Do you use your macro-keys on your keyboard?

[Deleted]

I was wondering,

most modern gaming keyboards come with a large array of macro-buttons along-side the regular 100+ keyboard buttons.

My own keyboard has at least a dozen of these but I've never put them to any good use.


I was wondering how many people actually make use of their macro-keys and if so, in what fashion?

And what is the best way to put these keys to use?

[Beyturga]

I'm actually very curious as to what creative ways people use them. I can't see them being that practical for macros in-game. At least for WoW.

[Deleted]

I used to have a keyboard with extra macro keys down the sides but I never ended up using them. They were just too far away and it wasted too much time moving my hand away from the WSAD keys.

[Deleted]

I use them in HoN a lot. I got certain pre-made starting item setups on my G-keys that makes me buy the stuff I need instantly. Helps to set-up early ganks and to get into the game faster. Especially helpful in mid-wars where the early loadout looks very similar on a multitude of heroes.

I happen to use them on occasion in "normal" tasks as well; setting up a quick macro for a task you do repeated times is helpful.

Other than that, I don't use them that much.

[a21fa7c67f26f6d49a20c2c51]

I bound them to an action bar on the far left side of the screen that's hidden but appears on mouseover.
I have them set to do targeting things.
on one fight the first one might target the boss, the second targets the random add that needs to die ASAP the fourth a mob that I need to kill that might get lost in crowd of other mobs. Tabbing through and hoping you get luck, or click-targeting (with name plates to highlight the 'interesting mob') are still not as quick as "press this button to target and attack <X>"

I have another button that swaps the profile of my keyboard that converts those buttons into 1-press "put the <red/green/blue/yellow/purple> raid marker where my mouse cursor is" buttons. It's useful when you get stuck doing raid leading to nto fiddle around with pulling out the menu - just point with mouse and press M1, M2, M3 to place markers.

In the past I've used them to 'reconfigure' my UI from "stand around the city" where I want to hide buttons/unit frames, make my chat window larger ad centered etc. and then "I'm going to play dungeons as a healer " or "I want to raid as DPS now"

The quick and dirty way to implement the above is to just have a bunch of profiles that you swap for addons and then a macro that switches them all: /bartender profile choose idle; /chatter profile choose idle; etc. When your macro to switch profiles gets to long you either need another addon (like bindpad), do some cross macro-chain calling, or you can just make a keyboard marcro that types allt he things you would have put into the macro.

In wrath I had a 'solo magtheridon' macro that cycled through defensive cooldowns while spamming deathstrike. I could run to the boss, drag him to a wall, press the macro - go take a piss - and when I came back the boss was at half health.

[Blackspur]

I have a keyboard with 5 macro buttons going down the very left hand side of the keyboard... I have never once used them.

[Milkshake86]

I have a keyboard with 5 macro buttons going down the very left hand side of the keyboard... I have never once used them.

How? I have like 40+ keybinds and im dying for a few more that would be comfortable.

[Sills]

I have macro buttons on my mouse that I use occasionally but the ones on my keyboard have never been touched. They are in an awkward position for me so I really never touch them .

[Deleted]

I have a sidewinder x4 and it has 6 macro buttons which I find handy for extra keybinds in WoW.
The buttons aren't too far away and work well
I just bind them to keybinds you wouldnt manually press for example

Macro button "S1" - Ctrl+alt+1
Macro button "S2" - Ctrl+alt+2
Macro button "S3" - Ctrl+alt+3
Macro button "S4" - Ctrl+alt+4
Macro button "S5" - Ctrl+alt+5
Macro button "S6" - Ctrl+alt+6

[lloose]

I used my G15 years ago to auto jump in AV when I was afk for a few min. Thats about all though.

[Evil Inside]

I do, however I cant seem to find a use for ALL of them lol.. Logitech G600 + Corsair K90, that's 31 keys, just macro keys, not counting the regular keyboard keys.

[Cusco]

Just usernames, emails and a 10-sec hold mb1 for mining obsidian in Minecraft.

[Milkshake86]

I do, however I cant seem to find a use for ALL of them lol.. Logitech G600 + Corsair K90, that's 31 keys, just macro keys, not counting the regular keyboard keys.

best problem ive ever heard of imo.