You don’t want to waste any time while you’re playing a real-time strategy game. It’s all about optimization, so when you’re playing Warcraft 3: Reforged, you need to spend every second doing something important. A great way to do that is to use your hotkeys rather than relying on your mouse to solely lead you to victory. If you only use your mouse, it’s easy to get behind when fighting opponents who have every hotkey on their keyboard memorized, and they can swiftly order their troops around the map.

There are two sets of hotkeys you need to know: Menu commands and Game commands. Menu commands are all the interacting with your game to save it, load a new, active the help menu, or toggling sound. Game commands are about controlling your armies, your heroes, telling them how to act, select idle units, and much more.

These are all of the menu hotkeys you have available to you.

Game Commands

These are all of the hotkeys you need to know to control your troops and give them orders with a quick button click.

You also have the option to modify these hotkeys with some of your preferred choices. When you open up the main menu screen, click on the button with three lines in it on the lower right to open up the menu. Go to the input option, and the bottom, you should see the choice to preset your keybindings. You need to add a file to your Warcraft 3 game called CustomKeys.txt under the CustomKeyBindings file.