Regarding QoL Gem Swap Macros (Please be more lenient)

Hey GGG,

Yesterday I finally decided to install AHK after hearing a lot about how it improves game QoL.
Naturally, after installing the trade macro I decided to make one of my own to improve my QoL as main gripe is my need to swap skill gems (Sunder/Molten).

Didn't give it a second thought, and it took me a few seconds to make and it was so great I told my friend (which recommended AHK) about it to which he told me to immediately stop using it as I can get banned. Confused, I wrote to GGG support which replied to me quite quickly (thanks !) and explained to me in detail why the macro I made was considered "botting" and advised me to stop using it (which I did before I even got a reply as I got worried).

I was also told that they were looking to add such QoL features that most macros use into the game, which begs the question, why not be lenient towards such QoL macros until said improvements are added into the core of the game ?

I can understand that using loops/botting for farming or crafting would naturally be considered a form of cheating, but how is using it to swap gems for greatly improved QoL considered cheating/unfair as well ?

Most builds out there don't even need to swap out gems at all and for anyone that has played a build in which multi/single requires inavoidable gem swapping you would understand how tiring it is. The Macro I made isn't lightning fast it looks almost natural it just avoids me having to manually move my mouse because it is so tiring. Really, after doing it so many times in the end I started just using Sunder for bosses even if it took 5x-10x more time because switching out the skill gems was too repetitively boring. Almost mental torture.

Please GGG, I beg you guys to be more lenient with stuff like this, it just makes the game feel so much better. The 10-20 minutes where I used it was so much fun, but not worth getting banned for, for sure. Literally the only advantage I have over someone not using this is not having a mental/nervous breakdown everytime I want to fight a boss ,and believe me you will after the 1000th time you have to swap a gem out.

Thanks for reading my thoughts/rant.
Also, please don't ban me for my 10-20 minutes of utter glory <3
:)

Good thread. I'd like to add: add some kind of binding to allow to buy stackable vendor items in stacks. Buying 5000 portal scrolls once in a while be like: "Please, kill me. End my misery... 4000 to go..."

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ZL0J a écrit :

Good thread. I'd like to add: add some kind of binding to allow to buy stackable vendor items in stacks. Buying 5000 portal scrolls once in a while be like: "Please, kill me. End my misery... 4000 to go..."

You can only buy portal scrolls with wisdom scrolls. This seems like a very unlikely scenario to me. Normally I sell portal scrolls into wisdom scrolls, or other various small currencies. But I do sympathize, because you can also use portal scrolls to buy transmutes, then transmutes to augments, then augments to alterations (alterations to jewelers/fuses is a bit better, and honestly usually don't go further than that).

A macro that does what you said would allow you to swap gem links during combat quickly and easily, which is definitely not "QOL" by any means. If the devs want to allow this kind of thing they should let us use a body armour swap option in game.

As I said, the macro I made was just as fast as one would normally do it (not fast enough for combat) it just saved you the repetitive task.

If GGG implemented some gem swap feature that gave you a cooldown on the new gems (3-5s) so you couldn't instant swap that would also be good, but something like would be months down the line if at all, hence my request for GGG to tolerate this as long as its nothing too crazy.