Cool down of passive skills/buffs

[Chays]

hey,

There are several skills in the game that have shorter cooldowns, e.g. 15 second paladin skill, these skills give very useful bonuses if you keep the buff active.

Now I imagine I inhale the game to release several hours a day, I would have to click on my passive skills every 15 seconds.

Almost no one will do that.

Since I'm not a fan of macros either, I would like to ask the developers to add automation to such skills.

Since I don't want to miss out on bonuses like this and I don't use macros AND, above all, I never feel like clicking on them every 15 seconds in my life. I will avoid classes with skills like that.

So please don't make people use macros and think about QoL.

Greetings

[Ravenkid9266]

You can Numlock to force the casting of abilities with a cooldown, the downside is your character will sorta "studder step" as this casting interrupts your movement temporary.

Back in the day EHG did not like this and said they wanted to prevent it because it lead to a game play loop they did not want, but it is what it is. Many popular builds are one manual cast and the rest numlocked.

[Chays]

Originally posted by Ravenkid9266:

You can Numlock to force the casting of abilities with a cooldown, the downside is your character will sorta "studder step" as this casting interrupts your movement temporary.

Back in the day EHG did not like this and said they wanted to prevent it because it lead to a game play loop they did not want, but it is what it is. Many popular builds are one manual cast and the rest numlocked.

very useful tip thanks,
I've now also watched a video about it, but I can't get the automation to work and something like that bothers me.

I'm now deleting this class and playing one without such cool down times.

[Yme]

Assuming you're talking about Holy Aura (a passive buff with an active "burst" that lasts 4 seconds), then the point of this skill is not to keep it up all the time as soon as the cooldown finishes - it's to use it strategically and situationally.

FWIW, I'd increase the cooldown actually and make the burst effect bigger - otherwise, it's still too spammy. Grim Dawn has quite a few of these "pseudo-buffs", and it's pretty annoying to keep track of them.

[Ravenkid9266]

Originally posted by Yme:

it's to use it strategically and situationally.

Much like saving high CD skills in general its just mathmatically more advantageous to cast them as soon as they are available. Perhaps a better comparison is Dynamic DR, where the intent is to stop DPS and allow the DR to fall off, but its simply better to DPS through it.

One of the reasons why LE does not have high CD skills like other games, is because this "saving" pattern is not something EHG wants, and its why they prefer to use mana cost as the gatekeeper as opposed to CD.

Originally posted by Chays:

very useful tip thanks,
I've now also watched a video about it, but I can't get the automation to work and something like that bothers me.

It has been a while but I believe you have to adjust the settings for a 2nd keystroke to trigger abilities, then press numlock hold the number key for that ability, press numlock, then release the number key.

[Chays]

Originally posted by Yme:

Assuming you're talking about Holy Aura (a passive buff with an active "burst" that lasts 4 seconds), then the point of this skill is not to keep it up all the time as soon as the cooldown finishes - it's to use it strategically and situationally.

FWIW, I'd increase the cooldown actually and make the burst effect bigger - otherwise, it's still too spammy. Grim Dawn has quite a few of these "pseudo-buffs", and it's pretty annoying to keep track of them.

With a cooldown reduction you can keep the buff active permanently. But it's not about the skill you mentioned, but about everyone of this type, the mage also has useful buffs that you can keep active permanently with enough cooldown reduction... but you certainly don't want to click on it permanently. but the strategic thing you mention makes me smile a bit