INTRODUCTION:
This profile has been created by me, Count Zurgula, so all classes and builds bar healers can use an Xbox 360 control pad to play World of Warcraft (WoW).
A healer could choose to use this program with a few tweaks it would still work but I have designed it with Prot and DPS in mind.
Unlike profiles that have bound lame functions like map or backpack to the pad this is designed so any functions you don't need to access in a hurry are not bound to the pad.
This makes it useful for Player Versus Environment (PVE) and also Player Versus Player (PVP) as you have imediate access to at least 30 separate abilities/functions.
This profile really works and if you give it chance I'm sure you will love it, remember, while it may take you up to half an hour to setup and understand it took me a whole lot longer to create and document so be patient.
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INITIAL SETUP WoW:
To begin you must change a few key bindings and settings within the game, don't be afraid, its not complex and if at the end you don't like it you can revert back to default setting with a click of the button.
Firstly you must enable at least the bottom left and bottom right action bars.
Then in Keybindings, press default to ensure any previous changes you may have made are erased and then proceed to assign the bindings as follows.
Firstly the bottom left action bar:
1 = F1
2= F2
3 = F3 etc all the way to 12 = F12
(Tip:It is worth noting that F1 - F5 are originally assigned to party so if your a healer and you would like to try it out you may choose to leave the orignal few F keys allowing you to quickly select party members from the D - Pad.)
Next is the bottom right action bar:
2 = Numpad 1
3 = Numpad 2
5 = Numpad 3
6 = Numpad 4
8 = Numpad 5
9 = Numpad 6
This is so there is a gap between each set of 2 bindings shown on the action bar with the left being assigned to the back button and the right to the start button on your pad.
(Tip: set auto loot and self cast within wow as it helps within the software, more on this later).
Ok so far? Good because thats us done, you just need to start up the profile now, I have set it at default to work as a persistant profile as I frequently alt and tab out of WoW to check wowhead or the TS3.
Also, the profile is not set to launch WoW for you in case you DC or wish to restart the profiler without having repeat versions of the launcher running, if you choose to change this it's entirely up to you and will not alter the functionality of the profile.
Ok then, now you should have set your bindings, have Pinaccle running with my profile and are also running WoW.
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HOW DOES THE PAD WORK?:
The left bumper is your left mouse button and the right bumper is your right mouse button.
RB is set as a sticky key so click it once and your right joystick is a camera click right bumper again and it's your mouse including cursor.
(Tip: Turn on auto loot in WoW then leave the cursor at your feet while in camera mode and then double click the right bumper to loot bodies or mine nodes/herbs etc then straight back into camera, easy.)
While the right stick controls your mouse or camera the left is your movement and runs your character about.
The left and right triggers act as modifiers for the rest of the buttons.
The right joystick button will always make you jump.
The left joystick button will always target the nearest enemy unless you have the right trigger pressed when it will target your nearest friendly target.
(Tip: Hitting the button more than once enables you to tab through friend and foe quickly till you are targetting who you want.)
So we have covered the bumpers, triggers and joysticks so now I will explain the buttons, this may seem complex but trust me, it isn't, just give it a chance.
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Action Bar 1 : (A) (X) (Y) (B).
If you look at your interface, you should see the normal action bar with their corresponding buttons written in (1 - =)
If you press (a) on your 360 pad it will fire the ability assigned to 1 then (x) is 2, (y) is 3 and (b) is 4.
If you then hold the left trigger down (a) becomes 5, (x) is 6, (y) is 7 and (b) is 8.
If you hold the right trigger down (a) becomes 9, (x) is 0, (y) is - and (b) is =.
You now have imediate access to your initial action bar and the abilities it houses.
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Action Bar 2 : D-Pad.
The D-pad works in exactly the same way but for the action bar above, the one we assigned to the F - keys, so:
DPad Down = F1, DPad Left = F2, Dpad Up = F3 and DPad Right = F4
If you then hold the left trigger down DPad Down = F5, DPad Left = F6, Dpad Up = F7 and DPad Right = F8
If you hold the right trigger down DPad Down = F9, DPad Left = F10, Dpad Up = F11 and DPad Right = F12
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Action Bar 3 : Back / Start
The (back) and (Start) buttons work in the same way for the groups of 2 buttons we bound to the bottom right action bar.
So (back) = Numpad 1 (start) = Numpad 2 or the first set of 2 buttons.
With left trigger down (back) = Numpad 3 (start) = Numpad 4 or the second set of 2 buttons.
Or right trigger down (back) = Numpad 5 (start) = Numpad 6 or the third and final set of 2 buttons.
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SUGGESTIONS:
You can make this tool as complex or as simple as you like, for example, you may only wish to assign 10 abilities at first before using the left or right triggers to offer you more possibilites.
I would also suggest that you create your own way of assigning abilites to the buttons that makes sense to you.
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Say in the example of an Assination rogue you could set the first 4 buttons (A) (X) (Y) (B) as Kick, Mutilate, Envenom and Backstab.
Then the next with LT for abilities that use the combo points such as Rupture, Slice & DIce, Recouperate.
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Tankadins I set back & start for cooldowns such as 'Everyman for himself' & hand of freedom then with LT pressed I have Divine Protection, Ardent defender, and with the RT, Divine Shield and Lay on Hands.
I set the first 4 buttons (A) (X) (Y) (B) as Hammer of the righteous, Crusader strike, Judgement, and Shield of the righteous. Dpad to Mount, Rebuke, Hammer of wrath and Holy Shield.
Then (A) (X) (Y) (B) along with the LT as Hand of reckoning(taunt) Avengers Shield, Holy Wrath and Consecration. Dpad is set to buffs like Blessing of Kings and Seal of insight.
(A) (X) (Y) (B) with RT held down I have utilities such as Righteous Defence, Hammer of Justice, Exorcism, Word of glory. The Dpad is full of defensive abilites and heals such Holy light, Divine light, Hand of Protection as I can either self cast or use the left joystick to tab to an ally that needs help.
Again, these are just suggestions to get you thinking how you may want to set up your abilities, it does help if you make them into groups so it's less confusing.
So perhaps for a Preist without pressing either trigger I will have instant casts, LT I have casts that are channeled and RT I will get heals.
Or maybe arcane spells with no trigger, frost with LT and fire with RT for a mage, the list is endless and it is entirely up to you how you utilise my profile.
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CONCLUSION:
This may seem complex but after a while it becomes second nature and it is very intuitve, I have always played on a pad since my first character was level 10.
This was because playing with Mouse & KB hurt my back and had I not discovered a way to play using a pad I would not have bought the game after my trial and gone back to my 360 or PS3.
I sit at desk with mouse & Kb there for things like guild chat, levelling proffessions, browsing auction or clearing bank space.
You get the idea, there are some functions that are much better using a mouse and keyboard so to try and replace them is daft.
If you found the profile tricky to use I would advise you to either try it for farming or to level a new character.
This is because new toons only start with a few abilities therefore it would ease you into the system gently, assigning the abilites to your pad one by one as you learn them and before you know it your off!
For those who state you cannot play well on a pad I scoff at them, these are quite often the elitist trolls who know little or nothing of the game or their own class and spend the majority of their time pouring derision on other people as they are clearly unhappy or puny in real life.
I have not only attended raids using this system but ran them, I was GM of a raiding guild and using the pad on either my Rogue,who was consistently the highest DPS through all the WOTLK content or my Druid in Bear / Boomkin form with no issues in any raid or dungeon using the pad.
Since Catacylsm I no longer raid as I have a baby daughter and cannot devote the same amount of time to the game and running a guild full of divas etc so myself and the lads who are left mainly do Arena and PvP for which I use the pad.
If you like this profile and the notes I have made me you can find me on Terokkar realm under the guise of a Worgen Rogue called Stabba or a Blood Elf Palladin called Inquisita.
Feel free to drop me an ingame mail offering thanks, Ideas, suggestions or even a donation of gold hehe.
Thanks again for reading and I hope you enjoy it.
Al.
It appears most WoW profiles on this site are for the 360 controller so I set about setting up my own for the Logitech Rumblepad 2
The directional pad is used for movement (W A S D),
both joysticks are used for mouse and left joy click is left mouse, right is right.
Hold down the joy and then move it to look around, etc.
buttons 1 to 8 are 1 to 8 on the hotbar, while 9 (The button on the top left of the controller, left of the logitech logo is tab (For targetting purposes) while the one to the right is T (which is my mount button).
I don't have anything bound to space as I wasn't sure of an appropriate button for space.
Here's the config I use for World of Warcraft. It's only useful when grinding or doing basic quests. Don't try to raid with this! :-)
How it works: the face buttons correspond to your abilities in the first actionbar. Start with A and move counter-clockwise. So,
A=1
B=2
Y=3
X=4
Then hold the left trigger to engage Blue shift and get the second set, where
A=5
B=6
Y=7
X=8
For abilities 9-12, don't hold the left trigger, but do hold down the face buttons. So:
Hold A=9
Hold B=10
Hold Y=11
Hold X=12
I used the press-and-hold function for the digital pad. You'll see it when you load the profile. You can hold down the left shoulder for Ventrilo. I mapped the right shoulder to action 12, because I'm a mage and that's where I keep my wand.
The left joystick is not WASD: it's forward/back/strafe left/strafe right. That's because the right joystick lets you mouselook. It works pretty well. Hold down the left trigger and move the right joystick to move the mouse normally across the screen. The right trigger clicks. Hold the left trigger and press the right trigger to right-click.
Grinding mobs? Here's a tip: set auto-loot on in WoW's settings. Then keep your mouse cursor just to the right of your character. After you kill a monster, step forward so the cursor is over the monster, then just flick the right stick a little. Easy looting. Flick it again to skin the creature (if applicable).
Enjoy!
Heres a wow profile, Im sure ull love it, This same configuration can be used for almost any mmorpg of this kind.
NOTE this have a bug, no big deal, BTW I alredy reported it...
Well here ya have it folks the profile ive lvled my warrior on but its fairly universal, depending on how u configure your in game key bindings, and extremely easy to play . It should provide u enough actions to use all your spellbook abilitys and trinkets witout having to mouseover and click buttons.
Basiclly what ive done is added ctrl and alt as modifiers on a cycle comand that cycles ctrl/alt/ctrl+alt on a 1 second reset. There fore if u want ctrl u just hold down the left bumper, and if u want alt u double click it and hold it, if u want ctrl + alt u tripple click it and hold it. This will allow u to use your regular action bar as well as the bottem left, bottem right and right action bar 1 with ease. Giving u the ability to use 48 different action buttons at any given time, in an easy and quickly accessable way.
The right bumper ive asigned as a shift button.
With the left trigger unshifted u can target the enemy with a single press and attack them with a double press. With the left trigger shifted u select the nearest friend with a single press and assist target with a double press.
The right trigger is the right mouse button and the left mouse button is asigned to the right joystick button. Ive found this setup to be the easiest way to use the pointer, move the joystick and press it.
The left joystick button is to jump as well u can hold it down to autorun.
I have used Function keys F1 through F8 for the d pad. Unshifted i use them for my class abilitys and shifted i use them for selecting action bars 1 through 3. The fourth i use to toggle my quest log. This is going to require u to change your in game key bindings though.
So for your in game keybindings i use...(on my warrior)
(Left d pad) F1 = toggle map
(up d pad) F2 = special action 1 (Battle Stance)
(Right d pad)F3 = special action 2 (Defensive Stance)
(down d pad)F4 = special action 3 (Berserker Stance)
(Shifted left d pad) F5 = Quest log
(Shifted up d pad) F6 = action bar 1
(shifted right d pad) F7 = action bar 2
(Shifted down d pad)F8 = action bar 3
** u could change bindings F1 - F4 depending on your class
I have also bound Bottom left action bar to use ctrl+ 1 through =
and bound bottom right to alt+ 1 through =
also the right action bar1 to ctrl+alt+ 1 through =
also i've changed auto run to Numpad 0
u will have to change target friend to shift+tab
Its a little bit of work to make this profile work but ive tried switchblade and its very limited to the amount of action buttons that can be used without mouseing over and clicking buttons. This profile will save u the hastle of having to mouseover buttons which, ive found when playing with a controller, is a real hastle.
P.S. Im not exactly sure how i would post a picture of the profile set up if someone could tell me how i would gladly post it.
So I've been playing WoW with my Xbox 360 controller lately. After a lot of tweaking, I managed to get a profile that is very much functional. You won't be able to do extreme things with this, as the limitation for the controller is the movement of the mouse pointer, which can't be as precise nor as fast as actually using a mouse. But aside from that, this profile let's you do almost anything in WoW. You can further customize it to include more buttons; I'll explain how later. For now, download the profile and check it out.
You have to set the hot keys inside the WoW game. Go to the key binding options, select the first four action bar hot keys and press A, B, Y, X; then the next four hotkeys in your action bar should be selected with RT+A, RT+B, RT+Y, RT+X. Just like that you got 8 total easy to reach hotkeys for spells. The key here is that holding Right Trigger acts like Alt.
Next, give START an important hotkey location for whatever spell you use a lot, like Stealth for rogues. Now, holding the Left Trigger and pressing either A, B, X, Y will change to the respective action bar. This way you can have up to 32 hotkeys.
Basically, the left joystick controls your character's movement, and the right controls the camera (while pushing the left joystick acts as a right click and the left joystick as a left click). The inverse clicking is done so it's easier to loot. Just leave your pointer at your character's feet, or in case of a gnome, above him. When you kill a mob, go near him and the pointer will usually be in position, just press the left joystick and you loot. Simple.
When you press SELECT you enter the shifted scheme. The only change is that the right joystick now moves the pointer around. Pressing select again returns you to the previous camera mode. This is your basic way to move the pointer for accepting quests, managing items, etc.
The D pad you can configure for more hotkey options. Personally I use UP for auto run, LEFT for Quest Log, DOWN for map, and RIGHT for Inventory. You can configure four more hotkeys with this holding the Right Trigger. Right Bumper targets nearest enemy, Left Bumper targets nearest ally. You have to set this on the Keybinding Options inside WoW.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
On the WASD setup, instead of A and D being "turn", change them to "strafe" on the hotkey options. This helps a lot. You can turn using the camera.
On the Interface Options, select Auto-Loot, Self-Cast. This helps a lot.
Set your bag hotkey to open all bags at once, instead of just one.
Lastly, this profile was inspired by the Ultimate WoW Profile post here in the forums.
Good luck!
This is my gamer preset for World of Warcraft for use with the Xbox 360 USB controller (Not the play & charge wire) i know there is already a preset but people like to experiment.
Controll map.
Here is how i play wow with a 360 controller.
with this you can access up to 16 hotkey quickly with combination from pinnacle Shift feature and the control key binded to left bumper.
there is 2 different binding set 1 for pet class and 1 for Healing class. (work well with mage too)
The only difference between them is what the d-pad does. with healer you select party members with it. with pet class you give pet command.
you need the beta 4 to use this .
http://www.pinnaclegameprofiler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1142Have fun.
This is my first Game Profile and I felt like sharing it, so here it is. I set it up for my rogue but you can probable use it for other classes the commands just won't be as easy though :P . You'll have to go into key binding and assign "\" to Friends Window and "]" to Right Action Bar Button 1 and place your Hearthstone in that slot. Other than that if you kept the games controls as default you shouldnt have problems with the other buttons. I'd just like to add that this program is awesome too, never had so much fun using a game controller.
I don't know how to start, so this is how it works:
so, when you are not pressing anything, the controller works for movement, the left joystick for the WASD and also toggles to run when you move it more than the 60%
See this linkthe right joystick to the mouse movement. The left and right triggers to the left and right clicks and the left and right soulders to SHIFT BUTTON and regular shift
The D pad its configurated to activate the Character's page (C) the spells/skills (P) the Quest log (L) and the last one its for me to use the push-to-talkchat program.
The left joystick button has the "I" and in-game configuration that I created to auto-run
The regular shift button I used it to interact with the other buttons.
The B button has the B (in game to open the bag) AND shift + B opens all the bags
The Y button has the F (to assist and shift + F to follow)
the X button is mapped to M (to use the map)
and the A button has the Space (to jump)
Back and start buttons I use them to move forward or backwards the zoom
The right joystick button has the X to sit/stand.
NOW the shifted commands:
while pressing the left shoulder (SHIFT BUTTON) it becomes to combat mode.
the orientation for the "1" to " ' " buttons its like that for better ergonomic way to pressing the buttons
note: my keyboard its in spanish so I dont have that weird key that its at the right of the "0", so I use the " ' "
By just pressing the SHIFT BUTTON, you can access to the "shifted commands" (see image)
also the right shoulder leaves the shift button while shifted to become a macro that has Alt+Control.
By pressing the SHIFT BUTTON and the alt+control, you can access the "shifted alt control" (see image)
By pressing the SHIFT BUTTON and the left joystick button (now shift + Control) you can access the "Shifted shift Control" (yep, see image)
and by pressing the SHIFT BUTTON, the right shoulder and the left joystick button you can access the "Shifted shift alt control" commands (also see image)
Also as the
"ultimate wow" configuration, most of this works when you go to the game and modifies the bindings.
I think I covered all the basics for explaining this weird configuration (but it works perfect to me) so, anyone have any questions pls post them here ^^
Cya
Hey all,
I just came across this Program and these forums so I figured I'd share the
Profile I just created to play World of Warcraft with my X360 controller.
Personally I've got really limited space for my computer area so I find that
after long sessions the Keyboard/mouse can absolutely cramp my hands all
to crap so I created this and have been playing fine ever since. Keep the
Keyboard handy for chatting and you're golden.
I also recommend lowering your mouse sensitivity in game and switching
your Left and Right Turn Commands to Strafe (letting the the Camera to do
all the turning for you.)
Anyways, I love this setup and I won't be going back - actually, I tried the
software and bought it based off this, that's how satisfied I was.
Hope you like it and hope it saves you the ravages of carpal tunnel ;)
Cheers,
DefiantDragon
