No, I’m not joking. I’m an altoholic who plays every spec for its concept, its aesthetics and to hang out with an OC I have assigned to represent that spec in a conceptually resonating manner that I find highly enjoyable! I play delves and follower dungeons and will not be in your queued content, nevermind your M+. That all being said, I am SO looking forward to having multiple alts whose keybinds are the one button rotation followed by whatever abilities aren’t on that button, and just chilling as I level and putter around on these OCs.
The specs I’m looking forward to most are mostly melees, whose button to button gameplay moves fast enough that a GCD penalty will probably be an upgrade to me playing as I usually do (“I don’t know, this button’s lit up, sure”), but most notably I’m looking forward to being led by the nose through enhancement and subtlety. Can I kill stuff already as those specs? Yes, actually, my enhancement shaman is already 80 and so likely retired until Midnight, but maaaan I am looking forward to a one button route to “not playing wrong” endorsed by the game itself!
And that’s the beauty of the one button rotation, really: Combined with the starter spec, there’s a mindless way to play “not wrong” that the game is responsible for keeping that way for most content in the game! I can just mog my pretty mogs, stick to the solo lane, and enjoy my OCs!
What about you? Are there any specs that you will shamelessly 1-button because they’re “me on my own time” characters? I’ll still play tanks, healers and probably most ranged DPS the old fashioned way (Maybe not my fire mage, I always feel like there’s something I’m missing, but she’s 80 too now so that’s a Midnight problem), but for melees? Bring it on!
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Sub rogue! It’s the only rogue spec I didn’t understand and now I don’t have to bother to enjoy my sub rogue alt!
Also arcane mage. I used to know how to play this well then they changed it again and I don’t want to re-learn it
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i’m really looking forward to this option.
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How others play doesn’t concern me.
It turns everything into an idle game. It also completely removes the satisfaction of mastery over a class, so I personally won’t use it.
lmao.
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With one button rotation on the way I got CE and LMSH in the bag! 
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Rogue is my worst class. I’ll be satisfied if it would let me quest as a Rogue.
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Do you want to get CE with my druid? I’ll play feral, you play shadow, we’ll be such gamers
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Tbh. I feel the same way about shadow. However I don’t know if they have OBR for healers yet
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As long as there is a meaningful penalty for using it and it isn’t optimal, then I don’t mind.
If Blizzard’s balance however, and bias to certain classes makes it so a 1 button pressing player of the ‘favored’ class (like Mage or Druid), is consistently beating anyone who has mastered or uses the normal playstyle well however? That’s when I’ll have a problem.
To be fair hekili only suggest what buff or what attack to use next. And it doesint tell you when to use defensives and you still have to look at the action order while doing mechanics. That’s a lot of information for some people.
Yea I don’t think this was asked.
Sounds terrifying thinking about OBH for healers now. 
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I think they said that OBR was only for DPS.
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Well my rdruid already kinda has it just regrowth regrowth regrowth, you can probably do at least normal raiding with 5 regrowth spamming rdruids
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That’s good. But my point and concern is this. If say a Balance Druid or Frost / Fire Mage, or any class really is able to use OBR to beat a player’s DPS who is not using it (simply because their class gets more support / buffs / tweaks by Blizzard), and the player they beat isn’t a poor player, but is actually someone who knows how to play their class well; then this is an issue that will have to be resolved immediately.
If OBR is a casual solution to beating difficult content like Mage Tower / Zek’vir ?? It’s a problem. We may need OBR to be disabled in places like Mythic+, Challenges, and Mythic Raiding; if so. Because if a one-button use player is achieving all that, it’s going to drive people who push themselves to excel away. Participation Trophies =/= Olympic Gold Medals.
So I hope Blizzard understands very well that they can’t be favoring certain classes any longer and will need to treat balance with an entirely new mindset. Failing at that, they’ll drive everyone to OBR, and then the game will probably die off faster than Star Wars Galaxies did after they released their NGE nonsense.
In any event, it will definitely be interesting to see if convenience and putting the game in a place where it can be done on a mobile app (likely the ultimate goal), is beneficial or detrimental long-term. The bottom line is there should be a 25-30% gap in damage between the player using OBR, and the player who is actually a master of their class.
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