About 2 months ago I started playing WoW on an Xbox One S controller (white, bluetooth) and let me tell you: it is AMAZING.
It all started with me breaking my old chair, getting a new one that is more like a laidback armchair for leisure. I thought to myself: “huh, sitting here laidback is kinda nice. Too bad I can’t play WoW since I can’t properly reach my keyboard and mouse … OR CAN I?”. So I plugged in the controller and holy cannoli it actually worked somehow. After a bit of digging around I was able to play on the controller.
I don’t know if it is better than a keyboard and mouse, but yesterday, I got a new chair since I needed to work as well, but when I went back to play WoW with a keyboard and mouse it felt off. So now when I want to play, i just get my armchair and turn on the controller. It is so much more relaxing this way!
Retail WoW now supports controllers out of the box so all you need is ConsolePort - an addon that transforms your UI and action bars so that they are more controller firendly.
It takes allot of getting used to and more thought on where to place the abilities, but after that you are set it sorta becomes second nature and you don’t even look at the controller.
And oh yeah, I did dungeons, world pvp, quests and leveled a character to lvl 60 just on a controller.
Would you try a controller? Did you try it and didn’t like it? I would love to get someone else’s thoughts on this as well.
I’ve tried it, enjoyed whole leveling, doing eq and such, but i feel like it’s kind of hard to do dungeons an raids on controller. Throw it totally away when started to maining healer.
I’ve been playing with a controller most of the time since halfway into 8.2. I play healer and tank mostly, healed up to early 20s on a controller in BfA S4, currently knocking on the door of 15s with a controller.
It works amazingly well, even if you have a lot of keybinds: you can set up some of the buttons to be modifiers, so if you consider the ABXY buttons as the main buttons, set up the shoulder buttons as modifiers (shift & control, for example), you now have 16 available binds: ABXY, Shift+ABXY, Control+ABXY, Shift+Control+ABXY. If that’s not enough, bind one of the triggers to Alt or AltGr, and you have 32 available binds. I’m usually fine with 16 binds + oPie for less used stuff like pots, food, flask, hearthstones, mounts, etc.
You can control the mouse with it too, obviously, and it’s fine for all roles. Takes some time to get used to, but once you’re used to, it’s super comfortable. It also requires less hand movement than a keyboard, which can be a plus.
The major downside is that you can’t easily type with it, so if you need that, you’ll have to have a keyboard lying around nearby.
There’s 2 main problems with Console Port - you still need the keyboard to type, because Blizz broke its awesome controller keyboard, and the other is that you still need to bring the cursor up to click world objects. I LOVED playing with a controller, but the explosive affix made me drop it
I wish Blizz would allow Console Port to give us a hotkey/shortcut for interacting with world objects when we are near them.
A HUGE plus for the controller is that it really makes using 30+ shortcuts much easier than doing it in keyboard.
Anybody playing with a PS4 controller know if the touch pad works for the cursor btw? @_@
I used the 4 buttons, the d-pad, and the right shoulder buttons as keybinds, the left shoulder buttons as modifiers. This is 30 keys. Then I put all the consumables, mounts, buffs, and some macros on the wheel, which if I remember is 24 extra keys.
surely keybinds shouldn’t be an issue assuming you can bind say, ctrl to a button then u can hold a button and press another for mods right. i bet you can get a modded control with a few extra buttons on the back. similar to a scuff. so l1/r1 mod ctrl/alt w.e u want then u got the 4 main buttons 2 back triggers and 2-4 extra back buttons thats a lot of binds. could use the joystick button for targeting etc. doesn’t sound to awful…i doubt u could be competitive in like anything but hey its ez and fun?
id enjoy seeing an entire guild try mythic progression on controllers l0l id legit watch that stream.
Two or Three weeks back I went to Twitch out of boredom and caught a stream of some dude playing frost mage with a controller pretty well, the guy was being pretty theatrical and emulating casting animations as he played.
There’s someone streaming on a frost mage (at least from what I’ve seen), using a controller while doing a +15 key I believe, being high in the DPS list, while doing RL movement to RP the casts. It looked amazing and showed that controllers are not bad at all.
Indeed, I can personally manage 20+ binds on a controller and I am not even trying (I’m just a casual). I would go as far to say that it is easier to bind and press the keys on the controller since you have both hands in the right position all the time.
Also, the most important aspect: It is much more relaxing to just lay back after a hard day of work and play the game on a couch.
maybe a warrior tho or paladin might be more suited.
I can’t imagine on feral, I have so many binds.