Hot KEYS To World of Warcraft Domination

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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, your 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. It'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. For 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.

Derek Hales
March 24, 2009

Hello, I am Derek "Zuggy" Hales and I am a professional World of Warcraft player. I've written a great deal on PvP, PvE, arena, World of Warcraft Gold farming, and much much more! It's my greatest hope that I've helped you improve!

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