My current build facilitates a playstyle where I need to Hold Position and Force Move to correctly optimize Flurry, but these two functions do not work correctly. I use the Hold Position Toggle and Force Move / Interact functions.
Force Move / Interact still uses your LMB skill when “Holding Position”, which completely invalidates the setting of separating Attack and Move/Interact. Similarly, toggling Hold Position also completely removes your ability to interact at all, making the toggle setting nearly useless as you have to untoggle it every time you want to click an interactable.
Even having a dedicated interact key prevents you from interacting while using Hold Position.
Current Behavior:
- Character still attacks with LMB even when using the Move / Interact setting when used with Hold Position
- Option to interact disappears when using Hold Position and interacting does not work, rendering the toggle setting very ineffective
Suggested Behavior:
- Move / Interact setting should not Attack when holding position
- Hold position should let you interact with objects in range
Additional QOL solutions:
- Allow keybinds for “Hold Position Skill Slot 1” / “Force Cast Skill Slot 1” as there are with Force Move and Force Interact
- Allow options for individual skills to be casted without moving
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Having a very similar issue. Adding my settings here
Controls:
- Combine Move/ Interact/ Basic Skill disabled
- Basic Skill Slot rebound (to Mouse Button 4)
- Move and Interact bound to Left Click
- Hold Position Mode set to Hold
Current Behavior:
- Character will use the skill on Core Skill Slot when moving with Left Click and pressing Hold Position
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I have the same issue.
My bindings are near identical to what ProvenTea (Basic set to E) has posted
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I’m having an issue with moving while the hold position button is held. If I’m holding left click to move and press hold position, my character stops. If I happen to right click at all after then the character will still move, though. Hold position button should stop this, but it doesn’t.
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Same here, Same settings as above:
- Combine Move/ Interact/ Basic Skill disabled
- Basic Skill Slot rebound (to Mouse Button 4)
- Move and Interact bound to Left Click
- Hold Position Mode set to Hold
and for me I have to stand still to get my buff.
When I hold down shift (hold position) and HOLD L Clict to attack it works. But
if I CLICK L Click he takes one step and re-sets the buff.
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Bump, hold position not working as intended. Character still moving, therefore rendering stand still damage buff useless.
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Bump, this is really anoying
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Daily bump until someone fix that
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Similar issue. I have the Hold position set to space bar, but when I hold it down, I can still move when I hold the key down. I tried changing the Hold key behavior to Toggle in Game Settings, I can’t stand still! I have stopped playing the game because it is so annoying and renders my type of gameplay less effective. Someone please suggest a fix. Thanks
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I have the same issue, and as a sorceress it is very frustrating for the ‘Hold Position’ functionality to be broken list this, and I really hope Blizzard comes up with a fix soon. I came up with a work-around that is less than ideal, but works for me. Hopefully this will help some others…
These changes are made in the following location: Menu>Options>Controls>Gameplay
Disable 'Combine Move / Interact / Basic Skill Slot' (When the square box is not lit up, it is disabled)
Bind 'Basic Skill Slot' to Left Mouse Button
Bind 'Move & Interact' to 'W'
The effect of this is that your character stands still when attacking, unless you are holding W to move around. This eliminates the need to use the ‘Hold Position’ button all together. When holding W, your character moves towards where your mouse cursor is.
Personally, I am used to using WASD to move around, so using W to move around wasn’t very difficult to get used to for me.
The annoying part of this ‘work-around’ is having to press W to ‘Interact’ with most things like picking up an item, opening a chest, etc… It was also a little confusing for me at first that you cannot ‘Interact’ with Vases and similar breakable objects using the Interact key, you need to use LMB to attack those objects and break them.
Regardless, this is absolutely a glitch that Blizzard needs to fix, and it’s disappointing that it is still an issue after all of these months.
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Hold Position suddenly broke after the Season 2 update for me. Worked fine before and now it doesn’t stop my character anymore… My normal Force Move setup I’ve used to level multiple level 100 characters does not work anymore…
Also the Hold Position Mode toggle does not work. The cursor does change to attack, but the character does not attack. Tried all my old and new characters…
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I’m getting the same issue as Aeden.
Hold Position was fine before but its not working anymore in this season.
This effectively makes me short 1 skill slot (unless I want to combine attack, move, and interact).
Gonna skip this league until it gets fixed.
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Yep, after using this since D3, it’s quite a step backwards really. If it was intended, it’s a terrible change for people who used it as it was for years. We need the option to cast basic skill slot when pressing hold position. It’s so much smoother for many ranged play styles.
Having to go back to ‘combined’ left click to make it work isn’t a solution, as it’s so clunky trying to run through packs again (as you attack packs instead of running).
Combined Left Click Unticked.
Left Click = Force Move / Interact
Basic Skill Attack = Unbound
Shift = Hold Position / Cast Basic Skill
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Same issue here, will you please do something about it??? This is properly outrageous that such a basic fonctionality isn’t working at all.
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so that is you’re answer??? not a single response since 4 months and you ask them not to bump freaking posts? this is a joke i hope
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It’s so frustrating to come back to the game when many things have improved, but having the way I play the game mechnically / gameplay wise being messed with when there’s no need to and its been fine for 10 years +
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Infact just thought, give us the option to assign hold position + skill. Best of both worlds if you’re not going to revert it.
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Can we get a reply on this? that you’ve acknowledged changing the way the gameplay is fundamentally for over a decade, and probably still is in D3.
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Also in similar situation. However, it is only broken on my rogue, not my Necro. I use same key bindings for both, but only in the past few weeks, maybe a month has the rogue gameplay changed.
It was working at the beginning of season two. I switched to my necro after maxing rogue, then, a few weeks later (last week), noticed the hold button doesn’t work for rogue basic skills.
This might be class specific, and I would think it would be considered a bug. Again, the hold position button still works fine for my Necro.
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