As the title suggests, since i’ve played Grim Dawn I have only played 1 character to level 100, and haven’t made any other characters… until now. Which is when I went to set up new binds for my new character so decided to hit the “DEFAULT” button under keybinds on my new character to give it a clean slate to set up my new binds. When I went back to play my level 100 old character, the binds had reset on that character as well.
Why would it do this?
That is just how it is meant to be. Its like graphics or audio settings; they are the same for every character you play.
However, if you do want different keybinding profiles for multiple toons than you could set your keybindings for that toon, copy (Documents/My Games/ Grim Dawn/ Settings…Keybindings.txt) and then save the keybindings.txt somewhere else. After that create one for your new toon and do the same.
The issue with this is that every time you want to load up a different character you would have to copy/paste the keybindings.txt that you want into, Documents/My Games/ Grim Dawn/ Settings.
TBH you are better off setting your keybindings to something comfortable for you and use the same settings for all of your characters.
Most people never change keybinds. Are you sure you are doing what you intended to do? Keybinds are the keyboard presses that are assigned to different hotkey slots, and for opening the inventory. Hotkey slots are what you change for individual characters, which will make those keybinds behave differently for each character.
Generally speaking, LMB and RMB are your primary attacks, and LMB moves. I can’t imagine anyone ever changing those just because they changed characters. Buttons 1-8 are for pressing hotkeys. Again, I don’t see why anyone would change that setup from character to character.
What you do want to do, is right click each hotkey, and select different skills, and those are saved for each character.
The keybinds I use for my saboteur are unique to him, I like to use different binds for a different character because depending on the type of skill and how frequently it is used (i.e. a skill that is spammed a lot versus a skill that is only used in emergencies) would depend on what key I want it bound to as well as in what order I want it on my bar for maximum speed and reaction time. Sorry I know not many people here play classes that actually require skill and the possibility of dying, but I do, and I need fast reaction times.
Anyway, I appreciate the feedback, but it would seem that it is not possible except just changing the binds back and forth doing the keybind.txt method mentioned above.
Thanks,
Keybinds on my saboteur:
That still doesn’t explain why you need to change the keybinding.
You just said that more frequent skills are put in more comfortable locations. Wouldn’t that just mean you’d put the most used skills on the same keybind for each character?
I do this as well. I also tend to put similar types of skills in the same spot on the hotbar, so muscle memory kicks in.
I find it unusual for someone to relocate the hotbar, rather than the skills on the hotbar.
Anyway, have you ever considered using something like a Logitech G13, or Razer Nostromo?
They would let you create custom layouts, that you can swap, although I’m not sure why you couldn’t just rearrange their location on the hotbar.
I definitely suggest looking at the Logitech G13 and Razer Nostromo. I know of no games which let you have custom layouts per character, as that would be a pain in the butt having to rebind every key any time you create a new character.
I do use a G13, and used to use the Belkin Nostromo, which was bought by Razer, later. They give you options to create layouts, and you can create multiples per profile.
Thanks bystander,
But I already have the razer naga chroma with the 12 buttons on the side. I come from playing vanilla wow, which i’ve played since 2005, and quit retail wow shortly after burning crusade, and continued to play on vanilla wow private servers for the last decade so I’m used to having a lot more abilities where I would use my favorite keys on keyboard as well as some of the 12 buttons on the side of my mouse. But with a game like this where there are not as many abilities I have not had to use any of my 12 buttons on my mouse since I can fit them all on my keyboard comfortably.
Maybe it is just me being OCD? But i’ve just always created new custom binds for each character, probably more essential in a game like wow with sometimes up to 20+ abilities, and i’m just used to doing it that way. In vanilla wow it will carry your binds over to a new character but if you revert back to default binds on your new character it will still keep your custom binds on your other characters, so it just threw me off guard when I went back to my main saboteur and it had also reverted back to default. Seems like it would be an easy fix for the devs.
That still doesn’t explain why you need to change the keybinding.
You just said that more frequent skills are put in more comfortable locations. Wouldn’t that just mean you’d put the most used skills on the same keybind for each character?
I do this as well. I also tend to put similar types of skills in the same spot on the hotbar, so muscle memory kicks in.
But if the new character / class has a different amount of frequently used skills than say, my other character, and a different amount of not so frequently used skills - I would then be stuck trying to possibly squeeze one of my frequently used skills onto the bar with a keybind that is undesirable in regards to reaction time (like ‘Z’ - which is an emergency button for me).
You can create keybinds in a way that they are not on 1-9. You can make it so Z is the last slot on the hotbar so you always put your emergency hotkey there. But I’d suggest using your Chromo and create custom layouts that way.
WoW is quite unusual, and yeah, when I played, I had up to 50 binds on one character. This game you work with maybe 5 keys on average, and up to 8 on a really busy character, with a few buffs on your 2nd hotbar that are cast once.
Appreciate your help, i’ll see what I can stir up in razer synapse as far as custom layouts go.
For what it’s worth, I think it’s totally understandable you were thrown off guard.
Make no mistake, I love using the exact same setup for all my characters: I always place my fingers on the spacebar, [J], [K], [L], and [;].
But I can’t imagine wanting to reset the configuration for all of them at once. After all, I have to straighten things out one character at a time anyway. 
For what it’s worth, I think it’s totally understandable you were thrown off guard.
Make no mistake, I love using the exact same setup for all my characters: I always place my fingers on the spacebar, [J], [K], [L], and [;].
But I can’t imagine wanting to reset the configuration for all of them at once. After all, I have to straighten things out one character at a time anyway.
Imagine if when you created a new character, you had to bind the keys to jkl; every time. That’s the reason they don’t do it.
WoW does have an interesting setup. They have a default key bind setup you can change, and a character specific design, but I’ve never seen any other game do the same.
You couldn’t be more right!
And most users will only unintentionally reset things once anyway.
So at the end of the day, this is actually a time-saver. 
