Speed mages: let me steal your keybindings!Follow

I want to get the notion of clicking out of my mind and work with keybinds and macros. I have a standard 3 button mouse and a laptop. I want to get keybindings buried in my brain while my Mage is still a baby. Help me out?

I really like having mine control the camera, though. I prefer to play fairly zoomed out, but that can create issues whenever there's a fight in a small room. For instance, the first guy in FoS.

As has been said - what Moz is saying is to bind you CTRL and Shift to mouse wheeling - - Not the standard mouse wheel.


I have two bindings (Arcane - Trash)

1. Arcane Missile
2. Fire Blast
3. Arcane Barrage
4. Frost Nova
5. Arcane Blast
6. Mana Shield
7. Arcane Explosion
8. Ice Block
9. Blizzard
10. Sheep (It's sad - I'm thinking of moving it from 10 to a click... It's been there for 3 years now...)
-. Slow
=. Blink

Then I have two ranks of Flame Strike Bound to shift -, and =. (Perhaps someone would be nice enough to confirm that the two type still stack.)


This is all based on my 2H tanking method. As a Paly tank I have my most used items to the far right and far left of my rows of keys. For example my Taunt is '=' and my Holy Shield is 1. These are talents that I use very often. Stuff like Devine Plea, which I use a lot, but is not part of my 'rotation' is bound to 7. My paly version of shield block is, just like my mage 'Oh-****' button is bound to 8.



(Arcane - Boss *Still learning this)
My "new" keybinding that I'm trying to learn to use it with Arcane Blast linked to Shift-Mouse-Roll-Down and Arcane Missile Shift-Roll-up.

My thought is that those two spells are my only rotation. The Roll down feels like a "Come to me" motion (Stacking AB) and the Arcane Missiles "roll up" is like a "go to you" feeling - thus burning off my Buff and shooting it out...

I'm going to split this with my Arcane Spec/Frostspec. s/C or c/F means I'm using Shift or Control.

1 - Wand
2 - Arcane Missiles/Frostbolt
3 - Cone of Cold
4 - Arcane Blast/Ice Lance
5 - Frost Nova
6 - Arcane Barrage/Ice Barrier
T - Fireblast
s/X - Featherfall
s/R - Blink
s/C - Evocation
F - Spellsteal
V - Polymorph

s/1 - The Works (Megamacro :D)
s/2 - Ice Block
s/3 - Presence of Mind/???? (Some of these I'm not too sure what they are on Frost :( )
s/4 - Flame Ward
s/5 - Frost Ward
s/T - Arcane Explosion
S/F - Blizzard
S/V - Invisibility
G - Counterspell
c/R - Inner Focus/Dampen Magic
c/F - Arcane Intellect
c/T - Molten Armor

I can't remember for the life of me what s/3 is on Frost...oh well, I doubt it's anything overly critical.

I have used this with great success for two years now. What I do is I keep right hand on my mouse, and I can use my left hand for pretty much everything else I want to do; strafing, targeting via tab, I really have enjoyed it. I use the same bindings on all characters I have, it just feels optimal to me.


Edited, Feb 25th 2010 12:03pm by BillyRayValentine

you can set up for buttons that you click, but other than using the addon Clique to bind shift+mouse on a frame (I use it for decurse, slowfall, and FM on raid frames)

I'm thinking about buying this mouse to
solve my problems http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104178

One thing Anobix was talking about the addon Clique. It's most useful for any time you need to click on a party member to do something.

The other thing is that you can use shift as a modifier in macros so that if you click on the button representing the macro it does different things depending on whether you have shift held down or not. I don't think that's quite what you're looking for.

It is definitely possible to bind things to all those secondary mouse buttons.

I actually went from an MX518->MX revolution (don't make them anymore) until it died-> back to MX518->G500. Just got it last week, the mouse is pretty sweet.

I STILL use a 518, it's I think, 4 years old now?

I'll post bindings later.

I use a lot of shift and alts. My two thumb mouse buttons are assigned to hit shift for me

1 = Arcane Barrage
2 = Arcane Blast
3 = Arcane Missiles
4 = Fireblast (don't use it often)
5 = Frost nova
Shift 1 = Macro everything and the kitchen sink
shift 2 = specialty for fight (either a ward, counterspell, focus sheep macro or focus spellsteal macro, target macro, fight dependent)
Shift 3 = blink
Shift 4 = iceblock
cntrl 1 = prospecting (eh, should be something more useful, oh well
cntrl 2 = flame strike
cntrl 3 = blizzard
cntrl 4 = arcane explosion
cntrl 5 = Cone of Cold
shtcnt 1 = mana gem
shtcnt 2 = spell steal
shtcnt 3 = evocation
shtcnt 4 = lock stone