Comments on: G13 re-visited

By: Duct Tape and a Prayer » Linktastic: 3/24/09

Duct Tape and a Prayer » Linktastic: 3/24/09 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:14:26 +0000

[...] G13 Revisited from Tank Like A Girl, by Kadomi [...]

By: My Holy Paladin Raid Healing Setup « NO DRAMA is Good Drama

My Holy Paladin Raid Healing Setup « NO DRAMA is Good Drama — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:37:22 +0000

[...] Kadomi talks about her G13 at Tank Like a Girl [...]

By: admin

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:19:03 +0000

Just to clarify, I have never been a clicker. From the get-go, all keybindings, all the time. My issue was that I also used the keyboard to turn.

By: Bent

Bent — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:37:53 +0000

By clicker I meant someone that clicks 100% of the time expect for moving. I beleive Bloodlust reduces the GCD?

Under that clarity you can prob understand better why I find it difficult to envison.

By: Ladina

Ladina — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:20:37 +0000

With the GCD it is not as hard to click as you think. I have a home base of 4 keys that I push but the rest I click.

By: Bent

Bent — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:46:47 +0000

You need a bar mod that highlights or flashes a skill when you press the button regardless or whether the skill trigers or not.

That way with a little bit of imagination you can practice outside of combat. You just look at your bars and NOT your hand. Think “taunt” and press the button you think is taunt, if you right it will flash, grats. If not you start spaming keys till you hit the right one – than gratz. Do whole rotations and “oh crap” moments too. Then go and tank some elites without heals just inside the entrance of an instance and see how long you can last until you have to back out.

It is very hard to go from being a clicker to keypad user when your at cap level with all your skills. I know when I was leveling up I kept moving the bindings on my skills as I got new ones to keep everything “feeling right” it would always take me awhile to get back in the zone. I suggest you wipe your bars go solo for a bit and add just a couple skills at a time. If you add skills as you remember you need them you tend to get the most used ones bound comfortablely and the less used in a sensable way.

It is difficult for me to envison that a tank can be a clicker. Or full clicker anyway. I’m hittng a skill every GCD as well as spaming HS and when someone pops bloodlust I just don’t think I could move my mouse around fast enough even with decent HS macros. You can only click “one key” at a time, where-as you can press many.

Good Luck and don’t give up.

By: Arvernien

Arvernien — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:53:05 +0000

I love my new G13 for boss fights. On trash with a lot of crazy positioning I get a bit lost. I’ve only had it for a week and you are right, it will take some time to get the muscle memory working properly.

I left my keyboard bindings as they were for optimal use on the keyboard and just mapped all the abilities to where I wanted them. Of course I had to make a “cheat sheet” so I could remember which button had taunt on it.

By: Tryna

Tryna — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:22:31 +0000

I’ve been seriously reconsidering my old Nostromo lately. I am not sure what it is, but I am having a hard time getting my fingers to the keys, and am finding myself becoming more and more of a “clicker” than a keyboard masher. But I simply don’t have room on my keyboard tray for my G15 (original model), the Nostromo, and my trackball. Perhaps if the G15 dies, I can try out a regular keyboard again, and pull out the Nostromo.