There’s a dragon flying around me to give me the quest Aerial Challenges, which says that I need to speak to a Bronze Timekeeper to complete the quest, but really, you have to complete the aerial challenge. Well, I can’t complete the aerial challenge without buying a mouse and moving to a table that is big enough to support mouse use. I can’t complete the quest, which says it’s completed, but if I drop the quest the guy is gonna follow me, I guess forever?
I realize that most people aren’t playing on a Macbook, much less without a mouse, but Dragonriding for me is a complete failure. I have to command-click to control direction but then if I try to open the map, the game goes into windowed mode because command-m toggles windowed mode. Half the time, command-click doesn’t work right and I just go in a straight line until I run into something and fall to the ground. Trying to do quick turns is impossible on a keypad, so I can’t do the quest. I eventually skip a ring and run into a cliff face and down I go. The whole thing is a comedy of errors.
Fine. I’ll just skip all of the race quests and all of the aerial quests. Dragonflying is just not going to work for me, whatever. But this guy is going to follow me around forever trying to give me a quest unless I keep the uncompletable quest in my logs? Ugh.
I guess I’ll try to fly on on the back of a friend who can do dragonriding and see if I can complete the quest that way. Oh and remap my keybinds so I stop randomly going into windowed mode? This just doesn’t work without a mouse. Or a right-click button.
I figure you probably don’t want to spend the money, but you can get a basic mouse for under $10. and a lap pad that has room for a mouse fairly cheap too. Both together would probably would probably be under $25.
My current setup: for health reasons, I can’t sit in a regular chair for the amount of time I play WoW. So I need a laptop and a chair that lets me have my feet up. My lap desk is not big enough for a mouse and I think the angle would be awkward anyway, so next to my chair I have a piano style stool, which just means you rotate the seat to adjust the height. I think it’s from IKEA. That’s where mouse and mouse pad live. It sounds awkward but works really well once I got the height right for where my arm naturally falls. There are other creative ways to make a place for a mouse if you don’t want to move to a bigger table. If you’re willing to buy one. I have used Macs a lot and have found a 2 button mouse is well worth it, and not just for WoW. Sorry, Steve Jobs, I admire the intent, but that second button is just too useful.
I feel you though. I don’t love quests like that - if I were good at that kind of thing, I’d be playing Mario Kart or something instead of WoW - but as long as there aren’t too many and they’re optional I can tolerate their presence. (Don’t ask me about that one horse quest in BFA unless you want a rant.)
I don’t know if this is a preference or an accessibility issue, but if it is the latter, I would suggest you shoot an email over to the Accessibility team. While a response isn’t guaranteed, a lot of times folks are directed there they are responded to. At worst they’ll have someone leaving their suggestion/feedback, at best perhaps they have some sort of suggestion they can offer to facilitate your play.
+1 on fixing the game to allow Mac users to fly with a trackpad on a laptop. I don’t see this as “working as intended.” I see this as a purposeful anti-accessibility choice Blizzard made to break the game for a certain % of their user base.
How broken is flying with a trackpad? The original dragonriding training quest, where you try to control the whelpling? If you use the instructions as written it tends to fly upside-down on its back, firing directly up into the sky, or pointing nose down at the ground shooting straight down. It does not generally correct, naturally returning to flying level. Nor does the game really explain how to fly. You just need to somehow come realize that Shift-- is down and Shift-+ is up. Also note that this means you have to be two-hands on the keyboard to control pitch. Which means you can’t also maintain control of the trackpad to steer.
Then, when you have your first ‘real’ lesson and you have to jump off the ledge to just glide down? Yeah. No. That doesn’t work. There’s insufficient forward impetus to even get to the first circle. If you hit “2” you simply shoot up vertically into the sky. If you pitch down to gain speed you point directly at the ground and miss the circle.
This is simply terrible UI design. I don’t want to hear “get a mouse.” That’s ableist and frankly offensive. It’s a bad design.
The game has been around since 2004. I started playing Burning Crusade (2007) before Lich King was even announced. And while now-and-then you had problems without a mouse — such as trying to pitch down as a ghost to get under the water if you were dead — there were always ways to work around it. But this mechanic is integral to much of the Dragonflight experience.
I was able to get leveled to 65 regardless. And I still got to fly around a bit without being able to complete any of the flight training quests. But I have already been warned that this will basically hamper upper-level questing and may even make some instances impossible to run.
Fix your broken game for Mac laptop users, Blizzard.
This is just something that should be fixed. Period.
Unfortunately, this forum is not a contact point for the staff. Customer Support is a player assisting other players forum. So you’re not being heard by the people who you’re aiming at with your post.
I agree with Kozzae, that it’s not limited to Mac users, it could potentially be an issue for anyone only using a track pad.
As above, I absolutely encourage you to reach out to the accessibility team. I would also point you towards either of the Tech Support forums as well. Either of those methods will get your feedback to the parties who can do something with it. Posting it here to your fellow players? There isn’t anything we can do past point you in the proper direction.
Do you have a track pad or something? I just click the “right mouse button” on mine and then use the track pad to uh steer. It’s not much and I’m really bad at flying but it’s honest work.