First, let's look at
other solutions that are available.
Belkin
Nostromo
I've had a lower model of the Nostromo, and I enjoyed it. The current
one has several flaws, the biggest being price. Really, there are two
models of the Nostromo right now, and they seem to be identical, except
the one I've linked has pretty lights. For this single reason, they
want to charge $70, which is insane. The original cost $30, and was
actually on Newegg as of last week, but it's disappeared.
Beyond that, I don't believe there are enough keys here for Age of
Conan. I've stared at it, and imagined how I'd map the keys, and I run
out of options. I've got plenty of feats I need to use, plus stances,
plus potions, and the Nostromo simply doesn't have the real estate for
that.
If you can see where'd you place things, and think there are enough
keys for you, then I'd suggest you try to find the older, non-lit model.
Fang
Gamepad
I can look at this and just say... no. It looks like they just threw
keys onto it with little thought. There's no real smart design for
gaming. I dunno, maybe this can work for an FPS, but just keep Age of
Conan in mind. If your a melee fighter, this simply won't work for you.
How are you gonna map your five directional attacks? So... what, your
lower side attacks have
huge
buttons near your movement keys, and then you're gonna have to put the
main three above them on
smaller
keys that aren't centered above your center.
Ew.
WOLF
KING Warrior
This works very interesting, it's a very neat idea. This could go
either way. It could be perfect, or a complete clusterfuck. Simply, I
couldn't order this off the 'net; I'd need to place my palm on this at
a brick-and-mortar, much like I did with the Saitek, to get a feel for
it. So, go ahead, try it out, and let us know how it goes!
So as you can see, there are plenty of options. So what have I settled
on? The keyboard!
Please excuse the UK keyboard format; you get the idea.
It's as simple as moving youself from WASD to ESDF. With the
movement keys, I also have to move the
directional attacks. The
combos stay where they always were. The key (pun not intented, but I'm
delighted) here is that I can now surround everything with my
feats and other abilities. And finally, I have my
stances.
It'll take some getting used to, because it's habit to run to WASD, but
I'm getting used to it, and I'm enjoying it. It still needs some
tweaking, but I think this is the way to go, for me atleast.