Evan keyboard setup?
There are a TON of skills that I could see evans using, but because the way I play I'm having a hard time finding slots for them. What do yours look like? Also should I macro Phantom Instinct and Killer Wings for bossing?
August 19, 2014
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Instead of trying to find unassigned keys to put your skills, do yourself a flavor and re-arrange all the default maple hot keys.
Yes, having 'I' for inventory and "E" for equipment tab is very easy to remember, but they are not efficient at all. Just reassign everything, put them all together at one place, then give yourself another large area for all the skills/potions. Do the same for all your characters.
Another good tip is to set NPC chat as Y.
Personally, I leave the rows Q to T, A to H and Z to B empty so that I can assign skills for them. Ctrl is always my teleport/flash jump, Space is my jump. I use WASD as my 4 most important attacking skills, where W is illusion and S is flame wheel. Q and E as health and mana pot. That way I can easily spam my W and S when I can still easily eat pots with ring and index finger. You will still have R, T, F, G, C, V, B for other less important skills, of course, you will put more important skills at easy-to-reach keys like R,T,F and V.
With that setup, imagine you're playing FPS game, you have your fingers on WASD, little finger on Ctrl, and thumb on Space. Ring and Index fingers are free at all time to eat pots, you spam main attacking skills with middle finger, you can tele anytime with litte finger and of course jump with space.
Oh and as for buff macro, I use del, end and pgdown, since you only press them once in a while.
[url=http://i.imgur.com/krqfZJV.jpg]This[/url] is what mine looks like, I'm used to it so I don't change it a lot
Macro 1: Magic Guard, Elemental Decrease, Onyx Shroud and Macro 2: Magic Resistance, Onyx Will, Magic Booster, place these two next to each other somewhere on the keyboard. I put mine on both F11 and F12. On F10 I put Teleport Mastery. Maple Warrior and Hero's Will I placed next to each other also, but on the '=' and '-' keys. Blessings of the Onyx I have it on 'O' and Frenzied Soul on 'L'.
Other skills on my keyboard:
Recovery Aura - A
Teleport - Spacebar (though I rarely use teleport, I either use blink or glide)
Magic Shield - S
Dragon Thrust or Earthquake - X
Dragon Blink - J
Illusion - C
Blaze - Shift
Flame Wheel - B
Soul Stone - 0
Dark Fog - ; (I rarely use it)
Killer Wings - D
Summon Onyx Dragon on Home to welcome home your giant friend.
@GoXDS: It's on home, and it's not hard for me.
@Rollsback: you didn't mention which key you had teleport on but doesn't that make telecasting hard?
@katrie: I guess it just depends on the size of your hands and fingers. Or your keyboard.
@Rollsback Doesn't that hurt your right hand? :c Mine would start cramping. Or do you slide your hand up and down to use the arrow keys and then everything else?
OT: I'll ss my key set up when I get the chance! I have all my buffs on the weird keys (home, insert, pg up/down, etc.)
My attacks are all on control, shift, x, c, basically all the keys near my left hand.
@GoXDS: For my right hand, the bottom if my palm is on the arrow keys while my fingers are on top. My middle finger pushes the up arrow key too. And my thumb pushes control. For my left hand, my thumb is on alt, and my other fingers do buffs, killer wings, and phantom instinct. I know it looks like a lot for my right hand but it really isn't that bad.
[quote=Rollsback]Flame wheel - delete
Blaze - end
Illusion - insert
Killer wings - E
Phantom instinct - W
Dark fog - control
Summon onyx dragon - page up
Elixirs - page down
Buffs - 1, 2 , 3, etc
Earthquake - A
Teleport - Home (but I usually use glide)
Recovery aura - backslash
But everyone has their own keyboard preferences.[/quote]
that's a very tiny portion of the keyboard with your hands very close together o_o pretty much right on top
for everyone, u need elemental decrease for bossing.
i dont have a set key for low lvl attacks or fire breath.
i dont macro attacks, u dont need killer wings for bossing.
i have macrod first set of buffs and a last set of buffs.
@SugarCoatedSour: I never bother with Elemental Decrease anymore as Evan has a variety of skill I just use which elemental has the upper hand. Although I do have it on the side just in case it is needed.
Flame wheel - delete
Blaze - end
Illusion - insert
Killer wings - E
Phantom instinct - W
Dark fog - control
Summon onyx dragon - page up
Elixirs - page down
Buffs - 1, 2 , 3, etc
Earthquake - A
Teleport - Home (but I usually use glide)
Recovery aura - backslash
But everyone has their own keyboard preferences.
[quote=Micahmer]I use ma bottom to rows on my keyboard. And yes, macro Phantom Imprint as that skill helps a lot~ But really, after 9th and 10th growth all I ever use is: Flame Wheel, Blaze, Illusion, and occasionally Earthquake. As for Buffs I have them macro'd to reduce keyboard clutter.[/quote]
I have 3 of them macro'd but I don't want to macro elemental decrease also, because there are times when it's counterproductive to use
I use ma bottom to rows on my keyboard. And yes, macro Phantom Imprint as that skill helps a lot~ But really, after 9th and 10th growth all I ever use is: Flame Wheel, Blaze, Illusion, and occasionally Earthquake. As for Buffs I have them macro'd to reduce keyboard clutter.