Pally hotkey advice

[Siden]

Hi all,

Slowly levelling up my first char, a pally. Currently level 22. I've found that I'm neglecting large areas of skills in favour of cycling through my chants, so I'm hoping to get some hotkey advice as to what people use where. Do most pallys use the damage type moves, or just the aggro maintaining ones?

What would people recommend goes on the first hotkey bar? Ideally I'd have my best chants, best protect options, best shield options and best damage moves - but I have no idea if this is realistic !

Eventual spec is something like 46 chant, 42 shield, 39 slash and the rest parry - but don't quote me on that

Thanks,
Skek.

 

[Vasconcelos]

1 Engage
2 Riposte
3 Amethyst Slash
4 Backslash
5 Slam
6 AF chant
7 Damage chant
8 Endurance chant
9 Heal chant
0 Taunt shout


Do a complete chant cycle everytime you see the heal chant going off (aka double heal).

 

[Brynn]

1. Stick (im such a noob)
2. Slam
3. Amythest Slash
4. Ripost
5. Brutalize (50 sheild style, so not in your final Spec)
6. Heal Chant
7. Damage Add Chant
8. Sheild Chant
9. Endurance Chant
10. Taunt Shout

like Vasco said above, you press 6,7,8,9. and its easy to roll your fingers over it. And if you were wanting to use double heal you just roll your fingers backwards 9,8,7,6

 

[Farek]

pve bar:

1 taunt
2 guard
3 amy or enrage
4 slam
5 riposte
6 befuddler or some ml
7 heal chant
8 af or dmg, depends on if group have other dmg add or spec af
9 end
0 backslash

and

Do a complete chant cycle everytime you see the heal chant going off (aka double heal).

 

[Javai]

Generally:

1. Engage
2. Guard
3. Taunt
4. Ame Slash
5. Assist macro
6. Heal chant
7. Damage add
8. Slam
9. Sapping Strike/Ele ward/Anything else that I feel I need on a given day)
10. End chant

For some raids/mobs I replace 1 and 2 with other styles but generally find my job doesn't require them.

(Yes the things aren't in the most obvious places but if I move them then I just miss the buttons cos I'm too damned used to it, hence end cahnt is on slot 0 cos we got it and 10 qb slots about the same time )

 

[Javai]

PS: Used to have backslash on slot 2 but found ability to swap guard quickly much more important)

(Where's the edit button?)

 

[Antedeluvian]

Maybe you should wait until 42 chants to do the double heal, i think yellow end chant is not enought.

 

[Draxa]

maybe FH on main qb for perfect timing? dunno

and guard on main qb for rvr.

 

[Farek]

guard on guard bar for rvr >_<

 

[York]

I got.

1. Faith Heal
2. AF Buff
3. Ame Slash
4. Slam
5. Assist (/macro Assist /assist %t) or (/macro Master /macro Assist /assist %t ... put on hotbar 2 , target the main assist in group and it will make you an assist macro)
6. Heal Chant
7. End Chant
8. Dam Chant
9. Stick (/macro Stick /stick)
0. Taunt

I have found using these macros are useful:

/macro "Name" /qbar #
(Hotbar name: eg, RvR Group PvE Buffs etc)
(#: hotbars 1-0)

so if you wanted to make a buff macro for hotbar 2:

/macro Buffs /qbar 2

Then on slot 0 on hotbar 2 i use:
/macro MAIN /qbar 1


you can navigate round your hotbars alot easier and get alot more use out of them this way.

 

[Vasconcelos]

guard on guard bar for rvr >_<

---^

 

[Steffan-]

qbar1

My all around quickbar is:

1. Amy
2. Rippost
3. Guard
4. Slam
5. Taunt shout
6. Assist macro
7. end
8. dmg add
9. af chant
0. heal

Works really well for me xD

 

[Siden]

thanks

thanks for the tips all - will try out some combos tonight to see what suits my playstyle best

Skek.