Belkin - Tanking

Now, I have always been a clicker. I was clicking most abilities except shield slam and devastate, and even those I was often clicking them. 

I thought I'd never learn to stop clicking, because it's the kind of thing I just can't do. I play guitar and am left handed, but for some reason my left hand completely lacks coordination when it comes to using it on the keyboard.

So I got myself the new Belkin - n52te, and I'm here to let you know how great it is. Sure it has a couple of defects, like the space button that sometimes gets stuck... and that's about it!

So, very simply, here's my settup:

(for those who don't know, the pad keys start from the top left, that's n°1, and then the one to its' right is n°2...)

First line

1 : Bloodrage

2 : Heroic strike

3 : W

4 : Demo shout

5 : Thunder clap

Second line

6 : Shield block

7 : A

8 : S

9 : D

10 : Shield slam

Third line

11 : Devastate

12 : pending

13 : Commanding shout

14 : Revenge

15 : Jump :)

Circle button : Ventrilo push to talk

Wheel click : Reverse camera. It's actually a really useless feature that I learnt from either Veneretio or Ciderhelm I can't remember. Anyways, it's a very handy trick that allows you to flip the camera to look behind you and then with another click flips it back.

The most important thing to make the Belkin effective when tanking is to make sure that your threat rotation abilities are on the easiest reachable buttons. Let me explain. Bloodrage is up there because you only use it every minute. Heroic strike, well, that's just something I find easy to use when it's there. Then, following a similar logic, thunder clap and demo shout are both next to each-other, because they always go together when fighting a boss as mitigation abilities. That's the logic behind my keybinds.

Now I know that the speedpad is expensive, but I highly recommend it to any tank that's having trouble using keybinds and that wants to spot clicking. Trust me, I thought it was one of those things I'd never get used to and stop trying after 10 minutes like I did with my trackball, but no. It's actually not that hard to be used to it. It takes time. Lots of time. I must have changed the keybinds on that thing about 15 times, but still. Once you found the perfect setup, you just need to practice and your gameplay is sure to improve. 

Just make sure you practice outside of a guild raid first and don't take it out of the box and try it out for the first time when you have to maintank Kazrogal and tank all the MH trash and suddenly realize you have no idea what you're doing, start screwing up your rotation and taking crushing blows repeatedly because you can't find the shield block key... err... not that I have ever done that!