101918-so-whats-a-good-control-set-up

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So far I am really enjoying the game but have been having some issues with controls. 
 
Its been a while since I played an MMO but I used to be able to use ASDW for movement and bind my abilites to the num pad.  This leads to keyboard turning (which didn't hurt me to bad in older games) but it seems that would be pretty bad for WS.....
 
I'm having problems using my left hand for movement and abilities with my right hand on the mouse for better aiming.... I keep end up with my hand in the wrong place pressing the wrong buttons for what I want to do.
 
Any suggestions are appreciated!	
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@ OP
 
Here is something that i have posted in several threads where people were looking for help.  I use a regular ole keyboard and a logitech mouse that has middle mousebutton, middle scroll up/down and a forward thumb button and a rear thumb button.  Here is the rest of the stuff that i just cut and paste:
 
There is probably more then one way to do it, just try out what feels comfortable to you.  I'd been playing a WoW rogue since the end of vanilla to present and even though i only PVE'd i always did little circle strafing arcs behind the boss while keeping up my rotation (for practice).  Below is how i am setup:
 
W = middle finger
A = ring finger
D = index finger
Shift/Ctrl = pinky finger
Tilde vent/teamspeak key = pinky finger
Spacebar/Alt = thumb
4 = most spammed ability
5-7 = other spammable abilities
1-3 = least used abilities
8 = forward mouse thumb button
9 = rear mouse thumb buttom
0 = middle mouse button (interrupt or stun)
LMB - targetting, click to hold for viewscreen panning
RMB - hold button and move mouse left/right to control circle strafe direction and radius of circle
 
So pretty much my ring finger would hit A to strafe left, middle finger would hit W if i needed to move forward a bit, and i would spam my abilities on 4-6 with my index finger.  If i needed to hit 1-3 i would reverse the direction of my strafe and put index finger on D to move right, and ring/middle finger would activate 1-3.  If strafing right was not possible i would just keep pressing A but i would jump with spacebar and then hit 1, 2 or 3 quickly before i landed.  Jumping would allow me to maintain momentum on my left strafe while still allowing me to use 1-3.
 
Now one other thing that i did was on my rogue was i would split up my most used moves and finishers between keypresses and mousepresses.  If for example i had 6 total skills that i used pretty frequently i would bind 3 of those skills to 3, 4 and 5.  Then the other three skills would get bound to forward mouse thumb, rear mouse thumb and middle mouse button.  Split up the workload to prevent finger and hand fatigue, and also to give my other hand something to do.  Why have one hand activate all 6 abilities when you can have two hands activating 3 abilities each? On my WoW rogue that meant that 4 would be sinister strike or mutiliate, mouse forward thumb would be a finisher #1 (rupture) and mouse rear thumb would be finisher #2 (envenom/eviscerate).  Personally i would not recommend having 1 hand to everything...like using all 3 fingers on your right hand to control movement.  Split up the workload between your two hands...have both do equal amounts of movement required tasks and equal amount of skill use tasks.  On movement intensive fights this might prevent faster fatigue in your right hand, and on fights where you have to use lots of skills all the time it would prevent fatigue in your left hand.	
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Razer Naga. A good mmo mouse can change everything for you.
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You should check this out. Changes MMO gaming permanently. Keyboards are only good for typing in chat.
 
 
http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-keyboards-keypads/razer-orbweaver
 
 
Also, any "gaming" mouse or "MMO" mouse with side buttons will do wonders. Those don't have one, don't realize how slow they are in game lol.	
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In general the goal is to seperate movement and aim
 
Which by deafault is already seperated (WSAD for movement) Mouse for Aim.
 
You can then map the most requently used skills to buttons you can reach easiest
 
(using addon like Lockdown or FreeKeYBinding)
 
you can map your most common attack skill (let say Skill 1) to left mouse button.
 
You can map your 2nd most frequently used skill (usually resource consumption ability) to right mouse button.
 
Then you can map stun to mouse button 5 (Back button)
 
Then another skill to mouse button 4 (Forward button)
 
Middle Button I map to direction dodge - so I don't have to use the same hand to control dodge direction and when to dodge.
 
As for what to do with the keyboard, map it however you feel most comfortable.  
 
Since you already have 4 of your top skill mapped, the rest should be easy.
 
Q and E can be used for 2 more, and the rest can be the keys above that or to the left/right of it.
 
This becomes a lot easier if your mouse have more than the standard 4 buttons.
 
I don't like naga because to use the keys you must press the buttons lateral to the mouse and will usually move it and results in jittering the camera.	
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