Razer Blues

I won’t lie. Ever since Warlords of Draenor came out, it’s really been eating into my StarCraft 2 time. Before, I might have played set after set of StarCraft matches. Nowadays, I’m lucky to sneak even a single set.

What’s worse -- my wrist is hurting me from all that extra use. That’s what prompted me to make a post on Reddit about StarCraft and wrist injuries. I have no way of knowing how accurate the responses to my post were, but they were overwhelmingly in favor of wrist injuries being a non issue.

The pain in my wrist has forced me to think about the whole dilemma even more. Which made me remember, that when I play StarCraft or WarCraft, for years now, I’ve been using a Razer Naga. If you’re not familiar with the mouse, it’s got a small 10-key where your thumb is. It means you hit the buttons normally reserved for your left hand, with your right hand.

Take a look if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

Now I’m thinking, maybe it’s all the extra right hand button pushing work that’s making my wrist hurt. Ultimately, I stopped using my Naga. I have a perfectly orthodox mouse in it’s place. So far, my wrist is still sore. But after a week or two, I should know if it made any difference.

But in the meantime, I’ve adjusted to WoW rather quickly. Mainly due to the way Global Cooldowns work in that game. But in StarCraft, the transition is almost impossible. I’ve lost nearly every match I’ve played, since having to rebind keys. I can feel that the transition will suck. But I’m also wondering how I should bind the keys differently, since I’m making the switch anyway.

It makes it harder, because I play random. There are many guides on how to bind your keys for a particular race. But few to binding keys how a random player might organize them.

One trick I’m making use of, is with Terran. I used to bind Barracks to one key, Factory to another, and Starport to a third. Now, I’m binding all production to a single key and using Tab to switch between the three. This will make rallying troops easier, as with my old setup I used to have to rally each production individually.

Wish me luck, and if you know of any good solution, hit me up on twitter @maulakai