I play a good amount of heroes and a reoccurring problem is misclicks on talents.
In every situation it means I have to live with a talent I do not like.
Simple solution, allow us to change the talent within 30 seconds of clicking it. As a Window of change this is fair.
Why isn’t this in the game yet?
We all make stupid misclicks but i think there would just be to many edge cases that mess things up if we could mulligan. Not to mention all the times where intentionally doing a mulligan would become the optomal play.
I think it’s for the best we cant go back.
It could be abused. I pick a talent, get value using it because the situation fits it, then I switch to another.
Also Heroics are just named talents and you could cast both with this proposed system.
Just use the FavBuild (hearts on talents) function and try to not missclick.
(Also imo, being able to quickly pick the right talents is also part of the skill, so pick slower or get better at it.)
This would cause a lot of bugs I feel like and potential for abuse.
We all make mistakes, but click better? If this is happening as a recurring problem, I feel that’s sort of a you problem. If it’s just a game, have fun playing something different.
Optionally, you can also set hotkeys for taking talents.
Yeah, I was going to suggest that, but I never learned how to be helpful lol. I’ve always been a clicker.
I don’t know, maybe adding a captcha before you select. How many fire hydrants are in this picture?
There are already hotkeys in the game to select talents. Pressing Ctrl will show you the talent list, if it isn’t already up, and pressing the number for the talent will select it. Talents are numbered from top to bottom, so pressing Ctrl+1 will select the first talent in the list.
There is also a hotkey to select your favorited talent, but I never remember it, because I tend to switch builds around a lot.
I previously suggested to pre-select talents, for example you’re lvl 5
you can pick lvl 7 talent (as you can see now they added a little heart)
as you reach lvl 7, this telent will apply automatically
and before lvl 7, you can change it as you please
There is endless abuse potential for this. Even if it’s not an active but just a talent that augments one of your basic abilities, even if you don’t use it during the window, you have the potential to use it.
If you are then suddenly allowed to switch that talent to, say, a self-cleanse or a CC, you practically have 3 or 4 talents at once for 30 seconds.
It’s just a bad idea that’s been scrapped many times. I rarely think an idea is outright bad but this one just is.
Say you’re playing Malthael and take Reaper of Souls on 20 during a fight. But you notice you are about to die so you quickly change to No One Can Stop Death and respawn faster as a result. If you weren’t about to die, you wouldn’t have taken it.
It’s unfair and distorts the balance of the game.
As mentioned previously there is a mass potential for abuse on this part.
There has also been a mentioning of Hotkeys for selecting talents, in League of Legends at higher ranks, this was actually something you HAD to learn to be able to progress beyond Plat, or even Gold.
Choosing talents mid fight without clicking was crucial as you usually only had a 2-4sec window to pick the talent during fights, since fights don’t last longer there.
In HOTS it’s not as crucial but more situational and is more practical than needed.
Making a mistake like that in League though don’t have the same impact as here, since in League you will eventually be picking every talent anyways (Talents are just dmg increase/CD reduction to your base spells).
But if you struggle with alot of matches being ruined by missclicks, then i would put myself at practice with talent hotkeys and use them.
Same goes for people who don’t use Attack move(A button) when playing, get used to that, it is a whole lot more effective than not using it, and it removes plenty of mistakes and missclicks.
Not to mention baiting out enemy talent picks. Level 10 picks and counter picks can often come down to “whoever picks last before the 30 second window closes, wins”.
No thank you.
I am quite interested about that.
I did it for some of my heroes, it will then stay updated and also be tag like that in my next games.
The only thing is that even if i did it is not selecting the talents automatically.
Is there any tips ?
no sorry
maybe I didnt express my self properly
this was just a suggestion
they took just the preselection, but not the automatic application
maybe they should give players the choice like : automatically pick highlighted talents
Too much pokemon for you. Maybe you can do it only if you are out of combat for 15-20 seconds and once per game. Jesus - people here are so boring in term of design of the game . Now it makes sense, that noone wants to play this game. Adapt to the new state of games, hots is so 2010 game. Dota2 has changed from no talents to talents + other features, here for 1 swapping of talents people will die from heart attacks, cause it will be not balanced…
Better thing to implenent would be “talent preview” just like in WoW. You can select a talent but need to confirm that choice afterwards for it to come into effect.
Can’t be abused and solves accidental talent choice issue.
I think talents should be able to be picked before the level, but swapped around until it locks in at the level gets reached, cuz ive had a few games where im trying to timing attack at 7 and i engage a bit early but i dont have the apm to click the talent without being worried ill click the wrong 7.
To prevent abuse it should lock-in the talent if you use an ability or perform any action that benefits from the talent.
That’s the best suggestion.
Ctrl + RMB
Set your favorite talent before the gates open.
You can’t misclick a talent with this anymore.
In the heat of the battle, it’s easy to use that command to select the talent as soon as you level up.
It’s been suggested many times by CavGuest.
i had that problem too, but found simple solution:
Because people will then purposely choose the wrong talent to try and bait their opponents into choosing the wrong talent. Or they will try to abuse it by using a talent and then immediately using another talent.