Keybinding the numpad / arrow keys with dual boxing?

[Mashuguna]

In WoW I have always bound the numpad for a variety of quick emotes (thank you, your welcome, heal me, help, etc.) so they have 4 years of muscle memory - I hit them without conscious thought. Now that I am dual boxing I cannot bind numpad keys since four of the numpad keys are also the arrow keys I use to move my slave toon. Of course, it was funny when I first used the arrow keys to move the slave and the master toon went on an massive emote spasm, but the humor has faded.

Is there any way to bind the numpad keys 2, 4, 6, 8 so they are not also the arrow keys?

Or do you have a better alternative? (e.g. binding ctrl+numpad for the emotes)

Thanks for any advice.

[Ualaa]

Well you can go into keybinding, within the game, and change the binding for movement to anything you'd like.
In addition, you can place (I believe 72) macro's in game (12 hotkeys per bar and 6 bars available in the default UI).
Something like Macaroon can effectively give you a lot more hotkeys to work with.

As far as macro's go, we have:
- Normal click /cast [nomod]
- Alt click........ /cast [mod:alt, nomod:shift, ctrl]
- Ctrl click
- Shift click
- Alt+Ctrl click...../cast [mod:alt, ctrl, nomod:shift]
- Alt+shift click
- Ctrl+shift click
- Alt+Ctrl+shift click... /cast [mod: alt, ctrl, shift]

You might run into a character limit per macro, but again macaroon or another addon can remove this issue.

[Mashuguna]

Great ideas - ty

[Aethon]

I haven't found a way to unbind shift+num pad, I think it's a Windows thing, because shift+num1 is always treated as "home" key, Shift 7, etc. You can use macros that just have alt or ctrl in them (as I do) but be wary of shift and binding it to any num pad key.

[Freddie]

Is there any way to bind the numpad keys 2, 4, 6, 8 so they are not also the arrow keys?

If the NumLock light is on when you set the binding, the binding will be to Num Pad 1, Num Pad 2, etc.

If the NumLock light is off when you set the binding, the binding will be to End, Down Arrow, etc.

When you press those keys, the state of the NumLock light will determine which binding gets triggered.

It's as if each of those pieces of plastic on the keyboard is really two different keys, and NumLock determines which of the two keys is active at that moment.

Like Aethon said, the shift key overrides the NumLock state.