Wand with Decompose skill disables mouse movement

Took me a while to figure out exactly what was going on.

If you equip a wand with the Decompose skill and you are in an area where you can use your attack skille (e.g. not in town), then you can't move using the mouse because it's trying to target corpses. If there is a corpse, it would move but if there are none, you can't move. The WASD movement does allow you to move but not the mouse. Very annoying! Basically any wand with Decompose is useless to me since I like moving w/ my mouse.

I am assuming that you have Decompose on your Left Mouse Button, which is why it is interfering with movement (the game assigns it to LMB by default). However, it is a problem even without corpses present to consume. Compared with other wand skills, it's almost like it is forcing "attack without moving" for the skill.


Interestingly, Corpsewade boots while providing a triggered Decompose skill that you cannot use yourself (but can still bind to LMB) will impede movement if you select the "attack without moving" option for the skill or use the "attack in place" keybind. The boots' otherwise disabled skill will not prevent movement without this modifier in place.

While there have always been some skills in poe that are problematic for use with LMB, it does seem that Acrid wands behave differently than other wand skills.


As a workaround until it is fixed, you could use the skill on a different mouse button or keybind. However, the game defaults the skill to LMB so this would appear to be unintended. If they were trying to avoid having Decompose on LMB replicating the effect of Corpsewade, there would still be movement stutter from self-cast and they probably wouldn't have defaulted the skill to LMB.