Autocombat wastes ridiculous amounts of mana

Is there an option I'm not seeing to turn off spellcasting in autocombat?

I seem to remember this also being a problem in previous games in the series.
In this one where I'm hoarding mana to try and push back the doomsday clock, it's ridiculous.  
I just went from about 100 mana to -70 in a fight.  Yes, minus... AI felt just wasting it all on one easy-ish fight wasn't enough.

So basically I can never use autocombat, and it makes the game tedious.  

Please someone tell me I'm missing the way to fix this, if not I hope they patch it (but I hoped that in the last games, too). 

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....and now I'll take a break from playing until they patch it, I think new patch even made it worse... I just hit -114 mana in the next fight.  

Please make an option to turn off spellcasting, I never ever want the AI to do it. 

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Quoting Mikelangelo, reply 1

Please make an option to turn off spellcasting, I never ever want the AI to do it.

 

Agree, while i have been lucky and never gone negative, it should be an option of just turn it off