Basic Keybind Guide For World of Warcraft

[@michaelhutchinson1789]

Off globals on the mouse buttons is massive brain. Finally a use for them.

[@ghostmane2643]

Great video. I use ESDF to move and it opens up more comfortable keybinds.

[@nagaqueen8607]

Holy smokes that's brilliant! Thanks! Def need to try these out!

[@bluejay4069]

Nice video! What I did was level a new character with the class I want to start using keybinds with. That way you get to incorporate each ability one step at a time into the new keybinding system. Every time you get a new ability, you can decide on the keybind and also how that keybind relates to your other ones. By the time you’re 60 you’ve tested and played around with it so much you’ll know what’s comfortable for you. Then transfer to your main.

[@bluejay4069]

But obviously this only works on retail unless you have loads of time lol

[@beef4847]

I use 1-4 Q,E,R,T,F,C,G,V and side mouse button 4,5 and scroll click and then on my multi action bar right above my main bar it’s just a shift function of the exact same keys so there’s no thinking about excess keys. Then I use F1-F12 for buffs, food, consumes, etc. The other nice thing about having lots of letters as your key binds is to match a letter to an ability. For example T for taunt. C for cleave, shift-C for cooldown (like recklessness). I usually put my less pressed/more serious buttons on shift functions to avoid hitting them accidentally too. My back mouse button is a macro that casts battle stance and charge, my forward mouse button casts berserker stance and intercept, and middle click casts defensive stance and taunt. Very nice to have macros for all your stances on your mouse that also serve another function if you’re able to.

[@CalestoBella]

Keybinding is essential but don't go from no key binds to all abilities being keybound. Start with a couple and only add more when you are no longer instinctually going to click the ability. Also if you have tiny hands then just say goodbye to binding 1-5 lol.

[@jeffreypeterson2]

Having a razer naga is game changing for me. Literally cannot play wow without it

[@NeshieTheKingSlayer]

Thats why you lvl a character from 1

[@Samnader2]

use a razr naga clowm

[@CalestoBella]

​@@NeshieTheKingSlayer In my experience I didn't know about keybinding until I had two max lvl chars.

[@WhoFlungDung]

I use the Logitech G604 Lightspeed and it has 6 side buttons but I have big hands and I use both shift and control as modifiers. I tried the Razer Naga two different times and took them both back because it was just too small and I palm grip so it was uncomfortable AF.

[@juvygenius]

I use a mouse that has 12 buttons that my thumb can press and also apply my mouse wheel scrolling up and down for keybinds with shift as a modifier. Makes it really easy to handle moving using my left hand as well as the pinky applying the shift modifier while my right hand thumb can comfortably hit about any of the keybinds. Of course every player has something they see as easier to do. I know there are players that use a footpad to apply modifiers.

[@Max-dv1kq]

not to be rude but here is a quick tip: dont overuse your mouse! im using a mouse with 2 side buttons and i use the mousewheel so if you combine this with shift ctrl or alt (to your preference and logic) you have a good amount of binds on which you can put enough spells 12 buttons seems pretty extreme since your doing so much work with your right hand while this game is meant to be played with keys 1-5 (maybe 6 with big hand/small keyboard) and modify those with ctrl shift or alt (to you pref. and logic) + the keys around W A S D (whilst S can also be keybound i dont recommend it for starters) like for ex. Q E R F T G Y X C V (and just modify these with ctrl shift and alt to your preference and logic) there is nothing complicates about keybinds...people are just overcomplicating it in hopes of ending with a positive result or they dont really know better which isnt their fault like you overusing your mouse (out of habit or comfort doesn't matter) i can give another example for using kicks/interrupts: most people just bind it on a button on their keyboard which seems fine on first regard but they are actually wasting a good bind like E or R for an interrupt whilst you could only be pressing middle mouse button (as me and all of my friends have this since its giga brain op) and save a good bind (QERF)for a combat ability that is needed more often and is easy to access while moving around with WASD with good keybind i refer to the key as beeing easy to press since they are close to your movement keys digression: quick hint for people that strafe with Q and E: you are wasting 2 extremely easy keybinds guys, just turn with hold rightclick and stop keyboard turning!

[@charles9754]

A foot pad would be amazing. Lol

[@andreaskvaloy]

I have it pretty much the same way, except I also use the F1-4 buttons as well, F5-8 are for raid markers. Interrupt is on |, left of 1. :D All good tips.

[@Zatar]

Yeah my raid markers are f1-f8

[@rafairacki9302]

Great video! I am using the exact keys myself in fact, with the addition of ~ key! :) I also try to bind similar abilities on multiple characters to the same key, for example mobility ability like charge or disengage goes to E and Execute/Kill Shot goes to Q.

[@jamessikaris9288]

Great video. Thoughts on shift instead of control. All my cool-downs are shift 1-4 And then alternate options of the Q and R spells are shift Q@R

[@Zatar]

Shift > control. I just have a weird keyboard

[@amongers8382]

Hey Zatar, are u still going to play prot war in wotlk? And whats ur opinion on it in raids

[@Redmoss101]

Love this video zatar. Keep up the great content and keep being yourself

[@KW-tx6er]

I can't wait for the day, which will came soon, in which thread plates will realese their addon on Wotlk!!! I damn love this plate addon it makes everything far easier for tanks

[@commentronic761]

Hand at center of keyboard to reach all keys. This centers rotational ability on the actionbar for cd tracking.

[@roygbiv8226]

How to people move when your primary spells are bound to 1-4 and your fingers need to come off your movement keys to cast? You can't press "W" and "2" at the same time?

[@dmitrynorth2506]

Great video, thanks!

[@kirbstomp8041]

for those of us that have been playing since 2007 and aren't struggling in Raids probably wont change.

[@aMilling]

As a horde I always get jealous of how good nelf looks in plate armor.

[@Vincent-op4wf]

I personnaly use macros for my keybinds: #showtooltip /cast [nomod] spell1 /cast [mod:alt] spell2 /cast [mod:ctrl] spell3 With this you can bind three spells on each key, the secon one being activated by pressing alt and the corresponding key, the third being activated with ctrl and the key. Spell 1 is either a core spell or a short cooldown spell Spell2 is a situational / proc spell (ex: fireball for mages in wotlk, aoe spell...) Spell 3 is a long cooldown spell (ex: trinket, defensive cooldown...) With this you can only bind 5 to 8 keys depending on your needs and once you are used to it it's in my opinion the most effective way to play with a regular keyboard. Only problem is you have to rebind the alt key since you can't target yourself quickly with this setup (usually use an extra mouse button for that)

[@Zatar]

This method doesn’t actually save any keybinds though, just action bar space and I would not recommend it for most because you can’t see all your ability cooldowns.

[@Vincent-op4wf]

@@Zatar yes that's why i recommended putting long coolfowns and situational spells as non visibke :) It actually helps since you can have your spells on the closest keys. Well what works for me may not work for everyone but since i have vision problems i can't really click anything precisely so having everything on bind helps me a lot.

[@EarlZMoade]

personally i unbind backpedal and use QWER as my 4 main binds, with forward on S

[@TheQuasimodoH]

I went from 1-80 with one hand on my mouse with 13 buttons in the side- but now that I want to do arenas I need something new to use

[@baronbad5907]

I just click my spells GIGACHAD

[@ASAILESE129]

How did he setup his interface like that tho

[@skrufferen]

Heroic strike on q, this will be good:D

[@xSupajesusX]

What key do you have bloodrage on?

[@Zatar]

I have a weird keyboard =

[@doriandelcourt301]

It’s always the same... T__T You start using their advices, try to reproduce but u end up erasing everything after one hour coz there is too much informations missing... for exemple he spoked about bloodrage the first skill of his top bar but never mentioned the actual button for the keybinding, and i pretty sûre it’s not " = " as it’s the opposite side of the keyboard, i took a screenshot and zoom in, i was so close to the end, so frustrating, i loose 5 hours on KZbin wow keybinds vidéos for nothing T__T

[@Zatar]

I have a weird keyboard. The video was about how to decide which keybinds to use. You should make your own and not just copy someone else’s.

[@doriandelcourt301]

@@Zatar yeah I know, but your was perfect, I will have change little things here and there, please bruuuh, is bloodrage is on a mouse button? Mouse scroll no ?

[@doriandelcourt301]

@@Zatar BTW thank u to have answer so fast, even if u don't answer anymore after that ^^

[@Zatar]

= is to the left of 1 for my keyboard

[@drewarnold197]

Typically you can use qwertf 123456 and have almost every ability/macro you need. Esp for war/hunter. Mage is nutty and you basically need a naga (mouse) to be top tier. You should pretty much only be using your mouse to move anyway, unbinding wasd will improve your gameplay twofold.

[@HallsteinI]

ay nice comment section

[@silenthour.]

macro vids would be nice too.

[@Spanakopitaa]

Basic ablities should not go to 1/2/3/4/Q/E/R, they should go to Scroll-Up/Scroll-Down. This was a game-changer for me at least

[@andrewmatheson238]

I dont use keybinds

[@Solus5048]

Ppl need a guide for this? I played and felt around and altered accordingly....

[@Zatar]

A lot of people get accustomed to sub-optional binds. Whatever they started with they don’t change.

[@zurcarak]

bots are cringe lol. nice vid

[@Zatar]

Yeah I don’t know why KZbin has so much trouble filtering them out

[@brokenage1952]

Ya see I think keybinds are a crutch. You zoomers ruined World of Warcraft. back in my day(original vanilla!) we didn't do keybinds. We snorted Adderall so we could click faster. I think blizzard should get rid of keybinds(and addons but thats another point) and restore wow to its original greatness

[@justsomeguy4422]

this is the worst bait I've ever seen.

[@allemagneproducer]

lol, the game would be catastrophic without the option to have em. they are as beautiful as playing piano at some point...

[@beef4847]

If you wanna snort adderall and furiously click play OSRS

[@monsoonmitchell5378]

skip this vid. No examples, all talk, bad advice,.

[@lasergames1798]

ZatarCheck

[@godartmascaro89]

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[@jamessikaris9288]

Great video. Thoughts on shift instead of control. All my cool-downs are shift 1-4 And then alternate options of the Q and R spells are shift Q@R