Mouse Scroll Wheel Binding

For various reasons I can’t / don’t use a keyboard so my exiles have been limited to the skills that will “work” with mouse control only.

Many years ago there was a build of the month, think it was called something like “Spin to Win”. The key to the build was that the weapons were swapped using the scroll wheel while running. The weapon swapping would cause the character damage which would trigger CoD and kill everything.

Trying a new build but unfortunately it needs an extra skill button. Is there a way to assign it to the scroll wheel, not the wheel button press but the rotation, as that character did many years ago?

I'm guessing the build showcase you're talking about was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oH1EGfYoqI

GGG has struggled with this question, as a Support member ended up giving a slightly incorrect answer to a question about mouse wheel binding as shared on this Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/8y5cay/in_light_of_the_recent_build_of_the_week_video/

It seems that, to be fully "ethical" (i.e. no breaching of Terms of Service), you need to make sure you're using a mousewheel that doesn't spin on its own, i.e. 1 finger movement = 1 keypress.

As for how to actually do it, it seems most commonly if you have a gaming mouse it should come with a control panel software that lets you rebind what mouse buttons do, but I don't think I have that personally, so you'd probably want to look into using AutoHotkey. As GGG tells us that anything that goes beyond 1 click or button-press = 1 server-side action is a bannable offence, you shouldn't need to learn anything too sophisticated to set up a simple key rebind with AutoHotkey.

I fiddled around with AutoHotkey to get a script going for what you want, and as expected, it's actually really easy.

WARNING: DO NOT USE THIS SCRIPT IF YOU HAVE AN "UNLOCKED" MOUSE WHEEL (THAT CAN SCROLL WHILE YOUR FINGER IS NOT TOUCHING IT). USE AT YOUR OWN RISK DEPENDING ON YOUR MOUSEWHEEL SCROLL SPEED/DIFFICULTY, AND NOTE THAT GGG MAY AT ANY TIME DEEM USE OF THIS SCRIPT TO BE BANNABLE.

1. Download and install AutoHotkey
2. Open a new file in Notepad or your text editor of choice that can save as any file format
3. Copy and paste the below into the text editor

4. Change "T" and "R" to whichever of the default skill keys you're trying to target, as needed
5. Save the file as a .ahk file
6. Run the file
7. Tested on Windows 10 Home, this causes your mouse wheel Up to press T, and mouse wheel down to press R.

That indeed was the build. Nice find.
Only remembered it as I was impressed with the way he invented a new way, which I suspect GGG would never ever have thought of, to beat the game. More impressive/inventive than the way most of the OP builds of today are made.

Interesting thread on Redit, thanks, seems as if the key binding should be legit. One would hope that if they change policy that they will notify users before any ban.

Thank you so much for the script. Gave it a quick test on the laptop login screen and seems to work but was giving some other problems, possibly linked to the OSK (On Screen Keyboard) that I use. So will investigate a little further before putting it on the Desktop.