Like the title says, I’m a leftie and have been using the same WoW setup for almost 11 years. I play on a laptop (I move between houses a lot) and always played with the laptop keyboard. I also used the mouse with my left hand as I found it more comfortable, even though many lefties are able to play with their less dominant right hand.
Because of this, I preferred using the right side of the keyboard as my hands would otherwise be too close together and would be a bit uncomfortable. I was also a very mild keyboard turner but nowadays just use the arrow keys to strafe. With my hands usually over the arrow keys, I set up my key bindings close by, including keys such as period (.), apostrophe (’), forward slash (/), colon (:), and used Ctrl as a modifier (disgusting, I know).
Recently my laptop keyboard had some problems so I bought a temporary USB keyboard. All it took with a different-sized Ctrl and RShift button to make me realize how bad and restricted my previous bindings were.
I’m willing to sacrifice a decade of muscle memory for the optimal setup and bindings so that I can also use the setup for when my laptop keyboard is repaired (which might be a while given the current situation).
I’m here now to ask the community - both left and right handers - for advice on this. Has anybody ever experienced having to relearn bindings?
Particularly for the lefties though: does anyone play with the mouse on the left side and manage to set up their bindings effectively? What bindings work for you?
Thank you!