How are you all binding your keys to quickly use all 20 echoing strike spells, buffs & supports?

I have been playing a demon warlock until now, which was pretty simple in its play loop. All I needed to constantly use were:

• Teleport

• Death Mark

• Blood Boil

• Engorge

• summon (one demon type)

• sigil

• town portal

• CTA shouts (which I haven't keybound)

Now I'm playing the

Echoing Strike build, and holy crap. This is annoying. Now I need to constantly use:

• Teleport

• Echoing Strike

• sigil

• Psychic Ward

• summon

• Consume demon

• CTA shouts

• town portal

and if it weren't so cumbersome I would like to also use (for additional utility as needed)

• Death Mark

• hex

• Eldritch Blast

Feels like I'm spending a significant amount of game time refreshing buffs with this build.

So, how are you all managing these abilities and what are your binds? What's your process?

I have lethargy on left click and

Echoing Strike on right.
i use 2x hot keys for deathmark and

Teleport.

I tend to run 2x defilers and

Hex Purge as I find the clear speed is faster so although it is specced I dont use

Consume a lot. It can be too risky when the

Goatman runs straight to hug my hephasto


That's pretty much it.

I'm playing

Echoing Strike. I just summon goat,

Consume it, apply hex, CTA and then start teleporting and killing everything. Not needing any other buff. I do not use

Psychic Ward nor Sigil.

Oh I like this topic:)
I have currently 15 binded skills for ES Warlock.
Before Enigma when my main "movement bind" was

Blade Warp, I was using 16th for

Teleport charges ("N").

My current map goes like this:
Important note!
I obv never push ctrl+page up/down when playing.
Those are commands binded to my left and right clicks on mouse scroll button, which belong to my "web map" for my mouse when using web browser (those are shortcuts for next and previous card).


My default hand placement is fingers on 1, F2, F3, F4 and B.
I use the same map for every character where F4 is my

Teleport/movement

Key for last quarter of a centuryXD
F1-4 + numerical 5 are always reserved for skills most likely cast during fight with exception of "spammables" which are under thumb* under B and N keys.
Spammables =

Fireball,

Ring of Fire,

Nova,

Smite etc.

For ES Warlock

Echoing Strike is main spammable but it doesn't need to be binded, only picked for r-click from main screen (and for l-click as well, i run double Echoing on mouse).

Same as my "F4 forever for

Teleport", 6 and 7 are forever Battle Shouts from CTA for me. Close each other for quick sequence.
Similary summon,

Consume and second summon are meant for instant buff sequence at the start of each game in order: F6 -> F7 -> F5 (which I keep the same for Fire Lock but obviously different demon under F6).

*I also use thumb to swap weapons with space, enter cube with V or character sheet.

EDIT
I have double Town Portal, because I always use scrolls on

Belt and almost never use book unless rushing but with new

Sling Ring i binded it on additional

Key.
I don't wear it 95% of time though.

Any buff skills like BO or a Hex, I just use the F keys (F6 for Hex, F9-F10 for BC/BO, etc.) Always F8 for TP unless they are in my

Belt. My hotkeys on keyboard are usually E R D F, E is my spam usually (so ES here). Left click Sigil, right click

Teleport. I put

Consume on Z so I don't accidentally hit it lol

ever since the d2r patch that allowed hotkeys, I completely remapped the keys to have more binds available for spells. It was weird to get used to at first not using the F1-F12 keys as usual, but I find it much more intuitive after. Basically, any keys from Q to Y, A to H, Z to B (going left to right), along with space

Key can be used as one for a skill. Only exception is I leave W for weapon switch and Q for quest. F1-F6 are changed for other things commonly used, like F1 for character screen, etc. This way, I end up binding the most used skill on space or F, or G, and it feels more like operating a FPS game. For example, my ES warlock has

Echoing Strike on left click as well as F,

Teleport on right click, while B is for

Bind Demon, G for

Engorge, etc. I always use T to bind for

Teleport (easy to remember). space bar I leave for something I frequently recast, such as

Psychic Ward. It takes some time to map out, but I now have it saved as a custom and pretty much use this for all characters

I have

Teleport at middle mouse button, it's really easy to use that way.

You can setup custom bindings for each weapon set; I have CTA at Z+X so they are near each other on swap.

I have primary skill at R, secondary at E, then W, Q, so they stay in the same row.

I generally havea "square" area of keybindings on my keyboard for triggers (between Q and V)

HaveANiceDay wrote: 13 hours ago

Oh I like this topic:)

Yes! Thanks for taking the time to write all that out. This is the kind of Insight that's helping me understand how people actually play this game. lol

Sometimes I feel like a monkey using a typewriter playing this.

Oops my potions are all gone because I had my hands on the numbers instead of the F keys again...

its60cent wrote: 12 hours ago

ever since the d2r patch that allowed hotkeys, I completely remapped the keys...

Imagine if this game provided functionality that allowed multi-action input so that pressing space bar once automatically summoned a pre-selected demon, consumed it, resummoned it, swapped to CTA, used all 3 shouts, swapped weapon again, used

Psychic Ward, used a pre- selected hex.

I just use F1 to F9
F1 =

Blade Warp / Enigma

Teleport once I have Enigma
F2 = sigil
F3 forward are buffs and summons.

I dont have CTA.

D2seller wrote: 1 hour ago

its60cent wrote: 12 hours ago

ever since the d2r patch that allowed hotkeys, I completely remapped the keys...

Imagine if this game provided functionality that allowed multi-action input so that pressing space bar once automatically summoned a pre-selected demon, consumed it, resummoned it, swapped to CTA, used all 3 shouts, swapped weapon again, used

Psychic Ward, used a pre- selected hex.

Well it "does" actually.
I just recorded macro for demon summon and

Consume combo in my mouse software.
It works fine. Good call;)

EDIT:
And for CTA as well:)

EDIT2:
There's apprently a lot into this topic which you can research and macros seem not to be allowed generally (i have to dig in yet).
But I'm not sure if simple skill bind combo input counts unless it's gonna be some over the top Pattern on the verge of botting.

Supposedly some people were banned for using macros:
forums/account-got-ban-after-playing-2- ... ilit=macro

Would simple two skill prebuff combo be any different from my mouse binds?
Which are not only ctrl + page up/down (see above) but I also have ctrl+c and ctrl+v, and i have them binded as map/show items toggles in D2.
I must have used all four combinations like thousands of times since ROTW release.