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poroboszcz
16-10-2008, 04:41
According to what we know there are gonna be just 3 skills avaliable via mouse buttons: one on left click and two on right click, swappable with tab or middle mouse buton, plus four hot bar skills. Do you think it's the better system than in D2?

Blizzard says that they want to keep things as simple and fast-paced as possible and encourage players to use more skills, but I have some concerns. In D2 i usually used 12 hotkeys to bind all the skills I used. Lets say you have 2 main attacks, 2 supportive attacks, 2 supportive skills and 2 prebuff skills. That's already 8. And what if you need more? Wasn't D2 qwer asdf zxcv system the better solution? Plus you gonna have to learn the diffrent way of left-right hand coordination with 1-4 keys for hotbar skills. That's quite serious gameplay issue as I think about it. What do you guys think? Especially those that had a luck to play blizzcon demo.

AcidReign
16-10-2008, 07:45
I think with a week of playing, the Tab-skills and roller wheel skills will become second nature to most players.

Jodaus
16-10-2008, 08:25
In the demo, the only options available were to Resume Game or Save and Exit (which just went back to character creation so a new guy could play). When you right-click one of the four spell slots a mini box opened that showed all of your known spells and would plug it into the slot you right-clicked. Same with the TAB skills; I switched those out more often than the 4 spell slots, honestly. It's different and will take some getting used to.

Although I have a feeling once we actually have access to the Options menu you will be able to hot key a bunch of other stuff.

Apocalypse
16-10-2008, 15:09
i too had alot of skills hotkeyed in d2, i had 5 on my mouse alone, so i am sure it will be different but i am sure it will be ok. i just hope i can change the tab key for switching

Biff Exploder
16-10-2008, 15:16
is there still a hotkey for the potions? or do we have to click on them to use?

Telzen
16-10-2008, 20:58
is there still a hotkey for the potions? or do we have to click on them to use?

Pretty sure it shows them in the 20 minute vid from when the game was announced. Believe that 5 and 6 were for potions.

poonagi
17-10-2008, 00:14
blizzcon attendee here.

yes 5 and 6 were hotkeys for the potions. i also found the limited number of hotkeys available a little bit worrisome (not that i had them all filled during the demo).

but i'm sure once the full game is out they will allow us to bind hotkeys to any keys we want. that just seems like the logical direction at this point.

Gigashadow
17-10-2008, 00:23
I hope the skills 1-2-3-4 can be moved to ASDFGH instead, I am not comfortable with numbers... but, apart from that, I think the system is perfect.

Apocalypse
17-10-2008, 00:42
I hope the skills 1-2-3-4 can be moved to ASDFGH instead, I am not comfortable with numbers... but, apart from that, I think the system is perfect.

i agree, infact i hope almost everything can be remapped if i want to(save left and right click)