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

[AncientCrystal]

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?

[ManuelBravo]

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.

[ern815]

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

[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.

[Makeda]

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.

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.

[Hasrat]

Ask yourself how you learned to play with a controller.

The answer is, you just did it.

Same answer here.

[Penthea]

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.

[Ghastly]

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).

[Tsumdere]

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.