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Hi Maniacs,

As you are aware, we recently introduced the Auto-Skill Macro System, which allows you to automatically cast up to two skills.

A3 Macro System

Since the initial implementation, we have made the following changes to the Auto-Skill system (Not Live yet):

1. Skills are only cast when the character is outside town boundaries.
2. Skills are no longer automatically cast every time the character teleports to a different map.
3. A skill is only re-cast after its existing effect has expired.

However, after several days of intensive internal testing, we have found that the Auto-Skill system can be quite intrusive during actual gameplay.

Casting a skill often requires the character to stop moving and has a noticeable animation time. During wars and other PvP situations, we feel this could potentially take away valuable reaction time and interfere with player-controlled actions.

For example, consider an Archer using Chaser and Mirage in Auto-Skill mode while under the effect of Razbadge. The player may need to manually use Freedom to remove the effect. However, if a Holy Knight is continuously spamming Weapon or Shield, the Archer can end up repeatedly entering the skill-casting state. This can prevent the player from responding quickly and using Freedom when needed.

We have explored several ways to mitigate this behaviour, but unfortunately, every solution we tested either continued to interfere with gameplay or took too much control away from the player.

Because of this, we are considering removing the Auto-Skill functionality altogether and retaining only Auto-Potting and Auto-Teleport.

Before making a final decision, however, we would like to hear directly from the community.

Please vote in the poll and let us know what you prefer.

Your feedback will help us decide whether Auto-Skill should remain as part of the A3 Macro System or be removed.

Thanks, Maniacs!

in my opinion we dont need this features.

Warrior need this feature. Warrior cast many skills; this will help for sure.

Players have option to keep it on or off then it is good function who like it they will keep it on others will keep it off. Thanks for voting

luvrulzz wrote: Thu Aug 20, 2026 6:26 pm in my opinion we dont need this features.

Alexmica we are not seeing you playing game. Without using how can you say that ? Alexmica left since many days.. hope you come back and test it and vote

Jha2Temoz wrote: Thu Aug 20, 2026 7:08 pm If you're going to bring updates, bring useful ones instead of handicapping strong players or messing with critical A3 mechanics just to force "accessibility" through things like autopot and other autoplay so called features.

The changelog already provides the full justification for the change. This is about making critical functionality consistent, reliable, and part of the game itself, rather than dependent on external tools.

[GM]Blade wrote: Thu Aug 20, 2026 10:46 pm The changelog already provides the full justification for the change. This is about making critical functionality consistent, reliable, and part of the game itself, rather than dependent on external tools.

Still, the main question remains unanswered. I'd genuinely like to hear your thoughts on the actual issue you conveniently avoided addressing. What's your honest answer? Don't worry no one's going to judge you. I'm just curious whether you'll answer the question this time instead of expertly dodging it.

I only addressed what is relevant to this topic. If you have some other suggestions or thoughts, you can post separately.