Hotkey for Monking, best and most effective?

ahhh i'm having the same problem. unfortunately years and years of FPS' have me practically *living* WSAD. so changing the movement keys or resting my right hand on the keyboard is a huuuge no >_< i can't seem to think of a convenient way to bind target item/nearest ally/nearest foe/cycle foe, ALONG with hotkeys for teammates 1-8(or 9 >_>) while making skills 5-8 more easily accessible considering my wsad hand does not naturally move much past the far end of the spacebar...

anyone happen to have been in the EXACT same position? >_< ive tried messing with the party window and that has helped but at the expense of my visibility... bah :P what's sacrifice-worthy? i'd hate to cut out all the nifty window shortcuts but it's looking that way. <- harcore fps nut, back in the day
I too exclusively use the WASD controls for movement.. this is what I did.

Space - Nearest Ally
C - Closest enemy (default)
Tab -Default
D and A are set to turn, not strafe.. I hold the right mouse button to strafe in combo with these keys
R - Target Self
T - Autorun (pve lol)
Numbers 1-4 = Skills 1-4
F - Skill #5
E - Skill #6
Q - Skill #7
Shift - Skill #8
Page Down - Supress (for heroes)
` - Cancel
Num 8 - Previous Ally
Num 9 - Next Ally
Num 7 - Party member 1
Num 4 - Party member 4
Num 1 -Party member 8

Shift and F I find using for my most important skills, with 2 and 3 coming close behind. I use the number pad like I do, because it just seems akward to me to have a key for each ally, and try to remember who is who. With 7,4 and 1, you can quickly get close to your ally, and use 8 and 9 to target them. Obviously other people may disagree with me, but that's what I do.
One advantage I find in using WASD for movement, is that your mouse is basically free now. If it feels more natural to you, you can use it to select people in the party window, while simultaniously kiting and whatnot.
Took me a bit to get used to, but everything else just seems so akward now. I also agree with running similar skill orders on all your characters, it helps tons.
Hope this will work out for you FPS junkies.

[For the FPS people wrt motion/strafing,] consider using Right mouse button for mouselook (default) and switch A/D to their respective strafes. Who needs to slowly turn anyway? I've considered that as well, but then you aren't able kite very well while using your mouse for other things besides mouselook. For instance, if I'm trying to click the party window or cancel Holy Veil while kiting a warrior, I'd be stuck looking straight ahead the whole time. For this reason, I use the standard WASDQE setup and it works well enough for me.

I didn't see any tips for weapon-swapping...even a good typist might need to look down at the keyboard for f1-f4 (plus it's a long reach). Any suggestions? I use F1-F4 for weapon swapping. If you practice swap-cast-swap, it eventually becomes natural.

I use my mouse for movement and camera only. I've found that keyboard selection for party members and skills is faster than mouse selection.

Effigy, how do you kite a warrior and manage to look behind yourself at the same time? Click on a location and swivel the camera around? *confused* I'm not a fan of using the mouse for movement. I use keyboard for movement/strafing and skills, and I use mouse for targetting.

My having keys for turning as well as strafing, I can do both while using the mouse for targetting.

I'm not a fan of using the mouse for movement. I use keyboard for movement/strafing and skills, and I use mouse for targetting.

My having keys for turning as well as strafing, I can do both while using the mouse for targetting. I think I see..so you're basically circle-strafing which leaves the mouse free. Is that slower than running forward though?



Burst: the thing I don't like about f1-f4 is that I have to take my hand off the movement keys (I can't stand moving with the mouse). That leaves you exposed because not only are you stationary but also you may be switching out of your higher armor set at the same time. I'm just not a big fan of moving my hand away from the home row I guess...

I think I see..so you're basically circle-strafing which leaves the mouse free. Is that slower than running forward though?



Burst: the thing I don't like about f1-f4 is that I have to take my hand off the movement keys (I can't stand moving with the mouse). That leaves you exposed because not only are you stationary but also you may be switching out of your higher armor set at the same time. I'm just not a big fan of moving my hand away from the home row I guess... Circle strafing is nice, as well as zig-zag strafing.

I'm sure it sounds wierd to most people, but I have my skill and weapon set binds tiered by frequency of use. 1-4 are my most used skills; 5-6 are my basic and negative energy sets. F1-F4 are my less used skills and F5-F6 are my high energy and wanding set. I like this setup better than 1-8 and F1-F4, since my most used keys are all close and even for the less used I don't need to move my hand back and forth on the keyboard, just extend a finger now and then.

I do use mouselook quite a bit since it's much faster, but I like having those QE strafing keys for tight situations.