Sorry to hear that your disability is making it difficult for you to do Torghast. As others have suggested, grouping up may be helpful so that others can help with the interrupts. Since it’s designed for up to 5 players, why not bring some others along?
If you don’t have a group of friends, you could start a group and write in the description that you need help with interrupts to make it clear what your expectations are. Not everyone reads descriptions, but you can ask in the description for them to link something or whisper a message to confirm that they’ve read it - that way you don’t end up with someone who just applied to everything and gets mad because you aren’t rushing through.
Despite the reputation that the WoW community has for toxicity, there are loads of kind and helpful players out there who would be happy to help you out.
It’s not the OP’s job to both give a problem and solve it. They have an issue, it’s up to Blizzard to find the best way to figure it out without harming the overall experience. It’s not like Blizzard doesn’t care, they have added many options under Motion Sickness for example, just yesterday they have put out an option to disable the misty swirly effect around your screen when you are at Ven’ari or are dead.
Edit to add, I think a solution to this would be to add a trap disabler for each and every floor, and not just in some Wings. If you get to it, you can disable the trap. Another idea could be to add a cooldown bar above the trap so that the player can know when the swirls will fall.
Godamn this is so heartbreaking, anyone else feels that?
Here we have a person that physically struggles with interrupting a spell due to his condition and moving away from danger, meanwhile people are whining that this and this class is op just bcs they got roflstomped by someone with higher skill and ilvl.
The part where you wrote that you fought the enemy for 30 mins trying to interrupt the spell and then just left bcs your condition made it impossible just broke me totally. I cant imagine the frustration.
The solution that heavenseeker wrote sounds like a sound one.
Perhaps these mechanics could be toned down / removed on layer 1 of each Wing?
My suggestion would be to find a community and get some assistance. My eyesight is bad and found a great community recently called Scared of Dungeons, they have helped me with a bunch of achievements that either require a group or require good hand-eye coordination.
I’ve been doing Torghast with an IRL friend who plays wow on-and-off. I’ve really needed his help with the grapples, he puts a {star} on his head so I can follow him with the rope. Even so I’ve not completed that Wing yet (Mortregar or something), my GTFO add-on hasn’t been warning me of the pools of death on the ground - it probably needs updating not done so for a while.
All I’m thinking of perhaps Blizzard can have a scheme of sorts for people with certified disabilities that would flag their account as such, giving them some help of sorts for solo content and perhaps drastically increased avoidance stat for group content.
Very much agree with this. Joining a community is very beneficial to anyone and could be additionally supportive for people with disabilities. I would glady join such a community to support less abled players by providing time to support them enjoying the content that they would like to enjoy.
I’m guessing it’s likely you already looked into other options but just wanted to make sure - you can set a macro and bind so that your character runs directly to enemies itself; (also click to move in options) it can lock on to targets or mouse hover location if macro’d.
I’m thinking also if there was a way to issue commands by voice (i.e “interupt”) this would be very useful for some player and give you better response time, seems accessibility can definently be improved!
*Edit:
I was researching it up, was something I recalled from cataclysm, during raf / grant levels I multiboxed and I thought there was a /moveto command. After spending some time looking back into it I see there is not this command for players now just pets.
I could see that would be useful for some players who could use a bit of help but we don’t have access to it (feel like I had issues before too).
This sort of thing i don’t see happening, until a) Blizzard has success with beats of prodigium where they can create more of these type of events like swapping out npc abilities to other ones which can make it interesting. B) Removing some abilities in exchange for newer ones. C) Having floors filled with the same npc’s / Elites only i can imagine that could be annoying but atleast you would not have those pool throwers. Anyways Torghast has so much usefulness but how they take advantage or how they decide on things is up to them. But tuning down the whole torghast wont slide. But as for your suggestion it is just not that simple thing to pull off especially how the community is right now.
I like some of the creative solutions that were proposed in this thread. Obviously the easiest solution would be to trivialise Layer 1’s difficulty, which I definitely would not mind. I enjoy how torghast can be fairly challenging, and that need is met because there are multiple layers.
There are more creative solutions though. I like the idea of Ven’ari providing more items that can do things like disabling traps in torghast or disabling an enemy from using any abilities. That should give people multiple options in tackling these scenarios.
And that’s just one idea, there are probably a lot more ways this could be tackled. Just blanket making a game easier is one way of making a game more accessible, but it’s not the only way.
Now can you people see why the game is the way it is? some like it hardcore, others like it easy, and then there are others that can´t keep up with others or the game mechanics.
So the question is: how can blizzard turn this game into every player’s needs? there really isn´t an answer for this.
Swifty has a missing little finger and find ways to play the game to the best of his ability. To some people, the game might seem like Darksouls, but to others, it´s not hard enough.
would not be realy to hard to make versions of thorgast, like
easy/quest mode, whit trivial mechanics.
normal, lil bit easier than now, but not to much
hard, as it is now.
Legend, hard mode whit things for the real elite.
that way everyone would be able to do it, and then have something to strive for.
However, as people already mentioned, it’s a controversial request, but I find it a super interesting topic. I don’t have a clear view on your physical capabilities and the way you control the game, but I think it’s only real solution will be more developed hardware input methods.
I can think of three things now:
Maybe you could try doing it as Blood? More tanky, and maybe with a nice amount of luck with anima powers, you can survive those negative effects.
Have you had a look at “Razer Nostromo Gaming Keypad” maybe (or similar devices)? It seems to have a joystick which could maybe function as a trackball input (might need a 3rd party app to translate the signals (joystick as mouse)). Having you have controls closer together.
I’m really not familiar with these brain-computer interface things, seen articles about them but not aware of how accessible these are to consumers. Did a quick google search and there are some startups that are on this topic (eg. “Ctrl-lab”). Even if you could just brain-control 1 input signal, could be a huge improvement for you, but people already achieved arrow like input (eg. controlling Tetris, which needs 4 input if i’m correct), and probably cursor too.
Not realy sure what this has to do with your conditions as pathfinder required less effort ( gameplay /skill wise) than thorgast which u claim to do.
Thats 10 years tho
How are your legs? ( maybe i missed it somewhere in your post, sorry if thats case)
U should maybe use one of those “pads” or something that can be controlled by legs/foot. I know a guy that has a pad/pedal( no idea how they are called) for moving ( different game tho, but point is same)
This will allow you to free one of your hands as u can move with pedal+mouse which u holding anyway
Apart from that, i have no idea how to help you without making it totaly trivial for rest of people.
Another thing that’s probably worth mentioning is that the forum is not a good way to really address Blizzard.
They have a dedicated place for inquiries about accessibility however. It might be worth to give it a shot and describe the problems you’re facing there.
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OP is talking about disabilities, not laziness.