Disabled player question

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First, let me say I’ve played WoW off and on from release. I’ve been part of charges for server firsts (long time ago, and been a solo non guilded returning dumb dumb.)

I HAD brain cancer, it’s over, and yay!

I’m looking to return to be a player who can stand on my WoW account and be a proud part of conversations about all the stuff people talk about again.

So here’s the problem. My memory is damaged, and when stressed my hands go super shakey. I have an mmo mouse, and it’s easy to use, and a Logitech G13 gamepad, but when the pressure happens i get shakey but i can reliably do 1/2 alt+X… and half ctrl+X out of muscle memory under stress.

I want to go back and get all the allied races, and be able to do dungeons, and maybe raid. I like to tank, dps, and I like to heal (Heal more). I have trouble remembering dungeons currently, and maybe that will change, but for now I think i have to work on getting muscle memory with limited keys.

So a handful of keys reliably, I’m good. You start throwing too many keys, or too many fancy key combos, and panic starts building…I start shaking… people start dying.

I know I need to find a good guild/ group of people, but I need to be able to solo for all the things that this game has. I’m not a completionist, but I like transmog and collecting stuff.

So, if you’ve made it this far thank you. My brain damage makes it so I think I’m going to have to learn muscle memory to be worthwhile for the basics, because learning where to be in dungeons etc. makes me shake and panic.

I hope I’ve explained my needs well. Which of the classes do you recommend for maximizing establishing muscle memory so i can move on to learning dungeons traits etc.?

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Frost DKs are pretty straightforward DPS, especially if you go Obliteration instead of BoS.

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ooo that’s awesome u beat it. go go op! sry can’t help but wanted to say this lol

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Hi Kuri,

I’m so glad to hear that you kicked cancers butt, that’s amazing and we’re happy for you. I have a TBI and understand to an extend what it’s like trying to play WoW when your brain just won’t cooperate with you.

With that said a few ideas for you - join the Perky Pugs discord. Perk Pugs has been helping ANYONE who wants help to get achievements, dungeons, and raids for years now. They are incredibly supportive and will be more than happy to help.

Go to WoWHead and under the Communities section, you’ll find a list of Discord servers. There are a bunch who are warm and welcoming for all levels of players, even a few of the bigger WoW personalities. One I would recommend is Hazelnutty, she’s amazing and has a great community.

Welcome back and good luck on your adventures.

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That’s awesome! Screw cancer.

I think your druid is a good candidate for what you want to do. It fills all roles and stealth is great while doing open world stuff. Bear is fairly straightforward for tanking, imo, so you can focus more on mechanics.

Be sure to take plenty of breaks. I love healing, but I have some nerve damage in my right arms that acts up if I play with a mouse and keyboard too long. To counter this, I’ll usually play with an Xbox controller when I’m not healing. Keeps me from getting the pain/shakiness in my arm during extended sessions.

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For damage arcane and marksmen are pretty easy. Demon hunters are too

For healers… That’s tough… They all require a little finesse with disc being an outright no go.

Tank… Warriors are straight forward But I believe people say guardian druid is the easiest

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I’m gonna recommend my setup, I use a left Nintendo joy con and a razer death adder v2(I dislike it but it was free) it’s a mix of both control and mouse that works amazing and there’s plenty of buttons for everything, especially because I use the side buttons in my mouse for modifiers

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I not going to question your aftermath of this ailment but that brain function due to it would cause physical problems under stress so know your limits and take your time.

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Tank…Prot Pally, easy and OP atm.

DPS…Ret is FOTM and upsetting everyone, super OP.

You can also heal as Holy on a Pally but I actually prefer Resto Druid

I’m super biased with Pallies though, just saying.

Happy for you buddy, welcome back, take your time, keep kicking nass!

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I don’t have the same type of issues as you, and I don’t think mine as as bad (it’s a mix of things including brain surgery) but from my experience for DPS I would go with Havoc DH or Frost DK. Depending on the builds, both can do very well with not too many buttons. DH being the easier one of the two, but DK being more forgiving when it comes to taking damage. Beast Mastery hunter is also an option, but I mostly just keep gravitating back to Havoc and Frost.

I have less advice for tanking. I haven’t really tanked much lately. I used to a lot. It doesn’t feel like you can go wrong with Prot paladin. It’s pretty straight forward, but it can get complicated with situational abilities. I also remember Vengeance DH being fairly straightforward with fewer situational abilities to worry about. Not sure how good they are as tanks though. I’ve heard Guardian druid isn’t too complicated? But I don’t know.

As for healing. I just don’t, so I can’t help at all there. Sorry.

I hope it all works out for you. Glad to hear about the clean bill of health. I know from experience that’s some scary stuff.

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I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m truly impressed with the level of recovery you’ve made. From my experience many don’t get to where you are today, which is heartwarming.

I don’t have any advice about playing the game, but I hope you can keep fighting, and I wish you nothing but good health and happiness. :+1:

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Can only imagine what you’ve been through happy it’s over though and your getting back into things you enjoy :dracthyr_heart:

Tbh I’m not an expert on this but 100% recommend looking into addons I suffer from multiple mental disabilities that heavily limit my abilities like memory, reaction speeds, reading ability etc. and I’ve found addons help with accessibility (something I wish anti addon people would understand).

But for healing VuhDo is a must for me can take a bit to set up but allows healing with exclusively the mouse and can track buffs, HoTs and also debuff/dot types via colour coding which helps with dispelling.

ElvUI offers more customisation of the UI roo your liking however recommend at least getting a preset to work with as setting up from scratch is confusing.

Plater simply helps with like enemies and eyesight for me but recommend it either way as its pretty useful.

Bigwigs or DBM is useful for memory and reaction times helping remind you what to do with different mechanics and what not so you’re prepared to react ahead of time. Although these one’s are controversial and worried Blizzard is going to go after them unfortunately which sucks for people like me who need them for accessibility :dracthyr_cry_animated:

WeakAuras is another good addon that can do a variety of things I personally like to use it to notify me if I need to activate certain buffs for example Blessing of the Bronze on my Evoker.

As for reading use an addon called Storyline which is both immersive and breaks up the text so it’s not one big text wall.

But those are the main ones I’d recommend for accessibility but there are many more as for Profiles this is the website I use.
https://wago.io/blizzhud

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Class wise, honestly BM hunter or arms warrior/Obliteration 2h Frost dk. Very simple rotation, very little buttons.

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So, I fell down and went boom and ended up with a TBI and just thumb-pinky on my left hand. I have memory issues and some neurological problems that cause chronic pain.

I went from being a mediocre raider in WotLK to not really remembering a number of expacs all that well.

I’m having a ton of fun playing Dragonflight casually, and doing more stuff in game all the time. I just did all three wings of the new raid on LFR a couple weeks ago, and I did five timewalking dungeons yesterday. For whatever reason, I’m still able to go full goblin on the AH.

I use the Razer Naga Pro gaming mouse and the Razer Tartarus Pro gaming keypad as well as the 3DRudder foot mouse for moving. I’m always looking at new accessibility solutions.

I have to have all my spells where I can see them, and I lay them out so my action bars are in the same configuration as the keys on my mouse and keypad. I don’t have to look at my spells all the time to cast them, but being able to glance down and remind myself which buttons to press is important. I’m still pretty much a scrub, however.

I just finished Allied Races for Alliance a few weeks ago and I’m working on Horde in between gearing a couple toons in the Forbidden Reach.

Blood DK is the best toon for soloing content, followed by BM hunter.

Reach out if you like, Furniture #11691 is my Battletag and I am Wubbzy#4391 on Discord.

Good luck. It gets better but it takes time.

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I have cerebral palsy in my left hand. I also have task processing difficulties and can’t remember rotations to save my life.

My go-to classes are Frost DK/ Ret Paladin/ with a side of Beast Mastery Hunter.

My Paladin also does keep an at level shield on them, I will occasionally tank for friends doing Normal or Heroic dungeon difficulties and only for full friend groups, but that’s the extent of it.

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If you want to heal, I recommend a holy priest

All you gotta do is cast heal over and over and over, maybe a flash heal instead now and then, it’s pretty simple.

For DPS, elemental shaman. Just lava burst over and over and over.

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Hey friend! Happy to hear that you beat cancer, that’s freaking awesome!
I can relate to some of your issues, it wasn’t cancer but I’ve been through 2 brain surgeries for the removal of a very rare type of benign tumor.

I always main a resto druid because it’s what I’ve done since WotLK days and I find difficult to remember spells and what I bind them to on my keyboard. Resto druid is pretty much burned in my brain so it’s the only spec I’m truly comfortable with it. I struggle trying to play a dps. And I can’t tank because I don’t remember routes etc :rofl:

From what many folks say, holy priest is one of the easiest healers to learn. Perhaps a resto shaman? I haven’t tried a resto shaman in a long time but from what I remember they were pretty straightforward.

I will leave my discord tag in case you’d like to chat: Lokie_Ruby#9703
Good luck and keep practicing, at your own pace of course :slight_smile:

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Nothing useful to add, but honestly, seeing some of the posts makes me quite proud of our community :dracthyr_heart: :dracthyr_heart:

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OP i am a clicker and do more than fine in dungeons. Tanking no less. My DPS is well above raidbots predictions.

So key binds aint all that as long as you have a fast mouse!

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Find someone to play with you and remind you.