If You Play Diablo 4 With Keyboard & Mouse, You Owe This Player Your Thanks For This Essential Tip To Assign Another Movement Key

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is the kind of game that benefits from a keyboard and mouse and with a slight tweak to the controls, using skills can become even more efficient. Given how important movement abilities are in an action-RPG, it's crucial that players looking to optimize their builds correctly assign their powers to buttons that make sense. This can be made a little easier on a controller thanks to various shortcuts, but when it comes to a mouse and keyboard, having all those separate options can be intimidating for newcomers.

Posted to Reddit by user SleepyCorgiPuppy, the player shared a discovery that could change the way mouse and keyboard players interact with the game: Users can separate Basic Skill Slot and Move & Interact by assigning the former to a different key.

This means that the Basic Skill Slot can be mapped to «5» so it serves as a continuation of the Skills bar. It's a fix that can save players from some headaches given how easily Basic Skills can be accidentally triggered when they're mapped to the default input of «Left Mouse.»

There's certainly something to be said about the efficiency of playing a game like with a controller, but that comfort can't compare to the kind of customization afforded by a keyboard. The fact that SleepyCorgiPuppy was able to share such a game-changing discovery with players who may have just returned for the expansion is a testament to how useful a keyboard is for optimization. Implementing a unique control scheme can be jarring at first, but when it works, there's usually no going back.

The fact that the default key bind for Basic Skill Slot is «Left Mouse» has often confused the community, especially since it's easily the most used button. Freeing it up from potential misfires is an excellent means of avoiding frustration as its whole purpose becomes movement and interaction. Blizzard should at least entertain the idea of making this an official alternate control scheme.

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