Quote Originally Posted by fusional View Post
are some of you guys being deliberately obtuse or do you seriously not understand? help me out. i've already explained in great detail why gamepad will always always always always be slower and always always always have a lower net dps ceiling than keyboard/mouse. if you don't understand, reread what i said and think really hard about it. objectively. if you disagree you're allowed to, but you're wrong. period. why are you still arguing about it?
Fusional, what you fail to understand is, we are not arguing there is no difference in time between some scenarios on gamepad and keyboard.

The fact is, the time difference is not important, because the cooldown timers will offset it.

There is no difference between ctrl+1 and LT+confirm. Add cooldown (and cast time) and switching from ctrl+1 to ctrl+2 is as fast as LT+right+confirm, but a switch from ctrl+1 to ctrl+5 might be faster than LT+right x4+confirm, I give you that.

Yes, you don't have to navigate to the next skill with a keyboard, but the current system coupled with lag gives you enough time to navigate to the next skill before a keyboard user can execute it.

The difference would be a second at most, but this is where smart action placement comes into play. If you only rarely have to travel more than one step in any direction, cooldown+cast timers will offset the disadvantage of having to do so.

Even taking lag away, you still have cooldown and casting/animation time to navigate. All you have to do is look ahead and plan your strategy.

You can pretend that doesn't matter, but then you have no right to tell us we are wrong.