Please add auto cast feature especially for summons to keep a certain number of each and re-summon on death

[gamerawesome]

First of all, I love this game. Have it on Gog and keep coming back to play it. I have all the DLCs and looking forward to the next one. One big feature that is missing though is this auto-cast feature.

Please add auto cast feature especially for summons to keep a certain number of each and re-summon on automatically when they as they die.

[Overread]

Escrito originalmente por sekai:

Your problem is you refuse to acknowledge a problem that Blizzard saw and fixed in 2003 with Warcraft 3 when they anticipated certain abilities to be too much pain in the ahh to keep up and gave auto-cast options. Yes, OPTIONS. So it doesn't even affect you if you wanna keep it hardcore, but no, you just wanna pretend to be tough because you can press an unnecessary button every few seconds.

Don't forget Warcraft 3 is a very different game. Yes its topdown, but in WC3 you control multiple units which might not even be on the same screen view. So auto-casters are much more critical in that kind of game because you can't keep your healers selected all the time and your mages and your anti-flying spiders and your several lord heroes and all toggle between their abilities.

GD has only 1 character and its always selected. So auto-casting becomes a helpful thing in some instances but not all instance. Considering some pets can be used as weapons on the unsummon and cost a fair bit of mana you might well have times that auto-casting as a default option on pets might not be desirable.

At the same time pet-heavy builds are basically casting pets and then doing less damage themselves so they've basically no "need" to auto cast on pets because they, as the player character, aren't doing a vast amount else triggering off other abilities.


The auto-cast on buffs made a lot of sense because there's basically no reason to turn them off once you get them. They are just there all the time; they don't degrade or vanish during fights. I can wager if there were counters that could disable your buffs then auto casting for them might not have been brought in.


Toggleable autocast on summons might be a good middleground. In theory if you've got pets you want them around more so than not; but then pet builds might get a touch too dull if you really don't have to do much other than run around and let your pets auto-appear and do all the work.

[BrziKorak]

Escrito originalmente por sekai:

So it doesn't even affect you if you wanna keep it hardcore, but no, you just wanna pretend to be tough because you can press an unnecessary button every few seconds.

Go back and enjoy arcade or some of the RPG games from the 90s and prior where things are tedious and unnecessary on purpose to waste the player's energy and time. You'll fit right in.

Indeed, stubbornly using my hands is a display of toughness to make anyone on the internet cower in fear and insecurity. That is 100% the intended purpose.

[Ginzo Force]

I got tired of summoning the briarthorn for his buff

Probably because I also have to summon storm totems every fight

This is one of the barriers preventing me from petmaxxing