Comments on: The Belkin Nostromo N52 TE

By: Alahnna (Mama Druid)

Alahnna (Mama Druid) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:59:05 +0000

Over two years later and this is still relevant and so very helpful. I hope you are having a blast with your little sprout, who’s probably running all over the place now. =D

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:37:12 +0000

Hi,
Too bad this blog is no longer maimtained. Thanks for you post though.

I wanted to address the issue of lefties. I am on, and use the N52TE. I use a trackball with my right hand and the n52TE with my left, no problems.

By: Costo

Costo — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:50:35 +0000

I didn’t read the pages upon pages of comments so I don’t know if these issues have already been hit, but I can think of two things as a boomkin/tank druid that have helped immensely with my nostromo. First off, turn off the diagonals on the D-pad. Wow kindof accounts for these innately by combining vert/horizontal key presses. Having the nostromo keyed to do this is redundant and screws up movement. The second is key spam macro’s. I have my nostromo 6 buttom set to spam at 50ms intervals and loop while pressed. While tanking, I set my maul button to this key. This insures that every attack is mauled, and all I have to do is keep my pinky pressed and forget about it, leaving me free to raid coordinate or do anything else I need to do. In boomkin form, I have this keyed to my wrath. Wrath usually has 1 second cast times, and trying to focus on nailing quartz latency timers to get it just right is nightmarish. Spamming at 50ms ensures that each cast is damn close to right on. Enjoy your keypads!

By: Softi

Softi — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:47 +0000

Over a year and a half later this post is still worth it’s weight in gold!

Hope you and your family are all well Phae. *hugs*
.-= Softi´s last blog ..Dum di dum di dum =-.

By: Iridia

Iridia — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:35:10 +0000

Bought the N52te a year aggo (or longer). I realy, realy, realy love it. Never good get used to playing whit a,w and whatever. Now its only a little thumb stick and a mouse. I do everything whit it, except i am a healbot healer. You have your mouse free to click any way, so why not. I only use mouse to turn or look around (and ofc the buttons). Dps or cc spells are keybind (yes whit bartender) and its realy easy. BUT you don’t learn it in a week. It takes time, frustration etc… So don’t buy the N52te if you are not willing to put time in learing how to use it. When you are willing to learn BUY BUY BUY

By: Payton

Payton — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:15:46 +0000

I forgot that I had created these images for my N52 layout.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/cyxodus/Misc/n52whitekeys.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/cyxodus/Misc/n52redkeys.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/cyxodus/Misc/n52greenkeys.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/cyxodus/Misc/n52bluekeys.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/cyxodus/Misc/n52arrowkeys.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/cyxodus/Misc/n52misc.jpg

By: Payton

Payton — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:50:14 +0000

@Phaelia

Thanks. It took a while figuring out where to place everything but it helps with Illustrator and Photoshop. I use it when I letter comics in AI and I mapped a ton of custom actions to it. Saves time and my wrists.

By: Gravelayer

Gravelayer — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:49:20 +0000

I’ve been using the Belkin device since back when I first played 1942. The N50, N52 and now N52te. I love this thing for my warrior tank. The hat switch works great but I’ve ALWAYS only used 4 of the 8 available buttons. Up, down and side to side are easy to configure. If you configure the angled options it gets harder to make sure your hitting the one you really want. There are so many ways to configure quick panic buttons and again the hat buttons work great for spamming (Heroic strike, cleave, dev).

I would tell anyone to try this device for a couple weeks. You will never go back to just a keyboard if you do.

By: Football Rumours

Football Rumours — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:34:34 +0000

This is made it a lot easier for me, the only thing is the jump button doesn’t seem quite right, maybe need an extra button on my mouse.

By: sonuko

sonuko — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:45:29 +0000

bought the n52 yesterday, got it back 4hrs ago.
i’m playing ‘aswd’-style for more than 10yrs
now, unfortunately the 52 hasn’t enough keys
to additively include these controls, since i
miss 4-12 keys in comparison to your layouts.
apart from me trying to use as little as
possible modifiers. tried ‘aswd’ on the dpad
.. nothing but a knotted thumb.

of course mastery comes with training, but
for me moving just with my right hand felt
so counterintuitive.