Improving Game Play - Hotkeys

This is the second in a series of articles aimed at helping the newer player improve their game play.

I'll start this by showing you a cross-section of hot keys available. You will find these in the options menu in-game.

A selection of hot keys - the full range is available in the options menu

There are a large selection of hot keys available to you, and it is not my intention to go through all of them, and in any event, that would be a futile exercise.

Rather, I would like to encourage you to start practising some of them, and to get you started, here's a bit of a run down on how I introduced hot keys and how it helped me become a better player.  Take a bit of a look, and then apply some of those lessons to your own game, introducing  one or two hotkeys at at time, and gradually expanding your repertoire.

Open the book to find out more!

Improving Game Play - the Mini Map

I would like to dedicate a couple of articles to helping the newer, below average player improve their game play.   The overiding message I want to give is that absolutely anyone can improve playing this game.

Speaking from personal experience, many players starting out may start to plateau and notice all of a sudden that they are hitting a brick wall in terms of improving and getting to the next level.

More often than not, there will be two key things which will be holding you back:

1. the use, or otherwise, of the Mini Map; and
2. the use, or otherwise, of Hot Keys.

Let's talk about the Mini Map today, and I'll cover Hot Keys another time (although with practice, you will use them seamlessly as you improve your game play).

Take a look at this shot of the mini map from Relentless Canyon from Delos, part of the Alliance quests:

Relentless Canyon - it's a long, long, long map

Open the book to find out more.