MemnochPSA

It's just a feature to save time, nothing more. Because is very repetitive to select characters one by one when you only want to cast the same spell on the same enemy, or defend yourself before battle with certain protective spells. If Korgan has 2 Whirlwind Attack, Mr. S 3 and Charname 1, obviously you could only select 1 Whirlwind Attack through that feature.

Exactly. We have Korgan, Mr. S and Charname (fighter) in our group and we want to crush a dragon in seconds? Easy peasy: in the middle of battle, we select all of them and pick whatever shared ability they have, for example, Whirlwind Attack. Well, of course we can select it one by one, but eventually it could be really tedious.

Hi, people! First of all, sorry for my bad English, it's quite possible i'm gonna make some mistakes. I just want to share some thoughts about casting spells or techniques in this (I really hope so) great game. It's a feature I missed in Baldur's Gate. Let me explain: Well, let's imagine we have four mages in our group and we want to cast Magic missile on a poor fella at the same time. (Of course, all of them have memorised that spell in question.) Don't you think it would be more quick to select all four mages (or three, or whatever), pick the Spell button and finally select the spells that they share and unleash our mystical fury upon our enemy? It could be defensive spells, like Stoneskin and such; and of course techniques or special moves between different classes or not (mages, clerics...). I think it would be great to have this kind of feature implemented in the game. We could save a lot of time in battles. What do you think? And sorry if you already talked about this matter before. If that's the case, close this topic and please forgive my slip.

I'll add to that a character like Khergan from Arcanum. We need "enemies" like this in PE.

Torment-style hands down.