Anyone play for this reason? I know a lot of you are super good (and younger - lol) and can just pick it up and go; remember everything, have keybinds and addons (some of those are super complicated too!) But for me one of the biggest reasons to keep playing, (thru thick or thin) is to keep my memory going.
My main is a Bmhunter and then this gal. A lot of you think they’re the easiest and probably are correct. Still, for me I have to concentrate to stay good.
If I’m playing a lot I’ll switch to my rogue or warrior. I know when I make sure to switch over to rogue once a month for a week it really helps with that wiring in the brain.
Watching my son sit down to help any one of my characters class to help me occassionally is an exercise in “Awe!” How he can quickly look at the abilities, keybinds and play within 8 minutes is pretty damn amazing. I figure that’s how good the M+ players must be.
Wouldn’t strategy and crafting based games be great for this.
Cause you really need to remember the amount of wood ,stone , iron e.t.c you need to create the next tier of resources or building in simulations game.
I’d recommend playing a game like fire emblem to stay sharp tbh
The new one, three houses on switch, is phenomenal and has so many different builds you can run in newgame+ and new strategies to learn
But i def get what you mean. There have been studies that showed that mental decay was slowed in the elderly that did a little bit of things like mario kart every day. Video games are good!
This great. I know there are some games like that…my sis was telling me about one something like that but I don’t remember the name. The way it sounded though wasn’t great if you could lose all your stuff with one mistake. I don’t have the patience, I think, to gather, build, gather, build, then lose it all…eek!
I’d say Fury warrior is piss easy to play, but the overwhelming number of players I see failing miserably at it tells me otherwise.
Anyway, I keep my characters with a similar keybind layout for function. My various specs and characters kinda try to follow this layout, with some differences. However, my monk has too many buttons and actually makes it really difficult to bind everything they way I want. However, it’s just an alt.
My main focus with my main is that I can do my entire rotation with just my left hand (including cooldowns and damage potion). As a result, there’s been times in pulls where I just keep going while I drink something or sneeze, and still maintain DPS and mechanics. Freeing up my right hand also makes doing the precision movements for Mythic more seamless.
I still play my alts from time to time, and the muscle memory stays. It’s just a matter of reacquainting myself with the sequencing for different rotations and priorities.
IMHO a lot of the games complexity is shifting from classes to fights. We see posts all the time about players wanting more class complexity, but I find that the game mechanics have ramped up substantially more.
Translates into me being able to rely less on my class knowledge and having to study/watch videos of fight mechanics more often. Dungeons in particular this xpac are quite mechanic heavy, and those mechanics are quite deadly. In just the first few pulls of De Other Side you have an enrage mechanic, on ground spell effects, diseases, a push back, heals, priority mobs that need to burned down before they become harder, pats, etc. That’s just the first 3 trash pulls rotating to the right in the dungeon @_@.
I’m younger, but I do attribute my ease with numbers in my work life to video games. I gravitate towards number based jobs and excel in them because quick math is just second nature now.
Magic the Gathering is another great game that helps with mental processing. Especially once you start to learn some of the older formats that rotate less. The game really does reward practice and knowledge, but has a ton of decision points. I’ve also enjoyed that for years. Artwork is top notch too.
I have an adjustment period when I switch focus from one toon to another. Muscle memory can be strong. More than once I’ve gone to click kill shot and wound up blinking into a mob. Worse is when you jump, click slow fall, then remember you’re a Warlock today.
I really like WoW for the same reason, it keeps me sharp as my body tries to take that away from me. What I’ve started doing is putting the same spells in the same places, that way I know my interrupting spell is going to be in the bottom left, and my most important healing spell is going to be right next to it, and so on. If you like havoc dh, you might also like fury warrior, as a lot of the spells will have a match. It may make it easier to remember where everything is if you swap around often!
For me, well its to have fun, but besides that:
I find it helps with my hand-eye cordination and allows me to pay attention of more things and keep track of rotations and such better.
Idk, I thought I had something going there, I just like playing and having all my fancy keybinds and having all my characters’ ability keybinds similar, such as having all my cleanses on ‘f’.
I guess thats more of, I enjoy building multiple things that have similar layouts and that can help when making schedules or something. I really am trying to think of some cool way that i use what i do in wow to real life lol
I’m so sorry for those issues you continue battle so much more bravely than you know or anyone else suspects, and the fall out, my friend. You’re in my versions of prayer everyday, you know.
Yuppers!!! I think back to those 8 direction joysticks from Atari and what games demand now is mind boggling. Like you, I find it great exercise for my brain….
I like to switch roles around. Heal a bit, then tank a bit, and then dps.
Not a train wreck at all - quite beautiful in fact. I have that wall when it comes to figuring out the add-ons and macro’s, so it’s kind of cool you can do it. For rw I’ve got lists and different notebooks for said lists…lol
yeah, have my fury warrior, but not fond of havoc for some reason, but I do the same thing with as many keybinds as well, though for my main bmhunter there’s a couple other interrupts I can use, which is nice. Plus, you know, that feign death! lol
Yep, have jumped off many a cliff after playing the DH! Switching to rogue is the big challenge for me. It’s a big sloooowww down, manage the cd’s thing.
I agree, and hence why I don’t do dungeons past normal or heroic. Just not going to watch a video for a game when I could be writing or doing my art. I think the classes and play type’s give everyone a chance to play to the level they are willing to take the time to learn. That’s why I sincerely dislike the gg term - and the putting down of chosen class: nobody knows the others private life and why they make their choices. That said I certainly wouldn’t go into mythics or raids to bring everyone else down without doing research.
me too! Everything is left hand - movement is mouse
I am!! At 72, I find that playing keeps my brain a little sharper, my fingers a little more agile, and my vision sharper. I have narrow-angle glaucoma which was caught very early and treated with drops. My doctor says I’m his only patient who has aced the field vision test where you have to look straight ahead and watch for tiny little light flashes, clicking when they flash. He said I got almost 100%. He told me previously that I would be really good at video games… I just snickered.
No matter your age, stay on top of your memory and your health. So many say that if they knew they would live so long they would have taken better care of themselves. It’s never too late to start.
The holidays sucked. Every time I couldn’t explain something or stumbled over words, my brothers made fun of me. 