Self-Target Casting

Vixre - Harshlands
Vixre - Harshlands Posts: 249 Arc User
edited March 2011 in Suggestion Box
pretty simple; as a cleric, sometimes I want to quickly heal/buff myself and then quickly go back to healing my target, and I would like a keyboard shortcut that cast a skill on me without changing targets, one simple use for this would be:

*select squad member*
*casts sage magic shell on self*
*press 4 for ironheart*

I looked through the list of commands (K) and do not see such a function, and the shift function is so slow you might as well just click the squad list.

Something like Ctrl + # = casting the skill on yourself would work great. The only problem i see with this is Ctrl + F4; although that shortcut doesn't close PWI, I don't know if any of the Ctrl + Function keys will affect the game.
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  • NiightmareXz - Harshlands
    NiightmareXz - Harshlands Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    You can hit the ESC button to deselect the target, then quickly buff/heal yourself and reselect your target through the squad list window.
    Although that can get kinda annoying, but it's about the same as hitting another combo of buttons to select yourself, you just have to click the person's name in the squad list again to select that person afterwards...
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  • Vixre - Harshlands
    Vixre - Harshlands Posts: 249 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    NiightmareXz - Harshlands wrote: »
    You can hit the ESC button to deselect the target, then quickly buff/heal yourself and reselect your target through the squad list window.
    Although that can get kinda annoying, but it's about the same as hitting another combo of buttons to select yourself, you just have to click the person's name in the squad list again to select that person afterwards...

    Like you said, it is kind of annoying, especially when you're in midcast, then the first esc only cancels casting, and you have to press Esc again to deselect. I much rather see a self-casting system.

    Anyways, just a suggestion to improve the game :V, not like I'm dying to see this or something.
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  • Avriel - Harshlands
    Avriel - Harshlands Posts: 80 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Could be done as simply as making it so that if you push, say for example, Ctrl to cast on yourself while targeted at someone else. That way there is no large combo of buttons to push. Also, in TW, when EVERYONE has "[Looking for more squad members]" above their head.. You CANT select their name. So in this case, loosing your target could get you or your squad killed. I like this idea, would be nice to see it implemented even though I doubt it will =\
  • Asterelle - Sanctuary_1381265973
    Asterelle - Sanctuary_1381265973 Posts: 7,881 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Rather than ESC (which will cancel your current heal before deselecting) I recommend hitting TAB which autoselects the nearest mob. When you cast heal / purify with a mob selected you will heal yourself. Press Shift+1-5 to reselect the player you were healing. If you change targets during channeling you will have no downtime between your selfheals and your non-selfheals.
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  • Hazumu - Dreamweaver
    Hazumu - Dreamweaver Posts: 293 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    You can also click your image on the top left corner of the screen to physically target yourself.

    However, I pay a lot of attention to the squad tab and because of that I'd love it if it would list my health there as well since I cannot see my health if I look at the squad tab and that is annoying.
  • Vixre - Harshlands
    Vixre - Harshlands Posts: 249 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Rather than ESC (which will cancel your current heal before deselecting) I recommend hitting TAB which autoselects the nearest mob. When you cast heal / purify with a mob selected you will heal yourself. Press Shift+1-5 to reselect the player you were healing. If you change targets during channeling you will have no downtime between your selfheals and your non-selfheals.

    I'll actually try this, thanks for the suggestion!
    Hazumu - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    You can also click your image on the top left corner of the screen to physically target yourself.

    However, I pay a lot of attention to the squad tab and because of that I'd love it if it would list my health there as well since I cannot see my health if I look at the squad tab and that is annoying.

    The whole idea of having the keyboard option is not to click... I'm currently playing a MOBA game where good support classes have to respond quickly to situations, and in that game there is a smartcast system that lets a player quickly buff/heal themselves; keyboard combos are faster than mouse clicks.

    I would still love to see this option implemented, but for now I'll just try out Asterelle's suggestion.
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