Hello Everyone,
Recently started to replay PoE. Playing as melee wizard, casting all the required buffs (ex. Alacrity of Motion, Displaced Image, Spirit Lance, Martial Power) at the start of each major fight is pretty annoying. Doing it manually is not playing skill, just a tedious task that you have to perform again, and again, and again.
My wish is that there would be a macro system for casting. I saw that multiple users have requested similar feature (others call it spell queue and etc.). This simply a usability improvement and nothing to do with balance.
Here are the details (This is the full list. Of course it can be simplified for the sake of user friendliness, as long as main idea is served):
- User would be able to define multiple Macros per character. Any number of self cast (or ally targeted) spells could be added.
- The macro would appear as a button on the UI when the character is selected. Clicking it would instruct the character to start casting the spells in the same order as the list.
- Spells won't be cast any faster than manual command so this will not affect balance in any way.
- It would be extremely useful if the user can define auto-triggers per macro. Such triggers could be - On Battle, On Endurance at 50%, On Endurance at 25% .... . (Thinking about it ... a trigger should be usable on only one macro at any given time ... for obvious reasons)
I don't see any down sides ... other than some beginners getting confused or overwhelmed by it.
Benefits again, are pure usability. You can concentrate on the fight while, casters do what's necessary before joining. I think this system would be usable for any class. After all most have self cast abilities.
