Quote Originally Posted by MiRai View Post
I've only been at this for about two hours and I already want to move back to WASD -- Just like all my other attempts.

With WASD for movement I use:

1-5,Q,E,R,T,F,Z,X,C // Shift 1-5,Q,E // Alt + Some random keys (nothing for combat) // Whatever is on my mouse

With ESDF for movement I will theoretically have:

1-6,Q,W,R,T,A,G,H,Z,X,C,V ...but I'm worried about getting used to Tab, Shift, and Alt.

I'm going to be fat fingering so much of this while I train both the ring and pinky fingers to move a little further left. I guess this will just take some practice... and patience.

I've never been a fan of binding any of the F-keys since I have to move my hand away from the movement keys to hit them, but I guess I could start using them for something that won't be needed in the blink of an eye.
With the F keys I'm particularly picky about the keyboard, some them in rows of 5, shape is different or smaller. On the G510 (and others) they are in rows of 4 and easy to hit. They may not be the best bindings (I'm sure there's a modifier that may work better) but I've been using them since vanilla and muscle memory is good. F1-F4 are all related to combat (F1 being a offensive/defensive CD depending on context), F2-F3 being a DPS/Healing CD, and F4 being a major defensive CD (iBF, Shield Wall). F5 and F6 I don't consider good bindings but I use them army of the dead which I'll do standing still several seconds before entering combat.

I have key up/key down IWT on F1-F4 because I noticed slight runaways when I was say, using AMS while in combat, so in this case they'll AMS and continue another IWT towards my target, giving me time to move back down to 1-5 which are DPS keys. I ended up doing the same for a lot of things, like fear break (lichborne/tremor/etc.) - IWT on key up so when they break fear they start running back right away.

I never get big into modifiers and I don't know how long that takes to string.. I have I think shift 3, 4, and 5 and that's about it. I supposed shift could work well with R, T, Y, F, G, H, V also. But I still fat finger FTGYH without modifers as it is (trying to pop bloodlust/pillar/skull banner and hit panic heal rotation instead, or G which activates a virtual keymap that turtles the healers - rock guys, astral shift, healing on each other, hand of protection and such, and then the rest of the team gets no healing).

I never quite find a perfect keybind setup, and sometimes I settle for less than optimal ones and just get used to it and when I try to change to something else, things get sloppy. I used G for D&D and H for Unholy Blight 9 months ago and I still accidentally hit those and end up blowing tons of cooldowns. Those are now shift+3 and shift+4.