't use WSAD to walk?

Cheers!

I do it with large hands. 8-9-0 are still a reach for me, but I "know" where they are. learning to type properly can really help too.

[Svpernova09]

I do it with large hands. 8-9-0 are still a reach for me, but I "know" where they are. learning to type properly can really help too.

I have the large hand advantage too.







you know what they say about guys with large hands?














They have really big gloves.

[genocyde]

Large hands are very helpful. Being able to hold left ctrl and still reach 0 - = with the same hand worked for me for a long time. A gamepad with a thumb stick once your used to it is infinitely better though. being able to move 8 axis and have jump + a modifier all on my thumb frees up so many buttons its amazing.

[Klesh]

My setup is rather simple. I don't use any addons at all, except of recount every now and then to test DPS.

Am using the mouse to move my toons. Am driving my pally, as well as mouse clicking almost all of his abilities (probably one of the reasons I usually dont run OOM with the pally, spamming tanking rotations isn't required for heroics).

Buttons 2 and 4 are my DPS spam buttons (2 different ones to deal with eclipse procs).
Button 3 is a self heal for all my casters (not using this one anymore, it used to be useful early on).
Button 5 some instant DPS spells.
Button 6 is used on my shamans to throw a heal on my tank, not used very often.
7 to 0 are slightly used, mostly a dispel/purge key, thats it.
W is my mouseover cleanse, E = judgement.
R and T are used to strafe my followers left/right.
D is assist focus (my tank), F = follow focus.
Buttons Z, X, C, V and G are used for different heals (pressing them with my left hand thumb). None of them targeted on any specific toon except of renew/greater heal on the tank. Am healing any and all AoE damage with holy nova (loving my priest). I've setup a mouseover flash heal macro for the healer, not using it very often though, holy nova is too good.
^ is my oh shit my healer pulled aggro button. Hand of Protection on my healer as well as some self heal for the priest. Used that one once so far iirc.
Well, and ALT-T for magma totems and ALT-D to pop bloodlust.

That's it, pretty straightforward.

[boxblizzard]

Fur's motivation is definitely not personal. If you take what Fur says personally, you have bigger issues IRL. That is not to say Fur can't come across as an ass, but really, who can't?

cool man, i dont believe or take it personally. same can be said about you believing what i dont believe.

but anyway, back to topic agologies for not being constructive

[Greythan]

Interesting key layout Svper. That's a lot packed into a pretty tight package. Interesting to see. How do you keep up DPS while moving? I'd presume you don't use the WASD movement control or you don't use your mouse when moving as I don't know how you could be mashing "8" and moving with WASD with only the left hand.

As for your defense of Fur, its pointless and you know it. Everything you need to know about that Fur's approach to dealing with long time members of this community is in this thread. Simply read my initial post and find where I was begging for help. No luck, right? Even the most reading comprehension challenged could see I was simply attempting to start a new topic that might be interesting to see how folks are running their toons. No pathetic cry for help. No newb poster asking for ez mode.

Here's Fur's contribution:

There are a ton of ways to improve basic keyboard usage.

I've posted many before. I won't be posting them again though. its all about forcing yourself to think outside the box.

I mean seriously. How can you defend that? I'd be interested to hear how its my faulty interpretation skills on the above post and not about the author being an arrogant, condescending prick.

[Svpernova09]

Interesting key layout Svper. That's a lot packed into a pretty tight package. Interesting to see. How do you keep up DPS while moving? I'd presume you don't use the WASD movement control or you don't use your mouse when moving as I don't know how you could be mashing "8" and moving with WASD with only the left hand.

If I need to move the tank, I just use the mouse or arrow keys. If I need to move the group, I use wasdqe. If the group is moving, I'm not DPSing, so no need to keep spamming 9 or 8 or 7. But if the tank is moving, I can keep spamming the DPS keys on the N52 with my left hand, and move the tank with the mouse / arrow keys with my right hand.

[Fursphere]

nevermind.

the amount of thread reports Svper would have to deal with isn't worth my original post.

[Greythan]

Got it Svper.

Yeah, I guess I need to figure out how to move righthanded. Some of the pulls in FoS end up with me dps'ing a few down while one or two casters stay beyond my tank's reach. So, since the trash is pretty trivial I tend to stop dps'ing ("2" key for me) and WASD my tank over to them. Recently I've tried a little bit of mouse moving if the mobs are right in front of me so I can keep my DPS spam up.

Should follow Fur/your/other's advice to look at other hardware.... but.. I laptop box mostly and usually in a mobile location or regular living area (i.e., couch potato so I can multi-task and multi-box: television).

EDIT: Changed HoS to FoS

[thefunk]

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