Tips for more control

[Mercbeast]

Get rid of your "turn character" keybinds and rebind WASD to ESDF. You should never keyboard turn anyway. This opens up QWAZXCVRTG and 123456 as convenient keybinds. Might take some time to get used to but it's well worth it in the long run. I also bind two of the thumb buttons on my mouse to shift and ctrl. This way I can hold either mouse button down while using my standard hotkeys to open up 30something additional keybind options without taking my hand off the movement keys.


There's no situation 5boxing classic you'd need 50+ keybinds. If you feel like you do, you're doing something wrong. I consolidate abilities into single and AE DPS rotation keymaps/macros bound to one of my mouse buttons so I can just hold it down while I focus on healing.

I've been using ESDF since the 90's, and gotta disagree with strafe instead of turn. Absolutely agree about ESDF though. Reason I disagree on turn vs strafe is simple. Right mouse makes turn strafe via mouselook. Turn + RMB gives more control than just strafe. I can travel with just the keyboard more efficiently with turn, while say rummaging my backpack, or sipping tea. Then, when I need the fine motor control, you just need to hold RMB. I will say this though, RMB to mouselook is completely second nature to me, due to OLD school games, even some FPS if I remember correctly, where mouse look was ONLY through RMB, so my brain is just trained to hold RMB for mouse look.

ESDF, 100%, whether you use turn or strafe, try both, and figure out which your brain likes more, but RMB+Turn does give you more hands off the mouse rest time overall.

I believe "technically" repeating a key while holding it is considered by blizz to be automation. Not that they could tell, since mashing a key repeatedly does effectively the same thing, but I just thought I'd throw it out there just in case.

Here's a blue post on the subject: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/13020372448

What's stupid about this, is that they will not ban you for using any officially sanctioned products that can perform exactly this sort of stuff like a logitech programmable keyboard, but if you did exactly the same stuff that that keyboard can do, with say autohotkey, you better be careful.