I like the idea of having WASD because I'm used to that from many other games, but I'm not sure how well it's going to integrate with skills and flasks.
Skills would have to be remapped because of the W key, but where would you remap them to? If you're using the mouse for aiming, most mouses only have 3 buttons, so either you're going to need to buy a gaming mouse with many other buttons, or we're going to have to come up with some other solution.
Similar thing with flasks. Using them is easy when using qwert for the skills, but using 12345 when using WASD isn't going to be as fluid, and more importantly you may not always be able to use the flask you want while moving in the direction you want, which could lead to deaths.
I think one of the videos mentioned roll being mapped to the space bar, so I guess you could flask while rolling, but that could use up about a second of the flask's buff/debuff timer, which might be the difference between living and dying in some cases. But I think it's even more important to note how less comfortable/fluid it is to reach from the WASD keys to the 12345 keys, especially if you're trying to move while using a flask.
EDIT: I said, "so either you're going to need to buy a gaming mouse with many other buttons, or we're going to have to come up with some other solution." ... so far it seems the consensus is that everyone's just going to buy a multi-button mouse. I guess I wasn't clear enough in my post, because really I was wondering what people's suggestions might be for alternate keymapping that wouldn't require buying a gaming mouse ... maybe I'm just being cheap, but I don't really want to buy a new mouse just for one game, and I don't play any other games where I need one.
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