So since I’ve played Wow, I’ve always used my mouse to change direction and never had my left/right strafe keybinded, and always used my back arrow to walk backwards. The problem for me is reacting quickly to any ‘fire’ I’m standing in and also having to turn away from a target(stopping DPS) to reposition myself in a lot of situations. Taking my hand off the mouse to walk backwards can be deadly and just doesn’t feel smooth at all, and the same goes with turning away from a target to then turn back around.
Seeing players on YouTube, MDI, their movement looks so fluid, and they’re always facing the target when they can. I feel I can’t keybind my movement as I’d rather be using keybinds for my abilities. After looking stuff up online, it seems nobody keybinds their movement. So I was wondering how do you incorporate all your movement including strafing/walking backwards into your mouse when playing?
To move quickly from fire, strafe or make a complete 180 and run. To do the latter, put your camera on “never follow” so you have complete control over it. Then turn camera ~180 degrees and start running forward. It takes some practice getting used to if you’re used to headbob or something. And you’ll be slow and uncomfortable at first, but you’ll get the hang of it.
This so much, I can’t play without. In regards of strafing, I use Q and E as well as A and D while holding the RMB. It really depends on what skills I’m using and which fingers I have free really
Don’t follow this rule, there are perfectly legit cases where you can walk backwards.
Name one such case, where walking backwards at the speed of a snail is better than turning your char 90 degrees and strafing in the same direction, which would be like 4 times faster? The OP specifically pointed out it was about moving out of fire…
@OP, if you’re in combat, NEVER walk backwards! Always turn and strafe or just strafe out of whatever spawns under your char.
Tanking. Not to mention that turning your camera and then walking also takes time. I don’t turn my camera and then strafe and I have 0 issues avoiding stuff.
I think OP is perfectly capable of deciding this themselves. Never say never. Obviously I use it with success, so your absolute seems false.
You should definitely start using strafe with your A and D keys or your Q and E depending on what you find more comfortable.
You still have more than enough keys for abilities, especially as a Demon Hunter.
My DH has like 20 keybinds, my druid probably has 40. And I still use A and D to strafe.
Another neat thing you can do as a DH is bind Fel Rush and Vengeful Retreat to mouse wheel up and down.
Makes it super easy and fluid to use those abilities mid fight.
Repositioning tank mobs is the biggest problem if you don’t have backwards binded ,same goes for moving 1 mm backwards.Strafing always moves you to much in those situations.
Backpedaling as it’s called is really usefull when you have to do micro adjusments to adds position relative to the boss(akka orgozoa adds this tier ) but comes in handy in alot of situation in m+ when you are tanking a rather big clump of adds by strafing you will have mobs that will inherintly target your back (because they are so many) so backpadeling is still the go to to pull them away.
With 1boss strafing is ok to use and still not get hit in the back but with death balls you are seriously risking an one-shot.
Ah wouldn’t be able to do that myself, I use the scroll wheel way too often for that. I have my movement speed buffs, rushes, leaps etc bound to R and usually something that moves me backwards on 4. This primarily as a mouse wheel is sensitive, and when you have 2 screens, you can still scroll on your window without gaining focus, meaning it would trigger a skill if you hover over the window and scroll by accident.
Walking backwards as a tank is about re-positioning the mobs (strafing is too fast might get some adds behind you when you stop), not about getting out of fire. If you backpedal out of fire you wont last long in any decent group. OP might be perfectly capable of making decisions, but they are obviously asking for guidance because they recognize they have an issue and want to deal with it. OP clearly said they struggle with getting out of fire while walking backwards and you are here telling them “its fine, keep doing it!”.
Again, when it comes to avoiding/moving out of fire, NEVER backpedal!
Thanks for all the feedback guysI wasn’t expecting quite the discussion that’s been had!
I think I’m gonna use the extra buttons on my mouse to strafe and try and get used to that. If I didn’t have those buttons I’d be a bit stuck( filthy casual problems).As for walking back I rarely do it, but as I said it can be pretty dangerous in some situations when my hand is off the mouse. It’s used as some of you said, when tanking, and as of yet I am yet to tank but I’ll maybe try and change the keybind so I can keep my hand on the mouse at all times and train myself with it.
Uhm, holding RMB pushed and rotating the character with mouse. Backpedaling is the way to move mobs a bit without taking HUGE amount of an unnecesary damage.
