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Breakfast topic: WOW plus other games

Recently, I've been playing a lot of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. This in itself is not surprising -- I picked the game up a year or so ago, became overwhelmed at the options, and then finally came back to it when I had a lot of spare time.

I'm enjoying it, but it's beginning to mess with my WOW skills. Two fantasy-based RPGs do not always work well in sync. I've been pressing Ctrl to stealth, E to jump, and trying to hit C to cast spells. This leads to a lot of strafing and bringing up the character screen in combat. Oblivion has also left me with a marked aversion to clicking on anything or fighting in a city, despite most of WOW's guards being so clueless they couldn't recognize it if I stole their armor off of them.

I've had this problem before, with Diablo when I first got into WOW ("I keep clicking, why isn't my sword swinging any faster?") and Knights of the Old Republic ("So I don't get punished for doing morally incorrect quests?") Have you ever confused the mechanics of WOW and another game you were playing at the time?