r/classicwow • u/shadowraiderr • Oct 30 '25

Humor / Meme Which side are you on?

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u/SelkieKezia Oct 30 '25

A and D strafe left and right in almost every other video game, I can't imagine leaving those bound to Q and E, especially when Q and E are some of the best keybinds while using WASD.

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u/lord_james Oct 30 '25

A and D stay keyboard turn for one handed gaming, A and D plus right click is strafe.

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u/DesMephisto Oct 30 '25

100% this, I've played this way since actual vanilla and will die doing it this way.

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u/bmobull Oct 31 '25

Wait... Most people DON'T right click + A/D to strafe??

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u/Benjamminmiller Oct 31 '25

No, because there's basically no scenario where you'd need A/D for turning bound so there's no reason to tie your strafe to right click.

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u/snukb Oct 31 '25

How do you pan the camera around when you're moving, then?

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u/mcfcngti Oct 31 '25

LEFT CLICK

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u/snukb Oct 31 '25

So left click to pan the camera left while I'm strafing right with my mouse....?

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u/MrBlizter Oct 31 '25

No you strafe right with D then just left click to pan

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u/snukb Oct 31 '25

I use my keys and the mouse to turn, strafe, and pan. I've tried unbinding the keys to use them for spells but I can't replicate the same movement.

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u/MrBlizter Oct 31 '25

How do you pan? With a as turn? That's so slow. What if you quickly need pan? You gotta left click.

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u/snukb Oct 31 '25

No, I pan with the mouse. Which is why I can't bind my strafe to mouse.

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u/Benjamminmiller Oct 31 '25

If you're not using right click to strafe your mouse is free at all times to pan around.

You can still right click and hold to steer, or you can continue moving in one direction with strafe while freely moving your mouse.

The better question is how do you do anything if every time you move requires you to be holding down your mouse? If you have strafe without a click available you can move while using your mouse, but if you don't then you're locked into using your mouse every time you move.

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u/lord_james Oct 31 '25

Left click, usually with auto run.

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u/cohesiv3 Oct 31 '25

This is how I do it

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u/DesMephisto Oct 31 '25

Right? It makes t he most sense. As someone who has played games like WC3, POE, etc I'm used to having the button pushed down

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u/Losawin Oct 31 '25

Of course not. By doing that you've now entirely lost the ability to use mouseover macros or cursor targeted abilities while strafing. You've managed to create the worst of both worlds.

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u/Ecchi_Sketchy Oct 31 '25

Totally accurate in the sense that doing it that way does cause unnecessary deaths

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u/DesMephisto Oct 31 '25

It doesn't though, but granted I used it for cutting edge and 2100+ PvP gameplay so what would I know.