Finally going to get an MMO mouse and fix my keybinds

Any suggestions for how to set this up? I play many jobs so I will need to bind keys which work for all of them.

Logitech g600 is heavenly. It comes with a third mouse click button, which you can bind to a modifier. This allows for essentially 24 buttons all on the mouse itself. My setup makes very little use of the keyboard for combat because of this.

Although I have yet to try it myself, I have heard very good things about the Razer Naga. And likely will be the mouse I switch to if I ever opt to try something else.

I use a Corsair Scimitar mouse. I have mapped all 12 keys to my F-keys, 1-12. I also use Shift and Ctrl modifiers giving me 36 total possible keybinds just on my mouse!

I got the G502. and am utterly lost as to how to use it.

nice!!! i have an mmo mouse. so many buttons. i couldnt play mmos with a keyboard untl i got this - before i used a controller! baw haw.

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Originally Posted by Sylvina

I got the G502. and am utterly lost as to how to use it.

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Bind the buttons to ctrl, alt, ctrl-alt, ctrl-shift, alt-shit, and then change your hotbars to those modifiers and like 1-5 or so. That's what I did, I have the same mouse.

I have an mmo mouse and love it I don’t know how I would play without it. I pretty much just left the Mouse buttons and key binds in game set up as is. The mouse was by default set to 1-+= so I just left it. All I changed in game was to swap hot bar 2 to use shift and hot bar 3 to ctrl as that made more sense to me for some reason (I guess because shift is a little easier to reach while I’m also moving around).

I use a Redragon Perdition these days. I used to use the Naga before they increased the size, and I tried a Logitech 600 but it's also made for players with bigger hands (male). The Redragon is very close to the original Naga in size so it fits well in my hand.

I have three bars set up in a numberpad pattern, and one vertical bar with 3 binds set up for wheel clicks. One 12 skill bar with no modifier, which is normal rotation skills, one 12 bar with Shift, which special skills like speed boost, cooldowns, additional things for openers, etc, and the last 12 bar is kind of a spillover for things that aren't used often and uses ctrl modifier. I try to use that as little as possible since it's harder to get to the modifier key. The mouse wheel bar uses the same modifiers and those are for interrupt\rush skills on DoW, convert\transpose on blm.

Good luck! It will definitely improve your gameplay.

If you are a healer.. I still love using my Logitech G15 for quick spells I can set per player.
Imagine 3 rows, 1 cure for each party member, esuna or even swiftcast raise. Its so lovely. :)

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Logitech g600 is heavenly. It comes with a third mouse click button, which you can bind to a modifier. This allows for essentially 24 buttons all on the mouse itself. My setup makes very little use of the keyboard for combat because of this.

Although I have yet to try it myself, I have heard very good things about the Razer Naga. And likely will be the mouse I switch to if I ever opt to try something else.

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I have a Razer Naga, but it seems like the Logitechs are easier to handle, because the side buttoms have a different shape, helping you to differentiate them. I'm really bad at this and I used to fat finger other skills. So I bound the same skills 2-3 times around that area -.- So I play with a mix of keyboard/mouse, having the most important skills key-bound in my mouse.

I have the corsair mmo mouse and my wife has the Logitech g600
She doesn't use the g shift function at all because how she holds the mouse.

Her Bose got a wireless razer mmo and he really likes it.

As for keyboard I do t use a gaming keyboard but she lives and dies by her corsair k95 rgb with the 18 g keys but she does use any of them for ffxiv to my knowledge but when she is programming all 54 are programmed.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Bind the buttons to alt-shit and then change your hotbars to those modifiers and like 1-5 or so. That's what I did, I have the same mouse.

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Plz tell me where this key is on the keyboard

Also what is G shift?

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Originally Posted by Sylvina

Plz tell me where this key is on the keyboard

Also what is G shift?

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You can make combos, so its not a key, but it mimics holding both alt and shift together.

G shift is a thing that changes what the buttons do when you hold it i think, i dont use it.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Logitech g600 is heavenly. It comes with a third mouse click button, which you can bind to a modifier. This allows for essentially 24 buttons all on the mouse itself. My setup makes very little use of the keyboard for combat because of this.

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I would also second the Logitech g600. Love this mouse, and would get another if ever it broke. I did have a hard time with it for about 2 weeks as it was so much larger than my old mouse, but well worth the time it took getting used to it.

As far as my HUD layout and how I've keybound things, I tried to make the layout in game match the button layout (3x4 pattern). Example:

https://i.imgur.com/5unOwIU.png

So basically the first column uses buttons 1-12, second column uses g-shift + 1-12, 3rd column I don't actually have bound to the mouse, but it would be easy do to so if I needed it.

I have an old, tired mind, and so it makes my life easier having the HUD and mouse keys match visually :) I'm sure there are far more creative ways you could make it work for yourself.

Logitech G502 here. Any character I have that has a Stun, I have set for the button directly above where my thumb rests. Consistency and ease of access is key for some abilities!

Thanks for all the advice I just feel like a total new player now despite being around since heavensward and being a mentor, becuase I now have zero muscle memory to go with all new UI settings and keybinds.

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Originally Posted by Sylvina

Thanks for all the advice I just feel like a total new player now despite being around since heavensward and being a mentor, becuase I now have zero muscle memory to go with all new UI settings and keybinds.

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It'll definitely take some time to get used to, but it's well worth it in my opinion :) As it is, I rarely have to use my keyboard outside of targeting and a few other things. It's nice :)

The g600 let's you bind moving the mouse wheel left and right, as well as clicking down.
Great for target options.

Only time I use my mouse in combat is when I have to click on something.

If you're playing other styles of games too, the one I would recommend is the Razer Naga Trinity. I have it (alongside a Razer Cynosa). One thing that might also be worth considering is a gamepad (no, not a controller, which FFXIV frustratingly refers to as a gamepad...) - I have an old mechanical one atm but one for consideration could be the Razer Tartarus V2. If you got the Tarty2 and the NagaT, each has 3 way scroll wheel click (left, down, right). So you could essentially bind 6 modifiers there using Razer Synapse. The reason I picked the Tarty2 not the Orbweaver... Orby doesn't have a scroll wheel.

EDIT: Forgot to add, there's also Razer's Hypershift functionality, which I think works like Logitech's G-Shift, but I haven't played around with that yet. Probably once I get my new gamepad.