If I’m in the middle of a tense teamfight and I want to tell my team that my mana is low, I find I’m better off pinging an ability that I don’t have the mana to cast because the health and mana bar in the bottom corner isn’t the quickest thing to snap-click.
There are countless number of times that I’m trying to ping my mana percentage, and end up clicking below it, and pinging something on the battleground, like telling an ally to do a mercenary camp, or just clicking on nothing, and resulting in those often vague blank pings that I see people do.
It doesn’t even have to be a default bind - I’ve been very tempted to resort to third-party software to handle this(as in, something that’d take my mouse, instantly move it to the right spot, and move it back), but I’m concerned that could be seen as something nefarious, and I’d rather not have my account actioned because of something the game lacks.
It’d probably even be just enough for when pinging either your health or mana, rather than saying “Kharazim has 76% Health” or “Kharazim has 20% Mana”, say “Kharazim has 76% Health and 20% Mana”, as then the misclicks on the other vital wouldn’t be quite so frustrating, but it’d still be awfully annoying for misclicks on battleground things.
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Great point. I feel like especially the mana ping is pretty difficult to pull off; the actual clickable area is even smaller than the mana bar itself.
I would appreciate any improvements on that, but I cannot help you with your question…
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I wouldn’t mind hotkeys but I think a solution could simply be adding on-hover option for all clickable vitals, where for example hovering over the health bar makes it a little bit brighter or adds a border around it to imply that upon pressing M1 you are going to ping that specific vital.
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would love that! it’s so annoying to try to ping that you have no mana while in middle of a fight. i do that every time but it’s extremely annoying to do it. as Ana player specially i must aim to hit my Q’s and i can’t hover the mouse to the mana so i can ping it either ping it and anyone of the team dies or not ping it and continue healing with the rest of mana i have left. i act fast to ping the stupid mana thing but some times it’s risky.
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Yup. I sometimes end up pinging an empty area near my Hero when I do the mana ping, so I sometimes end up just typing it in Allied Chat.
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Im open to suggestions but clicking mana bar is not that hard guys. I do it all the time. I could record a tutorial i suppose. Seriously though, its not any harder than clicking on teammates and enemies for in game skill shots.
If anything relocate the retreat ping and teleport hotkeys. V and b right next to eqch other. Its so annoying to b back to base and ping retreat on accident.
do you have any actual reason that this shouldn’t exist? yeah, clicking on the bar is perfectly doable, but it’s still a pain in the rear. especially during teamfights when every moment counts
it’s like the difference between, say, using keybinds and clicking on your abilities in WoW. i hear that it’s possible to do endgame content as a clicker, but imo it sounds like an unbelievable chore
of course, you’re not going to be pinging your mana bar as often as a raider/pvper uses their abilities, but it’s the same principle
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Yea sure. You can still cast spells at 9% mana but 9% is still deserving of a low mana warning to back off. You reach 9% before zero. 9% needs a warning before no mana so you didnt fix anything since you will still be clicking on the mana bar.
Second, everyone is exaggerating this teamfight precision requirement. You have no mana. You cant actually do anything. You dont need to have your fingers ready to land a skill. You have no mana for the skill. You have plenty of time now more than ever to click the mana bar. This especially apply to healers, caster dps and tank. If you physical dps then you dont need to ping mana anyways. No one cares if raynor has no mana for inspire.
Third, one thing i hate is people that ping retreat but keep on fighting. Its mixed messages that confuses the request. Ping retreat and pull out. A healer should ping and pull out. Theres no reason to ping and stay. You cant do anything with zero mana to warrant staying. If you pulling out then you got plenty of time to ping mana bar that youre at 9%.
That’s still no reason not to have the hotkey - when you want to use an ability, do you press the relevant hotkey, or move your mouse to press the button on the hotbar?
… what?
i think the suggestion is to have a hotkey that pings your mana percentage. where in the world did you get the idea that it’d only work if you’re dead empty?
tht depends on the hero, n more on the roll,
A tank would ping retreat n stay fighting until he is sure his team is at a safe dustance gap before he pulls out,
even others heroes, assassins, would ping retreat n may b do a few more phew phew bcoz they know they can pull out instantly, but their allies wont b able to,
you should ALWAYS follow pings, not the actions of ur mates, if the shot-caller hits a V-key, u close ur eyes n head back, simple,
but , u need to decide who the shot caller would be, doing this in my team play sl games has helped a lot, theres just one shot-caller in the game, n his pings r obeyed blindly,
n abt tht mana thing, well, i dnt know, i never pinged my mana or health bar on a ming, the only time it frustrates me is when i play morales n im out of energy n my team keeps pushing or lingers on, then i just hit v v v n type “no energy” 
I know this is an old post, but I stumbled across it, so here we are. You seem really determined to find any reason to argue against adding a hotkey simply because you don’t think it’s needed. There are plenty of reasonable arguments for why it should be available, and basically zero against it - unless you consider “Stop whining, it’s not that hard - I don’t care, so you shouldn’t either” a valid argument.
Why should it exist? For the same reason any other hotkey in the game exists - that’s the nature of a hotkey. People also clearly think it needs to be implemented. Your arguments against it are really bizarre and seem kind of selfish - You don’t want it and don’t think it’s needed - we get it - but others do, and your opinion on what you think they should do instead is not useful or productive.
I’m really blown away that you took the time to go into a thread about a feature request that people clearly want, just to argue why their request is invalid.
Ah, never mind… I clicked your profile and started reading your comments on other posts… It makes perfect sense now. No offense, but you tread right on the border of moderator intervention. I would ask why you’re so aggressive with your comments, but there’s probably not any point…
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Aug '20
Stop crying.
You need to understand something.
You know what the player did but blizzard doesnt. You may think youre the paragon of truth and justice with flawless moral judgment but no one else does. Blizzard doesnt nor should they take one guys word for it and start handing out insta bans because of one or even very few reports."
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825 posts
Dec '19
This game deserves better players than you tbqh.
They finally release an interesting hero and you want nothing more than to reduce him to an ordinary hero. Just go make 5v5 raynor battles all day.
Talent presets and surrender options are not what this game needs. Comebacks are possible and talents differ from each game. The fact you want to surrender and choose the same talents every game says more about yourself as a player and less about blizz as a moba dev."
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825 posts
Apr '20
0-4
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Getting highly defensive
No forts
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Hate people that gg 2 min in
Haven’t killed a tower
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All three lanes pushed in still no towers down
I hope you die. Its all your fault.
I roll my eyes at people that have no clue about the game and point at combak mekaniks. Stop."
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