Limited Left mouse button commands?

[Apoy]

As above. Does anyone know how to change the left mouse button to let me equip siphon souls? or if I can make right mouse button attack? I am doing a spellsinger and the idea is to use devastation-siphon souls-auto attack (necrotic edge)-siphon souls-etc…but I can’t do that because siphon souls doesn’t equip to left mouse button. Any idea’s are appreciated.

[USER_NAME_01]

That’s hardcoded in the engine.

[eisprinzessin]

The game limits you in this respect, because it would otherwise impact your ability to move with LMB. When I play a caster I usually assign Move-to to LMB. The alternative is to play with a gamepad.

[Apoy]

Ah, thanks. Just struck me as weird as I can use Calidors Explosion but not siphon souls and they are pretty much the same. Thanks for the answers.

[Volek]

The game limits you in this respect, because it would otherwise impact your ability to move with LMB.

I keep reading that answer everytime this question arises, but I still fail to see the logic behind that.

Let’s compare PRM and AAR for example. When you hold down LMB and move your cursor onto an enemy in range, you will cast PRM. Otherwise you will move.
I don’t see how this would work differently if AAR was assigned to LMB. In both cases you hold down a button to cast a spell.

What am I missing here? Maybe this is a technical issue since AAR is a “channeled” skill? Maybe it’s got something to do with the “Classic Casting” or “Classic Targeting” options?

I’m not complaining because I doubt anything will change in this regard, and I adapted to holding RMB on my AAR build fairly well after all these years of training
I just wanna understand why exactly some skills are restricted from LMB while other, seemingly very similar skills aren’t.

[BOG]

I keep reading that answer everytime this question arises, but I still fail to see the logic behind that.

Let’s compare PRM and AAR for example. When you hold down LMB and move your cursor onto an enemy in range, you will cast PRM. Otherwise you will move.
I don’t see how this would work differently if AAR was assigned to LMB. In both cases you hold down a button to cast a spell.

What am I missing here? Maybe this is a technical issue since AAR is a “channeled” skill? Maybe it’s got something to do with the “Classic Casting” or “Classic Targeting” options?

I’m not complaining because I doubt anything will change in this regard, and I adapted to holding RMB on my AAR build fairly well after all these years of training
I just wanna understand why exactly some skills are restricted from LMB while other, seemingly very similar skills aren’t.

Yes, to be honest, i dont see a reason, how we CAN have Forcewave on LMB (a ground-targeted spell), but cant have AAR or Vire’s Might. And you can always hold “shift” to stand still and cast LMB-skill without any target.

[eisprinzessin]

This is why you can assign PRM to LMB and AAR not:

Grim Misadventure #113: Altered Skill

Skills that target the ground will never be on LMB as they severely impact movement (in before “just bind Move To on another key”, but that’s not ideal nor should it be a requirement for a control configuration to function).

Left click restrictions

Generally when a skill can’t be bound to left-click, it is because it would interfere with moving around (ex. Aether Ray or any ground-targeting ability)

@BOG - even though the transmuter’s flavor text reads smash the ground, Forcewave is apparently not a ground-targeting skill.

[BOG]

@BOG - even though the transmuter’s flavor text reads smash the ground , Forcewave is apparently not a ground-targeting skill.

What’s the difference?

For me, real “enemy-targeted” skill is something like Blitz, that cant even be used properly without target. As for Forcewave, you can use it just as well without target, what’s the difference between it and AAR?

[eisprinzessin]

I do not know more of the technicality of the issue except for what Zantai shared in the above quotes. However, if you toy around with AAR, then you can vary the beam’s length. That is something you can neither do with with PRM nor Forcewave.