Reference
Commands & Hotkeys
The keys and chat commands you use to play. Keep this open on a second screen while you learn the ropes — most of the game is one keypress away.
Moving around
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| W A S D | Walk. Two keys at once walk diagonally — W+D goes north-east. |
| Hold Shift | Run while you move, with the mouse or with the keyboard. Running burns stamina. |
| Ctrl + R | Toggle running on and off, so you do not have to hold Shift. |
| Left click | Walk toward the spot you clicked. |
| Hold right click | Stop where you are. |
Potions & healing
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| 1 or Insert | Drink a Health potion |
| 2 or Delete | Drink a Mana potion |
| 3 | Drink a Revitalizing (stamina) potion |
Windows & panels
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| F5 | Character sheet — stats, HP/MP/SP, and the buttons for Talents and Friends |
| F6 | Inventory — also holds the Drops button and the item Upgrade button |
| F7 | Spellbook |
| F8 | Skills — also holds Upgrade and Enchanting |
| F9 | Chat history, with a filter per channel and a whisper view |
| F10 / F12 | System menu — General, Graphics, Audio and System tabs |
| Ctrl + Q | Quest window |
| Ctrl + M | Guide map (minimap) |
| Ctrl + H | In-game help |
| Ctrl + E | Open the enchant panel together with the material bag and your inventory |
| ` (grave / tilde) | Enchant panel on its own |
| Page Down | Enchant material bag on its own |
| H | Key bind menu — choose what each of your bindable keys does |
| F11 | Make the HUD and dialogs translucent, and open the opacity sliders for five seconds |
Combat & world actions
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Tab | Toggle combat mode, and cycle which enemy you are focused on. Shift + Tab cycles backwards. |
| Home or 4 | Toggle safe / attack mode, so you never swing at an ally by accident |
| Page Up or 5 | Trigger your special ability |
| F1 | Swap between your current weapon and the last one you had equipped |
| F2 / F3 | Use shortcut slot 2 or 3. Ctrl + F2 / Ctrl + F3 assign the last item or spell you used to that slot. |
| F4 | Cast the last spell you cast |
| Ctrl + 1…9, Ctrl + 0 | Open the spellbook straight on circle 1 to 10 |
| Mouse wheel (spellbook closed) | Flip to the previous or next spell circle before you open it |
| Ctrl + A | Toggle auto / force attack |
| N / G | Vote Need or Greed on an active loot roll |
| Escape | Steps down a chain: close the command list, clear the chat line, abort a logout, cancel targeting or a recall, close the help window — and, with a loot roll open, pass on it. |
| Enter | Open the chat line |
| End | Put your last message back on the chat line |
| Up / Down (chat closed) | Cycle your whisper target and preload /to for it |
| + / = | Turn map zoom on |
| - (minus) | Turn map zoom off |
| Alt + Enter | Toggle fullscreen |
| Alt + F4 | Start the logout countdown |
Your eight bindable keys
Evolution gives you a pool of keys that are yours to shape. Bind an activatable talent skill to the ones you press mid-fight, and a quick message to the rest. Your binds are saved with your settings, so they survive a relog.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Q E R T F Z X C | Eight keys that are yours. Each one holds ONE action: an activatable skill from your talent tree, or a quick message to your allies. |
| H | Open the bind menu and pick what each key does. Pressing an empty key opens the menu right on it. |
| E (default) | Adaptive Guard — switch between offense and defense |
| R (default) | Elemental Focus — switch between fire and ice |
Quick messages
A quick message pops a banner over your head that only allies of your side who are on screen can read — the fastest way to call a fight without typing. One every five seconds.
| Message | What it calls |
|---|---|
| AMP | Ask your allies for a magic amplification |
| Off | Warn that the enemy has no amplification up |
| Attack | Call the attack |
| Help | Ask for help |
Mouse modifiers
| Combo | Action |
|---|---|
| Hold Alt | Super attack mode — your next swing goes for the big hit |
| Alt + right click on the minimap | Drop a ping your party and guild can see |
| Ctrl + click in the world | Attack whatever is under the cursor, ally or not |
| Ctrl + click in the inventory | Equip the whole stack under the cursor |
| Hold Ctrl | The HUD shows your rest experience instead of your coordinates |
| Hold Shift | Show the names of items lying on the floor, and monster info under the cursor |
| Shift + click an item on the floor | Quick pickup (if you turned it on in the system menu) |
| Shift + drag in the inventory | Move a whole stack at once |
| Ctrl + mouse wheel | Scroll five times faster in the chat history and the talent tree |
Chat commands
Press Enter to open the chat line and type these. They all start with a slash, and upper or lower case makes no difference. The client suggests them as you type. These ten are the whole player set — anything else you may have seen is a game master command and will simply do nothing for you.
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/to <CharName> | Turn whisper mode on toward that player: everything you type next goes to them until you turn it off. It does not send a message on the same line — /to Bob hello whispers nothing. Type /to on its own to go back to normal chat. |
/party <CharName> | Ask to join that player's party. You have to be partyless yourself; for them to join yours, they type /party with your name. |
/mcount | Show how many monsters are still alive on your map |
/block <CharName> | Block that player: you stop seeing their chat and their whispers. |
/unblock <CharName> | Remove them from your block list |
/mute <CharName> | Same as /block |
/unmute <CharName> | Same as /unblock |
/rep+ <CharName> | Give a point of reputation to a player who deserved it |
/rep- <CharName> | Take a point of reputation away |
/traderep <CharName> | Offer a mutual reputation trade — they have to accept it |
Talking on a channel
Start a line with one of these symbols and it goes to that channel instead of to the people around you. The chat history (F9) can filter by channel afterwards.
| Prefix | Channel |
|---|---|
@ message | Guild |
$ message | Party |
% message | Trade |
! message | Shout — everyone nearby hears it |
~ message | Your whole nation |
^ message | The dead |