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Editorial Note: This article is about Zuggy's Gold Master Guide
and is one of our favorite guides for the game of Warcraft Gold
Making. Derek is the creator of Zuggy's Gold Master Guide. If
you are a gamer than you should fully understand the
importance your reaction time. It doesn't matter if you're playing
an FPS, RTS, or World of Warcraft,
wow power levelingyour ability to
quickly make decisions and execute on them via the quickness
of your fingers is of absolute most importance. I've known a few
players who were "clickers", basically players who choose to bind
very few or no keys at all. The argument being they didn't need
bindings because of the 1.5 second global cooldown. To me, this
just seems absolutely ridiculous.
wow power
levelingIt'd be like trying to type only using one finger.
Clicking all your abilities would be like trying to type an email
with a single finger. Memorizing a solid set of key bindings is
going to be extremely important and is a key factor in
determining your final level of success. The fewer abilities you
have to click the better, binding all your abilities to hotkeys is
crucial.
power
levelingFor most of us, your left hand rests on the
keyboard, positioned on home row. This should be your starting
base for all your key bindings. Q, W, E, A, S, D by default are all
your movement keys, even though you'll primarily be using the
mouse to move and change camera angles, having these keys
bound to their original functions is important so you can
continue moving while switching targets (since Tab target is
hopelessly broken). As your mouse will be your primary camera
angle adjuster you may choose to move your strafe keys from Q
and E to A and D, thus opening up additional easy binds. The
size of your hand will determine which key will be the farthest
reach for you, in all likelihood it will be either 5, 6, or 7. Next
you'll draw an imaginary boundary from this key to the bottom
of your keyboard, this will be your "WoW home row". The most
important factor in choosing your bindings is picking keys which
are going to be easy for you to hit, you don't want to have to be
thinking about your keys, you simply need to hit them via
reaction. By memorizing all your keys you remove any additional
variables and simply play by thought. My Key Bindings: 1-6 Shift
+ 1-6 F Shift + E, R, T, G, Y, F, V F1-F4 Mouse Button 4, Mouse
Button 5, Scroll Mouse Button Shift + Mouse Button 4, Shift +
Mouse Button 5, Shift + Scroll Mouse button. There was a time
when I was more or less a "clicker", terrible I know, I had a few
skills bound; sinister strike, eviscerate, kick, stuff like that, but I
lacked many key abilities I needed to make myself a better
player. I finally buckled down and bound everything, it took me
probably two weeks to get really comfortable with everything I
had bound, but in the long run it was a great decision. I was
faster in PvP, more efficient in PvE, and had gotten to a point
where everything was basically second nature. Though this is
what works for me, it might be work for everyone, you might
have to try out a couple different setups to figure out what's
best for you. Though I truly believe, once you've given your set
of hotkeys time to really get comfortable, it'll make you a much
better player and a stronger, faster opponent in PvP.