Fingers are too shortFollow

2 Years ago Aethien told me to stop clicking lol and i'm finally doing something about it.
I am spending an hour or so a day gradually binding more shots to buttons. I started with binding steady,exp,aimed,serpent and BA to numbers 1 to 6 with R as kill shot Q and E as strafe and mouse for all other movements.

Here begims the problem, I am a one finger right handed typist with very short fingers, i'm finding (especially in panic situations) that any other actions I bind (disengage multi etc) require me to totally move my left hand out of its comfort zone and getting it back to the correct position leads to allsorts of buttons being mashed.

Has anyone else made the transition from clicker to key binder (after 3+years of clicking)?
If so, any advice on how you did it would be greatly appreciated, also ideal positions for bindings for someone whose right hand doesn't know what the left is doing.

Thanks for any help you can give

PS Does the cramp in the left wrist subside after a while ? :)

Yeah Thorpedro i got a steel series wow mouse but gave up as it was too bulky (need a 3 foot wide mouse mat)

I use a 5 button logitech (i think it is) but the 2 buttons on top behind the wheel do not seem to let me bind to them. I use the thumb buttons as target and send pet.
But TY for the advice

LOL I'm so glad I posted now thanks Thorpe

@ Sandra
In the keybinding menu you can switch "Character specific" on, and guess what happens next; you won't mess up your alt's keybinds. Although the wow interface is fine for keybinds, I highly recommend using bindpad or use bartender to modify your bars and place them as you like, and bind your keys on bartender itself. They're both pretty easy to use but take 10 mins to setup when you DL em (well, making keybinds and placing your bars where you like, that's mostly all there is to it.)

`, 1, 2, 3, 4, q, w, e, r, a, s & d
That's 12 buttons, add 3 modifiers and you can bind 48 abilities.

It does however require a mouse with sidescrolling so you can use that to strafe. (I bound mine to mimic [ & ] in WoW and those are bound to strafing)

I liked keeping my movement keys for movement. I primarily move with mouse, as I have every single ability keybound, and I never click. BUT I do strafe with keyboard and sometimes hold "W" for forward while I'm getting ready to autorun or something of the sort. I don't ever use "A" or "D" to keyboard turn, but I never unbound them, or "Q" or "E" for that matter. I just didn't want to, so don't think you have to do that.

Getting back on track: Just saying, I DID click for the first 3-4years I played WoW. I went and played Warhammer Online for a month or two, and that taught me the correct way to make use of keybindings and I fell in love never looked back even once. It's disgusting to me to click ANYTHING now. So I'll tell you what I do.

I don't really have small hands by any means, but I still want everything to be easily hit-able in the heat of the moment as I mostly PvP. I'm completely comfortable with near all my keybindings.

I use...

1-4
R
T
F
Z-B (The whole bottom row there. Z,X,C,V,B)

That's twelve keybinds, and that's a bar.

I have that bar on my screen four times. The default one... then another one with all the same keybinds but with a shift modifier, one bar with an alt modifier, and another with a ctrl modifier. I have my different types of abilities on different bars in different places so I can keep track of them easier. For example on my Rogue, primarily my "Ctrl" bar is my Finishing Move bar. My default bar is for basic attacks, my "Alt" Bar has all my Engineering equipment and items and my "Shift" bar has defensive abilities on it like trinket, will of the forsaken, evasion, cloak of shadows, etc, etc.

I also have all my powerup abilities bound to my mouse. My mouse has a forwards and a backwards button, both of which can also be used with the three modifiers, so that's eight abilities I can bind to my mouse...I have a whole bar for my mouse as well.

My assist target is "G". Inventory is "I", Character Pane is "P", Talents are "N", Map is "M", Spellbook is still "K" and Quest Log "L".

I never click anything anymore besides a player on my screen.

It will take you some getting used to, but if you could get used to what I've laid out for you here, I promise you that your game would be taken to the next level. I'm 300% better than I was two years ago when I clicked, there's no comparison at all. If I had a dps race with my old self with a fight that required movement and awareness I'd perform noticeably better, not to mention if I dueled my old self I wouldn't even get touched anymore... A keyboard turner just can't keep up with a mouse turning sprinting Rogue, even if he knows how to strafe well.

Hope I helped. ^^

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Edit:

Also... this gets you 48 + 8(If you have a two button mouse) keybinds WITHOUT having to unbind or change your movement keys if you still hit them out of panick, or just out of liking to do so. So in essence, you could slowly attempt to move off of keyboard movement while still having it there if you needed or wanted it. Like I said I don't keyboard turn...but I just didn't bothered with tampering or removing mine. It's just not necessary. Strafing, "W" and despite what some people think even "S" keys all have their uses to a small extent. "A" and "D" are rather useless but you don't really need to change them as I've said if you don't want to, just try not and use them too much. =X

Edited, Jan 26th 2010 11:26pm by LordDrazhar

I used to have a list of my keybinds, but it hasn't been updated since BC, so :/

This is what I had set up during BC, SV on the left for arena, and MM on the right for raiding. If you look really close in the top left, you can see two sets of two little buttons, I had pin/roar of sacrifice/last stand up there (and master's call too for some reason). Everything was clustered around ESDF, and the nothing other than aspects/mounts required me to actually move my fingers. I had the shots laid out in the order of their priority, so I didn't have to waste memory running addons to track that (even though you don't really need to use a priority while in arena). FD and flare were bound on my mouse keys so that I could almost instantaneously FD when someone was almost finished casting a spell at me, and to throw up flares super quick (since you use the mouse to aim them, it makes a lot of sense to have the button itself keybound to your mouse too). Most commonly cast spell was on mousewheel scroll down, so explosive shot. I had viper on wheel up for the same reason, it's just quick to apply. Raiding was pretty much the same, SV spells replaced by MM, I had some stuff like potions on the F keys since they weren't really important.

Edit: And like I said above, you'll be mouse turning so having strafe on the turn keys frees up a lot of space and you'll never be tempted to KEYBOARD turn. Keybinding your movement keys to ESDF instead of WASD is personal choice, I liked it for WoW because of how fast I needed to access my binds, but I can't use it with any other games.

Edited, Jan 27th 2010 5:19pm by Yuppley

As if I just said that...

Now I know why I get down-rated so often.

L2proofread yuppley.

I swear I didn't even move my mouse close to your downrate arrow, heck,I only got near it when I rated you up because you made me feel sorry :(.

Edited, Jan 30th 2010 5:40am by Thorpedro

I have PTT bound to a click of the scroll wheel, works really well.

Aethien playing WoW:

Ingame: so guyS WHATS UP ARe wE RAIdinG TOnighT Or whaT?

Vent: Lol my guild sucks/I'm the best/Look at how awesome I am/Hunters are neat/I'm a durid

Mostly because push to talk or setting up Vent differently is too much work though, amirite?

No, it's because I'm on Skype half the time anyway.

Also Horse... What the ****?