Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Suggestions The Shift key in Combat with bow

I am a Diablo2/D2LOD fan. One of the things I expected when I bought Divinity and didn't get, was the ability to lobb arrows into the darkness, or just to stand fast and shoot the bow at the target.

I dislike holding down the CTRL key and have my character run up to the next target (here I yell at the screen as if it will do any good "Yer using a bow, don't run up to the enemy!")

Non the less, I love the game and hope it has the same success as the Diablo series has had. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I totally agree <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />.

The Ctrl key shouldn't make you move unless you have a melee weapon. With bows, as long as you have a clear shot, you stand still and fire. I occasionally use a bow using run and fire tactics. I click to run away, hold Ctrl and click once to fire a few arrows, then I release Ctrl and click away again to run further. I don't know why your character is running?

I am probably wrong then. Though if you let go of the CTRL key and accidentally click on an enemy, you will charge forward and I think switch to a sword. That might be what I am thinking of. In diablo2, if such a thing were to happen, you would hold downl the shift key again and you would stop in your tracks.

What's probably happening is when you let go of Ctrl, you miss clicking on the enemy and click on the ground instead, causing the character to run. The weapon should never change without your authority (except for when they break). If you're in Passive mode (not Combat mode) the character will automatically draw his current weapon when you click on an enemy, and this can be a bow.

If I'm up against one enemy, I don't bother trying to aim at them. I move the mouse where I want to run and click. When I want to fire my bow, I hold Ctrl and click without moving the mouse. There's only one baddy on the screen, so it must be the closest and hence gets targetted. It saves racing the mouse back and forth.