Hardware

July 3rd, 2009 upyursh Leave a comment Go to comments

I use the following gaming hardware :)

G9 Gaming Mouse
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/3053&cl=au,en


For me the cool stuff with this mouse include the additional buttons that can be clicked by my thumb (I was previously using a 2 button + wheel mouse) and the ability to on the fly.

G13 Advanced Gameboard
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/gaming/pc_gaming/mice_keyboards/devices/5123&cl=au,en&WT.ac=mb|819||hp&creative=12137|G13



This is probably the single biggest change in my gameplay since I stopped click-casting. It is great fun.

First off I decided to not go for a traditional WASD mapping for my movement keys, instead utilising the stick for my movement, combined with mouse movements.

My fingers primarily sit on G10-12 and primarily move to G3-5 for my oh crap buttons.
G15-19 are for my wicked dps spells haha

Summary
In summary both devices are true to their ‘Gaming’ names and I believe are great pieces of equipement. I hope that by removing the need to use 4 keys for movement my reaction time to get important heals out should improve.

I am sure their are plenty of other similar products out there… in saying that I’m excited by these ones and happy with my choice!

  1. Ieatplanktun
    December 3rd, 2009 at 13:07 | #1
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    Quick question Upy… Do you press a button to cast a spell? If so does it mean you need to click on ther person’s frame in grid then press the button on your fancy keyboard thingo?

    I use healbot and basically have all my spells cast by clicking one of the mouse buttons and maybe a modifier.

    Ie. Left click – LHW
    Right click – Chain Heal
    3rd mouse or Ctrl right – Riptide
    Ctrl Left mouse – Dispell (I also tried it bound to the mouse wheel but I didnt like it)
    Alt left – Earth shield

    Most of my other stuff is keybinds (totems, water shield and the oh shit button)

    • upyursh
      December 3rd, 2009 at 23:50 | #2
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      I do not use Clique, I have all my spells setup as Mouseover macros like this:

      #showtooltip Lifebloom
      /castsequence [modifier:alt,target=player][target=mouseover, exists][] reset=7 Lifebloom, Rejuvenation, Lifebloom

      Then I mouseover my target and hit the button on my keyboard (or in my case gamepad).

  2. aibhilough
    January 26th, 2010 at 08:04 | #3
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    question: is the thumbstick on the g13 switchable to the right side? im left handed so i would want to use the g13 with my right hand.. thanks

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