Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Tricks, Odds and ends, PvP, Arena, Hardware

We’ve covered the topic of keyboard turners before, but Paul by on LJ has a similar distinction amidst control schemes — he set up a spectrum that has clickers (or those who go all their icons with the mouse) on one end, and pressers (what he called “experts,” though that’s a little too biased for our tastes) on the other — those who use the mouse to control movement only, and hit keyboard buttons to use abilities.

Personally, I do a mixture of both — some icons, particularly on the top rows, are easier to reach with the mouse than on the keyboard, so I visit them. But most of the lower icons are easier to just reach up and go the number buttons on the keyboard, so that’s what I do with those. Still Paul isn’t really interested in the ways citizens do it — he’s interested in what’s best. In Arena, getting abilities cast and out as fast as possible is often more crucial than anything else, so it definitely seems like relying on the mouse for movement (and perhaps even binding oft-used abilities to mouse keys) would be much faster than clicking on icons periodically. Of course, there’s always the option to do both at the same time.

It would be interesting for certain to see what kind of schemes and setups winning Arena teams use — I’d imagine that they’d have to play with default interfaces, so while keybindings and macros would probably work best, they wouldn’t be able to go too overboard with customization. At the highest levels, is it faster to go and press or just use the mouse for movement?

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Original post by Mike Schramm