A built in ability rotation would be tremendous for improving the lower skilled and casual players who may not understand deeper ability uses. This could very well help random mythic and raid groups, even help during dungeons in general.
Right now so many are hangry about lower skilled players not doing good DPS, heals or properly tanking. This would help imo a lot on lower end of things. Where as the higher skilled players would overall still do better, but would greatly close the gap and alleviate some of the anger in groups
Highlight abilities likely want to use, would be semi-dynamic depending what going on. Want to stop and enemy casting? Use an ability to cancel it and that ability would highlight. Otherwise highlight best DPS abilities to use or heals etc or if need to taunt that ability can highlight.
Pretty simple I believe. And would help a lot for players not best at the game therefore helping all groups
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There are training dummies and guides, videos, etc out there to practice. Rotation helpers create bad habits. Like using cooldowns on dying packs and not saving them for a fresh pack to maximize their use. Or just overall taking your attention away from mechanics and things that are happening because you’re looking at an addon or what not.
I don’t think anything beats good ol’ fashioned practice, even if it takes you hours, days etc. You’ll feel better about yourself without training wheels on too.
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I just feel like a blizz version won’t be as good as rotation-helper add-ons, judging by the “starter” talent builds.
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There are addons that do this. The two I know of are Hekili which will give a 3 ability preview of the next steps, and MaxDps which will highlight what it thinks should go next in the rotation.
I cannot vouch for their accuracy. But they seem popular.
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The Addon “Hekili” is pretty good at suggesting a rotation. It’s improved my game quite a bit.
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Highlights while at a target dummy or in follower dungeons would be excellent, yeah. But they need to also explain WHY someone should hit the next button, otherwise they are just memorizing the order.
In regular combat I don’t think it’d work at all. Procs and dots and things will be expiring faster than someone can hunt and peck out that ability, they’d need a cheat sheet that can be pulled out of the spellbook and placed onscreen somewhere with the basic rotation.
It’s certainly the kind of thing that needs to be in the base game though, not an addon.
I always suggest Hekili to new players to help them learn their spec but it can be a trap if they become completely reliant on it.
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If people actually wanted to improve they would put forth the effort without needing in game tips.
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yep, it’s not the same as learning your spec but it certainly helps on alts i don’t regularly play and don’t care to learn
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There are guides all over the web both written and on YouTube.
There are also Discords for every class and spec in the game where all the theory crafters congregate. Most have a Questions section as well.
I’ve suggested Hekili to people. Even if you don’t master your spec, it’s still useful enough for most players to simply get by.
Assuming they don’t tunnel and die to things because they’re hyper-focused on the addon’s readouts.
EDIT: It’s also useful for building muscle memory if you’re playing a new spec/class.
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Don’t be that guy. Be better than that guy.
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I’m not a visual learner, I have to practice and do things myself. The best way for me is to write down the abilities I should be using in priority. Once I do this, it is burned into my memory. I do it for raid guides and boss abilities too.
and even if you know your rotation it’s a good reminder of the keybinds coming up
It needs to be in-game. The people who need it most are not chasing down external resources.
I agree, but to be fair, if someone didn’t bother Googling “how do i play unholy in wow” and clicking on the first thing, they would probably ignore in-game guides too.
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Rotations change too often. Players decide the rotation. Not blizzard.
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There needs to be a computer in-game, inside of WoW.
And your WoW character can be brought up to it, and when you do so, it forces you to alt-tab to places like WoWhead, Icy Veins, Murlok io, and the like.
You can bring a horse to water, but you can’t force it to drink.
WoW players are similar.
Nah. The people who won’t use external resources for their hobby aren’t doing anything in game where their DPS matters.
They can always actually read what each of their Skills and Talents do IN GAME to figure out what abilities should be used and when. It ain’t rocket science.
I find that after using it you learn the rotation. For example when season 2 started it didn’t work but I already had the buttons set up so I could repeat it anyway.
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