(Not a bug) When a troop is open while in a battle, the Battle slows down to a crawl

[Jonathan]

I couldn’t find a Dev reply, but I swear I’ve seen one - maybe it was in a stream (the Halloween one, I think). Here’s another thread on the issue:

Faster pace while having troops selected in battle

So I am usually playing on x4 speed, because I want stuff to be done quick. Especially Explore is something you need to do about 250-300 times just to trait one legendary and 600-700 times to trait one mythic troop. And I really have no complains about that. The problem lies with how the game handles the speed when I click on a troop to prepare for using a spell. Going down to 1x speed while the spell is shown is really annoying. Espcially when the opponent gets a cascade in the background, as …

And it was noted in Update 4.0 Suggestions and feedback under ‘Other notable feedback’.

Update 4.0 Suggestions and feedback

Please get rid of the slow down to basic speed when you have a spell selected. This has been talked about already for some time now, and i think Devs even reacted to it, but it is still in the game, that would really be a welcome small qol change, thanks. Also un-nerf Worldbreaker please, that is all.