Mapping Skill gems to keyboard keys problem

I currently have four skills gems that currently do not have keyboard keys mapped to them.

How can I map certain keys to them when they are not mapped to any?

What is the rhyme or reason of the skill gems being mapped to the keyboard keys?

I know you can re-assign keys in the Input Tab from the Options Menu but I am going crazy trying to remap my Skill gems to the keyboard.

Thanks in advance

You do realize that by holding down shift you get an additional 5 keybinds?

I use those for auras or skills I rarely use such as raise spectre/animate guardian/summon X golem.

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Bjorn_Angannon wrote:

You do realize that by holding down shift you get an additional 5 keybinds?

That's still a maximum of 13 skills. If you have say a couple of vaal gems that take up 2 slots, a couple of defensive abilities, a couple of golems to summon, that fills up. I ran out of space on my minion build, if I die I need to swap a couple of permanent skills onto the bar, cast them, then put the regular skill back. Would be nice if you could keybind extra ones.

My shift keys are kind to F1-F5.

It sounds like you are complaining about using more than 13 active skills. Drop and active skills in favor of more support skills, or link some of the ctifes to a trigger.

I am not complaining, I am just trying to find out how the whole mapping skills to keys works and how I can add or subtract skills to keys.

You can keybind up to 13 active skills, including left click. Any more and you will need to start manually swapping out auras or other permanent skills. There is no way to increase this number.

no, I understand that I have a max of 13, I am just trying to figure out how to replace old ones with new ones.

Left click on them in the user interface, bottom right.

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ittybitty997 wrote:

no, I understand that I have a max of 13, I am just trying to figure out how to replace old ones with new ones.

Open the options screen, one of the tabs I think is called 'input', and lets you change your keybinds to whatever you want, for both skills and everything else. The default for the 13 skills are LMB, RMB MB3, 1-5 and ctrl-1-5. I've left mine mostly the same, except the middle mouse skill is now MB5, because MB3 is what I'm accustomed to using for push-to-talk, and ctrl-5 skill is now space bar, for easily hitting my movement skill.

It's pretty mysterious how they system determines how a bound skill is allocated and de-allocated.

On the hotkey bar you can click and choose what you want where.
In the options/input section it lists what appear to be arbitrary bound skill numbers which also don't appear to be determined by skill gem name or location.

Also, just saying someone is complaining instead of offering suggestions is kind of complaining itself. And yes, I guess that means I'm complaining about the complaining about complaining and that's no help either but that's what the op was looking for. I'm in a similar boat.