06 June 2009

Nostromo N52


I picked up this little beauty when all I had was my laptop for gaming as I did not want to destroy the laptop's keyboard and I did not have the space for a full sized one.

It has now become an important part to my computer gaming. I have profiles for pretty much every game I play.

Best of all it works just fine under Windows 7.

Looking at the keys you can see they are mapped in a pretty simple fashion.

I use the D-Pad for 1-4 which for the most part is where my 4(8) main spells are. Then from left to right across the top are 5,6, (up arrow), 7, 8, next row, 9, (left arrow), (down arrow), (right arrow), 0, next row, CTRL, -, =, off. I know it shows the last 3 as off, but I have changed that since I made this picture.

What this all works out to is that the Speed pad is basically mapped to the default Blizzard Bar. So anything that gets placed on it is now hot-keyed for fast use (provided I remember what is where).

A not on movement keys. I use the arrow keys for movement for one simple reason. They do not register in the chat bar when you have it open so you can move and turn while still typing.

I also mention my main 4(8) spells, as typically I have 4 macros in the 1-4 slots that are accessed with the CTRL modifier.

The button on the bottom is the space button for jumping, and the one labeled as LeftAltKey is what I use for my PPT button in vent, which explains why tanking, healing, and DPS'ing is a time when I am quite in vent. I honestly tried a few other PPT buttons, but none really worked any better and this one is simple adn out of the way for the most part.

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