I think what people missed is that Hammerdins already had a quick cast ability with regards to using their auras. If implemented, Hammerdins could map their main Aura “Concentration” onto the Left-Skill Button and use the Right-Skill for Quick-Cast. Quick casting on the left would then swap off and back every time you pressed it. If they added a force move you could set to left click that would be nice for people who don’t want to have to use a different keybind for it. It’s already possible with the existing system to simply put the attack quick cast keys on the left side and put auras on the right (quick casting an aura will swap to the aura and stay on the aura already unlike other quick cast abilities that swap to the ability, cast and then swap back).
Quick cast works for both left and right button skills depending on which side you’ve bound the skills to, so you can already quick cast hammers on the left without having to hold shift.įor example, if I set Q to one of my keybinds and click on the left button on a paladin and set hammer on the left side to Q with quick cast on, pressing Q will cast hammers without needing to press shift.
Currently, for Paladins, only attacks can be set on the Left Mouse Button and thus “Left Skill”, but the Hammerdin in particular (One of the most iconic builds in D2), can currently not make meaningful use of the newly implemented Quick-Cast feature.