Family Name: Killfly

Region (NA/EU): EU

Literally as simple as what the title says. This should have been a basic functionality implemented along with the patch on the fifth of June that implemented the fishing stance, but here we are 41 days and 5 patches later, and 19 days after a feedback ticket addressing the issue. And the simple feature to allow us to choose what key to put that new function on still hasn't been implemented. This is a glaring oversight and very frustrating.

It should've been a basic feature regardless, but for me personally the issue is even more exaggerated because I use an AZERTY keyboard layout. Because of this the assigned and unchangeable "²" key is on the upper far left side of the keyboard. To the left of my "1" key, right under the "Esc" key, and just above the "Tab" key. This is a key I have/had been using for 8 years on all my classes to slot combat skills or consumables. However, now if I use that key it's a gamble between having the combat skill activate or whipping out my fishing rod and becoming an immobilised free kill in the middle of grinding/fighting.
So much as double tapping is enough to bring out the rod or at the very least get flashbanged by the selection wheel popping up and having it momentarily take over my mouse and block me from aiming/looking around. No "holding down" required at all. And that's only if the skill is ready to be used.
Start tapping too early as the skill is still coming off cooldown? Still tapping when the skill has cast? Enjoy the guarantee of getting interrupted by the menu flashing up and momentarily taking control of your mouse at best, or becoming a free kill by having the rod equip itself at worst. I sure do love losing crystals playing the game exactly the same way that has been fine for years but now getting screwed over by a feature PA couldn't fully implement properly, such a great experience! Not like Girins, Rebellious Spirit Crystals or Ulitmate Combined Magic Crystals are that expensive or difficult/annoying to come by anyway, right?

We celebrated a 10 year anniversary and in all that time the most consistent thing in BDO has been the PA classic of "half-assed is good enough" time and time again. PA and J have private castle and Bugatti money, but finding the budget for devs with some extra braincells and perhaps employing a team of testers that actually does something with the Global Lab and prevents stuff like this apparently remains painfully impossible.

I still can't seem to find an option to edit/choose a different key to assign to the function if desired, which would still be nice to see.
BUT
that being said, after today's patch (18th of July 2024) you now really need to hold down the key for a significant enough amount of time (maybe even slightly longer than before?) to bring up the selection wheel and can now spam tap it however much you like without the menu flashing up, or the fishing rod getting equipped "quick swap" style.
No matter how fast or often in a row the key is tapped, as long as it's not held down for longer than I ever would while doing so for activating my skills, the menu no longer even so much as flashes up.

This means there is still a key overlap, but at least so far as I can tell it has pretty much completely resolved the part of the issue that was the main cause of frustration and most urgently in need of a fix.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!