How can I manage all of my skills on hotbars?

[cheolsu]

You should use a mouse with more buttons. I use an mmo mouse with 12 buttons. Then I use ctrl, alt, and shift to modify the mouse. But you could also use a mouse with very few buttons. If you do that, then put ctrl, shift, and alt on the mouse and use that to modify your keyboard.

[FinaSel]

Thank you for your advice.

I tried to use Caps Lock, but when it try to bind it, nothing happens. I think it is because I use Japanese keyboard.
A Japanese keyboard has several keys an English one does not, and some keys are in different locations. Caps Lock also switching between languages.
(Unlike the two language keys, which switch between type of input. It is a little difficult to explain unless you use it.)

But, I did bind Q, E, and R, and their Shift and Controls too.
So it gives me 9 extra keybinds I didn't have before. It's really useful!

I will probably use T in the future when I feel I need a new skill to bind.

You should use a mouse with more buttons. I use an mmo mouse with 12 buttons. Then I use ctrl, alt, and shift to modify the mouse. But you could also use a mouse with very few buttons. If you do that, then put ctrl, shift, and alt on the mouse and use that to modify your keyboard.

I have considered getting a mouse with more buttons. If using these new keybinds isn't enough, I will probably do that.

Mapping Control, Shift, and Alt to the mouse is an interesting idea, but I currently use my mouse keys for other actions. I've been using them for my White Mage since I started playing and I think it would take a long time to get used to not having them available.

Since WHM is my main, I don't want to sacrifice those keybinds.

But as I play more jobs, I might need to adjust my mappings in the end.
Thank you for the advice.

[Claire_Pendragon]

How do you change CAPs into a modifier key? because that would be great (and change windows key/alt+esc, as those kick me out often mid fight lol. Oh yeah, Num lock as well, since I use the num pad for all my abilities >.>; )

[Shurrikhan]

How do you change CAPs into a modifier key? because that would be great (and change windows key/alt+esc, as those kick me out often mid fight lol. Oh yeah, Num lock as well, since I use the num pad for all my abilities >.>; )

I just googled it a year back or so. I think I used a program called Smartkeys or whatnot? I forget; I didn't bother to keep the app after using (it adjusts the registry and creates a backup save file that the same or similar programs can quickly pick up to revert to, or can be reverted through windows itself, so the effects don't require the program to be running, but neither is there any real element of risk). Should be able to change any key to whatever, just know that not all programs recognize the function key or differentiate between left and right alts.

[Lilyth]

Funny. I dont use the mouse. At all. And never had any problems moving the camera to look around with only the key board.

With the amount of skills we have on our classes, both PvE and PvP, I cant imagine myself playing with only one hand on the keyboard!

[FinaSel]

Funny. I dont use the mouse. At all. And never had any problems moving the camera to look around with only the key board.

With the amount of skills we have on our classes, both PvE and PvP, I cant imagine myself playing with only one hand on the keyboard!

Could you please explain how you move the camera without the mouse? What keys do you use?

[Claire_Pendragon]

Could you please explain how you move the camera without the mouse? What keys do you use?

While not her, I have all my abilities on the num pad.
My Thumb is resting over the arrow keys, and So I press them to look around.
Mouse targets I use a macro to target my current target.
Q and E are my target left to right, and R and F are my target up to down.

Essentially im trying to mimic a controller on my keyboard.

[Krindor]

Can you not lift up your hand and move it to the other side of keyboard and press the other control/shift? Your other hand can still stay on the mouse.

You should never move your hand away from movement, even a second or so is going to matter in a situation were you might be targetted by an AoE so moving your hand away from the movement keys is detrimental.

Funny. I dont use the mouse. At all. And never had any problems moving the camera to look around with only the key board.

With the amount of skills we have on our classes, both PvE and PvP, I cant imagine myself playing with only one hand on the keyboard!

I can see this work if you play like with a controller.
But from what you've written below, you only use WASD and arrow keys for movement, how do you strafe and run backwards, if you use the standard movement you'll backpedel and strafe is bound to Q and E if you don't use your mouse?

[MuseTraveller]

I use the mouse to click on buffs and click through my opener since I don't have to move for it. I have my most used skills from 1 to 5, AoEs on 7-8 and any positional/situational/skills with longer cool down or proc skills are actually big and floating around the mid screen so I can click on them mid-combat without wasting time or sacrificing movement. It's not all that pretty but it works for me.

[Lilyth]

Could you please explain how you move the camera without the mouse? What keys do you use?

When I'm playing with the standard movement controls I move the camera with either "A" and "D" (which turns your character as well) or I use the arrow keys with my right hand. If I need to quickly see behind, I press "V" which reverses the camera.

This way I keep my left hand all the time at "ASDW", mostly for movement and a couple of skills on 1 2 3 and 4, and my right hand stays over the right number pad where I keep pretty much all of my actions.