Raemyi.2968

I click for anything right of "5". If my fingers leave WASD, I can't guarantee they'll find their way back accurately, and having to glance down to re-orient my fingers is a huge pain. Fancy gaming mice are off the table too - after 30 years of moving my mouse freestyle, I would hit the new buttons accidentally more often than not. This is why I use a controller on games like FFXIV; your hands never leave their resting position, so no given button press is a "risk" to execute. They're all equidistant.

I'm having trouble understanding the math of when Backstab is worth using, especially factoring in Malice boosts on Deadeye. I assume that when you're in a Meta camping behind the big boss it's surely better than auto-attacking, but should you build malice first with Heartseeker, or use it whenever stealth is available regardless of malice? What about when solo - is it worth it to stealth, pivot around to the back, and strike? What if you have quickness, as Deadeye does most of the time, so you're losing more strikes in that time? What if it's a static target like the broadside of an elder dragon, and you can't get behind it - still use backstab, or just auto attack it? EDIT: Does the conclusion change between offhand dagger (stealth skill) or pistol (powder/leap combo for stealth)? The Rifle skill is simpler, but i still sometimes wonder whether it's gaining much to stop my quickened 3-round burst spamming to use it just because malice is maxed out. I'm hoping more talented thieves have developed some "best practices" for this, not even necessarily on Deadeye in daggers' case.