There are keybindings, shortcuts, tools you know and the rest is piloting skills. Also I donāt use but as far as I know GI shows buff durations and other skill cooldowns on screen to make thing easier for players.
Youāre trying to change the 4 y/o game instead of adapting yourself into fundamental features of the game. And clearly Devs wanted something challenging while creating things like these buffs so you should accept the fact that nothing gonna change in your favour since these requests are not about balance issues or you donāt offer anything that improve the game experience rather than making it dull and ordinary.
And apparently you gonna be stubborn about it so I wonāt indulge you more.
Edit: To not be misunderstood. You have right to make suggestions, propose new features etc. People ofc will argue about it, devs maybe listen or wonāt is up to them. I donāt mean any offence. I just think youāre doing same mistake I did when I was a beginner on the Wind Devil topic. I and a lot of other people also supported that Wind Devils should be permanent just for QoL, but it didnāt happen. And I still donāt like them, but I understand the purpose of recasting them now.
There was a similar discussion about recasting Wind Devilā¦ yes, itās a different kind of skill, but still:
So, if WOR, BOD and PB result in too much micromanagement, the practical way is to choose only one of the related masteries and combine it with a more lazy mastery.
On that token it is worth highlighting that people do not need to post feedback and ideas publicly (which often does, unavoidably, lead to heated arguments). You can actually post your thoughts directly to Crate and skip the bullshit.
You have now cut out pointless bickering and if youāre lucky you might even get a direct response from the horseās mouth on how they feel about your āideasā or if they even agree with you etc. Of course, itās equally possible they may respond in your public thread too, but Iād wager the chances are higher in a private message thread. Especially if you are courteous in how you handle it and if you can offer well-thought out arguments to help your cause.
You should keep this information to yourself for the sake of mental health of Crate employees. If public realize this, they may start to send messages like āāpls change thisāā, āāpls do thatāā, āāpls give thisāā , āāpls nerf thatāā , āāpls buff thatāā and devs either ignore them or lose their sanity while trying to kindly refuse them. There shouldnāt be a one-wish-grant hotline. Posting feedback threads publicly have itās own purpose since it also shows the reactions of other players and provides devs opportunity to observe all those things.
I wonder if you keep messaging with proper attitude in every week or so consistently for a few years like in Shawshank Redemption, would Z give anything you want just to shut you up Or you get banned because harrasment after a month
Well, if he couldnāt ban you for being a dick but he still found you generally annoyingā¦ Iām guessing heād just flat-out ignore anything you send.
The old forum had a No Reply section in it where people could post suggestions/ideas/feedback that only the devs could see which served the same function at the Message button powbam pointed out. When Crate moved the forum they decided to do away with that section of the forum and give the option to message them privately instead. If they didnāt want people to use these options they simply wouldnāt have provided the means to do so in the first place.
I donāt think it matters what happens as long as crate finds a way to change recasting every 30 secs just for a buff refresh. To me thatās the only issue.
Nar, far from it at least from my perspective. It just feels like a silly mechanic to press a button only to refresh a buff every 30 secs. Laziness isnāt a factor
You press buttons every few seconds for offensive skills in a fight so to a lot of us, having one of those be a key for a buff/heal isnāt a bother. For example, hereās the skill bar for one of my characters:
Itās even easier for me to rotate around or use Blood of Dreeg here since all I have to do is scroll my mouse wheel up which I can do at a momentās notice whether itās running around or in the middle of a fight.
Some of my other characters I have 2 buffing/heal skills to rotate around which is still manageable since Iām used to working with up to 5-6 skills on my keyboard like in the above skill bar or again, I just set both to my mouse keys if I donāt need anything else important on those.
I guess itās a difference of opinion and what some of us find easy or are used to is harder for you guys
If your fitting it into a rotation than doesnāt that mean your neglecting the heal for the most part?
Theres no need to demean us that oppose spamming BOD. Itās got nothing to do with easy or hard, its about how pointless the buff refresh in itself feels.
No, i still use the heal reactively in the same way Norzan has explained above. I see an attack has knocked off about 30% or a chunk of my health? My first instinctive thought is to use Blood of Dreeg if itās not immediately healed off and the skill isnāt on cooldown, sometimes Iāll even wait and leave the skill at the ready for that emergency heal.
But otherwise, Iāll occasionally glance back at it and use it if the buff is about to expire in-between my offensive skills.
I didnāt mean to demean any of you, if thatās how it was taken, my apologies.
I personally feel the buff and refreshing it are important for that very reason. All of them offer incredibly powerful offensive or defensive bonuses that you wonāt find easily on a toggle ability in exchange for managing them. Those bonuses are the reason you want to continue to keep them active and why you remember they exist, else you can risk dying in some cases.
Pneumatic Burst is also special as with the transmuter, it becomes a frequent mini-heal that can be used every 5 seconds at the most.
Iām very curious if you can provide some solid and clear goals to the āchallengeā that you address in the final paragraph about an SR run that might have you reconsider your thoughts on the topic?
Please be as specific as possible to avoid confusion and not fulfilling the goal.
Also while trying to search again for this topic I stumbled across this one, it seems to popup all the time over the years~
now:
Or you get banned because harrasment after a month 
