Is Archer poorly designed?
Came back after a long time away and it's probably just me but the designers ruined archer for me. How do all of you archer players play when you need 3-4 hands to play the class? Some skills you can't chain together, requiring more buttons to start different smaller chains. 1 hand to move, 1 hand to use the mouse and aim, and at least 1 more hand to operate all the "what if" button chains so as to play it properly. I haven't played archer in a long long time, when leveling it was easy, could chain together your attacks so you can move around freely and aim with the mouse. Now I come back and I needed to make 5 different buttons because some skills (for whatever reason) you cannot chain after it, least not what you want.
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Also from my own archer experience I play using both my hands. so give you a simple "git gud"
My radiant arrow is actually "Shift + LeftClick" for example.
The only attacks that "chain are TB > SF ; RA > SF ; PA > SF
So keep sequential fire handy and watch it's reset. Other than that, it is a priority list, not a sequence. You use the best damage dealer as often as you can when it comes off cooldown, and fill as needed. A fair number of our skills are useless in PVE (or nearly so) so if you go to Essential Mana and check out the guides you should be able to significantly cut down on how many hands you need.
And yeah, Radiant Arrow on left mouse for the win. Makes running and charging pretty easy.
For a while I tried having the other "run and charge" skill, Penetrating Arrow, on Right mouse--but I missed having Backstep there so much I had to change it back.
When doing keybindings, remember that shift+left mouse is a thing too. So if you have a gaming mouse with lots of buttons, you could theoretically have all your skills on the mouse, hit shift occasionally with the pinkie, and movement with your other fingers...
Hopefully something in all this gives you an idea that actually works for you.
For example, penetrating arrow is on "V" for me, because I can hold it with my index and use my middle for the run direction. for some reason that works really well for me. Doing the same however with penetrating arrow on a number key just...did NOT work. RA is on the mouse because I use it FAR more often and I am too cheap to get a gaming mouse so I could have both over there.