Button Layouts and Keybinding Suggestions

[Mazzlefizz]

Use this thread for any button layout related suggestions or discussions.

Please be as specific as possible. Most importantly, always mention:

• The name of the layout you're talking about
• What aspect ratio you are running at
• All relevant information about your character (class, level, talents, etc.)

Note: As of version 1.0, most BC spells and talents are not yet incorporated into the layouts. Unless you are suggesting specific ways to incorporate them (the next post should be a good example), there's no need to post that they're missing. Once I do another button layout review, you can start making those kind of posts.

[Mazzlefizz]

Note: This was originally posted by Nandy.

I did a little playing with my druid layout now that I hit 70.

Caster form
1-7 Honestly, i think all the healing should be on its own bar. 1-5 works great imo.
1 Rejuv
2 Lifebloom
3 regrowth
4 Healing touch(rank 13)
5 Tranquility
6 Healing touch(rank 4) Down ranking still works well!
7 healing touch(rank 6) Down ranking still works well!

z x c
z Cyclone - Having CC close to movement keys for fast access is great.
x Root - See cyclone comment
c Fiery fire - I like this placement

Alt 1-4 Much like the healing, I like having my nukes I use alot togather.
Alt 1 Attack
Alt 2 Moonfire
Alt 3 wraith
Alt 4 Starfire

Bear form
1-5 Put them in more of a tanking order.
1 Growl
2 Swipe - - One of the most used bear ablities. Specially for tanking.
3 Maul - Used quiet a bit for a rage dump.
4 Lasurate - New tanking skill, works quiet well.
5 Demo shout

Z X C
Z Bash
X Feral Charge
C Fiery fire

Alt 1-4 I put all my situational ablities. Aoe taunt, bear heal, etc.
Alt 1 Enrage
Alt 2 Challenging shout
Alt 3 Frenzied regen
Alt 4 Open if not feral tring to keep this gernal.

Catform
1-5 I removed rake as it is pretty well worthless, and we REALLY need a spot for Maime.
1 Mangle/claw
2 Shred
3 Ravage
4 Pounce
5 Maime

Z X C
Z Ferocious Bite
X Rip
C Fiery fire

Alt 1 -4 I didnt change these.
Alt 1 Stealth
Alt 2 Dash
Alt 3 Tigers Fury
Alt 4 Cower

I replaced root with barkskin. I moved Hurricane to Alt c, mostly because its under barkskin and you almost never use it without barkskin. Pretty well the only thing I changed on the left side. The catbar could really use another button for rake if it can be added.

If you like I could put screen shots of the layouts. I think this fits the new ablities in nicely.

[doc309]

minor tweak...

my main's a hunter. i mouse more than keyboard.
i'd love to see the pet bar reversed so there is less mouse travel between huntersmark/pet attack/arcane(aimed)shot.

btw man i love the absolute easy and functionality of this UI.

guess now i can give up trying to work with the discord ports... lol

Doc

[banjo]

Originally Posted by doc309 minor tweak... my main's a hunter. i mouse more than keyboard. i'd love to see the pet bar reversed so there is less mouse travel between huntersmark/pet attack/arcane(aimed)shot. Doc

I've just started a hunter too & am finding the same - is there any way to "mirror" the pet bar so that it's reversed?

[malad]

Originally Posted by banjo Originally Posted by doc309 minor tweak... my main's a hunter. i mouse more than keyboard. i'd love to see the pet bar reversed so there is less mouse travel between huntersmark/pet attack/arcane(aimed)shot. Doc I've just started a hunter too & am finding the same - is there any way to "mirror" the pet bar so that it's reversed?

The layouts are designed to be played via keybindings, as far as I am aware.

[anonymity22]

someone post a good shadow priest one =]

[Kamishimi]

Originally Posted by Lopervelt The HUD Is so small!! I was fiddling around with all the stuff for an hour and couldn't figure out how to make it bigger. I'm stupid when it comes to this kind of stuff so please make the explanation simple .

First of all, you're posting in the wrong thread of this forum. Please actually read the forum guidelines before you just post random questions in the first thread that you see. Second, if you had read the instructions for installation or even the forum guidelines you would see that it directs you to read the in-game FAQ before you come and post here, in any thread. Please read the FAQ first, thoroughly, and if you still have a question that was not answered there then come ask it here in the right thread.

[joypunk]

I've updated joypunk's Warrior Layout for level 70 abilities. I also took this opportunity to rearrange a lot of abilities to optimize the layout for more talent specs (it was previously only setup for cookie-cutter MS/Fury and DW/Fury setups).

Battle Stance
1 Charge
2 Victory Rush
3 Overpower
4 Hamstring
5 Shield Bash
6 Thunder Clap
7 Spell Reflect
8 Mocking Blow
9 Rend

Defensive Stance
1 Intervene
2 Taunt
3 Revenge
4 Shield Block
5 Shield Bash
6 Thunder Clap
7 Spell Reflect
8 Disarm
9 Rend

Berserker Stance
1 Intercept
2 Victory Rush
3 Berserker Rage
4 Hamstring
5 Pummel
6 Whirlwind
7 Empty
8 Empty
9 Empty

Bottom Right Bar
SQ Mortal Stirke/Devastate/Bloodthirst
SE Execute
AQ Heroic Strike
AE Sunder Armor
CQ Cleave
CE Sweeping Strikes/Shield Slam/Rampage
SV Slam
V Concussion Blow/Death Wish
R Bloodrage
SR Last Stand (I don't believe Shift-R is used for anything specific in the UI. If it is already used, change this to Alt-V.)

Shout Bar
A1 Battle Shout*
A2 Demoralizing Shout
A3 Piercing Howl (Talented ability)
A4 Intimidating Shout
A5 Challenging Shout
A6 Commanding Shout*

*I typically swap these two abilities depending on whether or not I'm tanking or doing DPS/PvP.

Everything else in the layout remains unchanged.

[joypunk]

Minor edit to the above configuration. Swapped what was on AE and CE. Above list is now correct.

[Detritus]

Originally Posted by joypunk I've updated joypunk's Warrior Layout for level 70 abilities. I also took this opportunity to rearrange a lot of abilities to optimize the layout for more talent specs (it was previously only setup for cookie-cutter MS/Fury and DW/Fury setups).

Not bad. Still not really prot oriented. I'd like to see Disarm and Spell Reflect in there. These are needed during boss-encounters when tanking. IMO, an effective tanking layout needs to have...
Core Skills:
Revenge
Shield Slam
Sunder
Devastate
Heroic Strike
Shield Bash
Berzerker Rage (typically macro to swap to Berzerker and then fire BRage)
Intervene

Secondary Skills (use can be delegated to DPS warriors or Offtank)
Disarm
Spell Reflect (most of the time used to reflect aoe casts)
Thunder Clap
Demoralising Shout
Commanding Shout

[Mordrak]

Hi,

first of all: Sorry for my English

I try to describe my problem. I hope you understand.
As a mage I want to use your mage-template. I play WoW since it started and my keybindings are from 1-12 and shift 1-12. As I saw your bindings I thought: Yea, behind these keybindings is more. And I think, they are very good. I want to play with them...

ok, now my problem: Nearly all keybindings work for me, e.g. 2- Scorch, 3-Fireball.
But there are a couple of bindings that I cannot use. For example: Alt + `
I dont know exactly what spell is it, because im just not ingame. But this keybinding I cannot use. If I'm in the config menu of bongos and hover over the button, and press this "hotkey", bongos creates a new keybinding on the spell: Alt+Shift+´
There are 2-3 more such bindings.
Hope you understand.

Ok ... I could change these hotkeys, which I cannot use. But anyway I want to know why I cannot use these bindings and if is it a bug =)
Again, sorry for my crappy English but I think you understand ^^

P.S I luv ya UI *g*

*edit* As I say, i just can't go ingame but as far as I know "Alt+`" was Blink. Although you say Blink is bound on "^" as you say in a post.
Also Will of the Forsaken is bound to a similar key afaik ... like "Alt+;"
And btw: I play with the English ELP .
Maybe you has the answer =)

[Mazzlefizz]

Originally Posted by Mordrak Hi, first of all: Sorry for my English I try to describe my problem. I hope you understand. As a mage I want to use your mage-template. I play WoW since it started and my keybindings are from 1-12 and shift 1-12. As I saw your bindings I thought: Yea, behind these keybindings is more. And I think, they are very good. I want to play with them... ok, now my problem: Nearly all keybindings work for me, e.g. 2- Scorch, 3-Fireball. But there are a couple of bindings that I cannot use. For example: Alt + ` I dont know exactly what spell is it, because im just not ingame. But this keybinding I cannot use. If I'm in the config menu of bongos and hover over the button, and press this "hotkey", bongos creates a new keybinding on the spell: Alt+Shift+´ There are 2-3 more such bindings. Hope you understand. Ok ... I could change these hotkeys, which I cannot use. But anyway I want to know why I cannot use these bindings and if is it a bug =) Again, sorry for my crappy English but I think you understand ^^ P.S I luv ya UI *g* *edit* As I say, i just can't go ingame but as far as I know "Alt+`" was Blink. Although you say Blink is bound on "^" as you say in a post. Also Will of the Forsaken is bound to a similar key afaik ... like "Alt+;" And btw: I play with the English ELP . Maybe you has the answer =)

The only odd reports of such binding issues I've had is with some foreign-language keyboards.

For the record, the bindings on a mage are:
` -> blink
Shift-` -> mount
Alt-` -> escape artist or other racial

On english keyboards, ' is the topleft-most key.

[tep]

I read in the FAQ to post any "missing" spells.

This is my first post, like ever - so I hope this is the right place to put it.

I don't see a few higher level heal spells on the action bar, or in Clique.

Circle of Healing
Binding Heal
Prayer of Mending (might be there, but I don't have the spell until lvl66)
Holy Fire

I hope that helps a bit.

Thanks for the massive effort on this compilation. I underestimated you gnomes!

[Kierrkian]

Originally Posted by tep I read in the FAQ to post any "missing" spells. This is my first post, like ever - so I hope this is the right place to put it. I don't see a few higher level heal spells on the action bar, or in Clique. Circle of Healing Binding Heal Prayer of Mending (might be there, but I don't have the spell until lvl66) Holy Fire I hope that helps a bit. Thanks for the massive effort on this compilation. I underestimated you gnomes!

Sigh.. did you read the first post on this thread???? it clearly states that some of the BC content like SPELLS are not implemented yet.. please oh please read the threads and Faq's.......

[Dingleback]

Hey all,


Thanks for making such a great UI. I thought I'd share my button layouts with you guys. After spending a little while tweaking it out to the way I like, I thought maybe you'd like to see a different perspective on button layouts.

The setup:
standard keyboard
logitech mouse with 8 buttons. (standard 3 buttons with scroll wheel, 3 more small buttons on the spine and 2 thumb buttons)
level 64 gnome warlock -- heavy affliction PvP build
Since I have so many mouse buttons, I like to bind the spells there that I need to access very often or very quickly. I also like to use the mouse to look and turn in PvP.

Here's how my mouse is setup:

Mousebutton1: Left click -- no change
Mousebutton2: Right click -- no change (I usually save this for autoattack)
Mousebutton3: Middle click -- no change
MouseButton4: proximal thumb button. I bind this to toggle Autorun
Mousebutton5: distal thumb button. I bind this to my CC abilities on all characters (where applicable)
Mousebutton6: top spine button. I usually bind this button to ranged attacks (with an equipped weapon) on all characters, and bind chord-key uses of this button to racial abilities or trinkets.
Mousebutton7: middle spine button (right below the wheel). I usually use this one for emergency spells as it's the easiest to reach while moving or doing something weird with either hand or the mouse.
Mousebutton8: bottom spine button. I use this for utility abilities that are class-specific and often used.

Here's how I group up the spells I use and how I access them:

Group1: Damage Spells
Shadowbolt Alt-1
Shadowburn Alt-2
Immolate Alt-3
Incinerate Alt-4
Searing Pain Alt-5
Unstable Affliction 4
Soul Fire Alt-6
Wand - MB6

Group2: Instant cast Curses and DoTs
Curse of Agony 1
Corruption 2
Siphon Life 3
Curse of Shadows 5
Curse of Elements 6
Curse of Reckelssness 7
Curse of Tongues 8
Curse of Exhaustion Ctl-MB6

Group3: Drains and Channeled Spells
Life Drain MB8
Soul Drain Alt-MB8
Mana Drain Ctl-MB8
Rain of Fire 7
Hellfire Alt-7

Group4: Trinkets
ZHC -- Alt-MB6

Group5: Crowd Control/emergency
Death Coil MB7
Howl of Terror Alt-MB7
Escape Artist Ctl-MB7
Fear MB5
Banish Alt-MB5
Seduce Ctl-MB5

I also have an assortment of potions, food and whatnot that I usually access via mouse clicks but I suppose I could technicaly map them to ctl-numbers...

anywho, just my $0.02


cheers,
dingle

[Gemminie]

Oddly enough, I also have a gnome warlock who's currently 64 (mostly Demonology, some Affliction). I'm still working on a MazzleUI layout for this, my current highest level character. Over the couple of years I've been playing this character I've settled on a layout I like, using either the default UI's action bars or, more recently, Bartender3:

1: Attack (I'm just used to having "1" be the "attack" button on every character, even casters who don't attack often.)
2: Death Coil
3: Immolate
4: Corruption
5: Drain Life
6: Shadow Bolt

Now, I have a Microsoft Natural Keyboard, meaning that numbers 7 and up are seriously separated from the left-hand keys, so I put nothing combat-related over there.

Shift-1: CoW
Shift-2: CoA
Shift-3: CoR
Shift-4: CoT
Shift-5: CoE
Shift-6: CoS

(Look, it spells "Wartes!" OK, that's not really a word.)

Shift-Q: Life Tap
Shift-W: Shadow Ward
Shift-A: Banish
(Ctrl-A: Banish, Rank 1, for a shorter Banish)
Shift-S: Use Soulstone
(Ctrl-S: Create Soulstone)
Shift-Z: Use Healthstone
(Ctrl-Z: Create Healthstone)

My mouse is just your basic wireless optical mouse with two buttons and a scrollwheel, so no fancy moves.

Left-click: normal settings
Right-click: normal, though I turn on click-to-move
Middle-click: wand (though sometimes I temporarily remap it for something quest-related)
Shift-Middle-click: fishing!

Everything else I click the icon for. It's not really that hard.

Anyway, so now I have to set this up using Bongos. You can tell what I'll be doing tonight.

[Cryptonic]

Shamanistic Rage is missing on both layouts for shamans.

[Inygo]

Originally Posted by tep I read in the FAQ to post any "missing" spells. This is my first post, like ever - so I hope this is the right place to put it. I don't see a few higher level heal spells on the action bar, or in Clique. Circle of Healing Binding Heal Prayer of Mending (might be there, but I don't have the spell until lvl66) Holy Fire I hope that helps a bit. Thanks for the massive effort on this compilation. I underestimated you gnomes!

Originally Posted by Kierrkian Sigh.. did you read the first post on this thread???? it clearly states that some of the BC content like SPELLS are not implemented yet.. please oh please read the threads and Faq's.......

I dont know about the other spells mentioned, but Holy Fire is something like a level 20 spell that all priests get. It is not in the layouts. I keep having to put it on my bar for my lowbie priest every time I mazzify because i leveled and got new spells. That and I like mazzlegasms...

GREAT work mazzle. Thank you Thank you Thankyou.

[AstralWolf]

Regarding your druid mappings, and probably more generally for all classes, it would be ideal if you could create some default macros and keybind with those. Doing this allows you to sqeeze even more funcitonality into fewer keys due to situational macros. Just a simple example that I use to put rip/pounce and ferocious bite/shred on the same keys:

/cast [stealth] Pounce; Rip

/cast [stealth] Ferocious Bite; Shred

I guess this begs the question, can addons create/modify user's macros and/or is there some alternate way that these types of macros could be incorporated into Mazzle?

[Seerah]

I have a quick suggestion for the keybinding for GoGoMount. Shift-` is not very convenient to get to- sometimes I like to mount up quickly. I have personally changed the binding to shift-space, but haven't remapped what it was currently bound to yet. (I think it was the score window for BGs? Correct me if I'm wrong. ) Now I don't have to move my hand position for it. And you generally use your mount more often than looking at your BG score window.