Well, I have had someone try to help me over the phone with this, but I cannot seem to get the hang of what she’s telling me.
I am currently using the mouse, but from what I am being told, it’s much easier to use the keypad.
I’ll just keep trying. Some days I’m a little more “on the ball” than others.
Thanks for all the advice!
Quasi
Quite honestly, unless you’re a worldwide top level professional arena player, or are getting payed to do speedruns I highly doubt it matters, and even then. I’m one to notice lag very quickly and my MX Revolution is hardly noticeable in that regard - and by “hardly” I mean “not at all.” Maybe the lower end cordlesses still have this issue, but I can quite easily score in the top 3 in FPS games (which are way more reaction intensive) with this thing.
Besides, mastering clicking will only get you so far, there’s a reason rudimentary combat efficiency is measured in keys pressed and not times clicked (at least it is in WCIII and Starcraft, I’ve seen the terminology applied to WoW, but it may not be as widespread in MMOs).
I used to be a clicker, there really is no comparison, especially if you play a class with talents that reduce global cooldown after certain skills (I think DK has one off-hand not sure about other classes), there’s barely enough time to reach certain skills in the GC, much less half that. If you can’t get into the swing of hotkeying, I’d actually recommend taking a 1-2 week break from WoW, which is usually enough to flush some of your habits enough that you can replace them.
Now, to almost completely contradict what I just said, I’d take “attack” off the hotbar completely, right clicking accomplishes the same task just as easily while you’re selecting the mob (tab+targeting is very inefficient, and often leads to mistargets at best and wipes from pulling adds at worst), and especially as a warrior there’s rarely a time in combat that you’re NOT auto-attacking (abilities excluded).
I’m obviously not a warrior, so take that with a grain of salt, but generally what I said seems to be the generally accepted community principles.
However, this is also the “play your best” stuff, I was still a good warlock when I clicked, and I was good enough to be a top-tier instance pick and 4 man all but one boss in (post-nerf) Scholo with two locks, a rogue, and a shadowformed priest with only the priest at 60 (though I’ve never raided for various reasons) in guilds and among friends, so the real answer to any of these questions is “play however you damn well please,” all the stuff I said is merely small ways to improve your game. I was good, I just got better, and if there’s one place it’s noticeable, it’s leveling. With faster reactions and more bindings you survive longer and kill faster which are integral to the two most important aspects of leveling (get XP and don’t die).
This sentence is just to end my post, because that last paragraph was originally a closing sentence and I kept needlessly expanding on it so I need something completely different to stop typing.
Maybe the best thing to help me would be for someone to suggest key bindings for a level 9 Alliance human warrior, because I still don’t know exactly what I can do at this level and what I can’t.
I don’t think that a level 60 is going to help me if I don’t have those skills yet.
I now know HOW to bind them, I just don’t know what I want my guy to do.
Thanks
Q
Hmmm. At level 9, I think I had the following in Battle Stance
1-Charge
2-Heroic Strike
3-Rend
4-Hamstring
5-Thunderclap
To autoattack, you may be used to pressing 1 since that’s the default key when you first start out. I learned to autoattack by right clicking your target mob with the mouse.
I still clicked many other abilities and as such, put those on the secondary bars above your main bar.
As far as addons go, I fell in love with using WowMatrix to maintain them. It supports all the mods I currently use and makes keeping them up to date a breeze. Best of all, they have clients for both PC and Mac.
ETA: My main is a mage, so keep that in mind. 
I have a Logitech MX Revolution and I have to admit I’ve had some issues, too. The BIGGEST problem, I think, is when I play for 12 hours straight and it starts losing its charge. The reaction time for turning & moving is for crap when that happens. If you use one, just be sure to keep it fully charged.
I’m a combination clicker/keyboarder. Mostly I use my mouse for moving and my number row for hotkeys (including the accent key), but for some abilities that I don’t use regularly I just stick on an action bar and click when I need to. I like to consolidate certain spells/items in a macro on a single key (usually just instants/trinkets that are on a cooldown). I try not to bind anything past #6 if I can help it, because my hand’s just not big enough to reach that far. I have spells on those buttons (7 to =) on the main action bar, but I actually have them bound to different keys that are closer to my left hand. The only time my right hand leaves my mouse is to hit my key to talk on Vent (I can’t figure out how to bind it to my extra mouse button 
but I haven’t tried with the latest Vent client so maybe I can do it now).
I’ve been having the worst luck with mods in the last week. I had to completely scrap my action bar mod because it interefered with the vehicle bar too much. Supposedly Bartender works much better with the new vehicle bar than the mod I was using though (Macaroon).
Jesus, people! I use the arrow keys, Bartender and the mouse. I’m such a lousy WoW player…
For unfathomable reasons, as a priest I use keybindings to heal, but click on my actionbar for offensive spells and buffs. Maybe because healing requires quicker reflexes, I don’t know, but I haven’t been able to get the hand of using the keybinds to do damage.
1 - renew
2 - flash heal
3 - prayer of mending
4 - binding heal
5 - desparate prayer
6 - greater heal
0 - shadow word: death (not, strictly speaking, a healing spell 
)