Thanks for the quick reply. I was using X for melee Y for fireball (came with being a mage) A for whirlwind and B for bow or poisen arrow and noticed if I could not easily switch to a bow for a regular ranged attack if B had poison arrow or I could not switch to a poison arrow if I had a bow in B. I will play around with it and remap. I am using gamefly and don't have a manual. but I think there is one I can download which will answer a lot of my question. I decided to put a skill point in each of the ones you get free with warrior, mage, and ranger. That's three and there are only four buttons so I had to shoose between a regular ranged attack or a regular melee attack.