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.

[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.