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How to set up action bar for best dps
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Post by
carolann
I have an unholy dk level 80, but my action bars are very unorganized and I can't seem to get my dps up to standards. I was wondering if anyone could possible tell me a good set up for dps on your actions bars? Thanks in advance
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Sheridan
I put all my spelled used for the rotation on 2 - 7 and they're in the order I use them. It's pretty simple.
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TK0680
Mine are as follows:
1. Attack (I know, not that necessary, but I like to be sure that I'm swinging)
2. PS
3. IT
4. BS
5. SS
6. Blood Tap
F. D&D
R. Death Coil
T. Mind Freeze
Y. Healthstone
A. Raise Dead
D. Bone Shield
Movement is W, Q, E and D. I know a lot of people would swap Q/E for A/D but I got so used to strafing with those two I didn't see much point in trying to break that habit to learn one that's essentially no better.
Obviously, the first five and R get used the most - the rest are just nearby so that they can be hit without much thinking required. I have over-sized clickable buttons for things like AMS, Health Potion and whatnot.
Edit: I have HoW and .. that rune refreshing spell you get at 75 that nobody really uses on my mouse's side buttons.
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Post by
dervasavred
I used ESDF for movement, so I have 1-5, QAW, RTG, and Z-B available plus any shift modifiers.
1-5 is DnD, PS, IT, SS, BS. Since my middle finger resides on E most of the time, my main strike or ability for every class is on 4. For my Feral Druid, that's Mangle/Claw. For my Warlock, that's Corruption. For my SV Hunter, that's Explosive Shot.
QAW are typically AoE abilities. For my DK, they are Blood Boil (Q), Pest (A) and W is my secondary Death Strike binding for when I am running Unholy and don't use DS, I still have it bound for an emergency health surge.
RTG are CC/Interrupts: R is my Strang/MF macro, T is Rune Strike (Wing Clip on my Hunter, Poly on Mage), and G is my Death Coil macro. On other toons, G is usually an Execute-like ability (Kill Shot, etc.).
Z-B are cooldowns: Z is Gargoyle/DRW macro, X is Blood Tap, C is a Leap macro I made for Hard Mode Mimiron that forces a Leap and Huddle along with a petpassive (I've been thinking of moving AMS here since I love it so much). V is Death Pact and B is always my racial (AT, WoTF, BF, EMfH, etc.).
Shift 1-5 are my self buffs: Bone Shield, HoW, AMS, IBF, VB/AMZ.
Shift Q activates my Opie Ring with all of my weird stuff that's not used often: Raise Ally, Oblit, Runeforging, AotD (though this is changing next patch :D), Path of Frost, Death Gate, etc.
I use Shift A to trigger an old-school Pestilence macro I use on AoE trash.
And finally I use my comma key to resummon my Ghoul should I need to resummon.
All this being said would make you think I have a bunch of actionbars showing. I don't. I have one bar of 11 buttons half-greyed out visible. I use a mod called mBindings to bind keys directly to spells/abilities in the spellbook and I use a mod called Bindpad to bind keys directly to macros. I track cooldowns with CooldownWatch and runes with MagicRunes.
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dervasavred
We have threads to tell people how to organise actionbars now? How lazy can someone get? :|
The more people I can get to convert to being keybound instead of clickers, the better.
Clickers are Communists.
Post by
neomasterc
Clickers are Communists.
Worse. Bind healthstone and not click imo
Post by
dervasavred
Worse. Bind healthstone and not click imo
What?
Healthstones are on my Consumable Opie ring. :D
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Post by
carolann
read the stickies bro and look up unholy dps rotation on elitistjerks.com
L2R that wasn't his Q. He's talking about bar set up.
My UI (still in works tbh): All spells i need on 2 bars:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v392/elmstreet/WoWScrnShot_112509_193010.jpg
First of all I'm a girl lol
I am kind of new to world of warcraft and it is very helpful if anyone can give me suggestions at how to get a little better. Thank you all for your input, even if it wasn't helpful.
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dervasavred
Finally someone who can see my political preferencies by looking how I play WoW :D
I try.
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