Will "Numlocking" be considered abusing game mechanics?

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@gooseears

Is autocasting by numlocking accepted by EHG? Will there be anything done to address this? Or is it just something I should embrace?

Currently, there will be nothing done against using this feature, but this decision may change, once the game is no longer solely offline.

Here a decently recent post by Sarno

Autocast using numlock, is there another way?

We aren’t. The Num Lock functionality being referenced is not something we plan to devote resources to attempting to detect & punish players for using while the game is primarily offline. This decision will be reviewed when people are playing server-side characters.

Devs definitely don’t want players to do this and they already did change some skills (most notably Flame Ward to be more situational and not a auto-cast ability).

I am sure skills like Maelstrom and Devouring Orb will most likely be address in terms of their skill tree/base functionality to just make using auto-cast be “weaker” or not using it’s full potetnial, similar to Flame Ward.