WASD movement and a few thoughts

I've played using WASD for a few hundred hours now and I'd like to offer some thoughts.

As I dug around a bit to see if any of this feedback had been offered, I found a very vocal population supporting WASD and not so much in favor of mouse.

Here are a few thoughts to consider:

The game has to be balanced around players being able to easily shoot backwards while running away (kiting).

This means that the monsters need to be faster relative to the player, than they were in PoE 1, so they are able to catch the player.

Mouse requires much less clicking.

The first map I ran after enabling mouse movement was Bluffs. I held down my left click in Poe 1 style and zoomed through the map, tapping my right click (skill) to mow down packs. I ran through all those twists and turns with one left click the entire map. Running that map with WASD requires many times more key-presses than 1.

Mouse movement allows one handed play.

I was able to take a long drink from my ice cold tea while mapping last night, without needing to pause or stop. Heck, today I might even munch on some yummy snacks while playing!


At least melee is still super comfy playing with mouse movement! I'll save my ranged play-throughs for PoE 1, but PoE 2 is reserved for melee.