A Guide to Using a Gamepad w/ DDO

[Calebro]

Will do, Calebro! And I'll pop in here with my thoughts when I try it out.

I think the thing that I like best about this way is this:
Mouselook mode resets the cursor to your target circle on the screen. No more wondering where it will be. No more fumbling with it.
If you do happen to move it somewhere, just let go of R2 for a moment, then grab it again.
Cursor shows up right back to the center of the screen every time you need to use it.

Oh, and the only reason I mapped it to toggle mouselook was to swap back and forth between the two and compare.
I'm going to remap that as something else again soon and just leave it in ML, "freeing" the screen in combat with R2 instead of "grabbing" it.

[ShastaHawk]

Well its technically 26 considering the one i make with the Holy Sword spell to beat on Cornugons and Pit Fiends.

My current weapon sets are:
A Greensteel Greatsword (not transmuting yet)
A Terror Greatsword from the inspired quarter
A +2 Paralyzer Greatsword of PG
A +2 true law Greatsword of Disruption
A +2 weakening Greatsword of Enfeebling (for living spells)
A +1 true law scimitar or smiting (paired with madstone shield)
A +1 banisher rapier of tendon slice (w shield)
A +3 Vorpal longsword (w shield)
A +1 Holy Greatsword of Greater Undead Bane
A +1 Holy Greatsclub of Greater Undead Bane
A +3 Flaming burst Greatsword of PG (from the time when i fought cold foes)
A +4 Icy burst Greatsword of PG (from the time when i fought flaming foes)
A +5 Mettaline Greatsword of Righteous (which became a golem beater after the transmuting nerf)
A Cloudburst, from the reaver (looks so cool)
A +4 Thundering Greatsword of Greater Elemental Bane
A +3 Holy of Greater Reptilian Bane (for Coal chamber, Enter the kobold and the like)
A +4 Thundering of Greater Ooze Bane, (also for living spells)
A +2 Shocking burst battleaxe of everbright (w/ shield, for Rusties)
A +5 returning flaming throwing axe (w/shield, for ranging)
A Muckdoom with a Muckbane for easy to hit ooze
A Muckdoom w/ shield for dangerous ooze
A +3 Flaming burst Falchion of Greater Giant Bane (mostly for ice giants)
A +3 Metalline Falchion of Greater Giant Bane (for giants with DR and Stoned)
A +4 Vorpal Greatsword (i intended to use thinking the new warforged enhancements could trigger it, but its still useful for glancing blows when AC doesnt matter)
And finally
A +3 True law Greatsword of Greater Dragon Bane, for Velah.

I still have a +1 Seeker +10 falchion that i used a bit for making massive Smite crits, but i only managed to use it when i was at the top of my game before i stopped playing during mod 7. It still clutters my backpack because i was uncertain if the Capstone Weapons of Good could eventually make it worthwhile. But i think you convinced me to sell it =p

Im expecting to drop quite a bunch of those once i finish my greensteel.

****, thats a lot of weapons.

[sephiroth1084]

****, thats a lot of weapons.

Can anyone say, "Pack rat?"

[TheEmeraldEmperor]

Cool thread. I use a Logitech PS2 style controller as well. Mine is set up a bit differently, however.

I resolved the hotbar problem by setting my D-pad (UP) and (DOWN) arrows to scroll through my hotbars. I have (1)(2)(3)(4), which would be triangle, circle, etc on a PS2, bound to the first 4 numerical slots on each hotbar. This means I can't use slots 5-10 unless I want to click them with the mouse. However, with 20 hotbars, I still have 80 items/spells/abilities that I can hotbar. Now admittedly, it takes I while to scroll through 20 bars, so I keep the stuff I use more often close together.

i use the same gamepad, but i set the l1-l2 buttons to scrool trough my hotbars

dpad up-first icon
dpad down-second icon
dpad left-third icon
dpad right-fourth icon

i use a similar thing with the modifier key for 5-8

9+10 are modifier key+ 2 keys i don't use in combat(ex:jump);

[Bolo_Grubb]

nice guide but it would have been easier for me if you ahd just used the numbers printed on the controller. oh well

[sephiroth1084]

nice guide but it would have been easier for me if you ahd just used the numbers printed on the controller. oh well

I'll go and update that sometime soon. I used the terms I did because I'm more used to that name scheme.

[phalaeo]

Ooooooh!
I didn't know this was an option and would love to try it out.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[sephiroth1084]

Ooooooh!
I didn't know this was an option and would love to try it out.

Thanks for the suggestion.

That's what this is here for. Enjoy.

[~UrgtFury]

I just purchased this new controller and was wondering if anyone had some spare time to help me get it setup? I'm having problems trying to get the key mapping matched up right, my guy is a human fighter...

Here's a screenshot of the controller layout. Thanks

[Calebro]

I just purchased this new controller and was wondering if anyone had some spare time to help me get it setup? I'm having problems trying to get the key mapping matched up right, my guy is a human fighter...

There are literally dozens of ways you can set it up, and you're the only person who can answer the question of which set-up is best for you.
My suggestion is to read this thread from the beginning and see which set-up looks like it will "feel" right in your hands.

Unless you've already done that and this is a keymapping question, as in "how do I go about mapping the keys properly?"
If that's the case we'll need to know which set-up you chose before we can help.

[~UrgtFury]

Yes I have read everything and its alot of great info, it is a key mapping issue I can figure out a couple of keys but there are so many in the mapping section its confusing to me?

I wanted to set it up like this.

* Button 1: Single Attack
* Button 2: Jump
* Button 3: Left Mouse Button
* Button 4: Health Potions Shortcut on the Shortcut Bar (I use Number 6)
* Button 5: Block
* Button 6: Modifier Key
* Button 7: Select Next Interactable
* Button 8: Select Next Combat Target
* Button 9: Previous Shortcut Bar
* Button 10: Next Shortcut Bar
* Button 6 + Button 1: Shortcut Bar item 1
* Button 6 + Button 2: Shortcut Bar item 2
* Button 6 + Button 3: Shortcut Bar item 3
* Button 6 + Button 4: Shortcut Bar item 4
* Button 6 + Button 5: Shortcut Bar item 5
* Button 6 + Button 7: Shortcut Bar item 7
* Button 6 + Button 8: Shortcut Bar item 8
* Button 6 + Button 9: Shortcut Bar item 9
* Button 6 + Button 10: Shortcut Bar item 0
* Y Axis: Move Forward and Move Back
* X Axis: Strafe Left and Strafe Right
* Z Axis: Turn Left and Turn Right
* Z Rotation Down: Interact
* Z Rotation Up: Cancel
* Hat Switch: Move Mouse

[Calebro]

There are a couple there that I don't use, so let me log in and find the appropriate commands. I'll be back.

*edit:
Are there any in particular that you're having trouble finding/mapping, or basically all of them?

[sephiroth1084]

In the key mapping section of the Options menu, just find whatever function you're looking to map (ie. Attack), click the button on the screen (probably says something like "Map" or some such), and then click the key you wish to map it to on your gamepad.

For things like healing potions and activated abilities, just assign hotbar spaces to buttons on your controller, and then put the items/abilities where you'd like them. For example, I have hotbar keys 1-10 on bars 1 and 2 mapped to buttons on my controller. When I'm on my wizard, if I need to be able to use a spell with less input I move that spell to a button that doesn't require a modifier and works comfortably with whatever buttons I'll require for the task at hand. The specific example I'm thinking of here is:

I usually have Wall of Fire on Button 4 + modifier, but during one fight, I need to be able to throw a lot of these out quickly while both maintaining uninterrupted forward movement and jumping. Unlike in normal questing where I'll maybe throw one or two walls out at a time, and where my movement need not be very exact, I don't want to have to deal with holding one button and pushing another, so I move firewall to Button 4 w/o modifier for easier use.

By the way, thank you for posting a pic of the gamepad with the buttons labeled. I'd been trying to find one and had been unsuccessful. I'll go back and edit my OP to correspond to this image.

[~UrgtFury]

No problem I scanned the image at home, I am mostly having problems with the mouse functions, left click, etc the others I have figured out?

[Calebro]

No problem I scanned the image at home, I am mostly having problems with the mouse functions, left click, etc the others I have figured out?

Mouse Functions are almost at the bottom. Go to the bottom and scroll up a little bit and you'll find them.

[Calebro]

Oh, and Seph, I should note that I believe "left mouse button" should actually be "right mouse button", shouldn't it?
The left mouse button attacks by default.
The right mouse button selects and uses mouselook by default.

Unless I'm being ******** again and don't know my right from left, which is possible.

[~UrgtFury]

Ok I think I have it figured out and yes the left mouse was supposed to be right or I would have 2 attack buttons..

Thanks to everyone for all your help...

[Calebro]

I actually use the free version of xpadder and have multiple profiles created because the set-ups I use for different characters are vastly different. So rather than remapping every time I log in, I leave the factory settings as are and use different keyboard emulations depending on which toon I'm on.

Short answer: it depends on who I'm playing.

[sephiroth1084]

Oh, and Seph, I should note that I believe "left mouse button" should actually be "right mouse button", shouldn't it?
The left mouse button attacks by default.
The right mouse button selects and uses mouselook by default.

Unless I'm being ******** again and don't know my right from left, which is possible.

The default mouse mapping that I recall was that RMB was attack, and LFM was select and hold for Mouse Look. Maybe they've changed that since I started playing, but I don't believe I ever changed those controls, and I use LMB to select targets and spells when buffing, and when checking to see if everyone is inside the/a quest.

[sephiroth1084]

I actually use the free version of xpadder and have multiple profiles created because the set-ups I use for different characters are vastly different. So rather than remapping every time I log in, I leave the factory settings as are and use different keyboard emulations depending on which toon I'm on.

Short answer: it depends on who I'm playing.

The set-up I have ends up with some keys being universal to each character (attack, jump, block, etc...) and then everything else is dependent on hotbar location. No switching is needed after that point.

How different are your configurations from one character to the next?