Originally Posted by Tuco
Not sure if you guys happened to hear me saying it before, but I too dislike the chain system.

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Chain L. C. -> I agree that it is a system that should be polished, but it's a minor thing IMO.
No, it's not. It's a terrible UI/control scheme, that can single-handedly harm the enjoyment of the game.

Even my very recent discovery that Larian at some point DID implement a keybinding for "chain/unchain all" (it's called "TOGGLE GROUP CONTROL" and unbound by default for some UNHOLY reason) can only mitigate the frustration that this system causes only to a limited degree.
Because at its core it's still bad and the only way to salvage it is basically to not make it work as it does now.
THEY DID? Need to look this one up.

Chaining system seem to get some attention (unchaining and chaining characters seems more reliable). Though it is bad to begin with, I am not sure if we can realistically hope for anything more then making what we currently have more usable.

Still, I can live with chaining, not so much with the "hotbar" - I swear, it is so annoying - I get new character, and instead of enjoying the new skils, I have to open the skill UI, dive into hotbars and make some sense out of it. On top of that, in spell menu, they need to stop polluting higher spells levels with upcast versions of lower levels, and please, seperate spell levels when we choose which spells to learn.

Originally Posted by Tuco
it gives, in fact, TOO MUCH meaning to verticality, factually making so that just being a couple of meters above the target is more than enough to trump/make redundant countless spells and class-specific abilities.
Overall, yeah, advantage is too much. I think nerfind jump already helped a lot, but for example it is so easy to get sneak attack through highground, and it's a massive boost of damange and chances to hit. Backstab is gone, and things are already much better, with me finally using spells and such. Frankly I think boost to attack range would be enough to make high ground valuable to ranged/casters - but anything below "advantage" would be welcome at this point.