Blood elves and Keybinds

[tamardia]

Hello ladies and lurkergents.

I have a couple of questions that are in no way related, so I'll start with the easy one; IMO.

Could a Blood Elf, lorewise, have grown up in outlands? And if that case, what general age would they be?

That's the easy question. Now there's two that are in the same general thing.

I have several alts, and they have somewhat

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[felknight]

I think any blood elves that were born in Outland would still be children or teenagers at this point. There ARE blood elf orphans in Outlands, in Shattrath City and at an orphanage in Nagrand, but they're kids. The Caravan quest line in Eastern Plaguelands does hint that blood elves mature maybe at the same speed as humans (the blood elf paladin on the caravan talks about running down the Dead Scar as a kid), but it hasn't been that long since the Third War. Concrete dates are a little sketchy, though. I usually use this timeline as a rough guide.

I have a lot of alts, and often it's difficult to remember all the keybinds. What I usually do is make sure similar abilities have the same keybind. So my paladins' interrupts are on the same keybinds as my DKs' and my rogues' interrupts. Same thing for defensive cooldowns on my tanks or important buttons for my healers or dps. All similar abilities have the same keybinds, so that if I mess up and go for Hammer of Justice while I'm on my DK, no one will notice because I hit strangulate. Positioning on the bar might help if you don't have everything keybound (I'm on a laptop and it's a pain to keybind everything, so I only keybind things I use a LOT). I usually use Bartender. Most of my spell bars, I keep off to the right side of the screen, and I have Omen and Recount in the middle. In the middle as well, I keep those spells that are very class specific, to help remind me which character I'm on. On my warlock, for instance, I'll have Soulwell, summon demon, and other non-rotation but easily recognizable spells in the middle.

As for which alt, I'd go for the one you enjoy and will enjoy at endgame the most. I have a TON of alts, but DK and warlock are my mains because those are the two that I truly love heroics and raiding with. If you think you'd enjoy the hunter or rogue more at 85, I say go with one of those two. The 1-55 zones have been revamped, their quests are fun and the quest rewards are great. It's worth a little extra time to play something you enjoy rather than something you feel obligated to level because of heirlooms. If you have rep with a guild, grab one of the BoA tabards and start working on guild rep early on while you're questing on your lower level characters. It's not much rep, but every little bit helps.

[enveri]

I pretty much do this as well with my keybinds. All interrupts are keyed to the same keys. Cooldowns, whether dps or defensive or healing, are all on the same buttons. Buffs that I need to refresh every 30 minutes? Same buttons. I use Power Auras to remind me if they've fallen off.

If a class doesn't have a corresponding ability (ie, warrior/druid rage generating effects don't exist on my shaman), I make sure not to bind anything to that key, so if my muscle memory goes off and pushes that button... nothing happens. No harm, no foul.

[writermerrin]

I pretty much do this as well with my keybinds. All interrupts are keyed to the same keys. Cooldowns, whether dps or defensive or healing, are all on the same buttons. Buffs that I need to refresh every 30 minutes? Same buttons.

Pretty much this. All of my healers follow the pattern of my original Shaman. All of my tanks follow my DK's, so the aoes are in one place, the taunts in another. Across my toons, my interrupts are on the same button, and because I have a bad habit of clicking with my pinky finger even when I'm not supposed to, that's where I put my buffs. I figure if they randomly go off in battle, it's all good, and they never run out that way.