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Clicking
Anyway, I looked into it and clicking obviously takes heaps off of your dps because pressing keys is faster... I have played WoW for about 2 years and have always clicked. I never realized there was anything wrong with it until last year but I forgot about it until now. I guess seeing all that hate was a wake up call .
I don't think I'm doing bad by clicking, I've asked people to evaluate my dps in the past without telling them that I click and they said it was pretty good. Even though I am quite a speedy "clicker" and have gotten so used to it, I do want to break out of this habit.
I was trying earlier and I ended up just getting frustrated as I was constantly looking at the bar and the keyboard and I ended up logging off to sulk . It just feels so uncomfortable for me, I have never learnt to touch-type, so it does not come naturally. I don't know where anything is! I've tried googling ideas some people were suggesting using keybinds by holding shift .. I think I died a little inside reading this. It's so confusing and I have gnome hands.
So, I was wondering if anyone else clicks/did click and have any tips to help break the habit? Such as keybinds/macros/addons (Im hopeless with keybinds but would like to use them). I don't have any addons to change my set-up either, so suggestions for this would be great .
Why do people get so mad at clicking anyway? I've seen people less angry at having loot stolen.
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Healing I keybound my spells and had roll over macros but when your watching health bars the whole fight its alot easier for me. As a dps you are switching between so many cd's no way could i remember that many keys! Another dps in my raid group who ranks on Worldoflogs clicks also and it doesn't hurt his dps either.
If you really want to bind things give it a go but unless your really behind your team because you click I wouldn't stress about it. Play the way you feel the most comfortable with. Some people like to get mad over nothing
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I found that once I went with a logical scheme, it all sunk in very quickly and I my hands were responding to what I wanted to do without thinking about what/where the ability actually was. For me using the shift/alt/ctrl keys made a huge difference to my raid performance, as once I'd done that I had a lot more spare fingers for movement - even for a alt-shift-ctrl-mouse command, I could still be running/strafing =)
Of course, some days you just can't stay out of the fire no matter how hard you try... >.>
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My fiance has one of those pads with a little keyboard and direction pad, Nostromo I think its called. He finds it very useful for games like LoL and Battlefield. Think he uses it to heal too in wow on his pally. You can use it to move as well as keybind to the little pad.
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But keybind/clicking for me personally really depends on the game I am playing.
I do have a razor naga tho but still .....
Some games I play:
Tera your not able to click ( combat is with aiming there so ...) so I everything was keybinded there had no troubles with it.
Aion hybrid between keybind and come spells click (was pretty nifty what you could do with the macros there so I could make nice combo chains)
FF14 one of the most recent games I started I simply went full key bind from the start there not many skills you have and seeing GCD is pretty high and the game doesn't feel to spammy so that makes keybinding easier for me.
Dragon Prophet (has similar combat mechanics as Tera) so full key bind for me there as well
WOW however has always been either full click and now hybrid for me, I simply cannot get used to full key binding(attempted so many times in the last 7-8 years but) the combat is way to spammy and within like 15-30 minutes my wrists fingers hurt like hell especially when raiding. When on new alts I do start our with full keybind but I soon swap back to hybrid when the amount of skills available start to get overwhelming >_>...
I always say just do what you feel most comfortable with and if people don't complain or saying your doing fine then I don't see a problem at all.
don't understand why the person in the movie was getting so much flak tbh if she was making a tutorial and she still managed to successfully completed the task she was making the tutorial for, who cares if she clicks/ keybinds or trowing her voluptuous "assets" on the keyboard to accomplish such task?
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100% agreed!Malackai wrote:Really depends on your situation if your in a really hardcore/die hard progressing guild then clicking might be more of a handicap I guess.
But keybind/clicking for me personally really depends on the game I am playing.
I do have a razor naga tho but still .....
Some games I play:
Tera your not able to click ( combat is with aiming there so ...) so I everything was keybinded there had no troubles with it.
Aion hybrid between keybind and come spells click (was pretty nifty what you could do with the macros there so I could make nice combo chains)
FF14 one of the most recent games I started I simply went full key bind from the start there not many skills you have and seeing GCD is pretty high and the game doesn't feel to spammy so that makes keybinding easier for me.
Dragon Prophet (has similar combat mechanics as Tera) so full key bind for me there as well
WOW however has always been either full click and now hybrid for me, I simply cannot get used to full key binding(attempted so many times in the last 7-8 years but) the combat is way to spammy and within like 15-30 minutes my wrists fingers hurt like hell especially when raiding. When on new alts I do start our with full keybind but I soon swap back to hybrid when the amount of skills available start to get overwhelming >_>...
I always say just do what you feel most comfortable with and if people don't complain or saying your doing fine then I don't see a problem at all.
don't understand why the person in the movie was getting so much flak tbh if she was making a tutorial and she still managed to successfully completed the task she was making the tutorial for, who cares if she clicks/ keybinds or trowing her voluptuous "assets" on the keyboard to accomplish such task?
Diablo is another one of those games you can't click, tbh. You use your mouse to move so you need to use the keys to attack while moving. Luckily, there's only like...1-4 and Q to use so it's not a lot compared to WoW.
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he is good at wow.
this helped me so much http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iq8AEEUYy0
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I hope you understand what I mean. It's not that easy to express my complex healbot use in English
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I tried heal bot but got rid of it because I was staring at players names so much I never really got to "see" the fights...boring. so I went back to clicking, and found myself enjoying things more.
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Same here with the healbot,that did not go well when I tried using it.Valfreya wrote:Well I have played wow for 9 years and I still click! When I was pvping on my priest, I was one of the most sought out priest healers when it came to arenas and rbgs on my server. I would log on and get an insta invite. And yes Im a clicker!! lol. Once I tried to use healbot and everyone died haha.