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

[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.
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.