Rogue Lesson: Keyboard Turning and Clicking (revised)Follow

I've been practicing mouse turning for the past few weeks, but then I stumbled upon this: Playing WoW with a PS2 Controller

As soon as I get enough time, I'm gonna give it a try.

Fantastic post. Very useful information that I plan to put into application as soon as i can. Thanks.

I've been using the mouse to turn since learning to circle-strafe in EQ.

But binding to the mousewheel? That never occurred to me. I'm not sure I even knew you could click it, before reading the OP.

Excellent post. I agree with others, this should be stickied or included in a guide.

Go ahead and try it, but it sounds terrible to me.

In other news, this topic is linked at the top of nooble's guide now. woot.

in game, push the escape key to access the normal menu. Click the button that says "Key-Bindings" and then what you do is...

well then what you do, my friend, is dance like you've never danced before.

Eon, is there a way to bind other mouse buttons. Ive got a mouse with 3 thumb buttons. Is there a way to bind them to abilities aswell?

Yes, there is. I personally changed my mouse buttons to F6 and F7 respectively in the mouse setup, but that's because I use them in conjunction with shift, alt, and ctrl to get 4 abilities out of each button.

You pretty much do it the same way as you bind to the mousewheel. I use bongos, so I'm not sure how well it works with the default UI.

I think I get it. Im going to try next time I log in.

What ive seen in game is that you can bind mouse function to <Action bar 3 number 1> for instance.

Is this compatible with bongos?

And I have a logitech mouse, so I will have a look in the setup of that what the option on there are.

Thanks again for the quick heads up guys. Much appriciated!

Just to clarify. Is that Blizzard menu or Bongo menu?

Sounds easy enough.

Cheers!

if your gonna play WOW on a laptop, keep in mind the Fn button. You'll notice some keys have a thrid symbol [1st and 2nd being the normal and shift+]

FN key works like the shift but is used for laptops to have a tertiary function on certain keys. Ussually this is for a numeric pad to be added OVER existing buttons, stuff that couldnt fit with its own key and stuff like brightness change and battery check.

Most laptops dont have a keypad, not sure how many have the Fn key though.

I use the nurmeric pad [with num lock on or it will perform your regular number key functions] for non combat stuff. links to food, profession windows, etc

I personally am a huge fan of ` (tilde, the useless key beside 1)
` is bound to stealth
alt ` is bound to vanish
ctrl ` is my drake

I also dumped my party target system, no reason for me to target party members afterall... I am a rogue, not a priest.
F1 is Evis
F2 is SnD
F3 is Rupture
F4 is Kidney Shot
F5-F8 are my various trinkets or macros that I might need handy

number keys are 1-5 that I can easily reach and Alt is an easy reach so most of my important functions go there, Ctrl just happens to fit under the pad where my little finger attatches to my hand so i can mash that with my palm pretty accurately.

1 shiv
2 SS
3 Gouge
4 kick
5 feint

ALT-1 CloS (<3 cloak... F*CK casters, for 5 sec at least)
ALT 2 blind
ALT-3 deadly throw
ALT-4 envenom
ALT-5 macro for blind mouseover. This is the best pvp macro EVER

With this setup I can still hit my wasd keys while hitting all the buttons that I need to do my job as a rogue.

I have a logitech mouse with a tilt wheel and 2 thumb buttons.

Tilt left and right I assign to my trinkets if they have a "USE:" ability
front thumb button is auto run
rear thumb button is my push-to-talk vent hotkey so that I can be doing awkward reaches with my hands and still call for help without missing a SS.


Edit: I missed my complicated stealth bar...

Stealthed :
1 - distract
2 - garrote
3 - CS
4 - pick pocket
5 - sap
6 - empty
7 - empty
8 - empty
9 - SS
0 - throw

with this setup I have my basic attack routine on just one button, garrote>SS so I can sneak up and just spam one button for a while
I put SS on number 9 so if for some reason a mob is immune to CS and garrote I have the option, but its far as hell so I am really sure that is what I wanted to do. Throw is on my stealth and unstealthed bar in the same spot, found a few situations where I need to stealth past stuff and still throw pull(aether rays for skyguard dailies).

Edited, Oct 3rd 2007 8:27pm by evilfourty