Any changes to reassigning mouse buttons?

I can’t continually click using mouse buttons . I forgot why I stopped playing D3 - basically because the constant clicking causes major pain and loss of movement in my arm. I see there have been plenty of complaints in forums, but I don’t see any solutions - any updates on this?

Alternatively, is there an any way to set an auto-repeat so I can just hold the mouse and the skill just keep on repeating? I can hold down a mouse button. I just can’t continually click.

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There are likely third-party apps for this sort of thing, but i think they would have to read and modify D3’s data stored in the RAM, since there’s no way to reassign mouse buttons in-game. This would make the apps against the terms and conditions and could cause a temporary banning of your account.

The best solution would be to try and adjust the way you use your mouse in D3 so that you always hold mouse buttons instead of rapidly clicking them, or at least as much as you can. I tried doing this at one point but it was sorta difficult. You would have to make the effort for some time before you became habituated to using the mouse in that particular way effortlessly.
Still if you try it and persist, it will gradually begin to feel easier over time, until it feels completely normal and takes no extra effort.
As they say; old habits die hard.

Usually a lot of the attacking can be done by keeping the button pressed down, plus it’s a good idea to use a force stand still key and a force move key. This will save you a lot of mouse clicks.

Unfortunately, there’s no way to play around with settings of Left and Right click, and the game also limits you with the skills you can assign to slots of a Left click.

The best solution that I’ve found myself, is to assign mouse clicks to my Mouse Wheel Up and Mouse Wheel Down. This is at least sort of better that performing thousands of clicks, because developers did not think about issues they have cause by not letting people to re-assign interact keys in an ARPG game.

You can do it, for example, with AutoHotkey or Razer Synapse or any other keybinding software. Just make sure that the software you use does not read any of your applications memory and does not modify the game or the game files by any means - it should be just a Windows-specific or OSX-specific software that re-assigns the keybinding within the operating system itself.

This WILL NOT re-assign the keybindings within your games, your Left and Right clicks will still be there, but you will have an additional keybind that sends the “Click”.

Additionally, as mentioned above, you want to always use Force Stand Still and Force Move bindings. Some ergonomically good options are using the “Tab” key for a Force Move and “Space” key for Force Stand Still.

Also, be aware of using the “Shift/Ctrl/Alt/Windows Logo” key - before using it within your bindings, make sure to disable “Sticky Keys” in Control Panel/Ease of Access, otherwise, you’ll be getting pop-up windows occasionally.

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Actually thinking about this a second time, if an app left the D3 files unaffected and instead only effected files connected to your mouse and/or windows, then it would technically be a legal third-party app.

If you’ve ever seen high leaderboard rank videos, people are using something of this nature. Something that gets the mouse automatically clicking very rapidly, about 5 time per second or so. They don’t actually manually click anything i don’t think, they just move the cursor around while it auto-clicks. If it doesn’t effect D3 files in their RAM then they likely cannot be banned for using it.
I don’t know the name of the program that they use, it’s likely to be a simple AutoHotKey script though.

EDIT: Argh nvm Butters beat me to it. Lu-lu-lu he’s got some apples…

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