Do you use the keyboard for skill casting or the mouse?

zaria

I use those mouse buttons tho

Naga mouse
Its a bit small for my hands but the number of buttons is idiotic.

Lord_Sando

Bam_Bam wrote: »

Use the Naga Trinity but with the 12 button thumb pad for skills and for gear swapping. Left hand I use the Orbweaver Chroma for direction, interaction, jumping etc - I honestly have no idea how I played before I bought it.

YOOO I have an orb weaver as well. when i tell people about they seem so confused. I could not play with out it. Also a key pad makes the switch from controller to Mouse and keyboard so much easier.

Vogtard

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

Cannot stand the single button bar swap tho.
I'm lagproof using E for front bar, and Q for back bar.
WSAD for movement, 1-5 for skills, and also every other key in the area.
Good for guitar practice, although it limits the movement possibilities when using skills.

I consider getting one of the Nostromo type controllers for thumb movement. How is it, @Grynnyl ?

rumple9

generic 'other' response

Logitech G13 for the win

Turelus

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

Keyboard for skills but I have shortcuts for other actions on mouse keys.

FrancisCrawford

I use the keyboard for skills and movement, and a Logitech G300 series mouse with extra buttons for weapon swap (super easy), synergy grab (aka X), ESC, hide and so on.

While that's been kind of OK for years, I cannot strafe and use skills at the same time. So something has to change. Since the mouse has "9" keys counting the scroll wheel, and 8 are usable (the 9th has to be reserved for toggling between different programs on the mouse), in theory I could have a program with all four movement directions, usual left/right mouse buttons, weapon swap, and synergy grab. Have any of you guys actually tried something like that?

Conduit0

I use those mouse buttons tho

I use a logitech g602, the 6 side buttons are mapped to abilities 1 - 5 and bar swap, and the DPI buttons have been remapped to push to talk for Discord/Team Speak

kypranb14_ESO

generic 'other' response

Xbox One Controller

leeux

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

The only thing I have in my extra mouse buttons is Synergy use and Interrupt/Bash... all of the skills are on the keyboard (1, 2, 3, 4 and E, plus R=ultimate)

grkkll

I use those mouse buttons tho

Bam_Bam wrote: »

Use the Naga Trinity but with the 12 button thumb pad for skills and for gear swapping. Left hand I use the Orbweaver Chroma for direction, interaction, jumping etc - I honestly have no idea how I played before I bought it.

jeez, I built my rig (2nd hand) for less than the cost of Chroma

Caligamy_ESO

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

I've been playing games with cordless trackballs for over a decade, it would be just awful to go back to a restrictive mouse pad again. I supposed if my mouse had these buttons I would use them but keyboard has worked fine for me.

Red_Feather

I shifted movement keys over to ESDF and use the circle of open keys around it for skills.

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

I cast skills with my sheer willpower

Aika and I are one.

Sylvermynx

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

I can't manage all those buttons on a mouse. I'm a keyboarder, have been since my first game in 1985.

Danikat

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

I use the number pad. I'm left-handed so my right hand is on the keyboard and my thumb on the arrow keys for movement.

1-5 are my skills, 0 is dodge, 6 is synergy, 7 is quick slots, 8 is interrupt, 9 is ultimate, enter is sneak, + is weapon swap, right ctrl is jump and I have various other things I want quick access to on the 4 function keys and the 6 keys above the arrows.

Steelshiv

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

Rake wrote: »

Bar swap on keyboard is better
More reliable
Not a meme

This is actually true and not a meme. I've found a slight delay when using a mouse button to swap bars. Might have to do with usb speeds but I'm not entirely sure.

InvictusApollo

I cast skills with my sheer willpower

What if I told you that I actually use electroencefalograph to measure my brain waves and just think about the number of a skill that I want to activate?

Kiralyn2000

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

I have enough trouble with Button 3 under the scroll wheel. Any time I've gotten a mouse with more buttons than that, I've been accidentally clicking stuff every time I tried to move the thing. I expect that it's something to do with how I hold a mouse.

Sylvermynx

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

Kiralyn2000 wrote: »

I have enough trouble with Button 3 under the scroll wheel. Any time I've gotten a mouse with more buttons than that, I've been accidentally clicking stuff every time I tried to move the thing. I expect that it's something to do with how I hold a mouse.

Yeah, that's my issue too. I have a nice Razer upstairs. I hope I never have to use it again, because the first time I tried it, I hit the wrong button(s), and the girl ran off a VERY tall mountain.... The splat at the bottom was epic....

So i was happy to return to my garden variety Logi 2 button plus wheel....

fgoron2000

generic 'other' response

Technically, both. I have all of the 5 actives set to keyboard 1 through 5 and the ultimate set to U. Then I use the mouse wheel button to swap between the two hotbars.

Donari

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

I have the same mouse as you, OP, but for me the mouse is to move with because I have always sucked at WASD. And I actually only use three of the side buttons since in other games I can move with LMB/RMB pressed and then strafe/backpedal with my thumb, freeing my left hand to hit one key at a time since I also suck at accurate combo keying in time pressure things like combat (I'm a fairly fast touch typist, let's credit that to childhood training on typewriters that got into my instincts early on, but even that is almost always one key at a time other than shift key use).

I have small slender hands and do a palm grip. Thus when steering with the mouse I can't also reach the further buttons and my muscle memory is for other games where that matters.

"Somehow" use the keyboard? I'm happy to have nice big keys to hit, on a keyboard I can program the colors of to make important keys stand out.

Crixus8000

generic 'other' response

I use a controller, but I wish I could just get used to m/k

the pic you posted looks nice though, I might try that mouse

Sylvermynx

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

Hmm. I should also point out that I use the mouse for directional movement, while using the arrow keys left-handed for actually moving.

My setup is a direct downline descendant of the setup in the first games I played in 1985 - the SSI Gold Box games, set in Ed Greenwood's AD&D Forgotten Realms. I have micromanaged every game since so that my finger and muscle memory from YEARS of playing those games doesn't have to change.

What needs to change of course is my (abysmal) connection. However, that's a non-starter.

Chaos2088

generic 'other' response

I use the force! -Que the music-

Sylvermynx

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

Chaos2088 wrote: »

I use the force! -Que the music-

ROFL! Awesome!

Loves_guars

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

I didn't buy one of those mouse for SWTOR where you have 30+ skills, won't buy it for a game that only needs 5 xD

Sylvermynx

I somehow manage to use the keyboard

Loves_guars wrote: »

I didn't buy one of those mouse for SWTOR where you have 30+ skills, won't buy it for a game that only needs 5 xD

Ditto for WoW and RIFT.

xMovingTarget

I use those mouse buttons tho

Corsair scimitar. 12 button thumbpad.

Regular keyboard layout. Just changed weaponswap to tab..
Skills 1-5 on scimitar 1-5 buttons.
Synergy on mouse 6.
Ult R on keyboard.
Dodge roll C.
Interrupt on standard lmb+rmb.

ecru

generic 'other' response

I use spacebar to bar swap and a combination of keyboard keys and thumb buttons on my mouse to use abilities. Jump is also on my mouse.

I found that using a (thumb) mouse button to bar swap and then using an ability was a little cumbersome than i preferred, so I switched to spacebar awhile ago. This way I'm using three different fingers for swap/ability/light attack so there's no delay or movement in between any of those actions.

Dottzgaming wrote: »

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MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Keyboard is more than enough for a game with 6 skills.

I use the following setup:
Movement: WASD
Skills: QERCXZ
Consumable: Tab
Dodge roll/weapon swap: Forward/back buttons on mouse

I have no problems using WASD and casting at the same time with this setup.

Besides, MMO mice suck for shooters, so you're basically buying a mouse for one genre.

exactly, coming from wow especially it was super easy getting used to the keybinding here.

Movement: WASD
Skills: 12345R
Consumable: Q
Weapon Swap: Z
Dodge Roll: V
Bash: C

This has always seemed pretty inefficient/cumbersome to me. I know people who played Rift like this too and their movement was always mediocre and they were easy to kite/catch in pvp. Using WASD to move and then having to use 1-2-3-4 for abilities means taking at least one of your fingers off WASD, forcing you to stop moving for a period of time.

DaveMoeDee

Starlock wrote: »

Apparently, generic 'other' response includes the giant chunk of the player base that plays this game on console, so... yeah.

Why ask what people are using on the console if all they can use is the controller?