Controller support with mouse+keyboard

Dear GGG

Due to your game having an enormous amount of mouse control, a lot of people end up suffering from carpal tunnel syndrom. In understandable english, it could also be called "freaking insane wrist pain". This is usually caused by intense mouse usage.


I thought i could just play poe with a controller due to the controller support.

Why isnt there an option, to both have controller AND mouse+keyboard usage at the same time?

Sorry to say, but controller support while managing inventory is just super weird and awkward. Thus having mouse for that part, would be awesome.

1. Make controller and mouse+keyboard work at the same time.

2. Make us manage the UI by ourselves. The UI when enabling controller is just super weird and VERY clunky.

3. Let us remap all the keys on the controller.


Those 3 steps would make controller support WAY better.

I hope you already consider those things.

Sincerely someone who would love to play poe, but cant due to carpal tunnel syndrom.

1. Make controller and mouse+keyboard work at the same time.



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i think that mixing up joysticks and kb/mouse in one realm has been one of the greatest mistakes they ever did.

As someone who sometimes suffers from intense wrist pain, I would love an option to play with controller AND have the lovely UI with life on the left and mana on the right we have become so accustomed to.

Either way it's great we can use a gamepad now! But please give us an option to have the same UI and mouse and keyboard (at least for the main life, mana, flask and XP at the bottom,

Let's be honest, the tiny XP bar is a big difference from the longer one at the bottom, overall, I would even pay money for MTX that gives me different UI while using gamepad.

I'm back to arm aiming with my mouse as the higher tier gameplay is basically for mouse and keyboard (still possible with gamepad if you have a pro build!)
and I want to play with the UI we all know and love!

So excited to start crucible today, also maybe one day we can have cross-play servers so I can play with my friends on consoles!

Thanks for all the hard work GGG

2. Make us manage the UI by ourselves. The UI when enabling controller is just super weird and VERY clunky.


please, i like the m/kb UI but I use controller and very much dislike my stuff at the top.

Agreed, inventory management with controller is ass.
I tried playing with a controller once. During the campaign and even when mapping it feels pretty good, nice even. However, the amount of buttons needed to perform very simple actions like removing an item from your inventory feels excessive and makes the experience awkward.
With a mouse you can just click an item and throw it on the ground somewhere and it's gone.
Using a controller you have to hover over an item and then press some obscure button combination. That just doesn't lend itself well to a game with a billion items.

Played POE a few years ago and did end up stopping due to general wrist pain. I got back into ARPGs with Diablo 4 and had a great time using a controller. The best part was the seamless transition to use my mouse for all inventory management.

Of course Diablo 4 is what drove me back to POE and realized that controller support was offered (Woohoo!). Overall, I think the gameplay with the controller is solid, especially considering this is a 10 year old game, but the UI and inventory management is a pain. While I'm not a fan of the UI and agree with others that it would be nice to switch, I wouldn't mind if they kept the controller (console) UI.

What we really need is the ability to use the mouse for inventory management! I love how the mouse is still usable and you can hover over buffs, or skills, or even items! That's great and all but why wouldn't we also have the option to click on items to actually move to stash, socket gems, etc? HECK, even on the passive tree you can currently use the mouse to click and select the passive points. Why couldn't they just allow us to use the mouse to click on items as well?!

Hopefully GGG will provide options whether to change the UI mid game (ala Baldur's Gate 3) or allow us to click with the mouse while navigating invetory.

This is a fantastic addition to people like me who have a carpal tunnel. The big question would be "ARE THEY CAPABLE OF DOING THAT?"