xD I know, I just figure that it’s been very nearly two months since that post, and you may’ve changed your mind.
Sorry for bothering ya.
@ or msg mike directly, he may or may not have seen this. Orion is not affiliated with EHG afaik.
I’m no native english speaker but for me this sounds like NUM-Lock is an issue because the action is automated.
Much appreciated!
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I’d say that “depend or react to the game state” is related to scripts. “If your health drops below 20% automatically drink a potion”. So where actions are triggered by certain things that happen ingame.
The keypad just simulates “hold the button down”
You could also achieve this by holding down the button endlessly, put a weight on top of it or use a power strip. It’s all mechanical and not a reaction to something that happens.
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Hey there, I just replied to SuperGimpoMan in a direct message and thought I would post what I said to him here just to be clear to everyone.
I don’t have any official statement that I can make about which programs are ok and which aren’t. Currently the section you quoted [my previous post] is the official stance and the total real rules on the issue.
I know that being a non native English speaker can make interpreting these very specifically worded statements difficult and I appreciate the attempt to understand them better.
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Hi
I hope that in the future it will be possible to give us such a program
Because at the moment, people with mechanical Num-Lock have an advantage over those who don’t have it
And this is sad
what advantage is that? can you prove this? no…? then don’t worry about it. numlock autocasting one ability, is not a significant advantage over pressing down the same button with your finger. it doesn’t make you a better player, nor help you reach the top of the leader boards, any quicker or faster, it’s literally ONE button/skill, and they have done away with most of it, by making it hard to sustain your mana for such play, making skills autoproc by only specializing in the skill tress, and changing how certain skills function, like flame ward for example, you now have charges from it, and then a cooldown, so you cant autocast it. trying to do the same thing, for example, with primalist skills, like maelstrom+tornadoe makes it extremely hard to upkeep the mana cost, AND still even if you can, those skills together will not help you to achieve high ladder arenas, skill, and knowledge will, so I don’t see the big issue here.
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for example Wandering Spirits
you can use it by CD and don’t think about it
yes, but it makes your gameplay more simple
just relax
this thread for those who can see “big issue here”
@omnitrio I don’t think you’re taking the correct approach to this topic.
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These skills are not meant to be autocast by design. People use this workaround. People that have keyboards with numpad. It’s not intended. The devs already work on changing mechanics of these skills to make autocasting less viable.
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It’s not the devs problem what kind of keyboard you are using. If you use a mouse with 2 buttons and I use a mouse with 5 buttons would you want me to be limited so I only can bind 2 actions to my mouse buttons? Is your graphics card capable of running LE smoothly or do you want the game to be downcaled to match your hardware requirements?
So if you are so eager to have a more simplified gaming experience why don’t you buy a new keyboard or an USB numpad?
Just because people are abusing their hardware to have small advantages it doesn’t mean the devs have to implement mechanics to give everybody access to. If someone is botting and has an huge advantage in xp, gold and gear would you say the solution is to implement an auto pilot so everybody has the same chances?
Mike answered several times to this topic. It would’ve been easy to say something like “Third party tools are not allowed, but numpad trick is ok.” But he has not. The recent reply was as vague as before.
This does not help in interpreting these things. The only thing we can be certain of is that he recognizes the topic and reads our conversation about it. And hopefully he would’ve intervened if there was something wrong with our current interpretation.
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This thread was in relation to the original poster asking if they will be banned for emulating Num Lock due to having a TKL keyboard. It appears as though there is not an official stance on these micro instances at this time, compared to more clear and distinct violations (e.g., packet injection, automated responses such as potion at % health). I use to have an AHK script for potion use when low health on PoE and this seems prohibited at this time.
I know it’s a bit off topic, but why would someone buy a (separate) keyboard that lacks a numeric keypad (and I’m coming from the point of view of being an accountant & the numeric keypad is “vital” for typing numbers in quickly)? I get it if it’s a laptop & there’s a limitation on the physical space of the device, but not if you’ve got a desktop. 
Space is normally the reason. I have a wireless TKL which I use to play from my couch. The lap tray would be too tight for both my mouse and full size keyboard.
Fair enough. Just the thought of not having a numeric keypad gives me the shakes…
OK! Here we go, let’s take a look at what I said before.
Num lock doesn’t move the character, move the game cursor, depend or react to the game state.
If something else follows that same criteria and has the same effect as num lock, it’s fine.
I’m still not going to make a list of specifically approved programs at this time.
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@all can we please give this man @EHG_Mike a big round of applause.
He has made several attempts trying to clarify the whole situation in the best of his frame as a developer. This is a very hot topic and can certainly get really sketchy.
Still people are arguing or in some form discussing this.
And still he takes some of his valuable time and makes another attempt with a more then clear statement, that i guess he had not to give. He maybe even put himself in some bad spot with such statements.
Now give this man rest and let him work.
Thank you @EHG_Mike 
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I like Mike’s post as well, including the sneaky edit…which I believe was the italics. Very nice addition. The real travesty though is this line from his previous post;
I’d hate the see the translated version of it. 
[/ball busting]
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Yea, I know that’s clunky, it’s not translated from anything. 
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the law of the game has spoke, now everyone carry on 
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