I'm curious how other shaman have their keybindings set up. I've been trying to maximize the efficiency of my keybindings before I get to level 70, where I will be doing PvE and arenas both (I'm currently level 63).

My biggest concern is that I got into the habit, basically since I started playing any healing class, of using F1-F5 for my heals. I was reading an old thread about keybindings and I realize I need to keep F1-F5 for targeting party members, especially in the arena. I'm working on redoing my keybindings as I type this, I'm just curious how other players have their keys set up, especially their heals. I was thinking about making my heals 1-5, but is that a bad idea?

Here are my current keybindings on my level 63 resto shammy.

F1- Lesser Healing Wave
F2- Healing Wave (1 rank below max)
F3- Healing Wave max rank
F4- Chain Heal
F5- NS + trinket + max Healing Wave
F6- NS + Trinket + Chain Lightning

1- Earth Shield (gonna change this)
2- Lightning Bolt (gonna change this)
3- Rank 1 Earth Shock
4- Max Rank Earth Shock
5- Purge
6- Totemic Recall
7- Chain Lightning (rarely use)
Q- War Stomp
E- PvP Trinket
R- Spell dmg/healing trinket (gonna change this)
F- Mana Spring Totem
Shift + F - Searing Totem (I use mana spring and searing when I grind)
Z- Water Shield
X- Flame Shock
C- Frost Shock
Shift + C - Earthbind Totem
V- Ghost Wolf
` - Cure Poison
Shift ` - Cure Disease
Shift 1- Grounding Totem
S2 - Poison Cleansing Totem
S3 - Tremor Totem
S4 - Strength of Earth Totem
S5 - GoA Totem

Any other totems not listed I click, since I don't use them very much.

For both my priest and my shaman I've always used 1-5 for healing spells because they're quite easy to hit and they're also pretty easy to hit in combination with shift and control, shift 1-5 and control 1-5 will be lower ranks(depending on the heal) of the heal corresponding to the original #(ie 1 = LHW, shift 1 = rank 6, ctrl 1 = rank 4).

I have every totem hotkeyed and more important totems on easier to remember/reach keys and some what grouped. A couple examples would the be the group of hotkeys near where my hand rests, these are the easiest to hit keys and therefore has some of the more important totems on them: Tremor = H, Grounding = Z, Shift Q(still use Q for strafe) = Rank 1 magma totem, another group of totems would be the more raid related ones such as wrath of air and mana spring. For this grouping I did it by element, F1, Shift F1 and Control F1 are all water related totems and F1 being the easiest to hit is the water totem I use most frequently, shift F1 is mana tide and control F1 is healing stream. This pattern continues with the other 3 elements on F2, F3, and F4. F5 and F6 are misc not so important totems like resist and fire nova and magma totems, and any totems not hotkeyed yet are really rarely used totems like tranquil air and sentry I put on the numberpad.

Other important spells sort of follow the same pattern, really important things like purge are F, another pretty easy to hit hotkey, and just to list some more; Lightning bolt is R, CL is shift R, heroism is ctrl R, totem recall is C, water, earth, and lightning shield are V, shift V, and ctrl V.

I leave my mouse for things like poison and disease cleansing and adding shift to use poison and disease cleansing totems, middle mouse button is NS.

I'd be happy to name everything and give you the complete list if you'd like but I think you get the idea and by looking at your list you sort of seem to be doing the same thing, making important and frequently used things easy to get to and use and not so important things further away. I really think that those things are really all thats important when it comes to doing keybindings, making the pattern like I did for F1-F6 also helped me in being able to finally memorize all of my keybindings(I hide all of my bars so I need to know everything).

As for the F1-F5 keys being used to target party members I sort of see that as a waste, F1-F5 are fairly easy to reach buttons and I like to have them for other things. Personally I just mouseover peoples names for healing, although pre 2.0 I had an amazing macro that became broken with that patch that would let me target anyone in my party without having to click. It basically just let me hit the macro X times to get to X player.. tab was the hotkey I made it so two hits of tab brought my target selection to party member #2 and so on. I really miss having that macro and I tried to get people to fix it for me but I never had any luck. Now a days it's not so important as I'm rarely in a party and I've become pretty comfortable with grid and using mouseover.

I use all the letters around my movement keys for my most often used and critical skills. The more often/faster reaction time needed, the closer they are to the usual WASD movement keys.

R = Shock my focus target, or shock my current target if I have no focus.
T = Frost Shock
F = Max rank healing wave
Shift F = HW rank 8
Control F = HW rank 6
V = LHW
Shift V = Chain heal max rank
Control V = Chain heal rank 2
G = cure poison
Alt G = Poison cleansing totem
Shift G = Cure Disease
Control G = Disease cleansing totem
X = Purge
1 = NS+Trinkets + HW
2 = tremor
3 = Grounding
4 = random air totem depending on the group (GoA or WF)
5 = Water shield
Shift 1 = Earthbind
Shift 2 = Earth Shield
Shift 3 = Chain Lightning

Other totems are done with YATA and keybinds, control 1, 2, 3, and 4 for earth fire water and air. I use one of the thumb buttons on my mouse for Totemic recall, and the other for autorun.

I use ` for reply to tell since R is bound, and shift ` for inspect, since I am an impulsive inspector.

Trinkets, mounts, other things are all clicked. Some things I don't even have on my bars (Lightning bolt, unless I respec elemental, etc.)

I find the setup with all the keys clustered close really nice for reaction time and ease of use

Note: currently lowbie Enhancement Shaman with some minor instance / BG healing experience.

WSAD-movement controls, FPS-style (S and D is strafe, not turn).

Ctrl-Q = Healing Wave (mouseover, target, self macro)
Ctrl-E = Lesser Healing Wave (mouseover, target, self macro)
F = Purge
E = Fire Nova Totem
T = Windfury Totem (Rank 1 only atm, will swap out for Rank 2 and keep it there once available due to mana concerns)
1 = Start attack macro and attack indicator
2 = Lightning Bolt
3 = Frost Shock (Rank 1)
4 = Earth Shock (Rank 1)
5 = Flame Shock (max rank)

Alt-2 = Earth Bind Totem
Alt-3 = Tremor Totem
Alt-4 = Grounding Totem

Ctrl-Shift-Q = Instance Group Macro (Strength of the Earth, Windfury, Totemic Recall on sequence, resets to Recall after combat)


I am considering going over to a ESDF movement scheme, which allows for more easily accesible buttons (or just say "to heck with it" and go for RDFG for even more accesibility, at the loss of easy shift- and controling).
I levelled to 60 with Rogue and Warrior and to 70 with Hunter, and neither of these classes require the awesome numbers of keys that any "real" caster / healer does (also, Warrior stance-change == bind change is very nifty). On my Mage (59 atm) I went for a ESDF-movement scheme to be more comfortable playing.

I would really recommend doing this as the WASD movement system does not allow you to have many pressable buttons, at the benefit of very comfortable ctrl / shift capabilities. If you have a spot of money over (even if you are a student) you should consider getting a keyboard that fits your hands - mine are rather large (queue jokes...) but if yours aren't then normal keyboards may cause a bit of strain while doing ctrl/shift-ing in a non-WASD setting.

Note that to free up a button I often rebind "reply to tells" with backspace (prevents the embarrassing "[Whisper] [<guildie>] sssssssssssdddddddddd33333ffffffff").

Get a good mouse (fits well into your hand) or trackball which is sensitive enough to allow you good control with low levels of strain and as many buttons as you are comfortable with.

Finally, no matter which basic movement control scheme you use, I would recommend that you do the same basic scheme for all your characters - it was very disorienting swapping from my Hunter (WASD) to my Mage (ESDF) controls, even if the "keybindings per character" option allows it.

Hope this helps!

Edit: Currected F for D in FPS-control explanation
Edit2:
Addons - currently I use Enhancer, Numen and GotWood for shaman testing purposes.
I use SmartBuff for auto-buffing Lightning Shield and Windfury, and SmartDebuff for easy cleansing of Disease/Poison.
I also have Grid, but have not set it up yet, and use Pitbull unit frames.

1: Bloodlust Brooch
2: Attack
3: Stormstrike
4: Flame Shock
5: Earth Shock
Shift-1: Frost Shock
Shift-2: Purge
Shift-3: Water Shield (Switch this to Lightning Shield for PvP (I don't do much PvP))
Shift-4: Windfury Weapon
Shift-5: Totemic Recall
Mouse 4: Heroism
Mouse 5: Shamanistic Rage
Q: Bloodlust Brooch
E: Lesser Healing Wave
G: Healing Wave
Z: Cure Disease
F: Cure Poison
Shift-Q: Tremor Totem/Grounding Totem macro.
Shift-E: Windfury/Strength of Earth macro.
Shift-G: Grace of Air/Strength of Earth macro.
Shift-X: Gift of the Naaru
Shift-V: Ancestral Spirit
X: Flying Mount
V: Ground Mount

May be strange to some, but its very nice for me. And I absolutely hate rearranging them.

I use Yata for the rest of my totems.

I used to have a similar setup to Aeolian on my Shaman (but I can't remember every key anymore) and many principles apply to all classes.
Binding keys close to the movement keys (wasd) is a given (I consider F5+ ,6+,Z, H, N out of reach for my keyboard)
I found using direct binds closest to the movement keys or the mouse for the most timing intensive things like ES (Q) best while I bound everything which is fine to come with a small delay to shift+the same keys as I use my keyboard for typing a lot and shift+letter comes pretty natural from there. Heals are on 1-5+modifiers although I'd consider having a NS+Heal macro in an even better position for PvP. The more important totems are on shift+key while the less important ones are on my function keys.
I have everything I found remotely necessary bound, even riding on F5+modifiers (yes its out of reach but still better than clicking) since I hate repetitive mouse+clicking tasks.
Things I really used rarely were on a hidden bartender bar that only appears on mouseover (windwall totem...) and for me this has worked a lot better than Yata since I'm not limited to arranging totems in this way and I'm not bound to arranging totems according to their elements, either. I hope this gave you some ideas, although I can't provide an exact list of bindings since I don't have a WoW account anymore.

I've become very comfortable using the Ctrl and Shift keys as toggles when I'm using WASD for movement. Before trying this I would have two mouse buttons under my thumb for twitch sensitive abilities. With Ctrl and Shift modifiers, I have six abilities bound to those two mouse buttons. F, G, V, E and R also have three bound abilities each. Once I know where everything is at, I hide the actionbars and just use hourglass to keep track of cooldowns. It's not for everyone, but it has worked out great for me.

I use Ctrl + A for assist. That binding allows me to constantly spam it without moving any of my fingers from where they naturally rest in a WASD config.

I use a raid frame healing addon, so I don't change my keybindings from where they are when I solo.

~ - Nature Swiftness
1 - Auto attack
2 - Lightning Bolt
3 - Lesser Healing Wave (max rank)
4 - Earth Shock
5 - Flame Shock
6 - Frost Shock
7 - Chain Lightning
8 - Heavenly Inspiration Trinket
9 - Healing Spring
- - Mana Spring
= - Mana Tide
Bksp - Gift of the Naruu

WASD - Movement

R - Purge

F1 - Grinding Macro - Searing Totem, Mana Spring Totem
F2 - Water Shield
F3 - Earth Shield
F4 - Lightning Shield

Most everything else is handled by Totumus, CT Bar Mod, and Healbot Contined. The rational behind this is ease of use in soloing, light PVP, and utility in raids for spell interrupts and Nature's Swiftness...

I don't have a button on my screen (aside from chaman2's totem, shield and weapon bars), so here goes:

1- macro that I need for a boss fight, or insignia of the horde, depending on situation
2- Tremor Totem
3- Ghost Wolf
4- Flame Shock(Rank 1)
5- Totemic Recall
q- Earth Shock(Rank 1)
e- Frost Shock(Rank 1)
r- Lightning Bolt
f- Purge
g- Bloodlust
x- Drink
caps- Healthstone
tab- Mana Potion
mouse3- Grounding Totem
mouse4- Earthbind Totem
s4- Flame Shock(Max Rank)
s5- castsequence macro for a current set of totems, changed based on situation
sq- Earth Shock(Max Rank)
se- Frost Shock(Max Rank)
sr- Chain Lightning
sf- War Stomp
sx- Health Potion
stab- Drums of Restoration
c1- Astral Recall
c2- Ground Mount
c3- Flying Mount
c4- Hearthstone
c5- Far Sight
cq- Water Breathing
ce- Water Walking
cr- Lightning Bolt(Rank 1)
cx- Bandage
ctab- Drums of Battle

For healing, I use Clique, and here are my bindings for it:
left- Lesser Healing Wave(Max Rank)
sleft- Chain Heal(Max Rank)
cleft- Chain Heal(Rank 1)
aleft- Open Menu
middle- Nature's Swiftness
smiddle- Earth Shield(Max rank out of combat, Rank 1 in-combat)
cmiddle- Healing Wave(Rank 1)
amiddle- Assist
right- Healing Wave(Max Rank)
sright- Cleanse Poison
cright- Cleanse Disease
aright- Ancestral Spirit

I use the numpad for raid consumables, and 6 through backspace for itemrack sets.

I squeeze a little more out of my keybindings using macros like

/cast [modifier:ctrl] Grace of Air Totem; [modifier:alt] Windfury Totem; Grounding Totem

/cast [modifer:ctrl] Earth Shock (rank 1); Earth Shock

/cast [modifier:ctrl] Lightning Shield; [modifier:alt] Water Shield; [target=self] Lesser Healing Wave

/cast [modifier:ctrl] Fire Nova Totem; [modifier:alt] Magma Totem; Flame Shock

And others along the same line. Because I'm prone to fat fingering keys when they are lined up in a row, I mapped the secondary key bindings for the number row to the key pad so that

Number Row = Keypad
1 = 5
2-4 = 1-3
5-7 = 7-9
8 = 4
9 = 6

What this does is gives me a good resting place for my actions just like for movement, so that I never have to move my fingers more than 1 space away from home to hit an action, and with the macros my left hand can hit alt or ctrl for different actions on the same button.

Thanks for all the replies.

I forgot to mention I use WASD for moving, although you probably figured that out. As for assist I just recently bound it to mouse wheel up, which I stole from the other keybindings thread. It made the most sense to me and I didn't have my mouse wheel bound to anything else.

Using the number pad to drop non-lifesaving totems saved me a lot of key binds close to the movement keys.

First and most importantly, I have my CTRL key where Caps Lock is traditionally found (I use a really nice small-form unix keyboard, but remapping the keys via the Windows registry works too). This, I believe, is really the best move you can make in setting up efficient keybinds because it will literally triple the amount of functions available to you without moving your hand away from 'WASD' (since with CTRL down, the 'WASD' keys become available for other actions). Here's what I have:

1 = PVE totems macro (Mana Spring, Wrath of Air, Totem of Wrath, Tremor Totem)
2 = Earth Shock macro (hold alt to downrank)
3 = Flame Shock macro (hold alt to downrank)
4 = Frost Shock macro (hold alt to downrank)
5 = Bloodlust (which I usually just click because it's a tad out of reach for me)
P = Purge

Notice the above are all instant-cast: It's way easier to hit 1-5 and P while moving (with WASD) and not so easy to hit, say CTRL+E while moving. This is why I mostly save chorded bindings for actions I can't perform while moving.

The bindings below (with the exception of Totemic Call) are for "healing mode". Since you can't move while healing as a shaman, I park my pinky over CTRL and hold it whenever I'm healing. When I do this, my first three fingers naturally find themselves over the 2, 3, 4 keys. Perfect.

CTRL+1 = Totemic Call
CTRL+2 = Healing Wave
CTRL+3 = Lesser Healing Wave
CTRL+4 = Chain Heal

Likewise, since I can't move when spamming LB/CL, so I use chorded bindings for them as well:

CTRL+E = Lightning Bolt (shift E triggers top trinket)
CTRL+D = Elemental Mastery/Chain Lightning macro (shift D triggers bottom trinket)

Other miscellaneous bindings (again, all easy to reach from WASD and with CTRL/Capslock interchanged):

CTRL+Q = Cure Poison (shift Q for Cure Disease)
CTRL+W = Nature's Swiftness/Healing Wave macro
CTRL+S = Far Sight
CTRL+A = Ancestral Spirit
CTRL+X = War Stomp
X = Mount
F = Ghost Wolf
T = Bandage
C = PVP totems macro (Grounding Totem, Tremor Totem, Searing Totem, Poison Cleansing Totem)

I also use the Middle Mouse button to refresh Water Shield (or Lightning Shield if CTRL is held down) and have other not-so-often-used abilities bound to various function keys (like professions).

I should also note that I have all of my nukes macro'd so that if I'm targeting a friendly player, the nuke will target my target's target. It makes assisting a real breeze and requires one less keypress than the default setup.

All of my heals are built with the same macro that has a line in it that lets me just heal by having a an opposing target selected.

/cast [target=targettarget, exists, help] Chain Heal(Rank 5)

Is the line line in the macro and like I said I can just select an enemy and use whatever heal I want and it heals who they are targeting.

My only problem with binding assist to mousewheel up, is that I've found target nearest enemy and target previous to work wonderfully with the mousewheel (scroll up for next target, back for previous target), as opposed to the unintuitive tabbing system.

I still like to be able to move my camera with the mousewheel, so a shift mousewheel cycles through enemy targets, and a control mousewheel cycles through friendly targets. This also makes it SO much easier to target previous.

I use macros for most of my common buttons:

1 is my stormstrike macro, I spam it to keep autoattack up and use stormstrike:

2 is flame shock, 3 earth shock, 4 frost shock. They have a macro like so to do rank 1 when holding alt:

5 is Purge

6 is my general purpose macro slot:
- When resto is is a NS macro:
- When Enhancement, it is my Shamanistic Rage macro. Pops all my trinkets and SR, and pops other trinket when out of 15 second shared cooldown:
7, 8, and 9 are lhw, chain heal, and hw. All are macroed for /stopcasting for clipping heals with lag timing. Chain heal has a rank 1 macro when alt is pressed. I copy this to my 1 button when resto. They also all will equip my shield when clicked via itemrack.

Note that I do NOT normally hit those buttons to heal, they are there when I need to stand still and chain cast for the stopcasting macro and auto shield equip.


All my heals are bound to mouse clicks with Clique.

Shift-left click is max rank HW, ctrl-left click is max rank LHW, alt-left click is rank 7 or so HW (whichever is around same healing as LHW). Middle click is chain heal, alt-middle click is rank 1 chain heal. Shift right click is depoison, ctrl-right click is cure disease. These work on all my frames, including target of target.


Q is Windfury totem, alt-Q is Poison Cleansing totem. E is grounding totem, alt-E is tremor totem. I'm still working on binding other totems to keys. I click all my other totems in a flexbar grid I've had set up in the lower left of my screen forever (sorted by element and priority). I only started keybinding totems when I started doing arena seriously. Trying to figure out where I want to bind earthbind totem. Maybe F.

I unbound R for replying to people, hit it accidentally too much. Rebound it to shift-R.

I click all my weapon buffs/mounts/shields. Haven't seen a reason to keybind those.

I use potions directly out of my inventory, which I usually keep in a Bagnon window shoved off the right side of my screen. I don't use them often enough to warrant keybinding them at this time. My inventory is arranged with this in mind, with all my consumables down the left side of the window, long term items like totems, ankhs, etc around the upper right corner, and gear all along the right and bottom sides. With space in the middle for picked up items.

I have a few buttons set up with item rack macros for switching to a Two Hander or Shield. And then there's my weapon buff macro (Although I've been too lazy to get rid of my individual weapon buff buttons since I made it):

Yeah, I know it can be simplified to just cast WF unless I'm using a shield, but I like this in case I ever want to change specific buffs.

My Enhancement shaman keybinds:

1: Autoattack
2: Stormstrike
3: Flame shock
4: Earth shock
5: Water shield
6: WF weapon

Ctrl+1: Shamanistic rage macro, pops my trinket as well.
Ctrl+2: Totem castsequence. I have 2 macros, one with WF, one with GoA.
Ctrl+3: Fire nova/Searing rotation. Used on boss fights where JoW is up.
Ctrl+4: Totemic call.
Ctrl+5: Trinket.
Ctrl+6: Bloodlust. (I might be a draenei, but it's still bloodlust to me)

I don't totem twist, but it's something I should at least try. The fire nova rotation macro is new, I've been trying it out on gruul recently. Worked out fairly well, I got second on our last run, according to WWS. It'll be interesting to try to twist GoA/WF and do my Fire nova/searing rotation as well as hitting Stormstrike whenever WF is off of cooldown.

The two totem castsequence macros are for raiding, when I'm in with the DPS warriors and rogues with WF, and the other one with GoA is for farming/5-mans with a feral tank.

I need to unlearn my bindings, then do them over from scratch to maximize efficiencies. Since I've started raiding it's been a case of paring down my bindings and bars until there's nothing left but the absolute minimum. Although I am playing on a 15" screen, it cuts down on the amount of real estate I can devote to non-essentials.

I don't have any heals bound to keys, mainly because if I need to heal in a raid environment things have already gone completely wrong.

Learn to walk before you run. Copying someone's keybindings straight up is probably going to take you longer to learn than to set up something that makes sense for you. Shaman have more bindings than any other class I've played. Other classes may have close to as many abilities but none can use them all at the same time.

Here's how I made sense of it: I isolated what spells need to have bindings on keys, what can be used in click casting, and what I can simply mouse click. I'm a big fan of keybindings, but I've yet to run into a situation where the day was saved by hitting astral recal, windwall totem, or sentry totem with keybinds rather than clicks. You've got to do this for your regular spells, special abilities, totems and heals.

If you go by healing spells, I have NS, max rank HW, max rank LHW and remove poison directly bound to keys. I have LHW max, HW max, rank 1 and rank 9, max rank chain heal, remove disease, and remove poison on click casts. If I want to cast some other healing spell, I'd have to open up my spell book. I'm thinking about putting a downranked chain heal in clique, but I don't have mana issues and overhealing isn't that big of a deal.

Using clique and grid is the fastest and most natural way I've found to heal in pvp, 5 mans and raids and I play all three specs often. Using the f keys to target party members is nice and all but it gets crazy once you get larger than one party you have to watch out for. In addition, it depends on how you're wired but I don't see how using fkeys to target party members in arenas is any faster than click casting unit frames. Ask someone in the 2000+ brackets, I bounce between guild teams on a casual basis at the 1800 level. Another nice thing about clique casting heals is you never lose your current target (essential for both enhance and elemental spot healing or to track boss debuffs etc while being a resto raid leader). The mod always returns you to your last target and lets you retain your target and focus windows.

Now where to put these on keys. Here it doesn't matter that much but I have some advice. Anything you can use instantly, put near wasd or on your mouse. Anything that you have to stop in order to cast, put further out, and you can even use shift/ctr/alt modifiers on wasd keys to keep your binding area pretty compact. For me, NS = mouse 4, lhw = 5. With clique you can do a ton of binds while using shift/ctrl/alt in combination with mouse 1-3. I'd recommend you do not use mouse 1 or 2 alone without some modifier though. Makes trading, etc more difficult.

Next do this with your nukes, shocks, purges, and shields. All of these should be close so that you have instant access, while main nuke spells should be comfortable. Example: Earth shock max rank is 4, rank 1 is Shift-4, max rank lb is Shift e, rank 1 lb is ctrl e, chain lightning is shift-a, etc etc. Make sure you can cast all your shocks, bloodlust, lightning shield and purge while on the run.

Now do totems. Here, I go somewhat phonetically. F = fear = /stopcasting tremor totem, E = earthbind, G = /stopcasting grounding totem, etc. It start to get a little contrived with the various alt/ctrl/shift modifiers I use, but I have them memorized and they make sense to me. Do something like this for your char and then practice with it in pvp. PVP is the only way you're going to really learn your keybinds. Make sure you can cast tremor, grounding, earthbind, poison cleansing, and fire nova on the run. (IE reach the binds while holding down w). Also, I really recommend not doing a cast sequence for your totems. Bind them individually and learn them. Also, bind damn near all of them. Searing, Magma max and r1, fire nova, all the resist totems, healing/mana stream, goa, wf, ta, woa, etc etc etc. Ones you can skip are windwall, sentry, stoneskin, and I click my elementals.

If you're really scraping the bottom of the mana barrel you don't want to have to plop down a strength of earth totem before you get to mana spring, or if you only have a few hundred mana after bloodlust, make sure it's windfury that you put down. These things haven't happened to me, but I've seen lots of stupid things happen anytime you try to automate totem dropping.

My final tip is if you play all three talent specs often, keep the talent specific abilities in common locations. For instance, when I'm enhance 1 is stormstrike, Shift 1 is dps trinkets, mouse 4 is shamanistic rage, T is assist MA. If I go resto, 1 becomes earth shield macro, mouse four becomes NS, shift 1 is healing trinkets, T becomes mana tide. If I'm elemental, 1 becomes elemenal mastery, Shift 1 is trinket, mouse 4 is NS and T is a long stop casting macro that uses NS, EM, trinket, and chain lightning for the ranged execute.

Any time I switch my talent builds I just have to change gear, retrain earth shield ranks, and swap out two or three binds.

One last tip: use a cooldown timer addon so you can track your ability cooldowns and hide your bars. Never look at your bars for cooldown information.

Final final tip: If you have an action bar mod, take a free action bar and put three buttons on them: earth shock, lightning bolt, and healing wave. Shrink the bar down and make only three buttons visible and put it next to your target unit frame. Finally, have them red or gray out when out of range. You now have an instant rangefinder without needing to see all your actionbars.

Once you get all that taken care of you can start to squeeze in advanced topic stuff such as macro sets for focus targets, target swapping, etc etc. Get your basic ability bindings down and the rest becomes easy.

Great post, I just have one minor thing to add. You can use shift/ctrl/alt modifiers on instant cast spells you want to cast on the run, by using your mouse to move while you use them. Normally, when I'm moving, I use my w key to move, and my mouse to turn. However, when I need to hit shift 4 for example (max rank flame shock), I simply hold down both mouse buttons, controlling all my movements with the mouse.

I don't exactly have them set up for specifically enhancement, as I occasionally respec (the only things that move when I do are SS and SR), but anyway:

1: SS
2: Lightning Bolt
3: Flame Shock (max)
4: Frost Shock (max)
5: Chain Lightning
6: Lesser Healing Wave
7: Healing Wave
8: Chain Heal

Side mouse button: Purge
Shift + side mouse button: Cleanse Poison [macro, does target, ToT, self]
Ctrl + side mouse button: Cleanse Disease [same as above]

Mouse wheel click: Earth Shock (Target, max rank)
Shift + mouse wheel: Earth Shock (rank 1, focus if I have one, else target)
Ctrl + mouse wheel: Grounding Totem

Shift 1: Gift of the Naaru [macro, ToT / self]
Shift 2: Windfury Weapon
Shift 3: Lightning Shield
Shift 4: Ghost Wolf
Shift 5: Bandaid

Ctrl 1: Shamanistic Rage
Ctrl 2: Trinket macro
Ctrl 3: Water Shield
Ctrl 4: Mount
Ctrl 5: Water
Ctrl 6: Food



I tend to click all of my totems except grounding, which is probably a bad thing, but I haven't been able to find a key to bind them to that I'm not already using (or used to using for something else).

http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/tle/moo/keybinds.jpg

1 - healing wave rank 1 (or lightning bolt or remove poison)
2 - healing wave rank 7
3 - frost shock
4 - healing wave rank 12
5 - chain heal rank 5
6 - lesser healing wave rank 7
7 - and beyond i don't usually reach with my left hand (right hand mouse)

Alt-1 - applicable totem (either resist or poison cleanse)
Side mouse button - applicable totem (windfury or wrath or tranq)
side mouse button 2 - earth totem (str or tremor)
alt 4 - earth shock
(middle mouse button) - grounding totem


Those are basicly the easy to get to things I use.