Arms Warrior - Keybinds - Needed advice

[Motocarota]

Hello!

I am writing here to ask your opinion about what keybinds are the best to the core abilities:

• Colossus Smash
• Mortal Strike
• Overpower
• Slam
• Heroic Strike

I don't mind about other skills, just interested in your setup for the ones I listed above (the problem is that now I have CS and OP binded on the mouse wheel up/down and in intense moments I have too much lag caused by the overload of mouse wheel inputs).

My personal setup is:

• Colossus Smash : Mouse Wheel Up
• Overpower : Mouse Wheel Down
• Slam : Mouse Button 4
• Pummel : Mouse Button 5 (standard interrupt button to me)
• Heroic Strike : Shift + Mouse Button 4
• Mortal Strike : E
• Execute : Q
• Charge/Heroic Leap : F / Shift + F

I don't like very much binding on the numbers for frequent/important keys.
Any suggestion?

[Deleted]

In my opinion, most used skills should be bound on button which are the easiest to mash. I use WASD to move so easiest buttons for me are Q,E,R,F,C,1,2,3,4. Combine those with shift and ctrl and you have a lot of great keybinds. My setup is:

CS: C
OP: R
Slam: Q
Pummel: Shift+E
HS: F
MS: E
Execute: 4
Charge: 2
HL: 1

I do mainly PVP with my warrior.

[Strah]

Colossus Smash : E
Mortal Strike : Mouse button
Overpower : 3
Slam : 4
Heroic Strike : 5
Execute : 1
Charge : F
Leap : T
Pummel : R
Heroic Throw : Shift+R


for me

[Deleted]

Here's the best advice you're going to get.

Re-bind that Heroic strike. It's very important that you have fast access to HS, so if you have a mouse with buttons on it, bind HS to one of them, that way you don't have to do super fast movements with your fingers to dump rage, you'll be using your thumb and your fingers can already be queing the next spell. Works well with HS because it's not part of the GCD, obviously. (Potentially more important for PvE, but meh)

CS: r
OP: 3
Slam: 4
Pummel: Shift+Q
HS: F5 (Mouse key)
MS: 2
Execute: f
Charge: 1
HL: s

[Deleted]

1. MS
2. OP
3. WW (dont know why lol)
4. Slam
5. Thunderclap
6. Execute
E. Pummel
R. HS
Q. Berserker rage
T. Auto-Attack (dont know why)
F. CS
V. IV
Shift+1. Charge
Shift+2. Deadly Calm
Shift+3. Intimidating shout
Shift+4. Hamstring
Shift+5. Recklesness
Shift+T. Heroic throw
Shift+C. Bloodbath
Shift+R: Shockwave/Dragon Roar
Shift+F: Shattering Throw
Shift+Q: Battle Shout
Ctrl+Mouse4: Heroic Leap
Ctrl+Mouse5: Rallying Cry
Ctrl+R: Warlocks 'rocks'
Ctrl+F: Str Potion

Stances are in F1, F2 and F3.

I guess thats pretty much everything?

[Deleted]

The golden rule with all keybindings is that they are all in the vicinity of the keys you use to move; WASD. I use number from 1-4, and all the letters around the move keys, combined with shift, alt, and ctrl keys. The specifics are up to you though. Try to come up with a pattern where the keys you are most likely to use in succession are next to each other and easy to move inbetween. Like for instance for my fury spec, my BT and RB and bound alt+E and alt+W, so it is really easy to hit one and then the other.

[scadouche]

` 1 2 3 4 5
q e r t
f g
z x c v

Start with those. Not all at once though. Later on add modifiers.

[Void666]

I keybind 1-6 and F1-F5 and bind the rest onto my Razer Naga, also i use the mouse to move

[Pendragon]

Here's my version of your list:

1: Pummel (always reserved for silences/interrupts on all of my characters)
2: Mortal Strike
3: Slam
4: Heroic Strike
Q: Overpower
E: Charge
C: Heroic Leap
Mouse Up: Execute (mostly reserved for execute-type abilities)
CTRL+2: Colossus Smash

Everything else is on 5,R,T,F,G,Z,X,V, MWheel Click/Down, F1-F4, Mouse Button 5 and their shift/ctrl/alt modifiers.

[Deleted]

Keybinds are personal preference. If I had to log onto a friend's account and play his toon I simply cannot play it as well as my own character due the fact that my keybinds are different from his.

This is what I use on Arms.
1 - MS
2- OP
3 - CS
4 - Execute
5 - TC
Q - Slam
MwU - Shockwave/Bladestorm/Roar
MwU - Disturbing SHout/Piercing Howl
Shift+1 - Charge
Shift+2 - Heroic Throw
Shift+3 - Heroic Leap
F - Shielwall
R - Disarm
x - Shield Reflection
Alt + mouse 2 - Die by the Sword
Alt + mouse1 - Mogu potion
Shift+E - Berserking Rage
Alt+1 - SHout
Alt+2 - Trinket
Alt+3 - Rallying Cry / Demo Banner
Shift + 4 - Fear

Mouse button 1 - Avatar/BB/Deadly Calm/Synapse
Mouse button 2 - Recklessness
Shift+mouse1 - Blood Furry+Trinket
Shift+mouse2 - Skull Banner

[Gromnak]

Since people are posting their keybinds, I'll post some of mine too =)

1- Colossus Smash
2- Slam/Wildstrike
3- Overpower/Raging Blow
4- HS
5- Mortal Strike/Bloodthirst
6- Cleave

Shift 1- Pummel
Shift 2- Fear
Shift 3- Enraged Regen
Shift 4 - Execute
Shift 5 - Dragon Roar/Bladestorm/Shockwave

R- Berserker Rage
E- Battle shout
F - Disrupting Shout/Piercing Howl
Alt E - Commanding shout (Though I generally just drag it into the E slot pre pull fi I know I'm gonna use it instead of battle for whatever reason)
Q - Charge

Shift R- Victory Rush
Shift F -Demo banner
Shift Q- Intervene/safegaurd
Ctrl R- Disarm
`(tilde) - Sweeping Strikes

Z- Bloodbath/Orc Racial/Skull banner/On use trinket (if applicable) macro
X - Recklessness
Shift X- Die by the Sword
Shift Z - Hamstring
Shift G - Shield Wall Macro

Mouse Button 5- Whirlwind
Shift Mouse Button 4 - Heroic Throw
Ctrl Mouse Button 4 - Rallying Cry
Ctrl F - Skull banner or Taunt - Skull banner is taken out of the cooldown macro if I have the misfortune of not being assigned to use skull banner on the pull. I just switch taunt to a different open keybind if this is the case.

Mouse Button 3 (pushing down on the mousewheel) - Heroic leap
Alt Mouse Button 3 - Potion
Shift Mouse Button 3 - Healthstone

Shift Mousewheel down - Extra Action Button

Spell reflect and Mocking Banner share keybinds with other abilities and are moved onto my bars if the fight needs it.


Universal keybinds for all my classes:

Shift 4 - Execute type abilities
Shift 1 - Interrupts
5 - Main ability/button masher
Z/X - DPS cooldowns
Shift X/Shift G - Defensive Cooldowns
Mouse button 5 - AOE
G - Stance change

[Somnophore]

For me it's:

1 - MS
2 - OP
3 - CS
4 - EX
5 - Slam / Whirlwind
6 - HS / Cleave
7 - Dragonroar / Bladestorm / Shockwave
8 - Victory Rush / Impending Victory
9 - Thunderclap
E - Charge
Q - Pummel / Disrupting Shout
F - Sweeping Strikes
R - Berserker Rage / Enraged Regeneration
Z - Battleshout / Commanding Shout
C - Banner
G - Bloodrage

(Some abilities depend on the talent spec at the moment of play)

[Motocarota]

Wow! that's a lot of feedback! Thanks!

A simple but fabolous macro I found on the internets is something like

/cast execute
/stopcasting
/cast heroic strike

It works like a charm!