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I was a lazy mouse turning/sometimes keyboard turning abilities clicking rogue. It's okay to do that in PVE and get by but realize you're not going to be the best that you can be doing it that way. It's like ppl asking if can use daggers vs swords while raiding...yes, as combat mutilate you can get by but you'll be doing less dps vs combat swords. I guess it depends on what level you want to achieve and what are you comfortable with.

For PVP though, keyboard turning/clicking will most definitely hurt you as a rogue. I finally decided to keybind stuff to my mouse after reading eon's post about keybinding and because I was doing the honor grind in bgs for welfare epics. I kept pushing it off because I wasn't sure how much difference it would make and it was hard to break habits.

I finally decided to just learn and commit myself to it. It wasn't easy and took me a few days to get use to it as I would re-bind stuff to get it just the way I wanted. But you know what? What's good for PVP is also good for PVE. Once I had everything binded properly, I felt a difference when I did instances...it was easier for me to stay on mobs since I wasn't looking for my "mutilate" button to click and taking precious seconds...it was just mouse wheel down and *BAM* mutilate. I stuck on mobs better...I was aware of my surroundings more since I wasn't looking for abilities to click on...I could help the healer out if they pulled healing aggro and the tank wasn't paying attention (or was keyboard turning slowly) and run over and hit blind or kidney shot to save my squishy healer until the tank came over.

Hopefully you will invest the time to learn since it will make you a better overall player...plus if it's good for your rogue, it will be good for your hunter as well. Perhaps your arena rating will now be good or very good vs just decent :)

Good luck!

Edited, May 8th 2008 2:17pm by xlpanda

Edited, May 8th 2008 2:19pm by xlpanda

I think a little bit of clicking is ok, like the only moves i click are ShS, Vanish, Stealth, Ghostly Strike, Prep, Premed etc. which works out ok with me, as Hemo and KS and Rupture are bound to my K/B, thats all i need :P

Confessions of a Former Clicker!!!

I used to be a clicker.
I thought I was a good player, but I wasn't.
My revelation came when I decided to take up PVP on my 60 hunter. I had ok gear, was BM spec, and had run ZF and MC with my guild. Fighting other players was soooo different. The speed of the battle was intense and since the players thought for themselves it didn't matter if I tried to control my aggro or used FD. I talked to a guildie and he was surprised to hear that I was a clicker because I did well in our guild raids. He recommended that I convert to using my mouse for movement and using key bindings. I reluctantly agreed and for a while I hated it. The switch was hard but after a few frustrating days of play it started to get a little easier. Now, I think it's the only way to play.

Three big differences I noticed that made me a better PvP player were:
1. I learned how to do a jump shot.
2. I was able to quickly pick up the correct target using a key binding. I was so used to clicking on my target before and often clicked on my pet or the wrong targets.
3. I watch the screen for other players more effectively now because I'm not looking for the action bar spell I want to cast, I simply press my keyboard key without looking away from the screen.

As a hunter I was able to survive as a clicker because I was on a PVE server and hunters are a ranged class. I can't see how a melee class could be very good if they were a clicker.

It's easier to do a jump shot.

What I do on jump shots is actually just rock back to one side about 90º and fire off an instant, then turn back.

I think i never was a clicker and mouse turner. Well not in WoW at least.

Maybe it comes from the past when i was playing FPP/FPS games. Actually i can't imagine myself playing with keyboard turning and mouse clicking. When i started my first character - rogue - i was using buttons from "1" to "5" with using my fingers and other buttons i clicked (because it was hard to hit them without moving my hand from "wsad").

I played my rogue for short time when he was 60+lvl. I had a brake from WoW, but when i returned i downloaded few addons, i changed my keybindings (thanks goes to guys, who made very nice topic on this forum about keybindings, really great job). Now i use keys around "wsad" and i just love it. I know that i should bind slightly different my skills, throw few macros and so on, but i'm really happy with what i've got right now.

Well my rogue is pve oriented and i do rarely bgs, and i do not touch arena. So in pve i was told that i just move faster, play better. Guy with way better gear is near me and sometimes behind me in dps meter. On the other hand i know, that with few more keybindings i could probably play better.

Mouse clicking take some time to click skill you want. You must look at you skills bar, mouse point skill and click. If you would have keybindings you would hit button (and you still focus on your opponent or something on your screen and not skill bar).

What is better: typing on keyboard by looking on your keyboard and hit keys or maybe typing without looking on keyboard (it takes a lot of time to learn that ability, but in the end it is worth to do that)? So answer is obvious.

BTW: I started few alts recently. Of course i use keybindings and it is so faster to level them up.