I've lost count of how many times I've shuffled hotbars of skills and spells in persistent online fantasy worlds. What I want is my abilities available on keys one-to-five, because those are the ones I can get to quickly from movement keys WASD. But there are never only five abilities, and different situations call for different abilities.

Do I need my healing spells now or my damage spells, and what kind of healing spells do I need - group or raid? Are we fighting other players? That's a different kettle of fish altogether. It's like learning a fiddly piece of music - you get there eventually, with the help of macros and user interface modifications and a lot of practice, but not without some big f***ing swearwords along the way.
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But what can you do? That's the way it's always been. Ask someone who's played an MMO to write down their keystrokes and they'll methodically punch out an alphanumerical code like some kind of medium relaying a message from beyond. MMOs are defined by it, and contained by it. But why? Black Desert Online raises the question by giving an inspired solution. It's so effective, so liberating, I'm not sure I ever want to go back.

Black Desert Online automatically maps abilities to button combinations. Your basic attacks are bound to left and right mouse button clicks but can be modified with WASD directional commands, as can abilities mapped to keys E, Q and F. Shift and Space bar are used, too. In other words there are enough possible different combinations to keep all your abilities accessible by your rooted-in-place WASD hand, and it works wonderfully.
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Let's use my Sorcerer as an example. Typically, I make sure to have my shield (Shift+Q) up before I knock a group back (W+F) on their bums, and then I teleport-dash into them (Shift+LMB) with an ability that raises my critical hit chance. Then I carve them up with my magic claw attack (S+LMB), swiping in circles around them if I get hemmed in (S/D+LMB). I mix that up with a roundhouse kicking combo that boots them all up into the air (mash F), or with chain-lightning (Shift+RMB), or with a sprinting uppercut opener (Shift, then W+F). I also do things like heal (Shift+Space) and use another dash (W+RMB), another stun (S+E), and I summon and detonate Shards (these are my only two hotbarred abilities!). And there's a whole bunch of stuff I haven't unlocked yet.