About usin' skills, dawg
by Cyber-warrior | 24/03/2009 05:12:12 Yo dawg, okay, so when using skills, yo, is it goin' to be like World of Warcraft where we tap the key, but without targetin', and the fireball jus' shoots? Or do we tap the key and it goes onto, I don't know, skill choice box (if that made sense to you, yo), then we shoot usin' the regular Diablo II style by clickin'? I thank y'all fo' the future answer, dawgs. Peace out y'all. I'm out-tie. [ Post edited by Cyber-warrior ] |
by Bashiok | 24/03/2009 22:46:55 I don't want to lend credence to the OP or the act of trolling, but come on guys, how could you have taken that seriously? It's so obvious I feel personally responsible that somehow people fell for it. I should be training you better. the biggest lie we tell ourselves we're already in hell |
| by Bashiok | 24/03/2009 23:37:53 In Diablo III you'll have seven places which skills can be placed. Four on the hot bar, one for the left mouse button, and two for the right mouse button. The two for the right mouse button can be swapped back and forth using Tab or the scroll wheel. Currently any of your skills can be placed into any of these seven skill spots. The game tries to help you out with their placement though. When you train a new skill it will attempt to intelligently place it for you. So if it's - for instance - a buff or non-targeted aoe ability (witch doctor Horrify, barbarian Ground Stomp, etc.) it's going to put it into your hot bar as it's not something you use through a mouse-targeted enemy attack. For abilities that are used by clicking on an enemy (wizard Magic Missile, etc.), the game will attempt to intelligently place them on your mouse buttons for you. So after learning a new skill it's already on your bar ready to be used, and it's placed somewhere that makes sense to how it's used. But just because it attempts to help you out by placing skills where they make the most sense, you can put them anywhere you like. If you want to have Magic Missile cast by pressing the first hot bar key (the 1 key on your keyboard), you can, and it will cast toward wherever your cursor is. You can do this with any of the abilities. The system automatically places skills where they make the most sense, but allows you to customize however you please. It's a nice wide open, play how you want to play approach, while still offering a helpful guide in the beginning. Also I think it will help, or possibly just not impede, class build diversification. [ Post edited by Bashiok ] the biggest lie we tell ourselves we're already in hell |
by Bashiok | 25/03/2009 00:19:20
So, sort of like creating skill "load outs" that you could swap between? I'm not sure if that's something we're planning for. I will say that use of the hot bar for targeted skills is actually fairly intuitive and easy to grasp and begin using. I use it all the time just because sometimes I don't feel like tabbing between two different right mouse button skills. the biggest lie we tell ourselves we're already in hell |
by Bashiok | 25/03/2009 00:50:19
No, not at all. the biggest lie we tell ourselves we're already in hell |
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