Playing with a controller is better

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Wow what a waste of time! Consoleport so far has been a steaming pile of hot, putrid, vile, repulsive, festering, maggot laden garbage. I thought it might be interesting to use a controller to farm and quest while using my treadmill or trampoline but that is certainly not happening as of now with this addon.

First off my character starts off constantly autorunning, then when I try to set anything up it either closes itself or closes wow. Just having consoleport running makes your mouse basically unusable (you can see your cursor but clicking doesn’t do anything) so you can’t even use your kb&m to set anything up. Left stick only adjusts camera and right stick up and down ALSO adjust camera but left and right steer. These default controls make absolutely no sense, why on man’s decaying earth would you not have left stick set to default to movement like every other game in existence and why TF is autorun on by default??? So frustrating trying to attempt to set things up while your character is running in circles and into lakes and crap. (I thought ORG would be a safe place to set this up it was surprisingly not)

So if google ever brings you to this morbidly undying thread do not attempt to use this addon unless you are extremely patient and determined to use a controller. I might try again later idk and update this post with a less scathing review if I have any luck when my patience gauge refills, but I already wasted 20 mins I’ll never get back just running in circles and closing and reopening wow.

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Keyboard ftw!

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I’ve been using consoleport quite a bit for questing, it’s been pretty fun.
Don’t think I’ve had any of those issues you’re describing. I’m still using the legacy version. Think I need to backup and try the update using the native controller support WoW has now.

Left stick moves and right controls camera, always defaulted to that for me as well.

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I look forward to the time when I retire and I can give this thread my proper attention. I’ll just have to wait for somebody to reply to it again.

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I’ll await your ‘how to Holy Paladin on q controller’ tutorial. Lol

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Don’t try playing an enhancement shaman on one. I’ve got 34 keybinds, and I use probably 24 of them regularly.

For anyone who says “Don’t bind lightning shield and imbues and it’s fine”
I dont and you’ve clearly never played an enhancement shaman.

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on why the thread is necro’d it’s either a reply or someone googling about topic and getting link to an old thread.

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I use clique [addon] to heal, how are you going to heal your single targets in a raid with a controller?

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Ah
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Check out those.

I use clique as well, but have been using the Hold to target option to heal my niece and I when we’re leveling with controllers. The raid cursor is pretty easy too, but I’ve not done any large group yet.

I’d been leveling enhancement with one, it was fun. Do you pvp or something where you need that many keybinds? I’ve got an orc shaman as well that’s a higher level and it now has me wondering how many keybinds I use regularly, as that seems real high for me.

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If you play a lot of console content for some reason a controller maybe nicer, feel more natural.

I know I rarely ever hold a controller at all these days so I’d spend more time fighting it when I can do everything kbm second nature already.

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I started using it just to change up the experience when leveling another character.
Combined with a few other mods, one of which became standard for me, it definitely gave it a different feel. Made leveling a bit more fresh.

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I did this ten years ago. My buddy thought I was crazy. Nice to know people are now catching up to this old idea.

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I did KSM in BFA with a controller fine. Playing on a limited schedule. Only thing that has held me back for Shadowlands is my playtime is down.

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Controllers easily support 50+ binds. You don’t know what you are talking about.

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I was doing it without ConsolePort, using Xpadder during WoD. Not quite 10 years for me.

But far too many people are naive and ignorant to what you can do with a controller. Of course there are a ton of bad players on Keyboard and Mouse so shouldn’t be surprising I guess.

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I’ve got characters I’ve been leveling using console port, I’m looking forward to trying some raids with them once they’re high enough. I’m sure it’ll be nice and easy.

I do love console port even just for auction listing.
I miss the old batch post function of auctioneer and the base game has so much back and forth with the mouse that it makes it slow. I can now put my controller cursor on the auction post, and use my mouse to click the item and hit A on the controller
sooo much easier.

Controllers are fun =]

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I use a g13 i salvaged too! It’s got a couple dead buttons but after using dominoes to set my bars up to match everything, a 12 button mouse and reprogramming keybinding i can say it’s possible to get very good and competitive with it. Macros really quadruple the potential. I’m curious how you’ve got yours setup because there’s always something to learn from the experience of others. Thanks in advance

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When you play GTA 3, 4 or 5 on a pc, you use mousepad for vehicle. And you use mouse and keyboard on gun shooting.

WoW is more of a gun shooting than driving a vehicle. You use mouse and keyboard for it.

You can use controller on WoW, but you would be destroyed easily. For trivial task like leveling and world quest, it would work But for Mythic+, raiding and PvP, good luck with your controller.

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Let this thread die and be as dead as the concept of playing WoW with a controller. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: