Inversus wrote: »

It is possible to free up your mouse to use the UI, but that's it. For combat your mouse is locked.
That's just how the game works, there's no way to change that.

ahh okay fair enough! it'll be some getting used to! haha

Inversus wrote: »

Yeah, if they hadn't have kept that feature TES fans would probably have rioted.

yeah, I thought maybe they might have been the option to change it somewhere that I missed.

Not being able to use the mouse for movement is BS. I used the E,S,D keyboard method back in the 1970's because a mouse was not yet available. Combat casts, blocks, strikes using a keyboard is perfect (at least for me.) But not being able to move forward via mouse control just does not make it for me. Also not being able to scan the area with a mouse pointer is also "1970's." Come on at least update your interface to the 2000's.

Inversus wrote: »

Yeah, if they hadn't have kept that feature TES fans would probably have rioted.

Make it optional for the rest! btw Im a Skyrim fan, but this is MMO after all...

I dislike mouse controlled steering of my character. I like being able to look around me while running and this feature ruins that for me. It also gives me a little motion sickness. I prefer the option of being able to move via keyboard only with the mouse only controlling the camera. Options are better than none at all.

You can make some changes, for example you could bind the default attack to a keyboard key and then bind run forward to one of the moue buttons (it might even be possible to bind it to left + right) which would give you a movement system similar to GW2's system of holding both mouse buttons to move.

The cursor is trickier. There is a key which toggles it on but many actions, including moving, turn it off. It might be possible with a programable mouse or keyboard to set up a simple script that would automatically toggle it on most/all the time. But I'm not sure if that's allowed in the TOS and I'm also not sure if it might cause problems like being unable to move the camera while the cursor is on screen. It would definitely take some experimentation to get it right.

But I also recommend giving the existing system a chance. I came to this game from GW2 as well and at first I really struggled with the controls. (Complicated by the fact that I got Dragon Age: Inquisition around the same time which has similar controls to both but is again slightly different.) But then I struggled with GW2 at first as well because before that I always used click-to-move.

Now I've got controls I like in all 3 games. There are some similarities (for example I have auto-run set to the same button on my mouse in all 3) but I've found I actually like to have some differences too because although at first glance they play quite similarly there are important differences which I don't want to be thinking much about in combat, and having different controls helps me rely on muscle memory matching up the game I'm playing and the options available instead of trying to do something that's not possible. (Otherwise I end up constantly crouching when attacked because I've been playing too much DA:I and expect Ctrl to pause the game.)

(Incidentally after 3 years of seeing regular topics on the GW2 forum complaining that it doesn't have a control system more similar to what ESO uses, especially the camera and targeting system, and how people have rigged up various legal and illegal mods to create one it's interesting to see that it does go both ways.)

Oops, yeah. I completely missed that. I actually checked the dates but just saw March and April, the 2014 part didn't register.