In some of the guilds I’ve been around, everyone pressing one button would be an improvement of one button.
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One day, eventually, I will be able to come to the forums for my usual entertainment and not see 800 posts about this stupid button.
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Maybe they can add a one button forum post to go with the one button rotation.
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No one has answered my question yet…can we complete raids if everyone uses just one button? If that is true there is no reason not to use one button. The average guild might be slightly faster some raids by not using one button, but the one button raids will be more consistent. That’s assuming with the one button raids everyone’s damage is somewhere in the middle.
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I mean, you still have to do the mechanics. You can’t just stand there and clack your keyboard.
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Keyboard? I think you meant XBox controller.
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Well the “one button” isn’t really one button. If you have a 6 button rotation. This could make it a 3 button rotation. It doesn’t include big dps cd’s and trinkets. It doesn’t include defensive abilities. It factors distance into what abilities it chooses, but it doesn’t move for you, and movement is one of the biggest things in raiding,
So yea, it’s possible they can complete a raid, but they’d have to have much more ability than to just press 1 button and afk.
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I’m going to assume you mean normal mode raid.
Yes even if it ends up only being 1/2 of possible dps/hps of a class being play well it would be more than enough for normal mode and probably even heroic mode once people out gear it from a few weeks of delves.
The hard part will be the same as it is now, getting people to do anything other than hitting dmg buttons every 3-4 seconds for 25 out of 30 people in most normal mode raid groups.
I doubt it.
I’m not sure the one button thing works for tanks and healers. It could probably do their dps rotation, but tanking and healing are both reactionary roles. They don’t have set rotations.
Tanks don’t use their bigs CDs at specific times all the time. Sometimes they need to change it up to stay alive or cover a mistake
Same with healers. Their healing is only predictable if the dps/tanks actions are predictable, and if you’ve ever healed you know how unpredictable they are. People stand in fire, run an aoe on top of their teammates etc.
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Well healers and tanks won’t be able to since it’s only for dps. The one button rotation doesn’t use defensives or dmg cool downs. My guild does plan on doing a drunken one button rotation raid at some point. That should be fun! I guess we’ll see if we’re able to clear normal while drunk and when the dps are only using the one button rotation while using their CDs.
Well someone did answer your question.
You also only waited NINE MINUTES for an ‘answer’.
I don’t understand why the 1 button rotation won’t work for healers and tanks.
The game will know which players have the lowest health and can auto select them. The healers can just spam 1 button and they all target people with the lowest health over and over. It doesn’t matter if one healer heals a target before you do…just press the button again and it goes to the next target while the healer that healed that target is on a GCD. Rinse and repeat.
Tanks are even easier than healers since the devs said the 1 button will adjust what it does depending on the situation. An example of this it that it will AoE attack if multiple enemies are within close proximity.
How could you taunt with one button? Just make it to where if you click the one button three times in a row while it is still on GCD then it taunts instead. It isn’t hard to still add taunt to 1 button…you would just do it in a creative way.
funny bit is some who work lua decent…have been macro consolidating for years. Maybe not 1 button…but they work it down to say 3/4.
I was/am a lazy hunter. I’ve loaded lots of crap to hunters mark for years. Cast hunters mark…and lines of code after it in macro.
Can I hit (g)cd issues with the pet casts that stack up? Maybe. Do I care? Nope. I macro’d pet to remove the fact sometimes pets auto’s…sometimes forget to auto.
Hell even in era its dreaded (to some) seal swapping…could be 1 button.
Macro to call 1st seal, judgment to slap it on the mob, call up 2nd seal you grind them down with. 1 button, 3 cast. Want to have a 2nd button? consecrate to tastes lol
LFR and Normal, guaranteed yes, heroic, probably yes, if they also use their big cooldowns well, mythic, I don’t know.
I’d bet money they do this at the highest levels. Which may be ironic for some to think.
Since they sometimes believe they are robots who can do 30 things at the same time, but at the highest levels they look for the easiest way to do things because the margin for error is so much smaller. Anything to give them a slight edge is seen as a win.
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This is why I find these posts asinine. Its not a new concept, its been happening and likely will continue happening because Blizzard’s system will be lacking in some sort of way. It really is not such a big deal, people need to move on lol
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It could work for tanks I guess if it just had them doing their dmg rotation so then the tank would have to use defensive, taunt, and such. But if it auto taunted, how would it know when to wait and when to taunt? Some mechanics you need to let a dot fall off before taunting back.
Healing would be a lot harder to have AI be able to tell if I should cast a rejuv, swiftmend, treants, regrowth, wild growth on whichever partymember I had picked. I main healer, and I just don’t see how it would be better than someone who can anticipate dmg/knows the fight, and knows their rotation.
If you want to be outraged, be outraged. It won’t bother me or my guild. If people end up doing more dps with it than without it, they clearly were the target demographic for it and it would be working as intended.
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I more meaning it won’t be able to adapt well to player mistakes.
Like if a dps screws up a mechanic and now the raid is taking massive damage and they WILL die unless you pop major CDs to carry them through it.
I doubt it could adapt to that
Same with tanking. Like if one tank goes down and the other has to preemptively pop defensives to eat a second tank buster and hopefully live long enough for the group to get the tank back up
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The auto rotation does not target anything for you. It selects an offensive spell based on your rotation priority and current target.
Some DPS specs could boil their gameplay down to Cooldown button, auto rotation, and an optional opener sequence. Ret could get by on literally just the auto rotation button, but healers need to still manually heal, and tanks can use auto rotation for DPS abilities but not mitigation.