Mouse movement or keys movements

[Sarras Volcae]

a touchpad? what's that?

[Rigwyn]

http://images.google.com/images?q=touchpad

[Bonifarzia]

Considering the current implementation, most players agree that the keyboard is clearly preferable to mouse movement. However ...

Assumptions:
- the mouse move will work well, without bugs

... we have to consider what bugs there are. Taking a first glance at the bug tracker gives two tasks directly related.
bug: selection
bug: portal
It seems common sense from the replies here that characters jumping down cliffs like lemmings are a problem. As I did not find such a feature request, I just opened one. Shame on me if it is another duplicate.
request: cliffs

If the mouse move had a route planning functionality such that a distant click would steer you around intervening obstacles, cross bridges and such, it would be better but as it stands now you just get hung up on them and march in place. It would be nice if you could click on the top of the BD fortress from the entrance pass and actually get there but there is a good chance you would just end up in the ravine on your way to the DR.

That actually makes me think it would be great if players could create and save paths that they commonly use and then call them up with a shortcut button. Thus if I was in the plaza I could trigger the path to the upper gate if I wanted to go to the magic shop and it would take me to the map boundary by the T-junction. Pie in the eye thinking I'm sure.

I agree this would make life easier, however, I see some problems with this request. It might encourage people to have their characters act automatically while being AFK, an undesirable effect we already find with many players gaining ranks in weapon handling.

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

I prefer more direct interaction with the client and and more precise control.

[Under the moon]

Given the question of click on ground or use keyboard, I generally use <^v> (arrow keys) for movement, binding < and > to strafe, and using the mouse to steer. I bind mousemove to the backspace key because it is useful for those long boring trips on the road maps, and it is hard to hit it accidentally and go running off a cliff.

[Morla Phlint]

Touchpad and keyboard movement  

Never liked the mouse movement and I tend to click on the ground too much anyway (to clear target for example).

[LigH]

Sometimes it is even necessary to mouse-click into the 3D view just to make some GUI window lose the focus.

Keyboard-only navigation in the GUI is impossible, this already starts with the login screen.

Furthermore, I swapped the shift keys (Ctrl for crouching - a "more controlled movement" / Shift for running - "shifting the gear up"), so the right shift keys together with the cursor cross are my preferred movement -- as long as the "mouse look" is hard to set up to a decent sensitivity for me. And I am not very used to combat anyway.

[Satha]

I prefer the keys... sometimes I use the mouse to move around, but that's once in a blue moon really.

[kaerli2]

I play PS using mostly the keyboard anyhow, I only use the mouse to interact with some GUI elements (chat tabs, mostly)