Shift + left click, why?

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Zerovirus27 wrote:

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PackersFTW wrote:

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Moist wrote:

I use it to stand my ground n fire projectiles into a mob without specifying a target.

Plus im running around using the left click to move so i just press shift n i start firing my weapon.


as for for melee. eh slightly less useful.

But you can do everything you mentioned without shift. Put your skill on anything but left click, and don't use shift. Watch how it works the exact same.

That's what I don't understand. When you use a skill that ISN'T on left click, it AUTOMATICALLY STOPS YOU. It's like this in every game pretty much. But yet the most common way to play is make it so that's not automatic? Make it so you have to use 2 keys for your main attack? Boggles the hell out of me.

I feel like I'm seriously missing something.

Why are you assuming left click is your main attack? You can set your attacks to any other key. No one uses left click for skills unless they have too many skills and are forced to.

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Grimmhammer wrote:

There are quite a few attacks (such as cleave/groundslam) with which it is possible to hit enemies that are outside of your melee range. However, the default behaviour for these attacks is to move your character into melee range and then perform the attack. Shift-clicking allows you to perform these attacks without moving your character. This means that you can shift-click to attack at the maximum range of your skill, move away, shift-click to attack again, move etc, allowing you to kill enemies with these melee attacks while never entering the melee range of the enemy, and so never getting hit.

There are also other uses, such as with lightning strike. Using shift-click, you can be standing half a screen away, and the middle projectile will travel exactly to where you click, allowing accurate range dps with this skill without moving to the enemy.


The are undoubtedly other tricks, but these are two situations that I use it in.

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Wooser69 wrote:

It's just more comfortable to be holding down only your index finger for long periods of time when moving around and fighting, plus it's muscle memory to just point and click. That's my reason for still using spacebar as my standstill key at least. Oh and the missing skillslot from binding move only, cause I need all I can get on my 5 enduring cries duelist.

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PackersFTW wrote:

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Grimmhammer wrote:

There are quite a few attacks (such as cleave/groundslam) with which it is possible to hit enemies that are outside of your melee range. However, the default behaviour for these attacks is to move your character into melee range and then perform the attack. Shift-clicking allows you to perform these attacks without moving your character. This means that you can shift-click to attack at the maximum range of your skill, move away, shift-click to attack again, move etc, allowing you to kill enemies with these melee attacks while never entering the melee range of the enemy, and so never getting hit.

There are also other uses, such as with lightning strike. Using shift-click, you can be standing half a screen away, and the middle projectile will travel exactly to where you click, allowing accurate range dps with this skill without moving to the enemy.


The are undoubtedly other tricks, but these are two situations that I use it in.

Aha! See, I don't play melee ever, so maybe this is why. Thanks for the post. Finally some sense!

But at the same time, I bet the majority of players use left click + shift for their main attack. I talked to people in D3, and this was the case. So whatever their most used skill was, they'd put that on left click, and do shift constantly. Blew my mind to hear people play like that.

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PackersFTW wrote:

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Moist wrote:

I use it to stand my ground n fire projectiles into a mob without specifying a target.

Plus im running around using the left click to move so i just press shift n i start firing my weapon.


as for for melee. eh slightly less useful.

But you can do everything you mentioned without shift. Put your skill on anything but left click, and don't use shift. Watch how it works the exact same.

That's what I don't understand. When you use a skill that ISN'T on left click, it AUTOMATICALLY STOPS YOU. It's like this in every game pretty much. But yet the most common way to play is make it so that's not automatic? Make it so you have to use 2 keys for your main attack? Boggles the hell out of me.

I feel like I'm seriously missing something.

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PackersFTW wrote:

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Wooser69 wrote:

It's just more comfortable to be holding down only your index finger for long periods of time when moving around and fighting, plus it's muscle memory to just point and click. That's my reason for still using spacebar as my standstill key at least. Oh and the missing skillslot from binding move only, cause I need all I can get on my 5 enduring cries duelist.

Which is exactly why I use my 1 key as main attack. It's so much easier to do 11111 (or hold it) than to do left click + shift constantly. SO much easier.

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PackersFTW wrote:

This. Thank you, finally some sense. See, now why wouldn't you use left click as your main attack from the start? Why not? Because it's unnecessary, that's why. Glad to see some people understand, even if they don't realize it.

That's not to say you can't play with whatever key bindings you want, I'm just saying when discussing this topic, I don't think anybody could argue hitting 2 keys for 1 attack is ideal, unless somehow necessary, which is what I'm trying to find out. Not just this game, any game.