interesting… i would love to see a max dps sim for every spec using the 2. wish i was better at sims or i would do it myself 
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Seems reasonable to me. If you’re good at your spec, it’s a loss, but it’s great for alts or new players to still put up decent numbers.
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The easy specs lose less from using these than the more complex specs. Not terribly surprising.
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Have no fear, you can still play ret, BM, spriest, aug evoker and arms/fury warrior with the rotation assistant.
To be honest I am surprised spriest is doing so well with the rotation assistant. All the spriests I have run into talk about how hard and complicated their rotation is.
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So Aug and Demo are basically the only ones that might really benefit at all with a sub 10% loss. That could bring some people up, but even then, it could be a wash. Hopefully it stays this bad and no one uses it.
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Yeah no, I tried it on my ret and it was laughably bad.
I know “ret is easy” is a meme right now, but the one button rotation helper can’t handle it.
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Some players exaggerate the skill it takes to play their specs well.
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Agreed, 25% loss is a very significant loss, and that’s against a target dummy. Against an enemy with actual mechanics, it’ll be even worse.
I don’t know why but i feel like that balance might be a little wonky but i want to see what each can do max potential but might have to wait a bit for that.
Expect an addon to detect when someone’s using the one button assist and boots them from certain content. 
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Yeah i can see that lmfao
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I’ll probably try out the highlight assist for alts I only occasionally play. 4-10% loss in exchange for turning off my brain and mashing buttons seems fair.
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So wait. The highlight assist is so bad that even that is projected to be a dps loss for someone running a wowhead priority? I wonder how hekili’s assistant compares.
What exactly are they trying to accomplish with this stuff?
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The only interesting thing about the one button assist is that you can play WoW on a Steamdeck with it. So I guess the “WoW is going to be on consoles one day” people were actually right.
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Holy moly that’s more than I expected. And by more I mean worse.
Good post OP.
The disparity between some specs and roles is a gulf. Look at prot paladin lol.
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Can’t wait to have Fire Mages doing 30% less damage in my groups.
I’m very surprised that Demo Lock is only 7% worse, though.
I guess it just shows that their Major CD is kind of trash.
Not sure about steamdeck, but you can play WoW with an Xbox controller and have about 40 keybinds, which is probably more keybinds than the average kbm WoW player uses.
I think wowhead class writers were asked to estimate and pulled a number out of a hat. My gut feeling is the real dmg loss will be a lot more for most players. They may be estimating around an expert who is otherwise playing perfectly with cooldowns and movement and such.
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Wow. It’s almost like Blizzard should’ve taken the time to create “ez-mode” specs instead. 15% DPS loss for less mechanics vs 60% DPS loss for one-button.
Now it’s in the game and an empty promise at that. One-button will always be unbalanced and borderline useless.
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