My Bad. I guess I need to learn more about the one button rotation button. 
Sure, and using a tee in baseball instead of throwing pitches is also an âaccessibility â feature but it also ceases to be baseball.
The OBR topic is very iffy, since elitists shun it, casuals praise it like the second coming, but in my honest opinion I think itâs well balanced and a great feature.
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they shun it now especially since OBR macros with cast sequence corrections built in are doing more damage than they can do, while also kicking/doing mechanics
there are a few youtubers now who solely test OBR stuff and theyâre showing purple and orange parses on many classes
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No class or spec is that complex. Instead of just playing a class and expecting to immediately be great. Or after a new patch with changes, expecting to just play like nothing happened.
All you have to do is take 5-10 mins and learn what all your talents and abilities do, and all your passives. Once you know what they each do, practice a bit. This is why it takes time before reaching endgame.
Practice as you experience the gameâs content. Learn the best tactics and strategies used by your class. Learn numerous rotations and things to look for to grab the advantage. Basically, just prepare and pay attention.
Using the one-button will not teach you anything. It will choose the ability for you, but it doesnât tell you what other abilities would also be a good choice or why the ability it chose was chosen. Yes, it takes a little bit of effort. And everyone can improve. Even the best PVPers in the game or best Raiders are not actually THE BEST.
Also, if you want to be better at your class, try this:
1 - donât use addons
2 - donât use macros
Both are crutches and you donât need them. The player that doesnât need those things will always have more skill than the player who does.
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Iâll pass. But if you like it, then go for it. Not my cup of tea tbh.
The thing is, not every WoW player wants to learn a rotation.
These players do exist, by enforcing them to learn, you are telling them, the game isnât for them.
We know that the vast majority of the WoW player base and MMOs in general, consist of casual gamers, the percentage of these casuals who donât want to learn their class/spec is unknown to us, but it must be significant enough for Blizzard to release a feature such as the OBR to cater to them.
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Rotation is only part of reason dps are doing less damage than they can. While it does help, it doesnât take into account interrupting or using defensives to not be dead on the floor or bad positioning.
Some people will still have terrible dps because when they go to dodge a frontal or a swirlie, they are running too far away and/ or taking their sweet time getting back into their dps rotation.
We have all seen that dps who sees a mechanic being cast, stops their dps to completely focus on a mechanic, dodges the mechanic, has to make sure itâs safe, THEN start dpsing again. OBR will not fix that.
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And there it is⌠Once again, expectation is the enemy of reality.
Because you went to a website that will simulate PERFECTION in a theoretical PERFECT situation, you then set those expectations for human players. Human players are not perfect; they will make mistakes, miss a button here and there, miss an interrupt, etc. A simulation will not. Plus, the simulations take PERFECT gear and PERFECTLY balanced stats into account when running things, making the PERFECT outcome at all times.
Maybe if you lowered your expectations and allowed people time to learn, adapt, and do their own builds, then youâd see that as long as the mobs/bosses go down, itâs all good⌠and you might actually gasp have fun with the game rather than treating it like a pile of spreadsheets.
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you realize sim dps means the maximum they can hit with their current equipment buffs and talent treeâŚ
when you sim your character youâre not simming against the maximized algorithm, youâre simming against what you currently vs what youâre trying to equip (in regards to gear upgrades) and then you can verify your % loss on a target dummy
Blizzard: Youâre banned for âautomationâ!! Account deleted.
Also Blizzard: Enjoy our automation.
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Nice to completely sidestep the point.
A simulation is running a PERFECT rotation at all times, with nothing missed. Ragardless of the gear, itâs running PERFECTION at all times. Humans are not perfect.
Totally agree with your take, before it used to be if you won an encounter by not reaching zero hp, while reducing your enemies hp to zero, that was an achievement in itself and part of the fun of the game, now itâs how quickly and efficiently the enemies hp reaches zero, while your own hp reaching zero is a non factor and god forbid if it ever does, youâll be kicked.
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Timers placed onto the game is the culprit for this behavior
if there were no timer, i believe people would be far more chill in regards to DPS efficiency
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I think they should make the combat assist a bit better as itâs not really consistent across classes on which cooldowns are recommended or not, and builds with less cooldowns work with it much better. It doesnât recommend refreshing dots until theyâre already off completely and the aoe detection is not good. They should hire the Hekilli guys or something.
Why does it feel that those for one button rotation are stating that we want people to be better butâŚyou need to follow what the robot tells you. What happened to taking a person under their wing and showing them how to play their class/spec? Feels like just another step into removing the originality of what this game was into single player. Why I donât do dungeons or suchâŚno life to the other players so why not play alone?
Or maybe play the actual game? Learn your class and rotation? Practice and get better? Stop with the shortcuts that donât help you improve.
Brainlessly mashing a single button isnât gameplay.
whatâs next, delete mechanics? Turn bosses into target dummies?
Playing the elitist card is just a copout. There is nothing elitist about just playing the game without the bar being so low a sloth could jump over it.
What I donât like about OBR is that it is constantly using my high-level attacks on trash and low level mobs. I like to save my high level attacks for the bosses and stronger enemies, since they have such long cool downs.
And yes, pressing one button over and over isnât much fun. I donât enjoy âidleâ games.
Just my two cents.
Hate to admit this but even though Iâve played Druid since Vanilla, I havenât played Feral in many years. I thought with the pruning Iâd fall in love again, but the snapshotting is still in-game and it throws me off completely. I kept watching my buttons and dying in melee during raids, so I turned on single-button assist and did the same amount of damage. Lowkey embarassing.
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i use it all the time, what i do is make the 1 button slot 3 in all classes, then place the normal abilities in the order around the one button, that way if the one button malfunctions or keeps summoning different pets i can easily just hit the ability keys until it decides to stop malfunctioning
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