Quote Originally Posted by MiRai View Post
I've always been a key binding maniac, but I want more. I need more; and I think ESDF is the answer.

I've tried to move from WASD to ESDF a few times in the past, but I never really put too much effort into it and ended up reverting back to WASD soon after.

So, my question is: Those of you who've tried to make the move from WASD to ESDF...

Were you able to make it happen?
Do you remember how long it took before it no longer felt awkward? (Subjective question, yes, I know.)
Any regrets?
Any tips?

I just made the decision to try it again about 30 minutes ago while I level a new profession. I figured I'd just start slow with the movement keys and a single binding for my mount, then move on from there and practice typical number row action bar bindings on a target dummy for endless hours.
I dunno about a few of those for movement keybinds. Especially F. that's a really prime keybind because it's notched and the easiest key to find on the board. That's my panic pop all healing and defenives CD because its easy to hit no matter how crazy stuff gets. From F you can easily find RTYGH just by muscle memory so those are all very important cooldowns as well. I've used R for follow since I started multiboxing.. maybe not the best but I'll probably never be able to unlearn that muscle memory.


I use A and D for backpaddle (no hold) to stop runaways.

I guess Q would make a good key for important stuff but I have most of that on RTY, FGH, CVB. For regular rotations it's ` and 1-5, past 6 is too hard to hit... F1-F4 are offensive/defensive cooldowns, F5 F6 major cooldowns like army or bloodlust. I still ran out so I had to use 1-12 on the naga... have a bunch more stuff I need to bind somehow, without crazy modifies...

might free up C and N and get out of the habit of using those for character/talent tab. Maybe Shift F,G,H, Shift R/Y would work.. testing it now cant go much further with shift. Alt and Ctrl are tricky as well.. never got big into modifiers.