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Old 07-03-2012, 01:55 AM
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Method 1 – Carping

When moving forward and strafing right or left at the same time, your movement speed at an angle is higher than your movement speed just running. Since you're moving at an angle, this also makes it difficult for mobs to hit you. So you can channel your AoE song and stay slightly ahead of mobs while running in a circle.

There are two problems with this method.
1. You can't keyboard-turn while strafing, EQ will give whichever button was clicked last priority, so you'll lose your speed if you keyboard-turn and get hit. This leads to the second problem.
2. You have to turn with the mouse, by holding right click and moving to the side, while holding down both forward and a strafe key. This by itself causes three more problems:
- It's difficult to keep a decent circle, so you're more likely to get hit
- You have to keep the camera in the standard "driving" mode, meaning you can't zoom out far enough to see obstacles and mobs will be just barely visible in the bottom right/left if they're at the correct distance.
c. It causes carpel tunnel, arthritis, and cramps (hence the name carping) to swing the mouse perpetually while holding down two keys. This is more straining on your wrist than playing an fps.
Dude, just use auto-run. While you're holding down the up and right keys and right-clicking, press enter twice. That way you can use one hand for steering with your mouse, and the other hand for hotkeys (or anything, really, since hotkeys aren't necessary).
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