I imagine a lot of people that use keyboard have their abilities on the first hotbar bound to 1-=, the second hotbar ALT or CNTL 1-= and the third hotbar ALT or CNTRL 1-=, that in itself is fine.
However, for awhile now I could not figure out why I would occasionally keep dropping tank stance in the middle of a dungeon with predictable results... until today!
See I have a 10 button mouse, and I have some of the side buttons on the mouse bound to 1-6 from keyboard. My primary attack skills are bound to 1-5, my rampart is bound to alt-4 and my tank stance was bound to alt-1. Basically I can trigger attack skills with the mouse and abilities with the keyboard using my left hand.
However, rarely I would hit Alt-4 to turn on Rampart (or some other alt skill) and by chance hit 1 on the mouse to attack at the same time. In that fraction of a second where the alt key was being pressed I would accidently turn off tank stance too!
I have since moved tank stance way down the bar to Alt-0 so this doesn't happen again, but I thought it an amusing enough story to share and maybe help some of you who were triggering abilities by accident without understanding why.
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However, for awhile now I could not figure out why I would occasionally keep dropping tank stance in the middle of a dungeon with predictable results... until today!
See I have a 10 button mouse, and I have some of the side buttons on the mouse bound to 1-6 from keyboard. My primary attack skills are bound to 1-5, my rampart is bound to alt-4 and my tank stance was bound to alt-1. Basically I can trigger attack skills with the mouse and abilities with the keyboard using my left hand.
However, rarely I would hit Alt-4 to turn on Rampart (or some other alt skill) and by chance hit 1 on the mouse to attack at the same time. In that fraction of a second where the alt key was being pressed I would accidently turn off tank stance too!
I have since moved tank stance way down the bar to Alt-0 so this doesn't happen again, but I thought it an amusing enough story to share and maybe help some of you who were triggering abilities by accident without understanding why.
Continue reading...