Controller / GamePad Support (D3 on Xbox comparison)

I personally love Keyboard / Mouse combo for most games.

But my really casual gamer girlfriend prefer Xbox Controller. I would love to see native support for the Xbox Controller.

Meanwhile, is it hard to configure the controller with a Third Party App? I'm trying to convince her to play PoE with me hehe.

I have a really good setup with xpadder and a specific app for D3 on PC gamepad support, and an xbox or ps3 controller (depending on where I'm playing desktop or surface pro)

I don't have the app website here, but I should be able to get it once back @home

Basically the specific app you can setup the analogs to simulate a circle (or ellipsis for widescreens) around the center of the screen (you can set up the radius of the circle), which I use for movement; on xpadder I set the attacks as shift+skill/attack

And then the right stick I use for targeting

This works good for melee characters

cherry picking items on the floor has to be done with the mouse (or a lot of practice), I set the game so I only pick up items if I'm showing their names, and then also bind a button to show names, most of the time I'm ok picking up items without needing the mouse.

inventory management, stores, and most of the UI I do use it with mouse, I could improve my setup to just use the gamepad, but I'm ok with how it is right now.

In theory you could also the right stick to just move the mouse and you can use that to target specific enemies with ranged spells or attacks, though is not going to be as good/fast as a mouse

I only play melee characters so I'm good with this setup.

native support would be great though, but I'm not expecting much.

I feel like there'd be issues with ranged skills. Determining the spread of the projectiles wouldn't be very fun

I use Xpadder for this game and it's quite good but this game is not build with controller support in mind, so it's OK but not perfect. I will send you my Xpadder POE profile if you want, just contact me on my email : nicolastremblay@hotmail.ca

P.S.: I played 300+ hours of Diablo 3 with my 360 pad and it'S way more comfortable than Keyboard/mouse (when playing in the living room on a big TV). Even my girlfriend played Diablo 3 this way and she said to me that she never wanted to return to KB/Mouse combo.. ;)


Nicolas