[Suggestions] Some suggestions about additional hotkey options, mainly about Quick Cast
I have played the League for years, and I have always thought some additional hotkey options can help people who want to take only pros of Normal Cast and Quick Cast, and throw their cons away. Here are some of my suggestions.
- Cast on click 'press' for Normal Cast.
The current mechanism of Normal Cast is cast on click 'release'. Let me take an example of me playing Lee Sin and trying to use the 'ward - safeguard' combo. First I input the warding totem (normal cast) hotkey, and the range indicator is shown. Here I have to 'press left click - release left click - press W...' to complete the combo. The problem here is that, if I press W key before releasing left click, the casting of the ward is cancelled. Creating a 'cast on click press for Normal Cast' option will help people suffering from this problem.
- Saving for each ability of a champion whether we use Normal Cast or Quick Cast.
For example, I use Quick Cast for LeBlanc's all abilities and Normal Cast for Thresh's all abilities. It is quite troublesome to check/uncheck 'the lightning icons' - that toggle Normal Cast and Quick Cast for every ability - every time I play a different champion. I know Heroes of the Storm provides this feature, so why not the League?
- Using both Normal Cast and Quick Cast for an ability of a transformable champion.
Each ability hotkey of champions such as Elise and Jayce actually casts two or more different abilities depending on which form they are in. It would be good if pressing a certain hotkey Normal Casts in one form and Quick Casts in another. For example, I have always thought that it would be great if I can use Jayce's Q with Normal Cast in the cannon form and Quick Cast in the hammer form.
- Enabling left-click Normal Casts and other HUD left-clicks with the check box 'bind auto attack move to left-click' checked.
When I try to normal cast a direction-targeted ability with the 'bind auto attack move to left-click' check box checked, if I press the ability hotkey and then left-click, the cast is cancelled. I would be glad if you change the left-click from cancelling the cast to actually finishing the cast. I know that there is a warning on the check box that tells me to use shift + left click in such cases. But that is way too complicated to use, and we have right click as a good alternative to cancel the normal cast of the direction-targeted ability. I do not think binding left click as a cancel command as well is necessary. In addition, I would be happy if you make my champion not move when left clicking lots of other HUDs with the check box checked. For the case of left clicking the minimap, I understand that my champion should move, but I think left clicking the scoreboard, practice tool and many other HUDs are not the cases. I believe most of the players would not intend to move their champions by clicking the scoreboard HUD. 'bind auto attack move to left-click' check box is an excellent option for fast kiting, and I was surprised by how quick and accurate my ADC mechanics got after utilizing this option. I feel bad about how some minor inconveniences hinder me from using this great option, and changing this will definitely help many other ADC players.
That is it. I know it is a lot, but I really believe these changes will make players' gameplay experiences more comfortable and consistent :)