My brand new mouse, my awesome 17 button Razer Naga had been acting up lately and customer support had promised to exchange it. Whaddya know, Amazon’s return policy says that all Christmas gifts must be returned by January 31st. Guess what Sunday was?
So I went through the online process and was told that my new one was being shipped and I had to return the old one or be charged for both.
I packed it all up in a box and printed off the mailing label… and remembered I had a raid that night. Great.
I had been using this mouse exclusively for a month. Every keybinding, every macro. Mostly mouseover macros for healing.
“Blood will flow…”
(Side note, I had my ingame volume turned really low so I could here vent when the blood princes said this… go find the sound file and listen to it very quietly and TELL ME I’m not the only one who hears dozzer saying something else…)
So, no mouse. None. I threw my old one away, it was so messed up. Now, I have been a mouse-turner since level 2. The friend that got me started on wow told me quite clearly what he thought of keyboard-turners. Same thing for using the numbers 1-9 for keybindings.
Well, wouldn’t you know it but the Razer Naga doesn’t actually give you “extra” buttons like some keyboards do. It just puts 1234567890-+ on your mouse. Don’t get me wrong, it’s amazing, but it’s hard to play with your mouse without your mouse.
The Naga actually comes with a wow addon that is a modified version of Dominos. It has an option of making your keybindings for 1-0 OR for your number pad. The mouse has a similar switch on the bottom.
So I switched all my lovely keybindings to my number pad. Wouldn’t you know it.. the numbers are upside-down. The mouse arranges it like a cell phone, with 1 at the top. A keypad has 1 at the bottom.
So I had my left hand on WASD (always), my right on my number pad, and my left thumb used my touchpad. Yes, my laptop has both a number pad and a touch pad. No you can’t have it. Yes I am pro.
So it was with this ghetto setup that I (successfully) healed our progression raid on Sunday. It worked awesomely, of course, because I am awesome. (I am also competent).
By Tuesday, I had actually read my proof-of-exchange receipt and realized I didn’t have to mail in my old mouse until March 9th. So I ripped it back out of the box I forgot to mail and healed 25s. Go me.
I’ll wait to mail it until I get my new one, thank you very much.
-Del
…and I was about to beat my phone to death with a spoon (why a spoon, cousin? Because it’s blunt, it’ll hurt more you idiot) for eating my 800 word post… but hooray for wordpress’ auto-draft-saving I only lost 5 words. ๐ IMMD
What is up with the mobid horribles stories in the morning del LOL ๐
And girls like you described DO NOT EXIST.
….you healed sunday without a mouse? epic lol.
(why a spoon, cousin? Because itโs blunt, itโll hurt more you idiot) nice quote…robin hood: prince of thieves?
Good quotes are like good friends, you never forget them.
And yeah it was one of those hundred robin hoods
Isn’t the actor that uttered that line the same that plays Snape?
If not, I have no idea why my brain made that connection.
You are correct. Alan Rickman has a great knack for playing villains and depressed robots.
“It just puts 1234567890-+ on your mouse. ”
I will not be getting this mouse. That would fuck me up as I do use a couple of those (1 and 4).
You certainly have the most interesting mornings. I just had a headache.
How many hours left on the countdown?
Like I said, there is an option to switch it to your number pad instead of those, and I doubt you actually use that for keybinds right now.
The one issue I ran into while doing that was that the shift modifier refuses to cooperate with the number pad. It’s hard-coded into windows that shift+5 =/= shift+5, it becomes “end” and really screws over hardcore macro-ists like me.
13 and still not counting…
Do you get a stamp card every time you go to the hospital? Pay for 9 visits, get the 10th for free?
No, but I do work at a debt collection agency and have admin privileges.
For 5 more hours anyway ๐