I don't want to press "E" & my crafting concerns

In the most recent dev update we got a preview of gathering resources such as herbs & cutting trees down. We've also seen fishing. I'm sorry to say, I wasn't very impressed. For one, I don't like that you have to press the E key in order to gather instead of clicking on the tree, herb, rock, fishing spawn, etc. Also, I'm concerned at the lack of progression shown to us in terms of crafting/processing/gathering. I'd like to see more revealed in future streams. Is anyone else concerned about the artisan classes?

I know that we haven't even seen Alpha 1 and that there is a lot of iteration to come from agile sprints, but I'm a little worried.

Am I alone in this?

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Caeryl

Allow custom keybinds and it shouldn’t be too much of an issue

Taten

Custom keybinds will probably be a thing and also - its a tab action type of thing so clicking is tied to skills.... All types of these games have an "interact" button instead of mouse cursor features.

Also. Who's to say there wont be mouse-over features when u zoom out to click to move/mouse abilities? Too soon to tell and lots of room to wiggle.

Scifi

disregard this

Scifi

burl3yb0y wrote: »

Scifi wrote: »

I have no problem with pressing the E button. I have in every other MMO when gathering? I'm really not sure what the big deal with it is!

I've never pressed a keybind to start gathering in an MMO, or even a survival game, it's always been done with the mouse. A key like E is prime hotkey real estate I expect I'll want to use for strafe or abilities/cooldowns/consumables. It's not PUBG where I'm pressing E/F to open doors and loot items.

Say what? You must have not played many games then. If this hasn't been the case.... then what is the purpose of this thread?

Beekeeper

Taten wrote: »

Custom keybinds will probably be a thing and also - its a tab action type of thing so clicking is tied to skills.... All types of these games have an "interact" button instead of mouse cursor features.

WoW certainly doesnt. The first time i encountered an 'interact' button was Tera, and I never much liked it since. It always feels bad when I have to do a little dance in front of a flower before the prompt finally shows up. Hate that dance.

That button really only made sense to me in games that either use the mouse for something else, or are built primarily with controllers in mind.

Vio1

I can tell I'd probably be in the minority when it comes to this, but I like the idea of pressing a button over a mouse click.

I also like the idea of having gathering take a small bit of effort. If everything were made easier then you'd end up right back at world of warcraft in design. WoW aims to be the lowest common denominator of effort and efficiency. The resources are sought after and should be contested as such, and should be some risk vs reward element in everything done.

Caeryl

To be honest I’d like to use mouse clicks as little as possible (the 1-12 buttons on it are enough as-is), which is why I’m hoping they make good on the promises of customizations for UI and keybinds.

awq

Doesn't it normally work with both?
lmb = targeting > allowing for use of activate hotkey ("E" or "F" w/e), same thing as how it usually is with npcs
While rmb = target and attack/gather/talk

Leiloni

Vhaeyne wrote: »

At some point in the last 10 years MMOs forgot that keybindings are a very important and personal thing. Half of these games try to put shit around WASD that could be on just clicked on. This is a crime because that is where I put my OGCD cooldowns, Pots, Food, and other non-dps skills. If I have to waste keys on something that could have been solved by being close enough to something to click on it.

100% this. Keybinding is so important and I already use a lot of keys around WASD along with Numpad/regular number keys. If the game makes me waste valuable keybind space it's going to be a problem. There's nothing wrong with using mouse clicks for things that aren't combat-related, or letting me change it to F or something for certain interactions.

Xenotor

Q E R F C X Y
These are all keys needed for pots, food and abilitys.

So im all in on the Left Mouse butten to gather Craft.
They just have to make sure that you cant gather and craft in combat.
So that stuff like an enemy standing next to a tree and you start gathering rather then attacking doesnt happen.

apmax

I would like to be able to click to gather resources if need be, but the idea of there not also being a keybind to do so is absolutely ridiculous.
Do not force me to click on every single interactable in the game.

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