Orb Walking & Advanced Movement - Diablo 4 Movement Guide

If you're an experienced Diablo player, this is nothing new to you.

But, with a brand new title on our hands - this video is something I've wanted to make for newer players who are looking to speed up their gameplay a bit.

If you're just getting into movement, don't feel overwhelmed at the start. The process is actually very simple, once you practice it. Orb walking and improving your movement efficiency is something that will increase your DPS output and survivability a ton more than stats ever will.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - 2:55 - Orb Walking (Kiting)
2:56 - 4:22 - Force Move
4:23 - 6:33 - Positioning

[Nemo]

Yeah, you're right. I just looked and Force Move is unbound by default. I wasn't familiar with orb walking, but having played Diablo since D1 I've been heavily abusing Hold Position to make sure I don't walk into packs when I want to shoot them from range.

So all in all another very helpful video, thanks!

[sol_solstice]

Thank you for making this video in the context of Diablo 4! Although we don’t talk about our league of legends days, it’s still nice to have the orb walk muscle memory for HC haha

[happyaccidents]

This actually super helpful. I've seen a lot of streamers do the orb walking thing and no one explained it.

[gaming]

Thank you. This is great. I didn't know about it and always had to try and click those small enemies perfectly.

[ryanberger]

this is a game changer. thanks dude. changed my gameplay ten fold.

[ChuckHickl]

informative video and as someone new to the genre/franchise, getting up to speed has been a struggle. At LVL28 on a Rogue build of questionable Skill Tree implementation, I am just starting to understand the best attack techniques for the abilities I have chosen. I really wish all people that put build specs up also included a generalized version of how those skills are best used. "1) Perimeter attacks to agro mob 2) kite mob into circles 3) enter middle of mob, cast poison trap and then cast orb defense 4) melee while stun in effect [2 secs] then use B button (XBox controller on PC) to exit mob 5) implement Dash to finish off remaining boss(es), rinse and repeat. I still do not fully understand what all my individual skills/abilities/powers do, how they scale (additional effects), etc. and wish there were more videos like this one and the one I have linked to following as it is one of the very few that go over the ind. skills although doesn't really discuss potential combat strats with each. One I use with the poison trap is to make sure I cast it in as narrow an area as possible to funnel all mobs through it/them. Cast them as often as you can as even if they aren't triggered now, one can typ kite the next mob back to it so I always try and leave one as a bailout defense. Most of what I see/read is on builds that do nuclear damage and clear the screen in one hit. Not interested in that but do want to make sure I am maximizing the effectiveness of each class. A Wish List item for sure but for all the "META Build" vids, I'd rather focus on specific combat strats for each class. Give me a shoutout when those vids top your engagement stats!

[blacklily]

I like having force move to space bar and scroll up for the evade, felt intuitive cause your character is literally rolling in the direction as you roll your mouse wheel

[Briguy]

Heh, I didn't know you could stand still -- I'm going to look into it for sure on my rogue. Thanks!

[ihne_]

great videos man, can you make an updated pen shot build now that edgemaster is back? how it compares to your barrage build?

[hyabusa]

This is it. This is the video that made me finally Sub up. League terminology gets me every time.

[Soft_Ghost]

Not sure what Orb Walking name originated from. I thought this is called Stutter Stepping.
Also binding Force Move to the wheel is interesting. I've been having a lot of annoying moments when I accidently break my stealth with a basic attack.

[kleriker]

i am curious why do you click before attacking to than click back to create distance?
Isn't it more efficient if you Force Attack from where you are click backwards and force attack again to click backwards again? Rinse and repeat you safe like 1 click where you can miss you even safe time to target the enemy you wanna attack with your range attack.
Thought it might be more efficient i do it that way and especially with the Rouge with Puncture ect it is quite benefitial to force attack and than step away for Kiting mobs.

[kyliewyotie]

Love the tutorial style videos. I know you are a mouse player, but any pointers for controller folk? Been loving playing couch coop with my wife.

[KevinCarlino]

Orb walking? Must be a War3 dota player... man of culture.

[sammigs]

Alkaizer does this so well that it amazes me that he plays pve games

[GameDragonk]

I'm sorry, I'm a bit confused on what Orb Walking is exactly. @4:41 you show what a typical player does compared to what you do, but for me it looks like the same thing, just faster? But your explanation makes it seem like it's something else entirely.

[ganashal]

I used to have Force Move bound to the Mouse Wheel (scrolling) in D3, but I haven't managed to get it to bind in D4. Am I missing something?

[Arstik]

Since when is stutterstepping called orbwalking? never heard the orbwalking term :o not that it really matters what its called :D

[Ningishzidd]

Back in my day, we called this stutterstep.

[Lexyboogie]

I still can't understand why Blizzard made it impossible to shoot and spell cast while walking in Diablo 4, and yet you can do it in Diablo Immortal. The Ranger class feels so much better in Immortal and POE 2.