Maybe a bit late for me to join this conversation, but I googled until I found this topic here on the forum because I sufferd the same issues and probably can help someone in the future with sharing my experiences in the game... :-)
After reading through all the good suggestions and experimenting for my self a bit this week I came to the following button setup that feels very clean and intoitive (to me at least). I play Elementalist (tempest) + Revenant characters which both use quite a lot of buttons in a pretty fast pace. Therefore I waned to get rid of the 6 - 0 and f1 - f4 buttons but also wanted to incorporate a f5 + special action button for future sakes, and lastley I wanted to keep some of the basic setup buttons liek F to ineract and the x to mount button because I already have the muscle memmory for them atm.
After reading the setup above and doing some tweaks which made a bit more scence to the way I felt I like to play this is what I came up with sofar:
1 to 5 for the normal attacks
shift 4 + 5 for utility 3 and 4
Mouse button 4 + 5 for Healing and Utility 1
Mouse 3 (scroll wheel pressed) for Elite skill
I changed the f1 to 4 > into > E (f1) Shift E (f4) R (f2) Shift R (f3) --- Last is because of paying elementalist and I wanted to have E being Fire and Earth into 1 because to my brain that made a bit more scense :-)
Also had bound Shift 2 and Shift 3 to the regular 4 and 5 attacks, this creates on Elementalist(Staff) a very fluid effect of dropping 2AoE first and then 5AoE prety quick as a follow up (or vice versa) which felt prety neat to me when figuring that out.
I even got the point where I was only using 123 + ER + WASD + SHIFT for the whole left side of the skillbar So I had all my Healing and Utiliy + Elite on my mouse (you need a mouse with a scrollbar pressable button and 2 extra buttons on the side, but i think those are hopefully better and cheaper to come by then the more expensive MMORPG Mouses).
Don't know if this will be the button layout i stick to but it felt like a little eureka moment and gives me the joy back to strat playing on my elementalist again (because I gave it up and started the Rev. in the hope it would be easier, which is is some cases but not in pressing a lot less buttons perse).
Hope this helps/inspires to explore some other options for playing! Because Ele's are awesome but if you just started playing the game for a few months like me not being used to the MMO genre there quite difficult to learn! Good luck and have fun!
Maybe a bit late for me to join this conversation, but I googled until I found this topic here on the forum because I sufferd the same issues and probably can help someone in the future with sharing my experiences in the game... :-) After reading through all the good suggestions and experimenting for my self a bit this week I came to the following button setup that feels very clean and intoitive (to me at least). I play Elementalist (tempest) + Revenant characters which both use quite a lot of buttons in a pretty fast pace. Therefore I waned to get rid of the 6 - 0 and f1 - f4 buttons but also wanted to incorporate a f5 + special action button for future sakes, and lastley I wanted to keep some of the basic setup buttons liek F to ineract and the x to mount button because I already have the muscle memmory for them atm. After reading the setup above and doing some tweaks which made a bit more scence to the way I felt I like to play this is what I came up with sofar: 1 to 5 for the normal attacks shift 4 + 5 for utility 3 and 4 Mouse button 4 + 5 for Healing and Utility 1 Mouse 3 (scroll wheel pressed) for Elite skill I changed the f1 to 4 > into > E (f1) Shift E (f4) R (f2) Shift R (f3) --- Last is because of paying elementalist and I wanted to have E being Fire and Earth into 1 because to my brain that made a bit more scense :-) Also had bound Shift 2 and Shift 3 to the regular 4 and 5 attacks, this creates on Elementalist(Staff) a very fluid effect of dropping 2AoE first and then 5AoE prety quick as a follow up (or vice versa) which felt prety neat to me when figuring that out. I even got the point where I was only using 123 + ER + WASD + SHIFT for the whole left side of the skillbar So I had all my Healing and Utiliy + Elite on my mouse (you need a mouse with a scrollbar pressable button and 2 extra buttons on the side, but i think those are hopefully better and cheaper to come by then the more expensive MMORPG Mouses). Don't know if this will be the button layout i stick to but it felt like a little eureka moment and gives me the joy back to strat playing on my elementalist again (because I gave it up and started the Rev. in the hope it would be easier, which is is some cases but not in pressing a lot less buttons perse). Hope this helps/inspires to explore some other options for playing! Because Ele's are awesome but if you just started playing the game for a few months like me not being used to the MMO genre there quite difficult to learn! Good luck and have fun!
