Dear Smilegate,
Many players are turned off by point/click movement.
Please add the ability to control your characters via WASD so PC gamepads can be used.
This funtionality already exists since you have it built into gamepad thumbstick movement.
Thanks.
This isn’t a WASD type of game - just like the other games of it’s type.
Thumstick-Movement is not the same as WASD… 
i guess WASD would´t work in this Game, cause of the cam perspektive.
Hi, Thrud. I will pass your feedback along to the team.
Thank you! 
Consider people with hand disabilities.
I have used a tartarus thumbstick for movement in mythic tier endgame content for years so kindly refrain from telling me what is optimal for me.
Also some of the best comperetive isometric games of recent times have used this system. Eg. Battlerite.
Counterpoint - some of the most popular games of this type don’t utilize a WASD movement method at all (the Diablo series, League of Legends, etc.) and still have billions of dollars and international success regardless.
However, that’s why there’s controller support for Lost Ark. That was added in addition to the “point and click” method as an alternative for people needing it.
Not everything is 100% for everyone - and that’s okay! Not everything has to be for everyone all the time.
OK, you want to derail a perfectly legitimate request that would make thousands of players happy. Well done you!
The fact remains that using a controller in a point and click game is a terribly sub optimal way to play the game at a high level. Mouse control for ground targetting is far quicker and more precise.
Thumbstick control is already implemented, it would not be difficult to add the same tech to the keyboard system.
Bottom line, would this added feature hurt anyone? No. Would it cost much? No. Would it bring in a lot of new players that don’t like point and click to move? Probably. Would it make a lot of existing players very happy? Yes.
Sigh.
You made a post with a request. I explained why it’s very likely not to be honored then explained WHY as best as I cared to do typing while on a mobile phone.
Now you’re upset with ME for pointing out the standard for this genre of gaming and citing recent exceedingly popular examples to support my statement … but now I’m “derailing the thread”?
You talk about adding a new control system to a game because another system is in place - even going so far as to say, “it would not be difficult”, which is far from the truth. A new control system adds complexity and, given how the game works, adds new challenges that works need to be figured out and then overcome. WASD movement in an isometric world is punishing enough from a programming standpoint let alone an end-user one.
I understand what your want and I’m taking you want it’s not feasible. If your want to go into subsystem control and coding the what you want into the game (that’s been out, and successful without WASD movement for over three years now), I can tomorrow when I’m at an actual keyboard - though I have a feeling you’ll just argue with me anyway even though I’m sure you don’t understand how these statement are programmed given your statement of, “would not be difficult”.
“Bottom line” - Would it hurt to add? No. World it cost much? Yes - in resources already allocated to other things PLUS the new problems that occurred with this launch. Resources are finite so where do you want them placed? World it being in a lot of new players? Not at all. Over three years of the game’s release and it’s not been added because it’s not a highly requested feature for this genre. If it WAS, it would have already been added. World it make a lot of existing players happy? Most players wouldn’t know it existed or would even care. At best, done works try it then go back to what they’re familiar with in this genre.
You’re confusing what YOU want with what the majority of players want. That’s a bad mistake to make when designing anything. All that being said, good luck on getting your request filled but don’t keep your hopes tempered. History, and popularity, are against your idea.
Now with all that, I’m getting done sleep as it’s almost 3:30am here. It’s been a long day.
Sigh, i guess there will always be contrary Karen’s like you that love to stick their noses in whenever possible…
Thanks for putting so much energy into countering my point and derailing my thread after a mod had already agreed to forawrd my request to the relevant team!
You could have just ignored it since it has no relevance to you… but no. Sleep well.
I’d just like to point out how you said lol is the same type of game as lost ark. Good job mate i r8 8/8
I’d have to say no on the WASD movement on a TOP DOWN MMO for obvious reasons.
When I say WASD, it could also be arrow keys or a re-mapped thumbstick or gamepad. Press up, you go up. Simple.
What ‘obvious reasons’ are you talking about… you make no sense.
Apologies, you spoke earlier like you knew optimal ways to play games like this so I just assumed you’d know why a top down game wouldn’t work with WASD, obviously.
The fluidity that you have currently is because you can move in any direction. If you apply WASD movements you have to create an 8 layer movement pattern for all maps.
So not only would they have to redo all of their maps in the game, they’d have to redo all of their combat animations to match these 8 direction movements.
I think the mod was just being kind, but like the previous person above me said, I’d put money on this never happening.
Hope that makes more sense, and now you know how to optimally play a top down combat game with open maps.
What a patronising tone, well done 
A thumbstick, as implemented on a controller is 8-way minimum, which is the functionality i am asking for and already exists in the game.
Redo combat animations? Haha, dont be ridiculous! I am talking about character movement, the mouse still controls direction and aimi g, or didn’t you understand that part?
Pressing A+W together traditionally would result in a diagonal movement In many isometric games.
A and W, right. Which is why I said 8 and not 4.
Again, not going to happen; I wish you luck.
Please never consider WASD movement, it would ruin the game.
The game is already 10years+ in development and has been, from the start, be developed to be played with those controls. You are not the first one who brought it up and the korean developers already said “no” to this.
Instead of trying to change the game, I’d recommend that you either get used to it or look for a game with controls that you like.
I always hated tab targeting combat but instead of going to games like WOW and complain about it not being action combat, I simply didn’t play the game and chose one that had it (Tera/BDO).
ARGH!
NO ONE GETS IT!
I DON’T WANT TO USE AWSD - I WANT THE FUNCTIONALTY OF AWSD SO I CAN USE A THUMBSTICK ON A GAMEPAD LIKE THE RAZER TARTARUS FOR CHARACTER MOVEMENT!
THUMBSTICK MOVEMENT IS ALREADY SUPPORTED IN THIS GAME!
WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO COMPREHEND!
I’m done. Peace.
As you probably know, you aren’t alone. Several friends and I tried out Lost Ark when it released in the US. We agreed that it had 90% of what we’re looking for in a game, but the lack of WASD, which seems like it would be easy to implement, was a deal breaker. We tried it, but it just felt awkward, even after a few multi-hour sessions. One friend started having trouble gripping things after playing despite playing heaps of other MMOs regularly.
At first I thought there might be an issue with baking in the character rotation animation into the skill usages, but it sounds like people have managed to use 3rd party software to fool the game into working fine with WASD… so it can’t be too hard to a technical challenge. Now I’m guessing the developers figure it would be too much of a competitive advantage over the folks who play the game as currently designed.