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[king_nothing_]

esdf supremacy

who the hell use's esdf seriously.

Discussion necro, but w/e, I want to chime in on this. As someone who just recently switched to ESDF a couple weeks ago, I agree that it's superior, at least for RPGs. If you're playing a game which you need a lot of keybinds for, it's better. It gives you more keys to bind to the left of your hand; it's as simple as that. I recently started playing WoW again, and I switched to it to give myself more easily-reachable keybinds. I actually don't even use ESDF in WoW; I just use ESF, and use D for another keybind. There's no reason to backpedal in WoW unless you're a tank.

I don't get why you'd do it.

As someone who has played RPGs a lot, I figured you of all people would be able to figure it out. It's all about giving yourself more easily-reachable keybinds.

Between mouse buttons and keyboards with macro keys there's no point.

The macro keys on the far left of some gaming keyboards? They aren't as easily reachable as W, Q, A, Z, etc. are from the ESDF configuration. As for mouse buttons, yeah they help, but even with the Razer Naga I just got which has 17 buttons, I still need a dozen or so more binds on the keyboard. If you have a ton of abilities you need to use, and want to keybind them all (I imagine you would unless you're a bad who clicks your abilities with the cursor), then ESDF is superior.

Only thing is you'll be misclicking stuff for about a week until you get used to it.

in practice, muscle memory would repeatedly pull my hand back to wasd.

This. It took me several days (probably close to a week) before this stopped happening. Once your brain "unlearns" WASD though, it's great.