How to Keybind in WoW - Raiding and Mythic+

Por Hyperdk Última atualização: 27/10/2020 Lista de Mudanças Patch: 10.2.6

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Keybinding vs. Clicking?Getting StartedThe Keybinding PrincipleWASDMovementKey Binding“Movement Keys”“Strafe Left”“A”“Strafe Right”“D”“S”“Move Backward”“Backpeddle.

Movement Keys

Basic Keybinds

Q, E, R, F, 1, 2, 3, 4 - These are the best keybinds for rotational abilities that you will be pressing several times during an encounter, as well as abilities you need to be able to press fast, such as your Interrupt.

Core Rotational Abilities

T, G, Z, X, C, V, B, 5, Tilda (`) - While most people can reach these keys, they might have to move their fingers off the movement keys, so I recommend placing spells that you might only use once in a while on these keys. Great examples for these are extra action buttons, covenant abilities, trinkets, combat potions, etc.

Using C, V, or B as a push-to-talk keybind for Discord is also really good, because 99% of the time, your thumb is only resting on the Spacebar and not actually pressing any functional keys.

Abilities with longer cooldowns and Utility spells

TAB - By default this will be the “Target Next Enemy” bind, which I recommend you keep. When switching between 2 targets, it can be very useful. However, if there are more than 2 targets it becomes unreliable.

CAPS LOCK - You can go in your keyboards software to remap this key to something else. This key is very convenient, and unless you’re always yelling at people, you shouldn’t need easy access to the CAPS LOCK function.

ModifiersSHIFTCTRLALT"F""Shift+F""F""SHIFT+F"SHIFT

Modifiers

MMO/Gaming Mouse

These are the two main types of mice used in WoW.

“Actions”NumPadNumLockON(F1 - F12)

Scroll Wheel Up/Down - By default, this is bound to camera zoom in/out, but this is a prime bind that can be used for something else.

Middle Mouse Wheel Click - Good bind to have, if you do not have Scroll Wheel up/down bound. If you do, I don’t recommend using this keybind, as you might accidentally scroll while pressing down on the wheel.

Mouse Button 3 & 4 - Usually located on the side of your mouse, these are great binds for rotational abilities if you do not have an MMO mouse.

Mouse button 5 and/or 6 - Button located behind the scroll wheel, typically reserved for DPI switching. I’ve never swapped the DPI of my mouse on the fly, so using this as an actual keybind tends to be much more practical.

Side Mouse Panel 1 - 12 - By default the side panel of most mice will be bound to numbers 1 through = on your keyboard. In most situations you can leave this as default, but if you’re used to pressing some of those buttons with your keyboard hand, then they can be remapped. Since you will be pressing all 12 of these keys with your thumb, you also need to establish a priority on your mouse. My thumb usually rests on the first column of buttons (1 - 3), so these will be my most used binds, containing rotational abilities. The further back on the mouse I move, the less important those binds become. This is because they are harder to press, because I need to move my thumb, and are also harder to distinguish from each other, because they are surrounded by other buttons.

Side Panel of an MMO Mouse

Tips and Tricks"Q""E" "R""F"

Comentários

Comentado por Minderien

I think showing people how to bind keys is a good idea!

It should be noted that efficient binding is heavily dependent on class/spec and role of the toon in question, as well as the actual player (hand sizes and ability to reach keys),and his or her keyboard.

Good binding can help preventing RSI, while other configurations could very much cause overreaching and so forth, which is not good news for you if you intend to play for extended periods of time.

Keep in mind that some keyboards have more or less space between Fn keys than others, which can make them either your best friends or your worst enemies, that not all layouts are the same, etc, and you'll be good to go!

Note to the author: you might want to update the guide to reflect BfA prepots ;)

Comentado por d3cadance

Amazing guide, thank you for the hard work :)

Comentado por wilgecko

Is there a way to add 2nd set of keybinds on mouse when my 1st set of 12 thumb buttons is full?

Comentado por anonsequitur

I'm sorry for being so ignorant, but exactly HOW does one assign a particular key to an action? Thank you!

Comentado por Char

On your mouse, be very careful not to use modifiers with the same keys that your main actionbar keys are using. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 are my main attack spells. My side mouse buttons are CTRL+1, CTRL+2, CTRL+3, CTRL+4, CTRL+5, CTRL+6, and so on.
So while my left hand is mashing the number 1 key, my right hand is on my mouse and it presses the button that is set to CTRL+6.
However, my CTRL+6 key didn't go off when I did that, the side mouse key that was bound with CTRL+1 went off instead. During a raid boss fight, I ended up spirit shaping forward off the platform to my death when all I was trying to do was shoot cobra shot with my left hand and sent my pet to a new target using a "petattack +dash" macro with my right hand. This happened for awhile killing me many times with different side buttons going off each time.

What kept happening, that you can probably see, was my left hand was hitting a number 1 key, and my right hand was hitting a shift+6 key, but they were connecting together instead and I ended up with shift+1 going off and a 6 by itself that never went off because shift 1 activated the global cd. Whatever number I'm hitting with my left hand, ends up adding to the shift in my mouse's keybind.

Find some keys for the mouse that you are not using anywhere else even with a modifier.

Comentado por Spilledstars

Rather than blowing off a backwards-key entirely I'd think it reasonable to assign it to Disengage or (boomkin) Wild Charge.

Other than this, yeah, I'm in love with keybinds. I made a number of things I do want binds for, but don't want to hit accidentally, to instead use bindings with two meta-keys plus perhaps the usual character. This leaves a ton of unshifted keys handy for my bars.

Comentado por Spilledstars

Comentado por GaryShadows

what about F1-F4? I used them for totems when I played Shaman but now I'm worried I haven't seen it any guides

Comentado por ZhaunRong

Did a search: How to bind keys in WOW...still searching.

How to Keybind in WoW - Raiding and Mythic+

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