Gamepads over keyboards FAIL!

[Viridiana]

OP you are wrong.

Here's a good example, the arrow keys on a controller are used for several commands because of its lack of buttons which hinders game play. When I am in battle and hit the up and down arrows on my keyboard all the only thing that should happen is changing the selected ability bar 1-3, however this isn't the only thing the arrow keys do. All too often I will be fighting something and want to change my ability bar from 1 to 2 and instead all of a sudden I just targeted something else, because the arrow keys also change target, so now I am dead because I couldn't get to my cure quick enough WHY IS THIS???


How the controller works. This is exactly what happens.

DPAD changes targeting type [ ENEMY PARTY FRIENDLY ]

Press A Once, a circle should appear around the target. The color of the circle relates to the color of the target type.
Enemy RED Party Blue Friendly yellow/gold

Press left or right on the dpad to then cycle through targets.

Press A again to set that target.

Your action bar now appears you can now use left and right to cycle through your action bars choose a spell or attack.

I'm not sure you understand what's happening. Up and Down arrows on the keyboard are supposed to change the action bar. I've had an issue many times before in which, instead of changing the action bar, the same keys changed targets. This was after having locked onto my target, and, indeed, having attacked enough times to build up TP for the weaponskill on my second bar. This is with targeting type A, so there are no "types" for it to cycle through; it just decided to change my target instead of my action bar.

Obviously, there's a problem here, and I'd say it stems from the fact that all in-game functions are bound to the same small set of keys. Realistically, I have hundreds, if not over a thousand, button combinations I could be binding these functions to. That is, if we could bind our own keys. . .