The more often a spell is used, the closer it should be to my movement keys, and vice versa. My keybinds are set up following a very simple logic. That will be something you should experiment with, and follow what makes sense to you, because that will allow you to get used to new binds faster. While I can share how I set mine up, and you can follow the same logic, I cannot give you specific instructions on what spell should go on what exact keybind. Setting up keybinds should follow a logic that makes sense to you. Later in this guide, I will cover how to set up an MMO-Mouse as well, but for now, we will focus on your keyboard. It can take weeks, if not longer, to get used to a keybind overhaul, so be patient. The second way is certainly faster, but will result in slightly frustrating gameplay at the beginning, since it will feel like learning a whole new game, where you will have to look at your keybinds each time before pressing an ability. You can either change your keybinds slowly over time, with changing a few keybinds a week and giving yourself time to adjust, or you can change all of them and force yourself to get used to them by never clicking an ability again until you get used to the new setup.

There are a few ways of approaching this issue. So the first step is making a plan that will work for you to transition your keybinds.

Lots of players who try to make new keybinds end up reverting to their old ones after a while, because they feel overwhelmed. Playing with new keybinds can be overwhelming if you’ve been used to playing with the default, or keybinds you set up years ago. This makes keybinding extremely important as a fundamental for improving your gameplay experience. Even if you know your class's action priority perfectly, you will never be able to compete with a person who uses keybinds for their actions, if all else equal. Clicking spells will result in a large overall loss in the number of abilities you will be able to use in combat. While clicking certain spells, such as hearthstone, mount, food, or other out of combat actions is fine, absolutely no action that you might have to use in combat should be clicked. This allows you to use your mouse cursor purely for targeting, and moving your camera instead of it being occupied by having to constantly hover over your action bar to find the next spell to click. While playing with 1 - 9 was fine in Classic, you will probably need a few more useful buttons to do your rotation in Shadowlands.Ī keybind is a shortcut for you to use an action, which can be a spell, macro, item, etc. Good keybinds can enhance your gameplay, and unfortunately the game does not do a good job at explaining keybinds, or suggesting that you change any of them. This guide will teach you how to set up basic and advanced keybinds in World of Warcraft.

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