Keyboard Skills: Key-binding as an alt option to current control format?

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A big gameplay annoyance I found was that even though a character learns a lot of skills, he eventually sticks with 2~3 active skills because those are easy to access / aim / control from the mouse, while the rest of the skills have to be pressed on the keyboard.

Coming from years of playing Diablo II, this PoE control system feels very clunky. I'm sure the devs have played D2 as well and know how in that game, hotkeyed skills are switched-to (either to left or right mouse click) rather than activated, and those skills are then utilized via mouse-click.

This is a very powerful gameplay thing, because it allows every active skill to be equally controllable and a person could potentially cycle through 5 or 6 skills with the same accuracy and flexibility within seconds, rather than being forced to spam 2 skills while occasionally slipping in one of the keyboard skills.

Of course I'm not asking you guys to blatantly add that feature in, but please (if you are tweaking combat mechanics and have some time) try out this skill control format and see if it might work better.

Thanks!

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aimlessgun wrote:

Once you get used to it, I assure this format is much superior to D2's. I'm not sure where you hand is, but there is no speed difference for me between a keyboard bind and a mouseclick. There would most definitely be a slowdown if I had to click 2 buttons instead of 1 to activate a skill.

Would be a good option though :)

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jerg wrote:

A big gameplay annoyance I found was that even though a character learns a lot of skills, he eventually sticks with 2~3 active skills because those are easy to access / aim / control from the mouse, while the rest of the skills have to be pressed on the keyboard.

Coming from years of playing Diablo II, this PoE control system feels very clunky. I'm sure the devs have played D2 as well and know how in that game, hotkeyed skills are switched-to (either to left or right mouse click) rather than activated, and those skills are then utilized via mouse-click.

This is a very powerful gameplay thing, because it allows every active skill to be equally controllable and a person could potentially cycle through 5 or 6 skills with the same accuracy and flexibility within seconds, rather than being forced to spam 2 skills while occasionally slipping in one of the keyboard skills.

Of course I'm not asking you guys to blatantly add that feature in, but please (if you are tweaking combat mechanics and have some time) try out this skill control format and see if it might work better.

Thanks!

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aimlessgun wrote:

Once you get used to it, I assure this format is much superior to D2's. I'm not sure where you hand is, but there is no speed difference for me between a keyboard bind and a mouseclick. There would most definitely be a slowdown if I had to click 2 buttons instead of 1 to activate a skill.

Would be a good option though :)

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BTrayaL wrote:

I always hated the Diablo style for skills. Loved the game, hated hated, HATED that.
GGG nailed it here.. for me at least.