Are you a clicker?Follow

Alright, so I've been lurking in these forums for a few days after making my first account on Allakhazam. Before I was a vivid poster in both Thottbot and the actual WoW Blizzard forums, but after hearing outstanding recommendations for this site, I thought I might try it out.

Anyways, I'm going to attempt to start some good discussion here.

My question is: Are you a clicker?

Do you click to cast your spells? Do you cast with your mouse, and move with your keyboard?

When I first joined WoW, my first MMO, I was a clicker. I kept this habit up for a few months, until I decided to PvP on my friend's rogue. After doing that, I decided then and there that I just wouldn't be able to keep up and play as well without moving with my mouse. So I "evolved" into moving with my mouse and casting with my keyboard.

I found alot of things alot easier, first off kiting, and I got much better/faster at reacting to things, especially rogues.

So, what do you think of clickers? Do you think they can keep up with non-clickers? Do you think that clicking is alright to do, I mean, I'm fully for people to play the way they want... Are you a clicker?

P.S. Feel free to flame me if I failed at discussion topic. D:

I couldn't not click as my friends tried to stop me.

Something I thought up, was I unbinded my move keys. Couldn't move with WASD or the arrow keys. I HAD to use my mouse to move around and my keyboard to cast. That was how I trained myself to use my keyboard.

You might give it a try?

It definitely takes some getting used to at first, but faster casting = good stuff.

Still, as a warlock, especially at level 60, all the things you need to cast and keybind can be overwhelming...

Well it is in any instance that you need to perform two actions at once (i.e. a pet command and a spell cast). Clicking is also highly detrimental when needing to use split second reaction spells such as spell lock.

Clickers can certainly do ok and it is dependent on the speed/variety of abilities needed to use for the class, but they will still be slower than a player using predominantly key bindings.

Because i only really do pve,I move with my keyboard and cast with it too (unless Im running away from something). I dont really understand the keybinding though, so i use keys to cast from action bar 1, and then click spells on my other action bars.

I don't even use WASD to move all that much. I just hit autorun, then pan my camera with my mouse.

I use my keyboard for casting, as well, unless I play my Shaman, where I click my totems. Everything else is bound to my keyboard. I take that back, I have only the first two actionbars bound. The rest of them I click.

I played FFXI for nearly two years, so I'm used to moving around on the Keypad. So it was an easy switch for me to bind those keys (I threw in *, -, and + to make twelve) to my actionbar. Then I would use WASD to move around, because my hand is off the mouse.

Although I always used the mouse to move, I was a spellcast clicker until my first time in AQ20. People's health would go down so fast, and my priestly addons seemed best suited for a 5 man group. So, I ditched the healing addons, and use the 1-6 keys for my shield and heals. I can place my fingers on keys 2-5 and keep them there for fast casting.

I come from FFXI, and changing has been hard.

Especially because I do something new everyday.

One day I move with mouse, the next WASD the next with the arrows.

It's baaad...

I usually use it, but I'm trying to stop. It majorly backfired on me once in Ubrs, the last lot of spawns before Rend, we had 2 left, 1 died, I tab targeted and fired and *just* as it finished casting I realised Tab had selected one of those Orc Spectators. Which promptly ran down. And attacked. Then Rend burst into the room. The raid (and myself) were not happy. :(

I do a bit of both.

On feen, I have several hotbars setup utilizing the first 4-5 buttons (they are the easiest to reach quickly when I need to). His normal setup is pretty lame, but I don't need that fast reaction times when I'm burning through a rotation.

The rest of the stuff is just clicked on (Rapid fire, Berserking, trinkets, etc)

Moving when fast stuff is needed (i.e. not just running around) is usually with W and right mouse to turn, and Q and E to strafe. While kiting, I go both mouse buttons to move and use the keys for my kiting shots.

On dithers, I have his 5 most important spells in 1-5 (Flash, Renew, Shield, Heal(3), Greater Heal). I normally click to target the group members (via party/raid window) and cast heal, then click the next target if needed while that heal is casting. Haven't had a problem with it yet.

It does change in some cases, i.e. Vael. I go Holy Nova, SW:P, Smite, Flash Heal in that order, since most of the time I'm just pounding on the 1 key.

I move with WASD - that being said, I strafe with the mouse (A or D and holding mouse), pan the camera around and change my direction with the mouse and I have all my spells/abilities key binded.

I started doing that when I started playing a Rogue, made a big difference.

I tried moving purely with the mouse, and maybe I just don't have the hang of it, but it doesn't seem all that precise.

I hardly ever click, just to select targets or talk to a quest giver. Thats about it.

I know some people with this problem, which is why I left my bars up so I could see which spells were bound to which keys for a long time. Eventually I just memorized them, and didn't need the bars anymore.

If you give it a try, it shouldn't take more then a day or two for you to get the hang of casting with your keyboard...

And like I said earlier, unbind your move keys from WASD and the arrow keys, to make you have to move with your mouse.