Mouse/Keyboard vs. Controller: Your Thoughts

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PS3 console controller + keyboard ftw (at least with my play style)

[Anima]

I use Keyboard only, It's really awesome and like some have, do everything in a single button press.

Targetting, Menus, Actions, just about everything can be done with the new shortcuts SE gave us a few patches ago.

Peolple have their own way of playing though, and this is mine

P.S.
Controller looks good, but I'm just not used to playing Computer games with controller. I use Controller for Console games only.

[ispano]

I'm a PC gamer, have been since the N64 days. I use a KB/Mouse for pretty much anything. I do however use a controller when i'm not doing anything requiring a great amount of keys and such. Like crafting for example, or running around turning in local leves. But combat or anything involved, KB/Mouse. I even have two of my mouse's thumb buttons set to move the action bar up and down so I can switch between all my skills rather quickly. Too bad it doesn't work with the macro bars.

[Rau]

Razer Naga / Keyboard. I love it.

I've tried with controller, but I don't have near the degree of control I do when I'm using KB/M. Usually I'll do controller when I'm crafting or farming.

[Digirotta]

A sworn keyboard user in XI. Keyboard+Mouse is the way for me in XIV. Joystick is nice in crafting, gathering and exploring.

Still a long way to go with the UI, what it comes to my liking, but SE is doing a good job making many crucial fixes and adjustments, and the rest is said to come in 2.0, which i'm eagerly looking towards to.

Logitech G13 for left hand, G700 for the right. That's an incredible amount of macroable buttons, and with a little thinking and adjusting it's easy to bypass so many "design flaws" the UI has. Having the menu key, ESC, ENTER and an additional CTRL on my mouse's thumb buttons is just awesome. Left-hand WASD can be replaced with the arrow keys when i start to craft with one button, and combining them both for gathering with another button.

I also made macroes for every job i play, so i don't have to scroll the action bar up and down at all. This way i can concentrate what happens on the battlefield all the time.

When i want to kick back, i have a joypad with an integrated keyboard and a gyro-mouse, which controls my cursor pretty much like a wiimote.

[Chardrizard]

Fulltime keyboard, occasional mouse when in urgent needs to target a needle in haystacks.

[Frein]

I'm very familiar with this method of playing, actually. I'm not a big fan. I've always been a clicker. I'm also a lefty, so I'm always re-configuring my keys.

The bolded part is your problem. Ever since WoW modernized the KB+mouse interface, clickers have been at the bottom of the totem pole. It's just slow and inefficient. In the early days of WoW I remember meleeing down clickers without taking single hit because they'd be so slow at turning around and using their abilities.

Fulltime keyboard, occasional mouse when in urgent needs to target a needle in haystacks.

This is how I play as well. I'd incorporate the mouse more if we had full access to all our abilities (instead of only one row) and were allowed to bind our keys freely.

[Alastor]

The bolded part is your problem. Ever since WoW modernized the KB+mouse interface, clickers have been at the bottom of the totem pole. It's just slow and inefficient. In the early days of WoW I remember meleeing down clickers without taking single hit because they'd be so slow at turning around and using their abilities.


This is how I play as well. I'd incorporate the mouse more if we had full access to all our abilities (instead of only one row) and were allowed to bind our keys freely.

Actually, as a rebuttal, I've tried both clicking and full keyboard methods in WoW, and I've been immensely more successful as a clicker. This is a personal thing, of course. A new player who has no idea what their abilities do or where they are is going to take a long time with a mouse, searching for the abilities. As a practiced player, I never had any issues keeping up with keyboard players. Furthermore, the mouse has become a very viable option due to the addition of add-ons that allow you to move your abilities across the screen and the wide-spread use of gaming mouses like the Naga, which have the extra buttons. I use the keyboard with my right hand for movement, targeting, and push-to-talk, but my mouse is my number one tool when it comes to WoW.

[Frein]

Actually, as a rebuttal, I've tried both clicking and full keyboard methods in WoW, and I've been immensely more successful as a clicker. This is a personal thing, of course. A new player who has no idea what their abilities do or where they are is going to take a long time with a mouse, searching for the abilities. As a practiced player, I never had any issues keeping up with keyboard players. Furthermore, the mouse has become a very viable option due to the addition of add-ons that allow you to move your abilities across the screen and the wide-spread use of gaming mouses like the Naga, which have the extra buttons. I use the keyboard with my right hand for movement, targeting, and push-to-talk, but my mouse is my number one tool when it comes to WoW.

I'd hate to turn this into a WoW debate from 2005, but this is just mostly nonsense, so I'm going to post a rebuttal anyway. The reason why I would always be behind the back of a clicker was because they controlled the character's rotation with the keyboard rather than the mouse. This made them turn very slowly as opposed to the near instant 180 degree turn of a mouse. The reason they were forced to do so is that the mouse controlled ability use and you couldn't mouse turn and click an ability at the same time.

Abilities bound to mouse buttons are a legitimate reason to trigger abilities using the mouse (I did this too) but that's not the same thing as clicking at the graphical interface. The key is having your abilities behind a single button press available at all times while simultaneously retaining maximum mobility control. Because of the number of needed commands, I don't believe it is possible to achieve this using only a mouse even if it has a ton of programmable buttons, so keyboard hotkeys are necessary. Especially hunters needed to be able to jump, turn around mid-jump to fire an ability and land facing their original running direction and this maneuver is physically impossible to perform if clicking is involved.

Also, there never were any top competitive PVPers that clicked their abilities.

[KiriA500]

I love mouse+keyboard controls, for everything BUT this game. I don't know what it is, but I cannot get used to them. Controller 4 lyfe!!1