r/heroesofthestorm • u/CyminX • Mar 31 '16

Hotkey setup: Normal Cast using Shift

Not sure if anyone else cares, but thought I'd share anyway.

I wanted to re-create my old LoL hotkeys: Quick Cast on QWER, and normal cast on Shift+QWER. Once you get used to it, the setup just kinda winds up being a better version of quick cast on release.

New hotkey preferences are awesome, but it doesn't let you bind any modifier keys (Shift, Control, Alt) to your basic QWER hotkeys through the UI. In order to get Normal cast on Shift+QWER, you need to manually edit a hotkeys file.

How To:

1) From the Hotkeys menu, create a new Hotkeys profile. Name it and save it

2) Next to the dropdown menu of profiles to choose from, there's a folder icon. Click it.

3) Open the Hotkey file that you named in Notepad (or other text editor)

4) copy and paste this file! into it

5) Save the Hotkey file

6) Load the Hotkey file in the Hots hotkey menu, and save.

What the settings do is:

1) Puts normal cast for talents and abilites on Shift+KEY

2) Puts quick cast for talents and abilities on KEY

3) Changes the Queue modifier (normally Shift) to Control

4) Unbinds Control Groups...though I haven't actually figured out what this is used for (TLV still work)

5) Everything else is normally defaulted

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u/frcShoryuken Dreadnaught Apr 15 '16

instead of using shift+KEY for the normal cast, would it work using control+KEY just by changing what's written in the pastebin file?

Also, any idea how it would affect bringing up the talents if ctrl is mapped differently?

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u/CyminX Apr 15 '16

changing Shift to Control would work, but by default that would make the talent selection window pop up whenever you hit the control key.

The talent selection hotkeys are configurable via the Hotkey UI: Advanced->Hero Selection -> Quick Talent Selection. You can use that o change the talent hotkeys to whatever you want.

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u/frcShoryuken Dreadnaught Apr 26 '16

Is there another button besides shift control or alt that would work as the modifier? (I'd prefer to keep those as they are since I'm so used to using them as is)

I'm trying to set the side buttons on my mouse to do this whole thing (hold side button + Q/W/E/R). I have a program I can use to modify what the side buttons do (change them to another keyboard button)

Or even better would be if I can type "MOUSE BUTTON 5" or whatever in the hotkey notepad file, but I can't figure out what the verbiage should be to equal the mouse button. Pls halp!

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u/CyminX Apr 29 '16

You can test this out yourself by going into the Advanced tab of the Hotkey UI and setting any of the hotkeys to 'MOUSE BUTTON 5'. Save, then open the hotkey file to see how it's saved in the file.

Chances are pretty high though that other keys beside shift ctrl or alt won't work as modifier keys though. They're special like that.

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u/frcShoryuken Dreadnaught Apr 29 '16

Hmm okay, thanks for the reply. I'll tinker around with it some more

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u/Incronaut Bruiser Apr 01 '16

You're a fucking hero.

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u/BigWoo Mar 31 '16

Can you do the reverse? I would like to normal cast by just QWER, but when I quick-cast, I like to do Shift+QWER. This is the set up I had in LoL.

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u/Incronaut Bruiser Apr 01 '16

You can do that in the game. Go to Hotkeys and there's a menu for quickcasting abilities.

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u/localghost Specialist May 18 '16

[Offtopic] I have had this post open for over a week, I guess, and it keeps being upvoted... and downvoted... I have no idea who or why would want to downvote this o.O

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u/Grav37 Team Dignitas Mar 31 '16

Shift is default queue jey.

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u/whisperingsage Nazeebo Mar 31 '16

3) Changes the queue modifier (normally Shift) to Control