Key mapping
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[edit] Keyboard & Mouse
If you've ever played an FPS, TERA's controls will be pretty familiar. Standard movement is good ol' W, A, S, and D for forward, left, back, and right movement, respectively. Your three favorite skills are on left mouse button, right mouse button, and the C key, where you can easily reach them. The rest are on your number keys and function keys.
A few other important commands: the F key interacts with whatever object or NPC you're currently highlighting, the ALT key gives you a mouse pointer and puts you in UI Mode for clicking on controls and NPCs, and the Enter key starts up the Chat Window. Most critical menu functions and commands also have a hotkey, listed by their menu entry.
What's more, the controls are highly customizable, so if you have one of those specialized gaming mice with more buttons than your keyboard, you can assign commands to them instead! Just hit O to get to the Options dialog and go to the Shortcuts tab. You can even have different keyboard layouts for different characters.
[edit] Gamepad
Yes, you can play TERA with a gamepad. Again, if you've played a console FPS, the controls will be familiar. The left stick moves, and clicking the stick turns on auto-run. The right stick aims.
By now you're thinking, "That's a lot of skills for just a few buttons." Not a problem. The left bumper and right bumper buttons on the controller are modifier buttons, like Shift or Ctrl on a keyboard, so you can use every other button or trigger for up to four skills!
Press the Back button on your controller to open the controller configuration dialog. This is where you map and remap commands on the controller. It's just as easy it is on the keyboard. One option to note: Set skill direction. By default, your skills fire in the direction your character faces. If you're a circle-strafing fan, you may want to change this to Camera direction: shoot where you're looking.
Now, there's one thing you would normally need a mouse pointer for: the menus. Not to worry! Hit the Start button to go into UI Mode. Now your right stick moves the mouse cursor, your left stick scrolls through dialogs and text, and the A button clicks the mouse.
