Please, give us a real auto attack (auto target)

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BerMalBerIst1 wrote:

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thevdende wrote:

what he describes is entirely possible. I play ele cleave mara and have cleave bound to rightclick, my mara walks to the mob and when in range attacks, with knockback on from flask (keeping rc down) my mara walks, attacks, walks, attacks, like the above guy said, its namelocked all you need to do is keep rightclick pressed. It works especially well if you have a quicksilver flask, and take increased area of effect nodes from templar area, those really help out.

Exactly. Just need to namelock.

Namelock is not the answer to this.

When you are killing whites in 1 blow, and you are surrounded by say 10 monsters, while doing 0.1 attacks per second, in order to kill all those 10 monsters with your max speed, you must not only be able to click 10 times in a second, but you have to click exactly on the monster, otherwise your character will move.

Everyone who says shift+attack works, obviously has't played much melee. Shift + attacks works for area skills like cleave, but for single target skills, it does not, because you are not targetting the monster and your hit, even though the animation overlaps, is not registered.


Right click does something completely different too. When you right click, you go to the destination and swing, and that's it.

What I am trying to describe, is click and HOLD the right button without letting it go until you reach the end of the zone. Your character moves and when he meets 10 whites, he automatically swings at them without you having to click on every each of them. You just hold the right button and when your character gets into melee range, he attacks them.

That is what Diablo 3 had and it worked like a charm.

That is what PoE is missing and is making my playtime as melee a nightmare.

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pitbronson wrote:

Just a key to autoselect nearest monster could help i think.

Would love having autoselect nearest monster (followed by toggle to next nearest monster if pressed again) and an auto attack key... the constant clicking in poe is tiresome, and I too like the "dance around monster I can't seem to manage to click on" move...

That said, I don't think there is any feasible way to implement it in this game... but would love it if they did...

I know how every1 likes the d2 comparison not

but it also had the same autoattack

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f0xx wrote:

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BerMalBerIst1 wrote:

Would you also like an auto-item pickup and an auto-movement function?

Perhaps simply remove all manual commands and just press "enter" and your char starts facerolling everything?

Sounds fun bro.

No, I do not want an auto faceroll command.

I simply want when I click and hold my attack button, my melee character to walk AND attack whatever enemy he meets.

That would be enough.

That sounds like an auto-kill bot/hack/cheat, which will never happen in this game.

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f0xx wrote:

Everyone who says shift+attack works, obviously has't played much melee. Shift + attacks works for area skills like cleave, but for single target skills, it does not, because you are not targetting the monster and your hit, even though the animation overlaps, is not registered.

Again - it works. Just so that I wouldn't look like an idiot I spent my valuable time testing it out with dual strike, glacial hammer and infernal blow and all three worked (killed mob without ever moving mouse over mob and only shift clicking behind)

Having said that it's not the most efficient method as you will have to face the mob and it can sometimes be a bit buggy but still works...

+1 to OP, support this idea.

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AlmightyPatman wrote:

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f0xx wrote:

Everyone who says shift+attack works, obviously has't played much melee. Shift + attacks works for area skills like cleave, but for single target skills, it does not, because you are not targetting the monster and your hit, even though the animation overlaps, is not registered.

Again - it works. Just so that I wouldn't look like an idiot I spent my valuable time testing it out with dual strike, glacial hammer and infernal blow and all three worked (killed mob without ever moving mouse over mob and only shift clicking behind)

The sole fact that you had to test it speaks enough.

Try playing a melee with a single target attack + melee splash. Put yourself in a REAL situation and see how it works then.

It does register hits indeed, sometimes. Like half of them. When you have resolute technique, missing half of your hits just because of crappy targeting mechanism is just lazy programming.

Not needed, auto-attacks have no place in modern games.

(an auto-cast one specific skill is ok with me if that is what is meant).

The game already has autocast/attack. unless you mean autotarget + attack so as soon as something moves onto your screen, your character automatically attacks it.

Those are called minions, or bots if its a player character.

TL2 did this also, just holding left click would move your guy and if your mouse hovered over an enemy you would start swinging at it. I have no idea why anyone would be against this.