Blind accessibility……key bind to face target

Hi all

The idea of this is the same as shadow priest mind flay. The difference would be that it would be a accessibility option with the ability to set a key bind so the function could be used on friends as well as enemy’s.
The need for this function is overwhelmingly with ranged classes and especially in raids.
Currently when playing the only way to face the direction of a enemy is to rely on audio to position correctly, this entail’s having a good audio setup for audio positioning. I currently have a senheizer gsx1000 dac with a senheizer HD650 headset, even with this audio positioning becomes more difficult the further away the target is. In the world it is difficult but within raids it becomes impossible due to the added mass of other sounds and repositioning due to fight mechanics. Any time you are required to move and reposition you need to re find your direction, if you can’t locate the target with sound then essentially you have to spin on the spot whilst spamming a ability until it begins to cast. This makes raiding as ranged frustrating and completely ineffective. This isn’t a issue when playing melee but it would be nice not to be locked to melee.
Having a key bind that we can set to face our target would eliminate all these issues and open the door for us to effectively play ranged within raids.
The other area it would help is with class directional ability’s. Currently we have to audio position as best as possible and hope for the best, with the new class I believe there is many directional ability’s which without the key bind we could find ourselves locked out due to effectiveness of landing ability’s correctly on targets.

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I really like this idea. Not only would this help blind players, but it would also help players with poor framerate.

It’s killing two birds with one stone!

(And I won’t lie, I’m shocked this doesn’t exist yet. Get on to it, Blizzard!)

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I suspect that PvPers will complain about this with casters, as they would macro this button into most abilities.

This would be a great addition though, because facing a target can be really difficult if you can’t properly control your character with the mouse.

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That’s true but everyone would be able to macro it into ability’s so no one would have an advantage over another. Just to be clear too, melee would have access to this function too, it’s needed for classes like monk, DH and DK.

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I’d argue it’s even more needed with the new Dracthyr frontals