Keybinds as a warlock

[Liftus 0]

Hey fellow warlocks,

i always thought druids have the most buttons to press and the most micromanagement to take care of. Playing a druid for about 2 years on a German Server, utilizing every button it has to press, it was time to finally Level a warlock beneath level 40. 

And man this class is every tryhards dream...it is a freaking Monster eating everything alive. But only if keys are bound. And the difference in performance is huge. A warlock Binding 20 keys is not Nearly comparable to a warlock Binding like 40 or Even more. 

So how many Binds do you use? I am now at 36 keybinds to keep only one modifier, Bound to a mousebutton. Now with engineering, trinkets etc. i think this is not enough - while almost every other class is easily mastered with like 30 keys. I really like that.

i also think warlocks, who see this class as underpowered Maybe just dont bind enough, therefore are not able to use every gcd and so on. I'd like to hear some opinions around this.

greetings Liftus

[Integral 0]

5 full actionbars and the pet bar, razer naga OP

[Liftus 0]

I have the Logitech g600 it is very similar. I used the front 3 buttons (thumb) as ctrl, shift, alt for my mop shaman. That were around 50 binds and a huge headache after every arena match. It got a far right mousebutton which is now ctrl. 1-5 bound normal, 6-8 are now the front buttons (used to be cat, travel, bear) and 9-12 are q,e,r,f. These would be 24 binds. The sidebuttons (thumb) 4-9 are now bound to all summons and things like shadowward, healthstone, magic stone. The buttons 10-12 which are not easy accessable are all for self targeting if I have to dispel myself. everything beyond these 36 binds would mean another modificatior which I don't like. I don't reccommend using ctrl or shift as normal. That would mean the left little finger has to be used which mostly is fingerbreaking and not easy.

The important thing is just to be able to use almost every ability without clicking/searching and therefore not be able to react properly. I raged everytime a warrior did not use an important fear-shout just because it is not bound. And there are a lot people out there who only bind their main abilities. But just because a skill Is used seldom (banish, shadowward, magicstone) does not mean I don't have to bind it.

excuse ze german english 

[Numi 0]

I remember having 130+ bindings on my resto druid in MoP, miss those days. It's actually the reason I started getting in to Starcraft as I noticed a slowdown on the less used buttons, figured Starcraft would increase my APM :D.

Don't think I got close on vanilla, had standard UI just barely full with everything keybound, that should be 60 keybinds if I can count.

[Liftus 0]

Yesterday I bound shadowbolt and soulfire to "f". If I press alt it will cast soulfire. This also gives potential for 12 new binds and things like life drain and soul drain can be put together.

maybe the macro is useful for someone:

/run local x=IsAltKeyDown() y=CastSpellByName if(x)then y("Soulfire") else  y("Shadow Bolt") end

I don't know if "Shadow Bolt" works I just translated from Schattenblitz

[QuantumMind 1]

you could also free your capslock by disabling it and make some good macros with SuperMacro