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Crowhurst
01-01-2009, 03:02 PM
Hi,
Did anyone come across a way to do emacs-style key bindings instead of the single hot-key keybindings? Example: a hunter has tons of tracking skills. So it would be nice if I could just press
Ctrl-T Ctrl-U -> Track Undead
Ctrl-T Ctrl-H -> Track Humans
etc.
And similarly for instance:
Ctrl-A Ctrl-V -> Aspect of the Viper
Ctrl-A Ctrl-M -> Aspect of the Monkey
etc.

Quite generally, when you can assign key combinations to actions, they can be very mnemonic, and you don't need to switch Action Bars, and then suddenly '1' means something completely different than before...

Basically instead of like 50 hot keys, you can have, say, 20*20 easy-to-remember combinations.

surodat
02-01-2009, 08:25 PM
Mnemonically, that might be great, but if you're thinking, even that much, when trying to find an ability, you're gonna lose.

Map them so your most-used abilities are almost directly under your fingers at all times, and the least used abilities are on bars, or just further away.

Then play.

Eventually (some people get this faster than others) muscle memory will begin to take over, and you won't be thinking about what shortcut to use, you'll just be performing the action to make the correct ability happen.