Pneumatic Burst, Blood of Dreeg and Word of Renewal

Grim Dawn Gameplay Discussion
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Hi,

i have a question about these skills.
I find it very annoying to activate them every 15 seconds - is there
a software that pushes a button on Keyboard e.g. every 16 seconds?
I like the skills but i forget pushing the button very often :frowning:

2

It IS their mechanic to push them when you need them. It is on purpose that their duration is longer than the cooldown - they restore HP as their main use, but they also leave you and your pets with a buff. I generally use both Blood of Dreeg and Pneumatic Burst with my characters only when I need it, and otherwise I just keep an eye on the icons to see I have the buff up before I run into a crowd of enemies.

3

As said above, you want to time when you use them in a fight. It’s most of their appeal, outside of bonuses

4

Add Mouse Wheel Up/Down to those kind of buff. A friend told me about the idea recently and god it changed my life before jumping into a fight I just move my wheel and activate my two buffs it made everything so easier (and let’s be honest you won’t place a targetting skill on that wheel only self buff)

Great option for Overguard also or even for a Panic Button like Mirror as quite often it start to be “far away” on your actual number

5

Hmm, nice idea, I remember seeing you can add skills to the mouse wheel but totally forgot about it. That’d finally free up a slot so I can have all my pet summons on the upper skill row. :smiley: Thanks!

6

http://itoady.com/ MacroGamer
It is also useful for refreshing energy for pets, like Familiar… or auto-blast enemies with Hellhound.
Sometimes (very seldom) shortcut for STOP don’t work, and need to use mouse to stop/pause.
Sometimes (5-25% of the time) I need to press CTRL and/or SHIFT when back in Windows, because they behave like constantly pressed. Not really a problem.

Much easier to modify by hand, in the .mgp, than by the program.

Here is the one I use now, for Blood of Dreeg, Word of Renewal and Mana infusion (0).
bindedkey={F3}
repeat=4294967296
e={0 down}
e={0 up}
e={8 down}
e={8 up}
e=6600 D
e={9 down}
e={9 up}
e=6600 D
e={8 down}
e={8 up}
e=6600 D
e={9 down}
e={9 up}
e=6600 D
e={8 down}
e={8 up}
e=6600 D
e={9 down}
e={9 up}
e=6600 D
This is with 12-15% cooldown-bonus, and I don’t activate BoD and WoR at the same time.
When I got too many different types, I just changed bindedkey={F3} to bindedkey={}, and made another one (my .mgp is 950 lines long now).
Pneumatic burst with dual wield = about every 5 seconds = torture for the ears… then it is better to play without sounds. The others are okay to have on auto all the time.
(I use F11 for start/stop MacroGamer.)