n52te gaming pad and bindings for WoW

[GamingSanctum]

This time around, I've decided to take arena seriously.
And to help me with reaction times, I purchased the n52te gaming pad


Basically allows for endless keybindings within reach of a 4x4 pad, rather than a spread out keyboard.

The layout I use is as follows:
[alt][1][2][3][-]
[shift][4][5][6][=]
[ctrl][7][8][9]{WHEEL}
[0(thumb)]
Now, the only character I've really put time into thinking out my macros and keybindings is honestly my rogue.
They are as follows.
1 - Evasion/Ghostly Strike Macro(garrote in stealth)
2 - Slice n' Dice (abush in stealth)
3 - Tab Target for pve (vanish in stealth)
- - Rupture
4 - Cold blood + Mutilate macro (cheap shot in stealth)
5 - Gouge
6 - Eviserate
= - Preperation (prep in stealth
7 - Tricks of the trade (tricks of the trade macro)
8 - Sprint (sprint in stealth)
9 - Kidney Shot
WHEEL - stealth/vanish in combat macro
0 - Blind focus, otherwise blind target macro

SHFT+1 - Trinket 1
SHFT+2 - Trinket 2
SHFT+3 - Health Potion
SHFT+- - Expose Armor
SHFT+4 - Will of the forsaken
SHFT+5 - ...umm...i dont remember lol(at work right now)
SHFT+6 - Cannibalize
SHFT+= - ...umm...i dont remember lol(at work right now)
The rest of the binds are all things like character pane, honor pane, currency pane, social pane, trade skills and their abilities etc.

I've had the n52te for about 3 or 4 weeks now, and I'm loving it.
Week 1 and Week 2 were rough, becuase it takes some time to get used to the new key bindings and new layout. However, in the end I can already see a decrease in my reaction times compared to when I was using a normal keyboard. I'm REALLY enjoying it.

As for movement, I'm kinda having some difficulties adjusting still.
I'm using the D-Pad for forward/backward/strafe and of course using the mouse to manage turning(PRO'S KEYBOARD TURN LUL).
Anyways, I don't know if I need more time, or If I should switch my keybindings to have wasd on the actual keypad, but that means I'm losing 4 of my normal keybinds and have to switch to ctrl/alt/shift modifiers for even more abilities.

Other than that, the keypad was 100% a must buy

Update:

If you do end up getting a keypad. It seriously DOES TAKE AWHILE to get used to the new feel of it.

So I found it really helps to not only setup bartender for the paging and everything, but to actually display the action bars as the keys are mapped out on the actual keypad!



You'll notice they are in the same format as the keypad. 3 rows of 4 buttons

[Exawatt]

Now, I've always been confused by this. The reaction times you're going to be gaining are in the milliseconds. The average latency and changes of it are many times that, and will be loads more problematic than not hitting the key in time (assuming your current keybindings are decent). It'd seem more effective to spend that cash on something that'll speed up your connection, like a PC with a killer NIC card or something.

You do get points for using the power glove, though. Let me know how it works out.

[GamingSanctum]

i get 10ms. lul. so the only lag i have is my hands

[Exawatt]

i get 10ms. lul. so the only lag i have is my hands

What?! Are you directly connected to the servers?!
You've gotta' have your ISP's server and the game server within your city for those kinds of speeds...

[GamingSanctum]

i get 10ms. lul. so the only lag i have is my hands

What?! Are you directly connected to the servers?!
You've gotta' have your ISP's server and the game server within your city for those kinds of speeds...

Well, the server is pacific time, but not in my city.
Prolly like 2 hours away somewhere in the LA area.

The highesy my ping gets is about 70 om busy busy days

[GamingSanctum]

Update:

If you do end up getting a keypad. It seriously DOES TAKE AWHILE to get used to the new feel of it.

So I found it really helps to not only setup bartender for the paging and everything, but to actually display the action bars as the keys are mapped out on the actual keypad!



You'll notice they are in the same format as the keypad. 3 rows of 4 buttons

[Exawatt]

I found out why I was confused about the latency times.

Turns out the two servers you play on are located at the datacenter in LA. Blizzard currently has four datacenters:

• Boston, Massachusetts
• Dallas, Texas
• Los Angeles, California
• Seattle, Washington

Eonar, the Eastern server I play on, is actually located in Texas! I didn't realize the location didn't mean server time (e.g. The Eldre'Thalas server is located in LA but is set to Eastern time). I figured that Eonar was close and that my latency was the norm, but in fact I'm probably getting 100-150ms more than I should be getting.

[GamingSanctum]

Oh wow. I didn't realize that either.
Doesn't make much sense O_o