ive been using f1 f2 f3 f4, and for the last year or so my game keeps closing as if i use alt f4, it seems to be only on wow that it does this, ive tried other games like League and runescape and fortnite, and it only ever happens on wow, im super frustrated with it and seeing another post about it thats been closed due to no replys for 30 days, can a blizzard employee look at my ticket and actually communicate with me instead of marking the ticket i opened be closed b4 the discussion is over with, i cant b messaging a bot ever 24 hour one time,
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Unfortunately no. Technical support is no longer provided by Billing and Account services, mainly as Blizzard no longer provides technical support, and the forums are mainly player discussion with fellow players like myself who volunteer their time here.
Guides > UI and Macro might also be able to way in on how you can bypass this.
There were also a few posts in the past to review, but I would recommend not using this key unfortunately for keybinds.
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I would honestly try resetting keybinds. Or looking for the overlay it’s affecting the game that would be my second guess.
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i have unbinded it over a month or 2 ago now and muscle memory still kicks in and click f4, cant really undo 20 years of using that bind on every char ive ever played
Have you tried a double keybinding? I can’t log in right now to check (I’m browsing the support forum while I wait for my realm to come back online), but I seem to recall it’s possible to set two keybinds in many cases. If you can, maybe it would help to set F4 as the primary keybind, and Alt-F4 as the secondary keybind for the same ability/button?
If that doesn’t work, you could also try manually editing the keybinds outside of WoW. The keybinds are stored in a text file that you can edit in Notepad (don’t use Wordpad or Word), at:
World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF\Account\ACCOUNTNAME\Realm\Character\bindings-cache.wtf
If you have global keybinds, you can probably just edit the bindings-cache.wtf in the ACCOUNTNAME folder. If you have character-specific keybinds, you’ll need to edit the file in the character’s folder. Here’s what I have for F4 bindings:
bind F4 MULTIACTIONBAR1BUTTON4
bind SHIFT-F4 NONE
bind CTRL-F4 NONE
I have a macro on the actionbar button that has F4 bound, and the macro uses conditionals, so I unbound Shift-F4 and Ctrl-F4 so the macro will work properly. I didn’t do anything for Alt-F4 because my macro doesn’t use that conditional. In your case, if you have to edit the bindings-cache.wtf file, I think probably the best option would be to find the existing line for F4, copy and paste it, and change the first part of the new line from “bind F4” to “bind ALT-F4”. Hopefully that will work so that if WoW is somehow getting an Alt-F4 when you just click F4, it will use the new Alt-F4 bind to do what F4 should do.
Edit: My realm came back up, so I tested this, and manually binding Alt-F4 didn’t work for me (Alt-F4 still just closed WoW). I’m now having serious second thoughts about the macro I have on the button that has the F4 binding… and sadly I can’t think of anything else you can try to fix your situation.