Healing with Controller Vs. Mouse/Keyboard

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IMO if you are going to use a mouse then you should do all turning with a mouse (because it is way faster) and unbind A/D (turn left and turn right) to skills you use a lot. This will both improve your turning/reacting ability and free up two of the most used keys on the keyboard for spells. All turn left and turn right keys do is take up valuable keyboard keys (A/D) for redundancy. Move forward is that way too but is more useful and intuitive so I keep it bound.

To avoid things like aoe you can hold right mouse to orientate/point yourself with the camera then press left mouse while still holding right to move in that direction while still having your left hand free to press 1-5/a/d/etc. (i.e. running and casting at the same time) Or just turn with right mouse and press W, it is really easy. I keep my pinky on shift and bind things to Shift+1-5 and Shift+q-t and Shift+A-G. I'll probably put off GCD abilities on shift+1-5 so I can weave them with 1-5. My left hand rarely if ever has to leave the standard typing position.

I currently use a gamepad for the most part but I will probably switch to KB/mouse at 50 and use mouseovers. I also plan on binding the next and previous soft targeting keys to my side mouse buttons so I can keep the tank hard targeted and attack with <tt>/<t>, mouseover to heal and select DPS with prev/next soft targeting so I don't lose the tank target. My healer is only 30 but currently with soft targeting I can heal and DPS the entire dungeon with only the tank hard targeted.