Paladin Aura Left click/side (QOL)

Please Blizzard, for the love of my hands, please allow paladins to use the Aura on left click so we can use zeal on right click.

Normally we can hold right click to move attack next target, this is not possible with left click.
Paladin is the only class encumbered by this, and it hurts my mouse arm to constantly try to snipe left click and not accidently move instead of targeting enemies.

This will not ruin the game, its just a quality of life thing.

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We need to go further. Actual 2021 controls where you can have multiple abilities ready at once. Controller version already has that, so it should only be a matter of time when we get that too.

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Was about to say that. Paladins got shafted here. On the controller, you can directly map all your Auras to different buttons, while the skills you want to use for attacks can similarly be mapped, so you do not lose out a skill button that you had to dedicate to your Aura.

We urgently need the direct approach taken by the (wonderful) controller support to be made available for M+KB as well. This small change would take the game to the next level of inclusion and enjoyment for M+KB users.

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I can’t recommend controller enough. The mouse fatique in these types of games is real. Amazon has some MSI GC20 left for $18. That’s what I got for the game, and it’s a great controller. I hear the logitech F310 is good and cheap, but it’s pretty ugly.

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What are you talking about. You can assign auras to F1-F8 and switch them with the push of one button.

And you can hold shift to lock your character in place, if you are having trouble to snipe enemies with your mouse. Adapt and overcome, my Brothers!

Locking in place is not the issue. Its running around trying to click seperate mobs and clicking like a maniac. Some of us have issues with this. Even muscle issues.

Not everyone has perfect fingers/hands/arms, some have disabilities.

Controller works great! But they should really adapt something for mouse and keyboard players.

Paladins cant have zeal on right click without loosing the aura. If we could use rightclick we could hold right click down and it would auto attack and auto move to next enemy, like every other melee character can.

Not everyone is a hammerdin that stands stationary and casts hammer with shift-left click.

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I don’t mean to be a dick, but I really don’t see the problem. Especially when you are a Zeal-Paladin.

With Zeal you are not sniping either way. Your attacks go to all the targets around you, and you shouldn’t run through crowds anyway. So just lock yourself in place, use your zeal to smash everything around you and you will have a much easier time clicking the guy you wanted initially when enough enemies are dead. If he didn’t die to your Zeal already when you were targeting the enemy next to him.

Or even better: Just play a Holy Fire/Holy Shock Paladin and just stand there and watch your enemies suffer the consequences of your mere presence.
Of course that’s not a real solution to the problem, but it can help since Holy Fire/Holy Frost/Holy Shock synergizes very well with Zeal as you get the added damage for each swing of Zeal.

What is your main gripe with allowing zeal paladins to have auras on left click and have us move+attack on right click?

I appreciate your workarounds, but this is hardly a buff for paladins. It just makes QoL on the same level as a frenzy barb or a druid werewolf/werebear or any other that use rightclick with automove.

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No gripe. I am just offering solutions in case it doesn’t get implemented and don’t think it is much of a problem at all. If they let us do it. Great. If they implement it without creating more bugs or exploits. But any change to something has the potential to break something else, hence I don’t expect them to implement it. Hence I try to focus on solving the problem in ways that I can. Advice on how to play around it.

Since they have obviously fixed it on the controller support I dont see how they cant fix it on PC+Keyboard.

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Just hold shift key to stand still, that’s what it’s for. Use it on soso all the time to overcome this problem.

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With KB+M, you must always have your active Aura on RMB. This means you can only have 1 non-Aura skill on your mouse at a time, because the Aura hogs the other button. Say your build is Zeal + Aura + Smite for the stun. With KB+M you cant have Smite and Zeal available at the same time because the Aura requires RMB. So to use both attacks you need to switch them in and out of LMB which is clunky as hell. On controller, Zeal is A button, Smite is B and Aura is on X. Simple. All only 1 click away.

Controller has no such drawbacks. Every skill and aura is available for use at all times with 1 button press.

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We also need a “Move only” key, its very annoying to move around with left click.

I’ve upvotes this already here:

But I will upvote here again!
PLEASE BLIZZ!
Listen to your players!!!

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Never mind Auras, every class should be able to place any of their skills on LMB. Why the hell is it only a small subset? Did a monkey design this? Summoner Necros for example do not have a single skill they can put on LMB.

left click mod was a hack and was banned by blizzard long time ago.
this feature would make the paladin a much stronger teleporter.

dunno if it is a good idea to implement this. Paladin is atm the strongest Teleporter.

tried yesterday and works like a charm assign a button for LMB skill and just keep it pressed while moving the mouse in the area of mobs and it will autoattack mobs in proximity of your mouse.

Gyallarhorn you more or less just exposed yourself as someone who hasnt spent too many hours playing melee chars… if you actually spend hundreds of hours playing a Frenzy Barb or Concentrate barb, then hundreds of hours playing a Zealer pally… you would ABSOLUTELY understand the difference in QoL between being able to set the attack to Right-Click.

if the melee attack is single target or multi-target has NO IMPACT on the Play style IN THIS REGARD. The point is you continue to mow down monsters (single target or multi) without needing to release the Right-Click.

if you ever play the VARIOUS melee builds for long enough… you might start to understand what would be a HUGE QoL improvement here. Using Force-stand does NOT fix the QoL issue we are addressing here, there would still be a LOT of right clicking compared to Barb melee builds (for example) EVEN WITH Force Stand being used.

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For why some peoples just dont accept (or understand?) that it would be an option we (me included) want to have for QoL gaming?Âż?
Option means, you _d o n t _ need to use it!
Maybe I dont understand the fun of “For me it works well so no need to change something on it!”

Dont work with my Fanazealer!
If I do so, my Pala runs only and dont attack!
So I have to left click and left click and left click and left click and…

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I tried this. It doesn’t work with Zeal but it does work with Frenzy on my Druid.

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