What's a legit way to learn to play on keyboard?

I play on PS4 mainly just use the keyboard to type words. But always wanted to learn the keyboard to do everything. But it seems extremely daunting...There a guide to help learn it?

Hmmm practice? I just use an external Keyboard instead of control base one. It's not really that difficult for most PC games are the same movement keys or you can reassign them to your preference. You can be creative in various ways. If your usinga mouse I just use it for quick list on actions other than that it just takes practice to get use to it.

I probably need the guide as well. Been using way too much on my mouse rather than my keyboard during boss fight and raids.

I use the numeric pad along with control and shift for the three bars. It provides 15 buttons that you can assign to your hotbars with them being in a more user-friendly layout.
You can mix that with buttons 1-5 which are still easy to get with your left hand that is used for movement to, for example, forgo using control. At that point you will have 60 buttons with control or 40 without it, all at a range that is easy to hit without moving your hand too much (or at all). And as a bonus the arrows are near so you can both move (WSAD) and turn the camera (arrow keys) without using the mouse. Which is there right next to your hand if you are right-handed if you really need it.

Past that it's just practice and memorization game. Helps if you play only one class or closely related ones (for example all-healers) as at that point you can have some shared keys between them that do the same thing for all of em. Sucks if you play multiple varying classes.


Anything that could resemble a "guide" to playing on a keyboard though will be within a guide to learn how to type fast on one. That will put into your muscle memory the best way to utilize the wide scope of keyboard quickly, help with pushing the buttons that are needed without looking at the keyboard (you don't want to do that when there is so much stuff on screen to watch out for) and generally make your response time better.

Ask yourself how you learned to play with a controller.

The answer is, you just did it.

Same answer here.

I'd advise start learning on an alt or on a very low lvl class. Switching to keyboard on a high lvl class would probably be too overwhelming as you'd have a large amount of combat actions to press compared to a low lvl class.

The first thing to do is buy a mouse like this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FNKMVUO...524526741&sr=2

After that just make sure to place your fingers on A W D (Learning to use the S key to move backward is the last thing you learn, it will come naturally).

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Originally Posted by kikix12

I use the numeric pad along with control and shift for the three bars. It provides 15 buttons that you can assign to your hotbars with them being in a more user-friendly layout.

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I play on a computer not a PS4... but something similar. My setup is a Nostromo Orbweaver and a 5 button mouse (Logitech G Pro).
So I have two keys on the Orbweaver bound to shift and control - giving me 3 keys for the remaining 18. 54 keybinds.

It then has a D-Pad I use for movement, and a thumb bar under that I have bound to tab to tab through things like targets.

The mouse is really only used for turning myself or the camera - with one button on it bound to jump and another to auto-run.

- learning this or any other system is about practice. I first switched to a Nostromo Pad about 8 or so years ago in World of Warcraft. And it took me one or two weeks of absolute 'fail' before I had trained my fingers to it...

Ever since then I have repeated the same keybinds for the same purposes.

Primary attack combo on the 3 keys my fingers rest right under. Row above for interrupts of varying sourts. Row below for AoEs. Modifer keys hold mitigation in row above and special moves below and under fingers.
- Basically find a comfortable pattern with your keyboard setup, and then rebind every single game you play, and every character / class / etc... to similar finger positions for similar purposes...

Do some easy content for a few days to weeks... and you will "memorize" it... then you're good to go.

Start from level one and learn there.

Put skills you don't use that often on a separate bar - they don't need to be on a hotkey and you can click them.

Rebind your keys to what fits your hands. My hands are so small I cannot use ANY gaming mouse and can't use numbers past 4. But with time spent playing with the keys you can do it.

My FC leader plays on PC and uses controller for all thing but typing..
I play on PC and have and controller and find it horible.
Keyboard and mouse is great for me. I try to use my controlled and just can't get used to it with the number of actions,

My mmo mouse with 12 extra bottons giving me access to every ablity by moving my thumb, ASDW to move and right click to control camera, and quick click of control while moving gives my thumb quick access to another 12 actions.

As others have said, it's practice. Find a set up you're comfortable with. For example, some use MMO mice, which I can-to get the hang of, some use keybinds.

I use keybinds myself- 3 bars Q-Y and 1-6, with Shift and Alt forms (had to remind a few keys). Extraneous non-combat abilities are on a side bar without a keybind, except for mounts and sprinting. Strafe and moving backwards with A,S,D and move forward by holding both mouse buttons down. Took me some time to get it down, but I've been using it for years.

I also endeavor to keep similar abilities between jobs in the same keybinds. For example, damage buffs between DPS bound to one set of keys, oGCD attacks on a similar set of keys. It's not always possible, of course, but it works well enough.

I could use some more keyboard skills too. I play on pc with keyboard and mouse and really don't use the keyboard for much. Keyboard keys are so widely spaced and I have tiny hands. I can barely even reach 1-3 let alone any of the F keys or anything else, and forget it if I'm reaching up there and then I also need to move with WASD, because my fingers can't be in both places at once. Really the only keyboard shortcuts I use is for non battle stuff like opening inventory or challenge log etc.


For me the way to play with mouse and keyboard is to get one of those mice with 12 buttons on the side. I use my mouse to hit all my skills and also to turn my character around quickly and strafe. Can you even turn quickly around and not just slowly back peddle with just the keyboard? I never have seen a way, but probably just didn't search well enough. I only use keyboard it for some WASD movement, usually in conjunction with the mouse for ease of turning and strafing, and then I use shift and ctrl as modifiers for hotbars 2 and 3, and also some alt modifier for the pet hotbar on summoner.

You'll get used to whatever you want to use though. I can't even imagine trying to play with a controller. I plugged in a ps4 controller one time to see how the other half lives and after a few minutes I was like NOPE sooo clunky. It would definitely take me a bit of time to get used to controller if I did decide I wanted to switch, so nothing to it but to practice until it feels natural.