WoW Shortcut Keys – 95 Essential Keybinds or Hot Keys

WoW Shortcut keys can be an essential part of your gameplay in Azaroth. They will certianly help with speeding up tasks and actions you will need to do while adventuring, some of these things you will do over and over again while leveling and so WoW Key Bindings make short work of these repeatable tasks and help you save time to enjoy World of WarCraft more.

World of WarCraft Keybinds also add that personal touch to a charcater by combining spells with wow emotes and then creating a wow macro or script to perform the task then add that to a Key, this makes the game experience more fun and your character unique amongst the Horde of players (yes i said it).

WoW Shortcut keys are well worth remembering (or you could have this page open while you play) and try and use as many as possible, you will soon start to learn them.

How do i setup WoW Shortcut Keys, WoW Keybinds & Hot Keys?

The Key Bindings menu can be found by pressing the Escape / Esc key and clicking “Key Bindings”

“WoW Key bindings” or “binding” is the act of associating a WoW action with a key on your keyboard.  Blizzard has pre-defined your keys but you can rearange them if required. The most simple example of WoW Key bindings is Arrow up or “W” Key makes your character run forward, you could change this is you need too.

“WoW Shortcut Keys” these are key combinations that when pressed as the same time (no need for timing the key press) it performs an action.  The “Shift” & “Control” keys are the most commonly used with another key for WoW Shortcut Keys.  Shift + R is one is use a lot to re-wisper someone that missed my message.

“WoW Hot Keys” is another turm for “WoW Shortcut Keys” These are the same function but given another name by a different group of players.

 

 

 

In the WoW Key Bindings Menu you will find a huge list of WoW Commands you can bind keys too. This would include:

• Movement keys
• Chat
• Action bar
• MultiActionBar
• Targeting
• Interface Panel
• Miscellaneous
• Camera
• Target markers
• Vehicle Controls

 

 

95 Essential WoW Shortcut Keys

These are the defualt interface WoW key bindings for a new installation.  All these shortcut keys can be tailored in the Key Bindings Menu to your personal preference.

Shortcut key	Action
A Arrow Left	Turn left
0	Action Button 10
1	Action Button 1
2	Action Button 2
3	Action Button 3
4	Action Button 4
5	Action Button 5
6	Action Button 6
7	Action Button 7
8	Action Button 8
9	Action Button 9
-	Action Button 11
/	Open/Start chat slash
=	Action Button 12
B or F12	Opens main backpack
C	Charcater Panel
Ctrl+0	Pet Action Button 10
Ctrl+1	Pet Action Button 1
Ctrl+2	Pet Action Button 2
Ctrl+3	Pet Action Button 3
Ctrl+4	Pet Action Button 4
Ctrl+5	Pet Action Button 5
Ctrl+6	Pet Action Button 6
Ctrl+7	Pet Action Button 7
Ctrl+8	Pet Action Button 8
Ctrl+9	Pet Action Button 9
Ctrl+F1	Special Action Button 1
Ctrl+F10	Special Action Button 10
Ctrl+F2	Special Action Button 2
Ctrl+F3	Special Action Button 3
Ctrl+F4	Special Action Button 4
Ctrl+F5	Special Action Button 5
Ctrl+F6	Special Action Button 6
Ctrl+F7	Special Action Button 7
Ctrl+F8	Special Action Button 8
Ctrl+F9	Special Action Button 9
Ctrl+I	Dungeons & Raids
Ctrl+PageDOWN	Combat log page down
Ctrl+PageUP	Combat log page up
Ctrl+Shift+PageDOWN	Combat Log bottom of window
Ctrl+V	Show all health and names
Ctrl-Tab	Cycles through close allies
D Right Arrow	Turn right
E	Strafe right
Enter	Open/Start chat
Escape Key	Shows game menu
F	Assist your target
F1	Toggles targeting yourself and your pet
F12	Opens main backpack
F2 - F5	Target Party members
F8, F9, F10, F11	Opens 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th bags
G	Target 1st enemy
H	Honor / PVP window
I	Abilities
I	Group Finder
J	Guild & Communities
K	Skills panel
L	Quest log
M	Map
N	Talents (level 10+ only)
Num Lock	Toggle walking / running
O	Social panel
P	Spell book
PageDown	Chat Page Down
PageUP	Chat Page Up
Q	Strafe left
R	Reply to your last wisper
S Arrow Down	Move backward
Shift +1 to 6	Bound to Action page and cen be selected as needed
Shift+Down Shift+Mouse Wheel Down	Next Action Bar
Shift+F1	Targets your pet
Shift+F2	Targets party members pet
Shift+F3	Targets party members pet
Shift+F4	Targets party members pet
Shift+F5	Targets party members pet
Shift+J	Adventure Guide
Shift+M	Zone Map
Shift+PageDown	Goto bottom of chat window
Shift+R	Re-wisper a previous wisper
Shift+Space bar	Score Screen
Shift+TAB	Target Prevouis ememy
Shift+Y	Game stats
Shift-B	Opens all bags
Shift-I	Pet book
Shift-P	Pet panel or Collections?
Shift-T	Pet attack your target
Shift-V	Show health bars over allies / ememies
Spacebar NUMPAD0	Jump
T	Chat Pane
Tab	Cycles through close enemies
U	Reputation panel
V	Show enemy health and name
W Arrow Up	Move forward
X	Sit / Stand or Fly / Swim Down
Y	Achievement Frame
Z	Toggle sheathing your weapon

 

 

Right Click with your mouse button

1. On any enemy to initiate melee attack on it. This works the same as the default key “T”.
2. On any object to activate/loot it.
3. On an NPC to talk with it.
4. On any item to activate its effects. Some effects require a target.
5. On an item in the vendor window to buy it.
6. On an equipable item to equip it if possible.
7. On a Characters portrate to display a list of option avalible
8. When your Vendor window is open, right clicking an item will sell it instantly.
9. When you bank window is open, right click on an item in your inventory to move it into your bank (does not activate/use the item) into a computer-decided empty slot in the bank.
10. Similarly, you can right click any item in your bank (even an item in a bag in the bank) to move it into your inventory.

SHIFT+Left Click your mouse button

1. On a stack of items to separate them into 2 stacks.
2. On a player name in the Chat Window which is surrounded by [] brackets to do a /who on him.
3. On a spell in your spellbook to auto-generate the /cast spellname(rank x) text into your Macro window.
4. On any bag in your toolbar to open/close ALL your bags at a go. (Or just rebind B to open all bags) Shift+Right-Click works for this too.
5. On any item in the Vendor window to buy more than ONE of that item at a time. Say you buy want to buy 20 Coarse threads, just Shift+Left-Click on the Coarse Thread, type 20. You can only purchase up to one stack this way (so you can’t do 21 and more). Shift+Right-Click works for this too.

SHIFT+Right Click your mouse button

1. On any lootable object to autoloot everything in it (corpse, mineral node, skinning, quest object, etc)

Left + Right Click your mouse button

1. Hold down both Left and Right buttons simultaeneously to walk forward using mouselook.

 

Chat-related shortcuts

1. Shift+Left-Click on an item to link it into the text. You can link items from your inventory, quest log, profession skill windows and even the auction house. Does not work in General Chat.
2. Shift+Left-Click on any quest in your Quest Log to copy the quest name into the current chat.
3. Alt-Left and Alt-Right moves your cursor to the left or right so you can edit what you type.
4. Alt-Up and Alt-Down scrolls through the last 10 or so commands/text messages that you have typed.
5. Ctrl-Backspace deletes everything from the cursor to the start of the line.
6. Alt-Ctrl-Left, Alt-Ctrl-Right moves the cursor to the beginning or the previous or next word. Hold down Shift too if you want to highlight the text.
7. Alt-Home and Alt-End moves the cursor to the start/end of the line. Hold down Shift to highlight.
8. Hit R to reply automatically to the last person who whispered to you.
9. Hit R, then press TAB TAB TAB to cycle through a list of all players who last whispered to you so you can easily hold multiple chat conversations.
10. When typing any slash command, you can use TAB to autocomplete it. For example, typing /as followed by pressing Tab Tab Tab will cycle through the slash commands beginning with AS.
11. Left-Click on a name in the chat window which is surrounded by [] brackets, to do an automatic /whisper to him (/tell, /w).
12. When you hover your mouse over a chat window pane. A “Tab” will appear after a few seconds for that chat pane. Right click on that Tab to see chat options for that pane (a big menu). Drag that Tab to move the pane. Available only when chat settings are not locked.

 

More MMORPG World of WarCraft Information

• WoW – Chat Commands
• WoW – Essential Combat Commands
• WoW – Emotes
• WoW – Group Leader Commands
• WoW – Guild Commands
• WoW – Lesser Arcanum of Constitution Quest Guide
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  • WoW – Night Dragons Breath Quest Guide
• WoW – Shortcut Keys
• WoW – Slash Commands
• WoW – Voice Emotes

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