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"Salty" Duelist Dreamspirit's PvP/Arena FAQ : Q5

 
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Q5. "What keyboard, mouse, keybinds, macros, and specs do you use?"

A. I use a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro and a Logitech MX Revolution mouse.


Once I have been Arenaing in Rated matches at Level 80 for awhile, I will post my specs of choice. Right now, it's all experimentation.

As far as keybinds go, my movement keys are ESDF (rather than WASD), with E being forward, D being backward, S being strafe left, and F being strafe right. My push to talk for Ventrilo is my left Alt button. On my mouse, I have the two "thumb" buttons bound to Rejuv and Lifebloom, and the middle "button" to Swiftmend/Mangle.

From there, you have pretty much left the realm of the sane keybindings. Everything else, about 95% of my keybindings are set up with multiple premises/modifiers. And the main "issue" I have with them, and why I wouldn't really recommend them, is because as I began learning keybinds, I would try to learn about 2-4 new ones a week, and some of them aren't as comfortable as they should be. Mostly: I would recommend comfort above all else. Experiment and see what works best for you. Since I'm a petite female, I've had to cram a lot together on the left side of my keyboard and mouse, and I am STILL working on fine-tuning things.

Some of my keybindings are fairly simple, for instance: clicking my A key alone is Regrowth, while clicking it + any modifier (shift, control) is Abolish Poison. My Entangling Roots (V) and Cyclone (G) are set up the same way: pressing them alone is the spell itself, and with a modifier, it's something different (Focus target and the said spells).

F1 - Target Myself
F2 - Target Party Member 1 (two clicks for their pet, if applicable)
F3 - Target Party Member 2 (two clicks for their pet, if applicable)
F4 - Target Party Member 3 (two clicks for their pet, if applicable)
F5 - Target Party Member 4 (two clicks for their pet, if applicable)

~ - Cancelform macro.
1 - Insect Swarm (if applicable) ~ OR ~ Rip ~ OR ~ Lacerate
2 - Force of Nature (modifier) Hurricane ~ OR ~ Nourish
3 - Typhoon ~ OR ~ Wild Growth ~ OR ~ Feral Charge
4 - Rank 10 Moonfire / (modifier) Starfire
5 - Cyclone (Night Elf Form), Pounce (Stealthed Cat Form), Maim (Unstealthed Cat Form), Bash (Bear Form)
6 - Hibernate (Night Elf Form), Shred (Unstealthed Cat Form), Enrage (Bear Form)
7 - Mark of the Wild Rank 1 (Night Elf Form), Claw (Unstealthed Cat Form), Maul (Bear Form)
8 - Thorns Rank 1 (Night Elf Form), Rake (Unstealthed Cat Form), Lacerate (Bear Form)

Tab - Target Nearest Enemy / (modifier) Target Nearest Friendly Player
Q - Full-Rank HT / (modifier) Fairie Fire. ~ OR ~ Feral Farie Fire
W - Bear Form / Quick-Shift Bear Form Macro / (modifier) Feral Charge (if in Animal Form) / (modifier) Nourish if not in Animal Form
E - Move Forward
R - One-touch Nature's Swiftness/Regrowth, and with a modifier it's NS/Cyclone.
T - Bark Skin / (modifier) Nature's Grasp
Y - Shadowmeld

A - Regrowth / (modifier) Abolish Poison
S - Strafe Left
D - Move Backward
F - Strafe Right
G - Cyclone / (modifier) Focus-Target Cyclone

Z - Travel Form / Quick-Shift Travel Form Macro / Seal Form if in Water / Flight Form if in Outland
X - Medallion of the Alliance / (modifier) Totem-Killing Macro / Moonfire Rank 1
C - Cat Form / Quick Shift Cat Form Macro / (modifier) Prowl if in Cat Form and out of combat, Shadowmeld if a Night Elf and out of combat
V - Entangling Roots / (modifier) Focus-Target Entangling Root
B - Remove Curse / (modifier) Dash if in Cat Form, Frenzied Regeneration if in Dire Bear Form

Control+I - Show/Hide Nameplates

NumLock - Auto-Run
- - (numberpad "-") Use secondary trinket (usually Battlemaster's Perserverence)
+ - (numberpad "+") Starfall ~ OR ~ Use Healthstone ~ OR ~ Tree of Life Form
9 - (numberpad "9") Use Secondary Healthstone
* - Demoralizing Roar
/ - (numberpad "/") - Bandage Self

Primary Mouse Wheel Up - Wrath Rank 10 (Night Elf Form), Lacerate (Bear Form, no Modifier), Demoralizing Roar (Modifier: Shift & Bear Form), Maul (Modifier: Control & Bear Form), Shred (Cat Form)
Primary MouseWheel Down - Cyclone Focus Target ~ OR ~ Growl (Bear Form, no Modifier), Frenzied Regeneration (Modifier: Shift & Bear Form), Swipe (Modifier: Control & Bear Form), Claw (Cat Form)

Thumb Mouse Wheel Forward - Drink
Thumb Mouse Wheel Back - Shadowmeld

I'm sure there are a few more I'm forgetting, but those are the main ones. I am still working on keybinding my weapon-swaps and innervate, as well as a few odds and ends.

As far as what macros I use....

If you can't guess by the above "Key Bindings of Ultimate Crazy", I use alot of stuff I wrote myself, and many bits and pieces "Frakenstein-ed" together to suit my purposes. They run from simple, to more complex:

For instance: my BS/NG macro:

/cast [nomodifier] Barkskin; Nature's Grasp(Rank 1)

Through to my Mousewheel Macros:

#showtooltip
/cast [nomodifier, stance:1] Growl; [modifier:shift, stance:1] Frenzied Regeneration(Rank 4); [modifier:ctrl, stance:1] Swipe(Rank 6); [nomodifier, stance:3, nostealth] Claw(Rank 6)

So just... play around and see what works best for you. :) I'm not going to post every single one of my macros (especially since I think I OVER-macroed), but there are tons and tons of great forums out there to help you along the way!


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As far as what specs I use, it depends a lot about who I am playing with, what composition(s) we are running, what bracket we are playing in, and even what mood I'm in and what my teammates and I might be experimenting with.

Since Season 5 has just started, there is still a lot of talk on what specs are the "best" and for what. At the moment, however, I'd recommend you try out some different specs and see what you enjoy best, and what works for you and your teammates. Some of my favored PvP Specs so far for PvP include:

Dreamspirit's Primary PvP Builds:

58/0/13 - PvP Balance (Moonkin DPS Build) : Link to the Build : (Details coming soon!)

0/55/16 - PvP Feral (DPS Build) : Link to the Build : (Details coming soon!)

0/37/34 - PvP Feral/Resto : Link to the Build : (Details coming soon!)

14/0/57 - PvP Resto : Link to the Build : (Details coming soon!)

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