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On average how many hotkeys does a maxed lvl character find themselves using? In videos I have seen it seems like people have so many skills binded that one would get completely lost.
Am i just seeing this wrong or whats going on. If someone could inform me I would much appreciate it.
-Thanks
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Macros.
Never played wow, but with other games that have lotsa buttons, they usually use macros, which is just a set button that makes several skills go off at their correct times.
So instead of a hack n slash 'press X to preform combo' its
press 1 to swing
press 2 to slash
press 3 to stab
press 4 to heal
and that turns into a macro. so same thing, weird process.
The Deep Web is sca-ry.
It depends on the class But most fall in the following
4-5 Abilities that you will use on almost every fight, your main rotational buttons
2-4 abilities that are short cool-downs, like 30 seconds to one minute. Typically you can ignore these on normal everyday quest mobs, but using these correctly are what seperates the really good players from the average players in dungeons and raids.
5 abilities that are very situational, kinda ´oh crap´ buttons. These are your defensive cooldowns and CC, mainly used only for pvp or when something goes wrong in pve.
And another few buttons that are long-term buffs ( 1hr)
PVP probably requires the most hotkeys simple because things are so unpredictable and you might need one of those first 15 abiltiies at any time.
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I had Q,E,R,F,G,1,2,3,4,5,6,7, Shift 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Ctrl 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, middle mouse and caps lock. Ya, it is quite ridiculous but it made me really good, especially at games that have like 10 keybinds.
I've got room for 68 keybinds + movement keys.
...not using them all though. I'd say you'll do fine with about 20-25 hotkeys, after that the rest aren't really needed.
Getting lost with many keybinds isn't really that large a problem. It's a game you play for hundreds of hours, so you can take an hour to practise each new keybind. Also, when you play multiple games you can use same keys for similar skills. Eg. Z is always my key to escape crowd control, S has always some AoE ability, N is always my potion key, etc.
One. Macros and plugins do the rest.
Heres a SS from last night, I use all these skills regularly and have another "stance bar" that is hidden unless i am in stealth and contains only abilitys that are useable while in stealth.